Volume II Chapter II

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Summary
Updates are sent to the Musgrove family of Louisa's improving health. Lady Russell comes to collect Anne from Uppercross and on the carriage ride back to Lady Russell's house there is an awkwardness between the two, and they decide to go visit the Crofts at Kellynch Hall. While visiting the Crofts. The Crofts are very pleasant and Mr. Croft offers Anne to look around the house, but she declines. The Crofts mention that they will be going out of town to the country. This news disappoints Anne as she would not be seeing Captain Wentsworth soon.

Family Themes
The awkward tension between Anne and Lady Russell suggest that Anne is becoming more of her own person by spending time with people more level-headed than her own family. Also, now that Captain Wentworth is back, Anne questions why she listened to Lady Russell in the first place, "she could not speak the name (Wentworth), and look forward straight to Lady Russell's eye" (116). She realizes that the person whom she trusted as one might trust her own mother forced her to make a decision she regrets. Anne, while visiting the Crofts, sees the Crofts as better owners of the estate as she remarks, "Kellynch-hall had passed into better hands than its owners"(119 wrong book). Although the Crofts are not her family, Anne seems to have more respect for them than her own family.