Just a few clarifications and that will be my end:

I think you misunderstood me. Emma’s thoughts suggest she felt something for Jane: “she felt too much in the secret herself, to think the appearance of curiosity or interest fair” (26). By rescue I meant Emma might join the conversation, give Mrs. Weston a nudge or change the subject herself. I feel Emma would have done better to intercede rather than sit at her ease enjoying Jane’s distress. I would like Emma to be a more compassionate person—one who would see Jane’s distress and wish to relieve it.

I think you missed my point on the dialog between Emma and her father in Ch. 32. I realize Emma had already paid her call on the Eltons but it was immaterial to my point that she lets dislike influence her ideas of what ought to be done for someone. When she talks to her father in Ch. 32 she does have an opinion of Mrs. Elton and it is one of dislike and she does try to talk him out of his regret. I feel she was wrong to try.