ch 27 but Edmund, after waiting a moment, obliged her to bring down her mind from its heavenly flight...

I think Fanny is a very emotional girl, like Marianne acts, but Fanny plays it all out in her mind. She makes an extreme resolution in her head and breaks it a few seconds later.

But you left out the best part Tom- the very long paragraph that ends with this...

Never were such characters cut by any other human being as Edmund’s commonest handwriting gave! This specimen, written in haste as it was, had not a fault; and there was a felicity in the flow of the first four words, in the arrangement of “My very dear Fanny,” which she could have looked at for ever.