I am sorry if I may not post here, I have not really joined the group read, I am just reading on the board. But Persuation is my favourite book together with P&P so I like to read here very much.

I just wanted to add from a medical point of view that the organ which tell you what is up and down, and give you pose is in the ear. If you had a traumatizing head damage or a hard blow to the ear one could suffer problems with posture and also become overly sensitive to sound. So it might not be only that Louisa has a malleable character.

It would be very frightening to have this near death experience and the posture and sound problems. I am myself somewhat sensitive to noise, if many people speak in a room I have difficult hearing what the person next to me is saying, more so than others. It is a little handicapping at dinners and social events. One cna only say "excuse me" som many times before one annoy people.

So if she liked to be in a small company or only with the Captain I think it is understandable.