At the end of Ch. 15.

She's referring to Willoughby, of course, but could not these words have as easily applied to Colonel Brandon? Too bad she never said anything like this to Marianne about the colonel!

"And is no allowance to be made for inadvertence, or for spirits depressed by recent disappointment? Are no probabilities to be accepted, merely because they are not certainties? Is nothing due to the man whom we have all so much reason to love, and no reason in the world to think ill of? "