Elinor works hard to make sure Lucy thinks she does not understand this jab at the end of Ch.. 32, but it must have been hard to keep her composure!

[Lucy & Anne's] presence always gave her pain, and she hardly knew how to make a very gracious return to the overpowering delight of Lucy in finding her still in town.

"I should have been quite disappointed if I had not found you here still ," said she repeatedly, with a strong emphasis on the word. "But I always thought I should. I was almost sure you would not leave London yet awhile; though you told me, you know, at Barton, that you should not stay above a month . But I thought, at the time, that you would most likely change your mind when it came to the point. It would have been such a great pity to have went away before your brother and sister came. And now, to be sure, you will be in no hurry to be gone. I am amazingly glad you did not keep to your word ."

What a lot of nerve Lucy has! Back in Ch. 24, Elinor "blushed for the insincerity of Edward's future wife". Lucy had told her that Edward would be in town in February, and now she is clearly implying that Elinor has stayed in London to see him--and always meant to do just that.