General Tilney makes Catherine leave on a Sunday. In `Persuasion', written much later, Sunday travelling appears as something of a vice, but nothing is made of it here.

`The manner in which it was done so grossly uncivil, hurrying her away without any reference to her own convenience, or allowing her even the appearance of choice as to the time or mode of her travelling; of two days, the earliest fixed on, and of that almost the earliest hour, as if resolved to have her gone before he was stirring in the morning, that he might not be obliged even to see her.'