Mrs. Jennings just makes my skin crawl in this week's chapters. She downright badgers Col. Brandon about his letter, makes sly inuendos about the subject of it; she deceminates the "facts" about Col. Brandon's "natural daughter"; she spreads the tale of Marianne's heartbreak far and wide; she has great fun over the fact that Edward's name begins with an "F"...

She is an uncomfortable character to read. Like that relative we all have who talks too much and too loudly at Thanksgiving dinner, telling more family secrets with each dish and winding up alientating everyone else while professing that she's only trying to help.