Persuasion Chapter 7

In which we find the anxious stirrings of renewed acquaintance between Captain Wentworth and Anne Elliot set against the uneasy care of a child’s sudden injury, knitting together the lives of two families in delicate proximity. Amid the murmur of social visits and quiet observations, Anne contemplates the changes wrought by time and circumstance, as the captain’s outward attention towards others contrasts painfully with her own inward reflections.