The Lovels of Arden Chapter XXI - Very Far Gone

In which Clarissa spends an evening at Arden Court, observing Miss Granger’s almost austere zeal for order and charity amidst the subdued splendour of the house, whilst Mr. Lovel and Mr. Granger engage in a candid discourse on unexpected love and the prospects it may offer. The evening closes with a melancholy conversation between father and daughter on the value of external splendour, revealing their private anxieties and hopes beneath the calm surface of their genteel lives.