Washington Square Chapter 10

In which the tender and tentative intimacies between Catherine and Morris unfold within the refined seclusion of a decorous New York drawing-room, their affections delicately confessed and anxieties about paternal approval gently acknowledged. The lovers resolve to confront obstacles with quiet courage, their discourse touched by both the innocence of new passion and the sober weight of impending realities, all under the watchful, if somewhat theatrical, eye of Mrs. Penniman.