Chapter 5 Northagger abbey
... domestic within call." As she would hear Dorothy's last few foot steps she would frantically attempt to lock the door but would be shocked to find "no lock" at this point Catherine began to doubt the truth of his words but asked him to continue. He says that on the first night she would get some sleep but on the second or third night there would be a "violent storm" and being unable to sleep she would examine the room and find a small separation in the tapestry so minute that it would be hard to spot. He continues saying that on opening it" a door will immediately appear” and she would pass through it into a "small vaulted room.” Catherine interrupts claiming that she would be too petrified to proceed to the vaulted room but Henry denies saying that the temptation would drag her into it. He continues saying that in the room there would be other rooms; in one “there may be a dagger” and “in another a few drops of blood.” Then while passing through the vault she will notice an “old-fashioned cabinet of ebony and gold” and "search into every drawer" and discover "a hoard of diamonds" then by touching a spring an "inner compartment will open" and a roll of papers containing manuscripts would appear. With this Catherine would rush to her room and just as she finds out what the papers are and to whom the "memoirs of the wretched Matilda may fall" the lamp would extinguish. Catherine was so engrossed by Henry’s talk while he was amused by the interest he had raised. He asked her to use her own imaginations of what could be Matilda’s woes. Catherine admitted of not being afraid for she knew that Eleanor would “never put her into such a chamber as he had described!” Thus, we see how Catherine grew curious by the minute but on arriving in Northanger Abbey she was quite disappointed for se found it to be quite a simple abbey (nawals )- johns letter With a mind thus full of happiness, Cathy was hardly aware that 2 or 3 days had passed by, without her seeing Bella. One day when she went to the Pump Room with Mrs. Allen she found Isabella who tool Catherine “AND LED THE WAY TO A SEAK” which “COMMANDED A TOLERABLE VIEW OF EVERYBODY.” As soon as they settled down, Bella told Cathy that she had received “A LETTER FROM JOHN” where he said he was “HEAD AND EARS IN LOVE” with Catherine. Catherine was surprised at that coz she had not realized the hints and indirect ways of John proving her naiveté. Bella told Cathy that the reason he wanted to propose to her was coz she had given him the “MOST POSITIVE ENCOURAGEMENT” as she had supposedly been flirting with John. She ended stating that to claim to be ignorant would be of no use at all. Cathy’s simple and naive nature is shown in her response “WITH ALL THE EARNESTNESS OF TRUTH” expressed her shock at such a statement. She openly and sincerely said that it had to be “SOME UNACCOUNTABLE MISTAKE” as she could not remember such a meeting ever taken place. Yet Bella stubbornly urged Cathy and said that it most definitely had taken place to which Cathy timidly conceded that she was there ...