Chapter 2

Jane Austen

When Mr. Dashwood dies, his estate passes to the son of his first marriage, and his widow and three daughters are left with very little. They move to a cottage in Devonshire, where the two eldest sisters meet love and disappointment in opposite ways. Elinor, all good sense, keeps her feelings to herself, even when the man she cares for turns out to have a secret. Marianne, all sensibility, falls headlong for the dashing John Willoughby and doesn't care who sees. Austen's first published novel asks which way of loving costs more.