
Catherine Morland leaves her noisy, unmysterious family for a season in Bath under Mrs Allen's well-meaning, empty-headed chaperonage. The Lower Rooms assembly nearly swallows her without introduction, until the Master of Ceremonies presents Henry Tilney, whose parody of a young lady's journal turns polite conversation into something closer to being seen. He is gone before she learns his lodging, and the next morning the Pump Room offers only strangers speaking his name.
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