How soon he had walked himself into the proper resolution, however, how soon an opportunity of exercising it occurred, in what manner he expressed himself, and how he was received, need not be particularly told. This only need be said;—that when they all sat down to table at four o’clock, about three hours after his arrival, he had secured his lady,
Jane Austen directly describes neither the initial romance of Edward and Elinor nor its rekindling. Maybe those types of scenes just weren't her thing? Maybe she left them out to make her work less conventional, or less easily labeled as conventional romance?
