Why can you not accept my word in this matter? Why do you refuse to trust my knowledge of them as a guide?” “It is precisely because you know and love them that you cannot see them clearly,” Miss Tilney insisted. “Love blinds us more surely than anything else ever can.” Jonathan sensed that Miss Tilney had hit on a deeper truth. We forgive the faults of those we love so often, so deeply, that we sometimes convince ourselves the faults do not exist. The rest of the world is not so easily persuaded.
