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In Bath, when John thought Catherine loved him, he told General Tilney that Catherine was from a very wealthy family. The General then ran into John much later on his trip away from Northanger Abbey. John was angry, because he had learned that Catherine did not love him, and he angrily told the General that the Morlands were almost poor.
The late Mrs. Tilney's room is actually part of the new wing of the Abbey, and there is nothing mysterious about it. Disappointed, but still suspicious of the General, Catherine heads back to her room.
It was his laundry bills that Catherine had found in her room at Northanger. As the novel closes, the Narrator again draws attention to its status as a novel, pointing out how readers form their expectations based on how many pages remain.
When she analyzes why this is so, she finds the following reason: Miss Tilney was rather withdrawn. The dinner did little to increase any sense of intimacy between them. With Henry,...
With more than usual eagerness did Catherine hasten to the pump-room the next day, secure within herself of seeing Mr. Tilney there before the morning were over, and ready to meet him with a smile; but no smile was demanded—Mr. Tilney did not appear.
Catherine's overactive imagination causes her to make a number of mistakes. Case in point: see the series of disastrous assumptions she makes at Northanger Abbey, partly because all the abbeys she has read about contain deep dark secrets.
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Catherine is the only person in the room that does not understand the General's hint: he wants her to marry Henry. After breakfast, Henry leaves for Woodston for a few days. The General shows Catherine around the Abbey (along with Eleanor).
