Catherine’s only 17 and Mr Tilney proposes (though does he in this adaptation?)
When Catherine is thrown out of his father’s house, Mr Tilney isn’t there but he’s pissed when he returns and discovers what happened. Against his fathers wishes he goes to Catherine.
He felt himself bound as much in honour as in affection to Miss Morland, and believing that heart to be his own … no unworthy retraction of a tacit consent, no reversing decree of unjustifiable anger, could shake his fidelity, or influence the resolutions it prompted.”
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey C30
Catherine is “assured of his affection” which “originated in nothing better than gratitude, … a persuasion of her partiality for him.” It’s a simple love story really; she meets a guy and falls in love, that sparks his affection. His father attempts to get in the way and fails.
HENRY: Will you have me? Will you love me?
CATHERINE (for most of the novel): I’m only 17. I don’t know anything
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