And all the better for her.
Sense and Sensiblity:
Colonel Brandon and Miss Marianne picspam
"Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. Or bends with the remover to remove. Oh no! It is an ever fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken."
Sir John Middleton: You know what they're saying. That you've developed a taste for certain company. And why not, say I. A man like you in your prime... she'd be a very fortunate young lady.
Colonel Brandon: Marianne Dashwood would no sooner think of me than she would of you John.
Sir John Middleton: Brandon, my boy, do not think of yourself so meanly.
Colonel Brandon: And all the better for her.
Enter Willoughby,
Elinor Dashwood: Marianne, you must change or you will catch a cold.
Marianne: What care I for colds when there is such a man.
Elinor Dashwood: You will care very much when your nose swells up.
Marianne: You are right. Help me, Elinor.
Colonel Brandon: Your sister seems very happy.
Elinor Dashwood: Yes. Marianne does not approve of hiding her emotions. In fact, her romantic prejudices have the unfortunate tendency to set propriety at naught.
Colonel Brandon: She is wholly unspoilt.
Elinor Dashwood: Rather too unspoilt, in my view. The sooner she becomes acquainted with the ways of the world, the better.
Colonel Brandon: I knew a lady very like your sister - the same impulsive sweetness of temper - who was forced into, as you put it, a better acquaintance with the world. The result was only ruination and despair. Do not desire it, Miss Dashwood.
Elinor Dashwood:[regarding Willoughby] Did he tell you he loved you?
Marianne: Yes... no. Never absolutely. It was everyday implied but never declared.
And, in one of the single most romantic scenes in cinematic history (... in my opinion), Colonel Brandon finds the drenched Marianne and carries her back to the estate--he carries her the FIVE MILES from Willoughby's. FIVE MILES... WITH A BAD SHOULDER. Colonel Brandon may be the best romantic interest ever.
Colonel Brandon: What can I do?
Elinor Dashwood: Colonel Brandon, you have done so much already...
Colonel Brandon: Give me an occupation, Miss Dashwood, or I shall run mad.
Marianne: Colonel Brandon... thank-you.
Marianne: Shall we continue tomorrow?
Colonel Brandon: No, for I must away.
Marianne: Away? Where?
Colonel Brandon: That I cannot tell you. It is a secret.
Marianne: You will not stay away long?
♥!!!
Moral? Don't settle for Willoughbys--there are Brandon's out there.