Clever Boy....

Frank Churchill, though Emma alternately admires him and thinks him rude, is quite the clever man. When Jane Fairfax is staying with her aunts in Highbury he conspires to visit her, but does so without anyone noticing. A new instrument is delivered to the aunts and Jane. Frank tells his mother that she promised the Bates' she would go and hear it played. But he told her this the day after they hosted a party, a busy time when she would not likely remember everything that had gone on during that time. On their way, they run into Emma. In an effort to keep his mission a secret, he suggests that he go along with her to Hartfield. But then immediately decides that he would only be in her way and annoy her: "Miss Woodhouse looks as if she does not want me" (156). The man is very clever at hiding from everyone that he is in love with Jane.