It is over! It is over!’ Anne said to herself again and again.
‘The worst is over!’
She had seen him. They had met. They had been in the same room once more! She tried to make herself feel calm.
It was eight years since it had all ended between them.
Anne Elliot falls in love with a handsome but poor young captain, Frederick Wentworth, but her father and friends persuade her not to marry him.
Eight years later, Anne meets Captain Wentworth again to find he has become successful and wealthy. Anne still has feelings for Wentworth, but he is angry with her – and possibly in love with another woman.
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