Chapter VII: Book VI: Containing About Three Weeks

Chapter i. — Of love.

Chapter ii. — The character of Mrs Western. Her great learning and knowledge of the world, and an instance of the deep penetration which she derived from those advantages.

Chapter iii. — Containing two defiances to the critics.

Chapter iv. — Containing sundry curious matters.

Chapter v. — In which is related what passed between Sophia and her aunt.

Chapter vi. — Containing a dialogue between Sophia and Mrs Honour, which may a little relieve those tender affections which the foregoing scene may have raised in the mind of a good-natured reader.

Chapter vii. — A picture of formal courtship in miniature, as it always ought to be drawn, and a scene of a tenderer kind painted at full length.

Chapter viii. — The meeting between Jones and Sophia.

Chapter ix. — Being of a much more tempestuous kind than the former.

Chapter x. — In which Mr Western visits Mr Allworthy.

Chapter xi. — A short chapter; but which contains sufficient matter to affect the good-natured reader.

Chapter xii. — Containing love-letters, &c.

Chapter xiii. — The behaviour of Sophia on the present occasion; which none of her sex will blame, who are capable of behaving in the same manner. And the discussion of a knotty point in the court of conscience.

Chapter xiv. — A short chapter, containing a short dialogue between Squire Western and his sister.