Sense and Sensibility

Marianne Dashwood climbs the hill above the cottage every evening to watch for a horse that no longer comes, and when it doesn't, she walks out into a soaking rain to stare across the valley at the house of the man who has already thrown her over for money, and comes home with a fever that very nearly kills her. Her sister Elinor watches this happen and says nothing about her own heart, because she has known for months, from another woman's mouth, that the man she loves is secretly engaged to someone else, and there is no one she can tell.