Chapter 25

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌​​​​​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​​​‌​‌​‌​​​​​‌​​​​​‌‌⁠Though Mrs. Jennings was in the habit of spending a large portion of the year at the houses of her children and friends, she was not without a settled habitation of her own. Since the death of her husband, who had traded with success in a less elegant part of the town, she had resided every winter in a house in one of the streets near Portman Square. Towards this home, she began on the approach of