INTRODUCTION

I do not hold a candle to the great and amusing Jane Austen, nor will I try to emulate her writing, for not only is that an impossibilty, but I have my own style, and any other would be visibly false.
How sad it is to finish a good book! How sad to say goodbye to all your new friends, and leave the place that has become beloved! Jane would understand that her characters have to live on in our imaginations...and this sequel I is what I imagine happened to Elinor, Marianne, Margaret (who I call Meg, for simplicity), their mother Mrs. Dashwood, the shy Edward preaching from his pulpit; the adoring Colonel Brandon, penny-pinching relatives John and Fanny; and the other characters, not forgetting the love-lorn Miss Steele, her scheming sister Lucy and  husband Robert.

There are new friends to be made; perhaps old ones to lose. PART 1 sees the ups and downs of Elinor and Edward's new life together, their many visitors (for newlyweds must be visited!) and life among a few gentrified families in a village, as Jane so ably taught us, can never be dull.

I would like to acknowledge David M Shapard's Annotated Sense & Sensibility, which was a great help and an inspiration in writing this sequel.