Mixed Motives in Jane Austen

Because only cake cooked by Serle can be trusted for quality.

Because it gets stuck in your teeth.

Because it is bad luck to eat cake before Ash Wednesday.

Because if she doesn't go then she'll miss her chance to see Blaize Castle for good.

Because her brother orders her to.

Because she prefers the company of John Thorpe to that of Henry Tilney.

Because she needs Frederica to concentrate on her schoolwork.

Because she doesn't want Frederica to meet Alicia's husband.

Because she is jealous that Frederica can visit, but she herself cannot.

Because Fanny knows that Edmund will like it.

Because it will allow her to see Henry Crawford.

Because Fanny would like to accompany her.

Because he is meeting an old friend there.

Because he wants Anne and Mr Elliot to spend time together.

Because he loves music.

It would make them horribly indebted to Willoughby.

Marianne can't ride.

It would make it obvious that Marianne and Willoughby are secretly engaged.

She thinks it is because he's going to London anyway.

She thinks he is in want of pictures in his home.

Because he believes his good taste in choosing frames is unmatched.

She intends to be bed-ridden during her mourning, and would be no sort of company for Fanny.

She only has one bed and doesn't wish to share it.

Fanny would have no bedroom of her own.

Because Mrs Dashwood has been left enough by her husband already.

Because she feels it would be better to give them one lump sum.

Because doing so would ruin them.