All 4 Uses of
tête-à-tête
in
Emma
- Isabella stept in after her father; John Knightley, forgetting that he did not belong to their party, stept in after his wife very naturally; so that Emma found, on being escorted and followed into the second carriage by Mr. Elton, that the door was to be lawfully shut on them, and that they were to have a tete-a-tete drive.†
Chpt 1.15-16
- ——It was an odd tete-a-tete; but she was glad to see it.†
Chpt 3.5-6 *
- ——She wrote to her, therefore, kindly, but decisively, to beg that she would not, at present, come to Hartfield; acknowledging it to be her conviction, that all farther confidential discussion of one topic had better be avoided; and hoping, that if a few days were allowed to pass before they met again, except in the company of others——she objected only to a tete-a-tete——they might be able to act as if they had forgotten the conversation of yesterday.†
Chpt 3.11-12
- It reminded her of their first forlorn tete-a-tete, on the evening of Mrs. Weston's wedding-day; but Mr. Knightley had walked in then, soon after tea, and dissipated every melancholy fancy.†
Chpt 3.11-12
Definition:
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(tête-à-tête as in: involved in a tête-à-tête) a private conversation between two people