SPOILERS!!!
Fanny notices how her cousins, Maria and Julia, make a fool of themselves over Henry Crawford. The man seems to favour Maria, and soon Julia has to admit that she has lost to her sister even though Maria is engaged to Mr Rushworth, a very dull man who gives us some moments of comedy. A friend of Toms, John Yates, comes visiting after the play he was to act in is cancelled, and he manages to get Tom and the others to agree to start rehearsing for the play. Edmund is against it, but when he learns that Mary Crawford will be acting with a neighbour in the area, he decides to forget his misgivings and accept to be in the play. Even Fanny is asked but she keeps saying that she can't act, so she is saved from embarrassment when Mrs Grant agrees to play her part.
Then a day before the play will be performed, Sir Bertram arrives, and he is disapproval of what Tom has done to the billiard room and of the content of the play. So the play is cancelled. After that, John Yates decides to go, and Henry also leaves to visit his uncle. Maria is disappointed when he goes without even saying goodbye, and he doesn't write to her. So Maria agrees to marry Mr Rushworth, and after the wedding she and Julia go to Brighton with Mr Rushworth.
Edmund also goes to visit a friend and to take his orders. He thought that Mary would give him a hope to be his wife one day, but she was categorical in her intention to live in London. Now that all her cousins are gone, Fanny is alone with her aunts and uncle, and after a casual encounter with Mary Crawford, they start a friendship. Henry returns and on seeing Fanny, he tells his sister that in the time h will be in Mansfield Park, he will try to seduce Fanny because she has grown into a pretty woman. Fanny notices that he pays her special attention even though she doesn't like him, especially after witnessing the way he treated her cousins.
William, Fanny's brother, comes to visit. He is in the navy, and he expresses his desire for a promotion, which will be difficult. When he mentions that he would like to see his sister dance, Sir Bertram decides to have a ball at Mansfield Park. It is Fanny's first ball, and she enjoys herself very much. The next day William goes, and Henry volunteers to travel with him.
A week or so later Henry returns saying that William is now a lieautenant because he had a word with the Admiral, his uncle, and now he has the promotion he wanted and deserves. Fanny is grateful, and then Henry asks her to marry him, because he has realised that he loves her. Fanny turns him down, telling him that she doesn't love him. However, the man isn't discouraged and goes to talk to her uncle. When Sir Betram tells Fanny, she repeats her refusal, and Sir Bertram is quite unfair to her, saying that she should be thankful to have been asked in marriage by such eligible man. Fanny is very miserable to hear her uncle talk like that, and he realises that Fanny is just honest in her opinions.
Fanny has to repeat her negative to Henry again, but the man still keeps visiting the house and making her uncomfortable. Fanny is in love with Edmund, and even though she knows he is in love with Mary, he won't accept anybody else. I have to say that Henry is becoming a pain, and I would hate to be harassed in this way.
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