From Chapter 43 of 'Sense and Sensibility' by Jane Austen (1775-1817) first published 1818. This edition published in 1921 by Macmillan and Co. using Thomson's plates from 1896.
Hearing of Marianne's illness, Willoughby arrives at Cleveland while Elinor is expecting Colonel Brandon with her mother: 'in spite of the almost impossibility of their being already come, that she moved into the adjoining dressing-closet and opened a window-shutter, to be satisfied of the truth.'