What totally different feelings did Emma take back into the house from what she had brought out! – she had then been only daring to hope for a little respite of suffering; – she was now in an exquisite flutter of happiness, and such happiness moreover as she believed must still be greater when the flutter should have passed away.
– Jane Austen
Emma, Chapter 50. The opening lines of the chapter give Emma’s reflections after her betrothal to Mr. Knightley. Her emotions have dramatically shifted from tentative hope to overwhelming joy, as Austen draws a picture of Emma in love.