"Do not give way to useless alarm," added he; "though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain."
– Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 47. Mr. Gardiner says this to his sister Mrs. Bennet, assuring the family that he would be in London the next day and would help Mr. Bennet "in every endeavour for recovering Lydia." There is consternation in the Bennet family when Lydia runs off to London with Wickham and Mr. Bennet goes there to track them down.