Chapter 2 brings delightful news to Catherine Morland. Eleanor Tilney wants her to come for a prolonged visit to Northanger Abbey, her home in Gloucestershire. "Northanger Abbey! – These were thrilling words, and wound up Catherine's feelings to the highest point of extasy" (Austen 113).
Catherine was excited to spend an extended amount of time with Eleanor and Henry Tilney. She wasn't as keen for the General's company, but as he had personally invited her, she was still thrilled beyond words. In a short amount of time, the necessary arrangements were made and Catherine could focus on how she felt about the ordeal.
"She was to be their chosen visitor, she was to be for weeks under the same roof with the person whose society she mostly prized – and, in addition to all the rest, this roof was to be the roof of an abbey! – Her passion for ancient edifices was next in degree to her passion for Henry Tilney – and castles and abbeys made usually the charm of those reveries which his image did not fill" (Austen 114).
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