Ok, here's where I'm stuck. Mr. Knightley needs to go to Kingston. Jane Austen says he goes to Kingston the day after the Coles's party. But WHY does he need to go to Kingston? Lucky, lucky Jane Austen who never had to come up with specifics about Mr. Knightley's business.  But I have to decide why he's going to Kingston before I can go on with the story. 

And I have a note to myself that I must have written weeks ago that Kinghtley should talk to Mrs. Catherwood before he goes to Kingston. Apparently it's important to the plot. I just wish I could remember why!  I'm going to go do something for half an hour and see if I can figure anything out.

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oooohhh...kaaaayyyyyyy....I just took a shower so I could spend the time thinking about the plot......and I forgot to think about it!

Well, the bread machine is beeping, meaning that the dough is done, so I'm going to go and make cinnamon rolls for tomorrow. I will try to think about the plot as I'm doing it. 

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Ok, cinnamon rolls rising now. I got as far as knowing that I don't want him going to Kingston for some really serious thing, as I would then have to go into detail about it. It's perfectly possible that he would go for some fairly trivial reason so that he could just ride there and try to clear his head, right?

Well, after thinking a little more, I still haven't come up with anything. And since it's now 1:20 am, I probably should leave off for the night. But hey, thinking it through this far is bound to help for tomorrow. Isn't it? 

Don't answer that.