Segundo Volume: Capitulos 5-8

We’re off to Northanger Abbey! General Tilney is starting to show his true colors: he yells at Captain Tilney for his tardiness and is mad at the waiters at their lunch spot. Henry tells Catherine he divides his time between Northanger Abbey and Woodston, where his parish is. Catherine is too excited and preoccupied with the idea of Northanger Abbey that Henry invents a suspenseful story with details from novels he has read. Catherine believes the story and this just adds to her anticipation to get to their destination. When they get to the abbey, she is disappointed to see that it has been modernized.

Miss Tilney scares Catherine when she goes for her for dinner. Catherine was looking through an old chest for Gothic items but is disappointed. At dinner, Coronel Tilney is happy when Catherine mentions that Allen’s dining hall is half the size of the abbey. At night, while a storm rages outside, Catherine is unable to sleep, then she sees an old cabinet. After looking through it, she finds a manuscript, but it is too dark (even with her candle) to read.

In the morning, Catherine discovers that the manuscript has an inventory of household items. At breakfast, Catherine tries to hide her shame. Mr. Tilney leaves for Woodston and Catherine accompanies General Tilney and Miss Tilney on a tour of Northanger Abbey. They stop at the greenhouse, where the General grows exotic crops. There Miss Tilney and Catherine are to do some tasks and they take a shady path, which was the deceased’s Mrs. Tilney’s favorite. Catherine is convinced that the General did not love his wife and was cruel to her after he refuses to go down the path with them and when Catherine learns that he won’t hang her portrait in his room.

The tour continues. The house is beautifully decorated and modernized, but Catherine is more interested in the locked rooms and disappointed in the modern decor. At the end of the hall, Miss Tilney is about to open a set of folding doors, when she is stopped by the General. The tour concludes. Afterward, Miss Tilney whispers that that was the room where her mother died. Catherine learns that Mrs. Tilney died of a sudden illness, leading to more suspicions in Catherine. She imagines a dramatic Gothic event, where the General locked his late wife in a hidden chamber, to keep her away from their children.