Eliza collapses on the road and is rushed to the hospital. She has a high fever and needs to be taken to a doctor immediately. Eliza thanks Colonel Brandon for saving her life. She says that she has decided to put her love for him behind her. She also tells him that her sister, Lucy, has married her brother, Robert, who is also a clergyman. She adds that her mother has been in London all her life and that she is not her mother's relative. She asks Edmund to stay by her side. Edmund says that he is glad to hear that he has been promised a position as a pastor.