Anne rejects Charles Musgrove's proposal a number of years afterwards, realizing she nevertheless enjoys Wentworth, but it is just when Wentworth returns from combating overseas that she at last confronts her unfulfilled emotions for him. 'The artwork of persuasion'— returning from a ball in India from "The Graphic", 1890 Persuasion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TsidOF0he0