When deciding who will stay and nurse Louisa, Wentworth suggests Anne, "no one so capable as Anne." Overhearing this gives Anne the first hope she's had in years that he might be overcoming his resentment of her.
Anne outright defying her father, and seeing her friend Mrs. Smith, who has been ailing. The older woman mentions that she can't be melancholy with Anne around.
The affection that exists between Wentworth, the Harvilles, Benwick, and the Crofts. On the visit to Lyme, Anne decides that although her family would surely disdain their less-polished manners, she would have infinitely liked better to spend the last eight years in their genuine and supportive circle than with her shallow and snobbish family.
