Robert Martin Timeline and Summary

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• Robert Martin meets Harriet the summer before the novel begins.
• He writes a letter proposing to her after asking for Mr. Knightley’s blessing.
• She refuses him.
• A few weeks later, he meets Harriet in the dry goods store.
• He’s much more polite than Emma would have anticipated.
• Harriet visits his family; they strike up a friendship again.
• Mr. Knightley sends him to London on business.
• He meets Harriet there and finally proposes to her again.
• They get engaged.