many neighbours come and visit them very often.Among Emma's acquaintances there are Mr.Knightley, the older brother of Emma's sister's husband, Mr.Elton, Miss and Mrs Bates, Jane Faifax who is Mrs Bates' orphaned grand daugter.However even though Emma is surrounded by nice people, she feels that something is missing in her life.She is beginning to suffer from intellectual solitude.When Miss Taylor used to live in her house, she had someone with whom she could talk to, a companion for conversation but now that Miss Taylor was married, she had nobody with whom to spend hours talking and although she liked her father very much he couldn't be a companion to her .Soon she hears that a girl, Harriet Smith aged seventeen is coming to her house with Mrs Godddarg.The latter has a school and Mrs Smith is in her school.Emma is delighted and cannot wait to meet Harriet.Emma is a very fanciful and temperamental girl .This is actually her own fault and no sooner has she met Harriet than she starts making plans for the young lady.Harriet happens to be a docile girl and she is very grateful to Emma's taking an interest in her . So she considers Emma like a model and listens carefully to everything that she says.Emma talks Harriet into forgetting about a certain Me.Martin, a young man who likes