“Yes, these were characteristic sounds: they brought to her recollection a countless variety of dreadful situations and horrid scenes, which such building has witnessed, and such storms ushered in; and most heartily did she rejoice in the happier circumstances attending her entrance with walls so solemn!” (201).
This passage means quite a lot to the text as a whole. Catherine allows her imagination to get the best of her for the first time in Northanger Abbey due to her obsession with Gothic Novels. Even though the Abbey is extremely modern and redone in many parts of the house, Catherine still strives to associate it with the stories she has read before and like the story that Henry told her in the carriage ride over. Just a thunderstorm was enough to push Catherine’s imagination over the edge which spiraled out of control to the climax of assuming Henry’s father had murdered his wife Mrs. Tilney, an almost preposterous accusation to put against someone that has showed Catherine nothing but kind behavior.
(https://books.google.com/books/about/Northanger_Abbey.html?id=3OHOUzhs6qQC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button#v=onepage&q&f=false) - The bookstore was sold out of Northanger Abbey copies so I had to use an online version of the text.
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