Once Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth realize their love for each other is still there, the narrator describes their interaction in the street. They both “exchanged again those feelings and those promises, which had once before seemed to secure everything,” (Austen 116). Anne and Captain Wentworth are both transported into the past. We know this is true because of the phrases “those feelings,” “those promises,” and “once before,” (116). By using these particular words, those and once before, the readers can see Anne and captain Wentworth being transported into the past and recovering their relationship. We see uncertainty when the narrator mentions that Anne and Captain Wentworth are “more exquisitely happy, perhaps, in their re-union, than when it had first been projected” (116).  The uncertainty here is the fact that it seems as though they are both happier now than when they were first together. This happiness can be because they now know that things will end up better and they can live happy and fulfilled lives with each other now. Their relationship will no longer be meddled in because Captain Wentworth proved himself to be a man of honor.

Others interpret this uncertainty differently though. In the essay “Doubleness and Refrain in Jane Austen’s Persuasion,” written by Cheryl Ann Weissman, Weissman believes that the uncertainty felt by the narrator stems from the fact that Anne is still dwelling on the past and the bad advice she took from Lady Russell. She believes it to have been a good decision at the time as is glad she listened to her. Weissman focuses on the relationships past and not the future of the relationship. The characters did seem to travel to the past, but that was only to recover their love. The narrator begins to describe the strangers passing by so that we can see that they are blending into the background and slowly making their relationship a normal occurrence. They become isolated as a couple and look forward to their time together and forget about the past.