fanny , having not understood that thornton was so soon to be his home , was pondering with downcast eyes on what it would be not to see edmund every day ; and miss crawford , startled from the agreeable fancies she had been indulging on the strength of her brother 's description , was no longer able , in her picture of a future thornton , to shut out the church , sink the clergyman , and see only the elegant , modernised residence of a man of independent fortune .