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In this one someone tries to compromise Darcy and he ends up blurting out he is already engaged...to Lizzy! She says she can play along for a little while, but that is it. The she goes home and Collins proposes. And her mother and father tells her she must marry. So then she also blurts out that she is already engaged.
Both lies. But both better than the alternative.
Caroline is a scheming B. Collins is a creep. Wickham is a creep. Miss Darcy is a mess. Mr Bingley has no spine. Society looks down on Lizzy. They have their work cut out for them.
But as always, it all works out, happily. And I wonder how they will get engaged in the next book.
Great narration too. I enjoy her voice.
MATRIMONY IS THE LAST THING on Elizabeth Bennet's mind when she arrives at Netherfield Park to tend to her ill sister. When proud Mr Darcy acts rashly to thwart a compromise and tells her that the entire household believes they are engaged, she dismisses him outright and refuses his offer of marriage.
BUT MORE SURPRISES AWAIT her at Longbourn. Mr Collins is ready with an offer of marriage and it is not only her mother who thinks it a fine match; Mr Bennet is willing to press the point until Elizabeth makes clear such a connexion is impossible-because she has accepted an offer of marriage from Mr Darcy.
IT IS AN INAUSPICIOUS BEGINNING, an engagement neither desires, driven to by the machinations of others. Yet what begins as a forced alliance soon changes into something quite different. Will it be enough to lead them into love?
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