[Pride and Prejudice] Crossing into Elizabeth

Mr. Darcy wrote only these few lines, probably because time or circumstances prevented him from writing more.

That is to say, it is impossible for Mr. Darcy to return to Pemberley in a short time.

This guess made Elizabeth's face a little silent.

Miss Darcy quickly finished reading her brother's letter, and Elizabeth's guess was confirmed. "My brother says he won't be coming back soon," said Miss Darcy as soon as she read the letter. He didn't say what it was, and he told you to come to me if you have anything to do, don't be polite."

Apart from making everyone more curious about the reasons for Mr. Darcy's sudden departure, there is basically no difference between writing this letter and not writing it.

There was inevitably some discussion about Mr. Darcy's sudden departure, but even Miss Darcy was quite in the dark about it, so that the discussions went on and on without result.

When other people expressed their opinions, Elizabeth silently thought that it was time to ask Miss Darcy to leave.

After dinner, Elizabeth asked Mr. Bingley and Jane what they meant.

Mr. Bingley immediately asked Jane: "What do you think, dear Jane? Does Elizabeth need to rest for two more days?"

Jane agreed with Elizabeth's suggestion. Now she can and should ask Miss Darcy to leave. The main reason is that Elizabeth has been recovering for several days. Mrs. Te is also pressing hard. Jane just received a letter from Mrs. Bennet this morning, because Jane told her in the last letter that Mr. Darcy's cousin could not come. When Mrs. Te heard this, she wished they could put on their wings and fly home.

Another point is that if they ask Miss Darcy to leave now, it will not be possible immediately. Miss Darcy will definitely keep them, and at least beg them to postpone the date of departure by one day. This would add another day to their stay at Pemberley.

So it is urgent and necessary to ask Miss Darcy to leave.

At last they resolved to speak of the matter to Miss Darcy to-night.

In the evening, Elizabeth and Jane went to Miss Darcy's room.

They first gave the packaged perfume to Miss Darcy.

"It was supposed to be delivered at Christmas time," said Jane to Miss Darcy. "I didn't expect Lizzie to be ill all of a sudden, and I didn't have the heart to think about it."

Miss Darcy did not expect to receive such a gift. She is the least sociable, so she felt very shy in this situation. She didn't know what to say except thank you, and she suddenly thought of something else. "Teng" became red all at once, "...I, I didn't prepare any presents for you," Miss Darcy said shyly in a small voice, "I'm so sorry."

"Miss Darcy," Elizabeth said with a smile, "you must not prepare any presents for us. You and Mr. Darcy have entertained us so well. If you want to give us another gift, we have to buy another gift for you." Give you."

After Elizabeth said this, Miss Darcy was not so embarrassed, and finally accepted the gift happily.

But when Elizabeth and the others took out the check, Miss Darcy panicked again, "I can't ask for this, and my brother won't let me ask for it."

Miss Darcy shook her head and waved her hands again, as if she was afraid that Elizabeth and the others would force the check on her, her face flushed anxiously.

Elizabeth had long expected this to happen, so she was not in a hurry, but patiently explained the origin of the check to Miss Darcy.

"This check is not for you," Elizabeth said kindly, "it's for your brother. It's the money your brother paid for my doctor's visits. We wanted to hand it over to your brother, but we haven't had time yet." Give it to him, Mr. Darcy left suddenly, Miss Darcy, let's put this check with you first, and when your brother comes back, can you please pass it to him for us?"

In the past two days, Elizabeth has thought over and over again how to persuade Miss Darcy to accept this check.

What she said to Miss Darcy just now was naturally the best plan she finally chose.

Elizabeth learned the lesson of the last time this time, and deliberately avoided the possibility that Mr. Darcy would not accept the check, and only emphasized the reasons why Miss Darcy accepted the check.

First, they are just returning the consultation fee, and it is only natural for their family to accept the check.

Secondly, that by accident they were not able to hand over the check to Mr. Darcy.

Thirdly, they were only asking Miss Darcy for a small favor.

Miss Darcy was less alarmed when she heard that they were merely asking her to help forward the check to her brother, but she still hesitated, and in spite of Miss Elizabeth's earnest request and her willingness to help, she still Some weird feeling.

But what was so strange about it, Miss Darcy could not tell.

She was also hesitating there, not knowing whether she should accept the check or not.

Elizabeth quickly said again: "Actually, we have another thing to tell you. We thought about going home tomorrow, and the family has been urging us to go back. If it wasn't because we wanted to go home, we would I will not ask you for this favor, you have also received a letter from Mr. Darcy, and Mr. Darcy is unlikely to come back in the near future, otherwise we will give him the check in person."

It did not occur to Miss Darcy that the matter of the check was still unsolved, and that Miss Elizabeth began to talk of other matters, moreover, of their going home. But they had never mentioned it before, and Miss Darcy asked in surprise, "Are you going home?"

"Yes," Elizabeth nodded, "We have been guests here for a while, and it's time to go back."

Jane also said: "And Lizzie's illness is also cured, and there are guests at home, and our mother has been urging us to go back quickly."

Miss Darcy didn't know what to do. The guests at home suddenly told her to go home, and they left so soon. She had never experienced such a thing. In the past, such occasions were handled by her brother. Darcy The lady thought about it, and felt that she seemed to want to keep the guests, but they had good reasons for leaving. They had guests at home, so the family urged them to go home.

But if you don't hold back, it seems very rude.

Miss Darcy couldn't make up her mind, she hesitated for a moment before asking tentatively: "Then can you leave one day later?"

Elizabeth smiled at Miss Darcy's careful air and tone.

"Of course, we can leave the day after tomorrow," Elizabeth quickly folded the check in half, "but I really need to trouble you to hand over this check to Mr. Darcy, we really don't know who to turn to for help except you gone."

While speaking, Elizabeth took the initiative to take Miss Darcy's hand, and put the folded check into her palm. Miss Darcy hesitated for a while, and finally accepted the check.

Now that she had agreed with Miss Darcy about going home the day after tomorrow, Elizabeth asked Sophia to help her pack her luggage the next day.

When she was packing her luggage, Elizabeth specially left the brooch out. She wanted to give this brooch to Missy.

Elizabeth didn't have much luggage, and she and Sophia packed everything up in just a while.

After helping her pack her luggage, Sophia went to Lydia's side. It's time for Lydia to get up at this time. Sophia is going to help Lydia and also help her pack her luggage. Lydia is not like her Here, her luggage can't be packed in half a day, and Sophia is quite busy in the past.

But Elizabeth has nothing to do here. She still has to go to see Mrs. Reynolds. Today is the last day of her visit to Pemberley. Things cannot be delayed any longer. Although it is difficult to speak, she has to talk to Mrs. Mrs. Zee told me about Missy.

It's just that Missy came over before Elizabeth had time to find Mrs. Reynolds.

Missy has been paying attention to Elizabeth for the past two days. Yesterday she heard that Miss Elizabeth gave Rena and Lisa a handkerchief each. For this matter, Missy asked Rena Lisa to confirm. Sha also showed her the handkerchief. The handkerchief looked very soft and felt very comfortable. At that time, Lisa was so happy and said to her that the handkerchief was still made of silk, which was extremely expensive. .

Missy was very angry at the time, obviously the three of them were sent to Miss Elizabeth's place together, and Missy asked herself that when she was at Elizabeth's, she would only make the other two more thoughtful and meticulous in her work, so how could gifts be so important? Why not have her share?

At that time, she really wanted to come over and ask, but she gradually calmed down, and persuaded herself to be patient, maybe Miss Elizabeth would send someone to find her soon.

But after that, Missy paid close attention to Elizabeth's situation, what she did and what she said, as long as she could find out, she would not let it go.

The matter of presents is still secondary, mainly because of the fact that she asked her for help last time. Although Mr. Darcy left, she told Miss Darcy that it was the same.

Missy was afraid that Elizabeth would fool her, and now she wished she could run eighty times a day to ask the people in the main house about the guests.Fortunately, there are only a few guests in Pemberley at the moment, and everyone pays attention to it consciously or unconsciously, so Missy can find out a lot of things.

Last night, as soon as Missy was busy with the kitchen, she ran to inquire about Elizabeth again. As a result, Lucy, who was serving in the restaurant, told her that Mr. Darcy had written and that Mr. Darcy would not be back in a short time.

Missy got dizzy when she heard that, mainly because she felt that Mr. Darcy's sudden departure was tricky. Mr. Darcy was obviously indifferent to Miss Elizabeth, and went to get close to Miss Anne.

Who Mr. Darcy should marry was not a matter of concern to her, but her future was now at stake, and if Miss Elizabeth felt hopeless with Mr. Darcy, how could she possibly mind her own business?

Missy was so angry that she was busy inquiring about Elizabeth again early the next morning.

After inquiring, she knew that Elizabeth and the others had asked Miss Darcy to go home.

Missy said badly, Elizabeth is going to leave her alone.

However, after a night of precipitation, Missy was not as anxious as yesterday. She thought about this matter carefully, and felt that there was still room for her to play. If she handled it well, she would still be able to get her wish.

After Missy made up her mind, she came to find Elizabeth.

When Elizabeth saw Missy coming, she was quite surprised at first, and then thought that Missy came to ask her about the last time.

Elizabeth smiled a little embarrassedly, and wanted to explain to her that she was going to talk to Mrs. Reynolds about her.

But Missy felt weird today, Elizabeth looked at Missy with some doubts, and Missy walked towards her without saying a word after entering the door.

At last Missy stopped three or four paces ahead of her.

She unhurriedly glanced at the suitcase on the ground first, and then turned her gaze to Elizabeth. She asked with a half-smile:

"Miss Elizabeth, are you leaving?"