About the Book
“Mr. Darcy, I am eager to hear your explanation for the
fact that quite a few people believe we are engaged.”
It starts with a bit of well-meant advice. Colonel
Fitzwilliam suggests to his cousin Darcy that, before he proposes to Elizabeth
Bennet in Kent, perhaps he ought to discuss his plans with their families
first.
What neither man could have predicted however was that
Lord Matlock would write the news to his sister or Viscount Saye would
overhear, and tell his friends, or that his friends might slip a little and let
their friends know as well. The news spreads just as quickly through
Hertfordshire once Mrs Bennet opens the express Mr Bennet receives from Mr
Darcy, and in a matter of days, it seems like everyone knows that Mr Darcy has
proposed marriage to Elizabeth Bennet.
Everyone, that is, except Elizabeth herself.
Her refusal is quick and definite—until matters of
reputation, hers as well as Jane’s, are considered. Then Mr Darcy makes another
offer: summer at Pemberley, so that Jane can be reunited with Mr Bingley and so
that he can prove to Elizabeth he is not what she thinks of him. Falling in
love with him is naturally impossible…but once she knows the man he truly is,
will she be able to help herself?
