Thank you
Maria Grazia for hosting me on your blog! It is always a pleasure. I thought I would
share a part of my new book, To Refine Like Silver, that I adore and always makes me giggle. In this
scene, Darcy and Elizabeth both end up in the same bookshop in Lambton. Mr.
Darcy and Georgiana had been loaned a book of thoughts by Elizabeth and he
began to see the benefit of writing his confusing thoughts down. This is the
afternoon after the ball at Pemberley where Darcy realized that he loved
Elizabeth and also where he made the decision to pursue her. Up to that point,
he kept trying to talk himself out of it. Here it is.
*****
“Good
afternoon, Miss Elizabeth. What brings you to the Lambton bookshop today?”
“My aunt has come to Lambton to do
some shopping, and I asked her to drop me off here. I could not think of a
better way to pass the time than to peruse a bookshop. What brings you here?”
He lifted the journal. “I suppose my
purpose is the same as yours.”
She reached for the book he had in
his hand and asked, “But what have you found that you do not already own?” She
flipped through the blank, lined pages and looked with surprised eyes at him.
“It is blank. What do you need a blank book for?”
“I have been doing a lot of thinking
lately. Some of my thoughts are circulating through my mind, confusing and
elusive, while others are well-formed ideas. Either way, I find I am in need of
writing them down.”
“Well, it is about time.”
“I do not take your meaning.”
