Elizabeth could not help smiling at his easy manner of directing his friend.
“And your assurance of it,I suppose,carried immediate conviction to him.”
“No indeed;I felt nothing but surprise.”
“I am almost afraid of asking what you thought of me,when we met at Pemberley.You blamed me for coming?”
“What could become of Mr. Bingley and Jane!”was a wonder which introduced the discussion of their affairs. Darcy was delighted with their engagement; his friend had given him the earliest information of it.
“It did. Bingley is most unaffectedly modest. His diffidence had prevented his depending on his own judgment in so anxious a case, but his reliance on mine made every thing easy. I was obliged to confess one thing,which for a time,and not unjustly, offended him.I could not allow myself to conceal that