Pride and Prejudice Part V

Elizabeth is relieved that Lydia's marriage will stop her becoming a scandal, but she still feels unhappy and ashamed. Lydia and her husband arrive for a brief visit, before going to join a regiment in the North, and Lydia then lets slip that Mr Darcy was at her wedding. Elizabeth is shocked and writes to her aunt Gardiner askng for more information. Mrs Gardiner writes back that Darcy was the one who found Lydia and Wickham living in London and bribed him inot marrying her. Mrs Gardiner writes that she has the impression that Darcy must care for Elizabeth, or he would not have lowered his own pride to go and cajole Wickham into marriage. A little later, Bingley comes back to Netherfield, with Darcy, and he asks Jane to marry him. Elizabeth tells Darcy that she knows of his kindness in saving Lydia, and he tells her that he did it for her and that he still cares for her and understands her better now, and still wants to marry her. Elizabeth accepts him and they marry..... This is probably Austen's most popular novel. Elizabeth is charming and witty. Darcy is handsome and very rich, while the heroes in other books are not so well off or glamorous.