— “Your plan is a good one,”
replied elizabeth
replied Elizabeth,
“where nothing is in question but the desire of being well married, and if I were determined to get a rich husband, or any husband, I dare say I should adopt it.
But these are not Jane's feelings;
she is not acting by design.
As yet she cannot even be certain of the degree of her own regard, nor of its reasonableness.
She has known him only a fortnight.
She danced four dances with him at Meryton;
she saw him one morning at his own house,
and has since dined in company with him four times.
This is not quite enough to make her understand his character.”
— “Not as you represent it.
Had she merely dined with him, she might only have discovered whether he had a good appetite;
but you must remember that four evenings have also been spent together —
and four evenings may do a great deal.”