“I think you are in very great danger of making him as much in love with you as ever.”
Her resolution was for a short time involuntarily kept by the approach of her sister,who joined her with a cheerful look,which showed her better satisfied with their visitors,than Elizabeth.
“Why,if he came only to be silent,grave,and indifferent,”said she,“did he come at all?”
They did not see the gentlemen again till Tuesday; and Mrs. Bennet,in the meanwhile,was giving way to all the happy schemes, which the good humour and common politeness of Bingley,in half an hour's visit,had revived.
Elizabeth, with a triumphant sensation, looked towards his friend. He bore it with noble indifference, and she would have imagined that Bingley had received his sanction to be happy,had she not seen his eyes likewise turned towards Mr.Darcy,with an expression of half-laughing alarm.
She could settle it in no way that gave her pleasure.
“My dear Lizzy,you cannot think me so weak,as to be in danger now?”