“I cannot fix on the hour,or the spot,or the look,or the words, which laid the foundation.It is too long ago.I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
Elizabeth's spirits soon rising to playfulness again,she wanted Mr.Darcy to account for his having ever fallen in love with her.“How could you begin?”said she.“I can comprehend your going on charmingly, when you had once made a beginning; but what could set you off in the first place?”
“Was there no good in your affectionate behaviour to Jane while she was ill at Netherfield?”
“For the liveliness of your mind,I did.”
“Yours sincerely,etc.”