My Pleasure Reading. Pride and Prejudice. Chapters XII - XIX (Volune II)

Elizabeth is unable to divert her attention from thoughts caused by the latest events and she decides to go for a walk. Accidently, she meets here Mr. Darcy who looks for her for giving a letter. When she gets the letter, he immediately goes away and she begins to read it. The letter shocks her as it includes both blaming on Elizabeth’s relatives and their tactlessness as well as his confession.  In the letter, Darcy does not renew his marriage proposal, but he confesses that probably he was the cause of breakup between Jane and Mr. Bingley as he makes his friend’s mind to leave Netherfield Park because Mr. Darcy was sure that Jane didn’t love Mr. Bingley. He also addresses his objection of his treatment of Wickham. In fact, Wickham turns to be very light-headed and wasteful and Mr. Darcy  states that Darcy did provide for him after his father’s death and his negative attitude towards this person has caused by the fact that Wickham  tries to elope with Mr. Darcy’s sister, having only mercenary aims.

Elizabeth’s anger and disgust for Mr. Darcy is disappearing gradually as she begins to weigh the pros and cons of what he has written, realizing that it was rather difficult for such closed person to open his heart to her. She thinks that perhaps she was wrong to trust the officer so much.  Disappointed and puzzled, she returns parsonage and gets know that Mr. Darcy and Colonel Fitzwilliam leaves his aunt’s residence.

Two weeks later Elizabeth returns home where she reveals all news to Jane, hiding any mention about Bingley for not hurting her sister. There is nothing special within the Bennet house more than a month, but then  Lydia is invited to spend the summer in Brighton with the wife of a Colonel Forster. Mr. Bennet allows her but feels some anxious, knowing about her flippancy and wish for flirtation with men.

At the same time, being unable to bear her mother’s whining about abandoned marriage between Jane and Mr. Bingley, Elizabeth agrees to travel with  the Gardiners to Darcy’s manor, Pemberley as she is sure that the owner of it is not in the neighborhood.