P&P The Untold Stories: Miss de Bourgh’s Expectations by Diana Birchall

Anne looks forward complacently to what she hopes will be a springtime wedding with Mr. Darcy…

March 1, 1812

Lady Catherine prided herself on her deportment, which consisted in a magnificently upright carriage, and a way of moving that might be called an arrogant glide. To display a need for haste, would be deserving of contempt; a lady did not hurry-skurry like a schoolgirl. Yet on this morning, Lady Catherine did enter the small summer breakfast-parlor at Rosings with such unwonted rapidity t...