P&P The Untold Stories: Darcy Undone

A heartbroken Darcy returns to Pemberley.

June, 1812

At the first sight of Pemberley, he was undone.

In town, he had kept to his schedule, maintained his facade. No one who looked at him could have known anything was different. (Everything was different.)

With the haut ton, he knew just how to act: with confidence (arrogance), pride (conceit), and dispassionate rationality (a selfish disdain for the feelings of others). He was the consummate gentleman—at least, the sort of gentleman people in ...