“I believe I know what you would like to counsel me, Mr Darcy, and I am quite sure I know why, Let me assure you, I am not so bound by pride as you. I do not judge my friends solely on the significance of their social standing.” “Indeed.” Darcy did not like the cool tone in his voice but he was so angry he could do nothing to mitigate it. “You care little for respectability or morality, too.”