“The Accord of Parameters, drawn up in Dormitory A at Fortitude, sets the boundary based on the age between one Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, with five years reasonable accommodation,” I answered. “I signed it with all the rest of the girls—and the horticultural mistress, who I now realise must have been no older than I am now. I digress. As to their ages, Elizabeth is not yet one and twenty, Mr. Darcy is twenty-eight.”
