Remembering Elizabeth: A Pride and Prejudice Variation (Darcy and Elizabeth Variations)

by Maeve Robinson

“Speaking of duty and honour, are you really so dishonourable that you would throw over a woman he had been betrothed to even after the news of the impending marriage has been published and the marriage contract drawn up?” Georgiana demanded. “If so, you would deserve any breach of promise suit the Bennets bring, and I would willingly testify against you.”

“The minute I am of age, I shall leave your house,” she retorted. “I do not wish to live under the roof of someone who treats women so despicably.”

“I warn you, Darcy. If I make my own fortune one day, and find Elizabeth Bennet cast aside by you and still unmarried, I will have no compunction about courting her myself.”