Madness in Meryton: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

by Jayne Bamber

Only Miss Bingley laughs at my jokes before I have told them.”

malign a fifteen year old girl to perfect strangers?”

“And how do you reconcile such diametrically opposing views, Darcy? You cannot be in love with one sister and discourage Bingley from the other.”

he disdains my younger sisters for being too boisterous – and now you tell me that he distrusts Jane for her reserve – is there no pleasing him?”

But I think I must speak with Lydia, you know. These officers here are nothing to the gentlemen she might meet in London, with two such brothers as your beau and Jane’s.

“The notion of seduction,” he whispered. “You would not have known this to be Wickham’s intention, if your brother had not informed you of the fact himself, is that right?”

George Wickham might actually be an honest man.”