Dame Julie Andrews

It ought to be so, it must be so, while he retains the use of his reason.

But your arts and allurements may, in a moment of infatuation, have made him forget what he owes to himself and to all his family.

You may have drawn him in.

If I have, I shall be the last person to confess it, said Lizzie.

Miss Bennet, do you know who I am?

No.

I have not been accustomed to such language as this.

I am almost the nearest relation he has in the world and am entitled to know all his dearest concerns.

But you are not entitled to know mine, replied Lizzie, nor will such behavior as this ever induce me to be explicit.

"'Let me be rightly understood,' said Lady Catherine.

"'This match, to which you have the presumption to aspire, can never take place.

No, never.

Mr. Darcy is engaged to my daughter.

Now what have you to say?'

Only this, that if he is so, you can have no reason to suppose he will make an offer to me.

Lady Catherine hesitated for a moment and then replied, The engagement between them is of a peculiar kind.

From their infancy they have been intended for each other.

It was the favourite wish of his mother as well as of hers.

While in their cradles we planned the union, and now at the moment when the wishes of both sisters would be accomplished, is their marriage to be prevented by a young woman of inferior birth, of no importance in the world, and wholly unallied to the family?

"'Do you pay no regard to the wishes of his friends, to his tacit engagement with Miss de Bourgh?