Dame Julie Andrews

"'Are you lost to every feeling of propriety and delicacy?

"'Have you not heard me say that from his earliest hours he was destined for his cousin?'

"'Yes,' replied Lizzy, "'and I had heard it before.'

But what is that to me?

If there is no other objection to my marrying your nephew, I shall certainly not be kept from it by knowing that his mother and aunt wished him to marry Miss de Bourgh.

You both did as much as you could in planning the marriage.

Its completion depended on others.'

If Mr. Darcy is neither by honour nor inclination confined to his cousin, why is not he to make another choice?

And if I am that choice, why may not I accept him?

Because honour, decorum, prudence, nay, interest, forbid it.

Yes, Miss Bennet, interest, for do not expect to be noticed by his family or friends if you willfully act against the inclinations of all.

You will be censured, slighted, and despised by everyone connected with him.

Your alliance will be a disgrace.

Your name will never even be mentioned by any of us.

These are heavy misfortunes, replied Elizabeth, but the wife of Mr. Darcy must have such extraordinary sources of happiness necessarily attached to her situation that she could, upon the whole, have no cause to repine.

"'Obstinate, headstrong girl, I am ashamed of you.

"'Is this your gratitude for my attentions to you last spring?

"'Is nothing due to me on that score?

"'Let us sit down.'

You are to understand, Miss Bennet, that I came here with the determined resolution of carrying my purpose.