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Accordingly, when she retired at night, she asked the chambermaid

whether Pemberley were not a very fine place, what was the name

of its proprietor, and, with no little alarm, whether the family

were down for the summer? A most welcome negative followed the

last question; and her alarms being now removed, she was at

leisure to feel a great deal of curiosity to see the house

herself; and when the subject was revived the next morning, and

she was again applied to, could readily answer, and with a proper

air of indifference, that she had not really any dislike to the

scheme.

To Pemberley, therefore, they were to go.

CHAPTER XLIII.

Elizabeth, as they drove along, watched for the first appearance

of Pemberley Woods with some perturbation; and when at length

they turned in at the lodge, her spirits were in a high flutter.