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As Elizabeth had no longer any interest of her own to pursue, she

turned her attention almost entirely on her sister and Mr.

Bingley; and the train of agreeable reflections which her

observations gave birth to made her perhaps almost as happy as

Jane. She saw her in idea settled in that very house, in all the

felicity which a marriage of true affection could bestow; and she

felt capable, under such circumstances, of endeavouring even to

like Bingley's two sisters. Her mother's thoughts she plainly saw

were bent the same way, and she determined not to venture near

her, lest she might hear too much. When they sat down to supper,

therefore, she considered it a most unlucky perverseness which

placed them within one of each other; and deeply was she vexed to

find that her mother was talking to that one person (Lady Lucas)

freely, openly, and of nothing else but of her expectation that

Jane would be soon married to Mr. Bingley. It was an animating

subject, and Mrs.