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As Mrs. Gardiner began to wish to be at home, it was settled that

she and her children should go to London at the same time that

Mr. Bennet came from it. The coach, therefore, took them the

first stage of their journey, and brought its master back to

Longbourn.

Mrs. Gardiner went away in all the perplexity about Elizabeth and

her Derbyshire friend, that had attended her from that part of

the world. His name had never been voluntarily mentioned before

them by her niece; and the kind of half-expectation which Mrs.

Gardiner had formed, of their being followed by a letter from

him, had ended in nothing. Elizabeth had received none since her

return, that could come from Pemberley.