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"And this is your real opinion! This is your final resolve! Very

well. I shall now know how to act. Do not imagine, Miss Bennet,

that your ambition will ever be gratified. I came to try you. I

hoped to find you reasonable; but depend upon it I will carry my

point."

In this manner Lady Catherine talked on till they were at the

door of the carriage, when, turning hastily round, she added,--

"I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet. I send no compliments to

your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously

displeased."

Elizabeth made no answer; and without attempting to persuade her

Ladyship to return into the house, walked quietly into it

herself. She heard the carriage drive away as she proceeded

upstairs. Her mother impatiently met her at the door of her

dressing-room, to ask why Lady Catherine would not come in again

and rest herself.

"She did not choose it," said her daughter; "she would go."