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Since such were her feelings, it only remained, he thought, to

secure and expedite a marriage, which, in his very first

conversation with Wickham, he easily learnt had never been his

design. He confessed himself obliged to leave the regiment on

account of some debts of honour which were very pressing; and

scrupled not to lay all the ill consequences of Lydia's flight on

her own folly alone. He meant to resign his commission

immediately; and as to his future situation, he could conjecture

very little about it. He must go somewhere, but he did not know

where, and he knew he should have nothing to live on. Mr. Darcy

asked why he did not marry your sister at once. Though Mr. Bennet

was not imagined to be very rich, he would have been able to do

something for him, and his situation must have been benefited by

marriage. But he found, in reply to this question, that Wickham

still cherished the hope of more effectually making his fortune

by marriage, in some other country.