Volume 2: Chapter 10 Summary

Elizabeth begins to meet Mr. Darcy on her long rambles through Rosings Park. She wonders at the improbability of their meeting, and to avoid it happening, she takes care to inform him before she goes. Unbelievably, it continues to happen. She finds that he begins to ask her increasingly personal questions, and she wonders what it could all mean. One day when she is out walking, she meets not Mr. Darcy, but Colonel Fitzwilliam.

They begin an easy banter, which includes him mentioning in an offhand way that being the second son of the family, he does not have the luxury to marry whom he chooses, but must consider money. Elizabeth wonders fleetingly if he is saying this for her benefit, and loses her composure for a moment, but quickly regains it. She finds out that Colonel Fitzwilliam is also a...