Act 2 Pgs. 47 -82

Question 1

Mr. Bennet
For Gods sake, go and get something useful to do. Get to your studies and dont let me listen to any more of this foolishness.

Answer 1

Elizabeth

Papa, I think you handle Lydia the wrong way.

Question 2

Mrs. Bennet

Dont be so tiresome, mr. Bennet.

Answer 2

Elizabeth

Jane, will you walk to the village with me this afternoon? I have to get- (ad. Lib.)

Question 3

Hilda

One for you miss jane, two for miss. Lizzie.

Answer 3

Elizabeth

Thank you, hilda.

Question 4

Collins

Shyness, no doubt, my dear mrs. Bennet. Miss. Elizabeth is avoiding me out of maidenly modesty.

Answer 4

Elizabeth
Where you calling me mama? Oh mr. collins have you finished your sermon? If you’ll excuse me- I want to reply to this letter from Mr. wickham.

Question 5

Mrs. Bennet
No, lizzie, mr. Collins has something to say to you-
Elizabeth I desire you to remain here.

Answer 5

Elizabeth

But mr. collins can have nothing to say to me that wont wait , mama

Question 6

Mr. Collins
Long proposal speech ending in…but you can rest assured that on that score no ungenerous word of reproach shall ever pass my lips after we are married.

Answer 6

Elizabeth
Aren’t you a little hasty, sir? You seem to forget that I have made no answer to this dazzling offer! I appreciate the honor you have done me - but candor compels me to decline it.

Question 7

Collins
I understand, dear miss Elizabeth- yes it is quite a charming and delicate custom for young ladies to say no when they mean yes. I am, therefore, not at all discouraged and shall hope to lead you to the alter before long.

Answer 7

Elizabeth
Upon my word, sir, you are difficult to discourage. I assure you I am not one of those idiotic young ladies you describe, if indeed they exist outside of novels. Difficult as it seems for you to believe- I will not marry you.

Question 8

Collins

Come, come, miss Elizabeth-

Answer 8

Elizabeth

You could not make me happy and I certainly could not make you so-

Question 9

Collins

Such charming modesty

Answer 9

Elizabeth
What is more, I have no ambition to try. And if your friend, the lady Catherine DE bourgh really knew me, she would utterly disapprove of me for it the exalted position you offer.

Question 10

Collins
OH - if I sought lady Catherine would disapprove! On, but no - impossible! You can be sure that when I have the honor of seeing her ladyship again -

Answer 10

Elizabeth

You had better ask her to choose for you, only select a young woman with the humbler and more contrite heart -

Question 11

Collins
Ah, No, dear cousin, my mind is made up. And IM too well aware that it is by no means certain that any other gentlemen will ever make you an offer - so I Naturally understand at your rejection of my suit is according to the usual practice of elegant females.

Answer 11

Elizabeth
I see! Well, if you can, try to stop thinking of me as an elegant female. Just picture me as a rational creature With A most inelegant habit of speaking the truth.

Question 12

Collins

AH,You are quite adorable!

Answer 12

Elizabeth

Mr. Collins!

Question 13

Collins
I am quite certain now that when my proposal is formally sanctioned by your excellent parents that you will plainly say yes.

Answer 13

Elizabeth
Oh, Mr. Collins, I will as plainly as possible say no. And you need not try to scamper in front of me again. This time I am going out by this door.

Question 14

Bennett

Where is this misguided girl?

Answer 14

Elizabeth

Here, sir.

Question 15

Bennett

Come here, my child.I understand that Mr. Collins has made you an offer and that you have refused it.

Answer 15

Elizabeth

I have, papa.

Question 16

Bennett
Then it seems that an unhappy alternative awaits you, Lizzie period from this day forth you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never speak to you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins - and I - will never speak to you again if you do

Answer 16

Elizabeth

Papa!

Question 17

Mrs Bennett
Now see what you have done, Lizzie, you ungrateful girl! You’ve lost him, and that plain faced scheming little cat will get him and turn us all out of here when your father dies.

Answer 17

Elizabeth

On sense! Charlotte wouldn’t look at him!

Question 18

Lydia

Ha, ha, hah - we seem to be the 3 graces nobody wants.

Answer 18

Elizabeth

Lydia! It’s nothing Kama mama. Jane had a letter from Caroline bingley - from London -

Question 19

Jane starts to cry

Answer 19

Elizabeth

Don’t - darling - he’ll come back.

Question 20

Jane
But, Lizzie, he hasn’t sent one word - not 1! I can’t understand it. Caroline merely tells me they are not coming back until the Spring -

Answer 20

Elizabeth
Nonsense. You’ll see, he will Be here to see papa before the week is out. Only, darling, don’t trust Caroline bingley. She’s fond of you, I know - but she doesn’t want you as her brother’s wife.

Question 21

Jane

Oh, noe, Lizzie, Caroline has been so sweet to me. C is incapable of deceit!

Answer 21

Elizabeth
All right, my ; believe in her as you do in everyone. One comfort - even she can’t persuade Charles that he doesn’t love you.

Question 22

Jane

But how can I marry him if his sister is against it?

Answer 22

Elizabeth
That you must decide for yourself, my dearest little saite. If - you decide that the anguish of disobliging his cat of a sister is more than equal to the joy of marrying him - then I advise you to refuse him.

Question 23

Jane
You naughty girl, Lizzie. You know very well that I should marry him if it vexed every relative he has. But if he doesn’t come back - Lizzie, Lizzie - I couldn’t bear it. I think I should die.

Answer 23

Elizabeth

He must come back - he won’t be able not to -

Question 24

Jane

Mama!

Answer 24

Elizabeth

Well, mrs Bennett - you certainly don’t believe that marriages are made in heaven -

Question 25

Mrs bennett

From what I know of men, my dear - if we left it to them and heaven - we would all be old maids.

Answer 25

Elizabeth

Mama -

Question 26

Darcy

Good morning, miss Elizabeth.

Answer 26

Elizabeth

Good morning!

Question 27

Darcy

It seems a pity to be wasting all this sunshine.

Answer 27

Elizabeth

it would be if one were doing so Without good reason.

Question 28

Darcy

You are writing letters?

Answer 28

Elizabeth

Shall we say I was trying to?

Question 29

Darcy

Pray do not let me disturb you.

Answer 29

Elizabeth

Was there something you wished to say, Mr. Darcy?

Question 30

Darcy

I was wondering whether you were pleased with Kent?

Answer 30

Elizabeth

I prefer Hartford Shire.

Question 31

Darcy
We have had little opportunity for conversing these past 2 days. I was surprised to discover you a fellow guest at my aunt’s

Answer 31

Elizabeth
I too was surprised.I had expected to visit the Collins’s at the parsonage. I was not prepared for such an excess of hospitality on the part of your aunt.

Question 32

Darcy

She likes to have young people about her. But I did not know you were to be here.

Answer 32

Elizabeth

Otherwise you might have remained in town?

Question 33

Darcy

On the contrary, I should have come with even greater alacrity

Answer 33

Elizabeth

Surprise me, sir, I did not know you were so sociably inclined.

Question 34

Darcy

Usually I am not. You wish to continue writing. But when you have more leisure.

Answer 34

Elizabeth
Mr. Darcy, if it is conversation you are in need of, I am sure your aunt lady Catherine will be delighted to furnish it you must excuse me. I have to finish my letter.

Question 35

Collins

Cousin, cousin, you are surely not aware that her ladyship has been asking for you?She intends to join you presently.

Answer 35

Elizabeth

I am honored, but I am very busy, Mr. Collins.

Question 36

Collins
Must forgive my cousin, she has had so few advantages - I like to prepare things for lady Catherine. She is accustomed to deference. Ah, her ladyship is coming - you are certain your ready, cousin?

Answer 36

Elizabeth

Yes, Mr. Collins.

Question 37

Lady Catherine
He has no right to be late for breakfast in my house. What were you and miss Bennett saying to each other comet Darcy? Ah, you are writing letters, I see, miss Bennett.

Answer 37

Elizabeth

I was.

Question 38

Lady Catherine

But why in this room? We always write our letters in the library.

Answer 38

Elizabeth
It’s, I know, lady Catherine - but the library does not possess such a view - and I write with so much more inspiration when looking out on green trees and flowers. Look at that Hawthorn hedge over there.

Question 39

Lady Catherine

You did not finish telling me about your sister’s last evening. How many did you say you had?

Answer 39

Elizabeth

Four, your ladyship.

Question 40

Lady Catherine

And how many carriages does your papa keep, my dear?

Answer 40

Elizabeth

One lady Catherine.

Question 41

Lady Catherine

What was your mama’s maiden name?

Answer 41

Elizabeth

Gardener, ma’am and she has a brother who lives in Cheapside hes an attorney and -

Question 42

Lady Catherine

Never mind, Collins, I choose not to have heard it. Do you play, my child, and sing?

Answer 42

Elizabeth

A little.

Question 43

Lady Catherine
What? No governess! Great heavens! I have never heard of such a thing. Your mom must have been a perfect slave to your education.

Answer 43

Elizabeth

Oh, no!

Question 44

Lady Catherine

pray what is your age?

Answer 44

Elizabeth

As I am still unmarried, your ladyship can hardly expect me to answer that question.

Question 45

Lady Catherine
You can’t be more than 20, so there is plenty of time before you need to begin lying about your age. If you receive no offer before you are 30, why comet then -

Answer 45

Elizabeth

Is there anything else you would like to know about me, lady Catherine?

Question 46

Fitzwilliam

Good morning, aunt. Good morning, miss Elizabeth.

Answer 46

Elizabeth

Good morning, sir.

Question 47

Lady Catherine

tut, tut you are incorrigible. miss Bennett well receive a false impression of your habits.

Answer 47

Elizabeth

On the contrary, lady Katherine, I have already received only the best.

Question 48

Darcy

And miss Bennett is not easily impressed, aunt.

Answer 48

Elizabeth
You see how unfortunate I am in meeting with a gentleman so well able to expose my real character, lady Catherine. And in a part of the world when I had hoped to pass myself off with some degree of credit -

Question 49

Fitzwilliam
Pray, miss Elizabeth - I should like to hear something about Darcy. Why don’t you retaliate and expose him? How did he behave and hartfordshire societee?

Answer 49

Elizabeth

Very strangely!

Question 50

Lady Catherine

Miss Bennett!

Answer 50

Elizabeth

I am sorry, man, but the truth compels me to state that he was unsociable and silent most of the time.

Question 51

Darcy

I lack the talent for conversing easily with strangers.

Answer 51

Elizabeth
And those who are beneath you are dignity are all strangers. And must for ever remain strangers. Is that not so, Mr. Darcy?

Question 52

Lady Catherine

You criticizing my nephew, miss Bennett?

Answer 52

Elizabeth

Criticizing Mr. Darcy? Oh, lady Catherine!

Question 53

Fitzwilliam

Oh, mrs Collins, good morning.

Answer 53

Elizabeth

Charl!

Question 54

Charlotte
Yes, your ladyship - I had to send one of your footman to the parsonage for the latest 1 - they are their. You see how fortunate I am comment Lizzie.

Answer 54

Elizabeth

Yes, I am beginning to, Charlotte dear.

Question 55

Fitzwilliam

I say!

Answer 55

Elizabeth

Oh, Charlotte!

Question 56

Charlotte
You wouldn’t believe, Lizzie, how discontented some of those foolish people are with they’re nice little 2 roomed cottages - but lady Catherine settles all their differences and silences their complaints

Answer 56

Elizabeth

Can well imagine it.

Question 57

Lady Katharine leaves with Charlotte and Mr. Collins

Answer 57

Elizabeth

Oh, my poor Charlotte!

Question 58

Fitzwilliam
Good! By Jove, it must be dull being a girl. I have often thought about it - never going anywhere alone - sitting knitting or netting - whatever it is you call it - purses and things - waiting for some chap to make you an offer - E gadd! How does a girl like you put up with it?

Answer 58

Elizabeth
Well, for one thing, I don’t net purses and I’m not waiting for any offers and I actually came to hunsford alone in the mail coach. Now what do you think of that?

Question 59

Fitzwilliam

You are To intelligint for young lady - that’s your trouble.

Answer 59

Elizabeth

For most of the young gentleman I need - and now colonel, what about your constitutional and my letter?

Question 60

Fitzwilliam

I say comment miss Elizabeth - do you mind if I ask you something?

Answer 60

Elizabeth

As long as I don’t have to answer -

Question 61

FitzWilliam

It’s about Darcy - you hurt him just now - I’m fond of the solemn old owl - why are you so prejudiced against him,?

Answer 61

ElizabetH
Prejudiced? I didn’t know I was that period frankly, I just like him. It isn’t very polite to show it - I hoped I did not. I have very good reasons for my - prejudice - as to that - you might ask him why he adopts such a superior attitude.

Question 62

FitzWilliam

It’s that confounded pride of his. It is always mistaken for conceit. But when you really know him, hes -

Answer 62

Elizabeth
Is there really much to know beyond a supreme self assurance and a disdain for anyone under appear? Such snobbery in a well born man is in comprehensible to me. I always thought only inferior people were snobs.

Question 63

FitzWilliam
Well, it’s surprising how many Wellborn people are like that - it’s taught them by nursemaids and governesses when they are youngsters - but Mr. Darcy has an awful decent character underneath all that nonsense. He has a heart and a mind to, if you can only get him to open up -

Answer 63

Elizabeth

I shouldn’t bother to try -

Question 64

Fitz william
Really like to change your opinion about the old silversides - I’m so stupid I have no vocabulary when I went to convince.

Answer 64

Elizabeth
Your a loyal friend, and I like you for it - but I am wondering, nevertheless, if you could really mention one kind of action -

Question 65

FitzWilliam

Yes, I can tell you 1 -

Answer 65

Elizabeth

Let me hear it.

Question 66

Fitzwilliam
Well. What would you say if I told you that he stayed tied to London all last Winter - just to keep a friend away from temptation?

Answer 66

Elizabeth

Temptation?

Question 67

Fitz william

the temptation of making a disastrous marriage.

Answer 67

Elizabeth

Oh!

Question 68

Fitz William
This friend of his chap named dingley or bingly or something like that - evidently consieved a consuming Passion for designing minx he met at some out landish place in the country.

Answer 68

Elizabeth

That happens so often, doesn’t it?

Question 69

Fitz William
S, doesn’t it! Of course, she cared nothing for him. Only wanted his name and his fortune. She was aided in her nefarious schemes by a particularly awful specimen of a mother.

Answer 69

Elizabeth

Perhaps it was one of those mothers whose kind intentions are often fatal to those she most wishes to help.

Question 70

IFitz William
Probably. But in addition to that, the girl had a pair of sisters who must have been bearable she will of spirea poor bingley was as good as caught.

Answer 70

Elizabeth

But Darcy snatched him from the jaws of the she wolves?

Question 71

Fitzwilliam
Play. O - I only mentioned it to me because I happened to ask him why he’d stayed so unusually long in town. It was really a frightfully decent, unselfish thing for him to have done.

Answer 71

Elizabeth

Indeed it was! And I see I have been underrating Mr. Darcy. I did not know he was made of such heroic stuff.

Question 72

Fitz William

Yes rather! I say, miss Bennett, are you laughing at me?

Answer 72

Elizabeth

Oh, noe, colonel, not at you!

Question 73

Darcy

Miss Elizabeth - I wish to speak to you.

Answer 73

Elizabeth

I should have thought it evident that I wish to finish my letter.

Question 74

Darcy

You’re not very polite. You were such a stickler for politeness in hartfordshire.

Answer 74

Elizabeth

We are most of us sticklers for virtues in other people.

Question 75

Darcy

Miss Elizabeth -

Answer 75

Elizabeth

Sir? What is it, Mr. Darcy?

Question 76

Darcy
(Long proposal) ending in :
I have learned that in the bitter miss of my self abasement I love you.

Answer 76

Elizabeth

You expect me to take you seriously? Have you so quickly forgotten the inferiority of my family?

Question 77

Darcy

I have forgotten nothing about you - I love you.

Answer 77

Elizabeth

Have you considered my unsuitability in the eyes of your exalted world comment Mr. Darcy?

Question 78

Darcy

I have considered it - and I love you.

Answer 78

Elizabeth
I need not say it again, sir! What am I supposed to reply to this extraordinary harangue? One can scarcely call it an offer of marriage. You do not, I suppose, expect me to feel flattered?

Question 79

Darcy
But do you expect me to be glad that your family is inferior to mine? Or blame me for being honest and sincere when making the most momentous decision of my life?

Answer 79

Elizabeth

Decision -?

Question 80

Darcy

It’s come up my dearest. I have decided to ask you to marry me.

Answer 80

Elizabeth

Suppose I should be overwhelmed by this honor.

Question 81

Darcy

But -

Answer 81

Elizabeth
I ought to congratulate you on overcoming the battle between your unwilling affection in my unworthiness - but you see, I happen to be quite and intrested in your problems -

Question 82

Darcy

Elizabeth -

Answer 82

Elizabeth

If you were not so lacking in perception commas sir, you might have spared yourself my refusal -

Question 83

Darcy

You refuse me?

Answer 83

Elizabeth
You might have noticed the fact long ago. I have never hidden it. I neither aspire it nor could I ever return your affection. As for your scruples about marrying into my family - don’t let that ever concern you again.

Question 84

Darcy
Is that all the reply I am to be honored with? I might perhaps deserve to be told why I have been rejected - and with so little civility.

Answer 84

Elizabeth

I also might deserve to know why you consider my feelings so little while expressing your own.

Question 85

Darcy

Is - if the manner of my revelation has offended you -

Answer 85

Elizabeth

I’m influenced by something deeper than your manners, Mr. Darcy. I am thinking more of your fine capacity for cruelty.

Question 86

Mr. Darcy

Cruelty? And went up by demonstrated that capacity?

Answer 86

Elizabeth

Mr. Darcy, have you ever wilfully injured an innocent person?

Question 87

Darcy
O, you are referring again to my treatment of Mr. Wickham? That still praise on you. The fascination and fury your men exert over superior women has often been a puzzle to me.

Answer 87

Elizabeth

Inferior! Do you always apply that word only to other people?

Question 88

Darcy
Feel justified in using it towards Mr. Wickham - unless indeed the word CAD might be more descriptive. If the principal evidence against me is based on your faith in the word of a man like him -

Answer 88

Elizabeth

This is unworthy of you sir.

Question 89

Darcy

No you don’t choose to believe me, but let me most earnestly warn you against him. He is an unprincipled, designing-

Answer 89

Elizabeth
I refuse to listen to you any further but it is not only what you have done to Mr. Wickham, although that would be quite enough - even if I cared for you, and I never could - nothing would induce me to marry the man who has ruined my sister’s life. The sweetest soul ever born! How could you do it? How could you have hurt her having once known her a?! Can you deny that you came between Jane and Charles bingley?

Question 90

Darcy

Everything in my power to separate my friend from your sister. Towards him I have been wiser than towards myself.

Answer 90

Elizabeth
You talk to me of love - they love each other calmer she and Charles - Jane is one of those who only love once it will kill her, I know it will. You have trodden on a heart.

Question 91

Darcy

You wish to think badly of me.

Answer 91

Elizabeth

I have no choice.

Question 92

Darcy

I have made the mistake of being honest with you.

Answer 92

Elizabeth

Honesty is a very overrated virtue. Tact and taste are more agreeable ones.

Question 93

Darcy

I scruples with regard to your family - were natural.

Answer 93

Elizabeth
And should have been kept yourself. Let us and this distasteful subject - you could not have made your author in any way that would have tempted me to accept it. Mr. Darcy, you are the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed upon to marry!

Question 94

Fitzwilliam

come, now cheer up. Why dont you come for a walk with me? You can write your dashed old letter later-

Answer 94

Elizabeth
It is tempting out there - in that dewdrenched world- it’s all so green and wet and shining. No, I shall be firm - I will meet you on your way back, though I shall have to do it by stealth.