Act 3 Pgs. 87-91

Question 1

Hilda

The lady Catherine de Bourgh

Answer 1

Lady Catherine? Good afternoon, your ladyship. This is a pleasant surprise-

Question 2

Lady Catherine

This lady, I suppose, is your mother?

Answer 2

May I present my mother, mrs. Bennet. Lady Catherine de Bourgh, mama.

Question 3

Lady Catherine
Ends in…and there cook is no doubt more efficient than the one you are likely to have in a place with such a very small park.

Answer 3

But of course, lady Catherine-

Question 4

Mrs Bennet

If you need me I’ll be in the library-im reading a book.

Answer 4

That piece is quite genuine-lady Catherine. Is your chair comfortable?

Question 5

Lady Catherine

Sit here where I can see you plainly. You know why I am here?

Answer 5

No, indeed I dont know what I have done to deserve this honor.

Question 6

Lady Catherine

Has not your conscience told you?

Answer 6

My conscience?

Question 7

Lady Catherine

(Blah blah blah) I have come post haste from rosings to let you know my exact sentiments.

Answer 7

What a long way to come for such a purpose, lady Catherine. Especially as I know nothing of such a rumor.

Question 8

Lady Catherine

Will you swear there is no foundation for it?

Answer 8

No, I do not pretend to be as celebrated for frankness as your ladyship. So there are certain questions I may not choose to answer - this is one of them.

Question 9

Lady Catherine

How-how dare you? I insist on knowing! Has my nephew made you an offer of marriage?

Answer 9

But your ladyship has already declared that to be Impossible.

Question 10

Lady Catherine

It certainly should be! But your arts may have been entangled him into forgetting what he owes to his family.

Answer 10

Then surely I should be the last to admit it.

Question 11

Lady Catherine
Miss bennet, do you know who I am? I have not been accustomed- I am the nearest relative he has and entitled to know his dearest conserns

Answer 11

Then question him you are surely not entitled to know mine.

Question 12

Lady Catherine

This marriage which you have the effrontery to aspire, will never take place. Never! Now what have you to say?

Answer 12

If there were no other objection to my marriage with mr.darcy - your commands could carry little weight.

Question 13

Lady Catherine

Very well. If you persist - but dont except to be recieved by his family or his friends-

Answer 13

I must confess to your ladyship that this will not give me a moment’s concern.

Question 14

Lady Catherine

Miss bennet I am ashamed of you. Is this your gratitude for my hospitality?

Answer 14

Gratitude! But, lady Catherine I regard hospitality as a mutual grace, and by no means consider myself an object for charity.

Question 15

Lady Catherine
Understand my girl, I came here determined- I am not used to submitting to any persons whims, nor brooking disappointments

Answer 15

That is unfortunate. it is rather late in life for your ladyship to be recieving your first taste of it-

Question 16

Lady Catherine

Be silent . the idea of you wanting to marry out of your own sphere!

Answer 16

Oh I should not consider it so. Mr. Darcy is a gentleman - I am the daughter of one.

Question 17

Lady Catherine
And pray, what was your mother? A lady? The daughter of a shop keeper, with a brother -an attorney!! You see, I am not deceived by your airs and graces.

Answer 17

Elizabeth
And, you, lady Catherine, the daughter of a peer! It’s strange how little birth seems to affect questions of taste- or- gentleness of heart.

Question 18

Lady Catherine

As if you could possibly know anything about such things. Answer me once and for all ARE YOU ENGAGED TO MY NEPHEW!

Answer 18

I must ask you to speak in a lower key. My sister is asleep out there. No I am not engaged to your to him.

Question 19

Lady Catherine

And will you promise me you never will be?

Answer 19

I will not.

Question 20

Lady Catherine

Miss bennet, I am shocked! Then I refuse to leave until you have given me that promise

Answer 20

I trust your ladyship will have a pleasant journey back to Rosings. Hilda her ladyship’s coach, of you please.

Question 21

Mrs. Bennet

Oh why did her ladyship leave so soon? I had hoped to have a nice talk with her about the collinses-

Answer 21

She did not wish to remain longer, mama.

Question 22

Mrs. Bennet
She is a very fine looking woman, my love - and her calling here was prodigiously civil- she only came, I suppose, to tell us that the Collinses were well? On her way somewhere I daresay? Paying through meryton - thought she might as well call on you? I suppose she had nothing particular to say, lizzie?

Answer 22

No, mama - nothing at all.