Lady Elizabeth: Everything Will Change Book One

Elizabeth entered the ballroom at Matlock House with the thought of but one gentleman in mind—Mr. Darcy. She had dressed with more than usual care, and indulged herself in the pleasing prospect that she would spend the better part of the evening with him. Any manner of intercourse with him would do, be it dancing together or merely debating the latest books. The best part of it all was that their being together would not give rise to speculation of an attachment, for everyone who thought they knew anything knew that he was tacitly engaged to marry his cousin Miss Anne de Bourgh and she was tacitly engaged to marry the wayfaring Lord Robert Frawley.