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Dear Elizabeth,
My aunt, Lady Catherine, has arrived and means to take me with her to her estate in Kent—Rosings Park. She says she has already removed my brother from Younge’s! Her own doctor will treat him, she says. Oh, Lizzy, I told her an untruth! I told her that I had already invited you to stay with me, and that you would arrive any hour. But she knows you, she said—or knows of you, or at least the Bennets of Longbourn. She says if you arrive soon, you may come with us to Rosings. I hope you will forgive my presumption; I saw my opportunity and took it, and I am hoping you might still wish to come. I also told Lady Catherine that my companion, Mrs Younge, is the sister to the doctor who has been treating my brother, which she did not like at all. She called for Mrs Younge and explained she does not hold with girls my age setting up their own establishments and that I will have no use for a companion at Rosings, for she is more than enough chaperonage, and Mrs Younge may remain here until the earl says otherwise. Of course, Mrs Younge is beside herself, but she dares nothing except casting me warning glares. Oh, please, come if you are able. The stable boy will await your answer.
Georgiana Darcy
“Tell him the answer is yes!” Lizzy replied earnestly. “In fact, perhaps he will help me manage my trunk.”
“You’s leaving, miss?” Doris asked as Lizzy hastily shoved the last of her belongings into the nearly full trunk.
“Yes,” Lizzy said. “I am sorry Mrs Morris and Miss Thorpe are out.” She took up pen and ink, hastily scribbling a note of farewell and appreciation for their hospitality and kindness. “I hope you will give them my message of thanks and apologies for my haste—but my arrangements have suddenly come through. Miss Thorpe understood it was expected at any moment.” She all but shoved her note at the maid, not feeling the least bit guilty for her rapid departure. Harriet could not care less where next she would go or with whom; she had only wanted her gone.
“Will you help me carry my trunk downstairs?” Lizzy asked, mostly to prevent further questions, shrugging on her warmest pelisse. A few minutes later, Lizzy was following a thankfully strong young man and her trunk down the hill towards Sea Cliff Lodge.
