Jane Austen
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officers will find women better worth their notice. Let us hope, therefore, that her being
there may teach her her own insignificance. At any rate, she cannot grow many degrees
worse, without authorising us to lock her up for the rest of her life."
With this answer Elizabeth was forced to be content; but her own opinion continued the
same, and she left him disappointed and sorry. It was not in her nature, however, to increase
her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to
fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was no part of her disposition.
Had Lydia and her mother known the substance of her conference with her father, their
indignation would hardly have found expression in their united volubility. In Lydia's
imagination, a visit to Brighton comprised every possibility of earthly happiness. She saw,
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