Pride and Prejudice - Chapters 9-10

Chapter Nine takes us to the sickroom of Jane Bennet at Netherfield, where she is attended dutifully by her sister, Elizabeth. A letter is requested to summon their mother, Mrs. Bennet, who arrives with her two youngest daughters – girlish personas dancing with naïve innocence, yet riding on a wave of inappropriate behaviour that submerges the boundaries of social decorum. The entries of the affable, yet slightly flippant, Mr. Bingley, his steadfast confidante Mr. Darcy, and the two elegant,...