“The contents of this letter threw Elizabeth into a flutter of spirits, in which it was difficult to determine whether pleasure or pain bore the greatest share. The vague and unsettled suspicions which uncertainty had produced what Mr. Darcy might have been doing to forward her sister’s match, which she had feared to encourage as an exertion of goodness to great to be the pain of obligation, were proved beyond their greatest extent to be true!” (273).
Prior to reading Mrs. Gardiner’s letter, Elizabeth has given up a bit of hope in her quest of marrying Darcy. After everything that has happened she surmises that Darcy will no longer have interest in her. Her family embarrassed her, Wickham is now in the family, and she turned down Darcy’s proposal with iniquity. Elizabeth realizes now that she loves Darcy. She knows that he helped Lydia with her wedding which makes her fall even more in love with him. If he were to propose again she would say yes with alacrity. She only hopes that their love can overcome all the internal and external barriers.
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