And is not the power to be generous the highest reward that can be given to any accomplishment?
Elizabeth.
Oh, surely! And so you would have to be generous and get me some more roses: then we should each of us have to invent new speeches, and so we should never be done till we were ready to print a phrase book. However, you have certainly won your rose. [She gives it to him.]
Colonel Fitzwilliam.
Thank you! That phrase-book is a capital idea, Miss Bennet. Nothing could please me better than just such an occupation. It would really be a charity, for Darcy is such a dull fellow these days that I really don't know what to do with myself.
Elizabeth.
But we should hardly have the time for such a project. You say that you and Mr. Darcy are to leave Lady Catherine on Saturday.
Colonel Fitzwilliam.
Yes, if Darcy doesn't put it off again. He has already paid our aunt a much longer visit than ever before. I am at his disposal, you know. He arranges the business just as he pleases.
Elizabeth.