Elizabeth.
[Coolly.] Your coming to Longbourn to see me and my family, will be rather a confirmation of it, if indeed such a report is in existence.
Lady Catherine.
If! Do you then pretend to be ignorant of it? Do you not know that such a report is spread about?
Elizabeth.
I never heard that it was.
Lady Catherine.
And can you likewise declare that there is no foundation for it?
Elizabeth.
Your Ladyship may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer.