Darcy.

[Smiling.] What think you of books?

Elizabeth.

Books? Oh no: I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings.

Darcy.

I am sorry you think so, but if that be the case, there can at least be no want of subject. We may compare our different opinions of them.

Elizabeth.

No, I cannot talk of books at a ball—my head is always full of something else.

Darcy.

The present always occupies you in such scenes, does it?