Jane is well enough to join the others in the drawing room. Elizabeth notes how Bingley takes care of Jane and is pleased. This evening they do not play cards. Darcy is reading, but Miss Bingley is intent on obtaining his attention. She interrupts him, he answers and then resumes his reading. Only when Elizabeth joins her for a walk around the room does Darcy put his book down. Elizabeth and Darcy discuss whether Darcy can or cannot be laughed at. She ironically concludes that Darcy is too perfect to be laughed at. He thinks that he is rightly proud, concedes that his temperament is too little yielding
and that he bears grudges. Elizabeth accuses him of hating everybody, and he accuses her of wilfully misunderstanding them. Darcy begins to appreciate the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.
