Elizabeth, Sir William and Maria Lucas arrive at Hunsford Parsonage. Mrs. Collins affectionately receives her friend. Mr. Collins is as formal in his civility as ever welcoming them to his humble abode. Elizabeth thinks that he points out the features and furniture of the room elaborately so that she feels the loss of refusing him. Elizabeth observes Charlotte wisely does not hear her husband’s ostentatious mentions of their home’s details.
He also offers a detailed tour of the garden, but nothing could compare to the prospect of Rosings. Lady Catherine is in residence. She is all affability and condescension. They dine at Rosings twice every week. The next day Elizabeth is called from her room with haste to come downstairs and see a phaeton at the garden gate carrying a young lady and her companion.
It was Miss Anne de Bourgh. Elizabeth perplexed over all the commotion thought at least that the pigs had gotten into the garden. Miss de Bourgh looks small and thin and Elizabeth likes her appearance. She looks sickly and cross and will do for Darcy making him a proper wife. After the carriage departs, Mr. Collins congratulates them on their invitation to dine at Rosings the next day.