Overhearings Less to the Purpose — Timothy Underwood

He is Mr. Darcy of Pemberley: How hard can it be to charm a woman into liking him? At Rosings Park our hero Mr. Darcy overhears Elizabeth disclose her true opinion of him to her friend Charlotte Collins. Her opinions were rather less favorable to him than he had anticipated.Well he can't let her think that.Certainly Darcy had been awoken from the delusion that he might consider maybe offering marriage to this woman by hearing her true opinion of him. It had been like a splash of cold water on the face. But he could not abandon the field while Elizabeth Bennet existed in the world and despised him. He must charm her into liking him, at least a little, before he could leave Rosings Park.Alas for our hero Mr. Darcy, he is not very good at charming women, even when he wants to...For her part Elizabeth finds Darcy's increasingly desperate attempts to gain her favor ridiculous. But perhaps that is not a bad thing, for she dearly loved to laugh...