Miss Elizabeth Bennet must have been the last person to see it coming and like a rushing tide she soon could not avoid the rush of emotion that swept over her. It had happened so quickly that she hardly knew what hit her. She was in love with Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy. She had thought him both prideful and arrogant and told others that she despised him and he had separated her loving sister Jane from the man she loved, Charles Bingley. Darcy was not innocent, but Elizabeth soon realized that her ability to easily judge another’s character had been proven faulty and Darcy had proven this when he wrote of his history with George Wickham. The hurt she felt after bitterly rejecting his proposal in Hunsford had been as great as his own. Only too late did she learn that much of Darcy’s pride was his shyness and she had observed it even as he professed his ardent love for her that evening at the parsonage. That Darcy would go from being the last man in the world that she would consent to marry to become the only man she wished to marry consumed her thoughts during the day and her sleep at night. After rejecting his proposal, she was certain he would never offer again. Seeing him at Pemberley so soon after his proposal had her thinking of what might have been, as the more she learned of Darcy the more she saw goodness in him. Then came that fateful day in Lambton. Darcy saw Elizabeth just after she had read the news that her youngest sister had eloped with George Wickham but he would not marry her. Any thoughts that she or her other sisters might marry well were dashed by Lydia’s carelessness. As Darcy left her that day she felt her heart break, but there was much more trouble ahead and more heartbreak too. She had never been in love but had seen Jane suffer with Mr. Bingley’s absence. Now Elizabeth dealt with her shattered feelings and other troubles but saw only a small chance that Darcy might love her. Her feelings had grown to the point where all that mattered to her was being near him. If that was all she could have, that would be enough, for only her love for him mattered now as she attempted to reunite her sister Jane with Mr. Bingley. Only time would tell if they had any hope of a future together.