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1"I have just received your letter, and shall devote this whole morning to answering it, as I foresee that a little
2writing will not comprise what I have to tell you. I must confess myself surprised by your application; I did not expect
3it from you. Don't think me angry, however, for I only mean to let you know, that I had not imagined such inquiries to
4be necessary on your side. If you do not choose to understand me, forgive my impertinence. Your uncle is as much
5surprised as I am; and nothing but the belief of your being a party concerned would have allowed him to act as he has
6done. But if you are really innocent and ignorant, I must be more explicit. On the very day of my coming home from
7Longbourn, your uncle had a most unexpected visitor. Mr. Darcy called, and was shut up with him several hours. It was
8all over before I arrived; so my curiosity was not so dreadfully racked as yours seems to have been. He came to tell Mr.
9Gardiner that he had found out where your sister and Mr. Wickham were, and that he had seen and talked with them
10both--Wickham repeatedly, Lydia once. From what I can collect, he left Derbyshire only one day after ourselves, and came
11to town with the resolution of hunting for them. The motive professed was his conviction of its being owing to himself
12that Wickham's worthlessness had not been so well known as to make it impossible for any young woman of character to
13love or confide in him. He generously imputed the whole to his mistaken pride, and confessed that he had before thought
14it beneath him to lay his private actions open to the world. His character was to speak for itself. He called it,
15therefore, his duty to step forward, and endeavour to remedy an evil which had been brought on by himself. If he had
16another motive, I am sure it would never disgrace him. He had been some days in town before he was able to discover
17them; but he had something to direct his search, which was more than we had; and the consciousness of this was another
18reason for his resolving to follow us. There is a lady, it seems, a Mrs. Younge, who was some time ago governess to Miss
19Darcy, and was dismissed from her charge on some cause of disapprobation, though he did not say what. She then took a
20large house in Edward Street, and has since maintained herself by letting lodgings. This Mrs. Younge was, he knew,
21intimately acquainted with Wickham; and he went to her for intelligence of him, as soon as he got to town. But it was
22two or three days before he could get from her what he wanted. She would not betray her trust, I suppose, without
23bribery and corruption, for she really did know where her friend was to be found. Wickham, indeed, had gone to her on
24their first arrival in London; and had she been able to receive them into her house, they would have taken up their
25abode with her. At length, however, our kind friend procured the wished-for direction. They were in ---- Street. He saw
26Wickham, and afterwards insisted on seeing Lydia. His first object with her, he acknowledged, had been to persuade her
27to quit her present disgraceful situation, and return to her friends as soon as they could be prevailed on to receive
28her, offering his assistance as far as it would go. But he found Lydia absolutely resolved on remaining where she was.
29She cared for none of her friends; she wanted no help of his; she would not hear of leaving Wickham. She was sure they
30should be married some time or other, and it did not much signify when. Since such were her feelings, it only remained,
31he thought, to secure and expedite a marriage, which, in his very first conversation with Wickham, he easily learnt had
32never been his design. He confessed himself obliged to leave the regiment on account of some debts of honour which were
33very pressing; and scrupled not to lay all the ill consequences of Lydia's flight on her own folly alone. He meant to
34resign his commission immediately; and as to his future situation, he could conjecture very little about it. He must go
35somewhere, but he did not know where, and he knew he should have nothing to live on. Mr. Darcy asked why he did not
36marry your sister at once. Though Mr. Bennet was not imagined to be very rich, he would have been able to do something
37for him, and his situation must have been benefited by marriage. But he found, in reply to this question, that Wickham
38still cherished the hope of more effectually making his fortune by marriage, in some other country. Under such
39circumstances, however, he was not likely to be proof against the temptation of immediate relief. They met several
40times, for there was much to be discussed. Wickham, of course, wanted more than he could get; but at length was reduced
41to be reasonable. Everything being settled between them, Mr. Darcy's next step was to make your uncle acquainted with
42it, and he first called in Gracechurch Street the evening before I came home. But Mr. Gardiner could not be seen; and
43Mr. Darcy found, on further inquiry, that your father was still with him, but would quit town the next morning. He did
44not judge your father to be a person whom he could so properly consult as your uncle, and therefore readily postponed
45seeing him till after the departure of the former. He did not leave his name, and till the next day it was only known
46that a gentleman had called on business. On Saturday he came again. Your father was gone, your uncle at home, and, as I
47said before, they had a great deal of talk together. They met again on Sunday, and then I saw him too. It was not all
48settled before Monday: as soon as it was, the express was sent off to Longbourn. But our visitor was very obstinate. I
49fancy, Lizzy, that obstinacy is the real defect of his character, after all. He has been accused of many faults at
50different times; but this is the true one. Nothing was to be done that he did not do himself; though I am sure (and I do
51not speak it to be thanked, therefore say nothing about it) your uncle would most readily have settled the whole. They
52battled it together for a long time, which was more than either the gentleman or lady concerned in it deserved.
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