Mr Collins , who will in time inherit Longbourn, seeks a reconciliation with the Bennet family. He intends to choose one of the girls for a wife-a plan of atonement he thinks excessively generous and disinterested on his own part.

Elizabeth found the manner of Mr Darcy 's proposal insulting and unworthy of a gentleman, but now she has learned the truth about Wickham, she grows ashamed of her former, blind prejudice.