When Darcy got back to Netherfield the first thing he needed to do was to sit down to write a letter to his beloved sister Georgiana to tell her the news that Lizzie had at long last agreed to become his wife. Although before Darcy could reach the privacy of his study to write the all important letter he was stopped by Mr Bingley, eager to find out how his trip to Longbourn went.
"How did your proposal to Miss Bennet go Mr Darcy?" Bingley asked with great curiosity and he also had a cheerful demeanour ever since Jane Bingley had accepted his hand in marriage.
"My proposal was accepted by Miss Elizabeth and after careful consultation with her father he gave his blessing to the prospective nuptials," Darcy proclaimed with a smile on his face, the first in a long time Mr Bingley observed discreetly.
"That's wonderful Mr Darcy; I presume you will be joining me in returning to Longbourn this evening for dinner with the Bennett family?" Bingley said with a knowing smile.
"You are correct in your assumptions Mr Bingley and it is getting late so I shall be getting myself ready for this evening if you'll excuse me," Darcy explained to Mr Bingley and then looking at the time realised that he would not have time to write to Georgiana that evening so he set out to get ready for dinner at Longbourn with the Bennetts, including his darling Elizabeth and the woman that had captured Mr Bingley's heart from the moment that they had set eyes upon each other, Jane.
As Darcy got ready for dinner he pondered the reasons why he had fallen so deeply in love with Elizabeth, was it her personality? No, that wasn't it but she never fails to rise to the challenge in an argument, which is one of the things that he loves about her but not the reason he fell for her in the first place. Was it the fact that she always looked out for her sisters no matter what they did? No, that wasn't the reason he is so deeply infatuated with her although it is an admirable quality of hers. All of a sudden Darcy realised the one thing that instigated his love for her, it was her eyes. The rich pools of melted chocolate that residing on her dainty, porcelain like face that captured his attention and then his heart. When Darcy realised that it was her eyes that had instilled the love in his heart, he sat down at his desk and started his letter to Georgiana so that he could let her know that he had found his soulmate and how he couldn't wait to marry her. Darcy had only written a page of the letter that he expected to be at least two or three pages, when Bingley called out to tell him that the carriage was ready to take them to Longbourn.
"Coming Mr Bingley," Darcy called out in return as he left the unfinished letter on his desk and left the room with a spring in his step knowing that in a short while he would be reunited with the woman that had captured his heart and soul and he couldn't wait to make her his wife.
