A few months later, while Mr. Darcy was touring the Lake country with his wife Elizabeth, he received a letter from his friend Charles Bingley. It informed the Darcys of his sister, Caroline Bingley's engagement to Sir Albert Westham, of Wood Hall, Suffolk. The wedding was to be held in September.
"Well, well!" said Elizabeth to her husband after he had read the letter out loud to her (she could not quite make out what it said by herself-marriage had not improved her brother-in-law's writing style!), "Let us hope that the future Lady Westham will be so busy with her Suffolk duties that she will leave us in peace at Pemberley at last."
And she did leave them in peace.
Caroline's Ball had been useful, after all...
the end