As the sisters were leaving the morning room, they met Mrs. Gardiner as she had been alerted by Mr. Collin's shout and was ready to lend as much help as she could. Elizabeth hurriedly explained the pertinent details as she walked purposefully towards her father's bookroom, her arm through Jane's.
It was very lucky that her uncle was already within, it only took one look between the Gardiner's before he began to convince Mr. Bennet to consent to the visit to Hunsford by Mr. Gardiner's words. Mrs. Bennet vacillated rapidly between the desire to have a daughter married as soon as may be and the desire to herself travel to Kent with Jane. As much as she "disliked going here and there at night," it had been far to long since she had traveled. Of course, she would most like to go to London, followed closely by a seaside resort town, but even she understood that these environs were a most unlikely destination. Besides, Kent had many beauties and Jane would only add to that and Mrs. Bennet longed to see how her eldest would live the first years of her marriage, the house and all that must be changed within it. As much as Mr. Collins praised Lady Catherine de Borg, Mrs. Bennet was sure she alone knew best regarding the happiness of her daughter in the long run. She then began to push her husband to agree and although her nerves had been her husband's good friends, one can tire of even the best company and he soon relented.
To Mrs. Bennet's dismay, it was then decided that, for propriety's sake, Mr. Bennet would need to accompany Jane, and as they had not the means for the whole family to sojourn in Kent and had never had any governess with which to leave her younger daughters, she herself would stay at Longbourn regardless.