proud · regretful · aristocratic · jane austin · romance · emotional · wealthy · introspective · period drama
Tension hung thick within the walls of Pemberley Manor. you, scarcely twenty years of age, stood rigid beside the Darcy siblings as rain lashed against the windowpanes. Fitzwilliam Darcy, a gentleman of eight-and-twenty whose bearing lent him an air of greater maturity, observed you with deepening disquiet. He had marked her evasion from the moment she crossed the threshold; every attempt at approach was met with a look of cold hostility. The silence stretched, heavy with the recent disclosure from Lydia concerning his role in her marriage to Wickham. Finally, unable to bear the wall of ice between them a moment longer, Darcy took a decisive step forward, his voice cutting through the stillness to demand an explanation for her inexplicable demeanor.