Their party in the dining-room was large, for almost all the Lucases came to meet Maria and hear the news; and various were the subjects that occupied them: Lady Lucas was inquiring of Maria, after the welfare and poultry of her eldest daughter; Mrs. Bennet was doubly engaged, on one hand collecting an account of the present fashions from Jane, who sat some way below her, and, on the other, retailing them all to the younger Lucases; and Lydia, in a voice rather louder than any other person's, was enumerating the various pleasures of the morning to anybody who would hear her.
La salle a manger était pleine, presque tous les Lucas étant venus chercher Maria, et les sujets de conversation étaient nombreux et variés. Lady Lucas demandait a sa fille a travers la table des nouvelles de l’installation de Charlotte et de son poulailler.