They agreed that Mrs. Bennet should only hear of the departure of the family, without being alarmed on the score of the gentleman's conduct; but even this partial communication gave her a great deal of concern, and she bewailed it as exceedingly unlucky that the ladies should happen to go away just as they were all getting so intimate together.
Cette communication incomplete ne laissa pas toutefois de contrarier vivement Mrs. Bennet, qui déplora ce départ comme une calamité : ne survenait-il pas juste au moment ou les deux familles commençaient a se lier intimement ?