To Elizabeth it appeared that, had her family made an agreement to expose themselves as much as they could during the evening, it would have been impossible for them to play their parts with more spirit or finer success; and happy did she think it for Bingley and her sister that some of the exhibition had escaped his notice, and that his feelings were not of a sort to be much distressed by the folly which he must have witnessed.
Elizabeth úgy érezte, hogy ha a család tagjai szándékosan akarták volna nevetségessé tenni magukat az est folyamán, akkor sem játszhatták volna szerepüket több kedvvel és nagyobb sikerrel. Bingley és Jane szempontjából még szerencsének tartotta, hogy a fiatalember nem vett mindent észre, s hogy komoly érzelmeit különben sem zavarta meg az a sok ostobaság, aminek tanúja volt.