It was not in their direct road, nor more than a mile or two out of it.

In talking over their route the evening before, Mrs.Gardiner expressed an inclination to see the place again.

Mr.Gardiner declared his willingness, and Elizabeth was applied to for her approbation.
"My love, should not you like to see a place of which you have heard so much ?" said her aunt; "a place, too, with which so many of your acquaintances are connected.

Wickham passed all his youth there, you know." Elizabeth was distressed.

She felt that she had no business at Pemberley, and was obliged to assume a disinclination for seeing it.