But he found Lydia absolutely resolved on remaining where she was.

She cared for none of her friends; she wanted no help of his; she would not hear of leaving Wickham.

She was sure they should be married some time or other, and it did not much signify when.

Since such were her feelings, it only remained, he thought, to secure and expedite a marriage, which, in his very first conversation with Wickham, he easily learnt had never been _his_ design.

He confessed himself obliged to leave the regiment, on account of some debts of honour, which were very pressing; and scrupled not to lay all the ill-consequences of Lydia's flight on her own folly alone.