Were it for nothing but his love of you, I must always have esteemed him; but now, as Bingley's friend and your husband, there can be only Bingley and yourself more dear to me.

But Lizzy, you have been very sly, very reserved with me.

How little did you tell me of what passed at Pemberley and Lambton! I owe all that I know of it to another, not to you." Elizabeth told her the motives of her secrecy.

She had been unwilling to mention Bingley; and the unsettled state of her own feelings had made her equally avoid the name of his friend.

But now she would no longer conceal from her his share in Lydia's marriage.