Page 3: so dearly missed by you and by us, enliven his face whenever Miss Bennet turned his way. I am grateful that my good brother and I are restored to the warmth we enjoyed before Wickham’s disruption. The frost of his disappointment in me melted sooner than I dared wish, and though he has been travelling the country, through his letters and visits to Pemberley he has carefully acquainted himself with me as a woman, not simply his childish ward and sister. Perhaps you are yet still too angry with me for such a reconciliation, despite my efforts here, and if so I apologize. To return: Miss Bennet and the Gardiners visited one afternoon and Caroline Bingley — charming, sharp, as ever — asked her, “Pray, Miss Eliza, are not the militia removed from Meryton? They must be a great loss to your