A Most Vexing Attachment

Longbourn has an heir* Elizabeth has an inheritance * Mr. Darcy’s POV

When I, Fitzwilliam Darcy, get tricked by Mr. Charles Bingley into coming to the country for a very wretched ball, what I primarily want is to escape.

After I discover Mr. Bingley and Mr. James Bennet, heir to some country estate called Longbourn, coming out of a bedchamber together in the morning, I feel I must escape, because I am positively scandalized by such behavior.
The problem is Mr. James Bennet’s sister, Elizabeth.
I have a most vexing attachment to her.
I can’t seem to get her out of my head.
And she will inherit an estate in her own right and says she doesn’t even wish to get married at all.
She certainly is not attached back. She thinks me fastidious and righteous.
Perhaps she’s right.
I cannot marry a woman like her, after all. All of this, here, it’s positively hopeless. But for some reason, I cannot seem to let her go.