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  Climbing into the carriage, Elizabeth watched her beloved relatives as long as possible and wondered what changes in her life this return to Hertfordshire might bring. As the carriage wound through the neighborhoods leading from her home to an unanticipated and unexpected destination, she pondered the differences in her thoughts and emotions from now to what they had been five years ago. She had left Hertfordshire a young, naïve, trusting girl and was returning as a woman of the world; older, knowledgeable of so many different things that she never could have learned in her home county, and experienced in being part of a loving, welcoming family. She was not the same person as before, so it was only reasonable to assume that her family and neighbors had changed as well. Setting aside the pain of the summons from her father and her deep concern for the health of her sister, she determined that she would find some morsel of education or enjoyment from this experience and anticipated meeting the residents and guests of Netherfield Park. Possibly, she may have opportunity to again see her beloved friend Charlotte. Elizabeth pondered on Miss Georgiana Darcy and her brother, Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy. Their last name conjured up an image of the pleasant young man she had briefly conversed with in the bookstore all of those years ago. She wondered if he was family to the brother or sister staying in Hertfordshire. Elizabeth settled back into the cushions of the carriage and thought about what possibilities her future might hold.

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