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animated."
When Darcy learned that Elizabeth liked to take solitary walks in the park, he made sure to turn up
accidentally over and over.
More than once did Elizabeth, in her ramble within the park, unexpectedly meet Mr. Darcy. She felt all
the perverseness of the mischance that should bring him where no one else was brought, and, to prevent
its ever happening again, took care to inform him at first that it was a favourite haunt of hers. How it
could occur a second time, therefore, was very odd! Yet it did, and even a third. It seemed like wilful illnature,
or a voluntary penance, for on these occasions it was not merely a few formal inquiries and an
awkward pause and then away, but he actually thought it necessary to turn back and walk with her. He
never said a great deal, nor did she give herself the trouble of talking or of listening much; but it struck
her in the course of their third rencontre that he was asking some odd unconnected questions...
Although Darcy often looked at Elizabeth, it was not possible to detect love in his gaze. As
Elizabeth's friend observed of him, "He certainly looked at her friend [Elizabeth] a great deal, but
the expression of that look was disputable. It was an earnest, steadfast gaze, but she often doubted
whether there were much admiration in it, and sometimes it seemed nothing but absence of mind."
Other hints were equally subtle; Darcy was willing to dance with Elizabeth even though he
generally disliked dancing, and he would also come to listen when she played on the piano.
The net effect of all this subtlety was that Elizabeth didn't realize that Darcy was in love with her
until he proposed. This was the beginning of his proposal:
"In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell
you how ardently I admire and love you."
Elizabeth's astonishment was beyond expression. She stared, coloured, doubted, and was silent. This he
considered sufficient encouragement; and the avowal of all that he felt, and had long felt for her,
immediately followed.
An INTJ's feelings may be well hidden, but that doesn't mean they are any less strong. When
Elizabeth later inquired why Darcy had always seemed so distant and didn't talk to her, here is what
he replied: "A man who had felt less, might."
There is a bit of irony here because Darcy himself broke up the romance between his friend Mr.
Bingley and Elizabeth's sister Jane on the grounds that the Jane seemed indifferent to Mr. Bingley's
attentions. In fact, Jane was as deeply in love as Darcy—and like him, she hid her emotions too
well.
How Not to Court An INTJ
Pride and Prejudice also offers a study of another woman, Miss Bingley, who tried to court Darcy
and failed. Let's look at some of her mistakes.
In the first place, Miss. Bingley was always playing little games in an effort to tear down other
women. In the paragraph below, she jabs a needle into Elizabeth, her main competitor. Observe
Darcy's reaction.
"Elizabeth Bennet," said Miss Bingley, when the door was closed on her [Elizabeth], "is one of those
young ladies who seek to recommend themselves to the other sex by undervaluing their own; and with
many men, I dare say, it succeeds. But, in my opinion, it is a paltry device, a very mean art."
"Undoubtedly," replied Darcy, to whom this remark was chiefly addressed, "there is a meanness in all the
arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. Whatever bears affinity to cunning is
despicable."