Nay, were your friend Lady Catherine to know me, I am persuaded she would find me in every respect ill qualified for the situation. Perhaps it will be as well if you discourage his coming here so very often. How very suddenly you all quitted Netherfield last November, Mr. Darcy! It must have been a most agreeable surprise to Mr. Bingley to see you all after him so soon; for, if I recollect right, he went but the day before.