Jane Falls Ill at Netherfield

Jane receives an invitation to dine at Netherfield. Mrs. Bennet, scheming to keep her there, insists she ride a horse in the rain, ensuring she will be forced to stay overnight. Jane indeed catches a severe cold, and Elizabeth, deeply concerned, walks three miles through muddy fields to nurse her. Her arrival, with her petticoat six inches deep in mud, shocks the fashionable Bingley sisters, who see it as unladylike. However, Bingley is charmed by her devotion, and Darcy is struck by the 'brilliancy which exercise had given to her complexion.'