"Can I have the carriage?" said Jane.

     "No, my dear, you had better go on horseback, because it seems likely to rain; and then you must stay all night."

     "That would be a good scheme," said Elizabeth, "if you were sure that they would not offer to send her home."

     "Oh! but the gentlemen will have Mr. Bingley's chaise to go to Meryton, and the Hursts have no horses to theirs."

     "I had much rather go in the coach."

     "But, my dear, your father cannot spare the horses, I am sure. They are wanted in the farm, Mr. Bennet, are they not?"

     "They are wanted in the farm much oftener than I can get them."

     "But if you have got them to-day," said Elizabeth, "my mother's purpose will be answered."