Fitzwilliam Darcy is delayed on his way back to London after touring Netherfield with a friend, and that interruption brings him together with Elizabeth Bennet.
They share no history, and no settled first impression stands between them.
Elizabeth finds him unlike the proud, distant gentleman others might expect.
The pause leads Darcy to reconsider the sort of wife he has always believed he ought to want.
As Michaelmas draws nearer and their paths keep crossing, a chance acquaintance grows into something neither of them had sought.
