And now for some more exciting news: there's going to be a ball at Netherfield!
This is big news. Everyone gets to dress up, and Elizabeth is looking forward to seeing Mr. Wickham—and to seeing Mr. Darcy expose himself by being a jerk.
She's so excited that she even asks Mr. Collins if he's planning to come.
Okay, she's really just needling him a little, since some people thought that clergymen shouldn't dance.
But not our Mr. Collins. Not only does he plan to dance, he plans to ask Elizabeth for the first two dances—the two dances that she was planning on getting herself asked by Mr. Wickham for.
Oops. That backfired.
Elizabeth is starting to suspect that Mr. Collins has designs on her.