To Elizabeth it appeared, that had her family made an agreement to expose themselves as much as they could during the evening, it would have been impossible for them to play their parts with more spirit, or finer success; and happy did she think it for Bingley and her sister that some of the exhibition had escaped his notice, and that his feelings were not of a sort to be much distressed by the folly which he must have witnessed.
– Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 18. Elizabeth is mortified by her family’s behavior at the Netherfield ball. Some of the Bennet women are lacking in the social graces and they embarrass Elizabeth when mingling with high class people like the Bingleys and Mr. Darcy.