But why Mr. Darcy came so often to the Parsonage, it was more difficult to understand. It could not be for society, as he frequently sat there ten minutes together without opening his lips; and when he did speak, it seemed the effect of necessity rather than of choice – a sacrifice to propriety, not a pleasure to himself. He seldom appeared really animated. Mrs. Collins knew not what to make of him. Colonel Fitzwilliam’s occasionally laughing at his stupidity, proved that he was generally different, which her own knowledge of him could not have told her; and as she would liked to have believed this change the effect of love, and the object of that love her friend Eliza.
– Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 32. Elizabeth is staying with her friend Charlotte and Charlotte is puzzled as to why Mr. Darcy and his cousin Colonel Fitzwilliam visit them so often at the parsonage. Darcy is not giving much away as he often just sits there in dumb silence. Charlotte wants to believe that it is all because Darcy loves Elizabeth.