Lord! how I should like to be married before any of you! and then I would chaperon you about to all the balls.
– Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 39. The wild and fun-loving 15-year-old Lydia says this to her elder sisters – and she gains her wish! Her jokey comment foreshadows her marriage to George Wickham, the first of the Bennet girls to wed, following a scandalous elopement.