No, no. You forced me into visiting him last year, and promised, if I went to see him, he should marry one of my daughters. But it ended in nothing, and I will not be sent on a fool’s errand again.
– Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 53. Mr. Bennet refuses when Mrs. Bennet instructs him to visit Charles Bingley as soon as he returns to Netherfield. But Mr. Bennet makes clear that he will not visit Bingley because he didn’t marry his daughter Jane. However three days after Bingley’s arrival to Netherfield he comes to the Bennets’ home with Darcy.