Would you believe it, Lizzy, that when he went to town last November, he really loved me, and nothing but a persuasion of my being indifferent would have prevented his coming down again?
– Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 55. Jane, speaking to Elizabeth, places the blame squarely on Caroline Bingley’s deceit on keeping her brother Charles and her apart. She is thrilled to find out that Bingley loved her all this time.