"Oh!" said she, "I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say ‘Yes,’ that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt. I have, therefore, made up my mind to tell you, that I do not want to dance a reel at all – and now despise me if you dare."
"Indeed I do not dare."
– Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 10. Mr. Darcy has just asked Elizabeth to dance a reel with him, and when she doesn’t answer, he repeats the request – because he obviously likes her. But her strange reaction here is to refuse him and suggest that he only asked her so that he can make fun of her. Is she trying to tease and punish him perhaps? It is more likely that the early prejudice she formed against Darcy is still very much at play here.