"They owed the restoration of Lydia, her character, everything to him. Oh! how heartily did she grieve over every ungracious sensation she had ever encouraged, every saucy speech she had ever directed towards him" (248).

Finally, Lizzie is changing! She has gone from have strong prejudice, to holding onto it to keep herself from being embarrassed, to this: shame. She really is allowing herself to feel bad for everything she had done to Darcy because he has gone out of his way to save Lydia when it was by no means his job to do so. He has proven himself time and time again to be a good person, and Lizzie feels so bad for hurting him.

"Darcy had walked away to another part of the room. She followed him with her eyes, envied everyone to whom he spoke, had scarcely patience enough to help anybody to coffee; and then was enraged against herself for being so silly!" (260).

I like this quote a lot because it is so realistic and easy to relate to. Lizzie is in love with Darcy, who is probably too afraid to talk to her after getting told he sucked as a person by her. She's just watching him, waiting for him to give her the attention she is dying for, but he keeps staying away, which makes her angry at him, but more at herself, for rejecting him, especially in the manner in which she did. She gave him no hope to cling to, so she doesn't even expect him to ever even be nice to her again.