The Book With Which It All Began · A Pride and Prejudice Variation

Her family's behaviour during the Netherfield Ball has Elizabeth Bennet hide in the billiard room in mortification. Perhaps her sister Mary is right after all, that reading is to be preferred to dancing. But when Elizabeth starts to read a book, carelessly forgotten on a side table in front of the fire place, she soon finds out that even this on occasion, can be anything but an innocent past time.