Mr Darcy is a young man of first-rate abilities.

ch4> In understanding, Darcy was the superior. Bingley was by no means deficient, but Darcy was clever.

He outdoes Mr Collins by getting his proposal to Elizabeth shot down in even more flames, and I'd trust him to escape from a relation's house with even more panache. Somehow. :-)

ch22> But here she did injustice to the fire and independence of his character, for it led him to escape out of Longbourn House the next morning with admirable slyness, and hasten to Lucas Lodge to throw himself at her feet