Is there a better way to phrase the sentiment “The death of your daughter would have been a blessing in comparison of this” (49)? In Ch. 28 Charlotte wisely does not hear Mr. Collins when he often says something she might “reasonably be ashamed” rather than trying to correct him. When Lizzy is leaving Hunsford Mr. Collins tells her:

My dear Charlotte and I have but one mind and one way of thinking. There is in everything a most remarkable resemblance of character and ideas between us. We seem to have been designed for each other." (38)

Mr. Collins is right in saying they were designed for each other because they are in that I suspect Charlotte lets him believe they are of one mind with her silence rather than disagreeing with him openly. I see Charlotte for the most part as a behind the scenes manipulator and Mr. Collins as too full of himself to emulate her because that would be admitting he needs improvement. At the Netherfield ball he would not accept Lizzy’s advice about Darcy, holding his own judgment as far superior to hers and in Ch. 20 has no idea why she rejected him:

Mr. Collins, meanwhile, was meditating in solitude on what had passed. He thought too well of himself to comprehend on what motive his cousin could refuse him; and though his pride was hurt, he suffered in no other way. (20)