On the subject of Darcy's proposal..Elizabeth knew that she had "the power of revealing what would so exceedingly astonish Jane" but was in a "state of indecision in which she remained, as to the extent of what she should communicate; and her fear, is she once entered on the subject, of being hurried into repeating something of Bingley, which might only grieve her sister farther." (last page Chapter 38)