I don't know how many times I've read P&P over the years, but I realized several new things during this Group Read (apart from the fascinating background information that JulieW and others so obligingly supplied!)

- The lengths Mrs. Phillips will go to get the local news!

- That Bingley is probably a lot more observant (and more tactful) than I gave him credit for during Darcy's meeting with Wickham

- I figured out (at least to my own satisfaction!) what Darcy is thinking when he looks so serious at the Netherfield ball

- Why Elizabeth says she had not known Darcy a month before deciding she could never marry him (thanks, Kathi!)

- That when Lady Catherine offers Elizabeth and Maria a place in her carriage, there would be room for only one

- How unequal almost all of Darcy's relationships are

- Just when Elizabeth can be considered really in love with Darcy

- What other people's conversation really sounds like to Lydia (thanks, Kathleen! ;-)

- That when Bingley arrives before the ladies are dressed, it's in the afternoon, not first thing in the morning!

- That it took a lot longer to get a special licence than I thought!