and I couldn't help feeling Lizzy was right:

"You wanted me, I know, to say 'Yes,' that you might have the ***pleasure of despising my taste***; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt."

What was the reel like in terms of status compared with other dances? Was there another better dance that might have shown he thought better of her?

Did Darcy really intend to upset Lizzy's sensibilities with this suggestion? Or was she just showing her lack of interest?

She had been thinking and wondering about her impression of his sort of distasteful fascination with her, or took it as such. Her sense of his "premeditated contempt" really shows, and then she is surprised by his gallantry.