Chapter 23

I am so suspect of Parrish that I wonder if she really scratched him or is this something that he devised to justify sending her away to an asylum; shudder!

I imagine the conditions of such a place during that time must have been abominable. That may have been banishing her to a fate worse than death.

"Affecting as Parrish's speech had been, Elizabeth was yet troubled by the idea of committing Mrs. Parrish to a mental hospital. She wondered that no one but Darcy had offered the slightest resistance."