“You are too sensible a girl, Lizzy, to fall in love merely because you are warned against it; and, therefore, I am not afraid of speaking openly. Seriously, I would have you be on your guard. Do not involve yourself, or endeavor to involve him in an affection which the want of fortune would make so very imprudent. I have nothing to say against him; he is a most interesting young man; and if he had the fortune he ought to have, I should think you could not do better. But as it is—you must not let your fancy run away with you…”
Penny’s eyes drifted from the page. Despite the lure of Jane Austen, it simply didn’t have the pull it usually did. Laying on her bed with her reading lamp on, Penny checked the time on the bedside clock. One in the morning. Penny should have been exhausted. But liv
