伊麗莎白聽到這番恭維話，還沒有來得及申辯，門鈴就響了，宣布貴賓光臨。

Elizabeth had scarcely time to disclaim all right to the compliment, before their approach was announced by the door-bell, and shortly afterwards the three gentlemen entered the room. Colonel Fitzwilliam, who led the way, was about thirty, not handsome, but in person and address most truly the gentleman. Mr. Darcy looked just as he had been used to look in Hertfordshire--paid his compliments, with his usual reserve, to Mrs. Collins, and whatever might be his feelings toward her friend, met her with every appearance of composure. Elizabeth merely curtseyed to him without saying a word.
伊麗莎白聽到這番恭維話，還沒有來得及申辯，門鈴就響了，宣布貴賓光臨。不大一會兒工夫，賓主三人一同走進屋來。帶頭的是費茨威廉上校，大約三十歲左右，人長得不漂亮，可是從儀表和談吐看來，倒是個地道的紳士。達西先生完全是當初在哈福德郡的那副老樣子，用他往常一貫的矜持態(tài)度，向柯林斯太太問好。盡管他對她的朋友伊麗莎白可能另有一種感情，然而見到她的時候，神色卻極其鎮(zhèn)定。伊麗莎白只對他行了個屈膝禮，一句話也沒說。

Colonel Fitzwilliam entered into conversation directly with the readiness and ease of a well-bred man, and talked very pleasantly; but his cousin, after having addressed a slight observation on the house and garden to Mrs. Collins, sat for some time without speaking to anybody. At length, however, his civility was so far awakened as to inquire of Elizabeth after the health of her family. She answered him in the usual way, and after a moment's pause, added:
費茨威廉上校立刻就跟大家攀談起來，口齒伶俐，象個有教養(yǎng)的人，并且談得頗有風趣；可是他那位表兄，卻只跟柯林斯太太把房子和花園稍許評賞了幾句，就坐那兒沒有跟任何人說話。過了一會兒，他重新想到了禮貌問題，便向伊麗莎白問候她和她全家人的安好。伊麗莎白照例敷衍了他幾句，停了片刻，她又說：

"My eldest sister has been in town these three months. Have you never happened to see her there?"
“我姐姐最近三個月來一直在城里。你從來沒有碰到過她嗎？”

She was perfectly sensible that he never had; but she wished to see whether he would betray any consciousness of what had passed between the Bingleys and Jane, and she thought he looked a little confused as he answered that he had never been so fortunate as to meet Miss Bennet. The subject was pursued no farther, and the gentlemen soon afterwards went away.
其實她明明知道他從來沒有碰到過吉英，只不過為了想要探探他的口氣，看看他是否知道彬格萊一家人和吉英之間的關系。他回答說，不幸從來未曾碰到過班納特小姐，她覺得他回答這話時神色有點慌張。這件事沒有再談下去，兩位貴賓立刻就告辭了。