"Write to me very often, my dear. As often as I can. But you know married women have never much time for writing. My sisters may write to me. They will have nothing else to do" (Austen 276).
Lydia has married to Mr. Wickham and shall be traveling in his regiment with him for a while. Mrs. Bennet has asked her to write often, and she replies that married women don't have time to do so. Then she takes an affronting shot at her sisters by saying that they could write often because they were not married like she was. It's amazing how proud Lydia is of herself. She is impertinent because she willingly runs off with Wickham, then decides to prydently marry him, and mocks her sisters for marrying before any of them. Lydia certainly seems and acts like an insolent child. She must be so proud of herself for her predicament.
Why is it that so many women in Pride and Prejudice solely care about marriage and nothing else? Sometimes this really gets on my nerves and makes the novel a little less appealing then I think it is.
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