My fingers,’ said Elizabeth, ‘do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many woman’s do. They have not the same force of rapidity and do not possess the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault–because I would not take the trouble if practicing. It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman’s of superior execution.’ Darcy smiled and said, ‘You are perfectly right.
