What would have happened if.....

On Lady Catherine's interference, or non-interference - I think Darcy would have eventually gotten around to it, it would have just taken a much l o n g e r time. Maybe he wouldn't have brought it up again on their walk, but lizzy's thank you could have been the beginning of something which would eventually develop.

I was thinking of a very interesting "what if?" just today. As much as I hate to think of Mr. Collins as being necessary to Lizzy and Darcy's future happiness, if Lady C had not been his patroness, and if he had not married Charlotte Lucas, L and D could not have been together at Rosings when she visited the Collinses and he his aunt. With his already having persuaded Bingley to leave Netherfield, how would they otherwise have met again? And if they had not, where would the story have gone?

"I was looking for opinions on what you think would have happened if, for instance, Lady Catherine had never interfered," Don't get me started on this one! I am trying (and mostly failing) to write a story based on this premise. It ends up being P&P meets Persuasion.

Here's the biggest question: "What if Bingley did not come to Netherfield, if Bingley and JJAne, Darcy and Lizzy, never met?"

I really hate to say this, Ayelet, but there would not have been a book entitled 'Pride and Prejudice'!! Or, perhaps, they might have had different names??

Yes, but what would happen to the charecters, would Darcy be forever proud? Would he ever marry? And Lizzy? Would she marry anybody else? Would Jane find somebody so much like her? And Bingley?

"If Lizzy had not gone to Pemberley"???? Oh no! NO! I can't bear to think about that!

There must be method to this madness.. eh, Bingley not occupy Netherfield and not meet Jane, Darcy & Lizzy not meet? Well, could it be then Bingley would have married Miss Darcy, Darcy would have remained single (what a man!!) and Lizzy would have married Wickham only to regret it later.

Lizzy wouldn't have married Wickham. She was too smart to elope with him, and she was too poor for him.

What would have happened if Col. Fitzwilliam had not told Lizzy about Darcy's interference in Janes and Bingleys attachment to one another....would Lizzy have been tempted when Darcy first proposed?

Darcyfan, I still think Elizabeth would have refused him. Other than Jane's unhappiness, E offered 2 other big reasons for refusal: 1) his treatment of Wickham, 2) she really didn't like Darcy at all. Without hurt for Jane as a reason, though, she might not have lost her temper with him so much.