Give me your feedback! The opportunity to further test the boundaries of her fictional existence arrived sooner than Elizabeth anticipated. Jane received an invitation to dine at Netherfield with Mr. Bingley’s sisters while the gentlemen dined with the officers. In accordance with her mother’s scheme—a scheme Elizabeth now recognized as a plot device—Jane rode on horseback rather than taking the carriage, despite the threatening clouds overhead. “Mother, wouldn’t it be more sensible for Jane to…...