Introducing Mrs. Collins
Dear Elizabeth,
I hope you and your family are in good health.
I am, and so is Mr Collins. I have not heard from you since leaving Hertfordshire, which has been a great disappointment.
I will now impart my news to you, though you have not solicited it.
My new home is comfortable, and I am growing fond of the village and the countryside around.
While the house is peacefully situated, the landscape around it is pleasingly diverse.
My duties keep me busy during the week, as too does the upkeep of the house and of my garden and the occasional social event, though there are not as many as I have been used to.
This letter would be longer but I tell you nothing of my marriage because I fear you do not want to hear about it and will scorn not just it but me.
I write to ask you again to please come with Maria and my father when they visit me next month. If we were ever friends, then you will offer me this service, if only in commemoration of a friendship lost