DARCY AND ELIZABETH'S FORTUITOUS MEETING: (A PRIDE AND PREJUDICE VARIATION)

Elizabeth was an innocent and had never been interested romantically in any man and neither had she known any man who was interested in her. Fitzwilliam Darcy, the scion of one of the great families in England, was also an innocent. He was constantly being told he needed to marry to have an heir. Darcy had never met a woman who interested him and he had always remembered his father’s warning to be careful to marry for love and avoid fortune hunters and marry a woman with a mind of her own who would challenge him.
Now, Darcy was having doubts about ever marrying. The man had invested the years following his father’s sudden death at learning to manage the family business and he had been faithful to that purpose and did nothing else. He was inexperienced in matters of romance and wondered if he would ever meet a woman who he could love and who would love him in return. Darcy knew there would be bumps along the road but never expected what happened one summer day in town when his world was suddenly turned upside down.