Was he going to propose again?
I wonder what you all think.
In the chapter Lizzy gets the two letters from Jane informing her that Lydia has eloped with Wickham, Darcy shows up all alone.
In the 1995 adaptation they seemed to imply that he was going to propose to Lizzy again (chosing his clothes with care, gallopping off on his white horse where he usually was sitting on his black one (symbolically)). I like that idea, because, unlike the other times he came to call, he does not have his sister with him. Also her comment at the end that she won't see him again, would then be rather funny.
As Bingley and Jane are at the end left alone strategically by the mother in order for him to have time to propose, I can't help thinking Darcy wanting to propose too, or Jane Austen at least wanting to imply that. He showed up in the Rosings vicarage on his own too. And he had been at the Gardiners' place a few times to 'call' (usually a foreshadowing of something more, as with Bingley).
It would also be quite ironic too that his plans are hindered by Wickham. And the fact that he becomes gloomy again, not knowing what to do: show his feelings or what? Is it proper to do that at such a time or not? Obviously the answer was no and he left, because there was nothing left for him there as he was not concerned as just a friend and not a future hubby. The irony would also sit inside the situation that now involves Wickham, because Darcy would degrade himself even more by marrying a woman not only of low birth and without a penny, but also with a spoilt sister. As Lizzy says, Lydia's shananigans (spelling?) degrade the honour of the whole family Bennet. And the only person can actualy solve this problem and have Wickham marrry Lydia is Darcy himself, but that involves eating up his pride and paying Wickham's debts off and actually kind of bribing him into it. And in order to get Lizzy as his own, he would have to tolerate him as brother-in-law...
What do you all think? Does that sound lik Austen, or am I thinking too far, here?