Heart Enough: Variations on a Jane Austen Christmas

There are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.
ELIZABETH BENNET NEVER IMAGINED that by appeasing Mr Darcy’s aunt, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, she would permanently injure the gentleman’s feelings, but so it was. Robbing him of all hope towards her, he impulsively proposes to his cousin Anne, finding out just weeks later that Elizabeth did, in fact, have tender regard for him.
DISTRESSED BY THE KNOWLEDGE that misunderstandings have once again thwarted them, Elizabeth flees to the Continent to forget him. Returning two years later, she is more confident, more worldly, and alas, every bit as in love with him as she ever was. She resolves to offer him her friendship, believing him married, perhaps with children.
BUT CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE CHANGED for Mr Darcy. Will they have heart enough to learn the truth from one another or will misunderstandings defeat them once more?