Mr. Collins is rightly angered when Elizabeth Bennett refuses his honorable offer of marriage.
Sadly that is the last emotion he experiences.
Which gives the gossips of Meryton a delightful piece of news to gossip over - Miss Elizabeth Bennett has pushed her cousin, her father's heir, down the stairs to his death!
Elizabeth Bennett, Murderess? Oh, shocking, shameful scandal. Someone must speak for her before she is ruined forever.
Fortunately, a new arrival in the neighborhood - a Mr. Darcy - read law at Cambridge and is willing to be of use to Miss Elizabeth.