Chapter 43 opens with Elizabeth and the Gardiners driving along to Pemberley Woods.
Elizabeth is feeling excited and eager to see the house. The house is located on a large expanse of land, and as they drive through this, Elizabeth "saw and admired every remarkable spot and point of view." .
Here is a quote to describe Pemberley House: (pg. 201).
"It was a large, handsome, stone building, standing well on rising ground, and backed by a ridge of high woody hills its banks were neither formal, nor falsely adorned. Elizabeth was delighted.".
After admiring the house and the landscape, Elizabeth begins to think "that to be mistress of Pemberley might be something!" .
While they were driving up to the house, Elizabeth was in high spirits, but once they arrive there, all her apprehensions returned about meeting Mr Darcy again. .
Once inside the house, Elizabeth and the Gardiners meet the housekeeper - Mrs Reynolds - a respectable-looking, elderly woman. They were led into the dining-parlour, and Elizabeth observes the view out of the window with delight:.
Pg. 202.
"Every disposition of the ground was goods" and she looked on the whole scene, the river, the trees scattered on its banks, and the winding of the valley, as far as she could trace it, with delight.".
Elizabeth admires the taste of the interior decorating, and compares it with Rosings, thinking that it is just as fine, if not more elegant.
Important quote on pg. 202-.
""And of this place," thought she, "I might have been mistress! With these rooms I might now have been familiarly acquainted! Instead of viewing them as a stranger, I might have rejoiced in them as my own, and welcomed to them as visitors my uncle and aunt.-But no"- recollecting herself,-"that could never be: my uncle and aunt would have been lost to me: I should not have been allowed to invite them."".
The last statement saved her from regret from not marrying Mr Darcy, and in owning part of the wonderful house.