Is Esteem Enough? Elizabeth and Jane Bennet spend the night in a farmhouse with Mr. Darcy, Mr. Bingley, and Miss Bingley. This causes the sisters to reevaluate their opinions of the two gentlemen. and Darcy learns a little more about Elizabeth as well. But Darcy has another person in his life he needs to learn about. He has never understood his cousin Anne and wondered why Anne’s mother allowed her to reach the age of twenty-seven without marrying. This Pride and Prejudice variation was written by Renata McMann without her usual collaborator, Summer Hanford. “Is Esteem Enough?” has about 24,000 words.