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What was Elizabeth's attitude towards Mr. Darcy during his stay at Lady Catherine's?

Elizabeth's attitude toward Mr. Darcy during her stay in Hunsford is really no different than it had been when she was at home.  She still finds him to be proud and rude and irksome.  When she learns from his cousin that Mr. Darcy "congratulated himself on having lately saved a friend from the inconveniences of a most imprudent marriage," she realizes that Colonel Fitzwilliam is talking about Mr. Bingley and her sister, Jane, and this makes her dislike Darcy all that much more.  She feels that "he was the cause, his pride and caprice were the cause of all that Jane had suffered, and still continued to suffer."  He had ruined Jane's chance at happiness, and he seemed proud of himself, by the Colonel's account.  It infuriates Elizabeth.


Then, however, Darcy proposes to her, which might normally be considered a compliment, but he does it in such an awful way that it comes across more like an insult.  At first, despite her "deeply-rooted dislike" of him, she feels a bit sorry for him since she cannot accept his proposal, but then he talks about his "sense of her inferiority" and his issues with her family, and her compassion is lost.  She could "easily see that he had no doubt of a favourable answer," and that he seemed to assume that she would be so flattered by his attentions that there was really no way that she could decline him.  Thus, she tells him that she has "'every reason in the world to think ill of [him]," including his conduct regarding Jane and her friend (for the time), Mr. Wickham.

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