Signed Lydia Wickham

"You need not send them word at Longbourn of my going, if you do not like it, for it will make the surprise the greater, when i write to them, and sign my name Lydia Wickham" (Volume III, Chapter V).

In the letter that Lydia writes to Harriet, shows how little importance marriage has to her. She instead of thinking about her families feelings she wants to have it be a surprise. Because she is so young she doesn't understand or see that she and wickham are only getting married out of passion, not love. Everyone else knows that this marriage is bound to fail, because if Wickham really loved Lydia he would have asked her in the formal way and gone to Mr. Bennett to ask for his approval. Instead he used his charm to most likely sleep with her and make her fall in love with him. Right after Elizabeth hears the letter she knows that this marriage is going to be just like her parents marriage, where it was started out of passion not out of love. Their marriage is bound to FAIL.