title: The First Love of Mr. Darcy
author: Allen, Nancy (1)
description: The one thing Mr. Darcy and I have always had pride in our marriage is the fact that we do not keep secrets from one another. We are completely forthcoming about even our most private thoughts and secrets. But there was a time long before either of us met thatsends jolts of jealous rage down my spine. I wish I wasn't so petty, but when I learned that there was another woman before me, it quite nearly broke my heart. When Mr. Darcy was only but a young man of 17 and he was learning his father's business, he was reintroduced to his beautiful second cousin, Anne De Bough, and for the briefest of moments, their love affair shaped the man and husband he would become, and would perhaps break not only his heart, but that of Anne as well.