"It must be very agreeable for her to be settled within so easy a distance of her own family and friends."
"An easy distance, do you call it? It is nearly fifty miles."
"And what is fifty miles of good road? Little more than half a day’s journey. Yes, I call it a very easy distance."
"I should never have considered the distance as one of the advantages of the match," cried Elizabeth. "I should never have said Mrs. Collins was settled near her family."
"It is a proof of your own attachment to Hertfordshire. Anything beyond the very neighbourhood of Longbourn, I suppose, would appear far."
– Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 32. Darcy and Elizabeth disagree about whether the fifty miles between Charlotte’s’s family in Meryton and her new home in Hunsford parsonage is an "easy distance." The well-traveled Darcy thinks it is. But the more sheltered Elizabeth does not. This speaks to the class difference between them, those with wealth having greater access to transport and carriages than those without it. The "bewitched" Darcy (remember this from Chapter 10) may also be testing Elizabeth to see if she is open to the idea of moving away from her family in Longbourn to settle with him in Pemberley!