With a strong prejudice against everything he might say, she began his account of what had happened at Netherfield. She read with an eagerness which hardly left her power of comprehension, and from impatience of knowing what the next sentence might bring, was incapable of attending to the sense of the one before her eyes.
– Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 36. When Elizabeth begins to read the letter Darcy handed to her she at first is not interested in his explanations. Her strong prejudice against him kicks in. But after a number of readings these prejudices began to melt away as she gets to know Darcy more.