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While Lydia's running off to marry without permission is a scandal, the major threat is to Lydia herself: society placed a huge importance on a woman's chastity before marriage. An unmarried couple living together for any length of time was considered immoral. Lydia's reputation would be ruined and would taint the rest of her family's reputation as well. Because of pride, Elizabeth and Darcy both tried to take the moral high ground with Wickham. Elizabeth mistakenly interprets Darcy's seriousness as an attempt to distance himself from her. She knows that if Lydia brought shame to the Bennets, Darcy would not marry into her family.