Nobody wants to give up a weekend-long excuse to dress up and attempt to outshine one another.
It's very easy to get a boy to leave the room. It's much harder to get him to leave your thoughts.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single girl of high standing at Longbourn Academy must be in want of a prom date.
If you don't have any feelings for Will Darcy, why are you blushing and fixing your hair?
Talking to them was like being placed into conversational purgatory, with no hope of being released without significant damage to one's self-esteem.