Don't worry, she knew. But she was pretty sure she sounded better than she felt?

"I'm better than I was, but that doesn't make me good," she said with a wry smile. "But, uh. It got bad. Which was why I didn't come shopping. I couldn't. I'm really sorry if I made you look bad in front of your friends."

Well, not Wickham. Georgiana and Kitty, though.