"Oh, I see. This was Miss Ashley Sully," he explained himself more clearly. "It's just that you appear to have a similar accent, and it's not one that I had heard before today," he explained his confusion. Two people, with the same unusual manner of speech, that were not actually related to each other at all, apparently. It was most strange. One family of foreigners he could comprehend, but this... it was something more.
Where was he from? As far as Darcy was concerned, he was sure it was apparent that he was from England, but perhaps he meant more specifically than that.
"I reside in Derbyshire, but I am spending the season with a friend..." he stopped himself. He had been going to say he was staying with a friend here, but he felt that probably wasn't the case at all. "... in Hertfordshire," he finished, almost reluctantly. "England," he added, backtracking a little.