Darcy has long seen Wickham to be selfish and unscrupulous, characterized by “vicious propensities.” In particular, Darcy detests Wickham because after Darcy refused to give Wickham money, Wickham seduced Darcy's fifteen-year-old sister and planned to elope with her in order to get his hands on her fortune.

Did Lydia and Wickham sleep together?

While Lydia's affair with Wickham was highly improper for a nineteenth-century woman, threatening damage to both herself and her sisters, a premarital sexual relationship would be considered normal for most young women in the West in the twenty-first century.

What did Mr Wickham do with the money?

His son, Fitzwilliam Darcy, made sure that Wickham received his inheritance, but Wickham refused it, and instead asked for a lump sum of money, which Mr. Darcy granted him. Wickham spent all the money, becoming broke quite soon, and wrote to Mr. Darcy, asking that he give him the living he was supposed to inherit.