"His eyes had been soon and repeatedly turned towards them with a look of curiosity' and that her Ladyship, after a while, shared the feeling, was more openly acknowledged, for she did not scruple to call out-". (174)
Lady Catherine interrupts Elizabeth and Colonel Fitzwilliam when they are speaking. She had been eyeballing them since they started their conversation, and later when Elizabeth and Mr Darcy are speaking, Lady Catherine interrupts again. It seems that Lady Catherine does want her nephews to be talking to Elizabeth alone, at all. It seems that Lady Catherine is afraid that one of her nephews will come to have feelings for Elizabeth, and to Lady Catherine, Elizabeth would not be suitable for either of them to marry. Elizabeth is too inferior.
From the way that Elizabeth does not answer Lady Catherine directly on page 165, the reader can infer that:
a) Elizabeth does not feel so inferior to Lady Catherine
b) Elizabeth likes Lady Catherine very much
c) Elizabeth does not want to reveal her age
d) Elizabeth was just joking
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