An invitation to dinner was soon afterwards dispatched; and already had Mrs. Bennet planned the courses that were to do credit to her housekeeping, when an answer arrived which deferred it all. What does the term dispatched mean as it is used in paragraph four?

A)eaten up; finished off
B)put to death summarily
C)relegated to a specific destination or sent on specific business
D)to rid one's mind of; to drive away or off by or as if by scattering