Jane is at last well enough to come downstairs, which suits everyone but the ladies who invited her. This episode is the complete audiobook of Chapter 11 of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, in which Elizabeth goes hunting for something in Mr. Darcy to laugh at, and he hands her the one flaw he admits he cannot cure.

Bingley devotes himself to Jane by the fire while his sister tries every lure on Darcy: a book chosen because it is the second volume of his, hints about the coming ball, and finally a graceful turn about the room that fails to catch his eye until she recruits Elizabeth to walk with her. That works, and the evening sharpens into the novel's first real duel over Darcy's character.

• Darcy guesses aloud the only two motives the ladies could have for walking the room together, and Caroline demands punishment for such imp ...