Elizabeth dresses with more than usual care and arrives looking for a man who is not there. This episode is the complete audiobook of Chapter 18 of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, the Netherfield ball, the longest and busiest chapter in the novel, where nearly every Bennet contrives to be memorable in the worst possible way.

Wickham has kept clear of his old acquaintance, leaving Elizabeth to open the evening with two dances of mortification opposite Mr. Collins. Then Darcy asks for her hand, and she is surprised into accepting. Their dance is a duel of half-finished sentences about Wickham, interrupted by Sir William's broad hint that a certain desirable event between Jane and Bingley may shortly bring them all together.

• Elizabeth and Darcy dance at last, and she uses the occasion to sketch his character and find it alarming; ...