The wedding day comes, and the bride arrives at Longbourn entirely delighted with herself. This episode is the complete audiobook of Chapter 51 of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, in which the Wickhams pay their family visit and sixteen-year-old Lydia, incapable of keeping anything, mislays the most important secret in the novel.

Shame was expected somewhere in the party and appears nowhere: Lydia is Lydia still, untamed, noisy, and fearless, showing her ring to the servants and claiming precedence over Jane at dinner because she is a married woman now. Wickham's easy manners are all they ever were, and Elizabeth sits through his smiles thinking about everything the family owes to not discussing.

• Lydia's homecoming performance includes a tour of the neighborhood to display her husband, and generous offers to get her elder siste ...