A chaise and four sweeps up the Longbourn drive one morning, carrying a visitor nobody invited. This episode is the complete audiobook of Chapter 56 of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice: the confrontation in the wilderness, where Lady Catherine de Bourgh comes to extract a promise and meets the one person in England who will not give it.

Her ladyship has heard a report of a most alarming nature, that Elizabeth is soon to be united to her nephew, and she has come to have it universally contradicted. Elizabeth declines to confirm, declines to deny, and declines, above all, to be frightened. The interview that follows is the novel's great duel, and Elizabeth never gives an inch of ground.

• Lady Catherine tours the house and lawn with insolent appraisal, pronounces the park small and the sitting-room inconvenient, and then demands a p ...