"My dear Lizzy, where can you have been walking to?" This episode is the complete audiobook of Chapter 59 of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, in which the hardest part of getting engaged to Mr. Darcy turns out to be convincing anyone it could possibly be true.

Jane hears it first, in the old room at night, and flatly refuses to believe it: engaged to Mr. Darcy, whom Elizabeth dislikes beyond any man alive? It takes the whole history, Kent and Derbyshire and Lydia together, to bring her round to perfect, wondering joy. The next evening Darcy applies to Mr. Bennet, and Elizabeth follows him into the library for the interview she dreads most.

• Her father's consent comes easily; his blessing needs more, and his appeal is the tenderest thing he says in the novel: let him not have the grief of seeing her unable to respect her partner  ...