Every gate, every paling, every shelf in the closet: Mr. Collins has been waiting for this. This episode is the complete audiobook of Chapter 28 of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, in which Elizabeth arrives at the parsonage to see with her own eyes exactly what her friend Charlotte purchased with her marriage.

Mr. Collins receives the travellers with triumphant formality and shows off the house, the garden, and every view in it, pointing out beauties with a minuteness that leaves them far behind. Elizabeth watches for signs of regret in Charlotte and finds instead a well-run home and a wife who has learned precisely when not to hear her husband. Gardening, Charlotte notes, is one of his most respectable pleasures, and she encourages it as much as possible.

• Mr. Collins's welcome doubles as a guided inventory, fields and trees c ...