With everything settled, Elizabeth wants only one thing more: an accounting. This episode is the complete audiobook of Chapter 60 of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, the victory lap, in which the engaged couple audit their own love story and the letters announcing it fly out of Longbourn in every direction.

How could he begin, she demands: what set him off? Darcy cannot fix the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words. He was in the middle before he knew he had begun. Elizabeth supplies the analysis herself: the ladies who courted his approbation bored him, and she interested him because she was so unlike them. He may call it the liveliness of her mind if he likes; she calls it impertinence, rounded down only slightly.

• Elizabeth interrogates the whole timeline, from his silence at Lambton to his return with Bingley, and ext ...