Another evening at Netherfield, and the drawing-room becomes a fencing hall. This episode is the complete audiobook of Chapter 10 of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, in which Mr. Darcy tries to write one letter to his sister and finds the room will not let him.

Caroline Bingley supplies a running commentary on the letter: his even handwriting, his charmingly long sentences, her raptures for dear Georgiana. From there the talk widens into a debate that is really about character, with Bingley's carelessness and quickness to yield on one side, Darcy's distrust of easy persuasion on the other, and Elizabeth delighting in the difference.

• Caroline's flattery bounces off Darcy sentence by sentence, down to her offer to mend his pen; he thanks her and says he always mends his own.
• Bingley calls his own writing careless and his  ...