Elizabeth has a story to tell, and only one person she trusts to hear it. This episode is the complete audiobook of Chapter 17 of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, in which Jane tries to acquit two men at once and an invitation arrives that sets every heart at Longbourn racing for different reasons.

Told of Wickham's history, Jane does what Jane does: she looks for a reading in which nobody is wicked, and settles on interested people having misrepresented each man to the other. Elizabeth finds this charming and unconvincing. Then Mr. Bingley and his sisters call in person with the news everyone has waited for: the promised ball at Netherfield is fixed for the following Tuesday.

• Jane cannot believe Bingley's friend could be so unworthy, yet cannot call Wickham a liar either, and works hard at a theory that saves them both.
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