March comes, and with it the visit Elizabeth never wanted to make. This episode is the complete audiobook of Chapter 27 of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, a travelling chapter in which the road to Kent runs through London and ends with the best invitation of Elizabeth's year.

She sets out with Sir William Lucas and his daughter Maria, breaking the journey at Gracechurch Street for a night of theatre and conversation. Jane looks well, but Mrs. Gardiner has been watching her closely and doubts the cheerfulness goes all the way down. Then aunt and niece turn to the more entertaining subject of Mr. Wickham's defection to Miss King's ten thousand pounds.

• Elizabeth defends Wickham's mercenary turn with suspicious energy, and her aunt presses the real question: what is the difference between the mercenary and the prudent motive in ma ...