Episode notes
The gentlemen leave Rosings, and Lady Catherine finds the parsonage party sadly dull without them. This episode is the complete audiobook of Chapter 37 of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, a quiet chapter in which nothing happens except inside Elizabeth, where everything does.
Her ladyship, missing her nephews, presses the visitors to stay another fortnight and manages their travel arrangements down to the packing of gowns. Elizabeth, counting the days now, gives her hours out of doors to Mr. Darcy's letter, which she is fast getting by heart. Her feelings toward its writer shift with every reading; her feelings about her own family refuse to shift at all.
- Lady Catherine, informed the visit must end, wonders at Mrs. Bennet sparing her daughters so long, and issues instructions covering the route, the luggage, and the proper fold ...Â