Six weeks in Kent end the way they began: with Mr. Collins explaining how fortunate everyone is. This episode is the complete audiobook of Chapter 38 of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, a departure chapter in which the goodbyes are comic, the carriage is punctual, and the secrets ride home with Elizabeth.

Mr. Collins devotes breakfast to ceremony, trusting his cousin will carry away a favourable report of Hunsford and of the little attentions in their power, and dwelling on his household's great good luck in its patroness. My dear Charlotte and I, he assures her, have but one mind and one way of thinking. Elizabeth, who has watched her friend's actual system at close range, says everything polite that can be said.

• Mr. Collins's send-off is an audit of his own blessings, and Elizabeth can only marvel at composure like Charlotte' ...