Elizabeth has carried it long enough. This episode is the complete audiobook of Chapter 40 of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, in which the whole story of Kent, or almost the whole story, finally gets an audience, and the sisters make a decision about Mr. Wickham that they will come to regret.

Jane's astonishment at the proposal is soon overtaken by her tenderness: sorry for Darcy's disappointment, sorry for Elizabeth's distress, and determined, as always, to find a version in which no one meant much harm. The Wickham revelations defeat even her; asked to choose which man is lying, she struggles honestly to acquit them both and cannot.

• Elizabeth confesses the proposal and the refusal, and Jane's loyalty splits cleanly down the middle: what a grief for him, and how rightly done by her.
• The one omission is deliberate: Eli ...