The relief lasts about a day before the accounting starts. This episode is the complete audiobook of Chapter 50 of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, a chapter of reckonings: a father counting money he never saved, a mother planning houses, and Elizabeth counting a loss she can finally see whole.

Mr. Bennet, who often wished he had laid by an annual sum instead of spending his whole income, now feels the want of it keenly, and would gladly know how little of the rescue was his brother Gardiner’s money. Terms are accepted, Wickham’s debts are to be handled, and word comes that the bridegroom will quit the militia for the regulars: an ensigncy in the north, quartered at Newcastle.

• Mr. Bennet at first refuses to receive the couple at Longbourn or advance a guinea for wedding clothes, and Mrs. Bennet marvels more at the clothes than at anything else in the affair.
• Jane and Elizabeth, pleading their sister’s future, talk their father into the visit he swore against: the Wickhams are to come to Longbourn when the wedding is over.
• Alone with the whole truth, Elizabeth arrives at the novel’s saddest clarity: Darcy is exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her, and the union that can now never be would have taught them both.
• She assumes the Lydia connection has settled it for ever, one sister married to Wickham being a family no Darcy could join, and has no idea her assumption is already out of date.