With everything settled, Elizabeth wants only one thing more: an accounting. This episode is the complete audiobook of Chapter 60 of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, the victory lap, in which the engaged couple audit their own love story and the letters announcing it fly out of Longbourn in every direction.

How could he begin, she demands: what set him off? Darcy cannot fix the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words. He was in the middle before he knew he had begun. Elizabeth supplies the analysis herself: the ladies who courted his approbation bored him, and she interested him because she was so unlike them. He may call it the liveliness of her mind if he likes; she calls it impertinence, rounded down only slightly.

• Elizabeth interrogates the whole timeline, from his silence at Lambton to his return with Bingley, and extracts the admission that he came back to see her, and to judge whether he might ever be forgiven.
• Her letter to Mrs. Gardiner is pure joy on paper: she is the happiest creature in the world, happier even than Jane, for Jane only smiles while she laughs, and the drive round the park will happen every day.
• Mr. Bennet’s letter to Mr. Collins is three sentences of perfection, advising him to console Lady Catherine as well as he can, but to stand by the nephew, who has more to give.
• Miss Bingley’s congratulations are all affectation, Georgiana’s four pages of delight are all sincerity, and the Collinses themselves arrive at Lucas Lodge, fleeing the weather of Lady Catherine’s rage.