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Months later, she travels with her aunt and uncle to the Peak District. They visit Pemberley, thinking Darcy is away. Episode Six shows them wandering through the magnificent house—the marble, the paintings, the library Elizabeth covets—and then, on the lawn, a plunge. Darcy appears, returned early. He is civil. He invites her uncle to fish. He introduces her to his sister, Georgiana, shy and sweet. Elizabeth watches him with his household, his servants, his dog—and realizes she loves him.

Then comes the visit from Mr. Collins, their ridiculous clergyman cousin, who will inherit Longbourn. Episode Three delivers the season’s first great set-piece: he proposes to Elizabeth in the Longbourn parlor. It is a masterpiece of condescending absurdity. “My reasons for marrying are, first… secondly… thirdly…” He lists them like items on a grocery list. Elizabeth refuses, calmly, then firmly. Her mother is hysterical. Her father, hiding in his library, sighs with relief. “An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth,” he says. “From this day, you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.” -s Pride and Prejudice -1995- All 6 Episodes

But the true blow of Episode Three falls not at Longbourn, but in the mess room of the militia. Wickham arrives. Handsome, charming, with a story of grievous wrongs suffered at Darcy’s hands. Elizabeth drinks it in, her prejudice confirmed. Darcy, she decides, is a monster. And Wickham? A wounded hero. Months later, she travels with her aunt and

Episode One unfolds at the Meryton Assembly. Elizabeth’s eyes are bright, her tongue sharp. She watches Mr. Bingley—open, charming, immediately dancing with her sister Jane—and approves. But then she sees him . Mr. Darcy. Tall, handsome, and carved from the very ice of his Pemberley estate. He stands apart, refusing to dance, and when Bingley suggests he ask Elizabeth to dance, Darcy replies, loud enough for her to hear: “She is tolerable, I suppose, but not handsome enough to tempt me .” Darcy appears, returned early