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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.

Darcy, emboldened by her defiance, walks across a misty field at dawn. He finds Elizabeth walking alone. He is humble now. His pride is gone. He asks if her feelings have changed. She takes his hand.

Episode Two sees the family plunged into crisis. Jane falls ill at Netherfield, and Elizabeth walks three muddy miles to tend to her. She arrives, petticoats caked in brown earth, a vision of vibrant defiance. Miss Bingley is aghast. Mr. Darcy, however, watches her from the window, and something in his chest unthaws. -s Pride and Prejudice -1995- All 6 Episodes

Elizabeth laughs it off, telling her friend Charlotte Lucas she will “dance a reel with Mr. Darcy” only when the devil is sick. But that night, as she sits by her window, the slight stings. It is a seed of resentment that will grow like a weed.

The story begins not with a whisper, but with a clatter. The clip-clop of hooves on the muddy lane to Netherfield Park announces to all of Meryton that the neighborhood has a new, wealthy tenant: Mr. Bingley. For Mrs. Bennet, it is the sound of destiny. For her second-eldest daughter, Elizabeth, it is merely the prelude to an evening of tolerable nonsense. But the true blow of Episode Three falls

She laughs—that bright, free laugh—and looks up at him. “Well, then,” she says. “Your hands are cold.”

He stares. Then, a slow, wondering smile breaks across his face. He takes her hand, presses it to his lips, and whispers, “Elizabeth.” Elizabeth drinks it in, her prejudice confirmed

Then, the second dance: of fate. Darcy, overwhelmed by a love he cannot suppress, proposes in the Hunsford parsonage. It is the most unromantic proposal ever uttered. “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” But then he ruins it: he catalogues her low connections, her family’s vulgarity, the inferiority of her situation. Elizabeth’s fury is cold and absolute. “From the very beginning, your manners impressed me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain for the feelings of others.” She accuses him of ruining Wickham and destroying Jane’s happiness. Darcy walks out, stunned.