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FINAL SCRIPT<br />

Lizzy?<br />

ELIZABETH<br />

Engaged to Mr. Collins! My dear Charlotte—impossible!<br />

CHARLOTTE<br />

Why should you be surprised, my dear Eliza? Do you think it incredible that Mr. Collins should<br />

be able to procure any woman's good opinion, because he was not so happy as to succeed with<br />

you? I am not romantic, you know; I never was. I ask only a comfortable home; and considering<br />

Mr. Collins's character, connection, and situation in life, I am convinced that my chance of<br />

happiness with him is as fair as most people can boast on entering the marriage state.<br />

MARY<br />

Undoubtedly.<br />

JANE<br />

Mr. Collins's present circumstances make this a most eligible match. Congratulations, Charlotte.<br />

MARY<br />

I rate his abilities much higher than my sisters; there is a solidity in his reflection which has often<br />

struck me, and though he is by no means so clever as myself, I think that if encouraged to read<br />

and improve himself he might become a very agreeable companion.<br />

CHARLOTTE<br />

I shall depend on hearing from you very often, Eliza.<br />

ELIZABETH<br />

That you certainly shall.<br />

CHARLOTTE<br />

Will you come and see me?<br />

ELIZABETH<br />

We shall often meet, I hope, in Hertfordshire.<br />

CHARLOTTE<br />

I am not likely to leave Kent for some time. Promise me, therefore, to come to Hunsford.<br />

ELIZABETH<br />

I promise. (Charlotte exits.)(Silence) (Mrs. Benne, Lydia and Kitty enter.)<br />

MRS. BENNET<br />

(Holding a letter.) Oh, Jane. Mrs. Gardiner has invited you to town this winter.<br />

JANE<br />

I accepted Aunt Gardiner's invitation with pleasure. I might occasionally spend a morning with<br />

Caroline, without any danger of seeing her brother.<br />

MRS. BENNET<br />

Lydia, tell Lizzy that her aunt also invites her to accompany her uncle and aunt in a tour of<br />

pleasure which they propose on taking in the summer.<br />

ELIZABETH<br />

Lydia, tell mother I accept.<br />

MARY<br />

Who do you think Mr. Collins proposed to just this morning, Mother? Charlotte Lucas.<br />

MRS. BENNET<br />

Charlotte Lucas! This is your doing Elizabeth. It is very hard to think that Charlotte Lucas should<br />

ever be mistress of this house, that I should be forced to make way for her, and live to see her<br />

take my place in it!<br />

MR. BENNET<br />

(Enters) My dear, do not give way to such gloomy thoughts. Let us hope for better things. Let us<br />

flatter ourselves that I may be the survivor.<br />

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