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FINAL SCRIPT<br />
MR. DARCY<br />
You take an eager interest in that gentleman's concerns.<br />
ELIZABETH<br />
Who that knows what his misfortunes have been, can help feeling an interest in him?<br />
MR. DARCY<br />
Yes, his misfortunes have been great indeed.<br />
ELIZABETH<br />
And of your infliction.<br />
MR. DARCY<br />
And this is your opinion of me! This is the estimation in which you hold me! I thank you for<br />
explaining it so fully. My faults, according to this calculation, are heavy indeed! But perhaps,<br />
these offenses might have been overlooked, had not your pride been hurt by my honest<br />
confession of the scruples that had long prevented my forming any serious design. But disguise<br />
of every sort is my abhorrence. Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your<br />
connections—to congratulate myself on the hope of relations, whose condition in life is so<br />
decidedly beneath my own?<br />
ELIZABETH<br />
You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in<br />
any other way, than as it spared me the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you<br />
behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner. You could not have made the offer of your hand in<br />
any possible way that would have tempted me to accept it. I had not known you a month before I<br />
felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.<br />
MR. DARCY<br />
You have said quite enough, madam. I perfectly comprehend your feelings, and have now only<br />
to be ashamed of what my own have been. Forgive me for having taken up so much of your time,<br />
and accept my best wishes for your health and happiness. (He leaves.)<br />
SCENE 8 - PARK – HUNSFORD EXT. – Morning - Friday, April 10, 1812<br />
CHARLOTTE<br />
(Looking out the window.) More than once has Elizabeth, in her ramble within the park,<br />
unexpectedly met Mr. Darcy. Once Mr. Darcy has met Eliza he will turn and walk back to the<br />
rectory with her. See here, he is waiting for her to come.<br />
MR. DARCY<br />
I have been walking in the grove some time in the hope of meeting you. Will you do me the<br />
honor of reading this letter?<br />
ELIZABETH<br />
I will. (He exits.)<br />
MR. DARCY V.O. (The VO is accompanied by an accompaniment of mime of the attempted<br />
elopement of Wickham with Georgina Darcy)<br />
Be not alarmed, madam, on receiving this letter, by the apprehension of its containing any<br />
repetition of those sentiments which were last night so disgusting to you. The effort which the<br />
formation and the perusal of this letter must occasion should have been spared, had not my<br />
character required it to be written and read.<br />
Last night you laid to my charge two offenses. The first mentioned was that I had detached Mr.<br />
Bingley from your sister, and the other, that I had, in defiance of various claims, ruined the<br />
immediate prosperity of Mr. Wickham.<br />
I had not been long in Hertfordshire before I saw that Bingley preferred your elder sister to any<br />
other young woman in the country. But it was not till the evening of the dance at Netherfield that<br />
I had any apprehension of his feeling a serious attachment. My objections to the marriage were<br />
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