1
Charlotte Lucas:It is extraordinary, and are you sure it is true?
Elizabeth:Charlotte, how can it be otherwise? Every circumstance confirms it and Mr
Darcy has boasted to me himself of his resentful, imbecile (Mr darcy interrupts by
coming near)
Charlotte: Lizzy!
(greetings with Mr Darcy)
(bow)
2
Mr Darcy: May I have the next dance, Miss Elizabeth?
Elizabeth:Why I...had not...I thank you, yes.
(bow)
(Mr Darcy walks away)
3
Elizabeth:Did I just agree to dance with Mr Darcy?
Charlotte Lucas:I dare say you will find him very agreeable.
Elizabeth:Heaven forbid! That would be the greatest misfortune of all!
Charlotte:He placed a great compliment, he is singling you out, Lizzy. Think what
you are doing. You would be a simpleton, indeed, if you let your fantasy of Wickham
lead you to slide a man of 10 times his consequence.
(Elizabeth walks away)
4
(the dance starts)
Elizabeth:I love this dance.
Mr Darcy:indeed, first integrity.
Elizabeth:It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy.I talked about the dance,
and you ought to make some kind of remark on the size of the room, or the number of
couples.
Mr Darcy:I'm perfectly happy to oblige, please advise me of what you would like
most to hear?
Elizabeth:Very well, that reply will do for the [Link], by-and-by, I may
observe that private balls are much pleasanter than public ones, but now we may be
silent.
Mr Darcy:Do you talk by rule, while you are dancing?
Elizabeth:No, no I prefer to be unsociable and taciturn. Makes it all so much more
enjoyable, don't you think?
Mr Darcy:Are you consulting your own feelings in the present case, or do you
imagine that you are gratifying mine?
Elizabeth:Both, for I have always seen a great similarity in the turn of our minds.
We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we
expect to say something that will amaze the whole room.
TMr Darcy:his is no very striking resemblance of your own character, I am sure.
Elizabeth:I must not decide on my own performance.
(pause)
Mr Darcy:Tell me, do you and your sisters very often walk to Meryton?
Elizabeth:Yes, we often walk to Meryton. When you met us there the other day, we
had just been forming a new acquaintance.
(pause)
Mr Darcy:Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners... he is sure of making
friends. Whether he is capable of retaining them is less certain.
Elizabeth:He has been so unfortunate as to lose your friendship,(twirl in the
dance)and I daresay that is an irreversible event?
(two of them stop and glare at each other)
Mr Darcy:It is, why do you ask such a question?
Elizabeth:To make out your character, Mr Darcy.
Mr Darcy:And what have you discovered?
Elizabeth:Very little, I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me
exceedingly.
Mr Darcy:I hope to afford you more clarity in the future.
(and they parted ways)
