[Next scene: A scenic park area in Hunsford. Lizzy is walking when Mr. Darcy approaches]
Mr. Darcy: I have been walking in the grove some time in the hope of meeting you. Will you do me the honour of reading that letter? [Darcy hands her the letter, bows, and leaves. Almost immediately Elizabeth tears it open and begins reading]
[Next scene: Lizzy's bedroom in Mr. Collins' house at night. She is lying in bed awake, tossing and turning. She pulls up her covers and starts pacing around the room.
Lizzy: [Singing] there's not a soul out there Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight Movie stars
Half past twelve
And I'm watching the late show in my flat all alone
How I hate to spend the evening on my own
Autumn winds
Blowing outside my window as I look around the room
And it makes me so depressed to see the gloom
no one to hear my prayer
Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Take me through the darkness to the break of the day
Find the end of the rainbow, with a fortune to win
It's so different from the world I'm living in
Tired of T.V.
I open the window and I gaze into the night
But there's nothing there to see, no one in sight
Lizzy: Oh, I must read it over once again. [goes to a desk, pulls out a letter, lights a candle and reads aloud] I write without any intention of paining you, or humbling myself, by dwelling on wishes, which, for the happiness of both, cannot be too soon forgotten; and the effort which the formation and the perusal of this letter must occasion should have been spared, had not my character required it to be written and read. You must, therefore, pardon the freedom with which I demand your attention; your feelings, I know, will bestow it unwillingly, but I demand it of your justice. From that moment I observed my friend's behaviour attentively; and I could then perceive that his partiality for Miss Bennet was beyond what I had ever witnessed in him. Your sister I also watched. - Her look and manners were open, cheerful, and engaging as ever, but without any symptom of peculiar regard, and I remained convinced from the evening's scrutiny, that though she received his attentions with pleasure, she did not invite them by any participation of sentiment. But amidst your concern for the defects of your nearest relations, and your displeasure at this representation of them, let it give you consolation to consider that to have conducted yourselves so as to avoid any share of the like censure is praise no less generally bestowed on you and your eldest sister, than it is honourable to the sense and disposition of both. - I will only say farther that, from what passed that evening, my opinion of all parties was confirmed, and every inducement heightened, which could have led me before to preserve my friend from what I esteemed a most unhappy connection. - He left Netherfield for London, on the day following, as you, I am certain, remember, with the design of soon returning. - . If I have wounded your sister's feelings, it was unknowingly done; and though the motives which governed me may to you very naturally appear insufficient, I have not yet learnt to condemn them. Mr. Wickham's chief object was unquestionably my sister's fortune, which is thirty thousand pounds; but I cannot help supposing that the hope of revenging himself on me was a strong inducement. His revenge would have been complete indeed. I will only add, God bless you." What should I think of this all?
[Singing]
there's not a soul out there Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight... there's not a soul out there Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
no one to hear my prayer
Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Take me through the darkness to the break of the day
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight...
no one to hear my prayer
Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Take me through the darkness to the break of the day
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Take me through the darkness to the break of the day