Swipe Left on Mr. Darcy — Are You Sure?，第 13 頁
作者：Inkroost · 發布於
文字記錄
Panel 1. A large emotional close-up of Lizzie in warm lamplight, eyes wet, chin steady, saying the truest thing she has ever said out loud. LIZZIE: I do like him. I love him. Panel 2. A wide warm two-shot. Mr. Bennet sits back with his glasses lowered in one hand, eyes shining, his mouth set in that small knowing half-smile, giving his daughter away. MR. BENNET: Then I could not have parted with you to anyone less worthy.
圖片說明
Two panels. In close-up Lizzie says she does like him, she loves him. Her father sits back with his glasses lowered, eyes shining, and says he could not have parted with her to anyone less worthy.
關於本章
Lizzie comes home from the leafy lane engaged to the one man nobody in that house would believe she could want, and discovers the hardest part is not saying yes: it is being believed. Jane laughs, certain it is a joke, until the whole reordered story comes out in the dark of their bedroom, and asks the one question Lizzie has never let herself answer out loud. The next morning Darcy is at the front door in his charcoal overcoat asking, of all people, for her father. Behind a closed living-room door two men have a conversation Lizzie is not in, while her mother speculates about lawsuits and Mary offers wisdom nobody requested. Then it is her turn, and Mr. Bennet, dry and unbothered for twenty-two chapters, is not dry at all: he wants to know whether his sharpest daughter has sold herself to a rich man she cannot respect. So Lizzie tells him everything, including the part that was never hers to tell, and says the words she has never once said about anybody. Her father takes off his glasses. Downstairs, Mrs. Bennet goes silent for three unprecedented seconds before the house detonates, and the chapter closes where it opened: the same porch steps at golden hour, except she is not walking up them alone.