Swipe Left on Mr. Darcy — Last Seen Online、16ページ
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書き起こし
Panel 1: Lizzie stands very straight in profile with the phone pressed to her ear, only the back of the case visible. Jane and Mrs. Bennet are out of focus in the doorway behind her. ED (on the phone): 'We found her. She's safe.' Panel 2: A tight close-up on Lizzie's face: relief breaks across it and then stops dead, her eyes going wide and still. ED (on the phone): 'Lizzie — somebody got to them before we did.'
画像の説明
Lizzie takes the call standing very straight with her family behind her, hears that Lydia is safe, and then goes very still at what her uncle says next.
この話について
Lizzie comes home from the ruined weekend to a house with every light burning and nobody answering their phone. Lydia is gone — a note, no address, and George Wickham. What follows is the longest week of Lizzie's life: her mother collapsed and operatic in a darkened bedroom, Kitty confessing she knew and said nothing, Mary reaching for something profound at exactly the wrong moment, and her father — dry, unbothered Mr. Bennet — putting on a coat and driving into the city to find his youngest daughter himself. Lizzie carries the worst of it alone: she is the only one who knew exactly what George Wickham is, and she chose to keep a confidence instead of warning her family. Three days of unanswered calls later her father comes home empty-handed and years older, and it is her aunt Maddie and uncle Ed who take the search over. In a 2 a.m. kitchen Lizzie finally tells Jane the whole truth — that George has done this before, to a girl younger than Lydia — and at her dark window she lets go of the last thing she was hoping for: Darcy has seen exactly what her family is now, and that is the end of that. Then the phone she has not put down all week lights up with her uncle's name. They found Lydia. She is safe. And someone else got there first.