Swipe Left on Mr. Darcy — Tolerable, Page 9
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Panel 1: Wide shot — the Bennet family spilling out of the party into a warm streetlit night, the evening over. Panel 2: Mrs. Bennet, triumphant, clutching her phone, glowing with victory. Mrs. Bennet: "Jane and Mr. Bingley! Did you SEE them?" Panel 3: Mrs. Bennet switches to pure outrage without pausing for breath, scowling. Mrs. Bennet: "But that Darcy. Horrible man." Panel 4: Close on Lizzie, dry and entirely at peace, hands in her jacket pockets. Lizzie: "For once, we agree." Panel 5: Medium two-shot of Lizzie and Jane walking home together, easy and close — Jane quietly glowing, Lizzie amused, under warm streetlight. Panel 6: Large final wide shot, looking up from the warm street to the cool-toned glass Netherfield mansion on its hill, a single light on. Caption: "He had no idea what he'd started."
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The Bennets leave the party into a warm streetlit night. Mrs. Bennet is triumphant about Jane and Bingley and outraged about Darcy; Lizzie agrees with her for once. The sisters walk home together beneath the cool glass mansion on its hill.
About this chapter
The assembly party — the night everything starts. Bingley arrives and is instantly adored; Darcy is admired for about half an hour before the whole town decides he is insufferable. Bingley and Jane find each other immediately. When Bingley urges his friend to dance with Lizzie, Darcy calls her tolerable — not handsome enough to tempt him — and Lizzie is close enough to hear every word. She turns it into a joke and tells it all night.