ACT IV

THE SHRUBBERY AT LONGBOURN

ONE WEEK LATER

PLACE: ENGLAND TIME: 1796

"In the novels of the last hundred years there are vast numbers of young ladies with whom it might be a pleasure to fall in love,--but to live with and to marry, I do not know that any of them can come into competition with _Elizabeth Bennet_."--GEORGE SAINTSBURY. Preface to the Peacock Edition of "Pride and Prejudice."