Long, long day

It's after seven now.  Let's see this chapter:
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7:17 p.m.  And it's seven pages.

7:18 p.m.  Darcy visits---earlier than Elizabeth expects him to visit, again---and everyone goes for a walk.

7:21 p.m.  Mary and her mother stay home, so five start walking.  Bingley and Jane walk another walk  :) so now there are three.

7:27 p.m.  I'm simultaneously talking to my students, which is why I'm reading slower  :)  Kitty left.  A now-or-never moment?

7:32 p.m.  Elizabeth thanks him for helping Lydia.  That's a very slow opening, like 1. c4 or something ...

7:35 p.m.  And Darcy speeds it up by coming straight to the point  :)

7:36 p.m.  And Elizabeth accepts his proposal ... but in indirect speech.  It's as though Austen undercuts every single thing she writes in this book  :)

7:39 p.m.  It ends well---but only because of Lady Catherine, who wanted it to end differently.  See what I mean?

7:49 p.m.  Now we are in recap time.  If anyone ever wants a quick summary of the whole book:  read the last four chapters and you'd be golden  :)

7:53 p.m.  Done.  More in the morning.