John Mullan

And she wonders why Charlotte's arranged the rooms as she has.

And then she realises with some admiration that Charlotte's arranged the house so that she has to encounter her husband as infrequently as possible in the course of the average day.

And you're all laughing because it's really funny.

It's an obstacle course.

You know, think of Mr Wickham being bribed to marry Lydia.

Mr. Bennett says, if he takes less than £10,000, I shall lose all respect for him.

And it's quite funny, but it's not funny.

It's terrible.

It's true.

But her humour, I think, is always fair.

I don't think she gets you to laugh at her little sort of scintilla of truth about these things.

You know, the Charlotte Lucas thing.

We laugh at it, not, I think, cruelly, but sympathetically.

Yes, yes.

Yeah, I agree.

I think, you know, she didn't do too badly in her own lifetime, really.

Whatever it was, the 650 pounds she left or something is not an insignificant sum of money.

It would have been a good income for, I don't know, Mr. John Knightley or something, you know, for a professional gentleman in a year to

To earn £650 wouldn't have been too bad.

So let's think now of £60,000, £70,000 or something.