Jonty Claypole

It gets to the night before.

Will one of them break and speak?

Dorryforth, by this point, by the way, has had to sort of have lots of houseguests in order to stop himself from, you know, getting too carried away.

So there's various houseguests staying and it comes to the final morning.

The carriage has arrived that's going to take him away for years.

And neither he nor Miss Milner have slept.

They can barely speak with anxiety.

And here's what happens.

Dory Thorpe gets up to go to the carriage reluctantly.

He says goodbye to the guests one by one.

And then we hear now he went up to Miss Milner and taking one of her hands again, held it between his but still without speaking while she unable to suppress her tears as heretofore suffered them to fall in torrents.

She finally starts crying, but they still can't speak.

Now, one of the guests happily is a priest called Sanford.

So what is all this, cried Sanford, going up to them in anger?

They neither of them replied or changed their situation.

I love this image that they physically cannot let go of one another.

Separate this moment, cried Sanford, or resolve to be separated only by death.

The commanding and awful manner in which he spoke this sentence made them both turn to him in amazement.

And as it were, petrified with the sensation his words had caused, he left them for a moment and going to a small bookcase in one corner of the room, took out of it a book and returning with it in his hand, said, I mean, this is straight out of a Richard Curtis rom-com, said, Dory Forth, do you love this woman?

"'More than my life,' he replied, with the most heartfelt accents.