Kelly Reilly credited as playing...
Caroline Bingley
- Elizabeth Bennet: Are you too proud Mr. Darcy? And would you consider pride a fault or a virtue?
- Mr. Darcy: That I couldn't say.
- Elizabeth Bennet: Because we're doing our best to find a fault in you.
- Mr. Darcy: Maybe it's that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.
- Elizabeth Bennet: Oh, dear, I cannot tease you about that. What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
- Caroline Bingley: A family trait, I think.
- Caroline Bingley: Miss Elizabeth, let us take a turn about the room.
- [Caroline takes Lizzy's arm in hers, and they walk gracefully in a circle around the room]
- Caroline Bingley: It's refreshing, is it not after sitting so long in one attitude?
- Elizabeth Bennet: And it is a small kind of accomplishment, I suppose.
- Caroline Bingley: Will you not join us, Mr. Darcy?
- Mr. Darcy: You can only have two motives, Caroline and I would interfere with either.
- Caroline Bingley: What can he mean?
- Elizabeth Bennet: Our surest way of disappointing him will be to ask him nothing about it.
- Caroline Bingley: But Do tell us, Mr. Darcy.
- Mr. Darcy: Either you are in each other's confidence and have secret affairs to discuss, or you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage by walking. If the first, I should get in your way. If the second, I can admire you much better from here.
- Caroline Bingley: [Elizabeth enters the room, Darcy stands. Caroline is appalled] Good Lord, Miss Elizabeth. Did you walk here?
- Elizabeth Bennet: I did.
- [long pause]
- Elizabeth Bennet: I'm so sorry. How is my sister?
- Mr. Darcy: She's upstairs.
- Elizabeth Bennet: [another pause; she smiles and curtseys] Thank you.
- [she leaves the room]
- Caroline Bingley: My goodness, did you see her hem? Six inches deep in mud. She looked positively mediaeval.
- Netherfield Butler: A Mrs. Bennet, a Miss Bennet, a Miss Bennet and a Miss Bennet, sir.
- Caroline Bingley: Oh for heaven's sake, are we to receive every Bennet in the country?
- Caroline Bingley: I can't help thinking that at some point someone is going to produce a piglet and we'll all have to chase it.