Start: DARCY: Miss Bennet, I didn’t real...
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It is the night after Mary鈥檚 arrival at Pemberley, and she is up late reading in the library. Mr. Darcy comes in and finds Mary. She offers to leave but they end up talking. It is clear that they respect each other. Mary opens up to Mr. Darcy about feeling like she doesn鈥檛 know who she is supposed to be because she鈥檚 been surrounded by her very confident sisters all her life. Everyone expects her to be a spinster and take care of her parents but she longs for a life of adventure. Mr. Darcy
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Start: DARCY: Miss Bennet, I didn鈥檛 realize you鈥檇 be up at this hour.
MARY: Good evening, Mr. Darcy, I find it is the only quiet hour in the day. I should ask forgiveness of you for creeping around your library at night like a specter. Please excuse me.
She goes to leave.
DARCY: Please stay. May I ask what preoccupies you this evening?
[.. ... ..]
End: DARCY: Might you not define yourself, Miss Bennet?
MARY: That seems easier to articulate than to accomplish.
DARCY: Good advice always is. We are almost to a new year, Miss Bennet; the season may bring with it a new beginning. Good night and...enjoy America.
MARY: I will, Mr. Darcy. Good night.
Darcy exits as Mary looks at the world far beyond her.
Gunderson, Lauren and Margot Melcon, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Dramatist鈥檚 Play Service, 2017, pgs. 18-20.
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