Epigraph
MARTHA—(the Maid at Mr. Collins’s Parsonage).
Note
“In the novels of the last hundred years there are vast numbers of young ladies with whom it might be a pleasure to fall in love,—but to live with and to marry, I do not know that any of them can come into competition with Elizabeth Bennet.”—George Saintsbury. Preface to the Peacock Edition of “Pride and Prejudice.”
ACT I