Screen Two (TV Series)

Persuasion (1995)

Phoebe Nicholls: Elizabeth Elliot

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• Elizabeth Elliot : When Captain Wentworth arrives you must not monopolise him. That's a very bad habit of yours.

• James Benwick : What's the news, Sir Walter?

  Sir Walter Elliot : A concert in the Assembly Room. To be given in Italian.

  James Benwick : [skeptical]  Hmm.

  Sir Walter Elliot : A display of fireworks. But here is news indeed. Most vital news!

  Elizabeth Elliot : Father?

  Sir Walter Elliot : The Dowager Lady Dalrymple and the Honorable Miss Carteret are arrived in Laura place.

  Elizabeth Elliot : Our cousins.

  Sir Walter Elliot : Will they receive us?

  Elizabeth Elliot : They would not snub us, surely?

  Sir Walter Elliot : Please, God, let them not snub us!