Laurence Fox credited as playing...
Mr. Wisley
- Mrs. Austen: JANE!
- Lady Gresham: What is she doing?
- Mr. Wisley: Writing.
- Lady Gresham: Can anything be done about it?
- Mr. Wisley: The good do not always come to good ends. It is a truth universally acknowledged.
- Jane Austen: [writing] "... that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. "
- Jane Austen: You asked me a question. I am ready to give you an answer. But there is one matter to be settled. I cannot make you out, Mr Wisley. At times, you are the most gentlemanlike man I know and yet you would...
- Mr. Wisley: "Yet". What a sad word.
- John Warren: And the famous Mrs. Radcliffe, is she as Gothic as her novels?
- Jane Austen: Not in externals. But her internal landscape is, I suspect, quite picturesque.
- Mr. Wisley: True of us all.