Anna Maxwell Martin credited as playing...
Cassandra Austen
- Cassandra Austen: [regarding 'First Impressions', which will later become 'Pride and Prejudice'] How does the story begin?
- Jane Austen: Badly.
- Cassandra Austen: And then?
- Jane Austen: It gets worse.
- Cassandra Austen: You'll lose everything. Family, place. For what? A lifetime of drudgery on a pittance? A child every year and no means to lighten the load? How will you write, Jane?
- Jane Austen: I do not know, but happiness is within my grasp and I cannot help myself.
- Cassandra Austen: There is no sense in this.
- Jane Austen: If you could have your Robert back, even like this, would you do it?
- Jane Austen: It's something I began in London. It is the tale of a young woman. Two young women. Better than their circumstances.
- Cassandra Austen: So many are.
- Jane Austen: And two young gentlemen who receive much better than their deserts as so very many do.