om Pride and Prejudice, A Play by Mary Keith Medbery Mackaye ACT I The drawing-room at Longbourn. At the back, wide glass doors open upon a terrace which overlooks an English landscape. It is winter, and coals are burning in the fireplace. On each side of the glass doors are rounded recesses with windows. On one side of the room a door opens into the library. On the other side is a door to the hall—the chief entrance of the house. The room is handsomely furnished in eighteenth century style. MR. and MRS. BENNET are discovered sitting on either side of the table. MRS. BENNET is knitting—MR. BENNET reading. MRS. BENNET: [After a slight pause and laying down her knitting.] My dear Mr. Bennet, did not you hear me? Did you know that Netherfield Park is let at last? MR. BENNET: [Continues reading and does not answer.] MRS. BENNET: [Impatiently.] Do not you want to know who has taken it? MR. BENNET: [Ceases reading and looks up at her with an amused smile.] You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it. MRS. BENNET: [With animation.] Why, my dear, you must know Lady Lucas says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the North of England. His name is Bingley, and he is single, my dear. Think of that, Mr. Bennet! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand pounds a year. What a fine thing for our girls! MR. BENNET: How so? How can it affect them? MRS. BENNET: My dear Mr. Bennet, how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them. 15 Select the correct texts in the passage. Mary Keith Medbery Mackaye's Pride and Prejudice, A Play is a drama inspired by Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice. Which two details in the excerpt of Austen’s novel are included in the excerpt of Mackaye’s play? Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (excerpt) It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering