Emma Jane Austen Play Part 2

  Emma Jane Austen Play Part 2

CHAPTERS 11 – 12

For Christmas, John and Isabella Knightley come to Hartfield with their five children.

Isabella is like her dad, and also lets her husband decide everything.

John is less respectful with Mr. Woodhouse than George.

Mr. Woodhouse says again and again what a bummer it is that Mrs. Weston doesn’t live at Hartfield anymore.

John knows Mrs. Weston is happy, but doesn’t say anything to Mr. Woodhouse, since that would only upset him more.

John asks about Frank Churchill, the never-seen-hot-mystery-dude, who is 23 and hasn’t come to see his dad or his dad’s new wife, Mrs. Weston.

Emma and George make up – she welcomes him into the house while holding one of Isabella’s children, which makes him feel better.

Everyone had dinner.

CHAPTER 13

The Knightleys continue their visit.

Everyone’s supposed to have dinner at the Randall’s. Harriet gets a sore throat so she goes to Mrs. Goddard’s. Emma visits her. Mr. Elton says she shouldn’t risk getting sick. Emma says that he should visit Harriet, but John offers to take him to the dinner in his carriage.

John tells Emma that Mr. Elton is interested in her. Emma first is annoyed and then amused that John thinks she led him on.

Emma and John pick up Mr. Elton on Christmas Eve. Emma brings up Harriet and is surprised at how fast Mr. Elton changes the subject.

It’s all snowy, so John just wants to get back to Hartfield.

CHAPTERS 14 – 15

At the Weston’s, Emma tries to ignore Mr. Elton’s weirdness, but he’s always around her. She starts to think John might have been right, but she phrases it more like Mr. Elton would be changing from liking Harriet to her.

When she is seated next to Mr. Weston, Emma learns that Frank is coming to town. She feels that if she were ever going to get married, that Frank is the sort of guy she would match with.

After dinner, the women go into one room and the men into another. Mrs. Weston says she has doubts about Mrs. Churchill, Frank’s mom. Isabella agrees. Emma says that she thinks it’s lame that Frank has put off visiting for so long.

Mrs. Weston tries to make excuses for Frank. Emma doesn’t buy it – she just wants him to show up.

CHAPTER 15

The men join the women and Mr. Elton goes straight for Emma.

Mr. Elton is so paranoid that Emma will get a sore throat that Emma thinks it’s like he’s in love with her instead of Harriet.

John says the snow is really coming down. This worries Mr. Woodhouse.

George, always the sensible guy, goes to check out the weather. He says it’s not that bad. He and Emma arrange for everyone to go home.

Emma winds up in the same carriage as Mr. Elton.

Mr. Elton goes for it with Emma – he takes her hand says how much he loves her. She brings up Harriet but he says he was never into her except as a friend of Emma’s. He thinks Harriet is beneath him. Emma says she never encouraged him to be interested, but he is pissed.

At Hartfield, everyone’s happy except for Emma.

CHAPTER 16

After Emma’s bedtime beauty rituals, she wonders how she can tell Harriet the news.

After she goes through all the events in her mind, she decides that Mr. Elton just wants her money and isn’t really interested, and that maybe her good manners led him on.

She says she should lay off the matchmaking for a while… but maybe that Harriet would be good with some lawyer, William Coxe, but no, that he’s too eager.

Emma goes to bed.

The next day is Christmas and there’s too much snow to do anything. Emma can’t get to church.

The snow then freezes and no one does anything, except George Knightley.

Things are good at Hartfield but Emma feels bad about Harriet.

CHAPTERS 17 – 18

John and his family leave for London.

Mr. Elton sends a note that he’s going to Bath (a town, not a statement about getting clean).

Emma’s glad that Mr. Elton won’t come to the house before he goes.

Emma talks to Harriet. Harriet handles it all pretty well and Emma is impressed.

Back at Hartfield, Harriet still thinks Mr. Elton is the coolest, and Emma knows that relaxing will be impossible until Harriet gets over it.

Frank doesn’t visit. Mrs. Weston is disappointed. Emma and George disagree about Frank – George thinks he’s a lame-ass for not being dutiful and visiting his family. Emma says Frank changes himself to suit whoever he’s with – as if that’s a good thing. George thinks that’s a bad way to be.

Emma has never heard George sound so against someone.

VOLUME TWO

CHAPTERS 1 – 2

Emma and Harriet go to visit Mrs. and Miss Bates, the very talkative women. Miss Bates has the habit of talking about the tiniest details and annoying the hell out of Emma.

Miss Bates talks about Jane Fairfax, her niece, and puts off reading a letter from Mr. Elton. Jane plans on coming to Highbury.

Emma doesn’t like Jane too much, so she isn’t happy about the visit. Jane’s pretty and elegant.

Emma is bothered by the fact that Jane met Frank Churchill.

CHAPTERS 3 – 4

On his way to see Mr. Woodhouse, George sees Emma. They disagree about Jane. Before George can tell Emma something, Miss Bates and Jane interrupt. Miss Bates says that Mr. Elton is getting married to Miss Hawkins, some random girl he met in Bath. Jane doesn’t say much.

George goes. Mr. Woodhouse grumbles about young people rushing to get married.

Emma worries about Harriet and how she’ll feel.

Harriet arrives. She was caught in the rain at a store in town where she saw Robert Martin and his sister, who ignored her at first and then came to talk to her. Emma is worried about how excited Harriet is about this so she tells Harriet about Mr. Elton.

Before Mr. Elton comes back into town, rumors spread about his soon-to-be-wife, Miss Hawkins. Her first name is Augusta and she’s loaded. Emma thinks Mr. Elton is actually pretty slimy for grabbing Miss Hawkins, who has no parents and a ton on money.

Elizabeth Martin goes to see Harriet and leaves a note for her at Mrs. Goddard’s. Emma says Harriet should go see her and that she’ll give her a ride – that way she can make sure Harriet only stays for 15 minutes. Emma feels kinda bad about planning all this, but she does it anyway.