Willoughby Rescues Marianne, Explained：set your cap at

What's really going on

The rescue is staged like a fairy tale, and the film lets us enjoy it before it costs anyone anything. Willoughby arrives out of nowhere, carries Marianne home, and says exactly the right things; Marianne's own description, 'He lifted me as if I weighed no more than a dried leaf,' tells you she is already idealizing him. Around her, the family does the same. Sir John can only report that 'there's not a bolder rider in all England,' and Mrs. Jennings reduces courtship to a chase. The quiet counterweight is Colonel Brandon, who comes to ask after the invalid and finds the room waiting for someone else. Nobody is cruel to him; he is simply not the story, and that is the moment the film marks him as the man who will be overlooked. Marianne's line, 'What care I when there is such a man?', shows how completely the new arrival has filled the frame.

Theme

このチャプターで学べること

• Charm here is a performance the whole family applauds.
• The colonel's dry joke hides how far behind he is.
• A gentleman apologises before he acts.
• One word for a dog would be an insult to a woman.

発音のポイント

• escort you — Escort you links into a sound close to escor-chu.
• It's a twisted — Run It's a together, then join twisted ankle smoothly.
• did he not — In the tag question did he weakens and runs together.