(soft music) - There are three different strands of romance, and I think when you're watching "Miss Austen," you can feel the real pull to wanting these people to end up together.
- My, my dear Cassie, you, you know what I'm about to say.
- [Woman] Well, you said yes, of course?
- I said yes.
(women cheering) - Cassandra was engaged to Tom at a very young age and then Tom went away for a year and tragically didn't make it back.
- We have bad tidings to impart, Cassie.
- And Cassandra, having always loved Tom, then committed herself to a single life in dedication of others and in service of the poor.
- In our story, Cassandra has another chance at love.
- Mr. Henry Hobday.
It's my pleasure, ma'am.
- When we meet Henry, he's lost his father, so he's taken to looking after his mother.
You could think of him as somewhat of a modern man and a modern thinker.
I think that is perhaps what made Cassie romantically interested in him.
- He's certainly not my Mr. Hobday.
- Really?
Then you have not noticed the way he looks at you.
- Miss Fowle.
- Mr. Lidderdale.
- Mr. Lidderdale is the local doctor.
He has a bit of history with Miss Isabella Fowle.
- The longing looks that Alfie and I try to muster up hopefully are selling the idea that these two characters have feelings for one another.
- If you'll excuse me, I must... - You're yearning for them to be together, but because it's not so straightforward, you are invested in their love.
- Repressed love being a common outcome in this period where there are so many rules surrounding who and how and when and if you can court a person.
True love is a modern luxury.
- Each character, you can see them squashing down their feelings and you can imagine the life that they could both have if they could just communicate it, so we're all there going, "Come on, come on," desperate for them to get together.
And when we can see that, I think it really engages our guts.
(laughs) (soft music continues)
