Tags: [Pride and Prejudice Modernization]+[Campus]+[Double Strong]+[Scottish Countryside]+[Slow and Long Love]+[Adaptation]
Mornings in the Outer Hebrides are three hours slower than in London.
I didn't know about this until I was eighteen.
When I slapped the application form on the student union table.
He looked up at me.
That glance took about two seconds.
It took me two years to understand those two seconds.
He wasn't rejecting my project.
He was saying: "I can't translate your language."
Later he learned.
Heather, peatland, the untranslated words in Gaelic.
My father taught him.
Before forgetting.
At last he knelt in the heather.
Called me in my father's voice——
"My daughter."
Mornings in the Outer Hebrides are three hours slower than in London.
But it took him three years to catch up with me, which took me eighteen years.
His name is Fitzwilliam Darcy.
My name is Elizabeth McDonald.
It took us three years to move from First Impressions to Pride and Prejudice.
