puresummermagic:

“You know, the fact that it’s difficult to talk to someone who you are in love with is brilliantly highlighted in the etiquette of Austen’s period, where you actually physically weren’t allowed to talk to them alone except for when you’re dancing. That’s the only time you’re really alone together. You have to use those dances in that way. It was a great way of forming collisions between the characters.” – Dir. Joe Wright, The Politics of 18th Century Dating