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Get you someone who looks at you the way Mr Hayward immediately looks at Mary Bennet.

It’s such an iconic and memorable scene that’s it’s easy to overlook how it started, and misremember it. Recently I remembered it as them coming down the stairs together and heading straight for the ballroom, as if their night together was always going to be the dance, but no. They head to the dining hall together to have dinner and it’s Belle who grabs the Beast and makes him dance with her.

And it’s the way he’s genuinely surprised by this, and has to slowly ease himself into the dance because he hasn’t done it in forever, and Belle doesn’t notice and just rests her head on his chest like oh man…