but, says desai: >> lizzy turns down mr.ollins, and the advice of her mother, because she wants to roll the dice again. of course, that ends up very nicely, ultimately, with mr. darcy, but at the time, she didn't know. >> reporter: no, lizzy was lucky, in love and money. she accepted the risk. but most others did not. >> the next day, he gives the same proposal to charlotte, her friend, and she takes it. >> cousin elizabeth, you can see before you the happiest of men! >> reporter: charlotte lucas' lot was not the "happiest." but better than penury, one imagines. >> she said, i'm just going to take the solution. >> reporter: in anthony trollope's phineas finn: >> how nice to find you and to find you alone. >> reporter: violet effingham had a very different problem: too many suitors. >> you look very piratical tonight, lord chiltern. >> that is because you see me by the side of all these smug, glossy parliament men. >> she doesn't know who to choose, and she says, you know, if only i could marry all ten. you know, she's the es