O’Hanlon supposes Box Hill picnic must be a combination of informality and gentility. Servants carry amenities for a regiment so that Emma, Knightley, et al. sits on a sparkling white cloth (with cushions, of course) drinking wine in crystal goblets, served by staff. A roast turkey or capon is propped on the cloth, uncarved and uneaten. (Perhaps forgotten.) But there are fruits, bread, and cakes; even strawberries are eaten from white linen napkins.
There is food served by staff, chatting until Emma insults Miss Bates—and the picnic effectively ends.
The cast: Romola Garai as Emma Woodhouse; Johnny Lee Miller as George Knightley; Rupert Evans as Frank Churchill; Louise Dylan as Harriet Smith; Michael Gambon as Mr. Woodhouse; Christina Cole as Mrs. Elton; Laura Pyper as Jane Fairfax.
See Jim O’Hanlon Emma (2009). The screenplay is by Sandy Welch and is based on Jane Austen’s novel.