The Anne portrayed here would not wait 8 years for a man. Her smirk almost extinguishes the gloom that Anne Elliot has. Anne Elliot is a quiet, self contained woman who has been writhing in the pangs of regret for 8 years. She is not someone who shouts out 'Friedrich' through a window nor someone who declares herself that Charles had chosen her first. The winking woman here might be Dakota in her past life, but this is not ANNE ELLIOT.