In Georgian-era England, unmarried women weren't supposed to appear in public without a chaperone. Which means period romances like Persuasion, based on the Jane Austen novel, aren’t filled so much with steamy make-out sessions but rather lots and lots of longing stares and pining from afar. 

Persuasion stars Dakota Johnson as Austen heroine Anne Elliot, who’s juggling a flirtation with her handsome cousin Mr. William Elliot (Henry Golding) and her long-lost first love, Captain Frederick Wentworth (Cosmo Jarvis), to whom she was once set to marry. Her family convinced her to break the engagement for a more suitable match, but now that he’s a returned war hero, their swoon-worthy love is rekindled.

Below, we’ve compiled all of the crackling hot, chemistry-laden glances between Anne and William, Anne and Frederick and pretty much everyone else in the film, which is now streaming on Netflix.

Every Longing Glance in PersuasionThe agony of love.