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00:00Is this place not heaven?
00:02It is. And you may have had a little too much wine.
00:05Come play me when the wine is so good.
00:08Besides, I may require Dutch courage before the night is up.
00:15What a fine instrument.
00:17It's wasted on Catherine and me.
00:21Play for us, Jane.
00:23I fear I'm no longer the pianist I once was. You may regret asking me.
00:27Nonsense. Play the prelude.
00:53Oh, I did warn you.
00:56Miss Jane. Do excuse me, but I come bearing a message. If you'd be so kind, my son is
01:03requesting you join him back in the dining room.
01:08I'd be delighted.
01:23Father, sisters, Miss Austin. Miss Austin has consented to be my wife.
01:48What have you done?
01:49Should you not be congratulating me on the splendour of my match?
01:53I will bless you joyfully once you have told me that you are in love with Mr. Bigweather
01:57and that you admire him above and beyond all others.
01:59I cannot do that, nor could he with me. But when manna falls from heaven, it would be foolish
02:04to squander it.
02:05Oh, that goes against all that you believe in it. It makes a mockery of everything you've
02:08ever said or written about love. Love, Jane. Love.
02:12It does not. I've always maintained that love is impossible without money, so there must
02:16be some hope that with it, love can grow.
02:19Do you truly believe that you could one day love this man?
02:23I cannot predict, though I admit it unlikely. But someone has to do something to secure our
02:28futures. He's from a good family. Alethe and Catherine can remain here and we will be safe
02:33and together. And you, my best girl, are free to marry your beloved Hobday.
02:39I can tell you now that whatever you do, you will not make me marry Hobday. I have refused
02:44him. It is over.
02:56Will I be happy here, do you think?
03:01Will you love Manny Dawn? To be its mistress now, with all the duty that requires. I'm sure
03:14Catherine and Alethea will help to shoulder that burden, but you will be his wife, Jane.
03:20And there will be children, of course. There are a lot of rooms to fill.
03:29I shall be in pig for the rest of my years. You love children, you have a gift with them.
03:33With other peoples. I'll have no time to myself. For thinking, for writing. I shall not write
03:41more than a letter again. I shall have a husband. A master. An overbearing master.
03:49Harris Bigweather is hardly overbearing. More like underbearing. I cannot do it. My darling,
03:55you have done it. It is already done. No, it was a mistake. The most hideous error. I do not
03:59know
03:59what I was thinking. I shall tell them in the morning. Jane. You're quite sure you cannot go
04:07through with it? We'll leave tomorrow. To quote a philosopher of my acquaintance, I shall not starve.
04:19I hold you in extreme regard. I will not be the one.
04:43I love you.
04:45I love you.
05:12Oh, my God.
05:20I should be lucky not to relapse here.
06:04I should run straight there and insist they listen to my latest outpourings.
06:12For as soon as I begin, Mary Austen will check for weather and announce they must go.
06:17I must confess, I do have some sympathy with her.
06:21Cassie.
06:21You do not appreciate how clever you are with words and how easily you can make people laugh.
06:26It is a gift.
06:27She's been visiting us for years.
06:29I've never noticed her discomfort.
06:30Perhaps she feels the need to shine in front of her husband.
06:34Marriage.
06:35Always an excuse for failures of character.
06:38It is the root cause of poor behaviour.
06:41Though you would have been the exception to that.
06:43My own theory is the thrill of being Mrs. James Austen has quite gone to Mary Austen's head.
06:49She has become a little bumptious with it.
06:52Happiness in a married woman is irksome to witness.
06:56And yet the single lady spreads universal blood.
07:00See?
07:01Even father has need of some respite.
07:06Come.
07:07We must greet them.
07:16So, father, I am real.
07:20We are two to a mother.
07:22And I certainly are.
07:24The fact is, father, as I enter my 37th year, I am a king to assume greater responsibility and perform
07:33to the full.
07:35My role as man of the church.
07:37I hope you will agree that my talents are more than equal to the task ahead.
07:42Oh, my dear boy, I have no need to assure you of that.
07:45You will make an exemplary rector to the parish.
07:48Exemplary?
07:51The house Austen, remember the house?
07:53Ah, yes.
07:54The house.
07:56I, that is, we, with our growing family.
08:01We do have a child now.
08:03You have two?
08:04Children.
08:06Let us not forget Anna.
08:08No, no, I meant to say as we now have a son.
08:12It, it occurs to us, to me, rather, that the house may be growing a little too much for you
08:22both.
08:23A less tiring, slightly smaller accommodation might be more appropriate to the diminishing needs of your household.
08:34Now that you only have my sisters.
08:44That you will take over the parish has long been the intention.
08:48Though the question of timing is another matter.
08:55Perhaps I have caused some confusion by living too long and too well.
08:59Oh, George, my dear, please.
09:03Thank you for raising this, James.
09:07I have no desire to stand in your path.
09:11That cannot be God's will.
09:13But I must discuss this in private with your mother, that I may be led swiftly to a judgment that
09:20may benefit us all.
09:25Tea, Mrs. Austen?
09:28Yes, of course.
09:31Now, now...
09:32Well, now, now, now, now, now...
10:12It is done.
10:26It is perfect.
10:29You must send it to the publisher at once.
10:36It is ready, Jane.
10:38You must send it to the publisher at once.
11:14Follow me.
11:29Just leave that at the side of the wheel.
11:47No, that will travel with me.
11:48It is my right.
11:49Why did you still leave that?
11:50You cannot take that.
11:51I'm sorry.
11:56We will survive this, Jane.
12:00Promise.
12:08You cannot take that at once.
12:10You cannot do it.
12:12I am sorry.
12:15I am sorry.
12:17I am sorry.
12:24I am sorry.
12:40There, there, my dear.
12:42Think of this as a new chapter.
12:45As if Jane had written it.
12:49Her stories always end well, don't they?
12:53Walk on!
12:55Say goodbye, Anna.
12:59Wave.
13:00Wave.
13:01Wave.
13:15Wave.
13:16Wave.
13:17Wave.
13:30I do not understand why Isabella keeps that girl, Dinah.
13:33She is quite simply the worst servant I've ever had the misfortune to encounter.
13:38Ring it again, Anna. This time with more force, if you please.
13:43Longer, longer, longer.
13:53My dear, they've even got you answering the door now.
13:55Where was that infernal girl?
13:57Anna, what a surprise.
13:59A pleasant one, I hope.
14:01Oh, most pleasant.
14:04Should I just stand here then, waiting for you to greet me, Sandra?
14:08Forgive me, Mary, I have not seen Anna for some time.
14:12I am quite overwhelmed.
14:14Yes, I suppose we can be grateful that her last romantic interlude came to nothing.
14:19And we are once again blessed with her presence.
14:27Isabella will be equally as delighted to see you.
14:29And I, uh, I trust she's looked after you well, Aunt Cass.
14:32She has been most attentive.
14:36Anna, I'll get started upstairs.
14:38Can I leave you with the drawing room?
14:40Yes, Mama?
14:42Yes, Mama?
14:42We're here to work.
14:43So I'm told.
14:56Letters, letters.
14:57Letters.
14:59Letters.
15:09Letters.
15:29Ah, Anna.
15:31You have made splendid progress today.
15:34The new vicar and his wife will be most impressed by your labors.
15:37Your labors, you mean?
15:38Isabella says you've been a godsend.
15:39Well, apart from when she was at death's door.
15:42And how is your inconvenience?
15:44I mean, it's strange.
15:45I mean, I've always been unusually lucky in the leg department, unlike Mrs Bunbury.
15:50And to think I woke this morning in a pleasant anticipation of a hard day's labour.
16:01Must we endure another reading, Isabella?
16:06What would you rather do, Aunt Mary?
16:08Well, perhaps we could converse.
16:10It is not often we're all together.
16:12May never happen again once Cassandra returns to Chawton.
16:16Very well.
16:18On what subject would you like to converse?
16:34Cassandra's patchwork is most impressive, do you not think?
16:37Yes, you're so clever, Aunt Cass.
16:40Yes.
16:40All the Austens are clever.
16:41My husband had a formidable intellect.
16:44My son, James Edward, has inherited it.
16:47Yes, and let us not forget Jane.
16:49For what is cleverness when set beside brilliance?
16:53Yes, we are all in the shade of those who shine brightest.
16:59My father often said, genius comes with a difficult temperament.
17:05Was this true of you, Jane?
17:07Jane was a perfectionist.
17:11She was so very demanding of herself and her work.
17:17But to others, she was not always kind.
17:27At least not to me.
17:29Well, she was the very best of aunt's to me.
17:33I lived for my visits to Aunt Jane.
17:35I would show her my own stories, and she would take them so seriously,
17:39as if I were a proper writer.
17:41She was the very opposite of difficult.
17:45Was she not, Aunt Cass?
17:48She was indeed.
17:54If I recall, she was not so cheerful in the years after you left Steventon.
18:06We have arrived in Bath, Eliza.
18:10Mary Austen's keen delight to get her feet through the door,
18:13propel ours out of it,
18:15and rob us of all our worldly possessions,
18:17was quite the sight to behold.
18:19Oh, dear.
18:22Okay.
18:45No, no.
18:52Well, I think these rooms will do us quite splendidly.
18:58Yes, husband.
19:00I believe they shall.
19:07It is of some comfort that leaving our home has not caused our beloved Cassie any particular distress.
19:15A place no longer matters to Cassie, not as it does to me.
19:21Jane, my darling, please.
19:25You cannot lie here like this all day every day.
19:29You must try to bear it.
19:38Cassie's determination that I should enjoy the delights of the metropolis is admirable.
19:45And the famous bath stone does its best to glow.
19:50But I fear I cannot be much company.
19:54Cassie tells me I must give it time.
19:57And I will.
19:59Not least because I have no choice in the matter.
20:04You must remember, my dear Mary, that we all suffered a great deal after we left Steventon.
20:10Not just Jane.
20:11I mean, that is why it is so imperative that Isabella finds one place that she can call home.
20:32Miss Austin.
20:37Jane!
20:38Jane!
20:43Mr. Crosby of London, who is the best of men, even though we have never met him,
20:47promises publication of your novel, Susan, with immediate effect, for the princely sum of ten pounds.
20:53Ten pounds!
20:54I am to be in print!
20:55I want to be a published authoress!
20:57And we are the proudest Austins who ever lived!
21:00I shall make a start on a new novel at once.
21:02I am determined I will!
21:06I am to be published.
21:08George, let us thank the good Lord.
21:12Oh, my...
21:13Papa!
21:15Papa!
21:16Papa!
21:17Oh, my dearest daughter.
21:20Your sister.
21:22She is...
21:24You must take the greatest care of her.
21:27George!
21:29I will, Papa, I will.
21:31George!
21:32George!
22:12I don't know.
22:36Beth, my dear.
22:40Miss Austen, I'm delighted to see you've recovered from your cold.
22:44Children, we have a visitor.
22:46Now, we must remember our manners.
22:48What do we say when people are kind enough to call on us?
22:51Good day to you.
22:53And to you.
22:55Carry on.
22:57So, this is where you spend your time?
22:59Yes. I'm hardly ever at home. My days are so busy here.
23:04My charges arrive from five in the morning.
23:07Their mothers work at the mill and do such long days.
23:09By the time they've all left, I've no energy to do more than crawl through there to bed.
23:14So you often just sleep here?
23:17I do.
23:17Oh, shh, shh, shh.
23:21Beth, as you well know, the date of Isabella's departure from the vicarage is almost upon her.
23:27So I am here once more to ask for your assistance regarding her future.
23:32Did Isabella ask you to come?
23:34No.
23:35No, she did not.
23:36But I cannot stand by and watch while she suffers the insecurity of her current position.
23:42I do not wish to appear rude, Cassandra, but why should it concern you?
23:51Because since I have been here, I have become exceedingly fond of her.
23:56And I am mindful of the toll the same upheaval had on my dear sister when we had to leave
24:03our own beloved home.
24:07And I promised your dying father that I would ensure she came to live with either you or Mary Jane.
24:12My father.
24:14Even from the grave.
24:18Poor Isabella.
24:20I fear she's never to be able to make her own decisions about her future as I have done.
24:27Beth, I am aware your future is settled and I am delighted it is so.
24:35However, I am also hopeful that if you and Mr. Lydderdale do decide to marry,
24:40that he might be generous enough to allow her to live with you.
24:43Married?
24:45Myself and Mr. Lydderdale?
24:48Yes.
24:50Wherever did you get such a ridiculous notion?
24:53I saw you together.
24:55And so you concocted a story for yourself?
25:00Oh, Cassandra.
25:02You have the wrong sister.
25:11We did have feelings for one another once.
25:14I have refused him.
25:16He will not ask again.
25:17I do not think it was a dalliance.
25:20I believe it to have been love.
25:21Do not be ridiculous.
25:25When my mother informed me that you were a resident here, I had a pressing need to see you again.
25:31She fell on the pavement on the lower cob and was taken up lifeless.
25:35You have killed her.
25:39She must have fainted.
25:40Go.
25:41Go and fetch Mr. Lydderdale at once.
25:43Go, Isabella.
25:44Mr. Lydderdale!
25:45No!
25:48Bye-bye.
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