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00:01Miss Isabella is to vacate the vicarage.
00:03I am resolved to ensure she is settled with her sisters.
00:07Beth and Mr. Lidderdale.
00:09Cassandra, there's illness here.
00:10Miss Austen, you cannot be in here.
00:12They did seem very familiar with one another.
00:14Did you find any letters from Jane?
00:17Not a single one.
00:20The Austens of Hampshire are embarking on the first of their great holiday schemes.
00:25Mr. Henry Hobday, it's my pleasure, Martha.
00:27I'm quite sure I saw sparks flying between you.
00:32You have caught him in your powers.
00:45Is she in for Mr. Lidderdale?
00:46Mr. Lidderdale is too busy.
00:48We'll nurse her ourselves.
01:02No.
01:03No.
01:04No.
01:04All is well.
01:05You must rest now.
01:06No.
01:06The letters.
01:08Isabella, you must...
01:09There are no letters, my dear.
01:11Rest now.
01:14No.
01:15No.
01:15Not you.
01:16Cassandra, this is dying, huh?
01:17Cooling your brow.
01:19No.
01:19Not you.
01:20Isabella, you must die.
01:21She's delirious.
01:22She doesn't know what she's saying.
01:25No.
01:26Where are they?
01:27You must...
01:27You must keep them hidden.
01:28There are no letters, my dear.
01:30Rest now.
01:32Jane.
01:33I promised Jane.
01:35You must...
01:36You must hide the letters.
01:37You must be still.
01:40Keep them hidden.
01:40Keep them hidden.
01:50No, Cassandra.
01:52No, I've got...
01:52Give her.
01:53No.
01:53No.
01:53She's getting worse.
01:54Mrs. Isabella, she's gonna peg it on us.
01:56God forbid.
01:58I cannot infect Mr. Lidderdale now.
02:00No.
02:01Her fever will break soon.
02:04Besides, I'm sure Mr. Lidderdale and my sister are far too busy to be disturbed.
02:08Go up to the big house and beg for ice.
02:10You'll have plenty this time of year.
02:12No.
02:13No.
02:19Dinah?
02:20Is something the matter?
02:25Look, Cassandra.
02:27No.
02:28She said you meant...
02:29No.
02:30No.
02:30No.
02:31We must help.
02:33We are helping you.
02:34We must help.
02:34We are helping you.
02:36It's alright.
02:37It's alright.
02:38It's cold.
02:40It's cold.
02:41It's cold.
02:42Help me.
02:43We are helping you.
02:45No.
02:45I know she's out and I am sorry to say it but she's brought it on herself.
02:49Going to see Miss Beth and stir in the pot.
02:52No.
02:52It's enough, Dinah.
02:53No.
02:53It's okay no more.
02:54They're loading them now.
02:55No.
02:58No.
02:59No.
02:59No.
03:00Don't wait.
03:00I learned that we are here.
03:01Cos.."
03:02I learned that we are here...
03:07Dinah.
03:14No.
03:16No.
03:33Your niece seems to have found even more marvellous shells for her collection, Miss Austen.
03:38So it appears, Mr Hoptay, I'm bewildered as to how we'll transport these multitudes back home.
03:50Forgive me if this seems intrusive, she is a charming child, but I do detect an air of melancholy, unusual,
04:02it's been one so young.
04:03She lost her mother when she was very small. She is, I fear, still scarred by it.
04:10Yes, the loss of the parent is a heavy burden to bear, especially at such a young age.
04:16Your mother told us of your own bereavement, of which I'm very sorry.
04:21Yes, my father was an excellent man.
04:26My mother found it exceedingly hard to stay in the family home afterwards, hence our peripatetic existence.
04:35But I do hope to return there soon.
04:39Where is home?
04:40Derbyshire.
04:43The thought of Derbyshire amuses you?
04:45No, not at all.
04:46No.
04:47My sister declares it to be a place of some perfection.
04:51Alongside Hampshire, of course, though, never Shropshire.
05:00I'm enjoying your Susan.
05:02I must say, dear sister, your Mr Thorpe is the devil of a bounder.
05:07If he is an Oxford man, I'm grateful not to have gone there.
05:10I dare him to come onto my ship.
05:12We'd run him up the Ardham at once.
05:14He'd never be on your ship.
05:15Mr John Thorpe has neither the heart nor the head for it.
05:18You sailors are the best of men.
05:20Yet not once has any of your heroines ever been blessed with a dashing sailor brother.
05:25Oh, Frank, if the heroine was fortunate enough to have a dashing sailor brother,
05:29she's spoiled for any hero I could create.
05:32No man could match him.
05:34So this is why my sisters are still unmarried.
05:37No man can match me.
05:39I fear Cassie is about to betray you, brother, with her new suitor.
05:44Suitor?
05:45A proto?
05:46Jane.
05:48Sorry, I appear to have spoken in error.
05:50Cassie has no suitor, especially no suitor by the name of Henry or Hobday.
05:56Or Henry Hobday.
05:57Papa, please.
05:58Or any suitor with those names who just so happens to be the heir to an estate in Derbyshire.
06:04An estate?
06:05In Derbyshire?
06:06Papa, I beg you.
06:07Come now, you're making your sister uncomfortable.
06:10Besides, I have seen no evidence of any such romance.
06:14That's because it's a deep secret, known only to the whole of Sid Smith.
06:18Enough!
06:20Jane's love of fiction appears to have spread from the page into our lives.
06:25I'm sad to report she now routinely spouts nonsense.
06:28We can no longer believe a single word that comes out of her mouth.
06:40Cass, did you really mind Mr Hobday accompanying us today?
06:45Very much.
06:46It was all Frank's doing.
06:49Of which you played no part. None whatsoever.
06:53Very well, I admit it.
06:56But you cannot deny Mr Hobday is deeply enamoured of you.
07:00As he should be, it proves he is a man of excellent taste.
07:04In fact, he appears to be the model of perfection which, if I may say, is most infuriating.
07:09For you know, as a woman of many faults, I abhor faultlessness in others.
07:14You are faultless in my eyes.
07:17You just bear me better than anyone else.
07:19It is you who is faultless.
07:22Which is why you deserve something better than this wretched future of ours.
07:26Jane, why must you always make such a drama out of nothing?
07:30Our future is not wretched.
07:32We still have our parents, we have good brothers who will never neglect us.
07:37And most importantly of all, we have each other.
07:41Unless you find someone good enough.
07:42And well, even then I shall not starve.
07:46Is that your ambition?
07:49Not to starve?
07:51Here lies Cassandra Austin, she did not starve.
07:56I have no crystal ball cast, but one thing I know for certain.
08:00We will be poor.
08:02And we will become objects of pity.
08:05Or worse still, derision.
08:08This must be my fate.
08:10It does not have to be yours.
08:13I love you above all, but we do not have to live as one.
08:16We are two different women.
08:20I beg you, if you are offered any means of escape, do not refuse it.
08:34You are not dying, Cassandra.
08:42I will not countenance you.
08:46I will not countenance you.
08:47I will not countenance you.
08:59Mr. Litterdale, may I help you?
09:02Forgive me for intruding, Miss Fowle, but I just saw your maid, and the urgency of her demeanour gave me
09:07cause for some concern.
09:08There is no need.
09:09She was merely on an errand, and I instructed her to be quick.
09:13There is nothing more to it.
09:15Then she was carrying out your instructions to the letter.
09:19I am delighted to hear it.
09:24I understand.
09:25I understand.
09:25I do hope.
09:27Please.
09:28After you.
09:31It was only to inquire if there is still a deal of sickness in the village.
09:36Some.
09:37But thankfully it is on the wane now.
09:39Good.
09:41But I am sure my sister will be eager to return to her pupils.
09:46I believe Beth has been assisting you, has she not?
09:52Indeed she has.
09:53Her presence has been most beneficial.
09:57That does not surprise me.
10:00She is a woman of great competence.
10:04Indeed she is.
10:09If you'll excuse me, I must.
10:11Of course.
10:11But, um...
10:13First, may I inquire after Miss Austen?
10:16I trust she has not suffered any ill effects after her visit to the village?
10:20No. None.
10:22But I will inform her of your kind concern.
10:25Good day.
10:27Good day.
10:42Captain Wentworth was more obviously struck and confused by the sight of her than she had ever observed before.
10:50For the first time since their renewed acquaintance, she felt she was betraying the least sensibility of the two.
11:20You are more famous than her dear dear, where she was.
11:21You are now.
11:22You are so sorry.
11:24You are welcome.
11:25His name is Eric Alexander.
11:25It's a great story.
11:27You are so sorry.
11:28I won't even be the first time.
11:29My wife...
11:29Who was a great father and a wife?
11:30I am so sorry.
11:35I have some help from my wife and I am so sorry.
12:00It's not a day.
12:01Miss Austin.
12:02A beautiful day, is it not?
12:04Yes.
12:05Quite beautiful.
12:07Forgive me if I'm intruding.
12:11You will not forgive me.
12:13No, you are not intruding.
12:16Then I wonder if you might consider walking out with me.
12:21I'd be delighted.
12:47Perhaps we should sit for a moment.
13:07Mr. Hobaday.
13:08Mr. Hobaday.
13:25Cassie.
13:27May I call you that?
13:35It's true that we've only known each other for a short time.
13:39But it has been long enough to know that you are a woman of quite remarkable character.
13:47Exceptional, even.
13:55The truth is, Cassie Austin, I have loved you since the moment that our hands first touched.
14:05Of your beauty, there is no doubt, but it is your intelligence and your spirit and your grace that have
14:15done for me.
14:21I am yours, if you will have me.
14:29I am yours, if you will have me.
14:53I know I'm not the most eloquent of men.
14:57There are things I must say to you before I leave.
15:01In case I do not return.
15:04No.
15:05You will come back, let us not discuss this.
15:08In Cassie, we must.
15:12If you cannot marry me, you must feel free to marry another.
15:20I promise you, Tom, faithfully here before God,
15:28that I will never marry any other man but you.
16:01So, did he speak?
16:06Well, what was your answer?
16:10I refused him.
16:13Refused him?
16:14My mother will hear.
16:16She cannot know if this Jane just done.
16:18Cassie, why?
16:19I do not understand you.
16:20What fault could you find with Henry Hobday?
16:22What more could you ask for?
16:23A match like this at your time of life is a story beyond fiction.
16:29Please.
16:32My dearest one, help me understand.
16:40I cannot marry him.
16:44I cannot marry anyone.
16:46Why?
16:47Because I promised Tom.
16:49Tom dared ask that of you?
16:51No.
16:53No, he begged me not to feel beholden.
16:56Well, then you must not feel.
16:59I cannot go back on my word, Jane.
17:12It's Austin.
17:13There's Austin.
17:16Oh, Cassandra.
17:17Oh, thank heavens.
17:19What on earth are you doing in here?
17:21Let's get this on, Mum, shall we?
17:24You're shivering.
17:26No.
17:27No, I am perfectly fine.
17:30Look at me.
17:31Back in the land of the living.
17:34I owe you my life.
17:37Nonsense.
17:38You owe it only to yourself.
17:42It would take more than a fever to undo Cassandra was.
17:47Oh, Isabella.
17:49You were born to tend to the sick.
17:55I hoped once that I might be able to do so.
17:59That time has passed.
18:01Come.
18:12How is she to go?
18:14She is still in heaven.
18:15You're quite sure it's safe, is it?
18:16Quite sure, Aunt Mary.
18:18She is much in peace now.
18:25Oh, my dear.
18:29I've been worried sick.
18:32You have no idea the torment that you have put me through.
18:44You must feel quite awful.
18:46Not so.
18:47I am...
18:48I am certainly on the mend.
18:50No, I mean for causing so much inconvenience.
18:53At a time when the house was already at sixes and sevens.
18:57It is a maxim of mine that one should never fall ill while visiting.
19:00I am proud to say that I have never once had the misfortune to break it.
19:05Of course there was that one time in London when I was brought down by the faceache.
19:12Well, I shall take my leave of you.
19:15You seem quite worn out from resting.
19:20And Mrs Bunbury and I appear to have reconciled, so she is expecting me.
19:26Oh, and one more thing.
19:29Eliza's letters.
19:31Am I to understand you already have knowledge?
19:34Much of their whereabouts.
19:36Me?
19:37No.
19:38Why ever would you think that?
19:41Something you said when you were delirious.
19:46It seemed you already had some in your possession.
19:50Certainly not.
19:52And if I had, I would have told you.
19:54As you say, I...
19:56I was delirious.
19:59Oh, yes.
20:03I don't know.
20:33My dear Eliza, you beg to be informed of the next stage in the saga.
20:38So it is with a heavy heart, I comply.
20:41Once again, we are left to be disappointed.
20:44Mr Hobday himself was not the agent of this.
20:47Indeed, the reverse.
20:49He proved himself as good a man as those who love Cassie could ever hope for.
20:55Their attraction was mutual.
20:58They were in love, Eliza.
21:00I'm sure of it.
21:01Yet Cassie refused him.
21:04The sheer madness of it drives me to distraction.
21:07I am no advocate of marriage for the sake of it.
21:10But I am all for a good match.
21:12And this could have been a splendid one.
21:15Cassie had the offer of a comfortable future.
21:18Wealth, stability, love and respect.
21:21But she chose insecurity.
21:24I struggle to comprehend it.
21:26It is beyond me.
21:31How could you think this?
21:34How could you write it?
21:37Bereaved fiancé, dutiful daughter, caring aunt.
21:41These are the roles Cassie embraces.
21:44Esteemed object of a worthy gentleman's heart?
21:47No, that she would rather reject.
21:50If my sister has one fault, it is a wanton appetite to deny herself the pleasures of life.
21:58Did you not know?
22:01Could you not tell?
22:03But I did it.
22:04I did it for you, too.
22:09I implore you, Eliza.
22:12Help me release Cassie from this unspeakable vow to Tom.
22:34Cassie, what are you doing with my letters?
22:36Please.
22:37I've left everything just so.
22:39Forgive me.
22:40I was only trying to help.
22:42I'm sorry.
22:43I've been unbearable these past few days.
22:45Even my work does not soothe me.
22:47It is the prospect of Mary Austin's impending visit.
22:50Oh, my dear, I implore you, let us both escape to Kempbury at once.
22:53Eliza will be happy to welcome us.
22:54No, Jane.
22:55I fear I've imposed on the fowls enough.
22:58Then I will write to Catherine and Alethea Bigwither at Manydown.
23:01Must you?
23:01Yes, I must.
23:03Or I will not be responsible for my outrageous behaviour towards our dear sister-in-law.
23:25Oh, the joy of living here in Hampshire, Cassie.
23:28It is the very king of counties.
23:34Thank you, my dearest.
23:36For what?
23:38For insisting that we take this trip.
23:41If it had been up to me, we'd still be at home.
23:44Have you ever considered the possibility you do not always know what's best for you, Cassandra Austin?
24:21Catherine, you and Alethea are the least cross women I know.
24:26But who could be cross here?
24:28Even I seem to have lost the night.
24:31If I were the future Mrs. Harris Bigwither,
24:34I should make room for as many sisters as possible
24:36and then take to the streets and petition for more.
24:43Behold the stuff of life.
24:45A place for proper contentment.
24:48Well, is that all that you require?
24:49I mean, a 150-acre slice of your own rolling country.
24:53I am a simple soul, modest in my ambitions.
24:56This place will do me very well.
24:59But what about our brother?
25:01What do you see to you very well, too?
25:08So, ladies, how are your parents faring these days?
25:12I have not seen them out and about much.
25:14We've just returned from our adventures in Sidmouth with them, have we not, Cass?
25:17Yes, indeed.
25:19Are you an admirer of the seaside, Mr. Bigwither?
25:24The seaside?
25:25Good grief, no.
25:27That's the beauty of our neck of Hampshire.
25:29We cannot even see it.
25:31They say the sea is of great benefit to one's health.
25:33Ha!
25:34Kill you as soon as look at you, Catherine.
25:36Thankfully, our parents are still quite well.
25:39In spite of the sea.
25:40Our mother complains constantly of several ailments, though suffers from none.
25:46Thankfully, our father is...
25:47Eyes the patience of a saint.
25:50I have often thought the rector of a small country parish to be an enviable existence,
25:56without the onerous responsibilities of having too much of one's own land.
26:00But imagine having no land to call your own, sir.
26:03What if you lived in a city like Bath or London, full of smoke and noise and people?
26:09I wager you'd be dreaming of such onerous responsibilities then.
26:13Jane.
26:13I heartily agree, madam.
26:16Many a time, my dear late lady wife would drag me to London.
26:19But I only ever wanted to be at home.
26:22That is exactly how I feel about Steventon.
26:25I wish to be nowhere else.
26:31Yes, Miss Austen.
26:37I am a great admirer of the seaside.
26:48Is this place not heaven?
26:49It is.
26:51It is.
26:51And you may have had a little too much wine.
26:53You can blame me when the wine is so good.
26:55Besides, I may require Dutch courage before they might deserve.
27:02What a fine instrument.
27:05It's wasted on Catherine and me.
27:08Play for us, Jane.
27:10I fear I'm no longer the pianist I once was.
27:13You may regret asking me.
27:14Nonsense.
27:15Play the prelude.
27:40Oh, I did warn you.
27:44Miss Jane.
27:46Do excuse me, but I come bearing a message.
27:49If you'd be so kind, my son is requesting you join him back in the dining room.
27:56I'd be delighted.
28:10Father, sisters, Miss Austen.
28:16Miss Austen has consented to be my wife.
28:29What have you done?
28:37Should you not be congratulating me on the splendour of my match?
28:40I will bless you joyfully once you have told me that you are in love with Mr. Bigweather
28:44and that you admire him above and beyond all others.
28:46I cannot do that, nor could he with me.
28:48But when manna falls from heaven, it would be foolish to squander it.
28:52Oh, that goes against all that you believe in it.
28:54It makes a mockery of everything you've ever said or written about love.
28:58Love, Jane, love.
28:59It does not.
29:00I've always maintained that love is impossible without money,
29:03so there must be some hope that with it, love can grow.
29:07Do you truly believe that you could one day love this man?
29:10I cannot predict, though I admit it, unlikely.
29:14But someone has to do something to secure our futures.
29:16He's from a good family.
29:18Alethia and Catherine can remain here and we will be safe and together.
29:21And you, my best girl, are free to marry your beloved Hobday.
29:27I can tell you now that whatever you do, you will not make me marry Hobday.
29:31I have refused him.
29:32It is over.
29:36I have refused him.
29:44Will I be happy here, do you think?
29:48Well, you love many, Dan.
29:53But you are to be its mistress now.
29:57With all the duty that requires.
30:01I'm sure Catherine and Alethia will help to shoulder that burden,
30:05but you will be his wife, Jane.
30:09And there will be children, of course.
30:12There are a lot of rooms to fill.
30:18I shall be in pig for the rest of my years.
30:21You love children, you have a gift with them.
30:23With other peoples.
30:25I'll have no time to myself.
30:27For thinking, for writing.
30:29I shall not write more than a letter again.
30:32I shall have a husband, a master, an overbearing master.
30:38A Paris Bigweather is hardly overbearing.
30:40More like underbearing.
30:42I cannot do it.
30:44My darling, you have done it.
30:45It is already done.
30:45No, it was a mistake.
30:46The most hideous error.
30:48I do not know what I was thinking.
30:50I shall tell them in the morning.
30:51Jane.
30:55You're quite sure you cannot go through with it?
30:57We'll leave tomorrow.
30:58To quote a philosopher of my acquaintance,
31:01I shall not starve.
31:08I hold you in extreme regard.
31:11I will not be the one.
31:12I will not be the one.
31:13I will not be the one.
31:17I will not be the one.
31:34I will not be the one.
32:06Always, Walter Scott.
32:09I shall be lucky not to relapse here.
32:45Why are they here again?
32:47I do not know.
32:50And where is Anna?
32:52With some sharp, featured governess, no doubt,
32:54it is most unsatisfactory.
32:58I should run straight there and insist they listen to my latest outpourings,
33:02for as soon as I begin,
33:03Mary Austin will check the weather and announce they must go.
33:06I must confess, I do have some sympathy with her.
33:10Cassie.
33:10But you do not appreciate how clever you are with words
33:12and how easily you can make people laugh.
33:15It is a gift, Jane.
33:16She's been visiting us for years.
33:17I've never noticed her discomfort.
33:19Perhaps she feels the need to shine in front of her husband.
33:24Marriage.
33:24Always an excuse for failures of character.
33:27It is the root cause of poor behaviour.
33:30Though you would have been the exception to that.
33:32My own theory is the thrill of being.
33:34Mrs. James Austin has quite gone to Mary Austin's head.
33:38She has become a little bumptious with it.
33:42Happiness in a married woman is irksome to witness,
33:45and yet the single lady spreads universal blood.
33:49See?
33:50Even father has need of some respite.
33:55Come.
33:56We must greet them.
34:05So, father, I am, we are, two, two in one.
34:13The fact is, father, as I enter my thirty-sixth year,
34:17I am the king to assume greater responsibility
34:22and perform to the full.
34:23My role as man of the church,
34:26I hope you will agree that my talents
34:28are more than equal to the task ahead.
34:31Oh, my dear boy, I have no need to assure you of that.
34:34You will make an exemplary rector to the parish.
34:37Exemplary.
34:40The house, Austin, remember the house?
34:42Ah, yes, the house.
34:45I, that is, we, with our growing family.
34:50We do have a child now.
34:52You have two children.
34:55Let us not forget Anna.
34:57No, no, I meant to say as we now have a son.
35:01It is a curse to us.
35:04To me, rather,
35:07that the house may be growing a little too much for you both.
35:12A less tiring, slightly smaller accommodation
35:17might be more appropriate
35:19to the diminishing needs of your household.
35:23Now that you only have my sisters.
35:33That you will take over the parish
35:35has long been the intention.
35:37Though the question of timing
35:40is another matter.
35:44Perhaps I have caused some confusion
35:46by living too long and too well.
35:48Oh, George, my dear, please.
35:52Thank you for raising this, James.
35:56I have no desire to stand in your path.
36:00That cannot be God's will.
36:03But I must discuss this in private with your mother
36:06that I may be led swiftly to a judgment
36:09that may benefit us all.
36:14Tea, Mrs. Austin?
36:17Yes, of course.
36:20Now...
36:21...
36:24...
37:06It is done.
37:21It is perfect. You must send it to the publisher at once.
37:31It is ready, Jane.
37:57And now, we wait.
38:07Follow me.
38:19That's it.
38:24Just leave that at the side of the wheel. Thank you.
38:41No, that will travel with me. It is my right, sir. Leave that. You cannot take that.
38:45I'm sorry.
38:50We will survive this, Jane.
38:52I promise.
39:01I promise.
39:04I promise.
39:05I promise.
39:05I promise.
39:05I promise.
39:06I promise.
39:08I promise.
39:11I promise.
39:33I promise.
39:35There, my dear.
39:36Think of this as a new chapter. As if Jane had written it.
39:43Those stories always end well, don't they?
39:45Walk on.
39:49Say goodbye, Anna.
39:53Wave.
39:54I promise.
39:55I promise.
39:56I promise.
40:06I promise.
40:23Then we will survive.
40:24I do not understand why Isabella keeps that girl, Dinah.
40:27She is quite simply the worst servant I've ever had the misfortune to encounter.
40:32Ring it again, Anna. This time with more force, if you please.
40:37Longer, longer, longer.
40:46My dear, they've even got you answering the door now.
40:49Where was that infernal girl?
40:51Anna, what a surprise!
40:54A pleasant one, I hope.
40:55Oh, most pleasant.
40:58Should I just stand here then, waiting for you to greet me, Sandra?
41:02Forgive me, Mary, I have not seen Anna for some time.
41:06I am quite overwhelmed.
41:09Yes, I suppose we can be grateful that her last romantic interlude came to nothing,
41:13and we are once again blessed with her presence.
41:21Isabella will be equally as delighted to see you.
41:23And I, uh, I trust she's looked after you well, Aunt Cass.
41:26She has been most attentive.
41:30Anna, I'll get started upstairs.
41:32Can I leave you with the drawing room?
41:34Yes, Mama?
41:36We're here to work.
41:37So I'm told.
41:50Letters, letters.
41:51Let's go.
42:23Ah, Anna, you have made splendid progress today.
42:28The new vicar and his wife will be most impressed by your labours.
42:31Your labours, you mean? Isabella says you've been a godsend.
42:33Apart from when she was at death's door.
42:36And how is your leg today, my dear?
42:39It does seem to give you a great deal of inconvenience.
42:42I mean, it's strange.
42:43I mean, I've always been unusually lucky in the leg department,
42:46unlike Mrs Bunbury.
42:47And to think I woke this morning in a pleasant anticipation
42:51of a hard day's labour.
42:59Must we endure another reading, Isabella?
43:04What would you rather do, Aunt Mary?
43:06Well, perhaps we could converse.
43:08It is not often we're all together.
43:10May never happen again once Cassandra returns to Chawton.
43:14Very well.
43:15On what subject?
43:17Would you like to converse?
43:32Cassandra's patchwork is most impressive, do you not think?
43:36Yes, you're so clever, Aunt Cass.
43:38Yes.
43:38All the Austens are clever.
43:39My husband had a formidable intellect.
43:42My son, James Edward, has inherited it.
43:44Yes, and let us not forget Jane.
43:47For what is cleverness when set beside brilliance?
43:51We are all in the shade of those who shine brightest.
43:58My father often said,
43:59genius comes with a difficult temperament.
44:02Was this true of your Jane?
44:05Jane was a perfectionist.
44:09She was so very demanding of herself and her work.
44:15But to others, she was not always kind.
44:25At least not to me.
44:27Well, she was the very best of aunts to me.
44:31I lived for my visits to Aunt Jane.
44:33I would show her my own stories and she would take them so seriously as if I were a proper
44:38writer.
44:39She was the very opposite of difficult.
44:43Was she not, Aunt Cass?
44:46She was indeed.
44:49She was indeed.
44:52If I recall, she was not so cheerful in the years after you left Steventon.
45:04We have arrived in Bath, Eliza.
45:08Mary Austin's keen delight to get her feet through the door, propel ours out of it,
45:13and rob us of all our worldly possessions, was quite the sight to behold.
45:28Oh, my God.
46:05It is of some comfort that leaving our home has not caused our beloved Cassie any particular distress.
46:13Place no longer matters to Cassie.
46:16Not as it does to me.
46:19Jane, my darling, please.
46:23You cannot lie here like this all day, every day.
46:27You must try to bear it.
46:36Cassie's determination that I should enjoy the delights of the metropolis is admirable.
46:43And the famous bath stone does its best to glow.
46:47But I fear I cannot be much company.
46:52Cassie tells me I must give it time.
46:55And I will.
46:57Not least because I have no choice in the matter.
47:02You must remember, my dear Mary, that we all suffered a great deal after we left Steventon.
47:08Not just Jane.
47:10That is why it is so imperative that Isabella finds one place that she can call home.
47:30Miss Austen.
47:35Jane.
47:40Jane.
47:41Mr. Crosby of London, who is the best of men, even though we have never met him, promises publication of
47:47your novel, Susan, with immediate effect, for the princely sum of ten pounds.
47:51Ten pounds.
47:52I am to be in print.
47:53I am to be a published authoress.
47:55And we are the proudest Austen to ever live.
47:58I shall make a start on a new novel at once.
48:00I am determined I will.
48:04I am to be published.
48:07Let us thank the good Lord.
48:10Oh, my.
48:11Papa.
48:13Papa.
48:14Papa.
48:15Oh, my dearest daughter.
48:18Your sister.
48:20She is.
48:22You must take the greatest care of her.
48:25George.
48:27I will, Papa.
48:28I will.
48:29George.
48:32I will.
49:34This is excellent.
49:36Beth, my dear.
49:38Miss Austen, I'm delighted to see you've recovered from your cold.
49:42Children, we have a visitor.
49:44Now, we must remember our manners.
49:45What do we say when people are kind enough to call on us?
49:48Good day to you.
49:51And to you.
49:53Carry on.
49:55So, this is where you spend your time?
49:58Yes.
49:59I'm hardly ever at home.
50:00My days are so busy here.
50:02My charges arrive from five in the morning.
50:05Their mothers work at the mill and do such long days.
50:07By the time they've all left, I've no energy to do more than crawl through there to bed.
50:12Oh, so you often just sleep here?
50:15I do.
50:16Oh, shh, shh, shh.
50:19Beth, as you well know, the date of Isabella's departure from the vicarage is almost upon her.
50:25So I am here once more to ask for your assistance regarding her future.
50:30Did Isabella ask you to come?
50:32No.
50:33No, she did not.
50:34But I cannot stand by and watch while she suffers the insecurity of her current position.
50:40I do not wish to appear rude, Cassandra, but why should it concern you?
50:49Because since I have been here, I have become exceedingly fond of her.
50:54And I am mindful of the toll the same upheaval had on my dear sister when we had to leave
51:01our own beloved home.
51:05And I promised your dying father that I would ensure she came to live with either you or Mary Jane.
51:10My father.
51:12Even from the grave.
51:16Poor Isabella.
51:18I fear she's never to be able to make her own decisions about her future as I have done.
51:25Beth, I am aware your future is settled and I am delighted it is so.
51:32However, I am also hopeful that if you and Mr. Lydderdale do decide to marry, that he might be generous
51:40enough to allow her to live with you.
51:41Married?
51:43Myself and Mr. Lydderdale?
51:46Yes.
51:48Wherever did you get such a ridiculous notion?
51:51I saw you together.
51:53And so you concocted a story for yourself?
51:58Oh, Cassandra.
52:00You have the wrong sister.
52:09We did have feelings for one another once.
52:12I have refused him.
52:14He will not ask again.
52:15I do not think it was a dalliance.
52:18I believe it to have been love.
52:19Do not be ridiculous.
52:23When my mother informed me that you were a resident here, I had a pressing need to see you again.
52:29She fell on the pavement on the lower cob and was taken up lifeless.
52:34You have killed her.
52:37She must have fainted.
52:38Go.
52:39Go and fetch Mr. Lydderdale at once.
52:41Go, Isabella.
52:42Mr. Lydderdale!
52:43Go!
52:43Go!
52:44Go!
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