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00:24The
00:24loss of my father was a leap into the unknown.
00:29Longbourn was my childhood home.
00:31And although I had my struggles here, it was all I had ever known.
00:37From now on, would I be relying on the hospitality of my sisters,
00:42destined to spend my days as my mother's companion?
00:48What other choice did I have?
00:54I do not expect any of you to understand my pain.
00:59The bond Mr. Bennett and I shared was a rare thing.
01:04I do not know that I shall ever eat again.
01:10Who is that?
01:12I do not know, Mama.
01:14What sort of person would impinge upon our hour of mourning so distastefully?
01:21Charlotte!
01:24I am afraid you find us in a state of some disarray.
01:29Understandably.
01:30We have been wanting to see you all since we heard the terrible news,
01:34but knew you would need time as a family to...
01:36To gather your things.
01:38Yourselves.
01:39Together.
01:43I want to make it quite clear...
01:47No.
01:50Quite clear that there is no rush for you to leave Longbourn.
01:54Hm!
01:56Thank you, Mr. Collins.
01:57You are quite welcome to stay here with us for a full two weeks.
02:01Two weeks?
02:03Mrs. Bennett, there really is no hurry for you and Mary to leave.
02:06But I have arranged you some help with the packing.
02:09So you are not obliged to undertake such a difficult task during your hour of need?
02:15Hm.
02:17Oh!
02:28Mama, you must come and stay with Mr. Bingley and Knight Netherfield.
02:32We have a number of cooks and more servants than we know what to do with.
02:37Oh, Jane.
02:39I would be delighted.
02:41It would bring me great comfort to be in a sightable property with a large number of staff at my
02:46disposal.
02:49And Mary, you of course must come too.
02:54But if you're worried about company, Caroline Bingley stays with us often.
03:00Well, yes, but I have not yet thought through my future prospects.
03:07Speaking of your prospects, Mary, I have received a letter from my brother and his wife in London.
03:13Their governess has been called back to Norfolk and they have asked me to send you to stay with them
03:18until a suitable replacement is found.
03:21There is going to be a governess.
03:23Oh, Mary.
03:24I would very much like to help, but you will need me, Mama.
03:28I have already accepted their offer.
03:32They're sending a carriage.
03:35But, Mama...
03:36Do not worry about me, Mary.
03:38I shall have Jane by my side.
03:56If my options in life really were marriage or misery, it looked very much as though I was destined for
04:02misery.
04:11Mrs. Bennet is indisposed.
04:15Oh.
04:17Of course.
04:19Thank you, Hill.
04:28Um...
04:29What if the children don't like me?
04:32Why should they not like you?
04:34You're a perfectly likeable soul.
04:39I have nothing ready to teach them.
04:42Mary, nobody knows more facts about anything than you.
04:48It's time for you to get out and see the world.
04:52Meet some other people that live in it.
04:54I think it'll do you good.
04:57Do not be frightened, Miss Mary.
04:59Oh, no, I'm not.
05:00I'm not...
05:01No, I'm just, um...
05:04You're right.
05:07I'm not.
05:07I'm not...
05:08No, I'm not.
05:23No, no, no.
05:24It's not...
05:24No, no...
05:30That was the only way I tried to do it.
05:30I can't wait, but...
05:31though...
05:31No one was there.
05:31No.
05:32No, we were just there,
05:33Oh, no.
05:33I got to go.
06:34Oh, Mary! Welcome!
06:36I am sorry.
06:36Mary, you must be hungry after your journey.
06:38Would you like some toasted cheese?
06:40But first, we'll show you your room.
06:41Come in, come in!
06:44It's right at the top of the house,
06:46so you won't be disturbed by the children.
07:07How's your mother?
07:10She's had a most trying time of late.
07:12Well, you all have.
07:15Mother as well.
07:16Thank you for inquiring.
07:19And how are you, Mary?
07:22It must have been a terrible shock.
07:27It was.
07:29Well, thank you for stepping in at such short notice.
07:33We don't stand on ceremony here, especially with the children,
07:36so if you don't mind that, you'll do well with us.
07:40And the rest of your belongings will be brought up any moment.
07:43Do you have all you need?
07:45I do.
08:00Which mountain range is found at the end of your belongings?
08:04Oh, no.
08:06The Andes.
08:19Oh, that's good.
08:22Not so good.
08:24Mary, won't you join us for breakfast?
08:26Oh, no, no.
08:27No, sir, thank you, sir.
08:28I'm not at all hungry this morning.
08:30I shall see the children upstairs.
08:44Marianne, would you like to start?
08:47Miss Bennet, it's a pleasure to meet you.
08:50I am Marianne Gardner, and I'm 11 years old.
08:54It's my pleasure to meet you too, Miss Marianne.
08:59George!
09:02Yes, thank you, George.
09:05And this is...
09:09This is Rebecca.
09:12Thank you, Miss Rebecca.
09:15And if an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances
09:22best adapted to its sustenance and propagation,
09:27then in conceiving an indefinite variety
09:30among the individuals of that species,
09:33we must be assured that, on the one hand,
09:38those which depart most from the best adapted constitution
09:41will be the most liable to perish.
09:47You've made him go to sleep.
09:55Let us move on to history, shall we?
09:57Now, in 1492, Christopher Columbus discovered America.
10:04Now, where is America?
10:05Ah, yes.
10:07America.
10:09Uh...
10:13Where has Rebecca gone?
10:15There were very clearly three of you in this room
10:17when I began looking at the globe,
10:19and now there are two of you.
10:20She vanished.
10:22She's a magician.
10:24Well, magic is nothing but illusion and trickery.
10:26Oh.
10:27Now, where could she be?
10:30Oh!
10:30Tom!
10:31You're here!
10:31Tom!
10:32Can we finish lessons now?
10:33Yes.
10:34Oh, forgive the intrusion.
10:36I, er, came to tell you that dinner is served,
10:38and you must be Miss Bennet.
10:41I...
10:42I must be.
10:44Oh, yes, I am.
10:45Uh, Tom Hayward.
10:47Oh.
10:48Friend of the family.
10:55Aren't there normally three of you?
10:57There were three, certainly,
10:59but I was looking at America,
11:03and when I looked back, it was...
11:11Do you have mice, Miss Bennet?
11:13For if you do, might I suggest you do not keep them in the toy trunk?
11:19Well, I...
11:20I wasn't sure.
11:21I thought perhaps mice like toy trunks.
11:25No, you see, in there,
11:26they cannot get to their cheese.
11:28Actually, it's a fallacy that mice like cheese.
11:33Of course.
11:34They're much more partial to root vegetables and grains.
11:38Yes.
11:38Indeed.
11:39I'm a rabbit.
11:44Mr Hayward?
11:47Mr Hayward,
11:48I am keeping a rabbit in the toy trunk
11:52because...
11:54I...
11:56Because rabbits are not at all social creatures.
11:59Exactly.
12:00Yes, they are.
12:01Oh.
12:05Now, why exactly do you have a new governess?
12:09Is it that you keep eating them?
12:17Tom helped Edward with the legal matter some years ago,
12:20and we've been friends ever since.
12:22Did you know there are four of my lodges?
12:24Oh.
12:25Yes.
12:26Oh.
12:27What is a revolutionary Republican?
12:34Well, as discussed during the lesson,
12:38they're often associated with Jacobinism.
12:40But my point really was...
12:41Sounds like you had a very interesting first day, Miss Bennet.
12:44Well, er...
12:46Have you read Catherine Macaulay, Miss Bennet?
12:49Yes, I have.
12:50Yes.
12:52Mary told us about smallpox,
12:54and I shall never sleep again.
12:56Well, you asked me to be truthful.
12:59What's a deadly rash?
13:01She said it can leave one blind or dead.
13:04That is not quite how I put it.
13:06Blind or dead, she said.
13:07Well, that is true.
13:08There's a mortality rate of about...
13:1030%.
13:14Exactly.
13:15George cried three times.
13:19There was something in my eye.
13:20We held hands until Mary had finished talking.
13:24Well, you're never too young to learn about life.
13:28I think our game is in order, don't you?
13:30I think that's a very good idea.
13:32Yes!
13:33Yes!
13:33I'm first!
13:34But what should we play?
13:36Graces!
13:37Ah.
13:38Let's show Mary how to play Graces.
13:40Yes!
13:41Yay!
13:42Mary-Anne?
13:43Well called, Mary-Anne.
13:45Well done.
13:45Bravo.
13:46You're to back up.
13:48Woo!
13:49Oh!
13:50Aw!
13:51That counts.
13:52It does indeed.
13:53It does indeed.
13:54It does indeed.
13:55Oh!
13:57You'll need to get someone to look at that.
13:59Send it to Blythe, she'll fix it for you.
14:02Ready?
14:03Yay!
14:04Mary-Anne.
14:05Yes!
14:06Well done.
14:07Flare play.
14:08You look like a wizard.
14:10Yes!
14:17Are you sure you won't join in, Mary?
14:19Oh, uh, no.
14:20I'm not good at games.
14:22Oh, that doesn't matter at all.
14:25Yes.
14:27Well, you couldn't possibly be as ungainly as I am.
14:30Really, I'd only spoil it.
14:38George.
14:39Ready?
14:41Ready?
14:49Yes, Tom?
14:50Mr. Gardner.
14:51Oh!
14:53Aww!
15:10Yes?
15:12Mary?
15:16Oh, do not look so grave, my dear. You're not in trouble.
15:20With the weather getting warmer, we're about to become more sociable.
15:23Oh, oh, please, do not feel any obligation to involve me.
15:26I should be quite content to stay upstairs with the children.
15:29Mary, we want you to join us.
15:33But I do not sparkle at dinners.
15:37In our house, no one is obliged to sparkle.
15:42Then, of course.
15:45But we need to get you properly dressed.
15:47Oh, I thought perhaps tomorrow we could go to the haberdashers and you could pick out some fabrics.
15:51I do not really care for dresses.
15:54Well, that's a shame, but very well.
15:59Perhaps think about it, Mary.
16:01There is a dress allowance as part of your governess wages.
16:05I have thought about it.
16:07And I would very much like to accept your kind offer.
16:10That's excellent news.
16:14Oh, good night, Mary.
16:16And thank you for today.
16:26This must be such a chain for Meriton.
16:29It most certainly is.
16:41What do you think of the deep greens?
16:44We have a soiree coming up.
16:46Now, I think deep green would be perfect.
16:50Mother has always said it's terribly difficult to get any color to work with my complexion.
16:53Oh, really?
16:55Well, perhaps your complexion's changed because I can see many colors here which would work well on you.
17:00But the most important thing being is that you choose fabrics that you truly like.
17:07But Mother says that Mother isn't here.
17:12Mr. Gardiner?
17:14Oh.
17:15Miss Bennet.
17:16Tom!
17:17Mr. Haywood.
17:18Have you brought your jacket to be mended?
17:20I have just this minute dropped it off.
17:22Well, now that you're here, you can make yourself useful.
17:25Miss Bennet needs to choose some dress fabric.
17:29I find myself quite overwhelmed by the choice.
17:32Well, I shall be honest and say that my experience of picking dress fabric is limited, to say the least.
17:38But I shall try.
17:41Have you seen the names of these colors?
17:44We've got Dust of Ruins, Corbeau, or Flamme de Bonche, anyone?
17:52I think I shall take the Drake's Neck with a splash of Nunquy.
17:56Anyone for Gabouche?
17:58Well, I mean, that's just yellow, that one.
18:01Yes.
18:02Yes.
18:05I think my advice would be to choose the colors that make one feel most like oneself.
18:10And I am sorry not to be of more use.
18:13I should return to my desk and a particularly unexciting land negotiation.
18:19Good day.
18:21Good day.
18:26Oh, poor Tom.
18:28You work so hard.
18:29Really?
18:30Underneath that light-hearted manor, carries the weight of the world on his shoulders.
18:37Now, have you decided?
18:41I have chosen.
18:43Very well, Mary.
18:47The first is this crimson, and then I thought perhaps a spring green trim.
18:54Lovely.
18:55But you will need two dresses.
18:57So, perhaps, shine a blue?
19:02Hmm.
19:05Do you think a dress in the spring green alone would be garish?
19:10What do you think, Mary?
19:14Some people may think it is wild, but I like it.
19:20Then I think you should please yourself and not worry what others may think.
19:25You've done a very good job.
19:26You've done a very good job.
19:55Oh!
19:56Oh!
19:57Oh!
19:58Oh!
19:59Oh!
20:00Oh!
20:01Oh!
20:02Oh!
20:02The gardeners are out.
20:03They're buying shoes for the children.
20:05Oh!
20:06Would you like to play graces?
20:10Oh!
20:11Well, yes.
20:19Ready?
20:20Yes.
20:24Oh!
20:25Oh!
20:29I did it.
20:30You did!
20:31Natural!
20:32Beginner's luck.
20:33All right, um, ready?
20:37Oh.
20:38Uh, um, sorry, I'll go for a moment.
21:20Ready?
21:21Yes.
21:24Oh.
21:25Oh, oh, oh.
21:27Oh.
21:28Um, uh, yeah, um, that's...
21:32That's probably enough, Grace, for today.
21:36Oh, um, oh, yes, uh, I brought a book for Mrs Byron.
21:41Oh, of course, yes, uh, uh, poetry.
21:45Do you like poetry, Miss Bennet?
21:47I prefer facts to whimsy.
21:52Whimsy?
21:53I've tried, uh, well, Cowper, uh, Byron, even some Dryden,
21:58but, um, well, it seems to me that it's all just...
22:03Words.
22:05What were you expecting?
22:08Are you a scholar, sir?
22:10Uh, no.
22:11I'm a barrister, junior.
22:14And though the law is my business, poetry is my passion.
22:19What do you like to read?
22:21Uh, works of non-fiction.
22:23Um, histories and, uh, and geology.
22:27And what do you like to read for pleasure?
22:31That is reading for pleasure.
22:34There is nothing you like about poetry.
22:40Well, just some poems are mercifully short.
22:46Well, now that you have thrown down the gauntlet,
22:50I will not rest until you have appreciated the merits of poetry.
22:56I believe that this is the book that will open the heart of Miss Mary Bennet.
23:05Oh.
23:09The garden is at home.
23:10Oh, is it?
23:11Ah, yes.
23:12Yes.
23:12Uh, well, yes.
23:14Uh, I...
23:17Oh, Tom!
23:42And we'll need more scallops.
23:44Mrs. Shonnelly will claim she couldn't possibly before helping herself to seven.
23:49It must be very strange without your family here.
23:54Well, there was always at least one argument about stolen perfume.
24:02Mary, you look lovely.
24:06I'm not sure.
24:10I think we should let your hair fall naturally.
24:13No point trying to force it into curls if it doesn't want to go.
24:20No point trying to force it into doing it.
24:22Head, let's go!
25:01I mean, that's basically it, but they're awfully fun to hunt.
25:10Good evening. I do not believe we have met. I'm Miss Baxter.
25:16Delighted to meet you, Miss Baxter. I am Miss Bennet. I have not long moved to London from Hertfordshire.
25:24Fanshawe, Mr Fanshawe.
25:30A friend of my mother's died eating those nuts.
25:32Yes. One got stuck in his throat and that was it. He was quite dead in minutes.
25:44I hope I didn't cause any offence.
25:46That was marvellous. Oh, I shall keep that story in mind for when I want to be rid of someone.
25:51Forgive me, it wasn't deliberate.
25:55I hate the first 20 minutes of these evenings.
25:58As do I.
25:59I never know who to talk to and I often find myself saying the wrong things.
26:07Your dress is striking. It looks very well on you.
26:10You really think so?
26:11I feel a little bold in it.
26:13Well, you're in London, Miss Bennet.
26:15If you're going to be bold, here is the place to do it.
26:20Perhaps London will be the start of something new for you.
26:23Perhaps it will.
26:25And if you want to be shown around town, I could call on you.
26:37London, it turned out, was a place of learning as much as teaching.
26:43A place of trying new things.
26:46And though I had never liked change, I seemed to be enjoying myself.
26:54Much about me felt different after just one week.
26:59Being here had lifted my spirits.
27:02I felt something long forgotten.
27:06Hope.
27:08Are you looking for someone?
27:12You must tell me all about it in a moment.
27:16Meg, there's a gentleman I'd like you to meet.
27:19We have something of an understanding.
27:22Please may I introduce Mr. Tom Hayward.
27:29Uh, we've, we've already met.
27:31Miss Bennet?
27:32Oh, of course, you must have.
27:35Oh, I see you went for the Pomona train.
27:38Uh, it's, um, spring green.
27:40It's quite different to Pomona.
27:42Well, it suits you very well.
27:46Tom!
27:47Excuse us, ladies.
27:48You must come and meet my colleague, Mr. May.
27:52Mr. May.
27:54Mr. Hayward and I met three years ago this spring.
27:58We are hoping to be married next year.
28:01Not everything went exactly as I would have liked.
28:04Come on.
28:06Oh, please excuse us.
28:08Come on, Mary.
28:09It will be fun.
28:10Of course a man such as Mr. Hayward would have secured a match.
28:15But I had made friends.
28:17And that was enough.
28:25I did not know what tomorrow would bring.
28:29But for now,
28:31at least I had someone to dance with.
28:36For now,
29:05You