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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...
05:04No, I'm not, I'm...
05:16No, she knows...
05:22No, she knows.
05:22I'm not...
05:22No, I'm not, I'm not...
05:23Oh, no.
05:23No, she's...
05:24No.
05:42I don't know.
05:59I don't know.
06:25I don't know.
06:26I don't know.
06:30I don't know.
06:31I don't know.
06:34Mary, 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, so 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 has found the end of your belongings?
08:04Oh.
08:06The Andes.
08:16Hi.
08:19Hi.
08:20Hi.
08:21Hi.
08:21That's good.
08:22Not so good.
08:24Mary, won't you join us for breakfast?
08:26Oh, no, no.
08:27No, sir.
08:27Thank 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.
09:04And this is...
09:10This 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,
09:26then, in conceiving an indefinite variety among the individuals of that species,
09:34we 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.
10:04Where is America?
10:04Now, where is America?
10:06Ah, yes.
10:07America.
10:13Where has Rebecca gone?
10:15There were very clearly three of you in this room when 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! You'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.
10:41Well, I, I must be.
10:44Oh, yes.
10:45I, I am.
10:45Er, Tom.
10:47Hayward.
10:47Oh.
10:48Friend of the family.
10:55Aren't there normally three of you?
10:56There were three, certainly, but I was looking at America,
11:03and when I looked back, it was...
11:10Do 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, I wasn't sure.
11:22I thought perhaps mice like toy trunks.
11:25No, you see, in there, they cannot get to their cheese.
11:28Actually, it's, erm, 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, I am keeping a rabbit in the toy trunk
11:51because I, er...
11:56Because rabbits are not at all social creatures.
11:59Exactly.
12:00Yes, they are.
12:01Oh.
12:05Well, why exactly do you have a new governess?
12:09Is it that you keep eating them?
12:13Oh.
12:14Oh.
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?
12:33Well, er, as discussed during the lesson,
12:38um, they'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, er, 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 shall we play?
13:36Graces!
13:37Ah!
13:38Let's show Mary how to play Graces!
13:41Yes!
13:42Marianne?
13:43Well caught, Marianne.
13:44Yay!
13:45Well done.
13:45Bravo.
13:46Yours are better.
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, he'll fix it for you.
14:02Ready?
14:03Yay!
14:04Marianne.
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, er, no.
14:20I'm not, I'm not good at games.
14:22Oh!
14:22That 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?
14:41Oh!
14:42Oh!
14:49Yes, Tom?
14:50Mercier God.
14:52Oh!
14:52Aw!
14:53Aw!
15:11Yes?
15:13Mary?
15:16Oh!
15:16Do not look so grave, my dear.
15:18You're not in trouble.
15:20With the weather getting warmer, we're about to become more sociable.
15:23Oh!
15:24Oh, please, do not feel any obligation to involve me.
15:26I shall be quite content to stay upstairs with the children.
15:29Mary, we want you to join us.
15:31Yes.
15:32But 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.
15:48I 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.
16:14Well, good night, Mary.
16:16And thank you for today.
16:26This must be sucked a chain from Meriton.
16:29It most certainly is.
16:36What?
16:41What do you think of the deep greens?
16:44We have a soiree coming up.
16:46I think deep green would be perfect.
16:50Mother has always said it's terribly difficult to get any color to work with my complexion.
16:54Really?
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.
17:06But Mother says that Mother isn't here.
17:10PHONE RINGS
17:12Mrs Gardiner.
17:14Oh.
17:15Miss Bennet.
17:16Tom!
17:17Mr Haywood, have 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.
17:26Miss 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 said 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?
17:51Um, I think I shall take the Drake's Neck with a splash of Nunkey.
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?
18:29Underneath that light-hearted manner, 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.
18:55Yes.
18:56But you will need two dresses.
18:57So, perhaps...
19:00China 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.
19:16But...
19:18I 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.
19:27Now.
19:55Oh, Mr.
19:56Oh, Mr.
19:57Oh, Mr.
19:58Oh, my gosh!
20:01The gardeners are out. They're buying shoes for the children.
20:05Oh.
20:06Would you like to play graces?
20:11Well, um, yes. Thank you.
20:19Ready? Yes.
20:24Oh! Oh!
20:28I did it.
20:30You did! Natural!
20:32Beginner's luck.
20:34Right, um...
20:36Ready?
20:37Mm.
20:38Uh, what, um...
20:40One moment.
20:41Oh.
21:13Oh, my God!
21:25Oh, my God!
21:27Oh!
21:27Oh!
21:28Oh, erm...
21:29Er...
21:30Er...
21:31Er...
21:32That's...
21:32That's probably enough...
21:34Enough, yes.
21:35...graces for today.
21:36Oh, yes, er...
21:39I brought a book for Mrs Byler.
21:41Oh, of course, yes.
21:42Er...
21:43Ah, poetry.
21:45Do you like poetry, Miss Bennet?
21:47I prefer facts to whimsy.
21:52Whimsy?
21:53I've tried, er...
21:55Well, Cowper, er... Byron.
21:57Even some Dryden.
21:58But, erm...
22:00Well, it seems to me that it's all just...
22:02Words.
22:05What were you expecting?
22:08Are you, er...
22:09Scholar?
22:10Sir?
22:10Er, no.
22:12I'm a barrister.
22:13Junior.
22:14And though the law is my business,
22:16poetry is my passion.
22:19What do you like to read?
22:22Er...
22:22Works of non-fiction.
22:23Um...
22:24Histories and, er...
22:26And 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.
22:41Some poems are mercifully short.
22:46Well, now that you have thrown down the gauntlet,
22:50I will not rest until you have appreciated the merit of poetry.
22:56I believe that this is the book that will open the heart of Miss Mary Bennet.
23:09The gardeners are home.
23:10Oh, is it?
23:11Ah, yes.
23:12Yes.
23:12Er...
23:13Well...
23:14Yes.
23:15Er...
23:16Yes.
23:16Yes.
23:17Er...
23:27Well...
23:30Er...
23:42And we'll need more scallops.
23:44Mrs. Shonley will claim she couldn't possibly before helping herself to seven.
23:49Must be very strange without your family here.
23:53There was always at least one argument about stolen perfume.
24:01Mary, 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.
24:21Here.
24:21Here.
24:43Okay.
25:01Um, I 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. Um, I am Miss Bennet.
25:20I have not long moved to London from Hertfordshire.
25:24Fanshawe, Mr Fanshawe.
25:30A friend of my mother's died eating those nuts.
25:35One 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.
25:48Oh, 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? I 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.
27:14Go ahead.
27:16Mer, there's a gentleman I'd like you to meet.
27:19We have something of an understanding.
27:22Have a고, please.
27:22Please may I introduce Mr. Tom Hayward.
27:29uh we've we've already met oh of course you must have
27:35oh i see you went for the pomona train uh it's um spring green it's quite different to pomona
27:42well it suits you very well tom excuse us ladies you must come and meet my colleague mr may
27:54mr hayward and i met three years ago this spring we are hoping to be married next year
28:01not everything went exactly as i would have liked
28:04come on oh please excuse us come mary it'll be fun of course a man such as mr hayward would
28:12have secured a match but i had made friends and that was enough
28:25i did not know what tomorrow would bring
28:29but for now at least i had someone to dance with
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