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