00:09If London was to be a new start for me, I would push all sorts of poetry and love aside.
00:20Mother warned me of the dirt, disease and despair that could be found here.
00:26She failed to mention the breadth of humanity and the anonymity of the city suited me well.
00:35I had taken to walking the city's beautiful parks.
00:39It seemed that all life was in London and here I could be anything I wanted.
00:52Surely I would find something I could succeed at in this vast, inspiring city.
01:00Where is it? I've got it.
01:03She breaks my arms a little. She seems so awkward in herself.
01:07I worry my sister's caused some harm to poor Mary.
01:10Oh, I wonder. She's perhaps not the most natural governess.
01:15But what else could she do in life? Be her mother's companion?
01:18I thought Tom brought her out of herself. Cunt-hearted man that he is.
01:22And she seemed to get on well with Anne Baxter the other evening. She has so little confidence.
01:27Yes. It can't have been easy growing up in the shadow of her sisters.
01:32Found it.
01:33Ah, there it is.
01:35Well, I'm happy she's with us. She has an interesting and lovely mind.
01:42Oh, it's Bennet.
01:45Mr. Hayward.
01:48How are you?
01:49Eager to hear how you've been getting on with the poetry?
01:51Oh, well, I'm not sure I have the mind to appreciate it completely.
01:55I keep hoping Mr. Coleridge will explain himself or that Mr. Wordsworth will say what he really means.
02:01But they seem to enjoy keeping their secrets.
02:05Well, do not blame yourself. I think some poets enjoy being difficult to understand.
02:19Miss Bennet, I was so sorry to hear about your father.
02:23Moving to the city without your family. You not having your mother to confide in.
02:28What is this?
02:28Oh, it's a relief to be without her. In fact, it's something of a relief to be without any of
02:32them.
02:38I'm sorry you're not feeling yourself.
02:43I'm afraid I'm not.
02:45I'm just not finding my place here as easily as I thought.
02:49Sorry, please excuse me.
02:50Oh, Mary!
02:51Tom, how lovely to see you!
02:53Quietly, my dear, you'll summon the children who I fear have begun to associate Tom's name with.
02:58With a worryingly large bag of sugar plums.
03:00Please excuse me. Sorry, I'm sorry.
03:02Please excuse me. Sorry, I'm sorry.
03:24My dear Mary, I fear your correspondence has not been reaching me. I have heard nothing from you at all.
03:34How are you managing your duties?
03:36You never were good with children, even when you were one yourself.
03:41I may require you to return to Pemberley, where I will be spending the summer.
03:49Lizzie has expressed a wish to see you, but more urgently, my new puppy has a nervous air and requires
03:56near constant companionship.
04:02I had come to London to see the world outside of my family, and that is what I would do.
04:13Oh, Mary, your painting!
04:16To teach the children.
04:17Oh, how marvellous to see your imagination at play!
04:23It's terrible.
04:25No! No, it's...
04:27It's very neat.
04:30Did you see the letter from your mother?
04:34Is she well?
04:35Between several complaints about the damp, the unseasonable pollen, and an unpleasant exchange with a rude shopkeeper, I understand that
04:43she is.
04:43Yes.
04:44I honestly think she enjoys such encounters.
04:46It makes her feel more alive.
04:50Oh, now, speaking of encounters, I think this might be of interest to you.
04:55Tom made a strange request to Mr Gardiner and I, and extended the invitation to you too, Mary.
05:01Oh?
05:01Yes, he was most mysterious.
05:03He wants us to meet him tomorrow morning, where he says he plans to break through our rational reserve and
05:10move our hearts as well as our heads.
05:13He does?
05:14Yes, whatever that might entail.
05:18I must work on my lesson plans.
05:20Mary, you must join us.
05:22For my sake?
05:24Please consider it.
05:56Ahh!
06:20Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner, Ms. Bennett, thank you for humoring me.
06:24Are we allowed to know the purpose of our visit?
06:26I have conspired with the City of London and William Wordsworth himself for a morning recital, unlike any other, in
06:33a hidden garden.
06:34Good Lord.
06:35Will Miss Baxter be joining us?
06:36I'm afraid Miss Baxter has a variety of excuses that she skillfully deploys to avoid such events.
06:42Well, remind me to ask her what they are.
06:44Yes, I am afraid that my petitions for Goodwether have been in vain.
06:48No matter. We will not be dissuaded by a little drizzle.
06:54A little drizzle?
06:57Just something.
07:04This way?
07:06Yes.
07:18Wow.
07:30Please forgive the theatrics.
07:32I had given Miss Bennett the impossible task of understanding poetry without any real sense of how to feel it.
07:42Sometimes, with poetry, the more I think, the less I understand.
07:56Earth has not anything to show more fair.
08:01Dull would he be of soul who could pass by, a sight so touching in its majesty.
08:08This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning.
08:14Silent, bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie open unto the fields, into the sky.
08:32All bright and glittering in the smokeless air, never did sun more beautifully steep in its first splendor.
08:42Valley, rock or hill, nurse or eye, never felt a calm so deep.
08:51The river blideth at his own sweet will, dear God, the very houses seem asleep, and all that mighty heart
09:04is lying still.
09:17Well done, Tom.
09:19A moving rendition.
09:21Tom, I confess, I felt entirely transported by the force of your words.
09:26And what a beautiful place.
09:29Our wisteria never flowers like this.
09:31Yes, your ability to kill our plants seems to be second to none.
09:34Come, let's take a turn.
09:36Indeed.
09:39But instead, this place is magical.
09:42It's like a secret garden.
09:43Yes, it is.
09:45The wood being.
09:47The wood being.
09:51Well, Miss Bennet.
09:56How do you feel?
09:58I...
10:01Well, for once I have nothing to say.
10:04I am sorry to hear that.
10:05I am sorry to hear that.
10:05No, I am.
10:07No, I wish to say something inspiring, but I do not know how.
10:16You have such varied ways to express your feelings.
10:21Mine feel frozen or feeble or entirely unknowable.
10:30I do not know.
10:31I do not know, Miss Bennet.
10:33Well, I use the words of others to puzzle through things I do not understand.
10:39But I do not believe that you are truly a stranger to strong emotions.
10:52Forgive me.
10:55Oh, um...
10:56Sorry, Miss Bennet.
10:57I...
10:57Oh.
10:58It was just a petal.
11:00Mr. Hayward, I...
11:00I think I must leave London.
11:04Well, you've only just arrived.
11:06It's no great event.
11:07My...
11:07My mother needs a companion.
11:09I see.
11:10And...
11:11Well, you will likely be very busy soon, what with, uh, social engagements and, uh, Miss
11:19Baxter.
11:22I'm sure you'll scarcely have time to notice I'm gone.
11:26Well, I'd hoped that this would restore your spirit.
11:29Oh, indeed.
11:29It did.
11:31It did.
11:33I shall never forget it.
11:48I shall travel to Pemberley on the 18th.
11:51Good heavens!
11:53Mary, this is quite unexpected.
11:55Well, is anything the matter?
11:57My mother needs me.
11:59Is my sister bored?
12:01I know that she's more likely than anyone in England to summon the troops on account of
12:05her loneliness, but must you answer the call?
12:10I think I must.
12:12Well, we so enjoy having you here.
12:14The children will be disappointed.
12:17Yes, it's kind of you to say.
12:20It is the truth.
12:24I must plan today's lessons.
12:26I must plan today's lessons.
12:45I must plan today's lessons.
12:51My aunt and uncle.
12:52But as you rightly point out, I do not wish to burn them.
12:56And it will, of course, be an honour to look after your new pup.
13:22You come in.
13:39There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.
13:45She had so many children, she didn't know what to do.
13:49She gave them some broth, without any bread.
13:52And she whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.
13:56That poem started very well and ended very badly.
14:00A good observation, Miss Marianne.
14:02Why didn't she just move into a boot when the children got too many?
14:06Fine suggestion, Miss Rebecca.
14:07It's a glorious revolution all finished then, Miss Bennet.
14:11This week, we will write and perform a poem instead.
14:15Yes!
14:17I want to do a poem about myself because I'm quite interested.
14:20I'll do typhoid.
14:22Or frogs.
14:24Disgusting.
14:26Miss Marianne?
14:29Love.
14:40The eye cannot choose but see.
14:44We cannot bid the ear be still.
14:47Our bodies feel where they be.
14:51Against or with our will.
15:00A big green frog sat on a log.
15:03The frog was quite full.
15:06It had eaten ten flies, two slugs, one worm and three lily pad pies.
15:16Oh, Miss Bennet, you were obviously inspired by our morning poetry reading.
15:21Oh, I was.
15:22No, I, um, yes, I am.
15:25Oh, no.
15:26What is it, Miss Rebecca?
15:28I had a prop and I forgot to use it.
15:32Oh, uh, well, um, fear not.
15:36A prop is a cheap trick that diminishes the power of words.
15:40Indeed.
15:44Who's next?
15:48I would be sad to leave London.
15:51It was the first time I had ever felt a sense of belonging.
15:57Oh, there you are.
15:58I wanted to say thank you for such a wonderful day.
16:02The children would be inconsolable about you leaving.
16:06Marianne is stitching you a cushion
16:08with an inspirational Latin phrase, I believe.
16:11Oh, yes.
16:12It's mori quam fudari.
16:15Death before dishonour.
16:17Goodness, how exciting.
16:19We shall miss you, Mary.
16:22I think we both know I'm not well suited to London's liveliness.
16:28Oh, Mary.
16:29You've barely given it a chance.
16:33Things change.
16:35People.
16:38Situations.
16:40Over time.
16:45May I venture something on that subject?
16:49The other day, I went to buy a bonnet.
16:53And in the first shop I went into,
16:56found a stunning bonnet.
16:58An elegant blue.
16:59Quite lovely on me, if I dare say such a thing.
17:02When I went to purchase it,
17:06it had been reserved for someone else.
17:10I went into another shop and found not four other bonnets I liked just as much.
17:15And in the end,
17:18one a shade of dusky pink that suited me even more.
17:26Do you see what I'm saying?
17:30Blue is not your colour?
17:34No, I'm saying that London has such a variety of choices,
17:37and such quantity, too.
17:39You may enjoy the first thing you see well enough,
17:42but often something more exciting will come along.
17:48Anyway, I just thought I'd let you know.
17:50Well, um, yes, thank you for that.
17:53It was very...
17:55interesting.
17:56Oh, I was meaning to tell you.
17:58We have decided to host a little entertainment tomorrow.
18:01A night of games.
18:02Oh, dear.
18:04What sort of games?
18:05No catching.
18:06Word games.
18:07Riddles and such.
18:08And very pleasant company.
18:10Company I know?
18:12Or...
18:12new company?
18:13All new.
18:15And very friendly.
18:17We desperately desire that you remember London fondly.
18:22This may be your final event with us before you leave.
18:29I resolved not to send the letter to Mother just yet.
18:33It would be a shame to leave before the weekend.
18:42Sorry, Theo.
18:46Oh, sorry, Theo.
19:12Sorry, I didn't realise there was a line.
19:14No, please.
19:15I wish more people had such a restrained relationship to Punch.
19:20May I?
19:20Oh, yes, of course.
19:23Noble defender of the Punch.
19:24I surrender my post.
19:29And what brings you here?
19:30The World Games or the company?
19:33I like words.
19:34I'm not much for games.
19:36Ah, then it's the company you've come for.
19:39Miss...
19:40Bennett. Mary Bennett.
19:43William Ryder.
19:44And where have you come from, Miss Bennett?
19:47Surely I would remember seeing you near Punchbowls across London.
19:51I am...
19:53new in town.
19:54Well, I, for one, am always pleased to see a new face.
19:58Sir.
20:02Now, please gather.
20:04I see the riddles are about to commence.
20:06We are wise to begin with full glasses.
20:09obviously being used.
20:11Were you born in the Greyori
20:13in the South? That's
20:14it. Theised夢's
20:14Moe.
20:15What a
20:15army. What
20:16It's gonna be much free
20:16leg. What a bless a Rockefeller,
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