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.
05:41Oof...
05:42Oof...
06:00Oof...
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 Ms. Baxter be joining us?
06:36I'm afraid Ms. 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.
07:18Oh.
07:22That's magical.
07:24What?
07:30Please forgive the theatrics. I had given Ms. Bennett the impossible task of understanding poetry without any real sense of
07:39how to feel it.
07:42Sometimes, with poetry, the more I think, the less I understand.
07:56Earth has not anything to show more fair.
08:00Dull would it 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.
08:18Bare.
08:20Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields, into the sky.
08:32All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
08:37Never did sun more beautifully steep in his first splendor.
08:42Valley.
08:43Valley.
08:44Rock.
08:44Or hill.
08:46Nurse or I never felt a calm so deep.
08:51The river blideth at his own sweet will.
08:56Dear God, the very houses seem asleep.
09:02And all that mighty heart is 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.
09:35Let's take a turn.
09:37Indeed.
09:39But instead, this place is magical.
09:42It's like a secret garden.
09:43Yes, it is.
09:47Well, Miss Bennet.
09:56How do you feel?
09:58I...
10:00Well, uh...
10:02For once I have nothing to say.
10:04I am sorry to hear that.
10:05No, I, um...
10:07No, I wish to say something...
10:11Inspiring.
10:11But I...
10:13Do not know how.
10:16You have such...
10:18Such varied ways to express your feelings.
10:21Mine feel...
10:22Frozen.
10:24Or...
10:25Feeble or...
10:28Entirely unknowable.
10:30I do not know, Miss Bennet.
10:33Well, I use the words of others to...
10:35Puzzle through things I do not understand.
10:39But I...
10:40I do not believe that you are truly a stranger to strong emotions.
10:52Forgive me.
10:55Oh, um...
10:56Sorry, Miss Bennet, I...
10:57Oh.
10:58It was just a petal.
11:00Mr. Hayward, I...
11:00I think I must leave London.
11:04Well...
11:05You'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...
11:13Very busy.
11:14Soon.
11:14What with, uh...
11:15Social engagements and, uh...
11:19Miss Baxter.
11:22I'm sure you'll scarcely have time to notice I'm gone.
11:27Well, I'd hoped that this would restore your spirit.
11:29Oh, indeed it did.
11:31It did, thank you.
11:33I shall never forget it.
11:49I 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
12:04to summon the troops on account of her loneliness,
12:06but must you answer the call?
12:10I think I must.
12:11Oh, we so enjoy having you here.
12:14Well, the 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.
12:35Dearest Mother.
12:36Although my time in London has been...
12:39enlightening.
12:41I will be by your side for your summer at Pemberley.
12:46As requested.
12:48I am grateful for the generosity extended by my 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.
13:14Do come in.
14:01Miss Marianne. Why didn't
14:03she just move into a boot when the children
14:05got too many? Fine suggestion, Miss Rebecca.
14:07It's a glorious revolution all finished
14:09then, Miss Bennet.
14:11This week, we will write
14:13and perform a poem instead.
14:15Yes!
14:17I want to do a poem about myself because I'm
14:19quite interested.
14:21I'll do typhoid.
14:23Or frogs.
14:24Disgusting.
14:27Miss Marianne?
14:29Love.
14:40The eye cannot choose but
14:42see. We cannot
14:45bid the ear be still.
14:47Our bodies feel
14:49where they be
14:51against or with
14:52our will.
15:00A big green frog
15:02sat on a log.
15:03The frog was quite full.
15:06It had eaten
15:07ten flies,
15:08two slugs,
15:10one worm,
15:11and three
15:11lily pad pies.
15:16Miss Bennet, you were obviously
15:18inspired 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.
15:35A prop is, uh, a prop is, 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.
15:58Well, I 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 fwadari.
16:15Death before dishonor.
16:17Goodness, how exciting.
16:20We shall miss you, Mary.
16:22I think we both know I'm not well suited to
16:26London's liveliness.
16:28Oh, Mary.
16:30You'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,
16:51I 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,
17:00if 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 like 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?
17:33No, 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.
17:47Anyway,
17:48I just thought I'd let you know.
17:50Well, um,
17:52yes, 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,
18:11or
18:12new company?
18:14All new.
18:15And very friendly.
18:17We desperately desire that you remember London fondly.
18:21This 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.
18:43Sorry for you.
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 bunch.
19:24I surrender my post.
19:29And what brings you here?
19:30The word games or the company?
19:33I like words.
19:34Um, I'm not much for games.
19:36Ah,
19:37then it's the company you've come for.
19:39Miss?
19:40Bennett.
19:41Mary Bennett.
19:43William Ryder.
19:44Where have you come from, Miss Bennett?
19:47Surely I would remember seeing you nip hunchbowls across London.
19:50I, um,
19:53new in town.
19:54Well,
19:56I, for one,
19:56am always pleased to see a new face.
19:59Oh.
20:02Now, please gather.
20:04I see the riddles are about to commence.
20:06We are wise
20:07to begin with full glasses.
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