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The Other Bennet Sister - Season 1 - Episode 10: Chapter 10
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00:23Three times I had written to Mr. Hayward, and each time the letter was returned, marked
00:29forwarding address unknown.
00:33There was so much that I wished to say to him, but it was not to be.
00:41No matter, I would not wallow.
00:43I had navigated difficulty before, and I would use my experiences to find my place in London
00:49and prove I could build a life here, not only to myself, but also to...
00:57Mama.
00:58Here she is.
01:00I didn't know you were...
01:02Sorry, what are you doing here?
01:04Your mother has come to stay.
01:06For a short time.
01:08Lizzie's physician advised I come to London to see Dr. Simmons, who is a great authority
01:13on nervous complaints.
01:16Well, sit.
01:21Mr. Darcy has been most insistent, urging me to think of myself and not hurry back to Pemberley.
01:28Until I have been properly attended to.
01:33Now, Mary, I have decided to forgive your actions at Pemberley and to offer you my assistance one last time.
01:40While I am here, I intend to finish what I began and find suitable matches for all my daughters.
01:50Oh, please, Mama, really.
01:53Four out of five must be considered a great triumph.
01:56A great triumph, indeed.
01:57Mary has plenty in London to occupy her time.
02:00There is no better use of Mary's time than finding a match.
02:04Oh, please, Mother, really.
02:06I'm very happy, as I am.
02:08I understand your shame, Mary, in the way that you have behaved towards me.
02:14But nevertheless, you cannot override my natural kindness and my motherly instinct.
02:20I have arranged for you to meet several suitors.
02:47Is it too much to ask you to make even the slightest effort with just one of these gentlemen?
02:51Mary has made good connections.
02:54Oh, and do good connections provide for you for the rest of your life?
02:58And she is welcome here.
02:59Oh, yes.
03:00For now.
03:01For as long as she wants.
03:02Enter.
03:07A visitor for Miss Bennet.
03:10Mr. Ryder is here.
03:12Mr. Ryder?
03:14Well, show him in.
03:17Please show him in.
03:30Mr. Ryder, how wonderful to see you.
03:34Mrs. Bennet.
03:35Mrs. Gardiner.
03:37Miss Bennet.
03:40And to what do we owe the pleasure of your visit?
03:43Yes, excuse me dropping in unannounced.
03:46I wondered whether I might speak with Miss Bennet.
03:51Of course.
03:54In private.
04:00Miss Bennet, I'm most relieved to see you looking so well after.
04:06Yeah, yeah.
04:08I was sorry not to be able to say goodbye to you at the Lakes.
04:12Once I knew you were being taken care of, I felt it my duty to accompany Miss Bingley back to
04:16London to see a physician.
04:18I understand.
04:19But I was kept informed of your recovery.
04:29Miss Bennet, I wanted to sincerely apologize for what happened.
04:37Oh, I played my own part in proceedings.
04:40No, no.
04:40I was entirely to blame.
04:43I put you and Miss Bingley in grave danger.
04:46I'm full of regret.
04:48Oh, really?
04:48I think no more of it, though it did not end well.
04:53Overall, I look back at my time in the Lakes very fondly.
04:59It was never my intention to intrude on your time there, but I needed Mr. Hayward's help.
05:07You see, Lady Catherine de Burr unexpectedly named me as her heir.
05:15Oh.
05:19I informed Mr. Hayward of my change in fortune and told him of my intention to propose to you that
05:27very afternoon.
05:32I see.
05:34He knew what I could offer you and he gave me his blessing.
05:43He did?
05:45Miss Bennet, I wanted to renew our conversation from the Lakes.
05:53Of course.
05:54Of course, Mr. Ryder.
05:57Please, um, please sit.
05:59Yeah.
06:01Yeah.
06:03Yeah.
06:04Yeah.
06:05Yeah.
06:05Yeah.
06:07Yeah.
06:09Yeah.
06:09Yeah.
06:10Yeah.
06:15I've never met anyone that makes me think like you do, who makes me see the world as you do.
06:25I've certainly never met anyone who speaks as plainly as you, and I admire that greatly.
06:31It's very kind.
06:34Although there is something of a gulf between my ideals and the world we live in, I like to
06:43think that you and I could carve out an interesting existence.
06:51together.
06:55I shall now do what I should have done weeks ago and ask.
07:05Miss Bennet, would you consider accepting my hand in marriage?
07:29Mr. Ryder, my answer must, of course, be that I do not love you.
07:50Could it be that you, you, you might grow to love me?
07:58Not in the way that you deserve to be loved.
08:07Your friendship has taught me so much about myself, and for that I should always be grateful.
08:16But I don't believe I would ever have made you happy.
08:26You should follow your heart, go to Italy, and, and seize everything it has to offer.
08:35I see.
08:39You will find happiness, Mr. Ryder.
08:42True happiness.
08:45I do not doubt it.
09:00It was a pleasure to see you looking so well.
09:07Pleasure to see you looking so dry.
09:11Goodbye.
09:18Goodbye, Miss Bennet.
09:23Bye.
09:31No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
09:33Mother.
09:34Er, I should leave.
09:36Oh, please.
09:37Stay there.
09:38Mother!
09:39Mr. Ryder, you may go.
09:49What have you done?
09:51Oh, I need some air.
09:55Mary!
09:57Mary!
10:20Miss Bennet?
10:24Mr. Sparrow!
10:30Is everything quite all right?
10:32No, yes.
10:33The city smoke is particularly heavy today, and it just seems sad.
10:39May I?
11:03I hope they are still serving you well.
11:07They really are.
11:09Tell me, what brings you to London?
11:12I graduated from Moorfields two weeks ago.
11:16You're a doctor.
11:18Just as you said you would be.
11:22Congratulations, Mr. Sparrow.
11:26I always thought you'd end up studying somewhere.
11:28Somehow.
11:29I would like to be a governess.
11:32To an older girl.
11:33Perhaps.
11:35I think I'd enjoy teaching petrology and geology and...
11:38Your specialisms.
11:39Perhaps one day you could tutor my daughter.
11:42You have a child.
11:44She is one.
11:48Then perhaps I will, yes.
11:51No, I've not really looked too far into it as yet.
11:56I think my mother will not approve.
12:03If I remember rightly, you and your mother always had very different ideas about life.
12:09About reading.
12:10About the wearing of spectacles.
12:14And about...
12:17Potential matches.
12:22If I may be so bold.
12:24If you have always struggled to please your mother.
12:28Why do you keep trying?
12:31As long as you know what you want, perhaps it is time to stop worrying what she thinks.
12:39That our happiness is in our own hands.
12:43Absolutely.
12:45I truly believe it is.
12:49It has been a pleasure to see you again.
12:52We must be getting back.
12:59Goodbye, Mr. Sparrow.
13:02I'm very, very glad to have run into you today.
13:09Reggie?
13:13Thank you for watching, Mr. Sparrow.
13:33you again, but I will not be marrying Mr. Ryder. Nonsense. Call him back and tell him you were
13:40mistaken. No, I will not do that. Have you no consideration for my nerves? I've never wanted
13:47to cause you any trouble. You have caused me nothing but trouble since the day you were born.
13:54Yes, I'm aware that is so. I am trying to help you. I do not want you to be looked
14:02down
14:03upon. Looked down upon? By whom? Mary, please call Mr. Ryder back and accept his offer. I do not love
14:20him.
14:21Mama, I've not waited all this time just to marry a man. I do not love. You would have once
14:26agreed to
14:27marry Mr. Collins. Did you love him? No, I didn't. No. At the time, I thought I was helping
14:34our family remain at Longbourn. And now there is a handsome, wealthy man willing to overlook
14:39your shortcomings and you have turned him away. Because I have changed. We'll change back again.
14:49Charlotte once told me that my options were marriage or misery. But I have seen many miserable
15:00marriages. And meanwhile, I've experienced much joy in life on my own. What will you do
15:10without a husband? How will you survive? I will work as a governess. Outside the families?
15:16I will take on an older pupil. And I will teach a more nuanced, detailed education, working
15:22to a higher level on a specific setting. Why do you insist on torturing me?
15:35It has always been my intention to please you. I am very sad that I have never been able
15:43to make you proud of me. Yet I was never able to match my sisters in your esteem. I am
15:54sorry.
15:57You have no idea what it has been like for me. I had five daughters. Five daughters. All
16:06of whom I knew must marry well in order to survive. And there was nobody to make that happen except
16:11me. Your father never had to think about it. And he never raised a finger to help. In fact,
16:24any attempts I made to discuss your future seemed only to rile him. I was quite alone.
16:39You and I always have been very different creatures. And it is likely we all shall be. It doesn't
16:52seem fair that you weren't helped in your efforts. But you did it. We are all settled in our different
17:05ways. I have chosen my path. And I am happy with it. I did not want you to be left
17:18behind.
17:30Goodbye, mother.
17:52Send our love to Lizzie. Goodbye, Jane.
18:19Mary, I have to say, I don't think I've ever seen anyone stand up to your mother as successfully
18:23as you did. Really? It was very impressive.
18:32I don't mind that I'll never marry. I've only said that without a home of my own, I shall never
18:43get to choose my own wallpaper. You can always choose some for your room, Mary, if you like.
18:52Do you think I've done the wrong thing in not marrying Mr. Ryder? Not at all, Mary. I've learned
19:03a great deal from him. He's a man that finds joy in life and there's much to be admired about
19:09him. But you do not love him. No. You love someone else. Where has he gone? I wish I knew.
19:41Thank you. Miss Bennet, there is a visitor to see you in the drawing room. Miss Bingley.
20:13Miss Bennet, I wanted to thank you for what you did on the mountain.
20:22You could have left me there and you didn't. I think it is plain to see that I have a
20:40great
20:40fondness for Mr. Ryder. And I have come to ask that you leave him alone.
20:51Oh, Miss Bingley. You are much better suited to Mr. Ryder than I am.
20:56Oh, you don't mean that. I do. I do. Mr. Ryder is a dear friend. But he and I, we
21:04were never a match.
21:10The truth is, it was always Mr. Hayward for me. But it is not to be.
21:21Really? Tom Hayward? Surely he is attainable?
21:29It seems not. He has disappeared.
21:35Well, well.
21:49Perhaps I shall call for you sometime, Miss Bennet.
21:54Yes, we could read poetry together.
22:00Goodbye, Miss Bennet.
22:01Goodbye, Miss Bingley.
22:22And so it was that I carved out my own path. I stayed in London and became a governess.
22:34Over time, I worried a little less about the approval of others.
22:40And though the life I had chosen was different to that of my sisters, I had a wealth of experience
22:47to be proud of.
22:50I had found a family I loved very much. I was happy in the life I had chosen. And I
22:58knew that I was good enough.
23:04Though one can always be just a little happier, I suppose.
23:10Miss Bennet!
23:14Miss Bennet!
23:17Miss Bennet!
23:20Miss Bennet!
23:28Mr. Hayward.
23:30Mr. Hayward.
23:31Mr. Hayward.
23:46Miss Bennet!
23:51Mrs. Gardiner said I might find you here.
23:57I spent it, I...
23:58Where have you been?
24:03Yorkshire.
24:05What do you mean, Yorkshire?
24:07You can't just say Yorkshire,
24:09as if Yorkshire's an entirely reasonable explanation
24:11for your very sudden and somewhat lengthy disappearance.
24:16After what you said...
24:17But I'm sorry, Mary, please, please, let me explain.
24:22Well, you're here now, Mr. Haywood.
24:27Do go on.
24:33When we were in the lakes,
24:36the legal matter that Mr. Ryder asked me to attend to
24:38was his inheriting the fortune of Lady Catherine de Bourgh.
24:44And I knew quite clearly from Ryder's incredibly irritating behaviour
24:49that he had a liking for you, as I also had.
24:56As I also have.
25:00It is such a liking, in fact,
25:02that when I learned of Mr. Ryder's good fortune
25:04and his plan to make you an offer of marriage,
25:06I thought, I thought it in your best interest
25:08that I graciously step aside.
25:10Nevertheless, my actions in the mountain...
25:13You thought it in my best interests
25:15to graciously step aside.
25:18So your disappearance
25:20was, in fact,
25:22you being gracious to me.
25:27You and Mr. Ryder, between you,
25:29thought that you would just decide on my fate
25:31and I would just accept it.
25:33Like I'm a...
25:34Like I'm a...
25:35A great old cat.
25:36If you put it like that,
25:37it does not sound good.
25:38Why didn't you just ask me
25:40what I thought?
25:41I was reading between the lines.
25:42There were no lines.
25:43Mr. Haywood.
25:44There were no lines.
25:46I know I will never be able
25:48to offer you what Mr. Ryder can.
25:51I have had to work
25:52for everything that I have
25:53and I thought you deserved better than that.
25:59That you deserved better than me
26:00but now I realise
26:03I will not know what you want
26:04unless I ask.
26:06So I must tell you
26:07I cannot offer you great wealth
26:08or Italy
26:11but I can offer you my love
26:14and my devotion
26:15and my hope to build a family
26:17one day.
26:23Mr. Haywood.
26:26If you had asked me
26:27what I wanted
26:29I would have told you
26:29I never wanted Mr. Ryder.
26:32I have never loved Mr. Ryder.
26:34I love you.
26:36I have only ever loved you.
26:39I love you.
26:41I have always loved you
26:43from the very first time
26:44I caught you playing graces
26:45on your own
26:46when you thought
26:47no one was at home.
26:51I have spent my life
26:53on the outside of things
26:54but with you
26:55I am right in the middle of it all.
27:01I am right in the middle of it all.
27:06Mary Bennett
27:07would you do me
27:08the very great honour
27:09of becoming my wife.
27:18Yes.
27:20Yes.
27:22Yes.
27:29I was a yes
27:30right away Mr. Haywood
27:32in case you didn't catch it.
27:34Mary, I think now that we've kissed
27:36you could probably call me Tom.
27:38Stop.
27:54Wait, what made you come back?
27:56Oh, I received a letter
27:59from Caroline Bingley.
28:01What?
28:02Yes.
28:03She wrote to me
28:04and she told me
28:04about your conversation
28:05and I realised
28:06I was being ridiculous.
28:07From Caroline Bingley?
28:09Yes.
28:09She did something kind.
28:11Wait, however
28:12did she find you?
28:13She has a ways.
28:18My only wish
28:19is that we could thank her
28:20but she has left London.
28:22She's gone to Italy
28:24in pursuit of Mr. Ryder.
28:27Now?
28:28Yes.
28:30Now?
28:31Yes.
28:34I know.
28:41Oh, no.
28:48And so it was
28:50that I married him
28:52but on my own terms
28:54in my own time
28:57and I hope you'll realise
28:58that is almost
29:00beside the point.
29:08Go away,
29:09the end of the world's rough.
29:12The point, perhaps,
29:14was just as Hill had predicted
29:16all that time ago
29:18that I needed to get out
29:20and see the world
29:21outside my family
29:23so that I could find
29:25my place in it.
29:36Oh.
29:38And that is the last of them.
29:41Really?
29:42Oh.
29:47The indigo is splendid.
29:49It's actually Tyrian purple.
29:50It's Tyrian?
29:51Yes, from the Greek myth
29:52about Hercules' dog
29:53trying a spiny murex sea snail.
29:55I didn't know Hercules had a dog.
29:58Keep up, Thomas.
29:59I am trying.
30:08What's next?
30:10Spring green
30:11in the drawing room.
30:23Enya ely45
30:24in the drawing room.
30:24A
30:24hem
30:25are
30:26in the rain.
30:26In bed,
30:43turn
30:43sun
30:43and
30:43enjoying
30:43a
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