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The Other Bennet Sister - Season 1 - Episode 03: Chapter 3
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00:24The
00:25loss of my father was a leap into the unknown.
00:29Longbourn was my childhood home, and although I had my struggles here, it was all I had
00:35ever known.
00:37From now on, would I be relying on the hospitality of my sisters, destined to spend my days as
00:45my mother's companion?
00:49What 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.
01:11Who is that?
01:12I do not know, Mama.
01:13What 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, but knew you would
01:35need time as a family to-
01:37To gather your things.
01:37Huh?
01:38Yourselves.
01:39Together.
01:40Hmm.
01:41Hmm.
01:43Hmm.
01:43Uh, I-I want to make it quite clear-
01:46Hmm.
01:48No.
01:50Quite clear that there's no rush for you to leave Longbourn.
01:54Hmm.
01:56Hmm.
01:56Thank you, Mr. Collins.
01:58You-you are quite welcome to stay here with us for a full two weeks.
02:01Two weeks.
02:03Hmm.
02:03Mrs. Bennett, there really is no hurry for you and Mary to leave.
02:06But I-I have arranged you some help with the packing.
02:09Hmm.
02:09So you are not obliged to undertake such a difficult task during your hour of need?
02:15Hmm.
02:16Hmm.
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.
02:47Ha ha!
02:49Ha ha!
02:50And Mary, you of course must come too.
02:54But if you're worried about company, Caroline Bingley stays with us often.
02:59Well, uh, yes, but, um, I-I have not yet thought through my future prospects.
03:06Hmm.
03:06Speaking 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.
03:16And they have asked me to send you to stay with them until a suitable replacement is found.
03:21There is going to be a governess.
03:23Oh, Mary.
03:24I-I would very much like to help.
03:26But, um, you will need me, Mama.
03:29I-I have already accepted their offer.
03:33They're sending a carriage.
03:35But, Mama, I-
03:36Do not worry about me, Mary.
03:38I shall have Jane by my side.
03:42Oh!
03:43Hmm.
03:50Hmm.
03:52Hmm.
03:54Hmm.
03:55Hmm.
03:56Hmm.
03:56Hmm.
03:56Hmm.
03:56If my options in life really were marriage or misery,
03:59it looked very much as though I was destined for misery.
04:11Mrs Bennet is...
04:13indisposed.
04:15Oh.
04:17Of course.
04:19Thank you, Il.
04:21Hmm.
04:28Um...
04:30What if the children don't like me?
04:32Why should they not like you?
04:34You're a perfectly likable 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.
05:01I'm just, um...
05:42Dad!
05:44No!
05:44You're right.
05:45I don't have a sense.
05:46I'm very tired.
05:47Hey.
05:47Come on!
05:48Hey!
05:48Hey!
05:48Hey!
05:49Hey!
05:50Hey!
05:53Hey!
06:02And she's got all the money in here.
06:34Oh, Mary, welcome.
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,
06:46so you won't be disturbed by the children.
07:08How'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.
07:30Well, thank you for stepping in at such short notice.
07:33We don't stand on ceremony here,
07:35especially with the children,
07:36so if you don't mind that,
07:38you'll do well with us.
07:40And the rest of your belongings
07:41will be brought up any moment.
07:43Do you have all you need?
07:45I do. Thank you.
08:00Which mountain range is found
08:02at the end of your Andes?
08:05Oh, right.
08:06The Andes.
08:19Oh, that's good.
08:22Not so good.
08:24Mary, won't you join us for breakfast?
08:26Oh, no, no.
08:27No, sir, thank you, sir.
08:28I'm not at all hungry this morning.
08:30I shall see the children upstairs.
08:44Mary-Anne, would you like to start?
08:47Miss Bennet, it's a pleasure to meet you.
08:50I am Mary-Anne Gardner,
08:52and I'm 11 years old.
08:54It's my pleasure to meet you too, Miss Mary-Anne.
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
09:18is not in the situation and circumstances
09:22best adapted to its sustenance and propagation,
09:26then, in conceiving an indefinite variety
09:30among 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.
09:48You've made him go to sleep.
09:55Let us move on to history, shall we?
09:57Now, in 1492, Christopher Columbus discovered America.
10:04Now, where is America?
10:06Ah, yes, America.
10:09Uh...
10:13Where has Rebecca gone?
10:15There were very clearly three of you in this room
10:17when I began looking at the globe,
10:19and now there are two of you.
10:21She vanished.
10:22She's a magician.
10:24Well, magic is nothing but illusion and trickery.
10:26Oh.
10:27Now, where could she be?
10:30Tom, you're here!
10:31Tom, can we finish lessons now?
10:33Yes.
10:35Oh, forgive the intrusion.
10:36I, er, came to tell you that dinner is served,
10:38and you must be Miss Bennet.
10:42I... I must be.
10:44Oh, yes, I am.
10:46Er, Tom Hayward.
10:47Oh.
10:48Friend of the family.
10:51Hmm.
10:55Aren't there normally three of you?
10:56There were three, certainly,
10:59but I was looking at America,
11:03and when I looked back, it was...
11:11Do 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, um, it's a fallacy.
11:30They're mice like cheese.
11:33Of course.
11:34They're much more partial to root vegetables and grains.
11:38Yes.
11:38Indeed.
11:40I'm a rabbit.
11:43Mr. Hayward?
11:47Mr. Hayward, I am keeping a rabbit in the toy trunk because...
11:54I...
11:56Because rabbits are not at all social creatures.
12:00Exactly.
12:00Yes, they are.
12:05Well, why exactly do you have a new governess?
12:09Is it that you keep eating, though?
12:14Um...
12:17Tom helped Edward with the legal matter some years ago,
12:20and we've been friends ever since.
12:22You're another of our former lodgers.
12:24Oh.
12:25Yes.
12:26Oh.
12:27What is a revolutionary Republican?
12:34Well, uh, 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, uh...
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, I mean, 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.
13:09There's a mortality rate of about...
13:1030%.
13:14Exactly.
13:15George cried.
13:17Three.
13:18Times.
13:19There was something in my eye.
13:20We held hands until Mary had finished talking.
13:24Well, you're never too young to lull 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.
13:35But what should we play?
13:36Graces.
13:36Graces.
13:37Ah.
13:38Let's show Mary how to play graces.
13:41Yes.
13:42Marianne.
13:43Well called, Mary.
13:44Bravo.
13:45Bravo.
13:46You're Rebecca.
13:51That counts.
13:52It does indeed.
13:53It does indeed.
13:55Oh.
13:57You'll need to get someone to look at that.
13:59Send it to Blythe, she'll fix it for you.
14:02Ready?
14:03Yay.
14:04Brilliant.
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, uh, no.
14:21I'm not good at games.
14:22Oh, that doesn't matter at all.
14:25Yes.
14:27Well, you couldn't possibly be as ungainly as I am.
14:30Yeah, really, I'd only spoil it.
14:39George.
14:39Ready?
14:42Oh.
14:43Oh.
14:49Yes, Dom?
14:50It's Mr. Gardner.
14:51Oh.
14:53Oh.
14:55Oh.
15:11Oh.
15:11Yes?
15:13Mary?
15:16do not look so grave my dear you're not in trouble with the weather getting warmer we're
15:22about to become more sociable oh oh please do not feel any obligation to involve me i
15:26should be quite content to stay upstairs with the children mary we want you to join us
15:33but i do not sparkle at dinners
15:37in our house no one is obliged to sparkle
15:42then of course but we need to get you properly dressed oh i thought perhaps tomorrow we could
15:49go to the haberdashers and you could pick out some fabrics i do not really care for dresses
15:54well that's a shame but very well
15:59perhaps think about it mary there is a dress allowance as part of your governess wages
16:05i have thought about it and i would very much like to accept your kind offer
16:10that's excellent news
16:14oh good night mary and thank you for today
16:26this must be such a change for merit
16:41what do you think of the deep greens we have a soiree coming up now i think deep green would
16:48be perfect
16:49well mother has always said it's terribly difficult to get any color to work with my complexion really
16:55well perhaps your complexions change 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
17:07but mother says that mother isn't here
17:13mr gardner
17:14oh miss bennett
17:16tome
17:17mr hayward have you brought your jacket to be mounted
17:20i have just this minute dropped it off
17:22well now that you're here you can make yourself useful
17:25miss bennett needs to choose some dress fabric
17:29i find myself quite overwhelmed by the choice
17:31well i shall be honest and say that my experience of picking dress fabric is limited
17:36to say the least
17:38but i shall try
17:41have you seen the names of these colors we've got uh dust of ruins uh corbeau or um flam debanche
17:50anyone
17:51um i think i shall take the drake's neck with a splash of none key
17:56any one for gaboche
17:58oh well i mean that's just yellow that one
18:01yes yes
18:04i 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
18:12i should return to my desk and a particularly unexciting land negotiation
18:19good day
18:20good day
18:26oh poor tom he worked so hard
18:29really underneath that light-hearted manor carries the weight of the world on his shoulders
18:37now have you decided
18:41i have chosen very well mary
18:47the first is this crimson and then i thought perhaps a spring green trim
18:54lovely
18:55lovely
18:55yes
18:55but you will need two dresses
18:57so perhaps
19:00china blue
19:03hmm
19:06do 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 but i like it
19:20then i think you should please yourself and not worry what others may think thank you
19:25you've done a very good job
19:27now
19:55Oh, oh, oh.
19:58Oh, my gosh.
20:01The gardeners are out.
20:03They're buying shoes for the children.
20:06Would you like to play graces?
20:11Well, yes.
20:19Ready?
20:20Yes.
20:24Oh, oh, oh.
20:28I did it.
20:30You did?
20:31Natural.
20:32Beginner's luck.
20:34Right, um.
20:36Ready?
20:37Mm.
20:38Oh, um.
20:40Oh.
20:42Oh.
20:43Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
20:44oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
20:45oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
20:45oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
20:48oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
20:53oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
21:20Ready? Yes.
21:24Oh! Oh, oh, oh! Oh! Oh!
21:28Erm, er, er, er...
21:31That's probably enough, Graces, for today.
21:36Oh, yes, er, I brought a book for Mrs Byron.
21:41Oh, of course, yes. Ah, poetry.
21:45Do you like poetry, Miss Bennet?
21:47I prefer facts to whimsy.
21:52Whimsy?
21:53I've tried, er, well, Cowper, er, Byron.
21:57Even some Dryden, but, erm...
22:00Well, it seems to me that it's all just words.
22:05What were you expecting?
22:08Are you a scholar, sir?
22:11Er, no. I'm a barrister, junior.
22:14And though the law is my business, poetry is my passion.
22:19What do you like to read?
22:21Er, works of non-fiction, really.
22:24Um, histories and, er, and geology.
22:27And what do you like to read for pleasure?
22:30That is reading for pleasure.
22:34There is nothing you like about poetry.
22:40Well, some 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
23:00of Miss Mary Bennet.
23:06Oh.
23:08Ah.
23:09The garden is at home.
23:10Oh, is it, er, yes.
23:12Yes.
23:12Er, well, yes.
23:15I have a coat on.
23:17Oh, Tom!
23:19Oh, Tom!
23:42And we'll need more scallops.
23:44Mrs. Shomley will claim she couldn't possibly
23:46before helping herself to seven.
23:49Must be very strange without your family here.
23:54There was always at least one argument about stolen perfume.
24:02Mary, 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.
24:50Um, I mean, that's, that's basically it.
24:51But they're, they're awfully fun to hunt.
24:53Um, I mean, that's, that's basically it.
25:03But they're, they're awfully fun to hunt.
25:06Mm.
25:07Mm.
25:07Mm.
25:10Good evening.
25:12I do not believe we have met.
25:14I'm Miss Baxter.
25:16Delighted to meet you, Miss Baxter.
25:18Um, I am Miss Bennet.
25:20I have not long moved to London from Hertfordshire.
25:23Oh.
25:24Fanshawe, Mr. Fanshawe.
25:30A, a, a friend of my mother's died eating those nuts.
25:34Uh, one got stuck in his throat and that, and that was it.
25:37He was quite dead in minutes.
25:43Oh, I 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.
25:50Uh, forgive me, it wasn't deliberate.
25:55I hate the first 20 minutes of these evenings.
25:58Well, as 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?
26:11I 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.
26:38London, it turned out, was a place of learning as much as teaching.
26:43A place of trying new things.
26:47And though I had never liked change,
26:50I 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.
27:07Where are we?
27:08Are you looking for someone?
27:12You must tell me all about it in a moment.
27:16Next, there's a gentleman I'd like you to meet.
27:19We have something of an understanding.
27:22Please may I introduce Mr. Tom Hayward.
27:29Uh, we've, we've already met.
27:32Oh, Miss Bennet?
27:32Oh, of course, you must have.
27:35Oh, I see you went for the Pomona trip.
27:38Uh, it's, um, spring green.
27:40It's quite different to Pomona.
27:42Well, it suits you very well.
27:46Tom!
27:47Excuse us, ladies.
27:48You must come and meet my colleague, Mr. May.
27:55Mr. Hayward and I met three years ago this spring.
27:58We are hoping to be married next year.
28:01Not everything went exactly as I would have liked.
28:04Come on, Becca.
28:06Oh!
28:07Please excuse us.
28:08Come, Mary, it'll be fun.
28:10Of course a man such as Mr. Hayward would have secured a match.
28:15But 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.
28:36Oh!
28:42Oh, no!
28:42Oh, no!
28:42Ah!
28:54Oh!
28:56Oh!
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