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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 ever known.
00:37From now on, would I be relying on the hospitality of my sisters, destined to spend my days as my
00:45mother's companion?
00:49What other choice did I have?
00:54I do not expect any of you to understand my pain. The bond Mr. Bennett and I shared was a
01:02rare thing.
01:04I do not know that I shall ever eat again.
01:10Who is that?
01:12I do not know, Mama.
01:14What 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 need time
01:36as a family to...
01:37To gather your things.
01:38Yourselves.
01:39Together.
01:43I want to make it quite clear.
01:48No.
01:51Quite clear that there's no rush for you to leave Longbourn.
01:54Hm.
01:56Thank you, Mr. Collins.
01:58You are quite welcome to stay here with us for a full two weeks.
02:01Two weeks.
02:03Mrs. Bennett, there really is no hurry for you and Mary to leave.
02:06But I have arranged some help with the packing.
02:08Mm.
02:09So you are not obliged to undertake such a difficult task during your hour of need.
02:15Mm.
02:17Oh!
02:27Mama.
02:28You must come and stay with Mr. Bingley and I at Netherfield.
02:32We have a number of cooks and more servants than we know what to do with.
02:37Jane.
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.
02:49And Mary, you of course must come too.
02:54But if you're worried about company, Caroline Bingley stays with us often.
02:59Well, yes, but I have not yet thought through my future prospects.
03:07Speaking of your prospects, Mary, I have received a letter from my brother and his wife in London.
03:12Their 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.
03:22Mary's going to be a governess.
03:23Oh, Mary.
03:24I would very much like to help, but you will need me, Mama.
03:30I have already accepted their offer.
03:32They're sending a carriage.
03:35But, Mama...
03:36Do not worry about me, Mary.
03:38I shall have Jane by my side.
03:56If my options in life really were marriage or misery, it looked very much as though I was destined for
04:03misery.
04:10Mrs Bennet is...
04:13...indisposed.
04:15Oh.
04:17Of course.
04:19Thank you, Hill.
04:21Yeah.
04:27Um...
04:29What 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, I'm just, um...
05:06How are you?
05:07I'm sorry.
05:16Bye.
05:17Bye.
05:18Bye.
05:19Bye.
05:25Bye.
05:26Bye.
05:28Bye.
05:31Bye.
05:32Bye.
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.
07:07How's your mother?
07:10Mother, she'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.
07:27Oh, it was.
07:30Well, thank you for stepping in at such short notice.
07:33We don't stand on ceremony here, especially with the children,
07:36so if you don't mind that, you'll do well with us.
07:40And the rest of your belongings will be brought up any moment.
07:43Do you have all you need?
07:45I do.
08:00Which mountain range has found the end of your armies?
08:05Oh, hi.
08:07The Andes.
08:08The Andes.
08:17Andes.
08:18Andes.
08:19Oh, that's good.
08:22Not so good.
08:24Mary, won't you join us for breakfast?
08:26Oh, no, no, no, sir.
08:27Thank 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, and 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 is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance
09:25and propagation, then, in conceiving an indefinite variety among the individuals of that species,
09:34we must be assured that, on the one hand, those which depart most from the best adapted constitution
09:41will be the most liable to perish, we were...
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.
10:04America.
10:04Now, where is America?
10:06Ah.
10:06Yes.
10:07America.
10:08America.
10:37Uh...
10:37Now that dinner is served.
10:38And...
10:39You must be...
10:40Miss Bennet.
10:42I...
10:42I must be.
10:44Oh, yes.
10:45I...
10:45I am.
10:46Uh...
10:46Tom Hayward.
10:48Oh.
10:48Friend of the family.
10:51Hmm.
10:55Aren't there normally three of you?
10:57There were three, certainly.
10:59But...
11:00I was looking at...
11:02America.
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...
11:20I wasn't sure.
11:22I thought perhaps mice like toy trunks.
11:25No.
11:25You see, in there, they cannot get to their cheese.
11:28Actually, it's a fallacy that mice like cheese.
11:33Of course.
11:34They're much more partial to root vegetables and grains.
11:38Yes.
11:38Indeed.
11:39I'm a rabbit.
11:44Mr...
11:45Hayward?
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.
12:01Oh.
12:05Well, why exactly do you have a new governess?
12:09Is it that you keep eating them?
12:14Um...
12:17Tom helped Edward with the legal matter some years ago, and we've been friends ever since.
12:22Did you know that of our former lodgers?
12:24Oh.
12:25Yes.
12:26Oh.
12:27What is a revolutionary Republican?
12:34Well, as discussed during the lesson, 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, and I shall never sleep again.
12:56Well, 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...
13:10Thirty percent.
13:14Exactly.
13:15George cried three times.
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!
13:37Ah!
13:38Let's show Mary how to play graces!
13:41Yes!
13:42Marianne?
13:43Well called, Mary.
13:44Bravo!
13:45Bravo!
13:46Yours, Rebecca!
13:48Oh!
13:51That counts!
13:52It does indeed.
13:53It does indeed.
13:54It does indeed.
13:55Oh!
13:57You'll need to get someone to look at that.
13:59Send it to Blythe, he'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, er, no.
14:21I'm not...
14:21I'm not good at games.
14:22Oh!
14:22That doesn't matter at all.
14:25Yes!
14:27Well, you couldn't possibly be as ungainly as I am.
14:30Really, I'd only spoil it.
14:39George.
14:39Ready?
14:41Oh!
14:42Oh!
14:43Oh, man.
14:49Yes, Dom.
14:50Mr. Gardner.
14:52Oh!
15:11Yes?
15:13Mary?
15:16Oh, do not look so grave, my dear.
15:18You're not in trouble.
15:20With the weather getting warmer, we're about to become more sociable.
15:24Oh!
15:24Oh, please.
15:25Do not feel any obligation to involve me.
15:26I shall be quite content to stay upstairs with the children.
15:29Mary, 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...
15:43of course.
15:45But we need to get you properly dressed.
15:47Oh.
15:48I thought perhaps tomorrow we could go to the haberdashers and you could pick out some fabrics.
15:51I do not really care for dresses.
15:54Well, that's a shame. But very well.
15:59Perhaps think about it, Mary.
16:01There is a dress allowance as part of your governess' wages.
16:05I have thought about it.
16:07And I would very much like to accept your kind offer.
16:11That's excellent news.
16:14Well, good night, Mary.
16:16And thank you for today.
16:26This must be such a change for marriage.
16:29It most certainly is.
16:41What do you think of the deep greens?
16:44We have a soiree coming up.
16:46Now, I think deep green would be perfect.
16:50Mother has always said it's terribly difficult to get any colour to work with my complexion.
16:54Really?
16:55Well, perhaps your complexions change because I can see many colours 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.
17:11PHONE RINGS
17:13Mrs. Gardiner?
17:14Oh.
17:15Miss Bennet.
17:16Tom!
17:17Mr. Hayward, have you brought your jacket to be mounted?
17:21I have just this minute dropped it off.
17:22Well, now that you're here, you can make yourself useful.
17:25Miss Bennet needs to choose some dress fabric.
17:29I find myself quite overwhelmed by the choice.
17:32Well, I shall be honest and say that my experience of picking dress fabric is limited, to say the least.
17:38But I shall try.
17:41Have you seen the names of these colours?
17:44We've got Dust of Ruins, Corbeau or Flamme de Bonche, anyone?
17:52I think I shall take the Drake's Neck with a splash of Nunkey.
17:56Anyone for Gabouche?
17:58Well, I mean, that's just yellow, that one.
18:01Yes.
18:02Yes.
18:05I think my advice would be to choose the colours that make one feel most like oneself.
18:10And I am sorry not to be of more use.
18:13I should return to my desk, and a particularly unexciting land negotiation.
18:19Good day.
18:21Good day.
18:26Oh, poor Tom.
18:28You work so hard.
18:29Really?
18:30Underneath that light-hearted manner, carries the weight of the world on his shoulders.
18:37Now, have you decided?
18:41I have chosen.
18:43Very well, Mary.
18:47The first is this crimson, and then I thought perhaps a spring green trim.
18:54Lovely.
18:55Yes.
18:56But 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.
19:17But...
19:18I like it.
19:20Then I think you should please yourself and not worry what others may think.
19:25You've done a very good job.
19:27Now.
19:28And we're done a very good job.
19:53I'll do it.
19:53I'll do it.
19:55Oh!
19:56Oh!
19:56Oh!
19:56Oh!
19:57Oh!
19:57Oh!
19:58Oh, my gosh!
20:01The gardeners are out. They're buying shoes for the children.
20:07Would you like to play graces?
20:11Well, um, yes. Thank you.
20:19Ready? Yes.
20:24Oh!
20:28I did it.
20:30You did? Natural.
20:32Beginner's luck.
20:35Right, um...
20:36Ready?
20:37Uh, um...
20:40One moment.
20:41Oh.
21:20Ready?
21:21Yes.
21:24Oh!
21:26Oh, oh, oh!
21:27Oh!
21:28Erm...
21:29Er...
21:30Yeah, erm...
21:32That's probably enough, Graces, for today.
21:36Oh, yes, er...
21:39I brought a book for Mrs Byler.
21:41Oh, of course, yes.
21:43Ah, 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.
21:59But, erm...
22:00Well, it seems to me that it's all just...
22:03Words.
22:05What were you expecting?
22:08Are you a scholar, sir?
22:11Er, no.
22:12I'm a barrister, junior.
22:14And though the law is my business, poetry is my passion.
22:19What do you like to read?
22:22Er...
22:22Works of non-fiction, really.
22:24Um...
22:24Histories and, er...
22:26And geology.
22:27And what do you like to read for pleasure?
22:31That is reading for pleasure.
22:34There is nothing you like about poetry.
22:41Well...
22:41Just 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 of Miss Mary Bennet.
23:06Oh!
23:09The garden is at home.
23:10Oh, is it?
23:11Er, yes.
23:12Yes.
23:12Er, well...
23:17Er...
23:18Oh, Tom!
23:18Oh!
23:42And we'll need more scallops.
23:44Mrs. Shonley will claim she could possibly before helping herself to seven.
23:49Must be very strange without your family here.
23:53Well, there 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.
24:21Here.
24:36Here.
24:38Here.
24:41Now.
25:01I mean, that's basically it.
25:03But they're awfully fun to hunt.
25:10Good evening.
25:11Good evening.
25:12I do not believe we have met.
25:14I'm Miss Baxter.
25:16Delighted to meet you, Miss Baxter.
25:18I am Miss Bennet.
25:20I have not long moved to London from Hertfordshire.
25:24Fanshawe, Mr Fanshawe.
25:30A friend of my mother's died eating those nuts.
25:35One got stuck in his throat and that was it.
25:37She was quite dead in minutes.
25:45I 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.
25:50Forgive me.
25:51It wasn't deliberate.
25:54I hate the first 20 minutes of these evenings.
25:58Well, as do I.
25:59I never know who to talk to when I often find myself saying the wrong things.
26:07Your dress is striking.
26:08It looks very well on you.
26:09You 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, I 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.
27:08Are 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.
27:30We've already met.
27:32Miss Bennet?
27:32Oh, of course, you must have.
27:35Oh, I see you went for the Pomona trim.
27:37Uh, it's, um, spring green.
27:40It's quite different to Pomona.
27:43Well, 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, please excuse us.
28:08Come, Mary, it will be fun.
28:10Of course a man such as Mr. Hayward would have secured a match.
28:15But I had made friends.
28:17And that was enough.
28:25I did not know what tomorrow would bring.
28:29But for now, at least I had someone to dance with.
28:33All right.
28:38Thanks for watching.
28:39Bye.
28:43Bye.
28:46Bye.
28:55Bye.
28:57Bye.
28:59Bye.
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