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00:05Music
00:24The loss of my father was a leap into the unknown.
00:29Longbourn was my childhood home
00:31And although I had my struggles here
00:33It was all I had ever known
00:37From now on, would I be relying on the hospitality of my sisters?
00:43Destined to spend my days as my 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. Bennet and I shared was a rare thing
01:04I do not know that I shall ever eat again
01:10Who is that?
01:12I do not know, Mama
01:13What sort of person would impinge upon our hour of mourning so distastefully?
01:23Charlotte, I am afraid you find us in a state of some disarray
01:28Understandably
01:30We have been wanting to see you all since we heard the terrible news
01:34But knew you would need time as a family to
01:37To gather your things
01:38Yourselves
01:39Together
01:43I want to make it quite clear
01:48No
01:50Quite clear that there's no rush for you to leave Longbourn
01:54Thank you, Mr. Collins
01:57You are quite welcome to stay here with us for a full two weeks
02:01Two weeks
02:03Mrs. Bennet, there really is no hurry for you and Mary to leave
02:06But I have arranged you some help with the packing
02:08So you are not obliged to undertake such a difficult task during your hour of need
02:15Mmm
02:17Oh
02:26Mama
02:27You must come and stay with Mr. Bennet and I at 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
02:49And Mary, you of course must come too
02:53Thank you
02:54But if you're worried about company, Caroline Bingley stays with us often
03:00Well, yes, but I have not yet thought through my future prospects
03:07Speaking of your prospects, Mary
03:09I 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
03:21There is going to be a governess
03:23Oh, Mary
03:24I would very much like to help
03:25But, um, you will need me, Mama
03:30I have already accepted their offer
03:32They're sending a carriage
03:35But, Mama, do not worry about me, Mary
03:38I shall have Jane by my side
03:56If my options in life really were marriage or misery
04:00It looked very much as though I was destined for misery
04:11Mrs. Bennet is...indisposed
04:15Oh
04:17Of course
04:19Thank you, Hill
04:25Um
04:29What if the children don't like me?
04:32Why should they not like you?
04:34You're a perfectly likeable soul
04:36I 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
04:51Meet 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
05:01No, I'm just, um
05:04No, I'm not
05:08No, I'm, I'm not
05:15Uh, uh
05:19See you
05:19I don't know
05:21I don't talk to her
05:22Oh, duh
05:22Oh, yeah
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 is 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, 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 is found at the end of your armies?
08:05Oh, no.
08:06The Andes.
08:22Oh, not 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.
08:44Marianne, would you like to start?
08:47Miss Bennet, it's a pleasure to meet you.
08:50I am Marianne Gardner, and I'm 11 years old.
08:54It's my pleasure to meet you too, Miss Marianne.
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
09:22best adapted to its sustenance and propagation,
09:27then 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.
09:44We...
09:47You've made him go to sleep.
09:55Let us move on to history, shall we?
09:57Now, in 1492,
10:01Christopher 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.
10:20She vanished.
10:22She's a magician.
10:24Oh, magic is nothing but illusion and trickery.
10:26Oh.
10:27Now, where could she be?
10:30Oh!
10:30Tom!
10:31You're here!
10:31Tom!
10:32Can we finish lessons now?
10:34Yes.
10:35Oh, forgive the intrusion.
10:36I, er, came to tell you that dinner is served,
10:38and...
10:39You must be Miss Bennet.
10:41I...
10:42I must be.
10:44Oh, yes, I am.
10:46Er, er, Tom Hayward.
10:47Oh.
10:48Friend of the family.
10:51Hmm.
10:55Aren't there normally three of you?
10:57There 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,
11:15might I suggest you do not keep them in the toy trunk?
11:20Well, I...
11:20I wasn't sure.
11:22I thought perhaps mice like toy trunks.
11:25No, you see, in there,
11:26they 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. Hayward?
11:47Mr. Hayward,
11:48I am keeping a rabbit in the toy trunk
11:53because...
11:54I...
11:56Because rabbits are not at all social creatures.
11:59Exactly.
12:00Yes, they are.
12:01Oh.
12:05Now, 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,
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?
12:33Well, as discussed during the lesson,
12:37they're often associated with Jacobinism.
12:40But my point really was...
12:41Sounds like you've had a very interesting first day,
12:43Miss Bennet.
12:44Well, uh...
12:46Have you read Catherine Cawley, Miss Bennet?
12:49Yes, I have.
12:50Yes.
12:52Mary told us about smallpox.
12:54I shall never sleep again.
12:56Well, you asked me to be truthful.
12:59What's a deadly rash?
13:00She 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 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 learn 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.
13:45Well done.
13:45Bravo.
13:46You're to back up.
13:48Woo.
13:49Oh.
13:50Oh.
13:51Look.
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, she'll fix it for you.
14:02Ready?
14:03Yay.
14:04Well done.
14:05Yes.
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, 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.
14:30Really, I'd only spoil it.
14:38George.
14:39Ready?
14:41Oh.
14:42Oh.
14:43Oh, man.
14:49Yes, Dom.
14:50Mr. Gun.
14:52Oh!
14:53Oh!
15:11Yes?
15:13Yes?
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, oh, please do 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, of 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 dressers.
15:54Well, that's a shame.
15:55But 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 Meriton.
16:29It most certainly is.
16:38What do you think of the deep greens?
16:44We have a soiree coming up.
16:46Now, I think deep green would be perfect.
16:49Well, Mother 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.
17:13Mrs. Gardiner?
17:14Oh.
17:15Miss Bennet.
17:16Tom!
17:17Mr. Hayward, have you brought your jacket to be mended?
17:21I have just this minute dropped it off.
17:22Well, now that you're here, you can make yourself useful.
17:26Miss Bennet 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 colours?
17:44We've got Dust of Ruins, Corbeau, Flamme de Bonche, anyone?
17:51Um, I think I shall take the Drake's neck with a splash of num key.
17:56Any one for gaboche?
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.
18:28He works so hard.
18:29Really?
18:30Underneath that light-hearted manor, 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.
18:50And then I thought perhaps a spring green trim.
18:54Lovely.
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.
19:17But...
19:18I like it.
19:20Then I think you should please yourself and not worry what others may think.
19:24You've done a very good job.
19:27Now.
19:54Oh!
19:55Oh! Oh!
19:57Oh, gosh!
19:59Oof!
20:01The gardeners are out.
20:03They're buying shoes for the children.
20:05Oh.
20:07Would you like to play graces?
20:11Well, um, yes.
20:19Ready? Yes.
20:28I did it.
20:30You did. Natural.
20:32Beginner's luck.
20:34Right, um...
20:36Ready?
20:37Uh, um...
20:40One moment.
20:41Oh.
20:55Yeah!
21:13Oh!
21:14Uh...
21:20ready yes oh oh oh oh oh um uh uh yeah um that's that's probably enough enough for today
21:35um oh yes uh i brought a book for mrs oh of course yes uh uh poetry
21:45do you like poetry miss bennett i prefer facts to whimsy
21:52whimsy i i've tried uh well cowper uh byron even some dryden but um
22:00well it seems to me that it's all just words what were you expecting are you a scholar
22:09sir no i'm a barrister junior and though the law is my business poetry is my passion
22:19what do you like to read uh works of non-fiction really um histories and uh
22:26and geology and what do you like to read for pleasure that is reading for pleasure
22:34there is nothing you like about poetry
22:40well just some poems are mercifully short
22:46well now that you have thrown down the gauntlet i will not rest until you have appreciated the
22:52merits of poetry
22:56i believe that this is the book that will open the heart of miss mary bennett
23:05oh
23:09the gardeners are home oh is it uh yes yes
23:12uh
23:13uh
23:15uh
23:15uh
23:15uh
23:15uh
23:16Oh, Tom!
23:40And 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.
23:53There 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
24:14if it doesn't want to go.
24:21Here.
24:21I'm not sure.
25:01I mean, that's basically it, but they're awfully fun to hunt.
25:10Good evening. I do not believe we have met. I'm Miss Baxter.
25:16Delighted to meet you, Miss Baxter. I am Miss Bennet. I have not long moved to London from Hertfordshire.
25:24Fenshaw, Mr Fenshaw.
25:30A friend of my mother's died eating those nuts.
25:35One got stuck in his throat, and that was it. He was quite dead in minutes.
25:45I hope I didn't cause any offence.
25:46That was marvellous. Oh, I shall keep that story in mind for when I want to be rid of someone.
25:51Forgive me, but it wasn't deliberate.
25:55I hate the first 20 minutes of these evenings.
25:58As 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? I 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.
26:37London, 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.
27:16Meg, 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.
27:39It's spring green. It'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.
28:06Oh, please 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.
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.
28:33I did not know what tomorrow would bring.
29:04But now, I'm going to spend a bit of time this summer with.
29:05I did not know what tomorrow would bring.
29:05When I am doing great, he will come.
29:05I will be on my train for you.
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