00:24The
00:24loss of my father was a leap into the unknown.
00:29Longbourn was my childhood home.
00:31And 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,
00:42destined to spend my days as my mother's companion?
00:48What 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.
01:10Who 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,
01:34but knew you would need time as a family to...
01:36To gather your things.
01:38Yourselves.
01:39Together.
01:43I want to make it quite clear...
01:47No.
01:50Quite clear that there is no rush for you to leave Longbourn.
01:54Hm!
01:56Thank you, Mr. Collins.
01:57You 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 you some help with the packing.
02:09So you are not obliged to undertake such a difficult task during your hour of need?
02:15Hm.
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.
02:49And Mary, you of course must come too.
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, I have received a letter from my brother and his wife in London.
03:13Their governess has been called back to Norfolk and they have asked me to send you to stay with them
03:18until a suitable replacement is found.
03:21There is going to be a governess.
03:23Oh, Mary.
03:24I would very much like to help, but you will need me, Mama.
03:28I 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
04:02misery.
04:11Mrs. Bennet is indisposed.
04:15Oh.
04:17Of course.
04:19Thank you, Hill.
04:28Um...
04:29What if the children don't like me?
04:32Why should they not like you?
04:34You're a perfectly likeable 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...
05:04I'm not...
05:07No, it's time for you.
05:08I'm not...
05:10No, I'm just,%$%&
05:17I don't know.
05:59I don't know.
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11:46I don't know.
11:49I don't know.
11:50I'll have a rabbit in the toy trunk because I,
11:55ah, Because rabbits are not at all social creatures.
11:59Exactly.
12:00Yes they are.
12:01Oh, Why exactly do you have a new governess?
12:09Is it that you keep eating them?
12:16Uh, Tom helped Edward with a legal matter,
12:19some years ago and we've been friends ever since you're another of our former lodgers oh
12:27what is a revolutionary republican
12:33well uh as discussed during the lesson um they're often associated with jacobinism
12:40but my point really sounds like you had a very interesting first day miss bennett
12:44well uh have you read catherine mccauley miss bennett yes i have yes mary told us about smallpox and i
12:55shall never sleep again well you asked me to be truthful was a deadly rash she said it can leave
13:02one blind or dead that is not quite how i put it blind or dead she said well that is
13:08true there's
13:09a mortality rate of about thirty percent exactly george cried three times there was something in
13:20my eye we held hands until mary had finished talking well you're never too young to learn about life
13:28i think our game is in order don't you i think that's a very good idea yes yes i'm first
13:34but
13:35what should we play graces ah let's show mary how to play graces yeah yeah marianne well
13:46you're to back up oh that counts it does indeed it does indeed oh you'll need to get someone to
13:58look
13:58at that send it to blight she'll fix it for you ready yay yes well done flare play you look
14:08like a wizard yes
14:17are you sure you won't join in mary oh uh no i'm not i'm not good at games oh that
14:22doesn't matter at all
14:24yes yes well you couldn't possibly be as ungainly as i am yeah really i'd only spoil it
14:38george ready
14:40george ready oh oh thank you thank you thank you yes tom mr garner
14:52oh
15:13yes mary oh do 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 should be quite
15:27content to stay upstairs with the children mary we want you to join us but i do not sparkle at
15:35dinners
15:37in our house no one is obliged to sparkle then of course but we need to get you properly dressed
15:47oh
15:47i thought perhaps tomorrow we could go to the haberdashers and you could pick out some fabrics
15:51i do not really care for dresses well 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 that's excellent news
16:14well good night mary and thank you for today
16:26this must be such a chain for merit
16:28it most certainly is
16:41what do you think of the deep greens
16:44we have a soiree coming up now i think deep green would be perfect
16:49my mother has always said it's terribly difficult to get any color to work with my complexion really
16:55well perhaps your complexion has changed because i can see many colors here which would work well on
16:59you but the most important thing being is that you choose fabrics that you truly like
17:07but mother says that mother isn't here
17:12mr gardner
17:17mr hayward have you brought your jacket to be mounted i have just this minute dropped it off
17:22well now that you're here you can make yourself useful miss bennett needs to choose some dress
17:28fabric i find myself quite overwhelmed by the choice well i shall be honest and say that my experience of
17:34picking dress fabric is limited to said the least but i shall try
17:39have you seen the names of these colors we've got uh dust of ruins uh corbeau or flam debanche anyone
17:51um i think i shall take the drake's neck with a splash of none key anyone for gaboche well i
17:59mean
17:59that's just yellow that one yes yes i think my advice would be to choose the colors that make one
18:07feel most like oneself and i am sorry not to be of more use i should return to my desk
18:14and a particularly
18:15unexciting land negotiation good day good day oh poor tom you work so hard really underneath that
18:31light-hearted manner carries the weight of the world on his shoulders now have you decided
18:41i have chosen very well mary the first is this crimson and then i thought perhaps a spring green trim
18:54lovely yes but you will need two dresses so perhaps china blue hmm
19:06do you think addressing the spring green alone would be garish what do you think mary
19:13some people may think it is wild but i like it then i think you should please yourself and
19:22not worry what others may think thank you you've done a very good job now
19:54oh
19:55oh my gosh
20:01The gardeners are out. Buying shoes for the children.
20:06Would you like to play graces?
20:11Well, yes. Thank you.
20:19Ready? Yes.
20:28I did it.
20:30You did. Natural.
20:32Beginner's luck.
20:36Ready?
20:37Oh.
21:13Oh.
21:14Oh.
21:19Oh.
21:20Ready? Yes.
21:24Oh.
21:25Oh, oh, oh. Oh.
21:28Oh!
21:28Erm.
21:29Erm.
21:30Yeah, erm, that's probably enough graces for today.
21:37Oh, yes.
21:39I brought a book for Mrs Garland.
21:41Oh, of course. Yes.
21:42It's, uh... Ah, poetry.
21:45Do you like poetry, Miss Bennet?
21:47I prefer facts to whimsy.
21:52Whimsy?
21:53I've tried, uh, well, Cowper, uh, Byron.
21:57Even some Dryden, but, um...
22:00Well, it seems to me that it's all just... words.
22:05What were you expecting?
22:08Are you a scholar, sir?
22:10Uh, 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?
22:21Uh, works of non-fiction, really. Um, histories and, uh, and 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.
22:40Well, just 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 merits 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? Ah, yes.
23:12Yes.
23:13Uh, well...
23:15And we'll need more scallops.
23:16Oh, Tom!
23:42And we'll need more scallops.
23:44Mrs. Shonnelly will claim she could have possibly
23:46before helping herself to seven.
23:49It must 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.
24:20Here.
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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.
29:04I did not know what tomorrow would bring.
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