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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...
05:07It's over.
05:11I'm not...
05:11No, we need to wait.
05:12When are you into this, miss Mary?
05:16Oh, no, no!
05:24Oh, no, no!
05:27We can't wait.
05:27I'm not...
05:27All right.
05:27Oh, no.
06:34Oh, Mary! Welcome!
06:36I am sorry.
06:36Mary, you must be hungry after your journey. Would you like some toasted cheese?
06:40But first, we'll show you your room. Come in, come in!
06:44It's right at the top of the house, so you won't be disturbed by the children.
07:08How's your mother? She's had a most trying time of late. Well, you all have.
07:15Mother as well. Thank you for inquiring.
07:19And how are you, Mary? It must have been a terrible shock.
07:27It was. Well, thank you for stepping in at such short notice.
07:33We don't stand on ceremony here, especially with the children, so if you don't mind that, you'll do well with
07:39us.
07:40And the rest of your belongings will be brought up any moment.
07:43Do you have all you need?
07:45I do. Thank you.
08:00Which mountain range has found the end of your armies?
08:04The endies. Oh, hi!
08:06The endies.
08:08The endies.
08:11The endies.
08:32The endies.
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 best adapted to its sustenance and propagation,
09:26then, in conceiving an indefinite variety among 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.
09:47You've made him go to sleep.
09:55Let us move on to history, shall we?
09:58Now, in 1492, Christopher Columbus discovered America.
10:04Now, where is America?
10:06Ah, yes, America.
10:13Where has Rebecca gone?
10:15There were very clearly three of you in this room when 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 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.
10:46Tom Hayward.
10:47Oh.
10:48Friend of the family.
10:55Aren't there normally three of you?
10:56There were three, certainly, but 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 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, 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?
12:33Well, as discussed during the lesson,
12:37they'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, 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.
13:37Ah.
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?
14:50Mr. Gardner.
14:51Oh.
14:53Oh.
14:55Oh.
15:11Oh.
15:11Oh.
15:12Oh.
15:20Yes?
15:21weather getting warmer we're about to become more sociable oh oh please do not feel any obligation
15:26to involve me i should be quite content to stay upstairs with the children mary we want you to
15:30join us but i do not sparkle at dinners in our house no one is obliged to sparkle then of
15:43course
15:45but we need to get you properly dressed oh i thought perhaps tomorrow we could go to the
15:49haberdashers and you could pick out some fabrics i do not really care for dresses well that's a shame
15:55but very well perhaps 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
16:14oh good night mary and thank you for today
16:26this must be such a change for merit it most certainly is
16:41what do you think of the deep greens we have a soiree coming up now i think
16:47deep green would be perfect mother has always said it's terribly difficult to get any color to work
16:53with my complexion really well perhaps your complexions change because i can see many
16:58colors here which would work well on you but the most important thing being is that you choose
17:03fabrics that you truly like but mother says that mother isn't here
17:13mr gardner oh miss bennett home mr hayward have you brought your jacket to be mounted i have just
17:21this minute dropped it off well now that you're here you can make yourself useful miss bennett
17:27needs to choose some dress fabric i find myself quite overwhelmed by the choice well i shall be honest
17:33and say that my experience of picking dress fabric is limited to say the least but i shall try
17:41have you seen the names of these colors we've got uh dust of ruins uh corbeau or um flam de
17:50bonche
17:50anyone um i think i shall take the drake's neck with a splash of none key
17:56anyone for gambos well i mean that's just yellow that one yes yes i think my advice would be to
18:06choose the colors that make one feel most like oneself and i am sorry not to be of more use
18:12i should
18:13return to my desk and a particularly unexciting land negotiation good day good day
18:26oh poor tom you work so hard really underneath that light-hearted manner carries the weight of the
18:34world on his shoulders now have you decided i have chosen very well mary
18:47the first is this crimson and then i thought perhaps a spring green trim lovely but you will need
18:56two dresses so perhaps china blue hmm do you think a dress in the spring green alone would be garish
19:10what do you think mary some people may think it is wild but i like it then i think you
19:21should
19:21please yourself and not worry what others may think thank you you've done a very good job now
20:01the gardeners are out they're buying shoes for the children
20:04oh would you like to play graces well um yes thank you
20:19ready yes
20:28i did it you did natural beginner's luck
20:33all right um ready oh
20:37uh what um
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21:28oh yes uh i brought a book for mrs
21:41oh of course yes uh uh poetry
21:45do you like poetry
21:46do you like poetry miss bennett i prefer facts to whimsy
21:52whimsy
21:53i've i've tried uh well cowper uh byron even some dryden but um well it seems to me that it's
22:02all just words
22:05what
22:06what were you expecting
22:06what were you expecting
22:08are you a scholar
22:09uh
22:10no i'm a barrister junior and though the law is my business poetry is my passion
22:19what
22:19what do you like to read
22:21uh works of non-fiction
22:23really um histories and uh
22:25and geology
22:27and what do you like to read for pleasure
22:31that is reading for pleasure
22:34there is
22:35there is nothing you like about poetry
22:40well
22:40just some poems are mercifully short
22:45well
22:47now that you have
22:48thrown down the gauntlet
22:50i will not rest until you have appreciated the merits of poetry
22:56i believe
22:57that this is the book that will open the heart of miss mary bennett
23:05oh
23:09the gardener's at home
23:10oh is it uh yes
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24:11i think we should let your hair fall naturally
24:13no point trying to force it into curls if it doesn't want to go
24:20yeah
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25:01I mean, that's basically it, but they're awfully fun to hunt.
25:11Good 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. One got stuck in his throat and that was it. He
25:37was quite dead in minutes.
25:44Oh, I 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. If 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.
26:23Well, and 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.
27:39It'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, Becca.
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, 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.
28:33I did not know what tomorrow would be.
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