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The Other Bennet Sister S01E10 (2026)
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00:03Three times I had written to Mr. Hayward, and each time the letter was returned, marked
00:09Forwarding Address Unknown.
00:13There was so much that I wished to say to him, but it was not to be.
00:21No matter, I would not wallow.
00:23I had navigated difficulty before, and I would use my experiences to find my place in London.
00:30And prove I could build a life here.
00:31Not only to myself, but also to Mama.
00:37Here she is.
00:39I didn't know you were...
00:41Sorry, what are you doing here?
00:43Your mother has come to stay.
00:44For a short time.
00:46Lizzie's physician advised I come to London to see Dr. Simmons, who is a great authority on nervous complaints.
00:54Well, sit.
00:59Mr. Darcy has been most insistent, urging me to think of myself and not hurry back to Pemberley until I
01:06have been properly attended to.
01:10Now, Mary, I have decided to forgive your actions at Pemberley and to offer you my assistance one last time.
01:17While I am here, I intend to finish what I began and find suitable matches for all my daughters.
01:27Oh, please, Mama, really.
01:29Four out of five must be considered a great triumph.
01:32A great triumph, indeed.
01:34Mary has plenty in London to occupy her time.
01:36There is no better use of Mary's time than finding a match.
01:40Oh, please, Mother, really.
01:42I'm very happy, as I am.
01:44I understand your shame, Mary, in the way that you have behaved towards me.
01:49But nevertheless, you cannot override my natural kindness and my motherly instinct.
01:55I have arranged for you to meet several suitors.
02:21Is it too much to ask you to make even the slightest effort with just one of these gentlemen?
02:26Mary has made good connections.
02:27Oh, and do good connections provide for you for the rest of your life?
02:31And she is welcome here.
02:32Oh, yes, for now.
02:34For as long as she wants.
02:35Enter!
02:40A visitor for Miss Bennet.
02:43Mr. Ryder is here.
02:45Mr. Ryder?
02:47Well, show him in.
02:49Please show him in.
03:02Mr. Ryder, how wonderful to see you.
03:05Mrs. Bennet.
03:06Mrs. Gardiner.
03:08Miss Bennet.
03:11And to what do we owe the pleasure of your visit?
03:14Yes, excuse me, dropping in unannounced.
03:17I wondered whether I might speak with Miss Bennet.
03:22Of course.
03:24In private.
03:31Miss Bennet, I'm most relieved to see you looking so well after.
03:38I was sorry not to be able to say goodbye to you at the Lakes.
03:42Once I knew you were being taken care of, I felt it my duty to accompany Miss Bennet back to
03:46London to see a physician.
03:47I understand.
03:48But I was kept informed of your recovery.
03:58Miss Bennet, I wanted to sincerely apologize for what happened.
04:06Oh, I played my own part in proceedings.
04:08No, no, I was entirely to blame.
04:11I put you and Miss Bingley in grave danger.
04:14I'm full of regret.
04:16Oh, really?
04:17No more of it.
04:19Though it did not end well.
04:21Overall, I look back at my time in the Lakes very fondly.
04:26It was never my intention to intrude on your time there.
04:30But I needed Mr. Hayward's help.
04:34You see, Lady Catherine de Bourre unexpectedly named me as her.
04:42Oh.
04:45I informed Mr. Hayward of my change in fortune and told him of my intention to propose to you that
04:53very afternoon.
04:59He knew what I could offer you, and he gave me his blessing.
05:05He gave me his blessing.
05:08He did?
05:10Miss Bennet, I wanted to renew our conversation from the Lakes.
05:18Of course.
05:19Of course, Mr. Ryder.
05:21Please, please sit.
05:39I've never met anyone that makes me think like you do.
05:43Who makes me see the world as you do.
05:48I've certainly never met anyone who speaks as plainly as you, and I admire that greatly.
05:53It was very kind.
05:57Although there is something of a gulf between my ideals and the world we live in.
06:05I'd like to think that you and I could carve out an interesting existence.
06:13Together.
06:17I shall now do what I should have done weeks ago, and ask...
06:27Miss Bennet.
06:33Would you consider accepting my hand in marriage?
06:49Mr. Ryder.
06:52My answer must, of course, be...
07:01...that I do not love you.
07:07Ron.
07:10Could it be that you might grow to love me?
07:17Not in the way that you deserve to be loved.
07:25Your friendship has taught me so much about myself, and for that I shall always be grateful.
07:34But I don't believe I would ever have made you happy.
07:44You should follow your heart.
07:46Go to Italy.
07:47And seize everything it has to offer.
07:52I see.
07:56You will find happiness, Mr. Ryder.
07:59True happiness.
08:02I do not doubt it.
08:12No.
08:16It was a pleasure to see you looking so well.
08:23Pleasure to see you looking so dry.
08:33Goodbye, Miss Bennet.
08:37Bye.
08:45No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
08:48Uh, I should leave.
08:50Oh, please.
08:51Stay there.
08:52Mother.
08:54Mr. Ryder, you may go.
09:03What have you done?
09:04Oh, I need some air.
09:08Mary.
09:10Mary.
09:32Miss Bennet.
09:35Miss Bennet.
09:36Mr. Sparrow.
09:42Is everything quite all right?
09:44No, yes.
09:44The city smoke is particularly heavy today.
09:47It just seems to have...
09:50May I?
10:13I hope they are still serving you well.
10:17They really are.
10:19Tell me, um, what...
10:20What brings you to London?
10:22I graduated from Moorfields two weeks ago.
10:26You're a doctor.
10:28Just as you said you would be.
10:32Congratulations, Mr. Sparrow.
10:35I always thought you'd end up studying somewhere.
10:37Somehow.
10:38I would like to be a governess.
10:41To an older girl, perhaps.
10:44I think I'd enjoy teaching petrology and geology and...
10:47Your specialism.
10:48Perhaps one day you could tutor my daughter.
10:51You have a child.
10:52She is one.
10:56Then perhaps I will, yes.
10:59No, I've not really looked too far into it as yet.
11:04I think my mother will not approve.
11:10If I remember rightly, you and your mother always had very different ideas about life.
11:16About reading.
11:17About the wearing of spectacles.
11:21And about...
11:23Potential matches.
11:28If I may be so bold.
11:31If you have always struggled to please your mother, why do you keep trying?
11:37As long as you know what you want, perhaps it is time to stop worrying what she thinks.
11:45Our happiness is in our own hands.
11:49Absolutely.
11:50I truly believe it is.
11:54It has been a pleasure to see you again.
11:57You must be getting back.
12:04Goodbye, Mr. Sparrow.
12:06I'm very, very glad to have run into you today.
12:11I'm very, very glad to have run into you today.
12:31Mary, what on earth are you thinking?
12:34Mother, I'm sorry to disappoint you.
12:36Again.
12:37But I will not be marrying Mr. Ryder.
12:39Nonsense.
12:40Call him back and tell him you were mistaken.
12:43No, I will not do that.
12:45Have you no consideration for my nerves?
12:49I've never wanted to cause you any trouble.
12:51You have caused me nothing but trouble since the day you were born.
12:56Yes, I'm aware that is so.
12:59I am trying to help you.
13:02I do not want you to be looked down upon.
13:08Looked down upon?
13:09By whom?
13:11By whom?
13:15Mary, please call Mr. Ryder back and accept his offer.
13:20I do not love him.
13:21Mama, I've not waited all this time just to marry a man I do not love.
13:25You would have once agreed to marry Mr. Collins.
13:28Did you love him?
13:30No, I didn't.
13:31No.
13:32At the time, I thought I was helping our family remain at Longbourn.
13:35And now there is a handsome, wealthy man willing to overlook your shortcomings and you have turned him away.
13:41I have changed.
13:43I have changed.
13:43We'll change back again.
13:49Charlotte once told me that my options were marriage or misery.
13:55But I have seen many miserable marriages.
14:01Meanwhile, I've experienced much joy in life on my own.
14:07What will you do without a husband?
14:10How will you survive?
14:11I will work as a governess.
14:13Outside the families?
14:14Yes.
14:15I will take on an older pupil.
14:16And I will teach a more nuanced, detailed education.
14:19Working to a higher level on a specific set of...
14:21Why do you insist on torturing me?
14:32It has always been my intention to please you.
14:36I am very sad that I have never been able to make you proud of me.
14:43Because I was never able to match my sisters in your esteem.
14:50I am sorry.
14:54You have no idea what it has been like for me.
14:57I had five daughters.
14:59Five daughters.
15:01All of whom I knew must marry well in order to survive.
15:05And there was nobody to make that happen except me.
15:09Your father never had to think about it.
15:13And he never raised a finger to help.
15:18In fact, any attempts I made to discuss your future seemed only to rile him.
15:25I was quite alone.
15:32You and I always have been very different creatures.
15:40And it is likely we all shall be.
15:45It doesn't seem fair that you weren't helped in your efforts.
15:50But...
15:51You did it.
15:55We are all settled in our different ways.
15:59I have chosen my path.
16:02And I am happy with it.
16:08I did not want you to be left behind.
16:22Goodbye, mother.
16:48Goodbye, Jane.
17:09Mary, I have to say
17:10I don't think I've ever seen anyone stand up to your mother
17:12as successfully as you did
17:14Really?
17:14It was very impressive
17:20I don't mind that I'll never marry
17:27I'm only sad that without a home of my own
17:30I shall never get to choose my own wallpaper
17:34You can always choose some for your room, Mary, if you like
17:40Do you think I've done the wrong thing?
17:44In not marrying Mr Ryder?
17:46Not at all, Mary
17:49I've learnt a great deal from him
17:52He's a man that finds joy in life
17:55And there's much to be admired about him
17:57But you do not love him
18:00No
18:03You love someone else?
18:11Where has he gone?
18:16I wish I knew
18:26Thank you
18:30Miss Bennet, there is a visitor to see you in the drawing room
18:35Miss Bingley
18:57Miss Bennet, I wanted to thank you
19:01For what you did on the mountain
19:06You could have left me there
19:07And you didn't
19:17I think it is plain to see that I
19:22Have a great fondness for Mr Ryder
19:28And I have come to ask that you
19:31Leave him alone
19:33Oh Miss Bingley
19:34You are much better suited to Mr Ryder than I am
19:38You don't mean that
19:39I do, I do
19:41Mr Ryder is a dear friend
19:44But he and I, we were never a match
19:51The truth is
19:56It was always Mr Hayward
19:58For me
20:00But it is not to be
20:01Really?
20:03Tom Hayward?
20:06Surely he is attainable
20:08It seems not
20:10He has disappeared
20:15Well, well
20:28Perhaps I shall call for you sometime, Miss Bennet
20:32Yes, we could read poetry together
20:39Goodbye, Miss Bennet
20:40Goodbye, Miss Bingley
21:01And so it was that I carved out my own path
21:05I stayed in London
21:07And became a governess
21:11Over time
21:12I worried a little less
21:14About the approval of others
21:17And though the life I had chosen
21:19Was different to that of my sisters
21:22I had a wealth of experience
21:24To be proud of
21:26I had found a family
21:28I loved very much
21:30I was happy
21:31In the life I had chosen
21:33And I knew that I was
21:35Good enough
21:40Though one can always be
21:42Just a little happier
21:44I suppose
21:45Miss Bennet!
21:49Miss Bennet!
21:53Miss Bennet!
21:54I have your father
21:55to try and eat
22:03Mr Hayward
22:24Mrs Gardner said I might find you here
22:30I spent it all...
22:31Where have you been?
22:35Yorkshire
22:38What do you mean Yorkshire?
22:40You can't just say Yorkshire
22:41As if Yorkshire's an entirely reasonable explanation
22:44For your very sudden and somewhat lengthy disappearance
22:48After what you said...
22:49I'm sorry Mary
22:50Please, please, please
22:51Let me explain
22:54Well you're here now
22:57Mr Hayward
22:58Do go on
23:05When we were in the lakes
23:07The legal matter that Mr Ryder asked me to attend to
23:10It was his inheriting
23:10The fortune of
23:12Lady Catherine de Boer
23:15And I knew quite clearly from Ryder's incredibly
23:19Irritating behaviour
23:20That he had a liking for you
23:22As I also had
23:26As I also have
23:30It is such a liking
23:31In fact
23:32That when I learned of Mr Ryder's good fortune
23:34And his plan to make you an offer of marriage
23:36I thought
23:37I thought it in your best interest
23:38That I graciously step aside
23:40Nevertheless
23:40My actions
23:41In the mountain
23:42You thought it in my best interests
23:45To graciously step aside
23:47So your disappearance
23:49Was it in fact
23:51You being gracious
23:52To me
23:56You
23:57You and Mr Ryder
23:58Between you
23:58Thought that you would just decide on my fate
24:00And I would just accept it
24:01Like I'm a
24:02Like I'm a
24:04Great little cat
24:05If you put it like that
24:06It does not sound good
24:07Why didn't you just ask me?
24:08What I thought?
24:09I was reading between the lines
24:10There were no lines
24:11Mr Hayward
24:12There were no lines
24:15I know I will never be able to offer you what Mr Ryder can
24:19I have had to work for everything that I have
24:21And
24:23And I thought you deserved better than that
24:26That you deserved better than me
24:28But now I realise
24:30I will not know what you want
24:32Unless I ask
24:33So I must tell you
24:34I cannot offer you great wealth
24:35Or Italy
24:38But I can offer you my love
24:41And my devotion
24:42And my hope to build a family
24:43One day
24:49Mr Hayward
24:52If you had asked me
24:54What I wanted
24:55I would have told you
24:56I never wanted Mr Ryder
24:57I have never loved Mr Ryder
25:00I love you
25:02I have only ever loved you
25:04I love you
25:07I have always loved you
25:08From the very first time I caught you playing graces
25:11On your own
25:12When you thought no one was at home
25:16I have spent my life
25:18On the outside of things
25:19But with you
25:20I am right in the middle of it all
25:31Mary Bennet
25:32Would you do me the very great honour of becoming one wife?
25:41Yes
25:43Yes
25:44Yes
25:52I was a yes to the rest of the day
25:55In case
25:55In case we didn't catch it
25:57Mary I think now that we've kissed
25:59You could probably call me Tom
26:01Stop
26:16Wait what made you come back?
26:18Oh I received a letter
26:21From Caroline Bingley
26:23What?
26:23Yes
26:24She wrote to me and she told me about your conversation
26:27And I realised I was being ridiculous
26:28From Caroline Bingley?
26:30Yes
26:30She did something kind
26:32Wait how ever did she find you?
26:34She has a ways
26:38My only wish is that we could thank her
26:41But she has left London
26:42Oh
26:43She's gone to Italy
26:44In pursuit of Mr Ryder
26:47No
26:48Yes
26:50No
26:54I know
26:58No
26:59Oinks
27:00Oh
27:01Oh
27:07And so it was
27:09That I married him
27:11But on my own terms
27:13In my own time
27:16And I hope you'll realise
27:17That is almost beside the point
27:26Go away there go
27:30The point, perhaps, was just as Hill had predicted all that time ago.
27:36That I needed to get out and see the world outside my family.
27:41So that I could find my place in it.
27:56That is the last of them.
27:58Really?
27:59Oh.
28:04The indigo is splendid.
28:05It's actually Tyrian purple.
28:07It's Tyrian?
28:08Yes, it's from the Greek myth about Hercules' dog chewing a spiny murex sea snail.
28:11I didn't know Hercules had a dog.
28:14Keep up, Thomas.
28:17I am trying.
28:23What's next?
28:25Spring green in the drawing room.
28:29That's happy.
28:31You will see the sign in the 21st century.
28:32To be the sign in the 21st century,
28:32I am sorry for that.
28:33I am sorry for that.
28:33Love you, too.
28:35It's really good.
28:35Love you, too.
28:36Do you love you?
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