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00:09If London was to be a new start for me, I would push all sorts of poetry and love aside.
00:21Mother warned me of the dirt, disease and despair that could be found here.
00:27She failed to mention the breadth of humanity and the anonymity of the city suited me well.
00:36I had taken to walking the city's beautiful parks.
00:41It seemed that all life was in London and here I could be anything I wanted.
00:55Surely I would find something I could succeed at in this vast, inspiring city.
01:03Oh, where is it? I've got to say, oh, she breaks my heart a little.
01:08She seems so good quitting herself.
01:11I worry my sister's caused some harm to poor Mary.
01:14Oh, I wonder. She's perhaps not the most natural motherless.
01:18But what else could she do with life? Be her mother's companion?
01:22I thought Tom brought her out of herself. Cutting-hearted man as he is.
01:26And she seemed to get on well with Anne Baxter the other evening, but she has so little confidence.
01:32Yes. It can't have been easy growing up in the shadow of her sisters.
01:36Found it.
01:37Ah, there it is.
01:39Well, I'm happy she's with us. She has an interesting and wonderful mind.
01:47Oh, Miss Bennet.
01:50Mr. Heywood.
01:53How are you?
01:54Are you good to hear how you've been getting on with the poetry?
01:57Oh, well, uh, I'm not sure I have the mind to appreciate it completely.
02:01I keep hoping Mr. Coleridge will explain himself or that Mr. Wordsworth will say what he really means,
02:07but they seem to enjoy keeping their secrets.
02:12Well, do not blame yourself. I think some poets enjoy being difficult to understand.
02:26Miss Bennet, I was so sorry to hear about your father.
02:30Moving to the city without your family, you not having your mother to confide in, or your sister's...
02:36Oh, it's a relief to be without her. In fact, it's something of a relief to be without any of
02:39them.
02:46I'm sorry you're not feeling yourself.
02:51I'm afraid I'm not. I'm just not finding my place here as easily as I thought.
02:57Sorry, please excuse me.
02:58Oh, Mary! Tom, how lovely to see you!
03:02Quietly, my dear, you'll summon the children who I fear have begun to associate Tom's name with a worryingly large
03:07bag of sugar plums.
03:09Please, please excuse me. Sorry, I'm sorry.
03:11Ah!
03:33My dear Mary, I fear your correspondence has not been reaching me.
03:39I have heard nothing from you at all.
03:44How are you managing your duties?
03:47You never were good with children, even when you were one yourself.
03:52I may require you to return to Pemberley, where I will be spending the summer.
04:00Lizzie has expressed a wish to see you, but more urgently, my new puppy has a nervous air and requires
04:08near constant companionship.
04:14I had come to London to see the world outside of my family, and that is what I would do.
04:26Oh, Mary, you're painting!
04:29To teach the children.
04:30Oh, how marvellous to see your imagination at play!
04:37It's terrible.
04:38No, no, it's very neat.
04:44Did you see the letter from your mother?
04:47Is she well?
04:48Well, between several complaints about the damp, the unseasonable pollen, and an unpleasant exchange with a rude shopkeeper, I understand
04:57that she is.
04:57Yes, I honestly think she enjoys such encounters. It makes her feel more alive.
05:04Oh, now, speaking of encounters, I think this might be of interest to you.
05:10Tom made a strange request to Mr. Gardiner and I, and extended the invitation to you too, Mary.
05:15Oh?
05:16Yes, he was most mysterious. He wants us to meet him tomorrow morning, where he says he plans to
05:23break through our rational reserve and move our hearts as well as our heads.
05:29He does, yes. Whatever that might entail.
05:34I must work on my lesson plans.
05:36Mary, you must join us.
05:38For my sake. Please consider it.
06:00Mary, you've got to get there.
06:00Mary before the hours you go,
06:01I love you.
06:01And you can set up your doors.
06:01I love you.
06:01I love you.
06:01I love you.
06:01You I love you.
06:13You're welcome.
06:15You're welcome.
06:38Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner, Miss Bennett, thank you for humoring me.
06:43Are we allowed to know the purpose of our visit?
06:46I have conspired with the City of London and William Wordsworth himself for a morning recital unlike any other in
06:53a hidden garden.
06:54Good Lord.
06:54Will Miss Baxter be joining us?
06:56I'm afraid Miss Baxter has a variety of excuses that she skillfully deploys to avoid such events.
07:02Well, remind me to ask her what they are.
07:04Yes, I am afraid that my petitions for good weather have been in vain.
07:08No matter. We will not be dissuaded by a little drizzle.
07:14A little drizzle?
07:18Just down there.
07:26This way?
07:27Yes.
07:29Yes.
07:30Yes.
07:44That's magical.
07:46What?
07:53Please forgive the theatrics.
07:55I had given Miss Bennett the impossible task of understanding poetry without any real sense of how to feel it.
08:05Sometimes, with poetry, the more I think, the less I understand.
08:19Earth has not anything to show more fair.
08:24Dole would it be of soul who could pass by, a sight so touching in its majesty.
08:32This city, now, doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning, silent there.
08:45Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky.
08:58All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
09:03Never did sun more beautifully steep in its first splendor.
09:09Valley, rock, or hill.
09:12Nurse or I never felt a calm so deep.
09:18The river glideth at his own sweet will.
09:24Dear God, the very houses seem asleep.
09:30And all that mighty heart is lying still.
09:45Well done, Tom.
09:47A moving rendition.
09:49Tom, I confess, I felt entirely transported by the force of your words.
09:54And what a beautiful place.
09:57I was staring at the flowers like this.
09:59Yes, your ability to kill our plants seems to be second to none.
10:03Come, let's take a turn.
10:05Indeed.
10:08I can't expect that this place is magical.
10:11It's such a problem.
10:12Yes, it is.
10:17Well, Miss Bennett.
10:26How do you feel?
10:27I...
10:31Well, for once I have nothing to say.
10:34I'm sorry to hear that.
10:36No, I wish to say something inspiring, but I do not know how.
10:47You have such varied ways to express your feelings.
10:51You have such, as you know, Miss Bennett's mind feel frozen or feeble or entirely unknowable.
11:01I do not know, Miss Bennet.
11:04Well, I use the words of others to puzzle through things I do not understand.
11:11But I do not believe that you are truly a stranger to strong emotions.
11:25Forgive me.
11:27Oh, I'm...
11:28Sorry, Miss Bennet. I...
11:31It was just a petal.
11:33Mr Hayward, I think I must leave London.
11:37Well, you've only just arrived.
11:39It's no great event. My mother needs a companion.
11:43I see.
11:44And, well, you will likely be very busy soon.
11:48What with social engagements and...
11:53Miss Baxter.
11:55Uh...
11:56I'm sure you'll scarcely have time to notice I'm gone.
12:01Well, I'd hoped that this would restore your spirit.
12:03Oh, indeed it did.
12:05It did, thank you.
12:08I shall never forget it.
12:24I shall travel to Pemberley on the 18th.
12:27Good heavens.
12:28Mary, this is quite unexpected.
12:30Well, is anything the matter?
12:32My mother needs me.
12:35Is my sister bored?
12:37I know that she's more likely than anyone in England to summon the troops on account of her loneliness, but
12:42must you answer the call?
12:43No.
12:46I think I must.
12:48Well, we so enjoy having you here.
12:51The children will be disappointed.
12:53Yes, it's kind of you to say.
12:57It is the truth.
13:02I must plan today's lessons.
13:12Dearest mother, although my time in London has been enlightening, I will be by your side for your summer at
13:22Pemberley.
13:24As requested.
13:27I am grateful for the generosity extended by my aunt and uncle, but as you rightly point out, I do
13:33not wish to burn them.
13:35And it will, of course, be an honor to look after your new pup.
13:54Thank you, sir.
13:56Thank you, sir.
14:02You come in.
14:20There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.
14:26She had so many children she didn't know what to do.
14:31She gave them some broth without any bread
14:34and she whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.
14:38That poem started very well and ended very badly.
14:42A good observation, Miss Marianne.
14:45Why didn't she just move into a boot when the children got too many?
14:48Fine suggestion, Miss Rebecca.
14:50It's a glorious revolution all finished then, Miss Bennet.
14:54This week we will write and perform a poem instead.
14:58Yes!
14:59I want to do a poem about myself because I'm quite interested.
15:04I'll do Typhoid.
15:05I'll read all frogs.
15:07Disgusting.
15:10Miss Marianne?
15:12Love.
15:24The eye it cannot choose but see.
15:27We cannot bid the ear be still.
15:31Our bodies feel where they be, against or with our will.
15:45A big green frog sat on a log.
15:48The frog was quite full.
15:51It had eaten ten flies, two slugs, one worm and three lily pad pies.
16:01Oh, Miss Bennet, you were obviously inspired by our morning poetry reading.
16:06Oh, I was.
16:08I was.
16:09No, I am.
16:10Yes, I am.
16:11Oh no!
16:13What is it, Miss Rebecca?
16:14I had a prop and I forgot to use it.
16:19Oh.
16:21Well, fear not.
16:22A prop is a cheap trick that diminishes the power of words.
16:27Indeed.
16:31Who's next?
16:36I would be sad to leave London.
16:38It was the first time I had ever felt a sense of belonging.
16:44Oh, there you are.
16:46I wanted to say thank you for such a wonderful day.
16:50The children will be inconsolable about you leaving.
16:54Marianne is stitching you a cushion.
16:56With an inspirational Latin phrase, I believe.
17:00Oh, yes.
17:01It's mori quam fordari.
17:03Death before dishonor.
17:05Goodness, how exciting.
17:08We shall miss you, Mary.
17:11I think we both know I'm not well suited to London's liveliness.
17:17Oh, Mary.
17:19You've barely given it a chance.
17:23Things change.
17:25People.
17:27Situations.
17:30Overtime.
17:35May I venture something on that subject?
17:40The other day, I went to buy a bonnet.
17:44And in the first shop I went into, found a stunning bonnet.
17:48An elegant blue, quite lovely on me if I dare say such a thing.
17:52When I went to purchase it,
17:57it had been reserved for someone else.
18:01I went into another shop and found not four other bonnets I liked just as much.
18:07And in the end,
18:10one a shade of dusky pink that suited me even more.
18:18Do you see what I'm saying?
18:22Blue is not your colour?
18:26No, I'm saying that London has such a variety of choices and such quantity, too.
18:32You may enjoy the first thing you see well enough.
18:35But often, something more exciting will come along.
18:40Anyway, I just thought I'd let you know.
18:44Well, um, yes, thank you for that.
18:46It was very interesting.
18:50Oh, I was meaning to tell you.
18:51We have decided to host a little entertainment tomorrow.
18:55A night of games.
18:56Oh, dear.
18:58What sort of games?
18:59No catching.
19:00Word games.
19:01Riddles and such.
19:03And very pleasant company.
19:04Company I know.
19:06Or new company.
19:08All new.
19:10And very friendly.
19:12We desperately desire that you remember London fondly.
19:16This may be your final event with us before you leave.
19:24I resolved not to send the letter to Mother just yet.
19:29It would be a shame to leave before the weekend.
19:34It would be a don't.
19:52It would be aæ¡è¿Ž.
19:53It would be a great idea.
19:54It would be worth, out for me,
20:02because I right now.
20:09Sorry, I didn't realise there was a line.
20:12No, please.
20:12I wish more people had such a restrained relationship to punch.
20:18May I?
20:18Oh, yes, of course.
20:21Noble defender of the punch.
20:22I surrender my post.
20:27And what brings you here?
20:29The word games or the company?
20:31I like words.
20:33I'm not much for games.
20:35Ah, and it is the company you've come for.
20:38Miss...
20:39Bennett. Mary Bennett.
20:42William Ryder.
20:44Where have you come from, Miss Bennett?
20:46Surely I would have remembered seeing you near Punchbowls across London.
20:50I am...
20:52new in town.
20:55Well, I for one am always pleased to see a new face.
20:58Oh.
21:03I see the riddles are about to commence.
21:06We are wise to begin with full glasses.
21:16And now, the quickfire round.
21:20Two words, one answer.
21:22Counterfeit agony.
21:24Counterfeit agony.
21:26I mean, trick?
21:28My brain is in agony.
21:29It isn't counterfeit.
21:30It is quite real.
21:31Champagne.
21:32Right.
21:33Champagne.
21:34Champagne!
21:35Right, Miss Clark.
21:37Another point to you and our new leader.
21:41Fancy delivering a champagne in word, not in glass.
21:44Tease us, Mr. Gardner.
21:45All right, then, Mr. Ryder.
21:47Here's one for you.
21:50Judy's fellow.
21:52Oh.
21:53Ah.
21:55My God, I know it.
21:57Punch.
21:58Oh, well done, Mr. Ryder.
22:01Finally, you've arrived on the scoreboard.
22:07My first word, comedians dread to hear.
22:12My next new life in a revolving year.
22:17I'll repeat it.
22:18My first word, comedians dread to hear.
22:22My next new life in a revolving year.
22:25Offspring.
22:26Yes!
22:27Oh, well done, Miss Perry.
22:29Miss Perry.
22:31Well done.
22:33Yes, Miss Bennet.
22:35Cheers to you.
22:37What's next?
22:38Mandarin.
22:39Delicious.
22:40Miss Bennet, how lovely to see you.
22:42To you, Miss Pexter.
22:43Mr. Hayward, we're so pleased you made it.
22:46I had false intelligence.
22:47You were busy this evening.
22:49Well, we somehow managed to persuade Mr. Hayward away from his work.
22:53I have an important case.
22:55Oh, he has the terrible fortune of being the only lawyer in London
22:57who exclusively gets important cases.
23:01Do excuse us, Mrs. James.
23:03Excuse me?
23:05Fuck you.
23:06Miss Merritt?
23:08Tom, will you?
23:10Mr. Ryder and I studied law together.
23:13Ah.
23:13Yes, Mr. Hayward is responsible for my untimely retirement in the field.
23:18Is that so, Mr. Ryder?
23:19Well, he fed me so many poems, I believe myself a deep, romantic soul.
23:24Too sensitive for the rigors of law.
23:26Seems like a heavy charge to lay solely at the feet of poetry.
23:29What?
23:30Mary, how is the night of games going?
23:32Do we have any hope for making a late charge for the prize?
23:36Not unless you wish to bribe our host.
23:38Miss Bennet here is putting us all to shame.
23:39Oh, nonsense, Mr. Ryder.
23:40You beat me to the punch.
23:42You see?
23:44Masterful was worse.
23:49Please gather yourselves for the penultimate round.
23:52Mr. Ryder.
23:53What?
23:55I'm glad to see you're in better spirits, Miss Bennet.
24:00This evening has been something of a tonic, Mr. Hayward.
24:05Round three.
24:08Ready?
24:10Sunday.
24:11Yes.
24:11Appointed Miss Baxter.
24:15Think sharp.
24:16Is it doldrums?
24:19No, no, don't forget I said anything.
24:20Is it my career?
24:21Yes.
24:22Well done.
24:23Is it really?
24:25Well done.
24:26Remarkable.
24:29Come on.
24:31Anybody?
24:32You like house.
24:35I've never known a lack of thinking to prevent you from speaking.
24:41That is five points apiece for Miss Clark and Miss Bennet.
24:48Well done.
24:53The final round.
24:55The two players with the most points go head to head to crack one final riddle and decide
25:00the winner.
25:01The leaders come as no surprise.
25:03Miss Clark.
25:05And Miss Bennet.
25:06You mean I didn't make it?
25:09I'm astonished.
25:11Mrs. Gardner, would you do the odds?
25:15To suffer my seconds, the doom of my first.
25:20And of all of my seconds, my whole is the worst.
25:36Oh, take!
25:39Yes!
25:40Good Lord!
25:42She's Britain's finest mind!
25:43Prove!
25:44How's it going?
25:45I don't get it!
25:48We declare we have a winner!
25:50London's newest arrival, but it's fiercest competitor, Miss Mary Bennet!
26:01I'm very glad that we arrived in time to see you crowned, Miss Bennet.
26:08I wanted to say...
26:10Miss Bennet, you are a liar.
26:13Am I?
26:14You told me you were not much for games.
26:17Well, I...
26:18I can't catch.
26:21Miss Bennet, I've been meaning to invite you to tea since I hear, very sadly, you are leaving London.
26:26Miss Bennet, surely not?
26:28You can't deprive again players of London your... your wriggling talents?
26:33Round of applause for our winner, Miss Bennet!
26:37Well done!
26:38Bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo.
26:41In that moment, I think I understood what my aunt was telling me.
26:46With the convoluted story about the bonnets.
26:52That quantity has a quality all of its own.
26:58Thank you so much.
27:03I never doubted you.
27:06This way.
27:07Thank you for coming.
27:12Mary, how you shone.
27:15You even caught the attention of the most eligible bachelor in time.
27:19I've been thinking...
27:20It seems a shame to leave London before I've given it a fair chance.
27:26I think I might like to stay a little while, if it's not too much burden.
27:30It's not a burden to us at all.
27:33We're delighted to have you with us.
27:39Living in London was helping me to see that there could be more to life than just marriage
27:44or misery.
27:46Perhaps my aunt was right.
27:48Even the most hopeless of situations, the most hopeless of people, can, with kindness,
27:58change.
27:59Little by little.
28:01Over time.
28:04I was excited to discover who Mary Bennett might be.