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.
02:20Is it too much to ask you to make even the slightest effort with just one of these gentlemen?
02:25Mary 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.
02:33For 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.
03:16I wondered whether I might speak with Miss Bennet.
03:21Of course.
03:24In private.
03:30Miss 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 Bingley 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.
04:09I was entirely to blame.
04:11I put you and Miss Bingley in grave danger.
04:14I'm full of regret.
04:16Oh, really?
04:16No 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 heir.
04:42Oh.
04:45I informed Mr. Hayward of my change in fortune and told him
04:51of my intention to propose to you that very afternoon.
04:58I see.
05:00He knew what I could offer you.
05:02And he gave me his blessing.
05:08He did?
05:10Miss Bennet, I wanted to renew our conversation from the Lakes.
05:18Of course.
05:20Of course, Mr. Ryder.
05:21Please, please sit.
05:39I've never met anyone that makes me think like you do, who makes me see the world as you do.
05:48I've certainly never met anyone who speaks as plainly as you.
05:51And I admire that greatly.
05:54He's very kind.
05:57Although there is something of a gulf between my ideals and the world we live in.
06:05I 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.
06:20And ask...
06:27Miss Bennet.
06:33Would you consider accepting my hand in marriage?
06:49Mr. Ryder.
06:52My answer must, of course, be...
07:01That I do not love you.
07:09Could it be that you might grow to love me?
07:17Not in the way that you...
07:20Deserve to be loved.
07:25Your friendship has...
07:28It's taught me so much about myself.
07:30And for that I shall always be grateful.
07:34But I don't believe...
07:37I would ever have made you happy.
07:43You should follow your heart.
07:46Go to Italy.
07:47And seize everything it has to offer.
07:52I see.
07:55You will find happiness, Mr. Ryder.
07:59True happiness.
08:02I do not doubt it.
08:03I do not doubt it.
08:04I do not doubt it.
08:12No.
08:16It was a pleasure to see you looking so well.
08:24Dry.
08:32Goodbye, Miss Bennet.
08:37Goodbye.
08:45Goodbye.
08:48Goodbye.
08:50I'll do not believe.
08:50Oh please.
08:51Stay there.
08:52Mother.
08:54Mr. Ryder, you may go.
09:03What have you done?
09:05Oh I need somewhere.
09:08Mary!
09:10Mary!
09:32Miss Bennet.
09:36Mr. Sparrow!
09:42Is everything quite alright?
09:44No, yes. The city smoke is particularly heavy today.
09:47It just seems to have a...
09:50May I?
10:13I hope they are still serving you well.
10:17They really are.
10:19Tell me, what brings you to London?
10:22I graduated from Moorfields two weeks ago.
10:26You're a doctor.
10:27Just 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...
10:46Your specialism.
10:48Perhaps one day you could tutor my daughter.
10:51You have a child!
10:52She is one.
10:54Oh!
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,
11:12you 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,
11:30if you have always struggled to please your mother,
11:34why do you keep trying?
11:37As long as you know what you want,
11:39perhaps 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.
12:03Goodbye, Mr. Sparrow.
12:06I'm very, very glad to have run into you today.
12:09I'm very glad to have run into you today.
12:11Have a good day.
12:18I'm very happy to have run into you.
12:26I'm very happy to have run into you today.
12:29Mary.
12:31What on earth are you thinking?
12:34Mother.
12:34Mother, I'm sorry to disappoint you, again, but I will not be marrying Mr. Ryder.
12:39Nonsense. Call 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? By 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. Did you love him?
13:30No, I didn't. No.
13:32At the time, I thought I was helping our family remain at Longhorn.
13:35And now there is a handsome, wealthy man willing to overlook your shortcomings and you have turned him away.
13:41I have changed.
13:43We'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 setting.
14:21Why do you insist on torturing me?
14:32It has always been my intention to please you.
14:37I am very sad that I have never been able to make you proud of me.
14:43Yet 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.
15:04And 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.
15:17In fact, any attempts I made to discuss your future seemed only to rile him.
15:26I was quite alone.
15:33You and I always have been very different creatures.
15:40And it is likely we always shall be.
15:44It doesn't seem fair that you weren't helped in your efforts.
15:51But you 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.
16:23Goodbye, mother.
16:43Send our love to Lizzie.
16:48Goodbye, Jane.
17:09Mary, I have to say, I don't think I've ever seen anyone stand up to your mother as successfully as
17:13you did.
17:14Really?
17:14It looks very impressive.
17:20I don't mind that I'll never marry.
17:27I'm only sad that without a home of my own, I 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, and 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.
18:30Miss Bennet, there is a visitor to see you in the drawing room.
18:35Miss Bingley.
18:37Miss Bingley.
18:57Miss Bennet, I wanted to thank you for what you did on the mountain.
19:06You could have left me there, and you didn't.
19:18I think it is plain to see that I have a great fondness for Mr. Ryder.
19:27And I have come to ask that you leave him alone.
19:33Oh, Miss Bingley, you are much better suited to Mr. Ryder than I am.
19:38You don't mean that.
19:39I do.
19:40I do.
19:41Mr. Ryder is a dear friend.
19:44But he and I, we were never a match.
19:52The truth is...
19:57It was always Mr. Hayward for me.
20:00But it is not to be.
20:02Really?
20:03Tom Hayward?
20:06Surely he is attainable.
20:09It seems not.
20:11He has disappeared.
20:15Well, well.
20:28Perhaps I shall call for you sometime, Miss Bennet.
20:33Yes, we could read poetry together.
20:39Goodbye, Miss Bennet.
20:40Goodbye, Miss Bingley.
21:00And so it was that I carved out my own path.
21:05I stayed in London and became a governess.
21:11Over time, I worried a little less about the approval of others.
21:17And though the life I had chosen was different to that of my sisters,
21:22I had a wealth of experience to be proud of.
21:26I had found a family I loved very much.
21:30I was happy in the life I had chosen.
21:33And I knew that I was...
21:36Good enough.
21:40Though one can always be just a little happier, I suppose.
21:45Miss Bennet!
21:49Miss Bennet!
21:51Miss Bennet!
21:54Miss Bennet!
21:55Miss Bennet!
21:57Miss Bennet!
21:59Miss Bennet!
22:03Miss Bennet!
22:05Miss Bennet!
22:06Miss Bennet!
22:08Miss Bennet!
22:09Miss Bennet!
22:10Miss Bennet!
22:11Miss Bennet!
22:12Miss Bennet!
22:12Miss Bennet!
22:12Miss Bennet!
22:13Miss Bennet!
22:15Miss Bennet!
22:16Miss Bennet!
22:17Miss Bennet!
22:19Miss Bennet!
22:20Miss Bennet!
22:24Mrs. Gardner said I might find you here.
22:30I spent a...
22:31Where have you been?
22:36Yorkshire.
22:38What do you mean, Yorkshire?
22:40You can't just say Yorkshire as if Yorkshire's an entirely reasonable explanation for your very sudden and somewhat lengthy disappearance.
22:48After what you said...
22:49I'm sorry, Mary, please, please, let me explain.
22:54Well, you're here now, Mr. Haywood. Do go on.
23:05Well, we were in the lakes.
23:07The illegal matter that Mr. Ryder asked me to attend to was his inheriting the fortune of Lady Catherine Burr.
23:15And I knew quite clearly from Ryder's incredibly irritating behaviour that he had a liking for you, as I also
23:23had.
23:26To such a liking, in fact, that when I learned of Mr. Ryder's good fortune and his plan to make
23:35you an offer of marriage, I thought...
23:36I thought it in your best interest that I graciously step aside. Nevertheless, my actions in the mountains...
23:42You thought it in my best interests to graciously step aside. So your disappearance was, in fact, you being gracious
23:52to me.
23:56You and Mr. Ryder, between you, thought that you would just decide on my fate and I would just accept
24:01it. Like I'm a great old cat.
24:05If you put it like that, it does not sound good.
24:07I don't... Why didn't you just ask me? What I thought?
24:09I was reading between the lines.
24:10There were no lines! Mr. Haywood! There were no lines!
24:14I know I will never be able to offer you what Mr. Ryder can. I have had to work for
24:20everything that I have and...
24:22And I thought you deserved better than that. You deserved better than me, but now I realise...
24:30I will not know what you want unless I ask. So I must tell you I cannot offer you great
24:35wealth or Italy.
24:38But I can offer you my love and my devotion and my hope to build a family one day.
24:49Mr. Haywood! If you had asked me what I wanted, I would have told you. I have never wanted Mr.
24:57Ryder.
24:57I have never loved Mr. Ryder. I love you. I have only ever loved you.
25:04I love you. I have always loved you from the very first time I caught you playing graces on your
25:11own when you thought no one was at home.
25:16I have spent my life on the outside of things, but with you I am right in the middle of
25:21it all.
25:31Mary Bennet, would you do me the very great honour of becoming my wife?
25:43Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
25:53Yes, yes, yes. Yes, yes. In case we didn't catch you.
25:57Mary, I think now that we have kissed you, you could probably recall me Tom.
26:01Stop!
26:16Wait, what made you come back?
26:18Oh, I received a letter. From Caroline Bingley.
26:22What?
26:23Yes.
26:24She wrote to me and she told me about your conversation and I realised I was being ridiculous.
26:29From Caroline Bingley?
26:30Yes.
26:31She did something kind.
26:32Wait, however did she find you?
26:34She has a ways.
26:39My only wish is that we could thank her, but she has left London.
26:43She's gone to Italy in pursuit of Mr. Ryder.
26:47No.
26:48No.
26:50No.
26:53No.
26:55Oh, no.
27:01Oh, no.
27:03Oh, no.
27:08And so it was that I married him, but on my own terms, in my own time.
27:16And I hope you'll realise that is almost beside the point.
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.
27:48Hmm.
27:53Oh.
27:55Oh.
27:56And that is the last of them.
27:58Really?
27:59Oh.
28:03Oh.
28:04The indigo is splendid.
28:05It's actually Tyrian purple.
28:07It's Tyrian?
28:07Yes.
28:08From 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.
28:18Hmm.
28:23What's next?
28:26Spring green.
28:27In the drawing room?
28:29Hmm.
28:30Hmm.
28:31Hmm.
28:33Hmm.
28:33Hmm.
28:34Hmm.
28:35Hmm.
28:36Hmm.
28:36Hmm.
28:36Hmm.
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