00:04The loss of my father was a leap into the unknown. Longbourn was my childhood home,
00:11and although I had my struggles here, it was all I had ever known. From now on,
00:18would I be relying on the hospitality of my sisters, destined to spend my days as my mother's
00:25companion? What other choice did I have? I do not expect any of you to understand my pain.
00:38The bond Mr. Bennett and I shared was a rare thing. I do not know that I shall ever eat
00:45again.
00:49Who is that? I do not know, Mama. What sort of person would
00:54impinge upon our hour of mourning so distastefully?
00:59Charlotte!
01:02I am afraid you find us in a state of some disarray.
01:06Let me tell you, understandably.
01:07We have been wanting to see you all since we heard the terrible news,
01:11but knew you would need time as a family to-
01:14Together your things.
01:15Yourselves.
01:16Together.
01:20I want to make it quite clear.
01:24No.
01:27Quite clear that there's no rush for you to leave Longbourn.
01:31Hm.
01:32Thank you, Mr. Collins.
01:34You are quite welcome to stay here with us for a full two weeks.
01:37Two weeks?
01:39Mrs. Bennett, there really is no hurry for you and Mary to leave.
01:42But I have arranged some help with the packing.
01:44So you are not obliged to undertake such a difficult task during your hour of need?
01:50Mm.
01:52Oh!
02:01Mama.
02:02You must come and stay with Mr. Beanley and Knight Netherfield.
02:06Well, we have a number of cooks and more servants than we know what to do with.
02:11Oh, Jane.
02:13I would be delighted.
02:15It would bring me great comfort to be in a citable property with a large number of staff at my
02:20disposal.
02:21Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
02:23And Mary, you of course must come too.
02:28But if you're worried about company, Caroline Bingley stays with us often.
02:33Well, yes, but I have not yet thought through my future prospects.
02:39Speaking of your prospects, Mary, I have received a letter from my brother and his wife in London.
02:45Their governess has been called back to Norfolk, and they have asked me to send you to stay with them
02:51until a suitable replacement is found.
02:53There is going to be a governess.
02:55Oh, Mary.
02:56I would very much like to help, but you will need me, Mama.
03:00I have already accepted their offer.
03:04They're sending a carriage.
03:06But, Mama, do not worry about me, Mary.
03:09I shall have Jane by my side.
03:26If my options in life really were marriage or misery,
03:30it looked very much as though I was destined for misery.
03:41Mrs. Bennet is indisposed.
03:45Oh.
03:46Of course.
03:48Thank you, Hill.
03:56Um...
03:58What if the children don't like me?
04:01Why should they not like you?
04:03You're a perfectly likable soul.
04:07I have nothing ready to teach them.
04:10Mary, nobody knows more facts about anything than you.
04:16It's time for you to get out and see the world.
04:19Meet some other people that live in it.
04:22I think it'll do you good.
04:25Do not be frightened, Miss Mary.
04:27Oh, no, I'm not.
04:27I'm not.
04:28No, I'm just, um...
04:30What do I am?
04:33I don't know.
04:34No, I don't know.
04:39I don't know.
04:57I am no one ever.
06:29Mother, she's had a most trying time of late. Well, you all have.
06:36Mother as well. Thank you for inquiring.
06:40And how are you, Mary? It must have been a terrible shock.
06:48It was. Well, thank you for stepping in at such short notice. We don't stand on ceremony here, especially with
06:55the children, so if you don't mind that, you'll do well with us.
07:00And the rest of your belongings will be brought up any moment. Do you have all you need?
07:05I do. Thank you.
07:18Which mountain range is found here?
07:35Oh, no.
07:44Oh, not so good.
08:01Marianne, would you like to start?
08:04Miss Bennet, it's a pleasure to meet you.
08:07I am Marianne Gardner, and I'm 11 years old.
08:10It's my pleasure to meet you too, Miss Marianne.
08:15George!
08:18Yes, thank you, George.
08:19And this is...
08:25This is Rebecca.
08:27Thank you, Miss Rebecca.
08:30And if an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances
08:37best adapted to its sustenance and propagation,
08:41then, in conceiving an indefinite variety
08:45among the individuals of that species,
08:47we must be assured that, on the one hand,
08:52those which depart most from the best adapted constitution
08:55will be the most liable to perish.
09:01You've made him go to sleep.
09:08Let us move on to history, shall we?
09:11Now, in 1492,
09:14Christopher Columbus discovered America.
09:17Now, where is America?
09:18Ah, yes, America.
09:25Where has Rebecca gone?
09:27There were very clearly three of you in this room when I began looking at the globe,
09:31and now there are two of you.
09:33She vanished.
09:34She's a magician.
09:36Oh, magic is nothing but illusion and trickery.
09:38Oh.
09:39Now, where could she be?
09:42Tom, you're here!
09:43Tom!
09:43Can we finish lessons now?
09:45Yes.
09:46Oh, forgive the intrusion.
09:47I came to tell you that dinner is served.
09:50You must be Miss Bennet.
09:52I must be.
09:55Oh, yes, I am.
09:57Tom Hayward.
09:58Oh.
09:59Friend of the family.
10:01Oh.
10:05Aren't there normally three of you?
10:07There were three, certainly, but I was looking at America, and when I looked back, it was...
10:20Do you have mice, Miss Bennet?
10:23For if you do, might I suggest you do not keep them in the toy trunk?
10:28Well, I wasn't sure.
10:31I thought perhaps mice like toy trunks.
10:34No, you see, in there, they cannot get to their cheese.
10:37Actually, it's a fallacy that mice like cheese.
10:42Of course.
10:43They're much more partial to root vegetables and grains.
10:46Yes, indeed.
10:48I'm a rabbit.
10:52Mr. Hayward?
10:55Mr. Hayward, I am keeping a rabbit in the toy trunk because...
11:04Because rabbits are not at all social creatures.
11:07Exactly.
11:07Yes, they are.
11:12Now, why exactly do you have a new governess?
11:16Isn't that you keep eating them?
11:23Tom helped Edward with the legal matter some years ago, and we've been friends ever since.
11:28You're neither of our former loungers.
11:30Oh.
11:31Yes.
11:32Oh.
11:33What is a revolutionary Republican?
11:39Well, as discussed during the lesson, they're often associated with Jacobinism.
11:46But my point really was...
11:47Sounds like you had a very interesting first day, Miss Burnett.
11:50Well, have you read Catherine Cawley, Miss Burnett?
11:54Yes, I have.
11:55Yes.
11:57Mary told us about smallpox.
11:59I shall never sleep again.
12:01Well, you asked me to be truthful.
12:03What's a deadly rash?
12:05She said it can leave one blind or dead.
12:08That is not quite how I put it.
12:10Blind or dead, she said.
12:11Well, that is true.
12:12There's a mortality rate of about...
12:14Thirty percent.
12:17Exactly.
12:19George cried three times.
12:22There was something in my eye.
12:24We held hands until Mary had finished talking.
12:28Well, you're never too young to learn about life.
12:31I think our game is in order, don't you?
12:33I think that's a very good idea.
12:35Yes.
12:36Yes.
12:36I'm first.
12:37But what should we play?
12:39Graces.
12:40Ah.
12:41Let's show Mary how to play Graces.
12:43Yes.
12:44Marianne.
12:46Well called.
12:47Bravo.
12:48Bravo.
12:49You're to back up.
12:50Woo.
12:51Oh.
12:52Oh.
12:53That counts.
12:54It does indeed.
12:55It does indeed.
12:56It does indeed, don't it?
12:57Oh.
12:57Oh, you're told.
12:58You'll need to get someone to look at that.
13:01Send it to Blythe.
13:02She'll fix it for you.
13:04Ready?
13:05Woo.
13:05It's very end.
13:06Yes.
13:07Oh, well done.
13:08Flat leg.
13:09You look like a wizard.
13:11Yes.
13:18Are you sure you won't join in, Mary?
13:20Oh, no.
13:21I'm not good at games.
13:22Oh, that doesn't matter at all.
13:25Yes.
13:27Well, you couldn't possibly be as ungainly as I am.
13:30Really, I'd only spoil it.
13:38George.
13:39Ready?
13:41Ready?
13:49Yes, Tom.
13:49It's Mr. Gardner.
13:51Oh.
14:14Do not look so grave, my dear.
14:16You're not in trouble.
14:18With the weather getting warmer, we're about to become more sociable.
14:21Oh.
14:21Oh, please.
14:22Do not feel any obligation to involve me.
14:24I shall be quite content to stay upstairs with the children.
14:26Mary, we want you to join us.
14:30But I do not sparkle at dinners.
14:34In our house, no one is obliged to sparkle.
14:39Then, of course.
14:41But we need to get you properly dressed.
14:44Oh.
14:44I thought perhaps tomorrow we could go to the haberdashers and you could pick out some fabrics.
14:48I do not really care for dresses.
14:51Well, that's a shame.
14:51But very well.
14:55Perhaps think about it, Mary.
14:56Mary, there is a dress allowance as part of your governor's wages.
15:01I have thought about it.
15:03And I would very much like to accept your kind offer.
15:06That's excellent news.
15:09Well, good night, Mary.
15:11And thank you for today.
15:20This must be such a change for marriage.
15:23It most certainly is.
15:35What do you think of the Deep Greens?
15:38We have a soiree coming up.
15:39Now, I think Deep Green would be perfect.
15:43Mother has always said it's terribly difficult to get any colour to work with my complexion.
15:47Really?
15:48Well, perhaps your complexion's changed because I can see many colours here which would work well on you.
15:53But the most important thing being is that you choose fabrics that you truly like.
15:59But Mother says that Mother isn't here.
16:05Mrs Gardiner.
16:07Oh.
16:07Miss Bennett.
16:08Tom!
16:09Mr Hayward.
16:11Have you brought your jacket to be mounted?
16:13I have just this minute dropped it off.
16:14Well, now that you're here, you can make yourself useful.
16:17Miss Bennett needs to choose some dress fabric.
16:21I find myself quite overwhelmed by the choice.
16:23Well, I shall be honest and say that my experience of picking dress fabric is limited.
16:28To say the least.
16:29But I shall try.
16:32Have you seen the names of these colours?
16:34We've got Dust of Ruins, Corbeau or Flamme de Bonche, anyone?
16:41Um, I think I shall take the Drake's neck with a splash of Nunkey.
16:47Anyone for Gamboge?
16:49Well, I mean, that's just yellow, that one.
16:51Yes.
16:52Yes.
16:55I think my advice would be to choose the colours that make one feel most like oneself.
17:00And I am sorry not to be of more use.
17:02I should return to my desk and a particularly unexciting land negotiation.
17:09Good day.
17:10Good day.
17:15Oh, poor Tom.
17:17You work so hard.
17:18Really?
17:19Underneath that light-hearted manner, carries the weight of the world on his shoulders.
17:26Now, have you decided?
17:29I have chosen.
17:31Very well, Mary.
17:35The first is this crimson, and then I thought perhaps a spring green trim.
17:42Lovely.
17:43Yes.
17:43But you will need two dresses.
17:45So perhaps...
17:47China blue?
17:50Hmm.
17:53Do you think a dress in the spring green alone would be garish?
17:57What do you think, Mary?
18:00Some people may think it is wild.
18:03But...
18:04I like it.
18:06Then I think you should please yourself and not worry what others may think.
18:11You've done a very good job.
18:14Now...
18:39Oh, my gosh.
18:43Oh, my gosh.
18:46The gardeners are out.
18:47They're buying shoes for the children.
18:49Oh.
18:51Would you like to play graces?
18:55Well, yes.
19:03Ready?
19:03Yes.
19:11I did it.
19:13You did.
19:14Natural.
19:15Beginner's luck.
19:17Right.
19:19Ready?
19:20Uh.
19:21All right, well, um...
19:22One moment.
19:24Oh.
20:25Do you like poetry, Miss Bennett?
20:26I prefer facts to whimsy.
20:31Whimsy?
20:32I've tried, uh, well, Cowper, uh, Byron, even some Dryden, but, um, well, it seems to me
20:40that it's all just words.
20:44What were you expecting?
20:46Are you a scholar, sir?
20:49No.
20:50I'm a barrister, junior, and though the law is my business, poetry is my passion.
20:56What do you like to read?
20:59Uh, works of non-fiction.
21:01Um, histories and, uh, and geology.
21:05And what do you like to read for pleasure?
21:08That is reading for pleasure.
21:11There is nothing you like about poetry.
21:16Well, some poems are mercifully short.
21:22Well, now that you have thrown down the gauntlet, I will not rest until you have appreciated
21:28the merits of poetry.
21:32I believe that this is the book that will open the heart of Miss Mary Bennett.
21:41Oh?
21:44The gardener's home.
21:45Oh, is it?
21:46Ah, yes.
21:47Yes.
21:47Of course.
21:48Uh, well, yes.
21:50Um, I...
21:51Oh, Tom!
21:54Oh, Tom!
22:16And we'll need more scallops.
22:18Mrs. Shonley will claim she could possibly before helping herself to seven.
22:23Must be very strange without your family here.
22:27There was always at least one argument about stolen perfume.
22:34Mary, you look lovely.
22:38I'm not sure.
22:43I think we should let your hair fall naturally.
22:45No point trying to force it into curls if it doesn't want to go.
22:53Here.
23:08Here.
23:09Here.
23:31Um, I mean, that's basically it, but they're awfully fun.
23:40Good evening. I do not believe we have met. I'm Miss Baxter. Delighted to meet you, Miss Baxter. Um, I
23:48am Miss Bennet. I have not long moved to London from Hertfordshire.
23:59A friend of my mother's died eating those nuts. One got stuck in his throat and that was it. He
24:05was quite dead in minutes.
24:12Oh, I hope I didn't cause any offence. That was marvellous. Oh, I shall keep that story in mind for
24:17when I want to be rid of someone, but forgive me, it wasn't deliberate.
24:22I hate the first 20 minutes of these evenings. How do I? I never know who to talk to and
24:27I often find myself saying the wrong things.
24:34Your dress is striking. It looks very well on you. You really think so? I feel a little bold in
24:39it.
24:40Well, you're in London, Miss Bennet. If you're going to be bold, here is the place to do it.
24:46Perhaps London will be the start of something new for you.
24:49Perhaps it will.
24:51And if you want to be shown around town, I could call on you?
25:03London, it turned out, was a place of learning as much as teaching. A place of trying new things.
25:12And though I had never liked to change, I seemed to be enjoying myself.
25:19Much about me felt different after just one week.
25:24Being here had lifted my spirits.
25:27I felt something long forgotten.
25:30Hope.
25:32Are you looking for someone?
25:36You must tell me all about it in a moment.
25:40Nick, there's a gentleman I'd like you to meet.
25:43We have something of an understanding.
25:45Please may I introduce Mr. Tom Hayward.
25:52We've already met.
25:55Oh, of course, you must have.
25:58Oh, I see you went for the Pomona trim.
26:01It's spring green. It's quite different to Pomona.
26:04Well, it suits you very well.
26:08Tom!
26:09Excuse us, ladies.
26:11You must come and meet my colleague, Mr. May.
26:14Mr. May!
26:16Mr. Hayward and I met three years ago this spring.
26:20We are hoping to be married next year.
26:23Not everything went exactly as I would have liked.
26:25Come on.
26:27Oh, please excuse us.
26:29Come on, Mary. It will be fun.
26:31Of course a man such as Mr. Hayward would have secured a match.
26:36But I had made friends.
26:38And that was enough.
26:46I did not know what tomorrow would bring.
26:49But for now,
26:51at least I had someone to dance with.
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