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00:23The loss of my father was a leap into the unknown.
00:27Longbourn was my childhood home.
00:30And although I had my struggles here, it was all I had ever known.
00:36From now on, would I be relying on the hospitality of my sisters?
00:41Destined to spend my days as my mother's companion.
00:47What other choice did I have?
00:53I do not expect any of you to understand my pain.
00:57The bond Mr. Bennet and I shared was a rare thing.
01:03I do not know that I shall ever eat again.
01:09Who is that?
01:11I do not know, Mama.
01:12What sort of person would impinge upon our hour of mourning so distastefully?
01:20Charlotte!
01:23I am afraid you find us in a state of some disarray.
01:27Understandably.
01:29We have been wanting to see you all since we heard the terrible news.
01:32But you would need time as a family to...
01:35To gather your things.
01:36Huh?
01:37Yourselves.
01:37Together.
01:42I want to make it quite clear...
01:48No...
01:49Quite clear that there is no rush for you to leave Longbourn.
01:53Hmm.
01:54Thank you, Mr. Collins.
01:56You are quite welcome to stay here with us for a full two weeks.
02:00Two weeks?
02:02Mrs. Bennet, there really is no hurry for you and Mary to leave.
02:05But I have arranged you some help with the packing.
02:07So you are not obliged to undertake such a difficult task during your hour of need?
02:14Hmm.
02:16Oh!
02:26Mama, you must come and stay with Mr. Bingley and I at Netherfield.
02:30We have a number of cooks and more servants than we know what to do with.
02:35Oh, Jane.
02:38I would be delighted.
02:40It would bring me great comfort to be in a sightable property with a large number of staff at my
02:45disposal.
02:47Ha-ha!
02:48And Mary, you of course must come too.
02:53But if you're worried about company, Caroline Bingley stays with us often.
02:58Well, yes, but I have not yet thought through my future prospects.
03:05Speaking of your prospects, Mary, I have received a letter from my brother and his wife in London.
03:11Their governess has been called back to Norfolk,
03:14and they have asked me to send you to stay with them until a suitable replacement is found.
03:20There is going to be a governess.
03:21Oh, Mary.
03:22I would very much like to help, but, um, you will need me, Mama.
03:28I have already accepted their offer.
03:31They're sending a carriage.
03:33But, Mama, I...
03:34Do not worry about me, Mary.
03:37I shall have Jane by my side.
03:54If my options in life really were marriage or misery,
03:58it looked very much as though I was destined for misery.
04:09Mrs. Bennet is indisposed.
04:14Oh.
04:15Of course.
04:17Thank you, Hill.
04:19Mm-hmm.
04:25Um...
04:28What if the children don't like me?
04:31Why should they not like you?
04:33You're a perfectly likable soul.
04:38I have nothing ready to teach them.
04:41Mary, nobody knows more facts about anything than you.
04:47It's time for you to get out and see the world.
04:50Meet some other people that live in it.
04:53I think it'll do you good.
04:56Do not be frightened, Miss Mary.
04:58Oh, no, I'm not.
04:59I'm not...
04:59No, I'm just, um...
05:02Let's go.
06:32Oh!
06:33Mary!
06:34Welcome!
06:34I am sorry.
06:35Mary, you must be hungry after your journey.
06:37Would you like some toasted cheese?
06:38But first we'll show you your room.
06:40Come in!
06:40Come in!
06:41Come in!
06:43It's right at the top of the house, so you won't be disturbed by the children.
06:47Come in!
06:49Come in!
07:03Come in!
07:05Come in!
07:14Well, thank you for inquiring.
07:18And how are you, Mary?
07:20It must have been a terrible shock.
07:26It was.
07:28Well, thank you for stepping in at such short notice.
07:32We don't stand on ceremony here, especially with the children, so if you don't mind that,
07:37you'll do well with us.
07:39And the rest of your belongings will be brought up any moment.
07:41And do you have all you need?
07:44I do.
07:58Thank you, Mary.
07:59Which mountain range is found at the end of your armies?
08:03Oh!
08:05The Andes.
08:16LAUGHTER
08:19Oh, that's good.
08:21Not so good.
08:22Mary, won't you join us for breakfast?
08:25Oh, no, no, no, sir, thank you, sir.
08:26I'm not at all hungry this morning.
08:28I shall see the children upstairs.
08:43Marianne, would you like to start?
08:46Miss Bennet, it's a pleasure to meet you.
08:49I am Marianne Gardner, and I'm 11 years old.
08:52It's my pleasure to meet you too, Miss Marianne.
08:58George!
09:01Yes, thank you, George.
09:03And this is...
09:08This is Rebecca.
09:10Thank you, Miss Rebecca.
09:14And if an organised body
09:17is not in the situation
09:19and circumstances
09:20best adapted
09:22to its sustenance and propagation,
09:25then, in conceiving an indefinite variety
09:29among the individuals
09:30of that species,
09:32we must be assured
09:34that, on the one hand,
09:36those which depart most
09:38from the best adapted constitution
09:40will be the most liable to perish.
09:43We...
09:46You've made him go to sleep.
09:54Let us move on to history, shall we?
09:55Now, in 1492,
10:00Christopher Columbus discovered America.
10:02Now, where is America?
10:04Ah, yes, America.
10:07Uh...
10:11Where has Rebecca gone?
10:13There were very clearly three of you in this room
10:16when I began looking at the globe,
10:17and now there are two of you.
10:19She vanished.
10:21She's a magician.
10:23Well, magic is nothing but illusion and trickery.
10:25Oh.
10:26Now, where could she be?
10:28Oh!
10:29Tom! You're here!
10:30Tom!
10:30Can we finish lessons now?
10:32Yes.
10:33Oh, forgive the intrusion.
10:34I, er...
10:35came to tell you that dinner is served,
10:37and...
10:38you must be...
10:39Miss Bennet.
10:40I...
10:41I must be.
10:42Oh, yes, I...
10:43I am.
10:44Uh...
10:45Tom.
10:45Heywood.
10:47Friend of the family.
10:53Aren't there normally three of you?
10:55There were three, certainly.
10:58But...
10:58I was looking at...
11:01America.
11:02And when I looked back, it was...
11:09Do you have mice, Miss Bennet?
11:12For if you do, might I suggest you do not keep them in the toy trunk?
11:18Well, I...
11:19I wasn't sure.
11:20I thought perhaps mice like toy trunks.
11:23No, you see, in there, they cannot get to their cheese.
11:27Actually, it's a fallacy that mice like cheese.
11:32Of course.
11:33They're much more partial to root vegetables and grains.
11:36Yes.
11:37Indeed.
11:37I'm a rabbit.
11:42Mr...
11:43Haywood?
11:45Mr. Haywood.
11:46I am keeping a rabbit in the toy trunk because...
11:53I...
11:54Because rabbits are not at all social creatures.
11:58Exactly.
11:58Yes, they are.
12:04Now, why exactly do you have a new governess?
12:07Is it that you keep eating them?
12:12Er...
12:16Tom helped Edward with the legal matter some years ago and...
12:19We've been friends ever since.
12:21Did you know that of our former lodges?
12:22Oh.
12:23Yes.
12:24Oh.
12:26What is a revolutionary Republican?
12:32Well, er, as discussed during the lesson, um, they're often associated with Jacobinism.
12:38But my point really was...
12:40Sounds like you had a very interesting first day, Miss Bennet.
12:43Well, er...
12:44Have you read Catherine Macaulay, Miss Bennet?
12:48Yes, I have.
12:49Yes.
12:51Mary told us about smallpox, and I shall never sleep again.
12:55Well, er, you asked me to be truthful.
12:57What's a deadly rash?
12:59She said it can leave one blind or dead.
13:03That is not quite how I put it.
13:05Blind or dead, she said.
13:06Well, that is true.
13:07There's a mortality rate of about...
13:0930%.
13:12Exactly.
13:14George cried three times.
13:17There was something in my eye.
13:19We held hands until Mary had finished talking.
13:23Well, you're never too young to learn about life.
13:26I think our game is in order, don't you?
13:29I think that's a very good idea.
13:31Yes!
13:31Yes!
13:32I'm first!
13:33But what should we play?
13:35Graces!
13:36Ah!
13:36Let's show Mary how to play graces!
13:39Yes!
13:40Marianne?
13:42Well called Mary.
13:43Bravo!
13:44Well done.
13:44Bravo!
13:45You're Rebecca!
13:47Woo!
13:47Oh!
13:48Oh!
13:50That counts!
13:51It does indeed.
13:52Well done.
13:52It does indeed.
13:54Oh!
13:55You'll need to get someone to look at that.
13:58Send it to Blythe, she'll fix it for you.
14:01Ready?
14:02Yes!
14:03Yes!
14:04Well done!
14:06Flare play.
14:07You look like a wizard.
14:08Yes.
14:15You sure you won't join in, Mary?
14:18Oh, er, no.
14:19I'm not, I'm not good at games.
14:20Oh!
14:21That doesn't matter at all.
14:23Yes!
14:25Well, you couldn't possibly be as ungainly as I am.
14:29Really, I'd only spoil it.
14:37George.
14:38Ready?
14:40Oh!
14:41Oh!
14:48Yes, Bob?
14:49Mr. Gardner.
14:50Oh!
14:51Oh!
15:09Yes?
15:12Mary?
15:14Oh, do not look so grave, my dear.
15:17You're not in trouble.
15:19With the weather getting warmer, we're about to become more sociable.
15:22Oh!
15:22Oh, please, do not feel any obligation to involve me.
15:25I shall be quite content to stay upstairs with the children.
15:28Mary, we want you to join us.
15:31But I do not sparkle at dinners.
15:36In our house, no one is obliged to sparkle.
15:41Then, of course.
15:43But we need to get you properly dressed.
15:46Oh.
15:46I thought perhaps tomorrow we could go to the haberdashers and you could pick out some fabrics.
15:50I do not really care for dresses.
15:53Well, that's a shame.
15:54But very well.
15:57Perhaps think about it, Mary.
15:59There is a dress allowance as part of your governess' wages.
16:04I have thought about it.
16:06And I would very much like to accept your kind offer.
16:09That's excellent news.
16:13Well, good night, Mary.
16:14And thank you for today.
16:24This must be such a change for Meriton.
16:27It most certainly is.
16:36What do you think of the deep greens?
16:43We have a soiree coming up.
16:44Now, I think deep green would be perfect.
16:48Mother has always said it's terribly difficult to get any color to work with my complexion.
16:52Really?
16:54Well, perhaps your complexions change because I can see many colors here which would work well on you.
16:58But the most important thing being is that you choose fabrics that you truly like.
17:05But Mother says that Mother isn't here.
17:08PHONE RINGS
17:11Mrs. Gardiner?
17:13Oh.
17:14Miss Bennet.
17:14To home!
17:16Mr. Hayward.
17:17Have you brought your jacket to be mended?
17:19I have just this minute dropped it off.
17:21Well, now that you're here, you can make yourself useful.
17:24Miss Bennet needs to choose some dress fabric.
17:27I find myself quite overwhelmed by the choice.
17:30Well, I shall be honest and say that my experience of picking dress fabric is limited.
17:35To say the least.
17:36But I shall try.
17:40Have you seen the names of these colors?
17:42We've got Dust of Ruins, Corbeau or Flamme de Bonche. Anyone?
17:50I think I shall take the Drake's Neck with a splash of Nunkey.
17:55Anyone for Gamboge?
17:57Well, I mean, that's just yellow, that one.
18:00Yes.
18:01Yes.
18:03I think my advice would be to choose the colors that make one feel most like oneself.
18:09And I am sorry not to be of more use.
18:11I should return to my desk and a particularly unexciting land negotiation.
18:18Good day.
18:19Good day.
18:25Oh, poor Tom.
18:26You work so hard.
18:28Really?
18:28Underneath that light-hearted manner.
18:31Carries the weight of the world on his shoulders.
18:35Now.
18:36Have you decided?
18:40I have chosen.
18:42Very well, Mary.
18:45The first is this crimson.
18:49And then I thought perhaps a spring green trim.
18:53Lovely.
18:54Yes.
18:54But you will need two dresses.
18:56So perhaps...
18:59China blue?
19:01Hmm.
19:04Do you think a dress in the spring green alone would be garish?
19:09What do you think, Mary?
19:12Some people may think it is wild.
19:15But...
19:16I like it.
19:18Then I think you should please yourself and not worry what others may think.
19:23You've done a very good job.
19:26Now.
19:26I think that's a great young lady.
19:30No, no.
19:30No, no, no.
19:31No, no.
19:53Oh, my gosh.
20:00The gardeners are out.
20:01They're buying shoes for the children.
20:03Oh.
20:05Would you like to play graces?
20:09Well, um, yes.
20:18Ready? Yes.
20:23Oh!
20:23Ooh!
20:27I did it. You did?
20:29Natural. Beginner's luck.
20:32Right, um...
20:35Ready?
20:36Mm.
20:37Um...
20:39Oh.
20:39Oh, my God.
20:40Oh, my God.
20:50Oh, my God.
21:11Oh.
21:12Oh.
21:20Oh.
21:24Oh.
21:24Oh, my God.
21:25Oh, my God.
21:25Oh!
21:27Erm...
21:27Er...
21:28Er...
21:29Yeah, erm...
21:30That's...
21:31That's probably enough, Grace, for today.
21:34Yes.
21:35Oh, erm...
21:36Oh, yes, er...
21:37I brought a book for Mrs Bynard.
21:40Oh, of course, yes.
21:41Er...
21:42Ah, poetry.
21:43Do you like poetry, Miss Bennet?
21:45I prefer facts to whimsy.
21:51Whimsy?
21:51I've tried, er...
21:54Well, Cowper, er...
21:55Byron.
21:56Even some Dryden.
21:57But, erm...
21:59Well, it seems to me that it's all just...
22:01Words.
22:04What were you expecting?
22:06Are you, er...
22:08Scholar?
22:08Sir?
22:09Er, no.
22:10I'm a barrister.
22:12Junior.
22:13And though the law is my business, poetry is my passion.
22:17What do you like to read?
22:20Er...
22:21Er...
22:21Works of non-fiction, eh?
22:22Um...
22:23Histories and, er...
22:24And geology.
22:26And what do you like to read for pleasure?
22:29That is reading for pleasure.
22:32There is nothing you like about poetry.
22:40Some poems are mercifully short.
22:44Well, now that you have thrown down the gauntlet, I will not rest until you have appreciated the merit of
22:51poetry.
22:54I believe that this is the book that will open the heart of Miss Mary Bennet.
23:04Oh.
23:07The garden is at home.
23:09Oh, is it?
23:10Ah, yes.
23:10Yes.
23:11Er...
23:12Well, yes.
23:13Yes.
23:14Er...
23:14Well, yes.
23:16Oh, Tom!
23:40And we'll need more scallops.
23:43Mrs. Shomley will claim she couldn't possibly before helping herself to seven.
23:48It must be very strange without your family here.
23:52Well, there was always at least one argument about stolen perfume.
24:00Mary, you look lovely.
24:04I'm not sure.
24:09I think we should let your hair fall naturally.
24:11No point trying to force it into curls if it doesn't want to go.
24:20Here.
24:35Here, here, here.
24:38Here comes.
24:39Here comes.
24:40Okay.
24:40Uh...
24:59Um, I mean, that's basically it.
25:02But they're awfully fun to hunt.
25:09Good evening.
25:10Good evening.
25:10I do not believe we have met.
25:12I'm Miss Baxter.
25:14Delighted to meet you, Miss Baxter.
25:16I am Miss Bennet.
25:18I have not long moved to London from Hertfordshire.
25:21Oh.
25:22Fenshaw, Mr Fenshaw.
25:28A friend of my mother's died eating those nuts.
25:33One got stuck in his throat and that was it.
25:35He was quite dead in minutes.
25:43Oh, I hope I didn't cause any offence.
25:45That was marvellous.
25:46Oh, I shall keep that story in mind for when I want to be rid of someone.
25:49Forgive me.
25:50It wasn't deliberate.
25:53I hate the first 20 minutes of these evenings.
25:56As do I.
25:57I never know who to talk to when I often find myself saying the wrong things.
26:05Your dress is striking, it looks very well on you.
26:09You really think so?
26:10I feel a little bold in it.
26:12Well, you're in London, Miss Bennet.
26:14If you're going to be bold, here is the place to do it.
26:19Perhaps London will be the start of something new for you.
26:21Perhaps it will.
26:22Well, and if you want to be shown around town, I could call on you.
26:35London, it turned out, was a place of learning as much as teaching.
26:42A place of trying new things.
26:45And though I had never liked change, I seemed to be enjoying myself.
26:53Much about me felt different after just one week.
26:58Being here had lifted my spirits.
27:01I felt something long forgotten.
27:05Hope.
27:07Are you looking for someone?
27:10You must tell me all about it in a moment.
27:15Next, there's a gentleman I'd like you to meet.
27:18We have something of an understanding.
27:20Please may I introduce Mr. Tom Hayward.
27:27Uh, we've, we've already met.
27:30Miss Bennet?
27:31Oh, of course, you must have.
27:34Oh, I see you went for the Pomona trim.
27:36Uh, it's, um, spring green.
27:39It's quite different to Pomona.
27:40Well, it suits you very well.
27:44Tom!
27:46Excuse us, ladies.
27:47You must come and meet my colleague, Mr. May.
27:53Mr. Hayward and I met three years ago this spring.
27:57We are hoping to be married next year.
28:00Not everything went exactly as I would have liked.
28:03Come on, Becca.
28:04Oh, please excuse us.
28:07Come, Mary.
28:08It will be fun.
28:08Of course, a man such as Mr. Hayward would have secured a match.
28:13But I had made friends, and that was enough.
28:24I did not know what tomorrow would bring.
28:28But for now, at least I had someone to dance with.
28:39Well, we'll stay there.
28:40The next episode follows in just a moment.
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28:54That's a great start-up.
28:59That's where we feel, and I won't see that.
29:01You should realize that you're fantastic.
29:04You should feel the shock.