00:24The
00:25loss of my father was a leap into the unknown.
00:29Longbourn was my childhood home, and although I had my struggles here, it was all I had
00:35ever known.
00:37From now on, would I be relying on the hospitality of my sisters, destined to spend my days as
00:45my mother's companion?
00:48What other choice did I have?
00:54I do not expect any of you to understand my pain.
00:59The bond Mr. Bennett and I shared was a rare thing.
01:04I do not know that I shall ever eat again.
01:10Who is that?
01:12I do not know, Mama.
01:14What sort of person would impinge upon our hour of mourning so distastefully?
01:21Charlotte!
01:24I am afraid you find us in a state of some disarray.
01:29Understandably.
01:30We have been wanting to see you all since we heard the terrible news, but knew you would
01:35need time as a family to-
01:37To gather your things.
01:38Yourselves.
01:39Together.
01:43I want to make it quite clear that there is no rush for you to leave Longbourn.
01:56Thank you, Mr. Collins.
01:57You are quite welcome to stay here with us for a full two weeks.
02:01Two weeks?
02:03Mrs. Bennett, there really is no hurry for you and Mary to leave.
02:06But I have arranged you some help with the packing.
02:09So you are not obliged to undertake such a difficult task during your hour of need?
02:15Hmm.
02:28Mama, you must come and stay with Mr. Bingley and I at Netherfield.
02:32We have a number of cooks and more servants than we know what to do with.
02:37Oh, Jane.
02:39I would be delighted.
02:41It would bring me great comfort to be in a sightable property with a large number
02:46of staff at my disposal.
02:47Ha ha!
02:49Ha ha!
02:50And Mary, you of course must come too.
02:54But if you are worried about company, Caroline Bingley stays with us often.
03:00Well, yes, but I have not yet thought through my future prospects.
03:07Speaking of your prospects, Mary, I have received a letter from my brother and his wife in London.
03:13Their governess has been called back to Norfolk and they have asked me to send you to stay
03:18with them until a suitable replacement is found.
03:21There is going to be a governess.
03:23Oh, Mary.
03:24I would very much like to help, but you will need me, Mama.
03:28I have already accepted their offer.
03:32They are sending a carriage.
03:35But, Mama, I...
03:36Do not worry about me, Mary.
03:38I shall have Jane by my side.
03:55If my options in life really were marriage or misery, it looked very much as though I was
04:02destined for misery.
04:11Mrs. Bennet is indisposed.
04:15Oh.
04:17Of course.
04:19Thank you, Hill.
04:28Um...
04:29What if the children don't like me?
04:32Why should they not like you?
04:34You are a perfectly likeable soul.
04:39I have nothing ready to teach them.
04:42Mary, nobody knows more facts about anything than you.
04:48It's time for you to get out and see the world.
04:52Meet some other people that live in it.
04:54I think it'll do you good.
04:57Do not be frightened, Miss Mary.
04:59Oh, no, I'm not.
05:00I'm not...
05:01No, I'm just, um...
05:25Go, go.
05:29Bye, go, go.
05:33I'm just a hug.
05:36No, I'm not even a hot dog.
05:37I'm just a hug.
05:38...hanging through this place.
05:40I'm just too sleepy.
05:41Please.
05:43What are you doing?
05:44I'm sorry.
05:44You're right.
05:45I'm sorry.
05:46Oh, no.
05:46I'm sorry.
05:46There's so empty.
05:47Ma'a'a'a'a'n'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'.
06:47Don't be disturbed by the children.
06:48Thank you, friend.
07:19And how are you, Mary?
07:22It must have been a terrible shock.
07:27It was.
07:29Well, thank you for stepping in at such short notice.
07:33We don't stand on ceremony here, especially with the children, so if you don't mind that, you'll do well with
07:39us.
07:40And the rest of your belongings will be brought up any moment.
07:43Do you have all you need?
07:45I do, thank you.
08:00Which mountain range has found at the end of your armies?
08:07The Andy's.
08:08The Andy's.
08:17Andy's.
08:18Andy's.
08:19Oh, that's good.
08:22Not so good.
08:24Mary, won't you join us for breakfast?
08:26Oh, no, no, thank you, sir.
08:28I'm not at all hungry this morning.
08:30I shall see the children upstairs.
08:44Marianne, would you like to start?
08:47Miss Bennet.
08:48It's a pleasure to meet you.
08:50I am Marianne Gardner,
08:52and I'm 11 years old.
08:54It's my pleasure to meet you too, Miss Marianne.
08:59George!
09:02Yes, thank you, George.
09:04And this is...
09:10This is Rebecca.
09:12Thank you, Miss Rebecca.
09:15And if an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance
09:25and propagation, then in conceiving an indefinite variety among the individuals of that species, we must be assured that, on
09:37the one hand, those which depart most from the best adapted constitution will be the most liable to perish.
09:48You've made him go to sleep.
10:13You've made him go to sleep.
10:14Has Rebecca gone?
10:15There were very clearly three of you in this room when I began looking at the globe, and now there
10:19are two of you.
10:20She vanished.
10:22She's a magician.
10:24Well, magic is nothing but illusion and trickery.
10:26Oh.
10:27Now where could she be?
10:30Oh!
10:30Tom!
10:31You're here!
10:31Tom!
10:32Can we finish lessons now?
10:33Yes.
10:34Oh, forgive the intrusion.
10:36Oh, forgive the intrusion.
10:36I came to tell you that dinner is served.
10:39You must be Miss Bennet.
10:41I...
10:42I must be.
10:44Oh, yes.
10:45I am.
10:46Tom Hayward.
10:47Oh.
10:48Friend of the family.
10:55Aren't there normally three of you?
10:57There were three, certainly.
10:59But I was looking at America, and when I looked back, it was...
11:11Do you have mice, Miss Bennet?
11:13For if you do, might I suggest you do not keep them in the toy trunk?
11:19Well, I...
11:20I wasn't sure.
11:22I thought, perhaps, mice like toy trunks.
11:25No, you see, in there, they cannot get to their cheese.
11:28Actually, it's a fallacy that mice like cheese.
11:33Of course.
11:34They're much more partial to root vegetables and grains.
11:38Yes.
11:38Indeed.
11:39I'm a rabbit.
11:43Mr. Hayward?
11:47Mr. Hayward, I am keeping a rabbit in the toy trunk because...
11:54I...
11:56Because rabbits are not at all social creatures.
11:59Exactly.
12:00Yes, they are.
12:01Oh.
12:05Well, why exactly do you have a new governess?
12:09Is it that you keep eating them?
12:17Tom helped Edward with the legal matters some years ago,
12:20and we've been friends ever since.
12:22Is it another of our former lodgers?
12:24Oh.
12:25Yes.
12:26Oh.
12:27What is a revolutionary republican?
12:33Well, as discussed during the lesson,
12:38they're often associated with Jacobinism.
12:40But my point really was...
12:41Sounds like you had a very interesting first day, Miss Bennet.
12:44Well, uh...
12:46Have you read Catherine Macaulay, Miss Bennet?
12:49Yes, I have.
12:50Yes.
12:52Mary told us about smallpox,
12:54and I shall never sleep again.
12:56Well, you asked me to be truthful.
12:59What's a deadly rash?
13:01She said it can leave one blind or dead.
13:04That is not quite how I put it.
13:06Blind or dead, she said.
13:07Well, that is true.
13:08There's a mortality rate of about...
13:1030%.
13:14Exactly.
13:15George cried three times.
13:19There was something in my eye.
13:20We held hands until Mary had finished talking.
13:24Well, you're never too young to learn about life.
13:28I think a game is in order, don't you?
13:30I think that's a very good idea.
13:32Yes!
13:33Yes!
13:33I'm first!
13:34But what should we play?
13:36Graces!
13:37Ah!
13:38Let's show Mary how to play Graces!
13:41Yes!
13:42Marianne?
13:43Well called, Mary.
13:44Bravo!
13:45Bravo!
13:46Yours, Rebecca!
13:48Oh!
13:51That counts!
13:52It does indeed.
13:53Well done.
13:54It does indeed.
13:55Oh!
13:55Oh no, Tom!
13:57You'll need to get someone to look at that.
13:59Send it to Blythe, she'll fix it for you.
14:02Ready?
14:03Yay!
14:04Brilliant.
14:05Yes!
14:06Well done!
14:07Flare play.
14:08You look like a wizard.
14:10Yes.
14:17Are you sure you won't join in, Mary?
14:19Oh, er, no.
14:20I'm not...
14:21I'm not good at games.
14:22Oh!
14:22That doesn't matter at all.
14:25Yes.
14:26Well, you couldn't possibly be as ungainly as I am.
14:30Really, I'd only spoil it.
14:38George.
14:39Ready?
14:41Oh!
14:42Oh!
14:49Yes, Tom.
14:50Mr. Gardner.
14:51Oh!
14:53Aw!
14:55Oh!
15:11Yes?
15:12Mary?
15:16Oh, do not look so grave, my dear. You're not in trouble.
15:20With the weather getting warmer, we're about to become more sociable.
15:23Oh, oh, please, do not feel any obligation to involve me.
15:26I shall be quite content to stay upstairs with the children.
15:29Mary, we want you to join us.
15:33But I do not sparkle at dinners.
15:37In our house, no one is obliged to sparkle.
15:42Then, of course.
15:45But we need to get you properly dressed.
15:47Oh.
15:48I thought perhaps tomorrow we could go to the haberdashers and you could pick out some fabrics.
15:51I do not really care for dresses.
15:54Well, that's a shame, but very well.
15:59Perhaps think about it, Mary.
16:01There is a dress allowance as part of your governess wages.
16:05I have thought about it.
16:07And I would very much like to accept your kind offer.
16:10That's excellent news.
16:14Well, good night, Mary.
16:16And thank you for today.
16:26This must be such a chain for Meredith.
16:29It most certainly is.
16:41What do you think of the deep greens?
16:44We have a soiree coming up.
16:46Now, I think deep green would be perfect.
16:50Mother has always said it's terribly difficult to get any colour to work with my complexion.
16:54Really?
16:55Well, perhaps your complexions change because I can see many colours here which would work well on you.
17:00But the most important thing being is that you choose fabrics that you truly like.
17:06But Mother says that Mother isn't here.
17:12Mrs. Gardiner?
17:14Oh.
17:15Miss Bennet?
17:16Tom!
17:17Mr. Hayward, have you brought your jacket to be mended?
17:20I have just this minute dropped it off.
17:22Well, now that you're here, you can make yourself useful.
17:25Miss Bennet needs to choose some dress fabric.
17:29I find myself quite overwhelmed by the choice.
17:32Well, I shall be honest and say that my experience of picking dress fabric is limited.
17:36To say the least.
17:38But I shall try.
17:41Have you seen the names of these colours?
17:44We've got Dust of Ruins, Corbeau, Flamme de Bonge, anyone?
17:52I think I shall take the Drake's Neck with a splash of Nunkey.
17:56Anyone for Gabouche?
17:58Well, I mean, that's just yellow, that one.
18:01Yes.
18:02Yes.
18:05I think my advice would be to choose the colours that make one feel most like oneself.
18:10And I am sorry not to be of more use.
18:13I should return to my desk and a particularly unexciting land negotiation.
18:19Good day.
18:21Good day.
18:26Oh, poor Tom.
18:28He worked so hard.
18:29Really?
18:30Underneath that light-hearted manor.
18:32Carries the weight of the world on his shoulders.
18:37Now, have you decided?
18:41I have chosen.
18:43Very well, Mary.
18:47The first is this crimson.
18:50And then I thought perhaps a spring green trim.
18:54Lovely.
18:55Yes.
18:56But you will need two dresses.
18:57So, perhaps...
19:00China blue?
19:02Hmm.
19:05Do you think a dress in the spring green alone would be garish?
19:10What do you think, Mary?
19:13Some people may think it is wild.
19:16But...
19:18I like it.
19:20Then I think you should please yourself and not worry what others may think.
19:25You've done a very good job.
19:27Now.
19:28Here.
19:29Hmm.
19:54Oh, my God.
20:01The gardeners are out.
20:03They're buying shoes for the children.
20:06Would you like to play graces?
20:11Well, yes.
20:19Ready?
20:20Yes.
20:24Oh!
20:28I did it.
20:30You did.
20:31Natural.
20:32Beginner's luck.
20:33Right.
20:36Ready?
20:38Oh, um...
20:40One moment.
20:41Oh.
20:41Oh, my God.
20:43Oh, my God.
20:53Oh, my God.
21:07Oh, my God.
21:20ready yes oh oh oh oh oh um uh uh yeah um that's that's probably enough enough graces for today
21:37oh yes uh i brought a book for mrs oh of course yes uh poetry do you like poetry miss
21:46bennett i prefer
21:47facts to whimsy whimsy i i've tried uh well cowper uh byron even some dryden but um
22:00well it seems to me that it's all just words what were you expecting are you a scholar sir no
22:11i'm a barrister junior and though the law is my business poetry is my passion
22:18what do you like to read uh works of non-fiction um histories and uh and geology
22:27and what do you like to read for pleasure that is reading for pleasure there is nothing you like
22:36about poetry
22:41some poems are mercifully short
22:46well now that you have thrown down the gauntlet i will not rest until you have appreciated the
22:52merits of poetry
22:56i believe that this is the book that will open the heart of miss mary bennett
23:05oh
23:08the gardener's a home oh yes yes uh well yes um
23:17and we'll need more scallops this is from the gardener's store and tell me if you were
23:19in solution so you can do it if you need black homes and rue as well so thank you for
23:43your
23:45claim she couldn't possibly before helping herself to seven must be very strange without
23:51your family here i was always at least one argument about stolen perfume mary you look lovely
24:06i'm not sure
24:10i think we should let your hair fall naturally no point trying to force it into curls if it
24:14doesn't want to go
25:01i mean that's basically it but they're awfully fun
25:10good evening i do not believe we have met i'm miss baxter delighted to meet you miss baxter
25:17um i am miss bennett i have not long moved to london from hartfordshire
25:30a friend of my mother's died eating those nuts
25:35one got stuck in his throat and that and that was it he was quite dead in minutes
25:44oh i hope i didn't cause any offense that was marvelous oh i shall keep that story in mind
25:49for when i want to be rid of someone but forgive me it wasn't deliberate
25:55i hate the first 20 minutes of these evenings as do i i never know who to talk to and
26:00i often find
26:01myself saying the wrong things
26:07your dress is striking it looks very well on you
26:09you really think so feel a little bold in it
26:13well you're in london miss bennett if you're going to be bold
26:16here is the place to do it
26:20perhaps london will be the start of something new for you
26:22perhaps i will
26:25and if you want to be shown around town i could call on you
26:38london it turned out was a place of learning as much as teaching
26:43a place of trying new things
26:47and though i had never liked change
26:50i seemed to be enjoying myself
26:54much about me felt different after just one week
26:59being here had lifted my spirits
27:02i felt something long forgotten
27:06hope
27:08are you looking for someone
27:12you must tell me all about it in a moment
27:16next there's a gentleman i'd like you to meet
27:19we have something of an understanding
27:22please may i introduce mr tom hayward
27:29uh we've we've already met
27:31miss bennett
27:32oh of course you must have
27:35oh i see you went for the pomona trim
27:37uh it's um spring green it's quite different to pomona
27:42well it suits you very well
27:45tom
27:47excuse us ladies
27:48you must come and meet my colleague
27:50mr may
27:54mr hayward and i met three years ago this spring
27:58we are hoping to be married next year
28:01not everything went exactly as i would have liked
28:04come on back up
28:06oh
28:07please excuse us
28:08come mary it will be fun
28:09of course a man such as mr hayward would have secured a match
28:15but i had made friends
28:17and that was enough
28:25i did not know what tomorrow would bring
28:29but for now
28:31at least i had someone to dance with
28:36meMe
28:44hello
28:45hello
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