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00:04The loss of my father was a leap into the unknown.
00:09Longborn was my childhood home, and although I had my struggles here, it was all I had
00:14ever known.
00:17From now on, would I be relying on the hospitality of my sisters, destined to spend my days as
00:24my mother's companion?
00:27What other choice did I have?
00:32I do not expect any of you to understand my pain.
00:37The bond Mr. Bennet and I shared was a rare thing.
00:41I do not know that I shall ever eat again.
00:47Who is that?
00:49I do not know, Mama.
00:50What sort of person would impinge upon our hour of mourning so distastefully?
00:57Charlotte!
01:00I am afraid you find us in a state of some disarray.
01:05Understandably.
01:06We have been wanting to see you all since we heard the terrible news, but knew you would
01:10need time as a family to-
01:12Together your things.
01:12Huh?
01:13Yourselves.
01:14Together.
01:18I want to make it quite clear that there is no rush for you to leave Longborn.
01:29Thank you, Mr. Collins.
01:31You are quite welcome to stay here with us for a full two weeks.
01:34Two weeks.
01:36Two weeks.
01:37Mrs. Bennet, there really is no hurry for you and Mary to leave.
01:39But I have arranged some help with the packing.
01:41So you are not obliged to undertake such a difficult task during your hour of need?
01:47Hmm.
01:49Oh!
01:59Mama, you must come and stay with Mr. Bingley and I in Everfield.
02:02We have a number of cooks and more servants than we know what to do with.
02:07Oh, Jane.
02:09I would be delighted.
02:11It would bring me great comfort to be in a sightable property with a large number of
02:16staff at my disposal.
02:19And Mary, you of course must come too.
02:23But if you are worried about company, Caroline Bingley stays with us often.
02:28Well, yes, but I have not yet thought through my future prospects.
02:35Speaking of your prospects, Mary, I have received a letter from my brother and his wife
02:40in London.
02:40Their governess has been called back to Norfolk and they have asked me to send you to stay
02:45with them until a suitable replacement is found.
02:48There is going to be a governess.
02:50Oh, Mary.
02:51I would very much like to help, but you will need me, Mama.
02:56I have already accepted their offer.
02:59They are sending a carriage.
03:01But, Mama...
03:02Do not worry about me, Mary.
03:04I shall have Jane by my side.
03:20If my options in life really were marriage or misery, it looked very much as though I
03:26was destined for misery.
03:34Mrs. Bennet is indisposed.
03:38Oh.
03:40Of course.
03:42Thank you, ill.
03:51What if the children don't like me?
03:54Why should they not like you?
03:56You are a perfectly likeable soul.
04:00I have nothing ready to teach them.
04:03Mary, nobody knows more facts about anything than you.
04:09It's time for you to get out and see the world.
04:12Meet some other people that live in it.
04:14I think it will do you good.
04:17Do not be frightened, Miss Mary.
04:19Oh, no, I'm not.
04:20I'm not...
04:21No, I'm just...
04:22To do not be frightened.
04:22No, I'm not.
04:26No, I'm not.
04:33I go there, I'm not.
04:34I'm not.
04:34I'm not.
04:35Go home.
04:36Hello, my son.
04:36We are almost there.
04:37I'm not.
04:37In the room.
04:45Yeah.
04:46Let's go home.
04:49No, I love you.
04:50I'm not.
04:50I'm not.
04:52I will.
04:52You are not.
04:58I don't know.
05:46I don't know.
05:52But first we'll show you your room.
05:54Come in, come in.
05:56It's right at the top of the house so you won't be disturbed by the children.
06:17How's your mother?
06:20Mother, she's had a most trying time of late.
06:22Well, you all have.
06:25Mother as well.
06:26Thank you for inquiring.
06:29And how are you, Mary?
06:31It must have been a terrible shock.
06:36It was.
06:38Well, thank you for stepping in at such short notice.
06:42We don't stand on ceremony here, especially with the children, so if you don't mind that, you'll do well with
06:47us.
06:48And the rest of your belongings will be brought up any moment.
06:51Do you have all you need?
06:53I do. Thank you.
06:54Come on.
07:27Oh, not so good.
07:28Mary, won't you join us for breakfast?
07:31Oh, no, no, thanks. I'm not at all hungry this morning.
07:34I shall see the children upstairs.
07:47Marianne, would you like to start?
07:50Miss Bennet, it's a pleasure to meet you.
07:53I'm Marianne Gardner, and I'm 11 years old.
07:56It's my pleasure to meet you too, Miss Marianne.
08:01George!
08:04Yes, thank you, George.
08:06George.
08:07And this is...
08:11This is Rebecca.
08:13Thank you, Miss Rebecca.
08:16And if an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances
08:22best adapted to its sustenance and propagation,
08:27then in conceiving an indefinite variety among the individuals of that species,
08:33we must be assured that, on the one hand,
08:37those which depart most from the best adapted constitution
08:41will be the most liable to perish.
08:46You've made him go to sleep.
08:53Let us move on to history, shall we?
08:55Now, in 1492, Christopher Columbus discovered America.
09:01Now, where is America?
09:03Ah, yes, America.
09:06Uh...
09:10Where has Rebecca gone?
09:11There were very clearly three of you in this room
09:13when I began looking at the globe,
09:15and now there are two of you.
09:16She vanished.
09:18She's a magician.
09:20What magic is nothing but illusion and trickery.
09:22Oh.
09:23Now, where could she be?
09:26Tom!
09:26You're here!
09:27Tom!
09:27Can we finish lessons now?
09:29Yes.
09:29Well, forgive the intrusion.
09:31I came to tell you that dinner is served.
09:34You must be Miss Bennett.
09:36I...
09:36I must be.
09:38Yes, I am.
09:40Tom Hayward.
09:41Oh.
09:42Friend of the family.
09:48Aren't there normally three of you?
09:50There were three, certainly.
09:52But I was looking at America,
09:56and when I looked back, it was...
10:03Do you have mice, Miss Bennett?
10:05For if you do, might I suggest you do not keep them in the toy trunk?
10:11Well, I...
10:12I wasn't sure.
10:13I thought perhaps mice like toy trunks.
10:16Oh, you see, in there,
10:18they cannot get to their cheese.
10:19Actually, it's a fallacy.
10:21They're mice like cheese.
10:24Of course.
10:25They're much more partial to root vegetables and grains.
10:28Yes.
10:29Indeed.
10:30I'm a rabbit.
10:34Mr. Hayward?
10:36Mr. Hayward,
10:38I am keeping a rabbit in the toy trunk
10:42because...
10:44I...
10:45Because rabbits are not at all social creatures.
10:48Exactly.
10:49Yes, they are.
10:53Now, why exactly do you have a new governess?
10:57Is it that you keep eating them?
11:01Oh.
11:04Tom helped Edward with the legal matters some years ago,
11:07and we've been friends ever since.
11:09Do you know the revival of my lounges?
11:11Oh.
11:12Yes.
11:12Oh.
11:14What is a revolutionary Republican?
11:20Well, as discussed during the lesson,
11:23they're often associated with Jacobinism,
11:26but my point really was...
11:27Sounds like you had a very interesting first day, Miss Bennett.
11:30Well, uh...
11:31Have you read Catherine Cawley, Miss Bennett?
11:34Yes, I have.
11:35Yes.
11:37Mary told us about smallpox.
11:39I shall never sleep again.
11:41Well, you asked me to be truthful.
11:43Was it deadly rash?
11:45She said it can leave one blind or dead.
11:48That is not quite how I put it.
11:50Blinds are dead, she said.
11:51Well, that is true.
11:52There's a mortality rate of about...
11:5430%.
11:57Exactly.
11:59George cried three times.
12:02There was something in my eye.
12:03We held hands until Mary had finished talking.
12:07Well, you're never too young to learn about life.
12:10I think our game is in order, don't you?
12:12I think that's a very good idea.
12:14Yes!
12:14Yes!
12:15I'm first!
12:16But what should we play?
12:17Graces!
12:18Graces!
12:19Ah!
12:19Let's show Mary how to play Graces!
12:22Yes!
12:23Marianne?
12:24Well called.
12:26Bravo!
12:27You're to back up.
12:29Woo!
12:30Oh!
12:31Oh!
12:32That counts.
12:33It doesn't need.
12:33It doesn't need.
12:35Oh!
12:36You'll need to get someone to look at that.
12:39Send it to Blythe, he'll fix it for you.
12:42Ready?
12:43Go!
12:43Yes!
12:44Yes!
12:45Yes!
12:45Well done!
12:46Flare play.
12:47You look like a wizard.
12:49Yes!
12:55Are you sure you won't join in, Mary?
12:58Oh, uh, no.
12:59I'm not good at games.
13:00Oh, that doesn't matter at all.
13:03Yes.
13:04Well, you couldn't possibly be as ungainly as I am.
13:08Really, I'd only spoil it.
13:15George.
13:16Ready?
13:18Ready?
13:19Oh!
13:20Where?
13:25Yes, Tom.
13:26Mr. God.
13:28Oh!
13:29Oh!
13:32Oh!
13:46Yes?
13:47Mary?
13:50Oh, do not look so grave, my dear.
13:52You're not in trouble.
13:54With the weather getting warmer, we're about to become more sociable.
13:57Oh!
13:57Oh, please, do not feel any obligation to involve me.
14:00I shall be quite content to stay upstairs with the children.
14:02Mary, we want you to join us.
14:06But I do not sparkle at dinners.
14:10In our house, no one is obliged to sparkle.
14:15Then, of course.
14:17But we need to get you properly dressed.
14:19Oh!
14:20I thought perhaps tomorrow we could go to the haberdashers and you could pick out some fabrics.
14:23I do not really care for dressers.
14:26That's a shame.
14:27But very well.
14:30Perhaps think about it, Mary.
14:32There is a dress allowance as part of your governess' wages.
14:36I have thought about it.
14:38And I would very much like to accept your kind offer.
14:41That's excellent news.
14:44Well, good night, Mary.
14:46And thank you for today.
14:55This must be such a change for Meriton.
14:58It most certainly is.
15:09What do you think of the deep greens?
15:12We have a soiree coming up.
15:13Now, I think deep green would be perfect.
15:17Mother has always said it's terribly difficult to get any color to work with my complexion.
15:21Really?
15:22Well, perhaps your complexions change because I can see many colors here which would work
15:26well on you.
15:27But the most important thing being is that you choose fabrics that you truly like.
15:33But Mother says that Mother isn't here.
15:38Mrs. Gardner.
15:40Oh.
15:41Miss Bennet.
15:41Tom!
15:43Mr. Hayward, have you brought your jacket to be mounted?
15:46I have just this minute, Dr. Duff.
15:47Well, now that you're here, you can make yourself useful.
15:50Miss Bennet needs to choose some dress fabric.
15:53I find myself quite overwhelmed by this voice.
15:56Well, I shall be honest and say that my experience of picking dress fabric is limited, to say the least.
16:01But I shall try.
16:05Have you seen the names of these colors?
16:07We've got Dust of Ruins, Corbeau, or Flamme de Bonche, anyone?
16:14Oh, I think I shall take the Drake's neck with a splash of none key.
16:19Anyone for Gabbo's?
16:21Oh, well, I mean, that's just yellow.
16:23Yes.
16:24Yes.
16:26I think my advice would be to choose the colors that make one feel more slight oneself.
16:31And I am sorry not to be of more use.
16:34I should return to my desk.
16:35And a particularly unexciting land negotiation.
16:40Good day.
16:41Good day.
16:46Oh, poor Tom.
16:48You work so hard.
16:49Really?
16:50Underneath that light-hearted manor.
16:52Carries the weight of the world on his shoulders.
16:56Now, have you decided?
17:00I have chosen.
17:02Very well, Mary.
17:05The first is this crimson.
17:08And then I thought perhaps a spring green trim.
17:12Lovely.
17:13Yes.
17:14But you will need two dresses.
17:15So perhaps...
17:18China blue?
17:20Hmm.
17:23Do you think addressing the spring green alone would be garish?
17:27What do you think, Mary?
17:30Some people may think it is wild.
17:34But I like it.
17:36Then I think you should please yourself and not worry what others may think.
17:40You've done a very good job.
17:43Hmm.
17:43Now.
18:08Oh, my gosh.
18:12Oh, my gosh.
18:14The gardeners are out.
18:16They're buying shoes for the children.
18:19Would you like to play graces?
18:23Well, yes.
18:31Ready?
18:32Yes.
18:40I did it, Tom.
18:41You did.
18:42Natural.
18:42Beginner's luck.
18:44All right.
18:47Ready?
18:48All right.
18:49All right.
18:50One moment.
18:52One moment.
19:04Oh.
19:20Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
19:35Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
19:38That's probably enough.
19:40Enough, yes.
19:41For today.
19:42Oh, yes, I brought a book for Mrs. Diary.
19:47Oh, of course, yes.
19:49Ah, poetry.
19:50Do you like poetry, Mrs. Ferney?
19:52I prefer facts to whimsy.
19:57Whimsy?
19:58I've tried, well, Calper, Byron, even some Dryden.
20:03But, um, well, it seems to me that it's all just words.
20:09What were you expecting?
20:11Are you a scholar, sir?
20:14No. I'm a barrister, junior.
20:17And though the law is my business, poetry is my passion.
20:21What do you like to read?
20:25Works of non-fiction, histories and geology.
20:29And what do you like to read for pleasure?
20:33That is reading for pleasure.
20:36There is nothing you like about poetry.
20:42Some poems are mercifully short.
20:47Well, now that you have thrown down the gauntlet,
20:50I will not rest until you have appreciated the merits of poetry.
20:56I believe that this is the book that will open the heart of Miss Mary Bennett.
21:05Oh?
21:08The gardener's home.
21:09Oh, is it?
21:10Yes.
21:11Yes.
21:11Uh, well...
21:13So, uh...
21:14I had a...
21:15I did...
21:15Are you aendeOK?
21:16Governor...
21:16Oh, Tom...
21:18Ruff, ruff, ruff.
21:39And we'll need more scholars, Mrs. Scholling will claim she couldn't possibly before helping
21:43herself to seven. It must be very strange without your family here. There was always at least
21:51one argument about stolen perfume. Mary, you look lovely. I'm not sure. I think we should
22:06let your hair fall naturally. No point trying to force it into curls if it doesn't want to
22:09go. Yeah.
22:52I mean, that's basically it, but they're awfully fun there. Good evening. I do not believe
23:03we've met. I'm Miss Baxter. Delighted to meet you, Miss Baxter. I am Miss Bennet. I have
23:10not long moved to London from Hertfordshire.
23:13Thank you, Mr. Baxter.
23:18A friend of my mother's died eating those nuts. One got stuck in his throat and that was it.
23:25She was quite dead in minutes.
23:32Oh, I hope I didn't cause any offence. That was marvellous. Oh, I shall keep that story
23:36in mind for when I want to be rid of someone. But forgive me, it wasn't deliberate.
23:42I hate the first twenty minutes of these evenings. As do I. I never know who to talk to and
23:47I
23:47often find myself saying the wrong things. Your dress is striking. It looks very well
23:55on you. You really think so? I feel a little bold in it.
23:59Well, you're in London, Miss Bennet. If you're going to be bold, here is the place to do it.
24:05Perhaps London will be the start of something new for you. Perhaps it will. And if you want
24:11to be shown around town, I could call on you. London, it turned out, was a place of learning
24:25as much as teaching. A place of trying new things. And though I had never liked change,
24:33I seemed to be enjoying myself. Much about me felt different after just one week. Being
24:42here had lifted my spirits. I felt something long forgotten. Hope. Are you looking for someone?
24:53You must tell me all about it in a moment.
24:58There's a gentleman I'd like you to meet. We have something of an understanding.
25:02Please may I introduce Mr. Tom Hayward.
25:09We've already met. Oh, of course, you must have. Oh, I see you went for the Pomona train.
25:18It's Spring Green. It's quite different to Pomona. Well, it suits you very well. Tom!
25:26Excuse us, ladies. You must come and meet my colleague, Mr. May.
25:33Mr. Hayward and I met three years ago this Spring. We are hoping to be married next year.
25:39Not everything went exactly as I would have liked. Come on. Oh, please excuse us.
25:45Come, Mary. It will be fun. Of course a man such as Mr. Hayward would have secured a match.
25:51But I had made friends. And that was enough.
26:01I did not know what tomorrow would bring. But for now, at least I had someone to dance with.