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The Other Bennet Sister - Season 1 - Episode 03: Chapter 3
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00:24The
00:24loss of my father was a leap into the unknown.
00:29Longbourn was my childhood home.
00:31And although I had my struggles here, it was all I had ever known.
00:37From now on, would I be relying on the hospitality of my sisters,
00:42destined to spend my days as my 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,
01:34but knew you would need time as a family to...
01:36To gather your things.
01:38Yourselves.
01:39Together.
01:43I want to make it quite clear...
01:47No.
01:50Quite clear that there is no rush for you to leave Longbourn.
01:54Hm!
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?
02:15Hm.
02:17Oh!
02:28Mama, you must come and stay with Mr. Bingley and Knight 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 of staff at my
02:46disposal.
02:49And Mary, you of course must come too.
02:54But if you're 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 with them
03:18until 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're sending a carriage.
03:35But, Mama...
03:36Do not worry about me, Mary.
03:38I shall have Jane by my side.
03:56If my options in life really were marriage or misery, it looked very much as though I was destined for
04:02misery.
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're 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...
05:04What?
05:20I'll have to talk to you soon.
05:20I'm looking at home.
05:21What are you waking up with?
05:21Oh, my God...
05:24What?
05:25I'm not waking up with you.
05:25I'm waking up with you.
05:28Where are we?
05:28What is that?
05:28I'm coming up with you.
05:33Where are we?
06:34Oh, Mary, welcome.
06:36I am sorry.
06:36Mary, you must be hungry after your journey.
06:38Would you like some toasted cheese?
06:40But first, we'll show you your room.
06:41Come in, come in.
06:44It's right at the top of the house, so you won't be disturbed by the children.
07:07How's your mother?
07:10She's had a most trying time of late.
07:12Well, you all have.
07:15Mother as well.
07:16Thank you for inquiring.
07:19And how are you, Mary?
07:20Mary, it must have been a terrible shock.
07:27No, it was.
07:29Well, thank you for stepping in at such short notice.
07:33We don't stand on ceremony here, especially with the children.
07:36So if you don't mind that, you'll do well with us.
07:40And the rest of your belongings will be brought up any moment.
07:43Do you have all you need?
07:45I do.
08:00Which mountain range has found the end of your armies?
08:19Oh, no, no, no, no, sir, 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, it's a pleasure to meet you.
08:50I am Marianne Gardner, and I'm 11 years old.
08:54It's my pleasure to meet you too, Miss Marianne.
08:59George!
09:14And 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,
09:34we must be assured that, on the one hand, those which depart most from the best adapted constitution
09:41will be the most liable to perish.
09:47You've made him go to sleep.
09:55Let us move on to history, shall we?
09:57Now, in 1492, Christopher Columbus discovered America.
10:04Now, where is America?
10:05Ah, yes, America.
10:13Where has Rebecca gone?
10:15There were very clearly three of you in this room when I began looking at the globe,
10:19and now there are 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?
10:30Tom, you're here!
10:31Tom, can we finish lessons now?
10:33Yes.
10:35Oh, forgive the intrusion.
10:36I came to tell you that dinner is served, and you must be Miss Bennet.
10:41I must be.
10:44Oh, yes, I am.
10:46Tom Hayward.
10:47Oh.
10:48Friend of the family.
10:55Aren't there normally three of you?
10:56There were three, certainly, but I was looking at America, and when I looked back, it was...
11:10Do 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 wasn't sure.
11:21I 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.
11:44Mr Hayward?
11:47Mr Hayward, I am keeping a rabbit in the toy trunk because...
11:56Because rabbits are not at all social creatures.
11:59Exactly.
12:00Yes, they are.
12:05Now, why exactly do you have a new governess?
12:09Is it that you keep eating them?
12:17Tom helped Edward with the legal matter some years ago, and we've been friends ever since.
12:22Did you know there are four of my lodges?
12:24Oh.
12:25Yes.
12:26Oh.
12:27What is a revolutionary Republican?
12:34Well, as discussed during the lesson, they'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, and 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...
13:1230%.
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 our 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.
13:40Yes!
13:41Yay!
13:42Mary-Anne?
13:43Well called, Mary-Anne.
13:45Well done.
13:45Bravo!
13:46You're to back up.
13:48Woo!
13:49Oh!
13:50Oh!
13:51Oh!
13:51That counts!
13:52It does indeed.
13:53It does indeed.
13:54It does indeed.
13:55Oh!
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!
14:04Mary-Anne.
14:05Yes!
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, uh, no.
14:20I'm not good at games.
14:22Oh, that doesn't matter at all.
14:25Yes!
14:27Well, you couldn't possibly be as ungainly as I am.
14:30Really, I'd only spoil it.
14:38George.
14:39Ready?
14:41Oh!
14:43Oh!
14:49Yes, Tom?
14:50Mr. Gardner.
15:11Yes?
15:13Mary?
15:16Oh, do not look so grave, my dear.
15:18you're not in trouble with the weather getting warmer we're about to become more sociable oh
15:24oh please do not feel any obligation to involve me i should be quite content to stay upstairs
15:28with the children mary we want you to join us but i do not sparkle at dinners
15:37in our house no one is obliged to sparkle then of course but we need to get you properly dressed
15:47oh i thought perhaps tomorrow we could go to the haberdasher's and you could pick out some
15:51fabrics i do not really care for dresses well that's a shame but very well
15:59perhaps think about it mary there is a dress allowance as part of your governess wages
16:05i have thought about it and i would very much like to accept your kind offer that's excellent news
16:14oh good night mary and thank you for today
16:26this must be such a chain for maryton it most certainly is
16:41what do you think of the deep greens we have a soiree coming up now i think deep green would
16:48be
16:48perfect my mother has always said it's terribly difficult to get any color to work with my
16:53complexion really well perhaps your complexions change because i can see many colors here which
16:59would work well on you but the most important thing being is that you choose fabrics that you
17:04truly like but mother says that mother isn't here
17:12mr gardner oh miss bennett tom mr haywood have you brought your jacket to be mended i have just
17:21this minute dropped it off well now that you're here you can make yourself useful
17:25mrs bennett needs to choose some dress fabric i find myself quite overwhelmed by the choice well i
17:32shall be honest and say that my experience of picking dress fabric is limited to said the least but i
17:39i shall try um have you seen the names of these colors we've got uh dust of ruins uh corbeau
17:48or um flam de bonches anyone
17:51um i think i shall take the drake's neck with a splash of non-key anyone for gaboge oh well
17:59i mean that's just yellow that one
18:01yes yes i think my advice would be to choose the colors that make one feel most like oneself
18:10and i am sorry not to be of more use i should return to my desk and a particularly unexciting
18:16land
18:16negotiation good day good day oh poor tom he worked so hard really underneath that light-hearted
18:31manner carries the weight of the world on his shoulders now have you decided
18:41i have chosen very well mary the first is this crimson and then i thought perhaps a spring green trim
18:54lovely yes but you will need two dresses so perhaps china blue hmm
19:06do you think addressing the spring green alone would be garish what do you think mary
19:13some people may think it is wild but i like it then i think you should please yourself and not
19:22worry
19:22what others may think thank you you've done a very good job now
19:54oh
19:55oh
19:56Oh, my gosh!
20:01The gardeners are out. They're buying shoes for the children.
20:06Would you like to play graces?
20:11Well, yes. Thank you.
20:19Ready? Yes.
20:28I did it.
20:30You did. Natural.
20:32Beginner's luck.
20:34Right.
20:36Ready?
20:37Oh.
21:12Oh.
21:14Oh.
21:15Oh.
21:19Oh.
21:20Oh.
21:20Ready?
21:21Yes.
21:24Oh!
21:26Oh!
21:26Oh, come on!
21:27Oh!
21:28Erm...
21:29Er...
21:30Yeah, erm...
21:32That's probably enough...
21:34Enough.
21:34...graces for today.
21:37Oh, yes, er...
21:39I brought a book for Mrs Gardner.
21:41Oh, of course, yes.
21:43Ah, poetry.
21:45Do you like poetry, Miss Bennet?
21:47I prefer facts to Wednesday.
21:52Whimsy?
21:53I've tried, er...
21:55Well, Cowper.
21:56Er...
21:57Byron.
21:57Even some Dryden.
21:59But, erm...
22:00Well, it seems to me that it's all just...
22:03Words.
22:05What were you expecting?
22:08Are you a scholar, sir?
22:10Er...
22:11No.
22:12I'm a barrister.
22:13Junior.
22:14And though the law is my business, poetry is my passion.
22:19What do you like to read?
22:21Er...
22:22Works of non-fiction, really.
22:24Um...
22:24Histories and, er...
22:26And geology.
22:27And what do you like to read for pleasure?
22:31That is, reading for pleasure.
22:34There is nothing you like about poetry.
22:41Well...
22:41Just some poems are mercifully short.
22:46Well, now that you have thrown down the gauntlet, I will not rest until you have appreciated
22:52the merits of poetry.
22:56I believe that this is the book that will open the heart of Miss Mary Bennet.
23:06Oh!
23:09The garden is at home.
23:10Oh, is it?
23:11Ah, yes.
23:12Yes.
23:13Er...
23:13Well...
23:42And we'll need more scallops.
23:44Mrs. Shomley will claim she couldn't possibly before helping herself to seven.
23:49Must be very strange without your family here.
23:53There was always at least one argument about stolen perfume.
24:02Mary, you look lovely.
24:06I'm not sure.
24:10I think we should let your hair fall naturally.
24:12Mary, no point trying to force it into curls if it doesn't want to go.
24:21Here.
24:21Here.
24:36Here.
24:38Here.
24:39Here.
24:40Here.
25:01I mean, that's basically it, but they're awfully fun to hunt.
25:10Good evening. I do not believe we have met. I'm Miss Baxter.
25:16Delighted to meet you, Miss Baxter. I am Miss Bennet.
25:20I have not long moved to London from Hertfordshire.
25:24Fanshawe, Mr Fanshawe.
25:30A friend of my mother's died eating those nuts.
25:35One got stuck in his throat and that was it. He was quite dead in minutes.
25:44I hope I didn't cause any offence.
25:46That was marvellous.
25:48Oh, I shall keep that story in mind for when I want to be rid of someone.
25:51Forgive me, it wasn't deliberate.
25:55I hate the first 20 minutes of these evenings.
25:58As do I.
25:59I never know who to talk to and I often find myself saying the wrong things.
26:07Your dress is striking. It looks very well on you.
26:10You really think so? I feel a little bold in it.
26:13Well, you're in London, Miss Bennet. If you're going to be bold, here is the place to do it.
26:20Perhaps London will be the start of something new for you.
26:23Perhaps it will.
26:23Well, and if you want to be shown around town, I could call on you.
26:37London, 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, I 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.
27:17Me, 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.
27:32Miss Bennet?
27:32Oh, of course, you must have.
27:35Oh, I see you went for the Pomona trim.
27:38Uh, it's, um, spring green. It's quite different to Pomona.
27:42Well, it suits you very well.
27:46Tom!
27:47Excuse us, ladies.
27:48You must come and meet my colleague, Mr. May.
27:52Mr. May.
27:55Mr. Hayward and I met three years ago this spring.
27:58We are hoping to be married next year.
28:00Mr. May.
28:01Not everything went exactly as I would have liked.
28:06Oh, please excuse us.
28:08Come, Mary, it will be fun.
28:10Of course a man such as Mr. Hayward would have secured a match.
28:15but I had made friends
28:16and that
28:18was enough
28:25I did not know
28:26what tomorrow would bring
28:29but for now
28:31at least I had someone
28:33to dance with
29:02I had someone
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