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
00:15ever 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. Bennett 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.
01:04Understandably.
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-
01:12To gather 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.
01:28Hm.
01:29Thank you, Mr. Collins.
01:31You are quite welcome to stay here with us for a full two weeks.
01:35Two weeks?
01:36Mrs. Bennett, there really is no hurry for you and Mary to leave.
01:39But I have arranged some help with the packing.
01:41Hm.
01:42So you are not obliged to undertake such a difficult task during your hour of need?
01:48Hm.
01:58Mama.
01:59You must come and stay with Mr. Beanley and I in Everfield.
02:03We 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 in London.
02:41Their governess has been called back to Norfolk
02:43and they have asked me to send you to stay with them until a suitable replacement is found.
02:49There 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.
03:07Oh!
03:20If my options in life really were marriage or misery,
03:23it looked very much as though I was destined for misery.
03:34Mrs. Bennet is...
03:36indisposed.
03:38Oh.
03:40Of course.
03:42Thank you, Hill.
03:51What if the children don't like me?
03:54Why should they not like you?
03:56You're a perfectly likable 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'll do you good.
04:17Do not be frightened, Miss Mary.
04:19Oh, no, I'm not...
04:21No, I'm just...
04:22You're new.
04:23this, your friend.
04:35That's crazy.
04:36Bye-bye.
04:37It's a bomb, and one day.
04:37Bye-bye.
04:37Bye-bye.
04:37Bye-bye.
04:42Bye-bye.
04:49Bye-bye.
04:58I don't know.
05:39I 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, thank 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.
06:50Do you have all you need?
06:53I do.
07:06I hope you've got a nice memory today.
07:09How is it okay?
07:12How is this your mother?
07:18Come here please.
07:21I'm sorry you did.
07:23What's that okay?
07:27Oh, not so good.
07:29Mary, won't you join us for breakfast?
07:31Oh, no, no, no, I'm not at all hungry this morning.
07:34I shall see the children upstairs.
07:47Marianne, would you like to start?
07:51Miss 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.
08:06And this is...
08:11This is Rebecca.
08:13Thank you, Miss Rebecca.
08:17And if an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances,
08:23best 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
08:40will 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,
08:59Christopher 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.
09:17She 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, you're here!
09:27Tom!
09:27Can we finish lessons now?
09:29Yes.
09:30Oh, forgive the intrusion.
09:31I came to tell you that dinner is served.
09:34You must be Miss Bennett.
09:36I... I must be.
09:38Yes, I am.
09:40Tom Hayward.
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?
10:06For if you do,
10:07might 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.
10:16No, you see, in there,
10:18they cannot get to their cheese.
10:20Actually, it's a fallacy.
10:21The mice like cheese.
10:24Of course.
10:25They're much more partial
10:26to root vegetables and grains.
10:28Yes, indeed.
10:30I'm a rabbit.
10:34Mr. Hayward?
10:36Mr. Hayward,
10:38I am keeping a rabbit
10:39in the toy trunk
10:42because...
10:44I...
10:46Because...
10:46rabbits are not at all social creatures.
10:48Exactly.
10:48Yes, they are.
10:50Yes, they are.
10:54Oh.
10:54Now, why exactly do you have a new governess?
10:57Is it that you keep eating them?
11:01Oh.
11:05Tom helped Edward with the legal matters
11:06some years ago,
11:07and we've been friends ever since.
11:09You're neither of our former lodgers.
11:11Oh.
11:12Yes.
11:13Oh.
11:13What is a revolutionary Republican?
11:20Well,
11:21as discussed
11:22during the lesson,
11:23they're often associated
11:25with Jacobinism,
11:26but my point really was...
11:27It sounds like you had
11:28a very interesting first day,
11:29Ms. Bennett.
11:30Well,
11:31have you read
11:32Catherine Cawley,
11:33Ms. Bennett?
11:34Yes, I have.
11:36Yes.
11:37Mary told us about
11:38smallpox.
11:39I shall never sleep again.
11:41Well,
11:41you asked me to be truthful.
11:43What's a deadly rash?
11:45She said it can leave one blind
11:47or dead.
11:48That is not quite
11:49how I put it.
11:50Blind or dead,
11:51she said.
11:51Well, that is true.
11:52There's a mortality rate
11:53of about...
11:5430%.
11:57Exactly.
11:59George cried
12:00three times.
12:02There was something
12:02in my eye.
12:03We held hands
12:04until Mary had finished talking.
12:07Well,
12:07you're never too young
12:08to learn about life.
12:10I think our game
12:11is in order,
12:12don't you?
12:12I think that's
12:13a very good idea.
12:14Yes!
12:15Yes!
12:15I'm first!
12:16But what should we play?
12:18Graces!
12:18Graces!
12:19Ah!
12:19Let's show Mary
12:20how to play Graces!
12:22Yes!
12:23Marianne?
12:24Well called.
12:25No!
12:26No problem.
12:27You're the record.
12:29Woo!
12:30Oh!
12:31Oh!
12:32That counts.
12:33It does need.
12:33It does need.
12:35Oh!
12:37You'll need to get
12:38someone to look at that.
12:39Send it to Blige,
12:40he'll fix it for you.
12:42Ready?
12:43Go!
12:44Turn the edge.
12:44Yes!
12:45Well done!
12:46Flare play.
12:47You look like a wizard.
12:49Yes.
12:55Are you sure you won't join in,
12:57Mary?
12:58Oh,
12:58no,
12:59I'm not good at games.
13:00Oh,
13:00that doesn't matter at all.
13:03Yes.
13:05Well,
13:05you couldn't possibly be
13:06as ungainly as I am.
13:08Really,
13:08I'd only spoil it.
13:16George.
13:16Ready?
13:18Oh!
13:19Oh,
13:20well.
13:25Just on.
13:26It's Mr. God.
13:28Oh!
13:29Oh!
13:46Yes?
13:48Mary
13:50Oh, do not look so grave, my dear
13:52You're not in trouble
13:54With the weather getting warmer
13:55We're about to become more sociable
13:57Oh, oh please
13:58Do not feel any obligation to involve me
14:00I shall be quite content to stay upstairs
14:01With 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, I thought perhaps tomorrow
14:20We could go to the haberdashers
14:22And you could pick out some fabrics
14:23I do not really care for dresses
14:26That's a shame, but very well
14:30Perhaps think about it, Mary
14:32There is a dress allowance
14:33As part of your governess wages
14:36I have thought about it
14:38And I would very much like to accept
14:39Your kind offer
14:41That's excellent news
14:44Well, good night, Mary
14:45And thank you for today
14:54This must be such a change for Meredith
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
15:16Mother has always said it's terribly difficult
15:19To get any colour to work with my complexion
15:21Really?
15:22Well, perhaps your complexion's changed
15:24Because I can see many colours here
15:25Which would work well on you
15:26But the most important thing being
15:28Is that you choose fabrics that you truly like
15:33But Mother says that Mother isn't here
15:38Mr. Gardner?
15:40Oh
15:40Miss Bennet?
15:41Tom!
15:43Mr. Hayward, have you brought your jacket to be mounted?
15:45I have just this minute chopped it off
15:47Well, now that you're here
15:48You can make yourself useful
15:50Miss Bennet needs to choose some dress fabric
15:53I find myself quite overwhelmed by the voice
15:56Well, I shall be honest and say that my experience of picking dress fabric is limited
16:00To say the least
16:02But I shall try
16:05Have you seen the names of these colours?
16:07We've got Dust of Ruins
16:11Corbeau
16:12Or Flamme de Bonche, anyone?
16:14Oh, I think I shall take the Drake's neck
16:17With a splash of Nunkey
16:19Anyone for Gamboge?
16:21Well, I mean, that's just yellow
16:22That one
16:23Yes
16:24Yes
16:26I think my advice would be
16:28To choose the colours that make one feel more like oneself
16:31And I am sorry
16:32Not 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
16:56Have you decided?
17:00I have chosen
17:01Very well, Mary
17:05The first
17:07Is this crimson
17:08And then I thought perhaps
17:10A spring green trim
17:12Lovely
17:13Yes
17:13But you will need two dresses
17:15So perhaps
17:18China blue
17:20Hmm
17:23Do you think a dress in the spring green alone
17:25Would be garish?
17:27What do you think, Mary?
17:30Some people may think it is wild
17:32But
17:34I like it
17:36Then I think you should please yourself
17:38And not worry what others may think
17:39Thank you
17:40You've done a very good job
17:43Now
18:09Oh, gosh
18:12Oh, gosh
18:14The gardeners are out
18:16They're buying shoes for the children
18:19Would you like to play graces?
18:23Well, yes
18:24Thank you
18:31Ready?
18:32Yes
18:40I did it
18:40And you did
18:41Natural
18:42Beginner's luck
18:47Ready?
18:48Ready?
18:51Alright
18:51One moment
19:15One moment
19:28Ready?
19:29Yes.
19:31Yes.
19:38That's probably enough faces for today.
19:44Oh, yes.
19:45I brought a book for Mrs. Farmer.
19:47Of course, yes.
19:48Ah, poetry.
19:50Do you like poetry, Mrs. Farmer?
19:52I prefer facts to whimsy.
19:57Whimsy?
19:58I've tried, uh, well, Cowper, uh, Byron.
20:02Even 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.
20:15I'm a barrister, junior.
20:17And though the law is my business, poetry is my passion.
20:22What do you like to read?
20:24Uh, works of non-fiction.
20:26Um, histories and, uh, 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.
20:47Well, now that you have thrown down the gauntlet, I will not rest until you have appreciated the merits of
20:53poetry.
20:56I believe that this is the book that will open the heart of Mrs. Mary Bennet.
21:05Oh?
21:05Uh, the gardener's home.
21:09Oh, is it, uh, yes.
21:11Yes.
21:12Uh, well, uh, I...
21:14Well, you know, come on.
21:17I-I-I-I-I-I-I.
21:39And we'll need more scholars.
21:41Mrs. Scholling will claim she couldn't possibly before helping herself to seven.
21:45Must be very strange without your family here.
21:50There was always at least one argument about stolen perfume.
21:57Mary, you look lovely.
22:01I'm not sure.
22:05I think we should let your hair fall naturally.
22:07No point trying to force it into curls if it doesn't want to go.
22:14Here.
22:26Here.
22:29Here.
22:30Here.
22:32Here.
22:43Here.
22:44Here.
22:46Here.
22:53Here.
22:54Here.
22:57Here.
22:57Here.
22:57Here.
23:08Here.
23:10Here.
23:12Here.
23:23Here.
23:26Here.
23:28Here.
23:31Here.
23:42Here.
23:44Here.
23:45Here.
23:46Here.
24:00Here.
24:02Here.
24:03Here.
24:04Here.
24:13Here.
24:29Here.
24:31I had never liked change, I seemed to be enjoying myself, much about me felt different, after just one week,
24:40being here had lifted my spirits, I felt something long forgotten, hope.
24:50Are you looking for someone?
24:53You must tell me all about it in a moment.
24:57Nick, there's a gentleman I'd like you to meet, we have something of an understanding.
25:02Please may I introduce Mr. Tom Hayward.
25:09Uh, we've, we've already met.
25:11Have you met?
25:12Oh, of course, you must have.
25:15Oh, I see you went for the Pomona train?
25:17Uh, it's, um, Spring Green, it's quite different to Pomona.
25:21Well, it suits you very well.
25:24Tom!
25:26Excuse us ladies, you must come and meet my colleague, Mr. May.
25:33Mr. Hayward and I met three years ago this Spring.
25:36We are hoping to be married next year.
25:39Not everything went exactly as I would have liked.
25:42Come on.
25:44Please excuse us.
25:45Come, Mary, it will be fun.
25:47Of 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.
26:05But for now, at least I had someone to dance with.
26:09And look for the next year we are on the territory of March.
26:10And you, probably, will be part of our next year.
26:10Maybe before we have a sealed day in the room or our new year.
26:11We will take care of the time and turn our hands on our side.
26:11For now, we will take care of our next year.
26:11You're going to take care of our next year.
Comments