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...
04:22I'm always...
04:31I will be fine.
04:34I don't have any questions.
04:35I am.
04:36I am.
04:37I am.
04:38I am.
04:39I am.
04:39I am.
04:40I am.
04:40I am.
04:42I am.
04:48I am.
04:58I don't know.
05:19I don't know.
05:24I don't know.
05:50I'm hungry after the journey.
05:51You'd be like some toasted cheese.
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 is 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.
06:44So if you don't mind that, you'll do well with us.
06:48And the rest of your belongings will be brought up any moment.
06:51Do you have all you need?
06:52I do.
07:28Mary, won't you join us for breakfast?
07:30Oh, no, no, no, sir, thank you, sir.
07:32I'm not at all hungry this morning.
07:34I shall see the children upstairs.
07:47Mary Ann, would you like to start?
07:51Miss Bennet, it's a pleasure to meet you.
07:53I am Mary Ann Gardner, and I'm 11 years old.
07:56It's my pleasure to meet you too, Miss Mary Ann.
08:01George!
08:04Yes, thank you, George.
08:06And this is...
08:11This is Rebecca.
08:13Thank you, Miss Rebecca.
08:16And if an organised body is not, in the situation and circumstances, best adapted to its sustenance
08:25and propagation, then, in conceiving an indefinite variety among the individuals of that species,
08:33we must be assured that, on the one hand, those which depart most from the best adapted constitution will be
08:41the 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 when 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!
09:26You'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...
09:37I must be.
09:38Yes, I am.
09:40Tom Hayward.
09:42Oh.
09:42Friend of the family.
09:48Aren't there normally three of you?
09:50There were three, certainly, but I was looking at America, and 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.
10:16No, you see, in there, they cannot get to their cheese.
10:20Actually, 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?
10:37Mr. Hayward, I am keeping a rabbit in the toy trunk because I...
10:45Because rabbits are not at all social creatures.
10:48Exactly.
10:49Yes, they are.
10:54Well, why exactly do you have a new governess?
10:57Is it that you keep eating them?
11:05Tom helped Edward with the legal matter some years ago, and we've been friends ever since.
11:09You're neither of our four of my lounges.
11:11Oh.
11:14What is a revolutionary Republican?
11:20Well, as discussed during the lesson, they're often associated with Jacobinism.
11:26But my point really was just...
11:27Sounds like you had a very interesting first day, Miss Bennett.
11:30Well, have you read Catherine Cawley, Miss Bennett?
11:34Yes, I have.
11:36Yes.
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 be one blind or dead.
11:48That is not quite how I put it.
11:50Blind or dead, she said.
11:51Well, that is true.
11:52There's a mortality rate of about...
11:54Thirty percent.
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.
12:15Yes.
12:15I'm first.
12:16But what should we play?
12:18Graces.
12:18Graces.
12:19Ah.
12:19Let's show Mary how to play graces.
12:22Yes.
12:23Marianne.
12:24Well called.
12:25Bravo.
12:26Bravo.
12:27You have to back up.
12:29Woo.
12:30Oh.
12:31Oh.
12:32That counts.
12:33It does indeed.
12:33It does indeed.
12:35Oh.
12:37You'll need to get someone to look at that.
12:39Send it to Blige.
12:40He'll fix it for you.
12:42Ready?
12:43Go.
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, Mary?
12:58Oh, no.
12:59I'm not good at games.
13:00Oh, that doesn't matter at all.
13:03Yes.
13:05Well, you couldn't possibly be as ungainly as I am.
13:08Really, I'd only spoil it.
13:15George.
13:16Ready?
13:18Oh.
13:19Oh.
13:26Yes, don't.
13:26It's Mr. God.
13:28Oh.
13:29Oh.
13:30Oh.
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, we're about to become more sociable.
13:57Oh.
13:58Oh, 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 dresses.
14:26That's a shame, but 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 complexion's changed because I can see many colors here which would work well on you.
15:27But the most important thing being is that you choose fabrics that you truly like.
15:33But Mother says that...
15:35Mother isn't here.
15:38Mr. 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. North.
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 the voice.
15:56Well, I shall be honest and say that my experience of picking dress fabric is limited, to say the least.
16:02What?
16:02I shall try.
16:05Have you seen the names of these colors?
16:07We've got Dust of Ruins, Corbeau, or Flamme de Bonge, anyone?
16:14Oh, I think I shall take the Drake's neck with a splash of none key.
16:19Anyone for Gaboge?
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 like oneself.
16:31And I am sorry not to be of more use.
16:34I should return to my desk, and a particularly unexciting land negotiation.
16:40Good day.
16:41Good day.
16:46Oh, poor Tom.
16:48He worked so hard.
16:49Really?
16:50Underneath that light-hearted manor.
16:52Carries the weight of the world on his shoulders.
16:57Now, have you decided?
17:00I have chosen.
17:02Very well, Mary.
17:05The first is this crimson, and 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, but I like it.
17:36Then I think you should please yourself and not worry what others may think.
17:41You've done a very good job.
17:43Now.
18:09Oh, my God.
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.
18:34Yes.
18:39I did it.
18:41You did.
18:42Natural.
18:43Beginner's luck.
18:46Ready?
19:03Um...
19:27Ready?
19:29Yes.
19:34Oh, um, that's probably enough for today.
19:43Oh, yes, I brought a book for Mrs. Farmer.
19:47Oh, of course, yes.
19:48Ah, poetry.
19:50Do you like poetry, Miss Bennett?
19:52I prefer facts to whimsy.
19:57Whimsy?
19:58I've tried, well, Cowper, Byron, even some Dryden.
20:03But, um, well, it seems to me that it's all just words.
20:09What were you expecting?
20:12Are 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.
20:42Some poems are mercifully short.
20:46Well, 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.
21:08The gardener's home.
21:09Oh, is it?
21:10Oh, yes.
21:11Yes.
21:12Uh, well, um, I...
21:39And we'll need more scholars.
21:40Mrs. Scholling will claim she couldn't possibly before helping herself to seven.
21:46Must 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.
22:09Girl.
22:14Yep.
22:29Joe.
22:31I must do this, Mr. Scholling.
22:36I cannot do it.
22:37I cannot do it.
22:38No.
22:38I must do it.
22:52Um, I mean, that's basically it, but they're awfully fun there.
23:00Good evening.
23:02I do not believe we have met.
23:04I'm Miss Baxter.
23:06Delighted to meet you, Miss Baxter.
23:07Um, I am Miss Bennet.
23:09I have not long moved to London from Hertfordshire.
23:13Fanchel, Mr Fanchel.
23:19A friend of my mother's died eating those nuts.
23:23One got stuck in his throat and that was it.
23:25He was quite dead in minutes.
23:32Oh, I hope I didn't cause any offence.
23:34That was marvellous.
23:35Oh, I shall keep that story in mind for when I want to be rid of someone.
23:38But forgive me, it wasn't deliberate.
23:42I hate the first 20 minutes of these evenings.
23:45As do I.
23:46I never know who to talk to and I often find myself saying the wrong things.
23:53Your dress is striking.
23:54It looks very well on you.
23:56You really think so?
23:57I feel a little bold in it.
23:59Well, you're in London, Miss Bennet.
24:01If 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.
24:08Perhaps it will.
24:10And if you want to be shown around town, I could call on you.
24:21London, it turned out, was a place of learning as much as teaching.
24:27A place of trying new things.
24:30And though I had never liked to change, I seemed to be enjoying myself.
24:37Much about me felt different after just one week.
24:41Being here had lifted my spirits.
24:44I felt something long forgotten.
24:48Hope.
24:50Are you looking for someone?
24:53You must tell me all about it in a moment.
24:57Ned, there's a gentleman I'd like you to meet.
25:00We have something of an understanding.
25:02Please may I introduce Mr. Tom Hayward.
25:10We've already met.
25:11Yes, sir.
25:12Oh, of course, you must have.
25:15Oh, I see you went for the Pomona train.
25:17Ah, it's Spring Green.
25:19It's quite different to Pomona.
25:21Well, it suits you very well.
25:24Tom!
25:26Excuse us, ladies.
25:27You 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.
25:43Oh, please excuse us.
25:45Come, Mary.
25:46It will be fun.
25:47Of course a man such as Mr. Hayward would have secured a match.
25:52But I had made friends.
25:53And that was enough.
26:01I did not know what tomorrow would bring.
26:05But for now, at least I had someone to dance with.
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