#video #The Other Bennet Sister S01E02 (2026)
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00:01In the weeks that followed the disastrous Meriton Assembly, I buried myself in my books,
00:07hoping to stave off the pangs of shame and humiliation.
00:11It was all part of my plan for a new Meriton.
00:15I needed a clear mind, unclouded by strong emotion.
00:19I was working on gravitas.
00:23From now on, I would be a steady, informed, and rational woman.
00:28Books would be my guide.
00:31I would think more and feel less.
00:39What could possibly go wrong?
00:49Well?
01:00I hope you've ordered a good dinner this evening. We shall have a guest.
01:05I knew it would be so.
01:07It's not Mr Bingley.
01:11It's my cousin.
01:12Mr Collins?
01:13So very same.
01:14The man next in the entail.
01:15Who?
01:16The man who, once I am dead, will turn you out of the house as soon as he pleases.
01:21He proposes himself as a guest here at Longboard.
01:23In point of composition, his letter does not seem entirely defective.
01:27Entirely defective?
01:29Mary, are you quite all right?
01:30I regret deeply the breach which has existed between us for so long.
01:35As a clergyman, I feel it my duty to promote the blessings of peace in all families within my influence.
01:41Blessings of peace in this house?
01:44He must be an oddity.
01:46I cannot make him out.
01:48Can he be a sensible man, sir?
01:49He is a very sensible man.
01:51Thank you, Elizabeth.
01:53Very sensible indeed.
01:55Oh, can you not all see?
01:57He is looking for a wife.
01:59Do you really think so?
02:01Lizzie, you must prepare yourself.
02:03But, Mama...
02:04We shall find out just what kind of man he is this afternoon.
02:07I have great hopes of his being extremely foolish.
02:11He sounds insufferably boring.
02:13A clergyman.
02:15It's a right to condemn him before we've even met him.
02:17Oh, please, Mary.
02:19I was agreeing with you.
02:20It's the way you say things.
02:28I am looking forward to meeting Mr. Collins this afternoon.
02:37What should he keep under your hat?
02:46Oh, my goodness.
02:46Who's got your ribbons?
02:47We have...
02:47We do not sparkle as they do, you and I.
02:53Oh, I hope my honesty did not offend him.
02:55My goodness.
02:55No.
02:56No.
02:58Your sister seemed most agitated this morning.
03:01My father's cousin, Mr. Collins, is to visit Longbourn and they've all decided he's a terrible
03:05ball. Mother believes he comes looking for a wife. A wife? Apparently. What is your cousin's
03:11profession? A clergyman. Oh. A mortis income then, I imagine. Do you know what my advice
03:19would be to you? If my father's cousin was coming to stay and I knew he was looking for
03:23a wife, I would do everything. Within the bounds of propriety, to attract him. I have
03:30decided none of this is for me. I will live alone with knowledge. But Mary, I cannot
03:36seriously believe the life of an old maid is to be preferred. I do not think Mama has
03:42me in mind. Jane and Lizzie won't settle so low. Anyway, Jane is nearly taken. So that leaves
03:48you. You speak nothing of love. What has love to do with anything? Of course. Of course,
04:00deal as we have been. The future holds no other prospect than marriage. Marriage or
04:06misery, Mary? Marriage or misery? I should know.
04:39Mr. Collin. I'm here. Leave it lost.
04:48This? This is Jane, our eldest. Well, I have no idea.
05:01She is soon to be engaged, but the others are not. This is Elizabeth.
05:11A pleasure.
05:16And Mary, Mrs. Kitty, and our youngest, Lydia.
05:21Ah. Well, now, I don't know that I will be able to tell the difference between you two.
05:32The good looks of my fair cousins far exceed even the most enthusiastic of reports.
05:39Oh, um, no, I'm terribly sorry. I certainly didn't mean to cause any offence.
05:47Oh, you caused no offence, Mr. Collins?
05:50Of course you didn't. Allow me to show you the house.
05:54Hmm. Oh, splendid. Splendid. Much smaller than one imagined, but with a few minor modifications
06:02will suffice my main needs. In case you think so.
06:12I am not worthy of the crumbs which fall from my table.
06:19And yet that gives unto me the bread of life.
06:23Evermore, give me that bread that I may eat thereof, and not die deadly.
06:33Yes, exactly.
06:34Oh, my name.
06:36Mr. Benny, hear it?
06:37What a magnificent dining table.
06:39Even with the heavy curtains and the lack of natural light in here, one can still see its quantity.
06:44How generous of you.
06:49Shall we?
06:57Mr. Collins?
07:04Mr. Benny, it?
07:05I expect the daughters will be quickly and advantageously disposed of in marriage.
07:09Disposed?
07:10It is very good of you to say so.
07:12Oh, I am happy on every occasion to offer those delicate little compliments that are available to ladies.
07:18Thank you, Mr. Collins.
07:20And may I commend your reading of grace?
07:23It is very much stayed with me.
07:26It is most unfortunate that our girls have no proper portion to bring to their husbands.
07:31Please excuse me.
07:32You allude perhaps to the entail of this estate.
07:36It is a most vexing situation.
07:38If only there was some satisfactory way to amend it.
07:45I could say much on the subject.
07:48But I am cautious of appearing forward and precipitate.
07:53I can assure the young ladies that I come prepared to admire them.
08:02Have you read Dr. Fordyce, sir?
08:07Hmm, I certainly have.
08:08Uh, Cousin Elizabeth?
08:09What make you of the sermons?
08:12I'm sure I haven't had time to read them, sir.
08:14So busy have I been merely being a woman, I haven't had a moment to read up on how I
08:19should go about it.
08:20Ha, ha, ha.
08:22I think I'm the only one who's truly interested in Fordyce's sermons.
08:26Yeah, and more wine, Mr. Collins.
08:29Hmm.
08:34I will let women adorn themselves with sobriety.
08:38Let your speech be always, be always, with grace, seasoned with salt.
08:52This has been wonderful.
08:55But now you must let us entertain you, Mr. Collins.
08:59Lizzie, won't you play for us?
09:03Ah.
09:49Bravo, Lizzie.
09:50Yeah.
09:50Very good.
09:51Lizzie, if you were to practice properly, you really might master it.
09:54It seems a great shame to bring all the pleasure out of music.
09:56A few false notes seems a small price to pay in exchange.
10:00Great shame to waste a gift, like it all.
10:02Hmm.
10:03Quite right.
10:04Ha, ha.
10:04Why don't you show us how to start Mary?
10:13Oh, Lord.
10:16Oh, Lord.
10:36I don't know.
11:02My congratulations, cousin. You play with such exactness.
11:08I imagine you practice a great deal.
11:10I practice often, which is true.
11:12Yes, it is.
11:15It's only through hard work that anything of any value is breaching.
11:18Yes, um, yes, I, Mr. Collins, perhaps Elizabeth could take you on a walk around the gardens.
11:26Hmm.
11:34Mary.
11:35Mother.
11:38I do not want any confusion regarding Mr. Collins and future prospects.
11:45I'm not sure I understand.
11:46It is Lizzie in whom Mr. Collins has expressed an interest. Are we clear?
11:51Don't you worry, Mama, that Lizzie won't accept Mr. Collins?
11:55I have no particular feelings for him, but he and I have similar interests, and I am at least prepared
12:02to seek out the good in him.
12:04Mary, I cannot pass the man around the family like a sherry trifle.
12:10Your name has not come up.
12:21Cousins?
12:22Come on.
12:23Ready?
12:23Come on, hit it.
12:24I bring news.
12:26There is to be...
12:28There is to be a ball next week at Neverfield.
12:31Oh!
12:32Then you, Mr. Bingley, would find the perfect excuse to see Jane again.
12:35And my brother and his wife shall be visiting.
12:37They might even be here when the engagement is announced.
12:40We have some way off that.
12:43Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner shall be joining us.
12:46They're coming down from London.
12:47Up!
12:50They're coming up from London.
12:52That is what I said.
12:54Spend it.
12:55Spend it!
12:55Ha!
12:56A real family affair.
12:58I will need new ribbons.
12:59Perhaps, Miss Bennet, you would take the first dance with me?
13:05Oh, how wonderful.
13:07Maybe I should play a little something on the piano?
13:11Yes, yes.
13:11Yes, you should indeed.
13:13What about you, Miss Elizabeth?
13:15Do you sing?
13:17There is nothing I admire more than a woman with a wide vocal range.
13:24What?
13:39Very good, Miss Mary.
13:41Your playing is coming along nicely.
13:43Thank you, Hill.
13:45Mr. Collins thinks I'm a very good player.
13:48Huh?
13:48I'm planning to play at the Assembly.
13:51At Netherfield?
13:52Yes.
13:52I was even thinking I might sing.
13:56Sing?
13:57Miss Mary?
13:58I'm not going to sing.
13:59It will be a surprise to them all.
14:02Short and sweet.
14:04That would be my advice.
14:08And, uh, maybe don't sing.
14:16Hill!
14:18I lost my shoes!
14:20Hill!
14:21Hill!
14:22Hill!
14:23Hill!
14:23Hill!
14:24Hill!
14:25Hill!
14:26Hill!
14:28Hill!
14:29Hill!
14:34Hill!
14:38Hill!
14:42The earlier we arrive, the earlier we can leave.
14:48Oh...
14:50Oh...
14:53Oh...
14:54Oh...
15:11Lady Lucas, Charlotte, please meet my brother and his dear wife, Mr. and Mrs. Gardner.
15:18They're down from London.
15:20Up.
15:21What?
15:21Up from London.
15:22And this is my very distant cousin, Mr. Collins.
15:29Shall we do?
15:34Something of a challenge to find a husband's wife.
15:38This is a beautiful dining room.
15:40But if Jane were to get a proposal...
15:43Am I?
15:44Please.
15:48As I say, if Jane...
15:50Lizzie seems very keen to distance herself from your cousin.
15:53She's not at all happy about his interest.
15:57What is he like?
15:59Tolerable forearms, I noticed.
16:02Have you made your interest in him clearly?
16:04I am trying.
16:06But...
16:08Your mother seems terribly keen for Lizzie to match with a man of a modest income.
16:12I cannot think why.
16:13He is the cousin.
16:16The one from the Entail.
16:17It's Mr. Collins who stands to inherit Lombard.
16:19The house, the estate, the income, all right.
16:23So, my father cannot stand the man, while my mother wants Lizzie to marry him.
16:32Perhaps I will not play tonight.
16:35Mary, you must.
16:38I had prepared a little something.
16:42But...
16:42Now this time it's here, I'm not sure I have the stomach right.
16:44Nonsense, Mary.
16:46Mr. Collins is sure to be impressed.
16:48I think it is time you get yourself noticed.
17:07I beg you, do not make it long.
17:29I pray thee be gone from me.
17:36Be gone, don't care.
17:42You and I shall never agree.
17:47Be gone, don't care.
17:53Where's he at?
17:54He's got my point.
17:55I will be gone from me.
18:00Be gone, don't care.
18:06You and I shall never agree.
18:12Long time hast thou been tarrying me.
18:18And faith thou would me kill.
18:24Please, I will.
18:25Faith don't care.
18:30Thou never shalt have my will.
18:42I have another piece, Father.
18:45One that's more lively.
18:47Mary, you delighted us.
18:49Oh, enough.
18:57Oh, Miss Bennett, that was...
19:00truly unforgettable.
19:08It was a beautiful rendition of a difficult song.
19:13Everybody saw me.
19:15There's a console.
19:17Take a breath, I think.
19:19No nobody noticed but you.
19:22Oh, my God.
19:24Oh, my God.
19:26Oh, my God.
19:26Oh, my God.
19:27Oh, my God.
19:28Oh, my God.
19:29Oh, my God.
19:29Oh, my God.
19:34Mary.
19:38It was you that told Father to stop me playing, wasn't it?
19:41I didn't want you to overexcite yourself.
19:44You insult me.
19:45We both know that isn't true.
19:49Mary.
19:52I have had a terrible evening.
19:53And yet you always appear to handle everything with such ease.
19:56What do you mean?
19:57You always get what you want.
19:59Without needing to try.
20:02Whereas I try so hard.
20:08It is always for nothing.
20:11Don't say that.
20:12There is much you have achieved.
20:19I'm sorry.
20:22I'm truly sorry.
20:37I'm truly sorry.
20:39Mary.
20:41Mary.
20:42Mary.
20:42You must get dressed and come downstairs.
20:44There has been such an upset, you won't believe it.
20:45You can't imagine what's happened.
20:49Well, Mr. Collins has made Lizzie an offer.
20:53And she has refused him.
20:55And she has refused him.
20:55Can you imagine?
20:56Mama is furious and says Lizzie will have him.
20:58But Papa told Lizzie that her choice was a sad one.
21:00Because Mother will never see her again if she doesn't marry Collins.
21:04And Papa will never see her again if she does.
21:06And now everyone is so utterly cross.
21:08Mr. Collins has stormed off.
21:09Lizzie won't say anything at all.
21:10Mama is beside herself.
21:11And Papa has shut himself in the library.
21:13You must come.
21:14So, so what happens now?
21:15What if Mr. Collins, Papa thinks he would choose someone else?
21:19I don't know.
21:20Well, it's more likely to be me than you.
21:25Though I have resigned from this committee, I shall take my leave.
21:28As you wish.
21:29Oh, Mr. Collins!
21:30I have resigned, Madam Mr. Collins.
21:32This is just a misunderstand.
21:35Mr. Collins has withdrawn his pretensions to Lizzie's favour.
21:43I'm very glad to hear it.
21:45I don't think I could have borne much more of his good opinion.
21:48He says he's resigned and will not renew his pursuit.
22:08Thank you, Hill.
22:17I have been thinking, Mary.
22:20Since Lizzie was so selfish as to refuse Mr. Collins,
22:24I have turned my mind towards you.
22:30I think you understand me.
22:32Mama, less than a week ago you were adamant that...
22:35Mary, please.
22:36He will not ask me now.
22:38I need to be sure that you will accept him when he offers.
22:42He will not choose me, Mama.
22:45Oh, Mary.
22:46He will.
22:48Who else will marry him?
22:53What are you reading?
22:56A theory of the earth.
22:58It's about rocks.
23:00Types of...
23:01rocks.
23:17Yes, may do, sir.
23:19Yes, may do, sir.
23:19Yes, may do, sir.
23:20I don't think we could compare one-hander, obviously,
23:22hoped for a sidewalk-capacious dining room, however.
23:25I think it's quite sweet.
23:27Mr. Bennett?
23:29Mr. Collins has made Miss Charlotte Lucas an offer of marriage.
23:34And she has accepted.
23:37We wish you joy.
23:39Yes, so much joy.
23:40I wish you joy.
23:41Thank you all.
23:43Did you know he is a clergyman?
23:45Yes.
23:45I wish you joy.
23:47Yes, sir.
23:48Yes, sir.
23:48Yes, sir.
23:50There you are, Mr. Vincent.
23:52Long day.
23:53The Lord has often been sent in order to the right.
23:57I do not feel like you are supposed to see the person of my mother-in-came car, like-checks.
24:00One-to-one, no.
24:01And in the past.
24:02So that's what I do.
24:04How is my mother-in-law.
24:05Ha-ha!
24:06Good.
24:07The best is my touch.
24:08I did not care.
24:13If I had any doubts as to whether I'd done the right thing,
24:16they vanished when I told my family of his offer I am too old to be generous
24:20and afraid I told you no one marry you if you wore spectacles
24:57it wouldn't be for much longer wait that we Bennett sisters live together
25:06as each of my sisters left home
25:10my future felt increasingly uncertain
25:17I often thought back to the events in that period of my life
25:20and wondered if I could have done anything differently
25:28but I was trapped
25:31unable to escape the loveless world of my parents
25:43my options were limited
25:49and I found my books offered me no instruction
25:52and little comfort
25:54I searched desperately for answers
25:59I clung on to hope
26:09but in a moment my life was upturned
26:27father had found a way out
26:29leaving mother and I with nothing
26:33except each
26:34and I figured out they was a person
26:34the thing with that
26:34and you
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