#video #The Other Bennet Sister S01E03 (2026)
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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
00:15ever 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...
04:22No, I'm not...
04:26You're a good person...
04:35You're a good person...
04:37Have a good person...
04:38Is there...
04:38Is there...
04:47There's a good person in your life sharing?
04:49How do you know...
04:49I know all this...
04:52You're giving a good person...
04:52You're giving a good person...
04:52You're giving a good person...
04:59I 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 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, 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.
07:27I'm not so hungry this morning, I shall see the children upstairs.
07:47Marianne, would you like to start?
07:50Miss Bennet, it's a pleasure to meet you, I'm Marianne Gardner and I'm eleven years
07:55old.
07:56It's my pleasure to meet you too, Miss Marianne.
08:01George!
08:04Yes, thank you, George, and this is ... this 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
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.
09:01Where is America?
09:02America.
09:03Ah, yes.
09:04America.
09:05Uh ...
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 delusion and trickery?
09:22Oh.
09:23Now where could she be?
09:26Tom!
09:26You're here!
09:27Tom!
09:27You're here!
09:27Can we finish lessons now?
09:29Yes.
09:30Forgive 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.
09:41Hayward.
09:42Oh.
09:42Friend of the family.
09:48Aren't there normally three of you?
09:50There were three, certainly.
09:52But ...
09:53I was looking at ...
09:55America.
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 ... I 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?
10:36Mr. Hayward, I am keeping a rabbit in the toy trunk because ...
10:46rabbits are not at all social creatures.
10:48Exactly.
10:49Yes, they are.
10:54Now, why exactly do you have a new governess?
10:57Is it that you keep eating them?
11:01No.
11:01Oh ...
11:02....
11:05Tom helped Edward with the legal matters some years ago and ...
11:08...
11:08...
11:08We've been friends ever since.
11:09Do you know there are four of my lounges?
11:11Oh.
11:14what is a revolutionary republican
11:20well uh as discussed during the lesson um they're often associated with jacobinism
11:25but my point really sounds like you had a very interesting first day miss bennett
11:29well uh have you read catherine caulie miss bennett yes i have yes mary told us about
11:38smallpox i shall never sleep again well you asked me to be truthful what's a deadly rash
11:45she said it can leave one blind or dead that is not quite how i put it blind or dead
11:50she said
11:51well that is true there's a mortality rate of about 30 percent
11:58exactly george cried three times there was something in my eye we held hands until mary
12:04had finished talking well you're never too young to learn about life i think our game is in order
12:12don't you i think that's a very good idea yes yes i'm first but what should we play
12:17graces oh let's show mary how to play graces yes yeah marianne welcome
12:27you have to back up oh that counts it doesn't need it
12:37you'll need to get someone to look at that send it to blight you'll fix it for you ready
12:43you'll need to turn the edge yes well done you look like a wizard yes
12:55are you sure you won't join in mary oh uh no i'm not i'm not good at games oh that
13:00doesn't matter at
13:01all yes well you couldn't possibly be as ungainly as i am really i'd only spoil it
13:15i'm not good at games oh
13:16george ready oh oh
13:20thank you
13:25yes don't miss the god
13:28oh
13:28oh
13:46yes
13:48mary
13:50oh do not look so grave my dear you're not in trouble
13:54with the weather getting warmer we're about to become more sociable oh oh please do not feel
13:59any obligation to involve me i should be quite content to stay upstairs with the children mary
14:03we want you to join us but i do not sparkle at dinners in our house no one is obliged
14:12to sparkle
14:15then of course but we need to get you properly dressed oh i thought perhaps tomorrow we could go to
14:21the haberdashers and you could pick out some fabrics i do not really care for dresses well
14:26that's a shame but very well
14:30perhaps think about it mary there is a dress allowance as part of your governess wages
14:36i have thought about it and i would very much like to accept your kind offer that's excellent news
14:44well good night mary and thank you for today
14:55this must be such a change for mariton it most certainly is
15:09what do you think of the deep greens we have a soiree coming up now i think
15:15deep green would be perfect mother has always said it's terribly difficult to get any color to work
15:20with my complexion really well perhaps your complexions change because i can see many colors
15:25here which would work well on you but the most important thing being is that you choose fabrics
15:30that you truly like but mother says that mother isn't here
15:38mr garner oh miss bennett home mr hayward have you brought your jacket to be mounted i have just
15:46this minute talked it off well now that you're here you can make yourself useful miss bennett
15:51what needs to choose some dress fabric i i 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 but i shall try
16:05have you seen the names of these colors we've got uh dust of ruins uh corbeau or um flam de
16:13bonche
16:13anyone um i think i shall take the drake's neck with a splash of none key
16:19any one for gambos well i mean that's just yellow that one yes yes
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 i should return to my desk and a particularly unexciting
16:37land
16:37negotiation good day good day oh poor tom you worked so hard really underneath that light-hearted
16:51manner carries the weight of the world on his shoulders now have you decided
17:00i have chosen very well mary the first is this crimson and then i thought perhaps a spring green trim
17:12lovely yes but you will need two dresses so perhaps china blue hmm
17:23do you think addressing the spring green alone would be garish what do you think mary
17:30some people may think it is wild but i like it then i think you should please yourself and not
17:38worry what others may think thank you you've done a very good job now
18:08oh
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.
18:39I did it.
18:41You did?
18:42Natural.
18:43Beginner's luck.
18:46Ready?
18:48Ready?
18:49All right.
18:50One moment.
19:28Ready?
19:29Yes.
19:31Oh.
19:32Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
19:34Oh, um, uh, yeah, um, that's probably enough faces for today.
19:43Oh, yes, uh, 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, uh, well, Cowper, uh, Byron, even some Dryden, but, um,
20:04well, it seems to me that it's all just words.
20:09What were you expecting?
20:12Are you a scholar, sir?
20:14No, I'm a barrister, junior, and though the law is my business, poetry is my passion.
20:22What do you like to read?
20:24Uh, works of non-fiction, um, histories and, uh, and geology.
20:29And what do you like to read for pleasure?
20:32Uh, that 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 hearts of Miss Mary Bennett.
21:05Oh?
21:08The gardener's home.
21:09Oh, is it, uh, yes.
21:11Yes.
21:12Uh, well, uh, 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.
22:14Yeah.
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.
25:09Oh, we'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, it 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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