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The Other Bennet Sister Episode 3-4
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00:24THE LOSS OF MY FATHER
00:26was a leap into the unknown. Longborn was my childhood home, and although I had my struggles
00:33here, it was all I had ever known. From now on, would I be relying on the hospitality of
00:41my sisters, destined to spend my days as my mother's companion? What other choice did
00:50I have? I do not expect any of you to understand my pain. The bond Mr. Bennett and I shared
01:02was a rare thing. I do not know that I shall ever eat again. Who is that? I do not
01:13know,
01:13Mama. What sort of person would impinge upon our hour of mourning so distastefully?
01:24Charlotte! I'm afraid you find us in a state of some disarray. Understandably. We've been
01:31wanting to see you all since we heard the terrible news, but knew you would need time as a family
01:36to gather your things. Yourselves. Together. I want to make it quite clear. No.
01:51Quite clear that there's no rush for you to leave Longborn. Hmm. Thank you, Mr. Collins.
01:58You are quite welcome to stay here with us for a full two weeks. Two weeks.
02:03Mrs. Bennett, there really is no hurry for you and Mary to leave. But I have arranged you
02:08some help with the packing. Hmm. So you are not obliged to undertake such a difficult task
02:13during your hour of need. Hmm.
02:18Oh!
02:28Mama, you must come and stay with Mr. Beanley and I at Netherfield. We have a number of cooks
02:33and more servants than we know what to do with. Oh, Jane. I would be delighted. It would
02:42bring me great comfort to be in a sightable property with a large number of staff at my
02:47disposal. Ha ha! Ha ha! And Mary, you of course must come too. Thank you. But if you're worried
02:55about company, Caroline Bingley stays with us often. Well, yes, but I have not yet thought
03:03through my future prospects. Hmm. Speaking of your prospects, Mary, I have received a letter
03:11from my brother and his wife in London. Their governess has been called back to Norfolk
03:16and they have asked me to send you to stay with them until a suitable replacement is found.
03:22Mary's going to be a governess. Oh, Mary. I would very much like to help, but, um, you will
03:28need me, Mama. I have already accepted their offer. They're sending a carriage. But, Mama,
03:36do not worry about me, Mary. I shall have Jane by my side. Ha!
03:56If my options in life really were marriage or misery, it looked very much as though I was
04:02destined for misery. Mrs. Bennet is indisposed. Oh. Of course. Thank you, Hill.
04:29Um, what if the children don't like me? Why should they not like you? You're a perfectly
04:36likeable soul. I have nothing ready to teach them. Mary, nobody knows more facts about anything
04:46than you. It's time for you to get out and see the world. Meet some other people that live
04:54in it. I think it'll do you good. Do not be frightened, Miss Mary.
04:59Oh, no, I'm not. I'm not. No, I'm just, um...
05:04Mm-hmm.
06:34Oh!
06:34Mary!
06:35Welcome!
06:36I am sorry.
06:37Mary, 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?
07:10How's your mother?
07:15Mother as well.
07:16Thank you for inquiring.
07:19And how are you, Mary?
07:22It must have been a terrible shock.
07:27It was.
07:30Well, thank you for stepping in at such short notice.
07:33We don't stand on ceremony here, especially with the children, so if you don't mind that, you'll do well with
07:39us.
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 is found at the end of your armies?
08:05Oh!
08:06The Andes.
08:19Oh, that's good.
08:22Not so good.
08:24Mary, won't you join us for breakfast?
08:26Oh, no, no.
08:27Thank 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?
08:48Miss Bennet, it's a pleasure to meet you.
08:50I am Marianne Gardner, and I am 11 years old.
08:54It's my pleasure to meet you too, Miss Marianne.
08:59George!
09:02Yes, thank you, George.
09:04And this is...
09:10This is Rebecca.
09:12Thank you, Miss Rebecca.
09:15And if an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and propagation,
09:26then, in conceiving an indefinite variety among the individuals of that species,
09:34we must be assured that, on the one hand,
09:38those 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?
10:06Ah, yes, America.
10:09Uh...
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.
10:21She vanished.
10:22She's a magician.
10:24Well, magic is nothing but illusion and trickery.
10:26Oh.
10:27Now, where could she be?
10:30Oh!
10:31Tom, you're here!
10:31Tom!
10:32Can we finish lessons now?
10:34Yes.
10:35Oh, forgive the intrusion.
10:36I, er, came to tell you that dinner is served, and...
10:39You must be Miss Bennet.
10:41I...
10:42I...
10:43I must be.
10:44Oh, yes.
10:45I am.
10:46Uh...
10:46Tom Hayward.
10:48Oh.
10:48Friend of the family.
10:55Aren't there normally three of you?
10:57There were three, certainly.
10:59But...
11:00I was looking at...
11:02America.
11:03And when I looked back, it was...
11:11Do you have mice, Miss Bennet?
11:13For if you do, might I suggest you do not keep them in the toy trunk?
11:20Well, I...
11:21I wasn't sure.
11:22I 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...
11:45Hayward?
11:47Mr Hayward, I am keeping a rabbit in the toy trunk because...
11:53Because...
11:54I...
11:57Because...
11:57rabbits are not at all social creatures.
12:00Exactly.
12:00Yes, they are.
12:05Now, why exactly do you have a new governess?
12:09Isn't that you keep eating them?
12:14Um...
12:17Tom helped Edward with the legal matter some years ago and...
12:21We've been friends ever since.
12:22You're another of our former lodgers.
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.
12:45Well, uh...
12:46Have you read Catherine Macaulay, Miss Bennet?
12:49Yes, I have.
12:51Yes.
12:53Mary told us about smallpox.
12:54I shall never sleep again.
12:57Well, 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.
13:09There's a mortality rate of about...
13:10Thirty percent.
13:14Exactly.
13:16George cried...
13:18Three...
13:18Times.
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!
13:35But what should we play?
13:36Graces!
13:37Graces!
13:37Ah!
13:38Let's show Mary how to play graces!
13:41Yes!
13:42Marianne?
13:43Well called, Marianne!
13:47You're Rebecca!
13:48Oh!
13:51Look!
13:51That counts!
13:53It does indeed.
13:53It 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?
14:03E!
14:04Yes!
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, er, no.
14:21I'm not good at games.
14:22Oh!
14:22That 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.
14:39George.
14:40Ready?
14:42Oh!
14:43Oh!
14:49Yes, Tom?
14:50Mr. Gardner.
14:51Oh!
14:53Oh!
15:11Yes?
15:13Mary?
15:16Oh, do not look so grave, my dear.
15:18You're not in trouble.
15:20With the weather getting warmer,
15:22we're about to become more sociable.
15:24Oh!
15:24Oh, please, do not feel any obligation to involve me.
15:26I shall be quite content to stay upstairs with the children.
15:29Mary, we want you to join us.
15:33But I do not sparkle at dinners.
15:38In our house, no one is obliged to sparkle.
15:42Then...
15:43of course.
15:45But we need to get you properly dressed.
15:47Oh.
15:48I thought perhaps tomorrow we could go to the haberdashers
15:50and you could pick out some fabrics.
15:52I do not really care for dresses.
15:54Well, that's a shame.
15:56But very well.
15:59Perhaps think about it, Mary.
16:01There is a dress allowance as part of your governess wages.
16:05I have thought about it.
16:07And I would very much like to accept your kind offer.
16:11That's excellent news.
16:14Well, good night, Mary.
16:16And thank you for today.
16:26This must be such a change for Meritim.
16:29It most certainly is.
16:38What do you think of the deep greens?
16:44We have a soiree coming up.
16:46Now, I think deep green would be perfect.
16:50Mother has always said it's terribly difficult
16:51to get any colour to work with my complexion.
16:54Really?
16:55Well, perhaps your complexions change
16:57because I can see many colours here
16:59which would work well on you.
17:00But the most important thing being
17:02is that you choose fabrics that you truly like.
17:07But Mother says that Mother isn't here.
17:13Mrs Gardiner?
17:14Oh.
17:15Miss Bennet?
17:16Tom!
17:17Mr Hayward, have you brought your jacket to be mended?
17:20I have just this minute dropped it off.
17:22Well, now that you're here,
17:24you can make yourself useful.
17:26Miss Bennet needs to choose some dress fabric.
17:29I find myself quite overwhelmed by the choice.
17:32Well, I shall be honest and say that my experience
17:34of picking dress fabric is limited.
17:36To say the least.
17:38But I shall try.
17:41Have you seen the names of these colours?
17:44We've got Dust of Ruins, Corbeau or Flamme de Bonche.
17:51Anyone?
17:52I think I shall take the Drake's Neck with a splash of Nunkey.
17:57Anyone for Gabouche?
17:59Well, I mean, that's just yellow, that one.
18:01Yes.
18:02Yes.
18:05I think my advice would be to choose the colours that make one feel
18:08most like oneself.
18:10And I am sorry not to be of more use.
18:13I should return to my desk.
18:14And a particularly unexciting land negotiation.
18:20Good day.
18:21Good day.
18:26Oh, poor Tom.
18:28You work so hard.
18:29Really?
18:30Underneath that light-hearted manner.
18:32Carries the weight of the world on his shoulders.
18:36Now.
18:38Have you decided?
18:42I have chosen.
18:43Very well, Mary.
18:47The first is this crimson.
18:50And then I thought perhaps a spring green trim.
18:54Lovely.
18:55Yes.
18:56But you will need two dresses.
18:57So perhaps...
19:00China blue?
19:03Hmm.
19:06Do you think a dress in the spring green alone would be garish?
19:10What do you think, Mary?
19:14Some people may think it is wild.
19:17But...
19:18I like it.
19:20Then I think you should please yourself and not worry what others may think.
19:25You've done a very good job.
19:27Now.
19:28I'm gonna wait while I'm eating conditions.
19:36Man, get out.
19:51Take care.
20:01The gardeners are out. They're buying shoes for the children.
20:07Would you like to play graces?
20:11Well, yes. Thank you.
20:19Ready? Yes.
20:28I did it. You did. Natural.
20:32Beginner's luck.
20:33Right. Ready?
20:37Oh.
20:37Uh, what, um...
20:40Oh.
21:20Ready? Yes.
21:24Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!
21:29Um...
21:29Uh...
21:30Yeah, um...
21:32That's...
21:32That's probably enough graces for today.
21:37Um...
21:38Oh, yes, uh...
21:39I brought a book for Mrs Byron.
21:41Oh, of course, yes.
21:43Uh...
21:43Ah, poetry.
21:45Do you like poetry, Miss Bennet?
21:47I prefer facts to whimsy.
21:52Whimsy?
21:54I've tried, uh...
21:55Well, Cowper, uh, Byron.
21:58Even some Dryden.
21:59But, um...
22:00Well, it seems to me that it's all just...
22:03Words.
22:05What were you expecting?
22:08Are you a scholar, sir?
22:11Uh, no.
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?
22:22Uh...
22:22Works of non-fiction.
22:24Um...
22:24Histories and, uh...
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...
22:47Now that you have thrown down the gauntlet,
22:50I will not rest until you have appreciated the merit of poetry.
22:56I believe...
22:57That this is the book that will open the heart of Miss Mary Bennet.
23:06Oh.
23:09The gardeners are home.
23:10Oh, is it...
23:11Uh, yes.
23:12Yes.
23:12Er...
23:13Well...
23:14There it is.
23:18Oh, Tom!
23:19Whoa!
23:24Ah!
23:32Ah.
23:33Ah!
23:33Ah!
23:35Ah.
23:36Ah.
23:36Ah.
23:38Ah.
23:39Ah.
23:42And we'll need more scallops.
23:44Mrs. Sholly will claim she couldn't possibly before helping herself to seven.
23:49Must be very strange without your family here.
23:54There 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.
24:13No point trying to force it into curls if it doesn't want to go.
24:21Here.
25:01I mean, that's basically it.
25:03But they're awfully fun to hunt.
25:10Good evening.
25:12I do not believe we have met.
25:14I'm Miss Baxter.
25:16Delighted to meet you, Miss Baxter.
25:18I am Miss Bennet.
25:20I have not long moved to London from Hertfordshire.
25:24Fenshaw, Mr. Fenshaw.
25:30A friend of my mother's died eating those nuts.
25:35One got stuck in his throat and that was it.
25:37He was quite dead in minutes.
25:45I 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.
25:50Oh, forgive 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.
26:08It looks very well on you.
26:10You really think so?
26:11I feel a little bold in it.
26:13Well, you're in London, Miss Bennet.
26:16If 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.
26:25And 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.
26:44A 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.
27:16Next, 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.
27:30We've already met.
27:32Miss Bennet?
27:32Oh, of course, you must have.
27:35Oh, I see you went for the Pomona train.
27:39It's spring green.
27:40It'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.
27:55Mr. Hayward and I met three years ago this spring.
27:58We are hoping to be married next year.
28:02Not everything went exactly as I would have liked.
28:04Come on, Becca.
28:06Oh, please excuse us.
28:08Come, Mary, it'll be fun.
28:10Of course a man such as Mr. Hayward would have secured a match.
28:15But I had made friends, and that was enough.
28:25I did not know what tomorrow would bring.
28:29But for now, at least I had someone to dance with.
29:03I did not know what tomorrow would be.
29:31I did not know what tomorrow would be.
29:35If London was to be a new start for me, I would push all thoughts of poetry and love aside.
29:47Mother warned me of the dirt, disease and despair that could be found here.
29:54She failed to mention the breadth of humanity.
29:59And the anonymity of the city suited me well.
30:03I had taken to walking the city's beautiful parks.
30:07It seemed that all life was in London.
30:11And here I could be anything I wanted.
30:21Surely I would find something I could succeed at in this vast, inspiring city.
30:29Where did I put it?
30:31Well, how should I know something?
30:32Oh, she breaks my heart a little.
30:35She seems so awkward in herself.
30:37I worry my sisters caused some harm to poor Mary.
30:40Oh, I wonder.
30:42She's perhaps not the most natural motherness.
30:45But what else could she do with life?
30:47Be her mother's companion?
30:49I thought Tom brought her out of herself.
30:51Kind-hearted man that he is.
30:53And she seemed to get on well with Anne Baxter the other evening.
30:56But she has so little confidence.
30:58Yes.
30:59It can't have been easy growing up in the shadow of her sisters.
31:03Found it.
31:04Ah, there it is.
31:06Well, I'm happy she's with us.
31:08She has an interesting and not very mind.
31:14Oh, it's Bennett.
31:17Mr. Hayward.
31:19How are you?
31:20Eager to hear how you've been getting on with the poetry?
31:23Oh, well, er...
31:25I'm not sure I have the mind to appreciate it completely.
31:28I keep hoping Mr. Coleridge will explain himself or that Mr. Wordsworth will say what he really means.
31:33But they seem to enjoy keeping their secrets.
31:38Well, to not blame yourself, I think some poets enjoy being difficult to understand.
31:52Miss Bennett, I was so sorry to hear about your father.
31:56Moving to the city without your family.
31:59You not having your mother to confide in.
32:02Oh, it's a relief to be without her.
32:04In fact, it's something of a relief to be without any of them.
32:13I'm sorry you're not feeling yourself.
32:17I'm afraid I'm not.
32:19I'm just not finding my place here as easily as I thought.
32:23Sorry, please excuse me.
32:25Oh, Mary!
32:26Tom, how lovely to see you!
32:28Quietly, my dear, you'll summon the children who I fear have begun to associate Tom's name with a worryingly large
32:34bag of sugar plums.
32:35Please excuse me.
32:36Sorry, I'm sorry.
32:38Bye.
33:00My dear Mary, I fear your correspondence has not been reaching me.
33:06I have heard nothing from you at all.
33:11How are you managing your duties?
33:13You never were good with children, even when you were one yourself.
33:19I may require you to return to Pemberley, where I will be spending the summer.
33:27Lizzie has expressed a wish to see you, but more urgently, my new puppy has a nervous air and requires
33:34near-constant companionship.
33:40I had come to London to see the world outside of my family, and that is what I would do.
33:52Oh, Mary, you're painting!
33:55To teach the children.
33:56Oh, how marvellous to see your imagination at play.
34:03It's terrible.
34:05No, no, it's...
34:07It's very neat.
34:10Did you see the letter from your mother?
34:14Is she well?
34:15Between several complaints about the damp, the unseasonable pollen, and an unpleasant exchange with the rude shopkeeper, I understand that
34:23she is.
34:24Yes.
34:24I honestly think she enjoys such encounters.
34:27It makes her feel more alive.
34:30Oh, now, speaking of encounters, I think this might be of interest to you.
34:36Tom made a strange request to Mr. Gardiner and I, and extended the invitation to you too, Mary.
34:42Oh?
34:42Yes.
34:43He was most mysterious.
34:45He wants us to meet him tomorrow morning, where he says he plans to break through our rational reserve and
34:52move our hearts as well as our heads.
34:55He does?
34:56Yes.
34:57Whatever that might entail.
35:00I must work on my lesson plans.
35:02Oh, Mary, you must join us.
35:04For my sake.
35:06Please consider it.
35:56Please consider it.
36:05Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner, Miss Bennet, thank you for humoring me.
36:10Are we allowed to know the purpose of our visit?
36:12I have conspired with the City of London and William Wordsworth himself for a morning recital unlike any other in
36:19a hidden garden.
36:20Good Lord.
36:21Will Miss Baxter be joining us?
36:22I'm afraid Miss Baxter has a variety of excuses that she skilfully deploys to avoid such events.
36:28Well, remind me to ask her what they are.
36:31Yes, I am afraid that my petitions for good weather have been in vain.
36:35No matter.
36:36We will not be dissuaded by a little drizzle.
36:40A little drizzle?
36:44Just down there.
36:52This way?
36:53Yes.
37:06Al.
37:11That's magical.
37:13Wow.
37:19Please forgive the theatrics.
37:22I had given Miss Bennet the impossible task of understanding poetry without any real sense of how to feel it.
37:31Sometimes, with poetry, the more I think, the less I understand.
37:46Earth has not anything to show more fair.
37:51Dull would he be of soul who could pass by, a sight so touching in its majesty.
37:58This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning, silent, bare.
38:12Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky.
38:24All bright and glittering in the smokeless air, never did sun more beautifully steep in its first splendor.
38:35Valley, rock or hill, nurse or eye, never felt a calm so deep.
38:45The river glideth at his own sweet will.
38:49Dear God, the very houses seem asleep.
38:56And all that mighty heart is lying still.
39:11Well done, Tom.
39:13A moving rendition.
39:15Tom, I confess, I felt entirely transported by the force of your words.
39:20And what a beautiful place.
39:24Our wisteria never flowers like this.
39:26Yes, your ability to kill our plants seems to be second to none.
39:30Come, let's take a turn.
39:32Indeed.
39:34Goodness, Edward, this place is magical.
39:37It's like a garden.
39:38Yes, it is.
39:47Well, Miss Bennet.
39:52How do you feel?
39:54I...
39:57Well, uh...
39:58For once, I have nothing to say.
40:01I am sorry to hear that.
40:02No, I wish to say something inspiring, but I do not know how.
40:13You have such varied ways to express your feelings.
40:18Mine feel frozen or feeble or entirely unknowable.
40:28I do not know, Miss Bennet.
40:31Well, I use the words of others to puzzle through things I do not understand.
40:37But I do not believe that you are truly a stranger to strong emotions.
40:51Forgive me.
40:54Oh, um...
40:55Sorry, Miss Bennet, I...
40:56Oh.
40:57It was just a petal.
40:59Mr Hayward, I...
41:00I think I must leave London.
41:04Well, you've only just arrived.
41:06It's no great event.
41:07My...
41:07My mother needs a companion.
41:09I see.
41:10And, well, you will likely be very busy soon.
41:14What with, uh, social engagements and, uh...
41:19Miss Baxter.
41:23I'm sure you'll scarcely have time to notice I'm gone.
41:27Well, I'd hoped that this would restore your spirit.
41:30Oh, indeed, it did.
41:32It did, thank you.
41:34I shall never forget it.
41:50I shall travel to Pemberley on the 18th.
41:53Good heavens.
41:55Mary, this is quite unexpected.
41:57Well, is anything the matter?
41:59My mother needs me.
42:01Is my sister bored?
42:04I know that she's more likely than anyone in England to summon the troops on account of her loneliness.
42:08But must you answer the call?
42:13I think I must.
42:15Well, we so enjoy having you here.
42:17The children will be disappointed.
42:19Yes, it's kind of you to say.
42:23It is the truth.
42:28I must plan today's lessons.
42:39Dearest mother.
42:41Although my time in London has been enlightening,
42:45I will be by your side for your summer at Pemberley.
42:50As requested.
42:53I am grateful for the generosity extended by my aunt and uncle.
42:56But as you rightly point out,
42:59I do not wish to burn them.
43:01And it will, of course, be an honour
43:05to look after your new pup.
43:14Hmm.
43:28You come in.
43:46There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.
43:53She had so many children, she didn't know what to do.
43:57She gave them some broth without any bread.
44:00And she whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.
44:04That poem started very well and ended very badly.
44:09A good observation, Miss Marianne.
44:11Why didn't she just move into a boot when the children got too many?
44:15Fine suggestion, Miss Rebecca.
44:16Is the Glorious Revolution all finished, then, Miss Bennet?
44:20This week, we will write and perform a poem instead.
44:24Yes!
44:26I want to do a poem about myself because I'm quite interested.
44:30I'll do typhoid.
44:32Or frogs.
44:34Disgusting.
44:36Miss Marianne?
44:39Love.
44:40Love.
44:41Love.
44:42Love.
44:46Love.
44:48Love.
44:49Love.
44:50The eye cannot choose but see.
44:54We cannot bid the ear be still.
44:57Our bodies feel where they be.
45:02Against or with our will.
45:11A big green frog sat on a log.
45:15The frog was quite full.
45:17It had eaten 10 flies, two slugs, one worm,
45:22and three lily pad pies.
45:27Oh, Miss Bennett, you were obviously
45:30inspired by our morning poetry reading.
45:33Oh, I was, no, I, um, yes, I am.
45:38Oh, no.
45:39What is it, Miss Rebecca?
45:41I had a prop and I forgot to use it.
45:45Oh, uh, well, um, fear not, a prop is a cheap trick
45:51that diminishes the power of words.
45:54Indeed.
45:57Who's next?
46:02I would be sad to leave London.
46:05It was the first time I had ever felt a sense of belonging.
46:11Oh, there you are.
46:12I wanted to say thank you for such a wonderful day.
46:17The children will be inconsolable about you leaving.
46:20Marianne is stitching you a cushion with an inspirational Latin phrase, I believe.
46:26Oh, yes, it's Mori Quam Fodari, Death Before Dishonour.
46:31Goodness, how exciting.
46:35We shall miss you, Mary.
46:37I think we both know I'm not well-suited to London's liveliness.
46:44Oh, Mary, you've barely given it a chance.
46:49Things change.
46:53People, situations, over time.
47:01May I venture something on that subject?
47:06The other day, I went to buy a bonnet.
47:10And in the first shop I went into, found a stunning bonnet, an elegant blue, quite lovely
47:16on me if I dare say such a thing.
47:19When I went to purchase it, it had been reserved for someone else.
47:27I went into another shop and found not four other bonnets I liked just as much, and in
47:34the end, one a shade of dusky pink that suited me even more.
47:44Do you see what I'm saying?
47:49Blue is not your colour?
47:52No, I'm saying that London has such a variety of choices and such quantity, too.
47:58You may enjoy the first thing you see well enough, but often something more exciting will
48:05come along.
48:07Anyway, I just thought I'd let you know.
48:10Well, um, yes, thank you for that.
48:13It was very interesting.
48:16Oh, I was meaning to tell you.
48:18We have decided to host a little entertainment tomorrow, a night of games.
48:23Oh, dear.
48:24What sort of games?
48:25No catching.
48:27Word games.
48:28Riddles and such.
48:29And very pleasant company.
48:31Company I know, or new company?
48:34All new.
48:36And very friendly.
48:38We desperately desire that you remember London fondly.
48:43This may be your final event with us before you leave.
48:50I resolved not to send the letter to Mother just yet.
48:55It would be a shame to leave before the weekend.
49:00LAUGHTER
49:01LAUGHTER
49:04LAUGHTER
49:06Sorry, Theo?
49:09LAUGHTER
49:20MUSIC
49:22MUSIC
49:36Sorry, I didn't realise there was a line.
49:38No, please.
49:39I wish more people had such a restrained relationship to punch.
49:44May I?
49:45Yes, of course.
49:47Noble defender of the punch.
49:49I surrender my post.
49:54And what brings you here?
49:55The word games or the company?
49:57I like words.
49:59I'm not much for games.
50:01Ah, and it is the company you've come for.
50:04Miss?
50:05Bennett. Mary Bennett.
50:08William Ryder.
50:10And where have you come from, Miss Bennett?
50:12Surely I would have remembered seeing you near punch bowls across London.
50:17I am...
50:19new in town.
50:21Well, I, for one, am always pleased to see a new face.
50:28Now, please gather.
50:30Take your seats.
50:30I see the riddles are about to commence.
50:33We are wise to begin with full glasses.
50:42And now, the quickfire round.
50:46Two words, one answer.
50:49Counterfeit agony.
50:50Counterfeit agony.
50:53A mean trick?
50:54My brain is in agony.
50:55It isn't counterfeit.
50:56It is quite real.
50:58Champagne.
50:59Right.
50:59Champagne.
51:01Champagne!
51:01Another point to you, and our new leader.
51:07Fancy delivering a champagne in word, not in glass.
51:10Tease us, Mr. Gardiner.
51:12All right then, Mr. Ryder.
51:13Here's one for you.
51:16Judy's fellow.
51:18Oh.
51:21My God, I know it.
51:24Punch!
51:25Oh, well done, Mr. Ryder.
51:27Finally, you've arrived on the score.
51:34My first word, comedians dread to hear.
51:39My next new life in a revolving year.
51:43I'll repeat it.
51:45My first word, comedians dread to hear.
51:48My next new life in a revolving year.
51:52Offspring.
51:52Yes!
51:53Oh, well done, Miss Bennet!
51:56Very.
51:57Well done.
51:58Bravo.
51:59Yes, Miss Bennet.
52:02Cheers to you.
52:03What's next?
52:04Mandarin.
52:06Delicious.
52:06Miss Bennet, how lovely to see you.
52:08Too, Miss Baxter.
52:10Mr. Hayward, we're so pleased you made it.
52:12I had false intelligence.
52:14You were busy this evening.
52:15Well, we somehow managed to persuade Mr. Hayward away from his work.
52:19I have an important case.
52:21Oh, he has the trouble fortune of being the only lawyer in London who exclusively gets important cases.
52:28Do excuse us, Mrs. Jean.
52:30Excuse me.
52:32Miss Bennet?
52:34Tom, Will.
52:37Mr. Ryder and I studied law together.
52:39Ah.
52:39Yes, Mr. Hayward is responsible for my untimely retirement in the field.
52:44Is that so, Mr. Ryder?
52:45Well, he fed me so many poems, I believe myself a deep, romantic soul.
52:50Too sensitive for the rigors of law.
52:52Seems like a heavy charge shall lay solely at the feet of poetry.
52:57Mary, how is the night of games going?
52:59Do we have any hope for making a late charge for the prize?
53:02Not unless you wish to bribe our host.
53:04Miss Bennet here is putting us all to shame.
53:06Oh, nonsense, Mr. Ryder.
53:07You beat me to the punch.
53:09You see?
53:11Masterful words.
53:15Please gather yourselves for the penultimate round.
53:19Mr. Ryder.
53:20What?
53:21I'm glad to see you're in better spirits, Miss Bennet.
53:26This evening has been something of a tonic, Mr. Hayward.
53:32Round three.
53:34Ready?
53:36Sunday.
53:37Yes!
53:38Appoint to Miss Baxter!
53:42Think sharp.
53:43Is it doldrums?
53:45No, no, no, forget I said anything.
53:47Mercury.
53:48Yes!
53:48Well done.
53:50Is it really?
53:51Well done.
53:52How remarkable.
53:56Come on.
53:57Anybody?
53:59Lighthouse.
53:59Yes!
54:00I've barely had a chance to think, let alone speak.
54:03I've never known a lack of thinking to prevent you from speaking.
54:07That is five points apiece for Miss Clark and Miss Bennet.
54:14Well done.
54:20The final round.
54:21The two players with the most points go head-to-head to crack one final riddle and decide the winner.
54:27The leaders come as no surprise, Miss Clark and Miss Bennet.
54:33You mean I didn't make it?
54:35Well, I'm astonished on that.
54:37Mrs. Gardiner, would you do the odds?
54:41To suffer my seconds, the doom of my first.
54:46And of all of my seconds, my whole is the worst.
55:03Heartache!
55:05Yes!
55:07Good Lord!
55:08She's Britain's blindest mind!
55:15We declare we have a winner!
55:17London's newest arrival, but its fiercest competitor, Miss Mary Bennet!
55:28I'm very glad that we arrived in time to see you crowned, Miss Bennet.
55:34I wanted to say...
55:36Miss Bennet, you are a liar.
55:39Am I?
55:40You told me you were not much for games.
55:43Well, I...
55:45I can't catch.
55:48Miss Bennet, I've been meaning to invite you to tea since I hear, very sadly, you are leaving London.
55:53Miss Bennet, surely not.
55:54You can't deprive the game players of London your... your riddling talents.
55:58Miss Bennet, round of applause for our winner, Miss Bennet.
56:03Oh, well done!
56:04Bravo, bravo, bravo.
56:06Bravo.
56:08In that moment, I think I understood what my aunt was telling me with the convoluted story about the bonnets.
56:18That quantity has a quality all of its own.
56:24Yes.
56:25Yes.
56:29Thank you so much.
56:30I never doubted you.
56:31Well done.
56:32Oh, good.
56:32This way.
56:34Thank you for coming.
56:35Miss Tiana.
56:38Mary, how you shone.
56:41You even caught the attention of the most eligible bachelor in time.
56:45I've been thinking.
56:46Um, it seems a shame to leave London before I've, you know, given it a fair chance.
56:52I think I might like to stay a little while, if it's not too much burden.
56:56It's not a burden to us at all.
56:59We're delighted to have you with us.
57:05Living in London was helping me to see that there could be more to life than just marriage or misery.
57:12Perhaps my aunt was right.
57:14Even the most hopeless of situations, the most hopeless of people, can, with kindness, change, little by little, over time.
57:30I was excited to discover who Mary Bennet might be.
57:34I was excited to see that there could be more to life than just marriage.
58:04Like a reminder.
58:06Justchaft gained weight.
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