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The Other Bennet Sister Episode 3-4
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00:24The
00:25The loss of my father was a leap into the unknown.
00:29Longbourn was my childhood home
00:31And although I had my struggles here
00:33It was all I had ever known
00:37From now on, would I be relying on the hospitality of my sisters?
00:43Destined to spend my days as my mother's companion
00:49What other choice did I have?
00:54I do not expect any of you to understand my pain
00:59The bond Mr. Bennet and I shared was a rare thing
01:04I do not know that I shall ever eat again
01:10Who is that?
01:12I do not know, Mama
01:13What sort of person would impinge upon our hour of mourning so distastefully?
01:23Charlotte, I am afraid you find us in a state of some disarray
01:28Understandably
01:30We have been wanting to see you all since we heard the terrible news
01:34But knew you would need time as a family to
01:37To gather your things
01:38Yourselves
01:39Together
01:43I want to make it quite clear
01:48No
01:50Quite clear that there's no rush for you to leave Longbourn
01:54Thank you, Mr. Collins
01:57You are quite welcome to stay here with us for a full two weeks
02:01Two weeks
02:03Mrs. Bennet, there really is no hurry for you and Mary to leave
02:06But I have arranged you some help with the packing
02:08So you are not obliged to undertake such a difficult task during your hour of need
02:15Mmm
02:17Oh
02:26Mama
02:27You must come and stay with Mr. Bennet and I at Netherfield
02:32We have a number of cooks and more servants than we know what to do with
02:37Oh, Jane
02:39I would be delighted
02:41It would bring me great comfort to be in a sightable property with a large number of staff at my
02:46disposal
02:49And Mary, you of course must come too
02:53Thank you
02:54But if you're worried about company, Caroline Bingley stays with us often
03:00Well, yes, but I have not yet thought through my future prospects
03:07Speaking of your prospects, Mary
03:09I have received a letter from my brother and his wife in London
03:12Their 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
03:21There is going to be a governess
03:23Oh, Mary
03:24I would very much like to help
03:25But, um, you will need me, Mama
03:30I have already accepted their offer
03:32They're sending a carriage
03:35But, Mama, do not worry about me, Mary
03:38I shall have Jane by my side
03:56If my options in life really were marriage or misery
04:00It looked very much as though I was destined for misery
04:11Mrs. Bennet is...indisposed
04:15Oh
04:17Of course
04:19Thank you, Hill
04:25Um
04:29What if the children don't like me?
04:32Why should they not like you?
04:34You're a perfectly likeable soul
04:36I have nothing ready to teach them
04:42Mary, nobody knows more facts about anything than you
04:48It's time for you to get out and see the world
04:51Meet some other people that live in it
04:54I think it'll do you good
04:57Do not be frightened, Miss Mary
04:59Oh, no, I'm not
05:01No, I'm just, um
05:03No, it's time for you to live outside
05:04나는 which mi Shut up
05:08If I've ever seen the Hem if a woman
05:09But, too, you must be right
05:09I call it my suddenly
05:10No, I'm just, um
05:16So, I know
05:17I can talk for you
05:30Eine
05:32Place
05:32How er
06:34Oh, Mary, welcome.
06:36Mary, 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,
06:46so you won't be disturbed by the children.
06:48Come in.
07:07How's your mother?
07:10Mother, she's had a most trying time of late.
07:12Well, you all have.
07:15Mother is 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,
07:36so if you don't mind that, you'll do well with us.
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, hi.
08:07The Andes.
08:08The Andes.
08:11The Andes.
08:16The Andes.
08:19Oh, that's good.
08:22Not so good.
08:24Mary, won't you join us for breakfast?
08:26Oh, no, no.
08:27No, sir, thank you, sir.
08:28I'm not at all hungry this morning.
08:30I shall see the children upstairs.
08:44Mary Ann, would you like to start?
08:48Miss Bennet, it's a pleasure to meet you.
08:50I am Mary Ann Gardner, and I'm 11 years old.
08:54It's my pleasure to meet you too, Miss Mary Ann.
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
09:25and propagation, then, in conceiving an indefinite variety among the individuals of that species,
09:34we must be assured that, on the one hand, those which depart most from the best adapted constitution
09:41will be the most liable to perish.
09:48You'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?
10:05Ah, yes, America.
10:13Where has Rebecca gone?
10:15There were very clearly three of you in this room when I began looking at the globe, and
10:19now there are two of you.
10:21She vanished.
10:22She's a magician.
10:24Oh, magic is nothing but illusion and trickery.
10:26Oh.
10:27Now, where could she be?
10:30Oh!
10:30Tom!
10:31You'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 you must be Miss Bennet.
10:42I, I must be.
10:44Oh, yes, I, I am.
10:46Er, er, Tom Hayward.
10:48Oh.
10:48Friend of the family.
10:51Hmm.
10:55Aren't there normally three of you?
10:57There were three, certainly, but I was looking at America, and 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?
11:19Well, I, I 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, um, it's a fallacy that mice like cheese.
11:33Of course.
11:34They're much more partial to root vegetables and grains.
11:38Yes, indeed.
11:39I'm a rabbit.
11:43Mr. Hayward?
11:47Mr. Hayward, I am keeping a rabbit in the toy trunk because I, er...
11:56Because rabbits are not at all social creatures.
11:59Exactly.
12:00Yes, they are.
12:01Oh.
12:05Now, why exactly do you have a new governess?
12:09Is it that you keep eating them?
12:14Er...
12:17Tom helped Edward with the legal matter some years ago, and we'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, er, as discussed during the lesson, um, they're often associated with Jacobinism.
12:40But my point really was...
12:42I thought you had a very interesting first day, Miss Bennet.
12:44Well, er...
12:46Have you read Catherine Macaulay, Miss Bennet?
12:49Yes, I have.
12:51Yes.
12:52Mary told us about smallpox.
12:54I shall never sleep again.
12:56Well, er, er, 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 three times.
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!
13:37Ah.
13:38Let's show Mary how to play graces.
13:41Yes!
13:42Marianne?
13:43Well called, Mary.
13:44Bravo!
13:45Well done.
13:45Bravo.
13:46You're to back up.
13:48Woo!
13:49Oh!
13:50Oh!
13:51Look.
13:51That counts.
13:52It does indeed.
13:53It does indeed.
13:54It 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?
14:03Yay!
14:04Well done.
14:05Yes!
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, no.
14:21I'm not good at games.
14:22Oh, that 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.
14:38George.
14:40Ready?
14:42Oh, thank you.
14:49Yes, Dom.
14:50Mr. Gun.
14:52Oh!
14:53Oh!
15:11Yes?
15:13Yes?
15:13Mary?
15:16Oh, do not look so grave, my dear.
15:18You're not in trouble.
15:20With the weather getting warmer, we're about to become more sociable.
15:23Oh!
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.
15:37In our house, no one is obliged to sparkle.
15:42Then, of course.
15:45But we need to get you properly dressed.
15:47Oh.
15:47I thought perhaps tomorrow we could go to the haberdashers and you could pick out some fabrics.
15:52I do not really care for dressers.
15:55Well, that's a shame.
15:55But 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 Meriton.
16:29It most certainly is.
16:37What do you think of the deep greens?
16:44We have a soiree coming up.
16:46And I think deep green would be perfect.
16:50Mother has always said it's terribly difficult to get any colour to work with my complexion.
16:54Really?
16:55Well, perhaps your complexions change because I can see many colours here which would work well on you.
17:00But the most important thing being is that you choose fabrics that you truly like.
17:07But Mother says that Mother isn't here.
17:13Mr. Gardiner?
17:15Mr. Gardiner?
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, you can make yourself useful.
17:26Miss Bennet needs to choose some dress fabric.
17:29I find myself quite overwhelmed by the choice.
17:31Well, I shall be honest and say that my experience of 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, Flamme de Bonche.
17:51Anyone?
17:51Um, I think I shall take the Drake's neck with a splash of num key.
17:57Anyone for gaboche?
17:58Well, 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 most like oneself.
18:10And I am sorry not to be of more use.
18:13I should return to my desk and a particularly unexciting land negotiation.
18:19Good day.
18:21Good day.
18:26Oh, poor Tom.
18:28He works so hard.
18:29Really?
18:30Underneath that light-hearted manor, carries the weight of the world on his shoulders.
18:37Now, have you decided?
18:41I 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?
19:05Do 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, but I like it.
19:20Then I think you should please yourself and not worry what others may think.
19:24You've done a very good job.
19:27Now.
19:54let's go.
19:54Oh! Oh!
19:57Oh, gosh!
20:01The gardeners are out. They're buying shoes for the children.
20:06Would you like to play graces?
20:11Well, um, yes. Thank you.
20:19Ready? Yes.
20:24Oh! Oh!
20:28I did it.
20:30You did! Natural!
20:32Beginner's luck.
20:35Right, um...
20:36Ready?
20:37Mm.
20:38Oh, um...
20:40One moment.
20:41Oh.
21:20Ready?
21:22Yes.
21:24Oh!
21:26Oh!
21:27Oh! Oh! Oh!
21:28Um...
21:30Yeah, um...
21:32That's probably enough... Enough.
21:34...graces for today.
21:36Oh, um...
21:38Oh, yes, er...
21:39I brought a book for Mrs Byron. Oh, of course, yes.
21:42Ah...
21:44Poetry.
21:45Do you like poetry, Miss Bennet?
21:47I prefer facts to whimsy.
21:52Whimsy?
21:53I've tried, er...
21:55Well, Cowper, er... 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, er...
22:09Scholar? Sir?
22:11No. I'm a barrister.
22:13Junior. And though the law
22:15is my business, poetry is my passion.
22:19What do you like to read?
22:22Er... Works of non-fiction, really.
22:24Um... Histories and, er...
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.
23:05Yes.
23:09The garden is at home.
23:10Oh, is it...
23:11Er... Yes.
23:12Yes.
23:12Er... Well...
23:14Er...
23:15I have...
23:17Oh, Tom!
23:42And we'll need more scallops.
23:44Mrs. Shonley will claim she couldn't possibly before helping herself to seven.
23:49It must be very strange without your family here.
23:53There 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...
25:05Hunt.
25:06Mmm.
25:07Mmm.
25:10Good evening.
25:12I do not believe we have met.
25:14I'm Miss Baxter.
25:16Delighted to meet you, Miss Baxter.
25:18Erm...
25:18I am Miss Bennet.
25:20I have not long moved to London from Hertfordshire.
25:23Oh.
25:24Fanshawe, Mr. Fanshawe.
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.
25:44Oh, I 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.
25:51Forgive 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, it 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.
26:15If 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 I 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.
27:16Meg, 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 trim.
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.
28:01Not 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.
29:11Ugh, that is a man.
29:14You should listen to him today.
29:35If London was to be a new start for me,
29:38I would push all thoughts of poetry and love aside.
29:47Mother warned me of the dirt, disease and despair that could be found here.
29:53She 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?
30:31How should I miss that?
30:32Oh, she breaks my heart a little.
30:34She seems so awkward in herself.
30:37I worry my sister's caused some harm to poor Mary.
30:40Oh, I wonder.
30:42She's perhaps not the most natural motherness.
30:44But what else could she do with life, be her mother's companion?
30:48I 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.
31:07She has an interesting environment behind.
31:14Oh, it's Bennet.
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.
31:27I 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.
31:37They...
31:38Well, to not blame yourself, I think...
31:40I think some poets enjoy being difficult to understand.
31:52Miss Bennet, I was so sorry to hear about your father.
31:56Moving to the city without your family, er...
31:59You not having your mother to confide in, or your sisters...
32:02Oh, it's a relief to be without her.
32:03In fact, it's something of a relief to be without any of them.
32:12I'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.
32:24Oh, Mary!
32:26Tom, how lovely to see you!
32:28Quietly, my dear.
32:29You'll summon the children who, I fear, have begun to associate Tom's name with a worryingly large bag of sugar
32:34plums.
32:35Please excuse me.
32:36Sorry, I'm sorry.
33:00My dear Mary, I fear your correspondence has not been reaching me.
33:05I 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.
33:52I had come to London to see the world outside of my family, and that is what I would do.
33:53Oh, 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?
34:13Is she well?
34:15Between several complaints about the damp, the unseasonable pollen, and an unpleasant exchange with a rude shopkeeper.
34:22I understand that she 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.
34:56Whatever that might entail.
35:00I must work on my lesson plans.
35:02Oh, Mary, you must join us.
35:04Yes, indeed.
35:04For my sake.
35:06No, indeed.
35:07Please consider it.
35:15Yes, indeed.
35:17Yes, indeed.
35:18There you go.
35:18Yes, indeed.
35:19Well, you must love.
35:19Yes, indeed.
35:31Yes, indeed.
35:32Yes, indeed.
35:36You are on the plane.
35:36Thank you so much.
35:38Yes, indeed.
36:04Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner, Miss Bennet,
36:07Thank you for humoring me.
36:09Are we allowed to know the purpose of our visit?
36:12I have conspired with the City of London and William Wordsworth himself
36:16for a morning recital unlike any other in a 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 skillfully 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. We will not be dissuaded by a little drizzle.
36:40A little drizzle?
36:45Just down there.
36:52This way?
36:53Yes.
37:10That's magical.
37:13Well...
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,
37:54a sight so touching in its majesty.
37:58This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning.
38:07Silent, 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.
38:30Never did sun more beautifully steep in his first splendor.
38:35Valley, rock or hill.
38:38Nurse or I never felt a calm so deep.
38:44The river glideth at his own sweet will.
38:50Dear God,
38:51the 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.
39:23Our 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.
39:34Go instead, look, this place is magical.
39:37It's like a garden.
39:38Yes, it is.
39:40But the weather seems to be...
39:46Well, Miss Bennet.
39:51How do you feel?
39:54I...
39:58Well, for once I have nothing to say.
40:01I'm sorry to hear that.
40:02No, I wish to say something inspiring, but I do not know how.
40:11You have such...
40:14Such varied ways to express your feelings.
40:18Mine feel...
40:20Frozen or...
40:22Feeble or...
40:25Entirely unknowable.
40:28I do not know, Miss Bennet.
40:31Well, I use the words of others to...
40:33Puzzle 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.
40:59Miss Hayward, I...
41:00I think I must leave London.
41:03Well, 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?
42:03I know that she's more likely than anyone in England
42:06to summon the troops on account of her loneliness,
42:08but must you answer the call?
42:12I think I must.
42:15Well, we so enjoy having you here.
42:17The children will be disappointed.
42:20Yes, it's kind of you to say.
42:23It is the truth.
42:28I must plan today's lessons.
42:38Dearest mother,
42:40although my time in London has been...
42:43enlightening,
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...
43:03an honour?
43:05To look after your new pup.
43:14Hmm.
43:20Okay, sir.
43:22Oh, nice one.
43:29Do come in.
43:46There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.
43:53She had so many children,
43:54she didn't know what to do.
43:57She gave them some broth,
43:59without any bread,
44:00and she whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.
44:04That poem started very well
44:06and ended very badly.
44:09A good observation, Miss Marianne.
44:11Why didn't she just move into a boot
44:13when the children got too many?
44:15Fine suggestion, Miss Rebecca.
44:16Is the Glorious Revolution all finished, then, Miss Bennet?
44:20This week,
44:21we will write and perform a poem instead.
44:24Yes!
44:26I want to do a poem about myself
44:28because I'm quite interested.
44:30I'll do typhoid.
44:32Or frogs.
44:34Disgusting.
44:36Miss Marianne?
44:39Love.
44:50The eye cannot choose but see.
44:54We cannot bid the ear be still.
44:58Our bodies feel where they be,
45:01against or with our will.
45:11A big green frog sat on a log.
45:15The frog was quite full.
45:17It had eaten ten flies,
45:20two slugs,
45:21one worm,
45:22and three lily pad pies.
45:27Well done.
45:27Well done.
45:28Oh, Miss Bennet,
45:29you were obviously inspired
45:31by our morning poetry reading.
45:33Oh.
45:34I was.
45:35No, I, um...
45:36Yes, I...
45:37Oh, no!
45:39What is it, Miss Rebecca?
45:41I had a prop and I forgot to use it.
45:45Oh.
45:46Well, fear not.
45:49A prop is a cheap trick
45:51that diminishes the power of words.
45:53Indeed.
45:57Who's next?
46:02I would be sad to leave London.
46:04It was the first time
46:06I had ever felt a sense of belonging.
46:11Oh, there you are.
46:12I wanted to say thank you
46:14for such a wonderful day.
46:17The children were being consolable
46:18about you leaving.
46:20Marianne is stitching you a cushion
46:22with an inspirational Latin phrase,
46:25I believe.
46:26Oh, yes.
46:27It's Mori Quam Fodari.
46:29Death before dishonor.
46:32Goodness.
46:32How exciting.
46:35We shall miss you, Mary.
46:37I think we both know
46:39I'm not well suited
46:40to London's liveliness.
46:44Oh, Mary.
46:45You've barely given it a chance.
46:49Things change.
46:51People.
46:54Situations.
46:56Over time.
47:01May I venture something
47:03on that subject?
47:06The other day,
47:08I went to buy a bonnet.
47:10And in the first shop I went into,
47:13found a stunning bonnet.
47:15An elegant blue.
47:16Quite lovely on me,
47:17if I dare say such a thing.
47:19When I went to purchase it,
47:23it had been reserved
47:25for someone else.
47:27Hmm.
47:28I went into another shop
47:29and found not four other bonnets
47:32I liked just as much.
47:33And in the end,
47:36one a shade of dusky pink
47:39that 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
47:54has such a variety of choices
47:55and such quantity, too.
47:58You may enjoy the first thing
47:59you see well enough,
48:01but often something more exciting
48:04will come along.
48:07Anyway, I just thought
48:09I'd let you know.
48:10Well, yes, thank you for that.
48:13It was very interesting.
48:16Oh, I was meaning to tell you.
48:18We have decided to host
48:19a little entertainment tomorrow.
48:21A night of games.
48:23Oh, dear.
48:24What sort of games?
48:25No catching.
48:26Word games.
48:28Riddles and such.
48:29And very pleasant company.
48:31Company I know?
48:32Or new company?
48:35All new.
48:36And very friendly.
48:38We desperately desire
48:40that you remember London fondly.
48:43This may be your final event
48:44with us before you leave.
48:50I resolved not to send
48:52the letter to Mother just yet.
48:55It would be a shame
48:56to leave before the weekend.
48:58.
49:16Bye.
49:18Bye.
49:20Bye.
49:20Bye.
49:21Bye.
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.
49:53And 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.
50:05Miss...
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...
50:18new in town.
50:20Well, I, for one, am always pleased to see a new face.
50:29I 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.
50:52A mean trick?
50:54My brain is in agony.
50:55It isn't counterfeit.
50:56It is quite real.
50:57Champagne.
50:58Right.
50:59Champagne.
51:01Champagne!
51:01Why, right, Miss Clark.
51:03Another 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.
51:23Punch.
51:25Oh, well done, Mr. Ryder.
51:27Finally, you've arrived on the scoreboard.
51:33My first word, comedians dread to hear.
51:39My next new life in a revolving year.
51:52Offspring.
51:52Offspring.
51:53Yes!
51:53Oh, well done, Miss Bennet.
51:55Oh, well done, Miss Bennet.
51:57Well done.
51:58Bravo.
51:59Absolutely never.
51:59Yes, Miss Bennet.
52:02Cheers to you.
52:03What's next?
52:04Mandarin.
52:06Delicious.
52:06Miss Bennet.
52:07How lovely to see you.
52:08Too, Miss Bexter.
52:10Mr. Hayward.
52:11We're so pleased you made it.
52:12I had fun.
52:13False 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.
52:27Do excuse us, Mrs. Jean.
52:29Excuse me.
52:32Miss Bennet.
52:34Tom.
52:35Will.
52:37Mr. Ryder and I studied law together.
52:39Ah.
52:39Yes.
52:40Mr. 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 a prize?
53:02Not unless you wish to bribe our host.
53:04Miss Bennet here is putting us all to shame.
53:06Oh, nonsense, Miss Ryder.
53:07You beat me to the punch.
53:08I...
53:09You see?
53:10Masterful words.
53:12I...
53:13I...
53:13Um...
53:15Please gather yourselves for the penultimate round.
53:19Mr. Ryder.
53:19What?
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!
53:38I'm going to Miss Baxter!
53:42Think sharp?
53:43Is it Doldroos?
53:45No, no, no, forget I said anything.
53:47Mercury!
53:48Yes!
53:48Well done.
53:50Is it really?
53:51Well done.
53:52Remarkable!
53:54Oh!
53:56Oh!
53:56Come on!
53:57Anybody?
53:58Uh, Lighthouse!
53:59Yes!
54:00I've barely had a chance to think, let alone speak.
54:02I've never known a lack of thinking to prevent you from speaking.
54:05Oh!
54:07Oh!
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.
54:33What?
54:34You mean I didn't make it?
54:35Well, I'm astonished.
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 finest mind!
55:10Huzzah!
55:14We 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!
55:37You are a liar.
55:39Am I?
55:40You told me you were not much for games.
55:43Well, I...
55:44I can't catch.
55:47Miss Bennet, I've been meaning to invite you to tea since I hear, very sadly, you are
55:52leaving London.
55:53Miss Bennet, surely not?
55:54You can't deprive the game players of London your... your riddling talents!
55:59Round of applause for our winner, Miss Bennet!
56:03Well done!
56:04Bravo!
56:08In that moment, I think I understood what my aunt was telling me.
56:13With the convoluted story about the bonnets.
56:18That quantity has a quality all of its own.
56:25Thanks.
56:29Thank you so much.
56:30I never doubted you.
56:32This way.
56:34Thank you for coming.
56:38Mary, how you shone.
56:42You even caught the attention of the most eligible bachelor in town.
56:45I...
56:45I've been thinking...
56:47It 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.
57:04Oh, thank you so much for coming.
57:06Living 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.
57:15Even the most hopeless of situations,
57:19the most hopeless of people,
57:22can, with kindness,
57:24change.
57:26Little by little.
57:28Over time.
57:30I was excited to discover who Mary Bennet might be.
57:55I knew her to stay.
57:57I knew I'd love someone to be.
58:00I knew her to be.
58:05I knew I was a woman to be.
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