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...
04:22Hmm.
04:35I got it.
04:37No, I'm...
04:38I got it.
04:41I got it.
04:42Let's go.
04:42Hmm.
04:42Hmm.
04:43Hmm, hmm.
04:43Hmm.
04:51I don't know.
05:15I don't know.
05:47I don't know.
05:48Well cleared!
05:49Mary, you must be hungry after the journey.
05:51You'd be like some toasted cheese.
05:52But first we'll show you your room.
05:54Come in, come in!
05:56It's right at the top of the house so you won't be disturbed by the children.
06:17How's your mother?
06:20She's had a most trying time of late.
06:22Well, you all have.
06:25Mother as well. Thank 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.
07:03Well, come in!
07:08I just found it here, because you all have to follow me as well as you and me.
07:22This is good. Not so good.
07:28Mary, won't you join us for breakfast?
07:31Oh, no, no. I'm not at all hungry this morning.
07:34I shall see the children upstairs.
07:47Marianne, would you like to start?
07:51Miss Bennet, it's a pleasure to meet you.
07:53I am Marianne Gardner, and I am 11 years old.
07:56It's my pleasure to meet you too, Miss Marianne.
08:01George!
08:04Yes, thank you, George.
08:06And this is...
08:11This is Rebecca.
08:13Thank you, Miss Rebecca.
08:16And if an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and propagation,
08:26then, in conceiving an indefinite variety among the individuals of that species, we must be assured that, on the one
08:36hand, those which depart most from the best adapted constitution will 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.
09:01Now, where is America?
09:03Ah, yes, America.
09:06Uh...
09:10Where has Rebecca gone?
09:11There were very clearly three of you in this room when I began looking at the globe.
09:15And now there are two of you.
09:17She vanished.
09:18She's a magician.
09:20What magic is nothing but illusion and trickery.
09:22Oh.
09:23Now where could she be?
09:26Tom! You're here!
09:27Tom! Can we finish lessons now?
09:29Yes.
09:30Forgive the intrusion. I came to tell you that dinner is served.
09:34You must be Miss Bennet.
09:36Well, I... I must be.
09:38Yes, I am.
09:40Uh, Tom.
09:41Heywood.
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...
09:56America.
09:56And when I looked back, it was...
10:03Do you have mice, Miss Bennet?
10:06Or if you do, might I suggest you do not keep them in the toy trunk?
10:11Well, I...
10:12I wasn't sure.
10:13I thought perhaps...
10:14Mice 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. Maywood?
10:36Mr. Haywood.
10:38I am keeping a rabbit in the toy trunk because...
10:43I...
10:45Because rabbits are not at all social creatures.
10:48Exactly.
10:49Yes, they are.
10:54Well, why exactly do you have a new governess?
10:57Is it that you keep eating them?
11:02Oh...
11:05Tom helped Edward with the legal matters some years ago and...
11:08We've been friends ever since.
11:09You're neither of our former loungers.
11:11Oh.
11:12Yes.
11:12Oh.
11:14What is a revolutionary republican?
11:20Well, as discussed during the lesson, they're often associated with Jacobinism.
11:26But my point really was...
11:27Sounds like you had a very interesting first day, Miss Bennett.
11:30Well, uh...
11:31Have you read Catherine Cawley, Miss Bennett?
11:34Yes, I have.
11:36Yes.
11:37Mary told us about smallpox.
11:39I shall never sleep again.
11:41Well, you asked me to be truthful.
11:43What's a deadly rash?
11:45She said it can leave one blind or dead.
11:48That is not quite how I put it.
11:50Blinds or dead, she said.
11:51Well, that is true.
11:52There's a mortality rate of about...
11:54Thirty percent.
11:57Exactly.
11:59George cried three times.
12:02There was something in my eye.
12:03We held hands until Mary had finished talking.
12:07Well, you're never too young to learn about life.
12:10I think our game is in order, don't you?
12:12I think that's a very good idea.
12:14Yes!
12:15Yes!
12:15I'm first!
12:16But what shall we play?
12:18Graces!
12:18Ah!
12:19Let's show Mary how to play graces!
12:22Yes!
12:24Marianne?
12:24Well called.
12:25No problem.
12:27You have to back up.
12:29Oh!
12:32That counts!
12:33It does indeed.
12:35Oh!
12:37You'll need to get someone to look at that.
12:39Send it to Blige, he'll fix it for you.
12:42Ready?
12:43Yes!
12:45Well done!
12:46Flare play!
12:47You look like a wizard!
12:49Yes!
12:55Are you sure you won't join in, Mary?
12:58Oh, er, no.
12:59I'm not good at games.
13:00Oh, that doesn't matter at all.
13:03Yes!
13:05Well, you couldn't possibly be as ungainly as I am.
13:07Really, I'd only spoil it.
13:15George.
13:16Ready?
13:18Oh!
13:26Yes, doll.
13:26It's Mr. Gardner.
13:46Yes?
13:48Mary?
13:50Do not look so grave, my dear.
13:52You're not in trouble.
13:54With the weather getting warmer, we're about to become more sociable.
13:57Oh!
13:58Oh, please, do not feel any obligation to involve me.
14:00I shall be quite content to stay upstairs with the children.
14:02Mary, we want you to join us.
14:06But I do not sparkle at dinners.
14:10In our house, no one is obliged to sparkle.
14:14Then...
14:15Of course.
14:17But we need to get you properly dressed.
14:19Oh.
14:20I thought perhaps tomorrow we could go to the haberdashers and you could pick out some fabrics.
14:23I do not really care for dresses.
14:26That's a shame.
14:27But very well.
14:30Perhaps think about it, Mary.
14:32There is a dress allowance as part of your governess wages.
14:36I have thought about it.
14:38And I would very much like to accept your kind offer.
14:41That's excellent news.
14:44Good night, Mary.
14:46And thank you for today.
14:55This must be such a change for Meredith.
14:58It most certainly is.
15:09What do you think of the Deep Greens?
15:12We have a soiree coming up.
15:13I think Deep Green would be perfect.
15:17Mother has always said it's terribly difficult to get any colour to work with my complexion.
15:21Really?
15:22Well, perhaps your complexions change because I can see many colours here which would work well on you.
15:26But the most important thing being is that you choose fabrics that you truly like.
15:33But Mother says that Mother isn't here.
15:38Mr. Gardner.
15:40Mr. Gardner.
15:40Oh.
15:41Miss Bennet.
15:41Tom!
15:43Mr. Hayward, have you brought your jacket to be mounted?
15:45I have just this minute chopped it off.
15:47I have just this minute chopped it off.
15:47Well, now that you're here, you can make yourself useful.
15:50Miss Bennet needs to choose some dress fabric.
15:53I find myself quite overwhelmed by the voice.
15:56Well, I shall be honest and say that my experience of picking dress fabric is limited.
16:00To say the least.
16:02But I shall try.
16:05Have you seen the names of these colours?
16:07We've got Dust of Ruins, Corbeau, or Flamme de Bonche.
16:13Anyone?
16:14Oh, I think I shall take the Drake's neck with a splash of none key.
16:19Anyone for gambos?
16:21Well, I mean that's just yellow.
16:23Yes.
16:26I think my advice would be to choose the colours that make one feel more like oneself.
16:31And I am sorry not to be of more use.
16:34I should return to my desk.
16:35And a particularly unexciting land negotiation.
16:40Good day.
16:41Good day.
16:46Good day.
16:47Oh, poor Tom.
16:48You work so hard.
16:49Really?
16:50Underneath that light-hearted manner.
16:52Carries the weight of the world on his shoulders.
16:56Now, have you decided?
17:00I have chosen.
17:02Very well, Mary.
17:05The first is this crimson.
17:08And then I thought perhaps a spring green trim.
17:12Lovely.
17:13Yes.
17:14But you will need two dresses.
17:15So perhaps...
17:17China blue?
17:20Hmm.
17:23Do you think a dress in the spring green alone would be garish?
17:27What do you think, Mary?
17:30Some people may think it is wild.
17:33But...
17:34I like it.
17:36Then I think you should please yourself and not worry what others may think.
17:41You've done a very good job.
17:42No.
17:51No.
17:56No.
18:00No.
18:03No.
18:08No.
18:09Oh my gosh.
18:12Ooh.
18:14the gardeners are out
18:16buying shoes for the children
18:19would you like to
18:21play graces
18:23well yes
18:24thank you
18:31ready?
18:32yes
18:40I did it
18:40you did
18:41natural
18:42beginner's luck
18:46ready
18:47all right
18:49for a moment
19:20I'll see you next time
19:27Ready?
19:29Yes
19:37That's probably enough
19:40for today
19:41Oh yes
19:44I brought a book
19:46Oh of course yes
19:48Poetry
19:50Do you like poetry
19:51I prefer fax
19:53to whimsy
19:57Whimsy?
19:58I've tried
19:59well
20:00Cowper
20:00Byron
20:02even some Dryden
20:03but um
20:04well it seems to me
20:06that it's all just
20:07words
20:09What were you expecting?
20:11Are you a scholar?
20:13Sir?
20:14No
20:14I'm a barrister
20:16junior
20:17and though the law
20:18is my business
20:19poetry is my passion
20:21What do you
20:23like to read?
20:24Uh
20:25works of non-fiction
20:26histories
20:27and uh
20:28and geology
20:29And what
20:31do you like to read
20:32for pleasure?
20:33That is
20:34reading for pleasure
20:36There is
20:36nothing
20:37you like
20:38about poetry
20:42Some poems
20:43are mercifully short
20:46Well
20:47now that you have
20:49thrown down
20:50the gauntlet
20:50I will not rest
20:51until you have
20:52appreciated
20:52the merits
20:53of poetry
20:56I believe
20:57that this is the book
20:59that will open
20:59the hearts
21:00of Miss Mary Bennet
21:05Oh?
21:08The gardener's home
21:09Oh is it
21:10yes
21:10yes
21:11yes
21:12well
21:12I
21:14I
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21:47I
21:48I
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.
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