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00:23Three times I had written to Mr. Hayward, and each time the letter was returned, marked
00:29forwarding address unknown.
00:32There was so much that I wished to say to him, but it was not to be.
00:41No matter, I would not wallow.
00:43I had navigated difficulty before, and I would use my experiences to find my place in London
00:49and prove I could build a life here, not only to myself, but also to...
00:57Mama.
00:58Here she is.
01:00I didn't know you were...
01:02Sorry, what are you doing here?
01:04Your mother has come to stay.
01:06For a short time.
01:08Lizzie's physician advised I come to London to see Dr. Simmons, who is a great authority
01:13on nervous complaints.
01:16Well, sit.
01:21Mr. Darcy has been most insistent, urging me to think of myself and not hurry back to Pemberley.
01:28Until I have been properly attended to.
01:32Now, Mary, I have decided to forgive your actions at Pemberley and to offer you my assistance one last time.
01:40While I am here, I intend to finish what I began and find suitable matches for all my daughters.
01:50Oh, please, Mama, really.
01:52Four out of five must be considered a great triumph.
01:56A great triumph, indeed.
01:57Mary has plenty in London to occupy her time.
02:00There is no better use of Mary's time than finding a match.
02:04Oh, please, Mother, really.
02:06I'm very happy, as I am.
02:08I understand your shame, Mary, in the way that you have behaved towards me.
02:13But nevertheless, you cannot override my natural kindness and my motherly instinct.
02:20I have arranged for you to meet several suitors.
02:47Is it too much to ask you to make even the slightest effort with just one of these gentlemen?
02:52Mary has made good connections.
02:54Oh, and do good connections provide for you for the rest of your life?
02:58And she is welcome here.
02:59Oh, yes.
03:00For now.
03:01For as long as she wants.
03:02Enter!
03:07A visitor for Miss Bennet.
03:10Mr. Ryder is here.
03:12Mr. Ryder?
03:14Well, show him in.
03:17Please show him in.
03:24Oh.
03:30Mr. Ryder, how wonderful to see you.
03:34Mrs. Bennet.
03:35Mrs. Gardiner.
03:37Miss Bennet.
03:40And to what do we owe the pleasure of your visit?
03:43Yes, excuse me dropping in unannounced.
03:45I wondered whether I might speak with Miss Bennet.
03:51Of course.
03:54In private.
04:00Miss Bennet, I'm most relieved to see you looking so well after.
04:06Yeah, yeah.
04:08I was sorry not to be able to say goodbye to you at the Lakes.
04:12Once I knew you were being taken care of, I felt it my duty to accompany Miss Bingley
04:16back to London to see a physician.
04:18I understand.
04:19But I was kept informed of your recovery.
04:29Miss Bennet, I...
04:32I wanted to sincerely apologize for what happened.
04:37Oh, I played my own part in proceedings.
04:40No, no, I was entirely to blame.
04:43I put you and Miss Bingley in grave danger.
04:46I'm full of regret.
04:47Oh, really?
04:48I think no more of it.
04:51Though it did not end well.
04:53Overall, I look back at my time in the Lakes very fondly.
04:58It was never my intention to intrude on your time there.
05:03But I needed Mr. Hayward's help.
05:07You see, Lady Catherine de Burr unexpectedly named me as her heir.
05:15Oh.
05:19I informed Mr. Hayward of my change in fortune and told him of my intention to propose to
05:27you that very afternoon.
05:32I see.
05:34He knew what I could offer you and he gave me his blessing.
05:43He did.
05:45Miss Bennet, I wanted to renew our conversation from the Lakes.
05:53Of course.
05:54Of course, Mr. Ryder.
05:56Please, um, please sit.
06:15I've never met anyone that makes me think like you do.
06:20Who makes me see the world as you do.
06:25I've certainly never met anyone who speaks as plainly as you.
06:28And I admire that greatly.
06:31It's very kind.
06:34Although there is something of a gulf between my ideals and the world we live in.
06:43I like to think that you and I could carve out an interesting existence.
06:51Together.
06:55I shall now do what I should have done weeks ago and ask...
07:05Miss Bennet.
07:12Would you consider accepting my hand in marriage?
07:29Mr. Ryder.
07:32My answer must, of course, be...
07:42That I do not love you.
07:48What?
07:50Could it be that you might grow to love me?
07:58Not in the way that you deserve to be loved.
08:07Your friendship has...
08:09It's taught me so much about myself.
08:12And for that, I shall always be grateful.
08:16But I don't believe...
08:19I would ever have made you happy.
08:26You should follow your heart.
08:28Go to Italy.
08:30And...
08:31And seize everything it has to offer.
08:35I see.
08:39You will find happiness, Mr. Ryder.
08:42True happiness.
08:43Yes.
08:45I do not doubt it.
08:56No.
09:00It was a...
09:02Pleasure to see you looking so well.
09:07Pleasure to see you looking so...
09:10Dry.
09:18Goodbye, Miss Bennet.
09:22Bye.
09:31No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
09:33Mother.
09:34Uh, I should leave.
09:36Oh, please.
09:37Stay there.
09:38Mother!
09:39Mr. Ryder, you may go.
09:49What have you done?
09:51Oh, I need some air.
09:55Mary.
09:57Mary!
09:58Mary!
10:20Miss Bennet?
10:24Mr. Sparrow!
10:30Is everything quite all right?
10:32No, yes, the city smoke is particularly heavy today.
10:35It just seems to have...
10:39May I?
11:03I hope they are still serving you well.
11:07They really are.
11:09Tell me, what brings you to London?
11:12I graduated from Moorfields two weeks ago.
11:16You're a doctor.
11:18Just as you said you would be.
11:22Congratulations, Mr Sparrow.
11:26I always thought you'd end up studying somewhere, somehow.
11:29I would like to be a governess.
11:32To an older girl, perhaps.
11:35I think I'd enjoy teaching petrology and geology and...
11:38Your specialisms.
11:39Perhaps one day you could tutor my daughter.
11:42You have a child.
11:44She is one.
11:48Then perhaps I will, I guess.
11:51No, I've not really looked too far into it as yet.
11:56I think my mother will not approve.
12:03If I remember rightly,
12:05you and your mother always had very different ideas about life.
12:08About reading.
12:10About the wearing of spectacles.
12:14And about potential matches.
12:22If I may be so bold,
12:24if you have always struggled to please your mother,
12:28why do you keep trying?
12:31As long as you know what you want,
12:33perhaps it is time to stop worrying what she thinks.
12:39But our happiness is in our own hands.
12:43Absolutely.
12:44I truly believe it is.
12:49It has been a pleasure to see you again.
12:52I must be getting back.
12:59Goodbye, Mr. Sparrow.
13:02I'm very, very glad to have run into you today.
13:17I'm very, very glad to have run into you today.
13:26Mary.
13:28What on earth are you thinking?
13:30Mother,
13:31I'm sorry to disappoint you.
13:34Again.
13:34But I will not be marrying Mr. Ryder.
13:37Nonsense.
13:38Call him back and tell him you were mistaken.
13:40No, I will not do that.
13:42Have you no consideration for my nerves?
13:46I've never wanted to cause you any trouble.
13:49You have caused me nothing but trouble
13:52since the day you were born.
13:54Yes, I'm aware that is so.
13:57I am trying to help you.
14:00I do not want you to be looked down upon.
14:06Looked down upon by whom?
14:14Mary, please call Mr. Ryder back
14:17and accept his offer.
14:19I do not love him.
14:21Mama, I've not waited all this time
14:23just to marry a man I do not love.
14:24You would have once agreed to marry Mr. Collins.
14:28Did you love him?
14:29No, I didn't.
14:31No.
14:32At the time, I thought I was helping
14:34our family remain at Longmore.
14:35And now there is a handsome, wealthy man
14:38willing to overlook your shortcomings
14:40and you have turned him away.
14:41Because I have changed.
14:43Well, change back again.
14:49Charlotte once told me
14:52that my options were marriage or misery.
14:56But I have seen many miserable marriages.
15:02And meanwhile,
15:03I've experienced much joy in life
15:06on my own.
15:08What will you do without a husband?
15:11How will you survive?
15:12I will work
15:13as a governess.
15:15Outside the families?
15:16I will take on an older pupil
15:18and I will teach a more nuanced,
15:20detailed education,
15:21working to a higher level
15:22on a specific set of...
15:24Why do you insist on torturing me?
15:35It has always been my intention
15:37to please you.
15:39I am very sad
15:42that I have never been able
15:43to make you proud of me.
15:46Yet I was never able
15:48to match my sisters
15:50in your esteem.
15:54I am sorry.
15:57You have no idea
15:59what it has been like for me.
16:01I had five daughters.
16:03Five daughters.
16:05All of whom I knew
16:07must marry well
16:08in order to survive.
16:09And there was nobody
16:10to make that happen
16:11except me.
16:14Your father
16:15never had to think about it.
16:18And he never raised
16:20a finger to help.
16:23In fact,
16:24any attempts I made
16:26to discuss your futures
16:28seemed only to rile him.
16:31I was quite alone.
16:38You and I
16:40always have been
16:42very different creatures.
16:46and it is likely
16:48we all shall be.
16:51It doesn't seem fair
16:52that you weren't helped
16:53in your efforts.
16:56But
16:59you did it.
17:02We are all settled
17:04in our different ways.
17:06I have chosen my path
17:09and I
17:10I am happy
17:11with it.
17:16I did not want you
17:18to be left behind.
17:31Goodbye, Mother.
17:42Jane.
17:52Send our love
17:53to Lizzie.
17:58Goodbye, Jane.
18:19Mary.
18:19Mary,
18:20I have to say
18:21I don't think
18:21I've ever seen
18:22anyone stand up
18:22to your mother
18:23as successfully
18:23as you did.
18:25Really?
18:25It was very impressive.
18:26It was very impressive.
18:32I don't mind
18:33that I'll never marry.
18:38I'm only sad
18:39that
18:40without a home
18:41of my own
18:41I shall never
18:43get to choose
18:44my own wallpaper.
18:46You can always
18:47choose some
18:48for your room,
18:49Mary,
18:49if you like.
18:52Do you think
18:53I've done
18:53the wrong thing
18:56in not marrying
18:57Mr. Ryder?
18:59Not at all, Mary.
19:02I've learned
19:03a great deal
19:03from him.
19:05He's a man
19:06that finds joy
19:07in life
19:07and there's much
19:08to be admired
19:09about him.
19:10But you do not
19:10love him.
19:13No.
19:17You love
19:18someone else?
19:24Where has he gone?
19:30I wish I knew.
19:44Miss Bennet,
19:46there is a visitor
19:47to see you
19:48in the drawing room.
19:50Miss Bingley.
20:13Miss Bennet,
20:14I
20:14wanted to
20:16thank you
20:18for
20:19what you did
20:20on the mountain.
20:22You could have
20:23left me there
20:25and
20:26you didn't.
20:35I think it is
20:36plain to see
20:37that I
20:40have a great fondness
20:41for
20:42Mr. Ryder.
20:45and
20:46I have
20:46come to ask
20:47that you
20:49leave him
20:50alone.
20:51Oh,
20:52Miss Bingley,
20:53you are
20:54much
20:55better suited
20:55to Mr. Ryder
20:56than I am.
20:56You don't mean that.
20:57I do.
20:58I do.
20:59Mr. Ryder
20:59is a dear
21:01friend
21:02but he and I
21:03were never
21:04a match.
21:10The truth is
21:15it was always
21:17Mr. Hayward
21:17for me
21:18but it is not
21:20to be.
21:22Really?
21:23Tom Hayward?
21:25Surely
21:26he is
21:27attainable.
21:29It seems
21:30not.
21:31He has
21:32disappeared.
21:35Well,
21:36well.
21:48Perhaps
21:49I shall
21:51call for you
21:52sometime,
21:53Miss Bennet.
21:54Yes,
21:55we could
21:55read poetry
21:56together.
22:00Goodbye,
22:01Miss Bennet.
22:01Goodbye,
22:02Miss Bingley.
22:22And so it was
22:24that I carved
22:25out my own
22:26path.
22:27I stayed
22:28in London
22:29and became
22:30a governess.
22:34Over time,
22:35I worried
22:36a little less
22:37about the
22:37approval of
22:38others.
22:40And though
22:41the life
22:41I had chosen
22:42was different
22:43to that of
22:43my sisters,
22:45I had a wealth
22:46of experience
22:47to be proud
22:48of.
22:50I had found
22:51a family
22:51I loved
22:52very much.
22:53I was happy
22:55in the life
22:56I had chosen
22:57and I knew
22:58that I was
22:59good enough.
23:04Though one
23:05can always
23:06be just
23:07a little
23:07happier,
23:08I suppose.
23:10Miss Bennet!
23:14Miss Bennet!
23:16Miss Bennet!
23:28It's to Haywood.
23:51Mrs. Gardner said I might find you here
23:54Mrs. Bennet, I...
23:58Where have you been?
23:59Mrs. Bennet, what do you mean?
24:03Yorkshire?
24:03What do you mean, Yorkshire?
24:07You can't just say Yorkshire, as if Yorkshire's an entirely reasonable explanation for your
24:12very sudden and somewhat lengthy disappearance.
24:16After what you said...
24:17Mr. But I'm sorry, Mary, please, please, let me explain.
24:22Well, you're here now, Mr. Hayward.
24:27Do go on.
24:33Well, we were in the lakes.
24:35The legal matter that Mr Ryder asked me to attend to
24:38was his inheriting the fortune of Lady Catherine de Bourgh.
24:44And I knew quite clearly from Ryder's incredibly irritating behaviour
24:49that he had a liking for you, as I also had.
24:56As I also have.
24:59It is such a liking, in fact,
25:02that when I learned of Mr Ryder's good fortune
25:04and his plan to make you an offer of marriage,
25:06I thought it in your best interest that I graciously step aside.
25:10Nevertheless, my actions in the mountains...
25:12You thought it in my best interests to graciously step aside.
25:18So your disappearance was, in fact, you being gracious to me.
25:27You and Mr Ryder, between you,
25:29thought that you would just decide on my fate
25:31and I would just accept it,
25:33like I'm a great old cat.
25:36If you put it like that, it does not sound good.
25:38Why didn't you just ask me what I thought?
25:41I was reading between the lines.
25:42There were no lines, Mr Hayward.
25:44There were no lines.
25:46I know I will never be able to offer you what Mr Ryder can.
25:51I have had to work for everything that I have
25:53and I thought you deserved better than that.
25:59That you deserved better than me,
26:00but now I realise
26:03I will not know what you want unless I ask.
26:06So I must tell you,
26:07I cannot offer you great wealth or Italy,
26:11but I can offer you my love
26:14and my devotion and my hope to build a family one day.
26:23Mr Hayward,
26:25if you had asked me what I wanted,
26:29I would have told you
26:29I never wanted Mr Ryder.
26:31I have never loved Mr Ryder.
26:34I love you.
26:36I have only ever loved you.
26:39I love you.
26:41I have always loved you
26:43from the very first time I caught you playing graces
26:45on your own
26:46when you thought no one was at home.
26:51I have spent my life on the outside of things,
26:54but with you,
26:55I am right in the middle of it all.
27:06Mary Bennet,
27:07would you do me the very great honour
27:09of becoming my wife?
27:17Yes.
27:20Yes.
27:21Yes.
27:29That was his last right
27:31that made me stay with a kiss,
27:32in case we didn't catch it.
27:34Mary,
27:35I think now that we've kissed,
27:36you could probably call me Tom.
27:38Stop.
27:54Wait,
27:55what made you come back?
27:56Oh,
27:56I received a letter
27:59from Caroline Bingley.
28:01What?
28:02Yes.
28:03She wrote to me
28:04and she told me about your conversation
28:05and I realised I was being ridiculous.
28:07From Caroline Bingley?
28:08Yes.
28:09She did something kind.
28:11Wait,
28:11however,
28:12did she find you?
28:13She has a ways.
28:18My only wish
28:19is that we could thank her,
28:20but she has left London.
28:22Oh.
28:22She's gone to Italy
28:24in pursuit of Mr. Ryder.
28:27No.
28:28Yes.
28:30No.
28:31Yes.
28:48And so it was
28:50that I married him,
28:52but on my own terms,
28:54in my own time.
28:56And I hope you'll realise
28:58that is almost
29:00beside the point.
29:12The point, perhaps,
29:14was just as Hill had predicted
29:16all that time ago,
29:18that I needed to get out
29:20and see the world
29:21outside my family
29:23so that I could find
29:25my place in it.
29:30Hmm.
29:36Oh.
29:38And that is
29:39the last of them.
29:41Really?
29:42No.
29:46Oh.
29:47The Indigo is splendid.
29:49It's actually
29:49Tyrion purple.
29:50It's Tyrion?
29:51Yes, from the Greek myth
29:52about Hercules' dog
29:53trying a spiny murex sea snail.
29:55I didn't know
29:56Hercules had a dog.
29:58Keep up, Thomas.
30:01I am trying.
30:08What's next?
30:10Spring green.
30:12In your drawing room?
30:14Hmm.
30:15Hmm.
30:16Hmm.
30:17Hmm.
30:18Hmm.
30:20Hmm.
30:20Hmm.
30:35Hmm.
30:37Hmm.
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