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00:04The loss of my father was a leap into the unknown.
00:08Longbourn was my childhood home, and although I had my struggles here, it was all I had
00:14ever known.
00:16From now on, would I be relying on the hospitality of my sisters, destined to spend my days as
00:23my mother's companion?
00:26What other choice did I have?
00:31I do not expect any of you to understand my pain.
00:35The bond Mr. Bennet and I shared was a rare thing.
00:40I do not know that I shall ever eat again.
00:46Who is that?
00:47I do not know, Mama.
00:49What sort of person would impinge upon our hour of mourning so distastefully?
00:56Charlotte!
00:58I am afraid you find us in a state of some disarray.
01:03Understandably.
01:04We have been wanting to see you all since we heard the terrible news, but knew you would
01:08need time as a family to-
01:10have your things.
01:11Yourself?
01:11Together.
01:16I want to make it quite clear-
01:22Quite clear that there's no rush for you to leave Longbourn.
01:25Hmm.
01:27Thank you, Mr. Collins.
01:28You are quite welcome to stay here with us for a full two weeks.
01:32Two weeks?
01:33Mrs. Bennet, there really is no hurry for you and Mary to leave.
01:36But I have arranged you some help with the packing.
01:38Hmm.
01:39So you are not obliged to undertake such a difficult task during your hour of need?
01:44Hmm.
01:56Mama, you must come and stay with Mr. Bingley and Knight Netherfield.
01:59We have a number of cooks and more servants than we know what to do with.
02:04Oh, Jane.
02:06I would be delighted.
02:08It would bring me great comfort to be in a sizable property with a large number of staff
02:12at my disposal.
02:15And Mary, you of course must come too.
02:19Well, if you're worried about company, Caroline Bingley stays with us often.
02:24Well, yes, but I have not yet thought through my future prospects.
02:31Speaking of your prospects, Mary, I have received a letter from my brother and his wife in London.
02:36Their governess has been called back to Norfolk
02:39and they have asked me to send you to stay with them until a suitable replacement is found.
02:44There is going to be a governess.
02:45Oh, Mary.
02:46I would very much like to help, but you will need me, Mama.
02:51I have already accepted their offer.
02:54They're sending a carriage.
02:56But, Mama...
02:57Do not worry about me, Mary.
02:59I shall have Jane by my side.
03:02Oh.
03:08Hmm.
03:09Hmm.
03:12Hmm.
03:14Hmm.
03:15Hmm.
03:15If my options in life really were marriage or misery, it looked very much as though I was destined
03:21for misery.
03:28Mrs. Bennet is indisposed.
03:32Oh.
03:34Of course.
03:36Thank you, Il.
03:37Hmm.
03:38Hmm.
03:43Hmm.
03:44Hmm.
03:45Hmm.
03:45Hmm.
03:45Hmm.
03:46What if the children don't like me?
03:48Why should they not like you?
03:49You're a perfectly likable soul.
03:52Hmm.
03:54Hmm.
03:55Wheatly.
03:55I'm getting ready.
03:55To teach them.
03:56Mary.
03:57Nobody knows more facts about anything than you.
04:02It's time for you to get out and see the world.
04:05Meet some other people that live in it.
04:08I think it'll do you good.
04:10Do not be frightened, Miss Mary.
04:12Oh, no, I'm not. I'm not. No, I'm just, um...
04:50Oh, no, I'm not.
05:36Oh, no, I'm not.
05:39Mary, you must be hungry after your journey.
05:41Would you like some toasted cheese?
05:43But first, we'll show you your room.
05:44Come in, come in.
05:47It's right at the top of the house, so you won't be disturbed by the children.
06:07How's your mother?
06:09Mother, she's had a most trying time of late.
06:11Well, you all have.
06:14Mother as well. Thank you for inquiring.
06:18And how are you, Mary?
06:20It must have been a terrible shock.
06:25Oh, it was.
06:27Well, thank you for stepping in at such short notice.
06:31We don't stand on ceremony here, especially with the children, so if you don't mind that,
06:35you'll do well with us.
06:37And the rest of your belongings will be brought up any moment.
06:40Do you have all you need?
06:41I do. Thank you.
06:55Which mountain range is found at the end of your obvious?
06:59Oh, no.
07:01The Andes.
07:16Mary, won't you join us for breakfast?
07:18Oh, no, no, sir. Thank you, sir.
07:20I'm not at all hungry this morning.
07:22I shall see the children upstairs.
07:35Marianne, would you like to start?
07:38Miss Bennet, it's a pleasure to meet you.
07:40I am Marianne Gardner, and I'm 11 years old.
07:43It's my pleasure to meet you too, Miss Marianne.
07:48George!
07:51Yes, thank you, George.
07:53And this is...
07:58This is Rebecca.
08:00Thank you, Miss Rebecca.
08:03And if an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance
08:12and propagation, then in conceiving an indefinite variety among the individuals of that species,
08:19we must be assured that, on the one hand, those which depart most from the best adapted constitution
08:26will be the most liable to perish.
08:32You've made him go to sleep.
08:39Let us move on to history, shall we?
08:41Now, in 1492, Christopher Columbus discovered America.
08:46Now, where is America?
08:48Ah, yes, America.
08:50Ah.
08:55Where has Rebecca gone?
08:56There were very clearly three of you in this room when I began looking at the globe, and
09:00now there are two of you.
09:01She vanished.
09:03She's a magician.
09:05Oh, magic is nothing but illusion and trickery.
09:07Oh.
09:07Now, where could she be?
09:10Oh!
09:10Tom!
09:11You're here!
09:11Tom!
09:12Can we finish lessons now?
09:13Yes.
09:14Oh, forgive the intrusion.
09:15I came to tell you that dinner is served, and you must be Miss Bennet.
09:20I, I must be.
09:22Oh, yes, I am.
09:24Oh, Tom, Hayward.
09:26Oh.
09:27Friend of the family.
09:32Aren't there normally three of you?
09:34There were three, certainly, but I was looking at America, and when I looked back, it was...
09:47Do you have mice, Miss Bennet?
09:49For if you do, might I suggest you do not keep them in the toy trunk?
09:54Well, I, I wasn't sure.
09:56I thought perhaps mice like toy trunks.
09:59No, you see, in there, they cannot get to their cheese.
10:03Actually, it's a fallacy that mice like cheese.
10:07Of course.
10:08They're much more partial to root vegetables and grains.
10:11Yes, indeed.
10:12I'm a rabbit.
10:16Mr. Hayward?
10:19Mr. Hayward, I am keeping a rabbit in the toy trunk because I...
10:27Because rabbits are not at all social creatures.
10:31Exactly.
10:31Yes, they are.
10:32Oh.
10:36Now, why exactly do you have a new governess?
10:39Isn't that you keep eating them?
10:43Oh.
10:46Tom helped Edward with the legal matter some years ago, and we've been friends ever since.
10:51You know, there are four of my lodges.
10:55What is a revolutionary Republican?
11:01Well, as discussed during the lesson, they're often associated with Jacobinism.
11:07But my point really was...
11:08Sounds like you had a very interesting first day, Miss Bennet.
11:11Well, uh...
11:12Have you read Catherine Cawley, Miss Bennet?
11:15Yes, I have.
11:16Yes.
11:18Mary told us about smallpox.
11:20I shall never sleep again.
11:22Well, you asked me to be truthful.
11:24What's a deadly rash?
11:26She said it can leave one blind or dead.
11:29That is not quite how I put it.
11:31Blind or dead, she said.
11:32Well, that is true.
11:33There's a mortality rate of about...
11:3430%.
11:37Exactly.
11:39George cried three times.
11:42There was something in my eye.
11:43We held hands until Mary had finished talking.
11:47Well, you're never too young to learn about life.
11:50I think our game is in order, don't you?
11:52I think that's a very good idea.
11:54Yes!
11:55Yes!
11:55I'm first!
11:56But what should we play?
11:58Graces!
11:59Ah!
11:59Let's show Mary how to play Graces!
12:02Yes!
12:03Mary Ann?
12:04Well caught.
12:06Bravo!
12:07You're so back up.
12:09Woo!
12:09Oh!
12:10Oh!
12:11That counts.
12:12It does indeed.
12:13Well done.
12:14It does indeed.
12:15Oh!
12:15Oh, no, Tom!
12:16You'll need to get someone to look at that.
12:18Send it to Blythe, she'll fix it for you.
12:21Ready?
12:22Yay!
12:23It's a very end.
12:24Yes!
12:24Oh!
12:24Well done!
12:25Flare play.
12:26You look like a wizard.
12:28Yes.
12:34Are you sure you won't join in, Mary?
12:37Oh, uh, no.
12:38I'm not good at games.
12:39Oh, that doesn't matter at all.
12:42Yes.
12:43Well, you couldn't possibly be as ungainly as I am.
12:47Really, I'd only spoil it.
12:54George.
12:55Ready?
12:57Oh!
12:58Oh!
13:00Oh!
13:04Yes, Tom?
13:04It's Mr. Gardner.
13:06Oh!
13:06Oh!
13:23Yes?
13:25Mary?
13:27Oh, do not look so grave, my dear.
13:30You're not in trouble.
13:31With the weather getting warmer, we're about to become more sociable.
13:34Oh!
13:35Oh, please, do not feel any obligation to involve me.
13:37I shall be quite content to stay upstairs with the children.
13:39Mary, we want you to join us.
13:43But I do not sparkle at dinners.
13:47In our house, no one is obliged to sparkle.
13:51Then, of course.
13:54But we need to get you properly dressed.
13:56Oh.
13:56I thought perhaps tomorrow we could go to the haberdashers and you could pick out some fabrics.
14:00I do not really care for dresses.
14:02That's a shame, but very well.
14:06Perhaps think about it, Mary.
14:08There is a dress allowance as part of your governess' wages.
14:12I have thought about it.
14:14And I would very much like to accept your kind offer.
14:17That's excellent news.
14:20Well, good night, Mary.
14:22And thank you for today.
14:30This must be such a change from Meriton.
14:33It most certainly is.
14:44What do you think of the deep greens?
14:47We have a soiree coming up.
14:48Now, I think deep green would be perfect.
14:52Mother has always said it's terribly difficult to get any color to work with my complexion.
14:56Really?
14:57Well, perhaps your complexions change because I can see many colors here which would work well on you.
15:01But the most important thing being is that you choose fabrics that you truly like.
15:07But Mother says that Mother isn't here.
15:13Mr. Gardner?
15:14Oh.
15:15Miss Bennet?
15:16Tom!
15:17Mr. Hayward, have you brought your jacket to be mounted?
15:20I have just this minute dropped it off.
15:21Well, now that you're here, you can make yourself useful.
15:25Miss Bennet needs to choose some dress fabric.
15:27I find myself quite overwhelmed by the choice.
15:30Well, I shall be honest and say that my experience of picking dress fabric is limited, to said the least.
15:35But I shall try.
15:39Have you seen the names of these colors?
15:41We've got Dust of Ruins, Corbeau, or Flamme de Bonche, anyone?
15:47Um, I think I shall take the Drake's neck with a splash of Nunkey.
15:52Anyone for Gabo's?
15:54Oh, well, I mean, that's just yellow, that one.
15:57Yes.
15:57Yes.
16:00I think my advice would be to choose the colors that make one feel more like oneself.
16:04And I am sorry not to be of more use.
16:07I should return to my desk and a particularly unexciting land negotiation.
16:13Good day.
16:14Good day.
16:19Oh, poor Tom.
16:21He works so hard.
16:22Really?
16:22Underneath that light-hearted manner, carries the weight of the world on his shoulders.
16:29Now, have you decided?
16:32I have chosen.
16:34Very well, Mary.
16:37The first is this crimson, and then I thought perhaps a spring green trim.
16:44Lovely.
16:45But you will need two dresses, so perhaps China blue?
16:52Hmm.
16:54Do you think a dress in the spring green alone would be garish?
16:59What do you think, Mary?
17:02Some people may think it is wild, but I like it.
17:07Then I think you should please yourself and not worry what others may think.
17:12You've done a very good job.
17:14Now.
17:40Oh, my gosh.
17:43Oh, my gosh.
17:45The gardeners are out.
17:46They're buying shoes for the children.
17:48Oh.
17:49Would you like to play graces?
17:53Well, yes.
18:01Ready?
18:02Yes.
18:09I did it.
18:10You did.
18:11Natural.
18:12Beginner's luck.
18:14Right.
18:16Ready?
18:17Mm-hmm.
18:18Oh.
18:20Oh.
18:22Oh.
18:49Oh.
18:50Oh.
18:50Oh.
18:56Ready?
18:57Yes.
18:59Oh!
19:00Oh!
19:02Oh!
19:03Um, uh, yeah, um, that's probably enough for today.
19:10Oh, yes, uh, I brought a book for Mrs. Carter.
19:15Oh, of course, yes.
19:16Ah, poetry.
19:18Do you like poetry, Miss Bennett?
19:20I prefer facts to whimsy.
19:24Whimsy?
19:26I've tried, uh, well, Cowper, uh, Byron, even some Dryden, but, um, well, it seems to me that it's all
19:33just words.
19:36What were you expecting?
19:39Are you a scholar, sir?
19:41No.
19:42I'm a barrister, junior, and though the law is my business, poetry is my passion.
19:48What do you like to read?
19:51Uh, works of non-fiction.
19:53Um, histories and, uh, and geology.
19:56And what do you like to read for pleasure?
19:59That is reading for pleasure.
20:02There is nothing you like about poetry.
20:09Some poems are mercifully short.
20:13Well, now that you have thrown down the gauntlet, I will not rest until you have appreciated the merits of
20:19poetry.
20:22I believe that this is the book that will open the heart of Miss Mary Bennett.
20:31Oh?
20:34The garden is at home.
20:35Oh, is it at home?
20:36Yes.
20:36Yes.
20:37Uh, well, yes.
20:39Um, I...
20:41Oh, Tom!
21:03And we'll need more scallops.
21:05Mrs. Shomley will claim she couldn't possibly before helping herself to seven.
21:10It must be very strange without your family here.
21:14There was always at least one argument about stolen perfume.
21:21Mary, you look lovely.
21:25I'm not sure.
21:29I think we should let your hair fall naturally.
21:31No point trying to force it into curls if it doesn't want to go.
21:34No.
21:38Yeah.
21:39I think we should let your hair fall just so damn good.
21:59She's in the middle of our hair, and I hear that.
22:02It looks like she's in the middle of our hair.
22:05Yeah.
22:06I don't know.
22:08I don't know.
22:15I mean, that's basically it, but they're awfully fun, they're fun.
22:23Good evening, I do not believe we have met.
22:26I'm Miss Baxter, delighted to meet you, Miss Baxter.
22:30I am Miss Bennet, I have not long moved to London from Hertfordshire.
22:41A friend of my mother's died eating those nuts.
22:45One got stuck in his throat and that was it, he was quite dead in minutes.
22:54I hope I didn't cause any offence.
22:55That was marvellous.
22:57I shall keep that story in mind for when I want to be rid of someone.
22:59Forgive me, it wasn't deliberate.
23:03I hate the first 20 minutes of these evenings, as do I.
23:07I never know who to talk to and I often find myself saying the wrong things.
23:14Your dress is striking, it looks very well on you.
23:17You really think so?
23:18I feel a little bold in it.
23:20Well, you're in London, Miss Bennet.
23:22If you're going to be bold, here is the place to do it.
23:26Perhaps London will be the start of something new for you.
23:28Perhaps I will.
23:30And if you want to be shown around town, I could call on you.
23:41London, it turned out, was a place of learning as much as teaching, a place of trying new
23:49things.
23:50And though I had never liked change, I seemed to be enjoying myself.
23:56Much about me felt different after just one week.
24:01Being here had lifted my spirits.
24:04I felt something long forgotten.
24:07Hope.
24:09Are you looking for someone?
24:13You must tell me all about it in a moment.
24:17Nick, there's a gentleman I'd like you to meet.
24:19We have something of an understanding.
24:21Please may I introduce Mr. Tom Hayward.
24:29We've already met.
24:30Miss Bennet?
24:31Oh, of course.
24:32You must have.
24:34Oh, I see you went for the Pomona trip.
24:37It's spring green.
24:38It's quite different to Pomona.
24:40Well, it suits you very well.
24:43Tom!
24:44Excuse us, ladies.
24:46You must come and meet my colleague, Mr. May.
24:49Mr. May.
24:51Mr. May.
24:52Mr. Hayward and I met three years ago this spring.
24:54We are hoping to be married next year.
24:57Not everything went exactly as I would have liked.
25:00Come on.
25:00Back on.
25:01Oh.
25:02Please excuse us.
25:03Come, Mary.
25:04It will be fun.
25:05Of course a man such as Mr. Hayward would have secured a match.
25:09But I had made friends, and that was enough.
25:19I did not know what tomorrow would bring.
25:22But for now, at least I had someone to dance with.