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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
00:14ever 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.
00:36The 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?
00:48I do not know, Mama.
00:49What sort of person would impinge upon our hour of mourning so distastefully?
00:56Charlotte, I am afraid you find us in a state of some disarray.
01:02Let me take it, understandably.
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-
01:10To gather your things.
01:10Hm.
01:11Yourselves?
01:12Together.
01:12Hm.
01:14Hm.
01:15Hm.
01:16I want to make it quite clear-
01:18Hm.
01:20Hm.
01:22Quite clear that there's no rush for you to leave Longborn.
01:26Hm.
01:27Thank you, Mr. Collins.
01:28You are quite welcome to stay here with us for a full two weeks.
01:32Two weeks?
01:34Mrs. Bennet, there really is no hurry for you and Mary to leave.
01:36But I have arranged you some help with the packing.
01:38Hm.
01:39So you are not obliged to undertake such a difficult task during your hour of need?
01:45Hm.
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 sightable property with a large number of staff at my
02:12disposal.
02:13Ha ha.
02:15Ha ha.
02:16Mary, you of course must come too.
02:20Well, 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.
02:30Hm.
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 and they have asked me to send you to stay with them
02:41until 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 are sending a carriage.
02:56But, Mama.
02:57Do not worry about me, Mary.
02:59I shall have Jane by my side.
03:01Oh.
03:08Oh.
03:11Oh.
03:12Oh.
03:14Oh.
03:14Oh.
03:15Oh.
03:15Oh.
03:15If my options in life really were marriage or misery, it looked very much as though I was destined for
03:21misery.
03:29Mrs. Bennet is indisposed.
03:33Oh.
03:34Of course.
03:36Thank you, Hill.
03:43Um.
03:45What if the children don't like me?
03:48Why should they not like you?
03:49You're a perfectly likeable soul.
03:54I have nothing ready to teach them.
03:57Mary, nobody 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.
04:14No, I'm just, um...
04:30There's two people that they can't do with the children.
04:31Which well are science fictionΣs.
04:34Well, why am I doing this?
04:35Is it Tä err, theunciation of this race?
04:43No, no, no, that's nuts.
04:45Oh.
04:49There's nothing going on in there.
05:18WHISTLE BLOWS
05:38Mary, welcome!
05:40Mary, 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,
05:48so you won't be disturbed by the children.
06:08How's your mother?
06:10Mother, she's had a most trying time of late.
06:12Well, you all have.
06:15Mother as well.
06:16Thank you for inquiring.
06:18And how are you, Mary?
06:21It must have been a terrible shock.
06:26It was.
06:28Well, thank you for stepping in at such short notice.
06:31We don't stand on ceremony here, especially with the children,
06:33so if you don't mind that, you'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?
06:42I do.
06:55Which mountain range is found in the end of your army's?
06:59Oh, my God.
07:01The Annesian.
07:16Mary, won't you join us for breakfast?
07:19Oh, no, no, 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
08:09best adapted to its sustenance and propagation,
08:14then, in conceiving an indefinite variety
08:16among the individuals of that species,
08:20we must be assured that, on the one hand,
08:23those 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?
08:40Now, in 1492, Christopher Columbus discovered America.
08:47Now, where is America?
08:48Ah, yes, America.
08:51Uh...
08:55Where has Rebecca gone?
08:56There were very clearly three of you in this room
08:59when I began looking at the globe,
09:00and now there are two of you.
09:01She vanished.
09:03She's a magician.
09:05Oh, magic is nothing but illusion and trickery.
09:07Oh.
09:08Now, where could she be?
09:10Tom, you're here!
09:11Tom, can we finish lessons now?
09:13Yes.
09:14Oh, forgive the intrusion.
09:15I came to tell you that dinner is served.
09:19You must be Miss Bennet.
09:20I, I must be.
09:23Oh, yes, I am.
09:24Uh, Tom, Hayward.
09:26Oh.
09:27Friend of the family.
09:32Aren't there normally three of you?
09:34There were three, certainly,
09:36but I was looking at America,
09:40and when I looked back, it was...
09:47Do you have mice, Miss Bennet?
09:49For if you do,
09:50might I suggest you do not keep them in the toy trunk?
09:54Well, I, I wasn't sure.
09:57I thought perhaps mice like toy trunks.
10:00No, you see, in there,
10:01they 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.
10:13I'm a rabbit.
10:16Mr. Hayward?
10:19Mr. Hayward,
10:20I am keeping a rabbit in the toy trunk
10:23because I...
10:28Because 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?
10:39Is it that you keep eating them?
10:43Oh.
10:47Tom helped Edward with the legal matter some years ago,
10:49and we've been friends ever since.
10:51You're another of our former lodgers.
10:53Oh.
10:54Oh.
10:55What is a revolutionary Republican?
11:01Well, as discussed during the lesson,
11:05they're often associated with Jacobinism.
11:07But my point really was...
11:09Sounds 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.
11:17Yes.
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...
11:35Thirty percent.
11:38Exactly.
11:39George cried three times.
11:42There was something in my eye.
11:44We 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?
11:53I 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.
12:03Marianne?
12:04Well called, Mary.
12:05Oh.
12:07You're to back up.
12:09Oh.
12:11That counts.
12:12It does indeed.
12:13It's well done.
12:14It does indeed.
12:15Oh.
12:16You'll need to get someone to look at that.
12:18Send it to Blythe.
12:20She'll fix it for you.
12:21Ready?
12:22Yay!
12:23It's early on.
12:24Yes!
12:24Yes!
12:25Well done.
12:26Flare play.
12:27You look like a wizard.
12:28Yes.
12:34Are you sure you won't join in, Mary?
12:37Oh, 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?
13:04Yes, Tom.
13:05It's Mr. Gardner.
13:06Oh.
13:07Oh.
13:08Oh.
13:23Yes?
13:25Mary?
13:28Oh, do not look so grave, my dear.
13:30You're not in trouble.
13:32With the weather getting warmer, we're about to become more sociable.
13:35Oh.
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.
13:52Then, 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 dressers.
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, and 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.
14:31This must be such a change for Meriton.
14:33It most certainly is.
14:44What do you think of the deep greens?
14:47We have a soiree coming up.
14:49Now, I think deep green would be perfect.
14:52Well, Mother has always said it's terribly difficult to get any colour to work with my complexion.
14:56Really?
14:57Well, perhaps your complexion's changed, because I can see many colours here which would work well on you.
15:02But the most important thing being is that you choose fabrics that you truly like.
15:08But Mother says that Mother isn't here.
15:13Mrs. Gardner.
15:14Oh.
15:15Miss Bennet.
15:16Tom!
15:17Mr. Hayward, have you brought your jacket to be mended?
15:20I have just this minute dropped it off.
15:22Well, now that you're here, you can make yourself useful.
15:25Miss Bennet needs to choose some dress fabric.
15:28I 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 say the least.
15:36But I shall try.
15:39Have you seen the names of these colours?
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 Gaboge?
15:54Well, I mean, that's just yellow, that one.
15:57Yes.
15:57Yes.
16:00I think my advice would be to choose the colours that make one feel most like oneself.
16:05And 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?
16:23Underneath that light-hearted manor, carries the weight of the world on his shoulders.
16:29Now, have you decided?
16:32I have chosen.
16:34Very well, Mary.
16:38The first is this crimson, and then I thought perhaps a spring green trim.
16:44Lovely.
16:45Yes.
16:46But you will need two dresses.
16:47So perhaps...
16:50China blue?
16:52Hmm.
16:55Do you think addressing 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.
17:08Then I think you should please yourself and not worry what others may think.
17:12You've done a very good job.
17:14Now.
17:45The gardeners are out.
17:46They're buying shoes for the children.
17:48Oh.
17:50Would you like to play graces?
17:52Oh.
17:53Well, um, yes.
18:01Ready?
18:02Yes.
18:05Oh.
18:09I did it.
18:10You did.
18:11Natural.
18:12Beginner's luck.
18:14Right, then.
18:16Ready?
18:17Mm.
18:18Oh.
18:19Oh.
18:44How was it?
18:49Oh.
18:50Yeah.
18:51Oh.
18:56Ready?
18:57Yes.
18:59Oh!
19:01Oh!
19:02Oh!
19:03Oh!
19:03Um, uh, uh, yeah, um, that's probably enough, gracious, for today.
19:10Oh, yes, uh, I brought a book for Mrs. Darlene.
19:15Oh, of course, yes.
19:16Ah, poetry.
19:18Do you like poetry, Miss Bennet?
19:20I prefer facts.
19:21To whimsy.
19:25Whimsy?
19:26I've tried, uh, well, Cowper, uh, Byron, even some Dryden, but, um, well, it seems to me
19:33that it's all just words.
19:36What were you expecting?
19:39Are you a scholar, sir?
19:41Uh, no.
19:42I'm a barrister, junior, and though the law is my business, poetry is my passion.
19:49What 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?
20:00That is reading for pleasure.
20:02There is nothing you like about poetry.
20:09Some poems are mercifully short.
20:12Well, 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 Bennet.
20:31Oh?
20:32Uh, the gardener's home.
20:35Oh, is it, uh, yes.
20:36Yes.
20:37Uh, well, uh, I don't know.
20:41Oh, Tom!
21:03And we'll need more scallops.
21:05Mrs. Shomley will claim she couldn't possibly before helping herself to seven.
21:10Must be very strange without your family here.
21:14There was always at least one argument about stolen perfume.
21:22Mary, you look lovely.
21:25I'm not sure.
21:29I think we should let your hair fall naturally.
21:32No point trying to force it into curls if it doesn't want to go.
21:38Yeah.
21:40Yeah.
21:46Yeah.
21:55I'm going to do this.
21:57I'm going to do this.
21:59What a business.
22:15Um, I mean, that's basically it, but they're awfully fun, they're... funnets.
22:23Good evening. I do not believe we have met. I'm Miss Baxter. Delighted to meet you, Miss Baxter.
22:30Um, I am Miss Bennet. I have not long moved to London from Hertfordshire.
22:35Fanchor, Mr. Fanchor.
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.
22:54Oh, I hope I didn't cause any offence.
22:56That was marvellous.
22:57Oh, I 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.
23:06As 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? I feel a little bold in it.
23:20Well, you're in London, Miss Bennet.
23:22If you're going to be bold, here is a place to do it.
23:26Perhaps London will be the start of something new for you.
23:29Perhaps it will.
23:29Well, and 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.
23:47A place of trying new things.
23:50And though I had never liked change, I seemed to be enjoying myself.
23:57Much about me felt different after just one week.
24:01Being here had lifted my spirits.
24:04I felt something long forgotten.
24:08Hope.
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.
24:22Please may I introduce Mr. Tom Hayward.
24:29We've already met.
24:31Miss Bennet?
24:31Oh, of course, you must have.
24:34Oh, I see you went for the Pomona trip.
24:37It's Spring Green. It'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. 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.
25:01Oh, please excuse us.
25:04Come marry. It will be fun.
25:05Of course a man such as Mr. Hayward would have secured a match.
25:10But I had made friends.
25:11And that was enough.
25:19I did not know what tomorrow would bring.
25:22But for now,
25:24at least I had someone to dance with.
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