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The loss of my father was a leap into the unknown.

Longbourn was my childhood home.

And although I had my struggles here, it was all I had ever known.

From now on, would I be relying on the hospitality of my sister?

Destined to spend my days as my mother's companion.

What other choice did I have?

I do not expect any of you to understand my pain.

The bond Mr. Bennet and I shared was a rare thing.

I do not know that I shall ever eat again.

Who is that?

I do not know, Mama.

What sort of person would impinge upon our hour of mourning so...

Tastefully.

Charlotte. Oh, man.

I'm afraid you find us in a state of some disarray.

Understandably.

We have been wanting to see you all since we heard the terrible news, but

you would need time as a family to... Together your things.

Yourself. Together.

I want to make it quite clear.

Quite clear that there's no rush for you to leave Longbourn.

Thank you, Mr Collins.

You are quite welcome to stay here with us for a full two weeks.

Two weeks?

Mrs Bennet, there really is no hurry for you and Mary to leave.

But I have arranged some help with the packing.

So you are not obliged to undertake such a difficult task during your hour of

need?

Mama, you must come and stay with Mr. Bingley and I at Netherfield.

We have a number of cooks and more servants than we know what to do with.

Oh, Jane.

I would be delighted.

It would bring me great comfort to be in a sizable property with a large number

of staff at my disposal.

And Mary, you of course must come too.

Thank you. But if you're worried about company, Caroline Bingley stays with us

often.

Well, yes, but I have not yet thought through my future prospects.

Speaking of your prospects, Mary, I have received a letter from my brother and

his wife in London. Their governess has been called back to Norfolk.

And they have asked me to send you to stay with them until a suitable

replacement is found.

Mary's going to be a governor. Oh, Mary.

I would very much like to help, but you will need me, Mama.

I have already accepted their offer.

They're sending a carriage.

But, Mama... Do not worry about me, Mary.

I shall have Jane by my side.

If my options in life really were marriage or misery, it looked very much

though I was destined for misery.

Mrs. Bennet is indisposed.

Oh.

Of course.

Thank you, Hill.

What if the children don't like me?

Why should they not like you?

You're a perfectly likeable soul.

I have nothing ready to teach them.

Mary, nobody knows more facts about anything than you.

It's time for you to get out and see the world.

Meet some other people that live in it. I think it'll do you good.

Do not be frightened, Miss Mary.

Oh, no, I'm not.

No, I'm just...

Mary, you must be hungry after your journey. Would you like some toasted

But first, we'll show you your room. Come in, come in.

It's right at the top of the house, so you won't be disturbed by the children.

She's had a most trying time of late. Well, you all have.

Mother as well. Thank you for inquiring.

And how are you, Mary?

It must have been a terrible shock.

It was.

Well, thank you for stepping in at such short notice.

We don't stand on ceremony here, especially with the children, so if you

mind that...

You'll do well with us.

And the rest of your belongings will be brought up any moment.

Do you have all you need?

I do. Thank you.

Not so good. Mary, won't you join us for breakfast?

Oh, no, no. Thank you. I'm not so hungry this morning. I shall see the children

upstairs.

Marianne, would you like to start?

Miss Bennet, it's a pleasure to meet you.

I'm Marianne Gardner and I'm 11 years old.

It's my pleasure to meet you too, Miss Marianne.

George!

Yes, thank you, George.

And this is... This is Rebecca.

Thank you, Miss Rebecca.

And if an organised body is not, in the situation and circumstances,

best adapted to its sustenance and propagation, then, in conceiving an

indefinite variety among the individuals of that species, we must be assured

that, on the one hand, those which depart most from the best adapted

constitution will be the most liable to perish.

You've made him go to sleep.

Let us move on to history, shall we?

Now, in 1492, Christopher Columbus discovered America.

Now, where is America?

Ah, yes, America.

Where has Rebecca gone?

There were very clearly three of you in this room when I began looking at the

globe, and now there are two of you.

She vanished.

She's a magician.

Well, magic is nothing but illusion and trickery.

Oh. Now, where could she be?

Tom, you're here!

Tom, can we finish lessons now?

Yes. Oh, forgive the intrusion. I came to tell you that dinner is served.

You must be Miss Bennet.

I must be.

Oh, yes, I am.

Tom Hayward.

Friend of the family.

Aren't there normally three of you? There were three, certainly, but I was

looking at America, and when I looked back, it was...

Do you have mice, Miss

Bennett?

For if you do, might I suggest you do not keep them in the toy trunks?

Well, I wasn't sure. I thought perhaps mice like toy trunks. No, you see, in

there, they cannot get to their cheese.

Actually, it's a fallacy that mice like cheese.

Of course.

They're much more partial to root vegetables and grains.

Yes, indeed.

Mr. Haywood?

Mr. Haywood, I am keeping a rabbit in the toy trunk because

I... Because rabbits are not at all social creatures.

Exactly. Yes, they are.

Now, why exactly do you have a new governor?

Is it that you keep eating them?

Tom helped Edward with the legal matter some years ago, and we've been friends

ever since.

You're another of our former lodgers.

Oh.

What is a revolutionary Republican?

Well, as discussed during the lesson, they're often associated with

But my point really was... Sounds like you've had a very interesting first day,

Miss Bennet.

Well, have you read Catherine Macaulay, Miss Bennet?

Yes, I have.

Yes.

Mary told us about smallpox and I shall never sleep again.

Well, you asked me to be truthful.

What's a deadly rash?

She said it can leave one blind or dead.

That is not quite how I put it. Blind or dead, she said.

Well, that is true.

There's a mortality rate of about... 30%.

Exactly. George cried three times.

There was something in my eye. We held hands until Mary had finished talking.

Well, you're never too young to learn about life.

I think our game is in order, don't you?

I think that's a very good idea.

Yes, yes.

I'm first.

But what shall we play?

Graces. Ah.

Let's show Mary how to play Graces.

Yes. Yes.

Marianne.

Well caught.

Bravo.

Yours are better.

That counts.

It does indeed.

It does indeed.

You'll need to get sound and look at that.

Send it to Blythe. He'll fix it for you.

Ready?

Brilliant. Yes. Well done.

Gladly. You look like a wizard.

Yeah.

Are you sure you won't join in, Mary?

Oh, no, I'm not good at games. Oh, that doesn't matter at all.

Yeah.

Well, you couldn't possibly be as ungainly as I am.

Really, I don't need to spoil it.

George. Ready?

Smithy Gardner.

Yes?

Mary?

Do not look so grave, my dear. You're not in trouble.

With the weather getting warmer, we're about to become more sociable. Oh, oh,

please do not feel any obligation to involve me. I shall be quite content to

stay upstairs with the children. Mary, we want you to join us.

But I do not sparkle at dinners.

In our house, no one is obliged to sparkle.

Then, of course.

But we need to get you properly dressed.

Oh. I thought perhaps tomorrow we could go to the haberdasher's and you could

pick out some fabrics.

I do not really care for dressers.

Well, that's a shame, but very well.

Perhaps think about it, Mary.

There is a dress allowance as part of your governor's wages.

I have thought about it.

And I would very much like to accept your kind offer.

That's excellent news.

Oh, good night, Mary.

And thank you for today.

This must be such a change for Merit.

It most certainly is.

What do you think of the deep greens?

We have a soiree coming up, and I think deep green would be perfect.

Well, Mother has always said it's terribly difficult to get any colour to

with my complexion. Really?

Well, perhaps your complexion's changed, because I can see many colours here

which would work well on you. But the most important thing being is that you

choose fabrics that you truly like.

But Mother says that... Mother isn't here.

Mrs Gardner?

Miss Bennet? Tom!

Hey, have you brought your jacket to be mended?

I have just this minute dropped it off. Well, now that you're here, you can make

yourself useful.

Miss Bennet needs to choose some dress fabric.

I find myself quite overwhelmed by this choice.

Well, I shall be honest and say that my experience of picking dress fabric is

limited, to say the least.

But I shall try.

Are you seeing the names of these colours? We've got Dust of Ruins,

Corbeau, Flam de Bonche, anyone?

I think I shall take the Drake's Neck with the Splash of Nunky.

Anyone for Gamboge? Well, I mean, that's just yellow, that one.

Yes. Yes.

I think my advice would be to choose the colours that make one feel most like

oneself.

And I am sorry not to be of more use. I should return to my desk and a

particularly unexciting land negotiation.

Good day.

Good day.

Oh, poor Tom.

He worked so hard.

Really? Underneath that light -hearted manner, carried the weight of the world

on his shoulders.

Now, have you decided?

I have chosen.

Very well, Mary.

The first is this crimson.

And then I thought perhaps a spring green trim.

Lovely. But you will need two dresses.

So perhaps... China blue?

Hmm.

Do you think a dress in the spring green alone would be garish?

What do you think, Mary?

Some people may think it is wild, but I like it.

Then I think you should please yourself and not worry what others may think.

Thank you.

You've done a very good job.

The gardeners are out buying shoes for the children.

Would you like to play, Grayson?

Well,

yes. Thank you.

Ready? Yeah.

I did it. You did?

Natural. Beginner's luck.

Right, um... Ready?

Oh, what, um... One moment.

Oh, um, uh, yeah, um, that's probably enough for

today.

Oh, yeah, uh, I brought a book for Mrs. Barnard. Oh, of course, yeah. Ah,

poetry.

Do you like poetry, Miss Bennet? I prefer facts to whimsy.

Whimsy? I've tried, uh, well, cowper, uh... Byron. Even some Dryden. But,

um... Well, it seems to me that it's all just... words.

What were you expecting?

Are you a scholar, sir? No.

I'm a barrister, junior.

And though the law is my business, poetry is my passion.

What do you like to read?

Uh, works of non -fiction. Really? Um, histories and, uh...

And geology.

And what do you like to read for pleasure?

That is, reading for pleasure.

There is nothing you like about poetry?

Some poems are mercifully short.

Well, now that you have thrown down the gauntlet, I will not rest until you have

appreciated the merit of poetry.

I believe that this is the book that will open the heart of Miss Mary Bennet.

Oh.

The gardener's home.

Oh, yes.

Yes.

Well...

And we'll need more scallops. Mrs. Chongley will claim she couldn't

before helping herself to seven.

Must be very strange without your family here.

There was always at least one argument about the stolen perfume.

Mary, you look lovely.

I'm not sure.

i think we should let your hair fall naturally no point trying to force it

curls if it doesn't want to go

I mean, that's basically it. But they're awfully fun to hunt.

Good evening.

I do not believe we have met.

I'm Miss Baxter.

Delighted to meet you, Miss Baxter.

I am Miss Bennet.

I have not long moved to London from Hertfordshire. Oh.

Found fraud, Mr Found Fraud.

A friend of my mother's died eating those nuts.

One got stuck in his throat and that was it. He was quite dead in minutes.

Oh,

I hope I didn't cause any offence. That was marvellous.

Oh, I shall keep that story in mind for when I want to be rid of someone.

Forgive me if it wasn't deliberate.

I hate the first 20 minutes of these evenings.

Do I?

I never know who to talk to and I often find myself saying the wrong things.

Your dress is striking.

It looks very well on you.

You really think so?

I feel a little bold in it.

Well, you're in London, Miss Bennet.

If you're going to be bold.

Here is the place to do it.

Perhaps London will be the start of something new for you.

Perhaps it will.

And if you want to be shown around town, I could call on you.

London, it turned out, was a place of learning, as much as teaching.

A place of trying new things.

And though I had never liked change, I seemed to be enjoying myself.

Much about me felt different after just one week.

Being here had lifted my spirit.

I felt something long forgotten.

Hope. Are you looking for someone?

You must tell me all about it in a moment.

Now, there's a gentleman I'd like you to meet.

We have something of an understanding.

Please may I introduce Mr Tom Hayward.

We've already met.

Oh, of course, you must have.

Oh, I see you went for the Pomona trip.

Spring green is quite different to Pomona.

Well, it suits you very well.

Tom! Excuse us, ladies.

You must come and meet my colleague, Mr May.

Mr Hayward and I met three years ago this spring.

We are hoping to be married next year.

Not everything went exactly as I would have liked.

Come on, Becca.

Oh, please excuse us.

Come, Mary. It'll be fun.

Of course a man such as Mr Hayward would have secured a match.

But I had made friends.

And that was enough.

I did not know what tomorrow would bring.

But for now, at least I had someone to dance with.