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Three times I had written to Mr. Hayward, and each time the letter was

marked, forwarding address unknown.

There was so much that I wished to say to him.

But it was not to be.

No matter, I would not wallow.

I had navigated difficulty before, and I would use my experiences to find my

place in London, and prove I could build a life here.

Not only to myself, but also to... Mama.

Here she is.

I didn't know you were... Sorry, what are you doing here? Your mother has come

to stay.

For a short time.

Lizzie's physician advised I come to London to see Dr.

Simmons, who is a great authority on nervous complaints.

Mr. Darcy has been most insistent, urging me to think of myself and not

back to Pemberley until I have been properly attended to.

Now, Mary, I have decided to forgive your actions at Pemberley and to offer

my assistance one last time.

While I am here, I intend to finish what I began and

find suitable matches.

For all my daughters.

Oh, please, Mama, really.

Four out of five must be considered a great triumph.

A great triumph, indeed.

Mary had plenty in London to occupy her time. There is no better use of Mary's

time than finding a match. Oh, please, Mother, really. I'm very happy as I am.

understand your shame, Mary.

in the way that you have behaved towards me. But nevertheless, you cannot

override my natural kindness and my motherly instinct.

I have arranged for you to meet several suitors.

Is it too much to ask you to make even the slightest effort with just one of

these gentlemen?

Mary has made good connections.

Oh, and do good connections provide for you for the rest of your life? And she

is welcome here. Oh, yes.

For now. For as long as she wants.

Enter.

A visitor for Miss Bennet.

Mr. Ryder is here.

Mr. Ryder.

Well, show him in.

Please show him in.

Thank you.

Mr.

Ryder, how wonderful to see you.

Mrs. Bennet, Mrs. Gardner.

Mrs. Bennet.

And to what do we owe the pleasure of your visit?

Yes, excuse me, dropping in unannounced. I wondered whether I might speak with

Miss Bennet.

Of course.

In private.

Miss Bennet, I'm most relieved to see you looking so well after.

Thank you.

I was sorry not to be able to say goodbye to you at the legs.

Once I knew you were being taken care of, I felt it my duty to accompany Miss

Bingley back to London to see a physician.

I understand.

But I was kept informed of your recovery.

Miss Bennet, I... I wanted to sincerely apologise

for what happened.

Oh, I played my own part in proceeding. No, no, I...

Was entirely to blame. I put you and Miss Bingley in grave danger.

I'm full of regret.

Oh, really?

Think no more of it.

Though it did not end well.

Overall, I look back at my time in the lakes very fondly.

It was never my intention to intrude on your time there.

But I needed Mr. Hayward's help.

You see...

Lady Catherine de Bourgh unexpectedly named me as her heir.

Oh.

I informed Mr. Hayward of my change in fortune and told him of

my intention to propose to you that very afternoon.

I think... He knew what I could offer you and...

He gave me his blessing.

He did?

Miss Barrett, I wanted to renew our conversation from the lakes.

Of course. Of course, Mr. Ryder. Please.

Please, please.

I've never met anyone that makes me think like you do.

Who makes me see the world as you do.

I've certainly never met anyone who speaks as plainly as you. And I admire

greatly.

It's very kind.

Although there is something of a gulf between my ideals and the world we live

in.

I like to think that...

You and I could carve out an interesting experience Together

I Shall now do what I should have done weeks ago

and ask

Miss Bennett

Would you consider

Accepting my hand in marriage

Mr.

Ryder My answer must of course be

Could it be that you might grow to love me?

Not in the way that you deserve to be loved.

Your friendship has taught me so much about myself, and for that I shall

be grateful.

But I don't believe...

I would ever have made you happy.

You should follow your heart.

Go to Italy and see everything it has to offer.

I see.

You will find happiness, Mr. Ryder.

True happiness.

I do not doubt it.

It was a pleasure to see you looking so well.

Pleasure to see you looking so dry.

Goodbye,

Miss Bennett.

No, no, no, no, no, no. Mother.

I should leave.

Oh, please.

Stay there. Mother!

Mr. Ida, you may go.

What have you done?

Oh, I need the man.

Mary.

Miss Bennett.

Mr Sparrow.

Is everything quite all right? No, yes. The city smoke is particularly

heavy today.

May I?

I hope they are still serving you well.

They really are.

Tell me, what brings you to London?

I graduated from Moorfield two weeks ago.

Are you a doctor?

Just as you said you would be.

Congratulations, Mr Farrow.

I always thought you'd end up studying somewhere, somehow.

I would like to be a governess.

To an older girl.

Perhaps.

I think I'd enjoy teaching petrology and geology and... Your speciality.

Perhaps one day you could tutor my daughter.

You have a child?

She is one.

Then perhaps I will.

No, I've not really looked too far into it as yet.

I think my mother will not approve.

If I remember rightly, you and your mother always had very different ideas

life, about reading, about the wearing of spectacles.

And about... potential matches.

If I may be so bold, if you have always struggled to please your mother, why do

you keep trying?

As long as you know what you want, perhaps it is time to stop worrying what

thinks.

Our happiness is in our own hands.

Absolutely.

I truly believe it is.

It has been a pleasure to see you again.

I must be getting back.

Goodbye, Mr. Farrow.

I'm very, very glad to have run into you today.

Mary.

What on earth are you thinking? Mother, I'm sorry to disappoint you again, but I

will not be marrying Mr. Ryder. Nonsense.

Call him back and tell him you were mistaken. No, I will not do that.

Have you no consideration for my nerves?

I've never wanted to cause you any trouble.

You have caused me nothing but trouble since the day you were born.

I'm aware that, isn't I?

I am trying to help you.

I do not want you to be looked down upon.

Looked down upon?

By whom?

Mary, please, call Mr. Ryder back and accept his offer. I do not love him.

Mama, I've not waited all this time just to marry a man I do not love. You would

have. once agreed to marry Mr. Collins. Did you love him?

No, I didn't. No.

At the time, I thought I was helping our family remain at Longbourn. And now

there is a handsome, wealthy man willing to overlook your shortcomings and you

have turned him away.

I have changed. We'll change back again.

Charlotte once told me that my options were marriage, Or misery.

But I have seen many miserable marriages.

And meanwhile, I've experienced much joy in life.

On my own.

What will you do without a husband?

How will you survive?

I will work as a governess outside the family. I will take on an older pupil.

And I will teach a more nuanced, detailed education.

Working to a higher level on a specific set of... Why do you... You insist on

torturing me!

It has always been my intention to please you.

I'm very sad that I've never been able to make you proud of me.

Yet I was never able to match my sisters in your esteem.

I'm sorry.

You have no idea what it has been like for me.

I had five daughters. Five daughters.

All of whom I knew must marry well in order to survive. And there was nobody

make that happen except me.

Your father never had to think about it.

And he never raised a finger to help.

In fact, any attempts I made to discuss your future seemed only to rile him.

I was quite alone.

You and I always have been very different creatures.

And it is likely we all shall be.

It doesn't seem fair that you weren't helped in your efforts.

But... You did it.

We are all settled in our different ways.

I have chosen my path.

And I am happy with it.

I did not want you to be left behind.

Send our love to Lizzie.

Goodbye, Jane.

I have to say, I don't think I've ever seen anyone stand up to your mother as

successfully as you did.

Really? Very impressive.

I don't mind that I'll never marry.

I'm only sad that without a home of my own, I shall

never get to choose my own wallpaper.

Always choose some for your room, Mary, if you like.

Do you think I've done the wrong thing?

In not marrying Mr. Ryder?

Not at all, Mary.

I've learned a great deal from him.

He's a man that finds joy in life, and there's much to be admired about him.

you do not love him.

No.

You love someone else.

Why has he gone?

I wish I knew.

Thank you.

Bennet, there is a visitor to see you in the drawing room.

Miss Bingley.

Miss Bennet, I...

Wanted to thank you for what you did on the mountain.

You could have left me there, and you didn't.

I think it is plain to see that I have a great fondness for

Mr Ryder.

And I have come to ask that you leave him alone.

Oh, Miss Bingley.

You are much better suited to Mr. Ryder than I am. You don't mean that. I do. I

do. Mr. Ryder is a dear friend.

But he and I, we were never a match.

The truth is...

I'd always miss the Hayward for me.

But it's not to be.

Really?

Tom Hayward?

Surely he is attainable.

It seems not.

He has disappeared.

Well, well.

Perhaps I shall call for you sometime, Miss Bennet.

Yes, we could read poetry together.

Goodbye, Miss Bennet.

Goodbye, Miss Bingley.

So it was that I carved out my own path.

I stayed in London and became a governor.

Over time, I worried a little less about the approval of others.

And though the life I had chosen was different to that of my sisters, I had a

wealth of experience to be proud of.

I had found a family I loved very much.

I was happy in the life I had chosen.

And I knew that I was good enough.

Though one can always be just a little happier, I suppose.

Mr. Hayward.

Mrs. Gardner said I might find you here.

Miss Bennett, I... Where?

Have you been?

Yorkshire.

What do you mean, Yorkshire?

You can't just say Yorkshire as if Yorkshire's an entirely reasonable

explanation for your very sudden and somewhat lengthy disappearance.

After what you said... I'm sorry, Mary. Please, please, let me explain.

Well, you're here now, Mr Heywood.

Do go on.

Well, we were in the lakes.

The legal matter that Mr Ryder asked me to attend to was his inheriting the

fortune of Lady Catherine Iber.

And I knew quite clearly from Ryder's incredibly irritating behaviour that he

had a liking for you, as I also had.

As I also have.

It is such a liking.

In fact...

that when I learned of Mr. Ryder's good fortune and his plan to make you an

offer of marriage, I thought... I thought it in your best interest that I

graciously step aside.

Nevertheless, my actions in the mountains... You thought it in my best

to graciously step aside.

So your disappearance was, in fact, you being gracious to me.

You and Mr. Ryder, between you, thought that you would just decide on my fate.

and I would just accept it, like I'm a great old cat. If you put it like that,

it does not sound good. Why didn't you just ask me what I thought?

I was reading between the lines. There were no lines, Mr Hayward.

There were no lines.

I know I will never be able to offer you what Mr Ryder can.

I have had to work for everything that I have, and I thought you deserved better

than that.

that you deserve better than me, but now I realise I will not know what you want

unless I ask.

So I must tell you I cannot offer you great wealth or Italy, but I can offer

my love and my devotion and my hope to build a family one day.

Mr. Hayward, if you... If you had asked me what I wanted, I would have told you

I never wanted Mr. Ryder. I have never loved Mr. Ryder. I love you.

I have only ever loved you. I love you.

I have always loved you from the very first time I caught you playing Graces

your own when you thought no one was at home.

I have spent my life... on the outside of things, but with you, I am right in

the middle of it all.

Mary Bennet, would you do me the very great honour of becoming my wife?

Yes.

Mary,

I think now that we've kissed, you could probably call me Tom.

Tom!

Wait, what made you come back?

Oh, I received a letter.

From... Caroline Bingley.

What? Yes.

She wrote to me and she told me about your conversation and I realised I was

being ridiculous.

From Caroline Bingley? Yeah.

She did something kind.

However did she find you?

She has a way, isn't it?

My only wish is that we could thank her, but she has left London.

Oh. She's gone to Italy in pursuit of Mr Ryder.

Now? Yes.

No. Enough.

And so it was that I

married him.

But on my own terms, in my own time.

And I hope you'll realize that it's almost...

Besides the point.

The point, perhaps, was just

as Hill had predicted all that time ago.

That I needed to get out and see the world outside my family.

So that I could find my place in it.

And that is the last of them.

Really?

Oh.

The indigo is splendid.

It's actually Tyrian purple.

It's Tyrian?

Yes, from the Greek myth about Hercules' dog trying a spiny Murex sea snail.

I didn't know Hercules had a dog.

Keep up, Thomas.

I am trying.

bring green in your drawing room.