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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 sisters,

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 distastefully?

-Charlotte. -Oh, no.

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 knew you would need time as a family to...

Gather your things.

-Yourselves. -Together.

I want to make it quite clear...

No.

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 sizeable property

with a large number of staff at my disposal.

And, Mary, you, of course, must come too.

Thank you.

Well, 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 governess. -Oh, Mary.

I would very much like to help,

but you will need me, Mama.

I... I have already accepted their offer.

They're sending a carriage.

-But, Mama, I... -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 as though I was destined for misery.

Mrs. Bennet is indisposed.

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, I'm not...

No, I'm just...

-I am sorry. -Mary, welcome.

You must be hungry after your journey.

Would you like some toasted cheese?

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.

How's your mother?

She's had a most trying time of late.

Well, you all have.

Mother is 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 don't 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.

Which mountain range is found at the end of your armies?

Oh, I know.

The Andes.

-It's good. -It's not so good.

Mary! Won't you join us for breakfast?

Oh, no, no, sir. Thank you sir. I'm not, not at all 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 am Marianne Gardiner 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. Where is America?

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.

Now, where could she be?

-Tom, you're here! -Tom, can we finish lessons now?

Yes. Now, forgive the intrusion,

I came to tell you that dinner is served and...

Well, you must be Miss Bennet.

Well, I must be.

Yes, I... 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, there was...

Do you have mice, Miss Bennet?

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

Well, I wasn't sure.

I thought perhaps mice like toy trunks.

No, you see, in there, they cannot get to their cheese.

It's actually, it's a fallacy that mice like cheese.

Of course.

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

Yes, indeed.

I'm a rabbit.

Mr. Hayward.

Mr. Hayward, 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 governess?

Is it that you keep eating them?

Tom helped Edward with a legal matter some years ago.

And we've been friends ever since.

He's another of our former lodgers.

Yes.

What is a revolutionary republican?

As discussed, during the lesson, they're often associated with Jacobinism.

But my point really was...

Sounds like you've had a very interesting first day, Miss Bennet?

Well...

Have you read Catharine Macaulay, Miss Bennet?

Yes, I have. Yes!

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

Well, I mean, 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 a 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.

Let's show Mary how to play Graces.

-Yay! -Marianne.

Well caught, Marianne!

-Bravo! -Bravo!

Yours, Rebecca!

-That counts. -It does indeed.

-Well, it does. -It does indeed.

Oh, no, Tom!

You'll need to get someone to look at that.

Send it to Bly, she'll fix it for you.

Ready?

Marianne. Yes! Well done!

Flair play.

You look like a wizard.

Yes.

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

No, I'm not, I'm not good at games.

That doesn't matter at all.

Yes.

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

Really, I'd only spoil it.

-George. -Ready?

Thank you.

-Yes, Tom. -To Mr. Gardiner.

Yes?

Mary?

Oh, 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, 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.

I thought perhaps tomorrow, we could go to the haberdashers

and you could pick out some fabrics.

I do not really care for dresses.

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

Perhaps, think about it, Mary.

There is a dress allowance as part of your governess wages.

I have thought about it,

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

That's excellent news.

Well, good night, Mary.

And thank you for today.

This must be such a change from Meryton.

-It most certainly is. -Here.

What do you think of the deep greens?

We have a soiree coming up, and I think...

deep green would be perfect.

Mother has always said it's terribly difficult

to get any colour to work 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. Gardiner!

-Miss Bennet. -Tom!

Mr. Hayward.

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 the choice.

I shall be honest and say

that my experience of picking dress fabric is limited to say the least.

But I shall try.

Have you seen the names of these colours?

We've got Dust of Ruins?

Corbeau?

Or Flamme de Ponche, anyone?

I think I shall take the Drakes neck,

with a splash of Nankeen!

-Anyone for Gamboge? -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 works so hard. -Really?

Underneath that light-hearted manner,

he carries 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. -Yes.

But you will need two dresses.

So, perhaps...

China blue?

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.

Now...

My gosh!

The Gardiners are out, they're buying shoes for the children.

Would you like to play Graces?

Well, yes. Thank you.

-Ready? -Yes.

-I did it. -You did! A natural.

Beginner's luck.

All right...

Ready?

One moment.

-Ready? -Yes.

Yeah...

That's probably enough Graces for today.

Oh, yes...

-I brought a book for Mrs. Gardiner. -Of course, yes...

Poetry...

Do you like poetry, Miss Bennet?

I prefer facts to whimsy.

Whimsy?

I've tried, well, Cowper, Byron,

even some Dryden.

But, 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?

Works of non-fiction.

Me, histories 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 merits of poetry.

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

-The Gardiners are home. -Is it?

-It's time. Yes. -Yes. Of course.

Well...

Oh, Tom!

And we'll need more scallops.

Mrs. Cholmondeley will claim she "couldn't possibly"

before helping herself to seven.

Must be very strange without your family here.

Well, there was always at least one argument about 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 into curls if it doesn't want to go.

Here.

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.

Fanshaw, Mr. Fanshaw.

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.

I hope I didn't cause any offence.

That was marvellous.

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

Forgive me, it wasn't deliberate.

I hate the first 20 minutes of these evenings.

As 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 spirits.

I felt something long forgotten.

Hope.

-Are you looking for someone? -Nope.

You must tell me all about it in a moment.

Mary, 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, Miss Bennet. -Of course you must have.

I see you went for the Pomona trim.

It's spring green, it's quite different to Pomona.

Well, it suits you very well.

Tom! Excuse us, ladies.

You must come and meet my colleague, Mr. May.

Mr. May, allow me to introduce...

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.

-Please excuse us. -Of course.

Come, Mary. It'll be fun.

Of course a man such as Mr. Haywood

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.

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