1 00:00:01,380 --> 00:00:04,107 Viewers like you make this program possible. 2 00:00:04,211 --> 00:00:05,557 Support your local PBS station. 3 00:00:39,625 --> 00:00:41,006 No. 4 00:00:41,110 --> 00:00:42,180 - No! - All is well. 5 00:00:42,283 --> 00:00:43,767 - No. - You must rest now. 6 00:00:43,871 --> 00:00:45,183 - You mu-- - The letters. 7 00:00:45,286 --> 00:00:46,391 Isabella, you must... you must... 8 00:00:46,494 --> 00:00:48,324 There are no letters, my dear. 9 00:00:48,427 --> 00:00:49,980 Rest now. 10 00:00:51,948 --> 00:00:54,054 No... no, no, not you. 11 00:00:54,157 --> 00:00:56,332 Cassandra, this is Dinah, cooling your brow. 12 00:00:56,435 --> 00:00:58,161 No. Not you. Isabella, you... 13 00:00:58,265 --> 00:00:59,818 - you must hide the letters. - She's delirious. 14 00:00:59,921 --> 00:01:01,199 She doesn't know what she's saying. 15 00:01:04,064 --> 00:01:05,755 Where are they? You must... you must keep them hidden. 16 00:01:05,858 --> 00:01:07,722 There are no letters, my dear. 17 00:01:07,826 --> 00:01:08,827 Rest now. 18 00:01:10,311 --> 00:01:13,107 Jane. I promised Jane. 19 00:01:13,211 --> 00:01:14,764 You must... You must hide the letters... 20 00:01:14,867 --> 00:01:17,042 - Shh. - You must be still. 21 00:01:17,146 --> 00:01:19,562 Keep them hidden. Keep them hidden. 22 00:01:19,665 --> 00:01:21,081 There is nothing to worry about. 23 00:01:21,184 --> 00:01:23,290 You are safe. 24 00:01:23,393 --> 00:01:25,085 - No! - Cassandra... 25 00:01:28,226 --> 00:01:29,123 - No. - Cassandra. 26 00:01:29,227 --> 00:01:30,607 I've got to... No. 27 00:01:30,711 --> 00:01:32,609 Well, she's getting worse, Miss Isabella. 28 00:01:32,713 --> 00:01:35,785 She's gonna peg on us, God forbid. 29 00:01:35,888 --> 00:01:37,787 I can run and fetch Mr Lidderdale, ma'am. 30 00:01:37,890 --> 00:01:40,307 No. Her fever will break soon. 31 00:01:40,410 --> 00:01:43,241 Besides, I am sure Mr Lidderdale and my sister 32 00:01:43,344 --> 00:01:44,552 are far too busy to be disturbed. 33 00:01:46,071 --> 00:01:47,693 Go up to the big house and beg for ice. 34 00:01:47,797 --> 00:01:49,143 They'll have plenty this time of year. 35 00:01:56,771 --> 00:01:58,187 Dinah? 36 00:01:58,290 --> 00:01:59,222 Is something the matter? 37 00:02:03,123 --> 00:02:03,847 - Aah... - Cassandra... 38 00:02:05,780 --> 00:02:07,334 - She's fetching water. - No! 39 00:02:07,437 --> 00:02:08,852 - No! No! - Cassandra. 40 00:02:08,956 --> 00:02:10,026 You must help. 41 00:02:10,130 --> 00:02:11,269 We are helping you. 42 00:02:12,028 --> 00:02:13,512 We are helping you. 43 00:02:13,616 --> 00:02:14,755 It's all right. 44 00:02:15,825 --> 00:02:16,757 It's cold. 45 00:02:17,309 --> 00:02:18,345 It's cold. 46 00:02:19,139 --> 00:02:20,381 It's cold. Help me. 47 00:02:20,485 --> 00:02:22,832 - Help me, Isabella. - We are helping you. 48 00:02:22,935 --> 00:02:24,799 I know she's ill, and I am sorry to say it, 49 00:02:24,903 --> 00:02:26,663 but she's brought it on herself, 50 00:02:26,767 --> 00:02:29,356 going to see Miss Beth and stirring the pot. 51 00:02:29,459 --> 00:02:30,633 That's enough, Dinah. 52 00:02:30,736 --> 00:02:31,703 I will hear no more. 53 00:02:31,806 --> 00:02:32,635 The laudanum now. 54 00:02:36,915 --> 00:02:37,881 We are here. 55 00:02:38,951 --> 00:02:39,918 Cassandra, we are here. 56 00:02:44,267 --> 00:02:45,820 Dinah? 57 00:02:51,585 --> 00:02:53,345 No. 58 00:02:56,037 --> 00:02:57,763 Mmm. Mmm. 59 00:03:09,189 --> 00:03:10,845 Look at this one... 60 00:03:10,949 --> 00:03:12,675 Your niece seems to have found 61 00:03:12,778 --> 00:03:15,298 even more marvellous shells for her collection, Miss Austen. 62 00:03:15,402 --> 00:03:16,403 Or maybe this one... 63 00:03:16,506 --> 00:03:19,164 So it appears, Mr Hobday. 64 00:03:19,268 --> 00:03:20,648 I'm bewildered as to how we'll transport 65 00:03:20,752 --> 00:03:21,960 these multitudes back home. 66 00:03:27,448 --> 00:03:30,313 Forgive me if this seems intrusive. 67 00:03:31,383 --> 00:03:32,936 She is a charming child. 68 00:03:34,973 --> 00:03:36,146 But I do detect 69 00:03:36,250 --> 00:03:37,009 an air of melancholy, 70 00:03:38,528 --> 00:03:40,012 unusual in one so young. 71 00:03:40,116 --> 00:03:41,290 She lost her mother 72 00:03:41,393 --> 00:03:42,429 when she was very small. 73 00:03:44,327 --> 00:03:47,296 She is, I fear, still scarred by it. 74 00:03:47,399 --> 00:03:50,851 Yes, the loss of a parent is a heavy burden to bear, 75 00:03:52,059 --> 00:03:54,579 especially at such a young age. 76 00:03:54,682 --> 00:03:56,477 Your mother told us of your own bereavement, 77 00:03:56,581 --> 00:03:57,582 of which I am very sorry. 78 00:03:58,859 --> 00:04:02,345 Yes, my father was an excellent man. 79 00:04:03,726 --> 00:04:06,556 My mother found it exceedingly hard 80 00:04:06,660 --> 00:04:08,006 to stay in the family home afterwards. 81 00:04:09,214 --> 00:04:11,596 Hence our peripatetic existence. 82 00:04:13,322 --> 00:04:14,909 But I do hope to return there soon. 83 00:04:16,497 --> 00:04:18,361 - Where is home? - Derbyshire. 84 00:04:21,261 --> 00:04:22,538 The thought of Derbyshire amuses you? 85 00:04:22,641 --> 00:04:25,161 No, not at all. 86 00:04:25,265 --> 00:04:28,613 My sister declares it to be a place of some perfection, 87 00:04:28,716 --> 00:04:31,478 alongside Hampshire, of course, though never Shropshire. 88 00:04:37,932 --> 00:04:40,072 I'm enjoying your "Susan". 89 00:04:40,176 --> 00:04:41,660 I must say, dear sister, 90 00:04:41,764 --> 00:04:44,387 your Mr Thorpe is the devil of a bounder. 91 00:04:44,491 --> 00:04:45,664 If he is an Oxford man, 92 00:04:45,768 --> 00:04:47,494 I'm grateful not to have gone there. 93 00:04:47,597 --> 00:04:49,565 I dare him to come onto my ship. 94 00:04:49,668 --> 00:04:51,291 We'd run him up the yardarm at once. 95 00:04:51,394 --> 00:04:52,878 He'd never be on your ship. 96 00:04:52,982 --> 00:04:55,502 Mr John Thorpe has neither the heart nor the head for it. 97 00:04:55,605 --> 00:04:57,849 You sailors are the best of men. 98 00:04:57,952 --> 00:04:59,644 And yet not once has any of your heroines 99 00:04:59,747 --> 00:05:02,232 ever been blessed with a dashing sailor brother. 100 00:05:02,336 --> 00:05:04,787 Oh, Frank! If the heroine was fortunate enough 101 00:05:04,890 --> 00:05:06,892 to have a dashing sailor brother, 102 00:05:06,996 --> 00:05:09,723 she's spoiled for any hero I could create. 103 00:05:09,826 --> 00:05:12,001 No man could match him. 104 00:05:12,104 --> 00:05:14,900 So this is why my sisters are still unmarried. 105 00:05:15,004 --> 00:05:16,592 No man can match me. 106 00:05:16,695 --> 00:05:18,973 I fear Cassy is about to betray you, brother, 107 00:05:19,077 --> 00:05:20,354 with her new suitor. 108 00:05:21,597 --> 00:05:23,702 Suitor? Pray tell. 109 00:05:23,806 --> 00:05:25,497 Jane... 110 00:05:25,601 --> 00:05:27,223 Sorry, I appear to have spoken in error. 111 00:05:27,327 --> 00:05:28,983 Cassy has no suitor, 112 00:05:29,087 --> 00:05:33,056 especially no suitor by the name of Henry or Hobday. 113 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:34,506 Or Henry Hobday. 114 00:05:34,610 --> 00:05:36,059 Papa, please. 115 00:05:36,163 --> 00:05:38,683 Or any suitor with those names, who just so happens 116 00:05:38,786 --> 00:05:41,513 to be the heir to an estate in Derbyshire. 117 00:05:41,617 --> 00:05:44,620 - An estate? In Derbyshire? - Papa, I beg you. 118 00:05:44,723 --> 00:05:47,933 Come now, you are making your sister uncomfortable. 119 00:05:48,037 --> 00:05:51,558 Besides, I have seen no evidence of any such romance. 120 00:05:51,661 --> 00:05:53,422 That's because it's a deep secret 121 00:05:53,525 --> 00:05:55,147 known only to the whole of Sidmouth. 122 00:05:55,251 --> 00:05:56,286 Enough. 123 00:05:57,874 --> 00:06:00,083 Jane's love of fiction appears to have spread 124 00:06:00,187 --> 00:06:02,810 from the page into our lives. 125 00:06:02,914 --> 00:06:06,193 I'm sad to report she now routinely spouts nonsense. 126 00:06:06,296 --> 00:06:07,539 We can no longer believe a single word 127 00:06:07,643 --> 00:06:08,747 that comes out of her mouth. 128 00:06:17,066 --> 00:06:19,448 Cass? 129 00:06:19,551 --> 00:06:22,036 Did you really mind Mr Hobday accompanying us today? 130 00:06:22,140 --> 00:06:23,072 Very much. 131 00:06:24,694 --> 00:06:26,040 It was all Frank's doing. 132 00:06:27,283 --> 00:06:28,940 Of which you played no part. 133 00:06:29,630 --> 00:06:30,907 None whatsoever. 134 00:06:31,011 --> 00:06:33,738 Very well, I admit it. 135 00:06:33,841 --> 00:06:36,775 But you cannot deny Mr Hobday is deeply enamoured of you. 136 00:06:37,397 --> 00:06:38,639 As he should be. 137 00:06:38,743 --> 00:06:40,469 It proves he is a man of excellent taste. 138 00:06:42,056 --> 00:06:43,851 In fact, he appears to be the model of perfection, 139 00:06:43,955 --> 00:06:46,716 which, if I may say, is most infuriating. 140 00:06:46,820 --> 00:06:48,649 For you know, as a woman of many faults, 141 00:06:48,753 --> 00:06:50,548 I abhor faultlessness in others. 142 00:06:51,859 --> 00:06:53,136 You are faultless in my eyes. 143 00:06:54,690 --> 00:06:57,002 You just bear me better than anyone else. 144 00:06:57,106 --> 00:06:58,625 It is you who is faultless. 145 00:06:59,902 --> 00:07:01,524 Which is why you deserve something better 146 00:07:01,628 --> 00:07:03,768 than this wretched future of ours. 147 00:07:03,871 --> 00:07:06,702 Jane, why must you always make such a drama out of nothing? 148 00:07:07,806 --> 00:07:09,739 Our future is not wretched. 149 00:07:09,843 --> 00:07:11,154 We still have our parents. 150 00:07:11,258 --> 00:07:13,743 We have good brothers who will never neglect us. 151 00:07:15,227 --> 00:07:17,091 And most importantly of all, we have each other. 152 00:07:18,679 --> 00:07:19,956 Unless you find someone good enough, 153 00:07:20,060 --> 00:07:22,476 and, well, even then I shall not starve. 154 00:07:24,478 --> 00:07:25,479 Is that your ambition? 155 00:07:26,584 --> 00:07:28,862 Not to starve? 156 00:07:28,965 --> 00:07:31,934 "Here lies Cassandra Austen. She did not starve." 157 00:07:34,281 --> 00:07:35,800 I have no crystal ball, Cass, 158 00:07:35,903 --> 00:07:37,215 but one thing I know for certain, 159 00:07:37,940 --> 00:07:39,666 we will be poor, 160 00:07:39,769 --> 00:07:41,599 and we will become objects of pity. 161 00:07:42,496 --> 00:07:44,947 Or worse, still... derision. 162 00:07:46,224 --> 00:07:48,157 This must be my fate. 163 00:07:48,260 --> 00:07:49,123 It does not have to be yours. 164 00:07:51,056 --> 00:07:52,264 I love you above all, 165 00:07:52,368 --> 00:07:53,749 but we do not have to live as one. 166 00:07:53,852 --> 00:07:57,822 We are two... different women. 167 00:07:57,925 --> 00:08:00,928 I beg you, if you are offered any means of escape, 168 00:08:01,032 --> 00:08:02,585 do not refuse it. 169 00:08:09,627 --> 00:08:11,007 - Isabella. - Hmm? 170 00:08:12,630 --> 00:08:14,839 I want to die in my own... my own bed. 171 00:08:16,979 --> 00:08:18,532 You are not dying, Cassandra. 172 00:08:20,430 --> 00:08:21,535 I will not countenance it. 173 00:08:23,468 --> 00:08:24,642 The letters... 174 00:08:36,619 --> 00:08:39,519 Mr Lidderdale. May I help you? 175 00:08:39,622 --> 00:08:41,313 Forgive me for intruding, Miss Fowle, 176 00:08:41,417 --> 00:08:42,591 but I just saw your maid, 177 00:08:42,694 --> 00:08:44,247 and the urgency of her demeanour 178 00:08:44,351 --> 00:08:45,421 gave me cause for some concern. 179 00:08:45,525 --> 00:08:46,318 There was no need. 180 00:08:47,492 --> 00:08:48,700 She was merely on an errand 181 00:08:48,804 --> 00:08:50,702 and I instructed her to be quick. 182 00:08:50,806 --> 00:08:52,946 There is nothing more to it. 183 00:08:53,049 --> 00:08:54,913 Then she was carrying out your instructions to the letter. 184 00:08:56,501 --> 00:08:57,571 I am delighted to hear it. 185 00:09:01,610 --> 00:09:02,542 - I understand-- - I do hope-- 186 00:09:04,854 --> 00:09:06,131 Please, after you. 187 00:09:08,824 --> 00:09:10,826 It was only to enquire if there is still 188 00:09:10,929 --> 00:09:12,275 a deal of sickness in the village. 189 00:09:14,001 --> 00:09:16,314 Some, but thankfully it is on the wane now. 190 00:09:17,108 --> 00:09:19,179 Good. 191 00:09:19,282 --> 00:09:23,424 For I am sure my sister will be eager to return to her pupils. 192 00:09:23,528 --> 00:09:25,979 I believe Beth has been assisting you, has she not? 193 00:09:29,154 --> 00:09:30,880 Indeed she has. 194 00:09:30,984 --> 00:09:32,813 Her presence has been most beneficial. 195 00:09:35,471 --> 00:09:36,645 That does not surprise me. 196 00:09:37,818 --> 00:09:39,579 She is a woman of great competence. 197 00:09:42,167 --> 00:09:42,996 Indeed she is. 198 00:09:46,758 --> 00:09:48,104 If you'll excuse me, I must-- 199 00:09:48,208 --> 00:09:49,243 Of course. But, erm... 200 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:54,214 first, may I enquire after Miss Austen? 201 00:09:54,317 --> 00:09:56,009 I trust she has not suffered any ill effects 202 00:09:56,112 --> 00:09:57,355 after her visit to the village? 203 00:09:57,458 --> 00:09:59,806 No, none. 204 00:09:59,909 --> 00:10:01,393 But I will inform her of your kind concern. 205 00:10:02,532 --> 00:10:03,395 Good day. 206 00:10:04,396 --> 00:10:05,259 Good day. 207 00:10:19,826 --> 00:10:21,241 "Captain Wentworth 208 00:10:21,344 --> 00:10:23,726 "was more obviously struck and confused by the sight of her 209 00:10:23,830 --> 00:10:25,832 "than she had ever observed before. 210 00:10:27,834 --> 00:10:30,457 "For the first time since their renewed acquaintance, 211 00:10:30,560 --> 00:10:31,872 "she felt she was betraying 212 00:10:31,976 --> 00:10:33,356 "the least sensibility of the two." 213 00:11:38,007 --> 00:11:40,423 - Mr Hobday. - Miss Austen. 214 00:11:40,527 --> 00:11:42,218 A beautiful day, is it not? 215 00:11:42,322 --> 00:11:44,048 Yes, quite beautiful. 216 00:11:45,221 --> 00:11:46,257 Forgive me if I am intruding. 217 00:11:49,398 --> 00:11:51,883 - You will not forgive me? - No, you are not intruding. 218 00:11:54,403 --> 00:11:56,474 Then I wonder if you might consider walking out with me? 219 00:11:58,165 --> 00:11:59,201 Mmm. 220 00:11:59,304 --> 00:12:00,202 I'd be delighted. 221 00:12:25,054 --> 00:12:26,262 Perhaps we should sit for a moment. 222 00:12:44,694 --> 00:12:45,419 - Mr Hobday. - Please, I... 223 00:12:47,421 --> 00:12:49,872 I must speak, for I am unable to say a single word. 224 00:12:52,772 --> 00:12:53,565 Miss Austen... 225 00:13:02,747 --> 00:13:03,783 Cassy. 226 00:13:05,370 --> 00:13:06,164 May I call you that? 227 00:13:13,206 --> 00:13:15,208 It's true that we've only known each other for a short time, 228 00:13:17,003 --> 00:13:18,867 but it has been long enough to know 229 00:13:18,970 --> 00:13:22,284 that you are a woman of quite remarkable character. 230 00:13:24,907 --> 00:13:26,046 Exceptional, even. 231 00:13:33,260 --> 00:13:36,022 The truth is, Cassy Austen, 232 00:13:37,886 --> 00:13:39,473 I have loved you since the moment 233 00:13:39,577 --> 00:13:41,130 that our hands first touched. 234 00:13:43,581 --> 00:13:44,513 Of your beauty 235 00:13:46,032 --> 00:13:47,516 there is no doubt, 236 00:13:47,619 --> 00:13:50,105 but it is your intelligence, 237 00:13:50,208 --> 00:13:53,522 and your spirit, and your grace, that have done for me. 238 00:13:59,286 --> 00:14:00,115 I am yours, 239 00:14:01,564 --> 00:14:02,393 if you will have me. 240 00:14:31,008 --> 00:14:32,319 I know I am not the most eloquent of men. 241 00:14:35,426 --> 00:14:36,530 There are things I must say to you before I leave. 242 00:14:39,050 --> 00:14:40,189 In case I do not return. 243 00:14:41,328 --> 00:14:42,226 No. 244 00:14:43,468 --> 00:14:44,469 You will come back. 245 00:14:44,573 --> 00:14:46,126 - Let us not discuss this. - Cassy, we must. 246 00:14:50,165 --> 00:14:51,235 If you cannot marry me, 247 00:14:53,064 --> 00:14:54,514 you must feel free to marry another. 248 00:14:58,621 --> 00:14:59,381 I promise you, Tom, 249 00:15:01,901 --> 00:15:03,350 faithfully, here before God, 250 00:15:05,766 --> 00:15:09,356 that I will never marry any other man but you. 251 00:15:39,110 --> 00:15:40,180 So, did he speak? 252 00:15:42,251 --> 00:15:43,114 Well? 253 00:15:44,219 --> 00:15:45,392 What was your answer? 254 00:15:48,085 --> 00:15:49,086 I refused him. 255 00:15:50,294 --> 00:15:51,191 - Refused him? - Shh! 256 00:15:52,123 --> 00:15:53,642 Mama will hear. 257 00:15:53,745 --> 00:15:55,471 She cannot know of this, Jane. It is done. 258 00:15:55,575 --> 00:15:58,026 Cassy, why? I... I do not understand you. 259 00:15:58,129 --> 00:15:59,337 What fault could you find with Henry Hobday? 260 00:15:59,441 --> 00:16:00,787 What more could you ask for? 261 00:16:00,890 --> 00:16:02,237 A match like this at your time of life 262 00:16:02,340 --> 00:16:03,824 is a story beyond fiction. 263 00:16:06,689 --> 00:16:07,552 Please, 264 00:16:10,176 --> 00:16:11,349 my dearest one, 265 00:16:12,109 --> 00:16:13,006 help me understand. 266 00:16:18,115 --> 00:16:19,979 I... I cannot marry him. 267 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:24,086 - I cannot marry anyone. - Why? 268 00:16:24,190 --> 00:16:25,501 Because I promised Tom. 269 00:16:26,916 --> 00:16:28,988 - Tom dared ask that of you? - No. 270 00:16:30,610 --> 00:16:32,336 No, he begged me not to feel beholden. 271 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:35,097 Oh, then you must not feel... 272 00:16:36,823 --> 00:16:38,411 I cannot go back on my word, Jane. 273 00:16:49,456 --> 00:16:52,977 Miss Austen? Miss Austen? 274 00:16:53,081 --> 00:16:57,016 Oh, Cassandra! Oh, thank heavens. 275 00:16:57,119 --> 00:16:58,465 What on earth are you doing in here? 276 00:16:58,569 --> 00:16:59,811 Let's get this on, ma'am, shall we? 277 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:03,608 - You're shivering. - No. 278 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:07,992 No, I am perfectly fine. 279 00:17:08,096 --> 00:17:10,270 Look at me, back in the land of the living. 280 00:17:11,823 --> 00:17:13,135 I owe you my life. 281 00:17:14,136 --> 00:17:15,862 Nonsense. 282 00:17:15,965 --> 00:17:17,174 You owe it only to yourself. 283 00:17:19,900 --> 00:17:22,800 It would take more than a fever to undo Cassandra Austen. 284 00:17:25,216 --> 00:17:29,600 Oh, Isabella, you were born to tend to the sick. 285 00:17:33,086 --> 00:17:35,399 I hoped once that I might be able to do so, 286 00:17:35,502 --> 00:17:37,677 but... that time has passed. 287 00:17:38,471 --> 00:17:39,334 Come. 288 00:17:50,103 --> 00:17:51,208 How is she today? 289 00:17:51,311 --> 00:17:52,450 She is still in her room. 290 00:17:52,554 --> 00:17:54,211 Are you quite sure it's safe to visit? 291 00:17:54,314 --> 00:17:57,006 Quite sure, Aunt Mary. She is much improved now. 292 00:18:05,187 --> 00:18:06,257 My dear... 293 00:18:07,707 --> 00:18:09,433 I've been worried sick. 294 00:18:09,536 --> 00:18:11,814 You have... you have no idea 295 00:18:11,918 --> 00:18:16,129 of the... the torment that you have put me through. 296 00:18:21,859 --> 00:18:23,516 You must feel quite awful. 297 00:18:23,619 --> 00:18:24,827 Not so. I am... 298 00:18:25,966 --> 00:18:28,037 I am certainly on the mend. 299 00:18:28,141 --> 00:18:31,351 No, I mean for causing so much inconvenience, 300 00:18:31,455 --> 00:18:33,560 at a time when the house was already at sixes and sevens. 301 00:18:35,010 --> 00:18:36,356 It is a maxim of mine 302 00:18:36,460 --> 00:18:38,047 that one should never fall ill while visiting. 303 00:18:38,151 --> 00:18:39,566 I am proud to say that 304 00:18:39,670 --> 00:18:41,430 I have never once had the misfortune to break it. 305 00:18:41,982 --> 00:18:43,432 Mmm. 306 00:18:43,536 --> 00:18:45,020 Of course, there was that one time in London 307 00:18:45,124 --> 00:18:46,297 when I was brought down by the face-ache. 308 00:18:49,507 --> 00:18:53,132 Well, I shall now take my leave of you. 309 00:18:53,235 --> 00:18:55,789 You seem quite worn out from resting. 310 00:18:58,275 --> 00:19:00,208 And Mrs Bunbury and I appear to have reconciled, 311 00:19:00,311 --> 00:19:01,519 so she's expecting me. 312 00:19:03,728 --> 00:19:04,591 Oh, one more thing. 313 00:19:06,179 --> 00:19:07,146 Eliza's letters... 314 00:19:09,078 --> 00:19:10,459 Am I to understand 315 00:19:10,563 --> 00:19:12,737 you already have knowledge of their whereabouts? 316 00:19:12,841 --> 00:19:15,533 Me? No. 317 00:19:15,637 --> 00:19:17,156 But why ever would you think that? 318 00:19:19,158 --> 00:19:20,573 Something you said when you were delirious. 319 00:19:24,439 --> 00:19:27,096 It seemed you already had some in your possession. 320 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:29,409 No, certainly not. 321 00:19:29,513 --> 00:19:32,067 If I had I would have told you. 322 00:19:32,171 --> 00:19:35,622 As you say, I... I was delirious. 323 00:19:36,692 --> 00:19:37,590 Hmm. 324 00:20:10,795 --> 00:20:12,590 My dear Eliza, 325 00:20:12,694 --> 00:20:15,593 you begged to be informed of the next stage in the saga, 326 00:20:15,697 --> 00:20:19,425 so it is with a heavy heart I comply. 327 00:20:19,528 --> 00:20:22,255 Once again we are left to be disappointed. 328 00:20:22,359 --> 00:20:24,878 Mr Hobday himself was not the agent of this, 329 00:20:24,982 --> 00:20:27,191 indeed, the reverse. 330 00:20:27,295 --> 00:20:28,917 He proved himself as good as a man 331 00:20:29,020 --> 00:20:31,506 as those who love Cassy could ever hope for. 332 00:20:33,162 --> 00:20:35,820 Their attraction was mutual. 333 00:20:35,924 --> 00:20:38,858 They were in love, Eliza, I am sure of it. 334 00:20:38,961 --> 00:20:41,619 Yet Cassy refused him. 335 00:20:41,723 --> 00:20:44,933 The sheer madness of it drives me to distraction. 336 00:20:45,036 --> 00:20:47,522 I am no advocate of marriage for the sake of it, 337 00:20:47,625 --> 00:20:49,696 but I am all for a good match, 338 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:52,389 and this could have been a splendid one. 339 00:20:52,492 --> 00:20:55,219 Cassy had the offer of a comfortable future, 340 00:20:55,323 --> 00:20:58,429 wealth, stability, love and respect, 341 00:20:58,533 --> 00:21:01,501 but she chose insecurity. 342 00:21:01,605 --> 00:21:03,365 I struggle to comprehend it. 343 00:21:03,469 --> 00:21:04,539 It is beyond me. 344 00:21:09,475 --> 00:21:11,131 How could you think this? 345 00:21:11,235 --> 00:21:12,443 How could you write it? 346 00:21:15,135 --> 00:21:19,174 Bereaved fiance, dutiful daughter, caring aunt, 347 00:21:19,278 --> 00:21:21,763 these are the roles Cassy embraces. 348 00:21:21,866 --> 00:21:25,422 Esteemed object of a worthy gentleman's heart? 349 00:21:25,525 --> 00:21:28,597 No, that she would rather reject. 350 00:21:28,701 --> 00:21:31,876 If my sister has one fault, it is a wanton appetite 351 00:21:31,980 --> 00:21:34,362 to deny herself the pleasures of life. 352 00:21:36,502 --> 00:21:37,537 Did you not know? 353 00:21:38,883 --> 00:21:41,161 Could you not tell? 354 00:21:41,265 --> 00:21:43,336 I did it, I did it for you, too? 355 00:21:47,133 --> 00:21:48,617 I implore you, Eliza, 356 00:21:49,963 --> 00:21:51,689 help me release Cassy 357 00:21:51,793 --> 00:21:54,520 from this unspeakable vow to Tom. 358 00:22:11,502 --> 00:22:13,884 Cassy, what are you doing with my letters? 359 00:22:13,987 --> 00:22:16,783 Please. I've left everything just so. 360 00:22:16,887 --> 00:22:18,785 Forgive me. I was only trying to help. 361 00:22:19,476 --> 00:22:21,236 I'm sorry. 362 00:22:21,340 --> 00:22:22,720 I've been unbearable these past few days. 363 00:22:22,824 --> 00:22:24,515 Even my work does not sooth me. 364 00:22:24,619 --> 00:22:27,276 It is the prospect of Mary Austen's impending visit. 365 00:22:27,380 --> 00:22:28,588 Oh my dear, I implore you, 366 00:22:28,692 --> 00:22:30,383 let us both escape to Kintbury at once. 367 00:22:30,487 --> 00:22:32,109 Eliza will be happy to welcome us. 368 00:22:32,212 --> 00:22:35,354 No, Jane. I fear I have imposed on the Fowles enough. 369 00:22:35,457 --> 00:22:36,769 Then I will write to Catherine 370 00:22:36,872 --> 00:22:38,426 and Alethea Bigg-Wither at Manydown. 371 00:22:38,529 --> 00:22:40,704 - Must you? - Yes, I must, 372 00:22:40,807 --> 00:22:42,740 or I'll not be responsible for my outrageous behaviour 373 00:22:42,844 --> 00:22:44,501 towards our dear sister-in-law. 374 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:04,969 Oh, the joy of living here in Hampshire, Cassy. 375 00:23:06,281 --> 00:23:07,903 It is the very king of counties. 376 00:23:11,700 --> 00:23:12,805 Thank you, my dearest. 377 00:23:13,875 --> 00:23:14,738 For what? 378 00:23:16,360 --> 00:23:17,775 For insisting that we take this trip. 379 00:23:19,501 --> 00:23:21,848 If it had been left to me we'd still be at home. 380 00:23:21,952 --> 00:23:23,609 Have you ever considered the possibility 381 00:23:23,712 --> 00:23:24,817 you do not always know 382 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:26,439 what's best for you, Cassandra Austen? 383 00:23:38,417 --> 00:23:41,972 Do you have any notion of your privilege, my dear friends? 384 00:23:42,075 --> 00:23:44,975 To have all this at your disposal is quite wondrous. 385 00:23:45,078 --> 00:23:47,218 Oh, we do, Jane, we do. 386 00:23:47,322 --> 00:23:48,737 We count our blessings every day 387 00:23:48,841 --> 00:23:50,463 because we know it will not always be so. 388 00:23:51,050 --> 00:23:52,396 We cannot forget 389 00:23:52,500 --> 00:23:55,123 that one day our brother may bring a wife here, 390 00:23:55,226 --> 00:23:58,022 and she's unlikely to want his sisters lurking about 391 00:23:58,126 --> 00:23:59,679 getting crosser and crosser. 392 00:23:59,783 --> 00:24:02,233 Catherine, you and Alethea are the least cross women I know. 393 00:24:03,718 --> 00:24:05,029 But who could be cross here? 394 00:24:05,133 --> 00:24:06,893 Even I seem to have lost the knack. 395 00:24:08,895 --> 00:24:11,622 If I were the future Mrs Harris Bigg-Wither, 396 00:24:11,726 --> 00:24:14,280 I should make room for as many sisters as possible, 397 00:24:14,383 --> 00:24:16,420 and then take to the streets and petition for more. 398 00:24:20,493 --> 00:24:23,289 Behold the stuff of life, 399 00:24:23,392 --> 00:24:25,429 a place for proper contentment. 400 00:24:25,533 --> 00:24:27,017 Oh, is that all that you require? 401 00:24:27,120 --> 00:24:30,572 A mere 150-acre slice of your own rolling country? 402 00:24:30,676 --> 00:24:33,472 I am a simple soul, modest in my ambitions. 403 00:24:33,575 --> 00:24:35,853 This place will do me very well. 404 00:24:37,165 --> 00:24:38,477 But what about our brother? 405 00:24:38,580 --> 00:24:40,133 Would he suit you very well, too? 406 00:24:46,139 --> 00:24:49,729 So, ladies, how are your parents faring these days? 407 00:24:49,833 --> 00:24:51,144 I have not seen them out and about much. 408 00:24:51,248 --> 00:24:52,456 We have just returned 409 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:53,837 from our adventures in Sidmouth with them. 410 00:24:53,940 --> 00:24:56,805 - Have we not, Cass? - Yes, indeed. 411 00:24:56,909 --> 00:24:59,083 Are you an admirer of the seaside, Mr Bigg-Wither? 412 00:25:01,569 --> 00:25:02,501 The seaside? 413 00:25:03,432 --> 00:25:04,882 Good grief, no. 414 00:25:04,986 --> 00:25:06,712 That's the beauty of our neck of Hampshire. 415 00:25:06,815 --> 00:25:08,230 We cannot even see it. 416 00:25:08,334 --> 00:25:10,992 They say the sea is of great benefit to one's health. 417 00:25:11,095 --> 00:25:13,822 Ha! Kill you as soon as look at you, Catherine. 418 00:25:13,926 --> 00:25:16,273 Thankfully our parents are still quite well, thank you. 419 00:25:16,376 --> 00:25:18,240 In spite of the sea. 420 00:25:18,344 --> 00:25:21,036 Our mother complains constantly of several ailments, 421 00:25:21,140 --> 00:25:22,244 though suffers from none. 422 00:25:23,729 --> 00:25:25,316 Thankfully our father-- 423 00:25:25,420 --> 00:25:26,766 Has the patience of a saint. 424 00:25:28,078 --> 00:25:30,114 I have often thought the rector 425 00:25:30,218 --> 00:25:33,462 of a small country parish to be an enviable existence, 426 00:25:33,566 --> 00:25:35,534 without the onerous responsibilities 427 00:25:35,637 --> 00:25:37,674 of having too much of one's own land. 428 00:25:37,777 --> 00:25:40,849 But imagine having no land to call your own, sir. 429 00:25:40,953 --> 00:25:43,680 What if you lived in a city, like Bath or London, 430 00:25:43,783 --> 00:25:46,993 full of smoke and noise and people? 431 00:25:47,097 --> 00:25:49,237 I wager you'd be dreaming of such onerous 432 00:25:49,340 --> 00:25:51,204 - responsibilities then. - Jane. 433 00:25:51,308 --> 00:25:53,103 I hardly agree, madam. 434 00:25:53,206 --> 00:25:55,208 Many a time my dear late lady wife 435 00:25:55,312 --> 00:25:56,693 would drag me to London, 436 00:25:56,796 --> 00:25:58,764 but I only ever wanted to be at home. 437 00:26:00,248 --> 00:26:02,250 That is exactly how I feel about Steventon. 438 00:26:03,354 --> 00:26:04,597 I wish to be nowhere else. 439 00:26:08,497 --> 00:26:09,291 Yes, Miss Austen. 440 00:26:14,814 --> 00:26:16,678 I am a great admirer of the seaside. 441 00:26:25,618 --> 00:26:26,723 Is this place not heaven? 442 00:26:27,413 --> 00:26:28,656 It is. 443 00:26:28,759 --> 00:26:30,485 And you may have had a little too much wine. 444 00:26:30,589 --> 00:26:32,418 You can't blame me when the wine is so good. 445 00:26:32,521 --> 00:26:34,765 Besides, I may require Dutch courage 446 00:26:34,869 --> 00:26:36,215 before the night is out. 447 00:26:39,770 --> 00:26:41,082 What a fine instrument. 448 00:26:42,497 --> 00:26:44,154 It's wasted on Catherine and me. 449 00:26:46,259 --> 00:26:47,882 Play for us, Jane. 450 00:26:47,985 --> 00:26:49,987 I fear I am no longer the pianist I once was. 451 00:26:50,091 --> 00:26:51,713 You may regret asking me. 452 00:26:51,817 --> 00:26:53,197 Nonsense. Play the Prelude. 453 00:27:19,085 --> 00:27:21,156 I did warn you. 454 00:27:21,260 --> 00:27:22,019 Miss Jane. 455 00:27:24,021 --> 00:27:26,886 Do excuse me, but I come bearing a message. 456 00:27:26,990 --> 00:27:28,681 If you'd be so kind, my son is requesting 457 00:27:28,785 --> 00:27:29,993 you join him back in the dining room. 458 00:27:33,652 --> 00:27:34,445 I'd be delighted. 459 00:27:48,494 --> 00:27:50,254 Father, sisters, Miss Austen. 460 00:27:54,051 --> 00:27:55,881 Miss Austen has consented to be my wife. 461 00:28:05,131 --> 00:28:06,788 Jane Bigg-Withers! 462 00:28:12,967 --> 00:28:14,485 What have you done? 463 00:28:14,589 --> 00:28:16,039 Should you not be congratulating me 464 00:28:16,142 --> 00:28:17,454 on the splendour of my match? 465 00:28:17,557 --> 00:28:20,008 I will bless you joyfully once you have told me 466 00:28:20,112 --> 00:28:21,976 that you are in love with Mr Bigg-Wither 467 00:28:22,079 --> 00:28:23,943 and that you admire him above and beyond all others. 468 00:28:24,047 --> 00:28:26,049 I cannot do that, nor could he with me. 469 00:28:26,152 --> 00:28:27,740 But when manna falls from heaven, 470 00:28:27,844 --> 00:28:29,397 it would be foolish to squander it. 471 00:28:29,500 --> 00:28:32,055 Oh. That goes against all that you believe in. 472 00:28:32,158 --> 00:28:33,746 It makes a mockery of everything you've ever said, 473 00:28:33,850 --> 00:28:36,715 or written about love. Love, Jane, love. 474 00:28:36,818 --> 00:28:39,027 It does not. I have always maintained 475 00:28:39,131 --> 00:28:40,995 that love is impossible without money, 476 00:28:41,098 --> 00:28:44,308 so there must be some hope that with it love can grow. 477 00:28:44,412 --> 00:28:46,310 Do you truly believe that you could one day love this man? 478 00:28:48,450 --> 00:28:51,350 I cannot predict, though I admit it, unlikely. 479 00:28:51,453 --> 00:28:54,249 But someone has to do something to secure our futures. 480 00:28:54,353 --> 00:28:55,595 He's from a good family. 481 00:28:55,699 --> 00:28:57,218 Alethea and Catherine can remain here, 482 00:28:57,321 --> 00:28:59,047 and we will be safe and together, 483 00:28:59,151 --> 00:29:02,361 and you, my best girl, are free to marry your beloved Hobday. 484 00:29:04,812 --> 00:29:06,158 I can tell you now that whatever you do 485 00:29:06,261 --> 00:29:08,574 you will not make me marry Hobday. 486 00:29:08,677 --> 00:29:10,196 I have refused him. It is over. 487 00:29:21,414 --> 00:29:23,106 Will I be happy here, do you think? 488 00:29:25,936 --> 00:29:27,248 Well, you love Manydown. 489 00:29:31,286 --> 00:29:33,254 But you are to be its mistress now, 490 00:29:34,945 --> 00:29:36,809 with all the duty that requires. 491 00:29:38,535 --> 00:29:40,502 I'm sure 492 00:29:40,606 --> 00:29:42,746 Catherine and Alethea will help to shoulder that burden, 493 00:29:42,850 --> 00:29:44,196 but you will be his wife, Jane, 494 00:29:47,026 --> 00:29:48,994 and there will be children, of course. 495 00:29:49,097 --> 00:29:51,928 There are a lot of rooms to fill. 496 00:29:56,208 --> 00:29:58,348 I shall be in-pig for the rest of my years. 497 00:29:58,451 --> 00:29:59,970 You love children. You have a gift with them. 498 00:30:00,074 --> 00:30:01,109 With other people's. 499 00:30:03,215 --> 00:30:07,253 I will have no time to myself, for thinking, for writing. 500 00:30:07,357 --> 00:30:09,117 I shall not write more than a letter again. 501 00:30:10,084 --> 00:30:11,223 I shall have a husband, 502 00:30:12,327 --> 00:30:15,399 a master, an overbearing master. 503 00:30:15,503 --> 00:30:17,574 Harris Bigg-Wither is hardly overbearing. 504 00:30:17,677 --> 00:30:19,024 More like under-bearing. 505 00:30:20,094 --> 00:30:21,543 I cannot do it. 506 00:30:21,647 --> 00:30:23,304 My darling, you have done it. It is already done. 507 00:30:23,407 --> 00:30:25,340 No, it was a mistake, the most hideous error. 508 00:30:25,444 --> 00:30:27,653 I did not know what I was thinking. 509 00:30:27,756 --> 00:30:28,723 I shall tell him in the morning. 510 00:30:28,827 --> 00:30:29,862 Jane! 511 00:30:33,107 --> 00:30:34,763 You are quite sure you cannot go through with it? 512 00:30:34,867 --> 00:30:36,455 We'll leave tomorrow. 513 00:30:36,558 --> 00:30:38,491 To quote a philosopher of my acquaintance, 514 00:30:38,595 --> 00:30:40,045 "I shall not starve." 515 00:30:46,223 --> 00:30:47,949 I hold you in extreme regard, 516 00:30:48,053 --> 00:30:49,226 but I would not be your wife. 517 00:31:43,315 --> 00:31:45,317 Always... Sir Walter Scott. 518 00:31:47,353 --> 00:31:48,907 I shall be lucky not to relapse here. 519 00:32:22,423 --> 00:32:24,632 Why are they here again? 520 00:32:24,735 --> 00:32:26,254 I do not know. 521 00:32:26,358 --> 00:32:27,876 Mary, how nice to see you. 522 00:32:27,980 --> 00:32:29,602 And where is Anna? 523 00:32:29,706 --> 00:32:31,777 With some sharp-featured governess, no doubt. 524 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:33,606 It is most unsatisfactory. 525 00:32:35,815 --> 00:32:37,231 I should run straight there 526 00:32:37,334 --> 00:32:39,129 and insist they listen to my latest outpourings, 527 00:32:39,233 --> 00:32:40,234 for as soon as I begin 528 00:32:40,337 --> 00:32:41,856 Mary Austen will check the weather 529 00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,169 and announce they must go. 530 00:32:44,272 --> 00:32:47,103 I must confess, I do have some sympathy with her. 531 00:32:47,206 --> 00:32:48,621 - Cassy! - You do not appreciate 532 00:32:48,725 --> 00:32:50,278 how clever you are with words 533 00:32:50,382 --> 00:32:51,555 and how easily you can make people laugh. 534 00:32:52,694 --> 00:32:53,730 It is a gift, Jane. 535 00:32:53,833 --> 00:32:55,180 She's been visiting us for years. 536 00:32:55,283 --> 00:32:56,836 I've never noticed her discomfort. 537 00:32:56,940 --> 00:32:58,528 Perhaps she... 538 00:32:58,631 --> 00:33:01,048 She feels the need to shine in front of her husband. 539 00:33:01,151 --> 00:33:04,810 Marriage, always an excuse for failures of character. 540 00:33:04,913 --> 00:33:08,124 It is the root cause of poor behaviour. 541 00:33:08,227 --> 00:33:10,402 Though you would have been the exception to that. 542 00:33:10,505 --> 00:33:13,543 My own fear is the thrill of being Mrs James Austen 543 00:33:13,646 --> 00:33:16,408 has quite gone to Mary Austen's head. 544 00:33:16,511 --> 00:33:18,375 She has become a little bumptious with it. 545 00:33:18,479 --> 00:33:20,653 Ha! Happiness in a married woman 546 00:33:20,757 --> 00:33:22,483 is irksome to witness, 547 00:33:22,586 --> 00:33:25,624 and yet the single lady spreads universal delight. 548 00:33:26,728 --> 00:33:27,902 See? 549 00:33:28,006 --> 00:33:29,731 Even Father has need of some respite. 550 00:33:32,872 --> 00:33:35,047 Come, we must greet them. 551 00:33:42,365 --> 00:33:45,747 So, Father, I am... 552 00:33:45,851 --> 00:33:48,888 we are... keen to advance. 553 00:33:48,992 --> 00:33:51,201 We most certainly are. 554 00:33:51,305 --> 00:33:54,963 The fact is, Father, as I enter my 36th year, 555 00:33:55,067 --> 00:33:59,485 I am keen to assume greater responsibility 556 00:33:59,589 --> 00:34:03,627 and perform to the full my role as man of the church. 557 00:34:03,731 --> 00:34:05,733 I hope you will agree that 558 00:34:05,836 --> 00:34:08,908 my talents are more than equal to the task ahead. 559 00:34:09,012 --> 00:34:12,188 Oh, my dear boy, I have no need to assure you of that. 560 00:34:12,291 --> 00:34:14,500 You will make an exemplary rector to the parish. 561 00:34:14,604 --> 00:34:15,570 Exemplary. 562 00:34:18,125 --> 00:34:19,540 The house, Austen, remember the house. 563 00:34:19,643 --> 00:34:21,611 Ah, yes, the house. 564 00:34:23,061 --> 00:34:24,441 - I... that is, we... - Mmm. 565 00:34:24,545 --> 00:34:27,306 ...with our growing family... 566 00:34:27,410 --> 00:34:29,136 We do have a child now. 567 00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:31,621 You have two children. 568 00:34:32,863 --> 00:34:34,727 Let us not forget Anna. 569 00:34:34,831 --> 00:34:36,626 No, no, I meant to say as we now have a son. 570 00:34:38,076 --> 00:34:40,181 It... it occurs to us... 571 00:34:42,390 --> 00:34:46,222 to me, rather, that the house 572 00:34:46,325 --> 00:34:48,500 may be growing a little too much for you both. 573 00:34:50,157 --> 00:34:54,782 Less tiring, slightly smaller accommodation 574 00:34:54,885 --> 00:34:57,060 might be more appropriate 575 00:34:57,164 --> 00:34:59,235 to the diminishing needs of your household... 576 00:35:01,202 --> 00:35:02,755 now that you only have my sisters. 577 00:35:10,970 --> 00:35:12,455 That you will take over the parish 578 00:35:12,558 --> 00:35:13,766 has long been the intention. 579 00:35:15,630 --> 00:35:18,771 Though, the question of timing is another matter. 580 00:35:21,671 --> 00:35:23,811 Perhaps I have caused some confusion 581 00:35:23,914 --> 00:35:25,916 by living too long and too well. 582 00:35:26,020 --> 00:35:28,402 Oh, George, my dear, please! 583 00:35:30,093 --> 00:35:32,406 Thank you for raising this, James. 584 00:35:34,201 --> 00:35:36,479 I have no desire to stand in your path. 585 00:35:37,997 --> 00:35:40,655 That cannot be God's will. 586 00:35:40,759 --> 00:35:43,451 But I must discuss this in private with your mother, 587 00:35:43,555 --> 00:35:46,178 that I may be led swiftly to a judgement 588 00:35:47,041 --> 00:35:49,871 that may benefit us all. 589 00:35:52,150 --> 00:35:53,323 Tea, Mrs Austen? 590 00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:58,397 Yes, of course. Now then... 591 00:36:43,753 --> 00:36:44,581 It is done. 592 00:36:58,319 --> 00:36:59,389 It is perfect. 593 00:37:01,149 --> 00:37:02,841 You must send it to the publisher at once. 594 00:37:08,364 --> 00:37:09,641 It is ready, Jane. 595 00:37:35,425 --> 00:37:37,945 And now... we wait. 596 00:37:45,987 --> 00:37:46,781 Follow me. 597 00:37:51,199 --> 00:37:51,993 Put this up here. 598 00:37:56,964 --> 00:37:57,827 That's it. 599 00:38:01,934 --> 00:38:03,488 Just leave that at the side of the wheel, thank you. 600 00:38:19,055 --> 00:38:20,574 No, that will travel with me. It is my writing. 601 00:38:20,677 --> 00:38:22,714 Sir, leave that! You cannot take that. 602 00:38:22,817 --> 00:38:23,715 Sorry. 603 00:38:28,202 --> 00:38:29,652 We will survive this, Jane. 604 00:38:31,861 --> 00:38:32,724 Promise. 605 00:39:11,487 --> 00:39:14,248 There, there, my dear. 606 00:39:14,352 --> 00:39:18,977 Think of this as a new chapter, as if Jane had written it. 607 00:39:20,634 --> 00:39:22,946 Her stories always end well, don't they? 608 00:39:24,362 --> 00:39:25,363 Walk on. 609 00:39:28,193 --> 00:39:28,952 Say goodbye, Anna. 610 00:39:30,782 --> 00:39:31,645 Wave. 611 00:40:01,813 --> 00:40:04,816 I do not understand why Isabella keeps that girl Dinah. 612 00:40:04,919 --> 00:40:06,990 She is quite simply the worst servant 613 00:40:07,094 --> 00:40:08,923 I have ever had the misfortune to encounter. 614 00:40:10,269 --> 00:40:11,443 Ring it again, Anna, 615 00:40:11,547 --> 00:40:12,548 this time with more force, if you please. 616 00:40:14,757 --> 00:40:15,896 Longer, longer, longer. 617 00:40:22,074 --> 00:40:22,972 Ah. 618 00:40:24,767 --> 00:40:27,114 My dear, they've even got you answering the door now. 619 00:40:27,217 --> 00:40:28,909 Where is that infernal girl? 620 00:40:29,012 --> 00:40:31,498 Anna! What a surprise! 621 00:40:31,601 --> 00:40:34,604 - A pleasant one, I hope. - Oh! Most pleasant! 622 00:40:36,399 --> 00:40:37,538 Should I just stand here, then, 623 00:40:37,642 --> 00:40:39,091 waiting for you to greet me, Cassandra? 624 00:40:39,195 --> 00:40:40,748 Er, forgive me, Mary, 625 00:40:40,852 --> 00:40:43,268 I have not seen Anna for some time. 626 00:40:43,371 --> 00:40:46,444 I am quite overwhelmed. 627 00:40:46,547 --> 00:40:48,446 Yes, I suppose we can be grateful 628 00:40:48,549 --> 00:40:51,000 that her last romantic interlude came to nothing, 629 00:40:51,103 --> 00:40:53,727 and we are once again blessed with her presence. 630 00:40:58,697 --> 00:41:00,975 Isabella will be equally as delighted to see you. 631 00:41:01,079 --> 00:41:02,529 And I her. 632 00:41:02,632 --> 00:41:03,668 I trust she has looked after you well, Aunt Cass. 633 00:41:03,771 --> 00:41:05,463 Ah, she has been most attentive. 634 00:41:07,085 --> 00:41:09,915 Anna? I'll get started upstairs. 635 00:41:10,019 --> 00:41:11,986 Can I leave you with the drawing room? 636 00:41:12,090 --> 00:41:12,987 Yes, Mama. 637 00:41:13,954 --> 00:41:15,956 We're here to work, so I'm told. 638 00:41:27,485 --> 00:41:28,244 Letters, letters... 639 00:42:01,173 --> 00:42:05,695 Ah, Anna, you have made splendid progress today. 640 00:42:05,799 --> 00:42:07,559 The new vicar and his wife will be most impressed 641 00:42:07,663 --> 00:42:09,388 - by your labours. - Your labours, you mean. 642 00:42:09,492 --> 00:42:11,114 Isabella says you've been a Godsend. 643 00:42:11,218 --> 00:42:13,945 Apart from when she was at death's door. 644 00:42:14,048 --> 00:42:17,155 And how is your leg today, my dear? 645 00:42:17,258 --> 00:42:19,951 It does seem to give you a great deal of inconvenience. 646 00:42:20,054 --> 00:42:22,885 Erm, it's strange. I mean I've always been unusually lucky 647 00:42:22,988 --> 00:42:25,819 in the leg department, unlike Mrs Bunbury. 648 00:42:25,922 --> 00:42:28,753 And to think I woke this morning in pleasant anticipation 649 00:42:28,856 --> 00:42:30,168 of a hard day's labour. 650 00:42:36,761 --> 00:42:39,315 Must we endure another reading, Isabella? 651 00:42:42,076 --> 00:42:43,630 What would you rather do, Aunt Mary? 652 00:42:43,733 --> 00:42:45,597 Well, perhaps we could converse. 653 00:42:45,701 --> 00:42:47,116 It is not often we are all together. 654 00:42:48,358 --> 00:42:49,394 May never happen again, 655 00:42:49,497 --> 00:42:51,189 once Cassandra returns to Chawton. 656 00:42:52,328 --> 00:42:53,536 Very well. 657 00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:55,987 On what subject would you like to converse? 658 00:43:10,139 --> 00:43:12,382 Cassandra's patchwork is most impressive, 659 00:43:12,486 --> 00:43:13,625 do you not think? 660 00:43:13,729 --> 00:43:15,006 Yes, you're so clever, Aunt Cass. 661 00:43:15,109 --> 00:43:16,973 Yes, all the Austens are clever. 662 00:43:17,077 --> 00:43:19,907 My husband had a formidable intellect. 663 00:43:20,011 --> 00:43:22,392 My son, James Edward, has inherited it. 664 00:43:22,496 --> 00:43:24,809 Yes, and let us not forget Jane. 665 00:43:24,912 --> 00:43:29,330 For what is cleverness when set beside brilliance? 666 00:43:29,434 --> 00:43:31,885 We are all in the shade of those who shine brightest. 667 00:43:35,682 --> 00:43:37,062 My father often said 668 00:43:37,166 --> 00:43:39,375 "Genius comes with a difficult temperament." 669 00:43:40,721 --> 00:43:41,722 Was this true of your Jane? 670 00:43:43,413 --> 00:43:47,383 Jane was a perfectionist. 671 00:43:47,486 --> 00:43:52,802 She was so very demanding of herself and her work, 672 00:43:52,906 --> 00:43:55,425 - but to others she was-- - Not always kind. 673 00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:04,952 At least not to me. 674 00:44:05,056 --> 00:44:06,298 Well, she was the very best of aunts to me. 675 00:44:08,611 --> 00:44:10,026 I lived for my visits to Aunt Jane. 676 00:44:11,096 --> 00:44:12,753 I would show her my own stories, 677 00:44:12,857 --> 00:44:14,755 and she would take them so seriously, 678 00:44:14,859 --> 00:44:16,930 as if I were a proper writer. 679 00:44:17,033 --> 00:44:18,690 She was the very opposite of difficult. 680 00:44:20,554 --> 00:44:21,831 Was she not, Aunt Cass? 681 00:44:23,419 --> 00:44:24,351 She was indeed. 682 00:44:29,321 --> 00:44:31,185 If I recall she was not so cheerful 683 00:44:31,289 --> 00:44:32,911 in the years after you left Steventon. 684 00:44:41,886 --> 00:44:43,784 We have arrived in Bath, Eliza. 685 00:44:45,683 --> 00:44:47,512 Mary Austen's keen delight 686 00:44:47,615 --> 00:44:49,203 to get her feet through the door, 687 00:44:49,307 --> 00:44:52,966 propel ours out of it and rob us of all our worldly possessions, 688 00:44:53,069 --> 00:44:54,968 was quite the sight to behold. 689 00:45:28,415 --> 00:45:30,382 Well, I think these rooms will do us... 690 00:45:31,729 --> 00:45:32,522 quite splendidly. 691 00:45:33,731 --> 00:45:34,524 Yes, husband... 692 00:45:35,767 --> 00:45:36,768 I believe they shall. 693 00:45:42,947 --> 00:45:45,501 It is of some comfort that leaving our home 694 00:45:45,604 --> 00:45:48,504 has not caused our beloved Cassy any particular distress. 695 00:45:50,368 --> 00:45:52,922 Place no longer matters to Cassy, 696 00:45:54,165 --> 00:45:55,407 not as it does to me. 697 00:45:56,926 --> 00:45:58,272 Jane, my darling, please. 698 00:46:00,930 --> 00:46:03,036 You cannot lie here like this all day every day. 699 00:46:05,038 --> 00:46:06,280 You must try to bear it. 700 00:46:13,874 --> 00:46:16,704 Cassy's determination that I should enjoy the delights 701 00:46:16,808 --> 00:46:18,845 of the metropolis is admirable, 702 00:46:21,019 --> 00:46:23,953 and the famous Bath stone does its best to glow. 703 00:46:25,852 --> 00:46:27,543 But I fear I cannot be much company. 704 00:46:29,683 --> 00:46:34,964 Cassy tells me I must give it time, and I will, 705 00:46:35,068 --> 00:46:38,071 not least because I have no choice in the matter. 706 00:46:39,831 --> 00:46:41,695 You must remember, my dear Mary, 707 00:46:41,799 --> 00:46:43,455 that we all suffered a great deal 708 00:46:43,559 --> 00:46:45,009 after we left Steventon, 709 00:46:45,630 --> 00:46:46,458 not just Jane. 710 00:46:48,046 --> 00:46:52,671 That is why it is so imperative 711 00:46:52,775 --> 00:46:55,502 that Isabella finds one place that she can call home. 712 00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:10,137 - Miss Austen. - Thank you. 713 00:47:11,552 --> 00:47:13,382 Jane! 714 00:47:17,558 --> 00:47:18,905 Jane... 715 00:47:19,008 --> 00:47:21,631 Mr Crosby of London, who is the best of men, 716 00:47:21,735 --> 00:47:22,840 even though we have never met him, 717 00:47:22,943 --> 00:47:25,532 promises publication of your novel "Susan" 718 00:47:25,635 --> 00:47:28,707 with immediate effect for the princely sum of £10. 719 00:47:28,811 --> 00:47:30,882 -£10! - I am to be in print! 720 00:47:30,986 --> 00:47:33,195 You are to be a published authoress. 721 00:47:33,298 --> 00:47:35,991 And we are the proudest Austens who ever lived. 722 00:47:36,094 --> 00:47:37,924 I shall make a start on a new novel at once. 723 00:47:38,027 --> 00:47:40,064 I am determined. I will. 724 00:47:41,755 --> 00:47:42,998 I am to be published! 725 00:47:44,758 --> 00:47:47,036 Let us thank the Good Lord. 726 00:47:47,140 --> 00:47:48,555 Oh my... 727 00:47:48,658 --> 00:47:49,487 Papa? 728 00:47:50,384 --> 00:47:51,454 Papa? 729 00:47:52,455 --> 00:47:53,767 Papa? 730 00:47:53,871 --> 00:47:54,941 My dearest daughter, 731 00:47:55,907 --> 00:47:57,667 your sister, she's... 732 00:47:59,877 --> 00:48:02,362 you must take the greatest care of her. 733 00:48:02,465 --> 00:48:03,881 George? 734 00:48:05,123 --> 00:48:06,366 Papa, I will. 735 00:48:07,401 --> 00:48:08,471 George. 736 00:49:06,322 --> 00:49:07,530 There are some numbers written down here. 737 00:49:08,738 --> 00:49:09,601 - Yes, Miss. - Mmm-hmm. 738 00:49:11,017 --> 00:49:12,087 This is excellent. 739 00:49:13,295 --> 00:49:14,330 - Well done. - Beth, my dear. 740 00:49:15,504 --> 00:49:17,402 Miss Austen! 741 00:49:17,506 --> 00:49:19,266 I'm delighted to see you've recovered from your cold. 742 00:49:19,370 --> 00:49:21,406 Children, we have a visitor. 743 00:49:21,510 --> 00:49:23,270 Now we must remember our manners. 744 00:49:23,374 --> 00:49:25,376 What do we say when people are kind enough to call on us? 745 00:49:26,135 --> 00:49:28,689 Good day to you! 746 00:49:28,793 --> 00:49:30,001 And to you. 747 00:49:30,105 --> 00:49:31,554 Carry on. 748 00:49:33,039 --> 00:49:35,317 So, this is where you spend your time. 749 00:49:35,420 --> 00:49:40,218 Yes. I'm hardly ever at home. My days are so busy here. 750 00:49:40,322 --> 00:49:42,669 My charges arrive from five in the morning. 751 00:49:42,772 --> 00:49:45,189 Their mothers work at the mill and do such long days. 752 00:49:45,292 --> 00:49:46,845 By the time they've all left, 753 00:49:46,949 --> 00:49:49,848 I have no energy to do more than crawl through there to bed. 754 00:49:49,952 --> 00:49:51,574 Oh, so you often just sleep here? 755 00:49:52,472 --> 00:49:53,680 I do. 756 00:49:53,783 --> 00:49:54,508 Hush, shh, shh. 757 00:49:56,924 --> 00:50:00,273 Beth, as you well know, the date of Isabella's departure 758 00:50:00,376 --> 00:50:02,206 from the vicarage is almost upon her. 759 00:50:02,309 --> 00:50:04,898 So I am here once more to ask 760 00:50:05,002 --> 00:50:07,038 for your assistance regarding her future. 761 00:50:08,039 --> 00:50:09,765 Did Isabella ask you to come? 762 00:50:09,868 --> 00:50:11,974 No. No, she did not, 763 00:50:12,078 --> 00:50:14,597 but I cannot stand by and watch 764 00:50:14,701 --> 00:50:17,083 while she suffers the insecurity of her current position. 765 00:50:18,429 --> 00:50:20,120 I do not wish to appear rude, Cassandra, 766 00:50:20,224 --> 00:50:22,571 but why should it concern you? 767 00:50:24,642 --> 00:50:28,404 Because... since I have been here, 768 00:50:28,508 --> 00:50:30,475 I have become exceedingly fond of her, 769 00:50:32,063 --> 00:50:35,170 and I am mindful of the toll 770 00:50:35,273 --> 00:50:37,517 the same upheaval had on my dear sister 771 00:50:37,620 --> 00:50:39,450 when we had to leave our own beloved home. 772 00:50:42,763 --> 00:50:45,352 And I promised your dying father that I would ensure 773 00:50:45,456 --> 00:50:46,664 she came to live with either you or Mary Jane. 774 00:50:48,321 --> 00:50:49,356 My father. 775 00:50:50,219 --> 00:50:51,462 Even from the grave. 776 00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:55,811 Poor Isabella, I... 777 00:50:55,914 --> 00:50:58,055 I fear she is never to be able to make her own decisions 778 00:50:58,158 --> 00:50:59,435 about her future, as I have done. 779 00:51:03,129 --> 00:51:06,270 Beth, I am aware your future is settled 780 00:51:06,373 --> 00:51:08,548 and I am delighted it is so. 781 00:51:10,067 --> 00:51:12,241 However, I am also hopeful 782 00:51:12,345 --> 00:51:16,280 that if you and Mr Lidderdale do decide to marry 783 00:51:16,383 --> 00:51:18,730 that he might be generous enough to allow her to live with you. 784 00:51:18,834 --> 00:51:19,697 Married? 785 00:51:20,836 --> 00:51:23,183 Myself and Mr Lidderdale? 786 00:51:23,287 --> 00:51:25,806 Yes. 787 00:51:25,910 --> 00:51:28,706 Wherever did you get such a ridiculous notion? 788 00:51:28,809 --> 00:51:30,742 I... I saw you together... 789 00:51:30,846 --> 00:51:34,021 And so you concocted a story for yourself. 790 00:51:36,058 --> 00:51:37,404 Oh, Cassandra, 791 00:51:38,267 --> 00:51:39,544 you have the wrong sister.