Mary Bennet & Tom Hayward | Their Epic Love Story [The Other Bennet Sister]

If London was to be a new start for me... It reminds me how small and insignificant we are. I would push all thoughts of poetry and love. Tom, you're here! Tom, can we finish lessons now? Miss Bennet. Please may I introduce Mr Tom Heywood. Uh, Tom Heywood. Oh, Miss Bennet. You must be Miss Bennet. Why, I must be. Mary. Oh yes, I am. I have something to... I didn't mean air. Sorry, forgive me. Would you like to play Graces? Who was I? A coward who lacked the courage to follow her own inclinations? Well, um, yes. Thank you. You think there's a lesson here, Miss Bennet? I think my advice would be to choose the colours that make one feel most like oneself. It suits you very well. How do you feel? For once I have nothing to say. I'm very glad that we arrived in time to see you crowned, Miss Bennet. Thank you. Natural. Beginner's luck. I'm glad to see you're in better spirits, Miss Bennet. This evening has been something of a tonic, Mr Heywood. I'd hoped that this would restore your spirit. Oh indeed it did. That during our short time on this earth we should be brave. That is quite a feat, Miss Bennet. You have such, such varied ways to express your feelings. Follow our hearts. Perhaps there is. I had given Miss Bennet the impossible task of understanding poetry without any real sense of how to feel it. Ah, poetry. Do you like poetry, Miss Bennet? Eager to hear how you've been getting on with the poetry? I prefer facts to whimsy. I'm not sure I have the mind to appreciate it completely. I keep hoping Mr Coleridge will explain himself for that. Whimsy? Sometimes with poetry, the more I think, the less I understand. Where geography meets poetry. Well, it seems to me that it's all just words. What were you expecting? And all that mighty heart is lying still. No, I wish to say something inspiring. Though the law is my business, poetry is my passion. There is nothing you like about poetry. Just some poems are mercifully short. But I do not believe that you are truly a stranger to strong emotions. This is the book that will open the heart of Miss Mary Bennet. Though I spend so much of my time absorbed in poetry when it comes to my own emotions. Poor Tom, he worked so hard. I thought Tom brought her out of herself. Kind-hearted man that he is. Underneath that light-hearted manner carries the weight of the world on his shoulders. Not everything went exactly as I would have liked. We are hoping to be married next year. Mr Heywood, I think I must leave London. Well, you've only just arrived. Mr Heywood and I ended our agreement. I would like you to know that it was something of a relief to end my understanding with Miss Baxter. I'm sure you'll scarcely have time to notice I'm gone. It seems to me that a great deal of time is thrown away in pursuit of attachments that can never come to anything. I feel frozen, or... She does not have the complexion of her sisters, that is true. If you're not the beautiful one, the quick-witted one, or the ones that are good at games and full of youthful energy, then who are you? Feeble or entirely unknowable? I only hope she does not ruin her sister's chances. Study clearly trumps all other considerations in your minds. I told you no one would marry you if you wore spectacles. And she is clumsy. There was a very thorough lesson in horse racing. I'm afraid I'm not. I'm just not finding my place here as easily as I thought. Do you not think it might be worth you having one last look about? Just to make sure. Any looking about will only lead to disappointment. I am so sorry that anyone has ever made you feel like a disappointment. I'm sorry to have disappointed you. Also, excuse me, Miss Bennet. But, Miss Bennet, do you not think that you might find yourself a match? Oh, no, no. I'm at peace with that. In Cain's name. Miss Bennet, perhaps you and I might walk together. Would you be prepared to attempt climbing it with me? I'd very much like that. I shall never forget it. I am most glad that we were able to see this. I've learnt my lesson. A trip that had promised so much had delivered very little. I cannot do this anymore. And so it was that Mr. Heywood left the lakes. My circumstances have changed. Surely he is attainable. Is he not, Mr. Heywood? And told him of my intention to propose to you that very afternoon. After what you said? I'm sorry, Mary, please, please let me explain. You know that I've grown so fond of you. I hoped that you'd feel the same way. I thought it in your best interest that I graciously step aside. There was so much that I wished to say to him. Well, perhaps I'm tired of my old character. I wish to try a new one. He gave me his blessing. Well, I'm sorry to hear that. I was fond of the old, Mary. Nevertheless, my actions in the mountains. You thought it in my best interests to graciously step aside. I shall be sure to tell her that. For she has wondered many times today what your true feelings were. And I thought you deserved better than that. That you deserved better than me. But now I realise. Please stay close. What did the doctor say? Any change? Do you know how I would feel if anything were to happen to you? Why didn't you just ask me what I thought? I was reading between the lines. There were no lines, Mr Heywood. No one know what lines. Sometimes in life we must seize the moment and we must... There's always Mr Heywood for me. There is no one I long to talk to like I do you. But I can offer you my love and my devotion. No one who makes me feel more like me. And my hope to build a family one day. Finish what we set out to do without letting anything get in our way. I love you. I have only ever loved you. I love you. So fond of you during our time together. And I you. I've always loved you from the very first time I caught you playing races on your own. New love is the most romantic thing. Mary Beth, would you do me the very great honour of becoming my wife? Yes. To be here together. As am I. Mary, I think now that we've kissed you could probably call me Tom. Stop.