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As Cassandra falls ill, her mind is flooded with memories of difficult times.
Cassandra’s determination to keep Jane’s letters private is joined by a second objective: securing a home for Isabella. After a trip to town, Cassandra falls ill, and the past comes crashing in with her recollections of the difficult years.
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Funding for MASTERPIECE is provided by Viking and Raymond James with additional support from public television viewers and contributors to The MASTERPIECE Trust, created to help ensure the series’ future.

Episode 2 Preview
Preview: Episode 2 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Cassandra’s determination to keep Jane’s letters private is joined by a second objective: securing a home for Isabella. After a trip to town, Cassandra falls ill, and the past comes crashing in with her recollections of the difficult years.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(gentle instrumental music) - Did you find any letters from Jane?
- Not a single one.
(paper rustles) - We are going to the seaside.
(actor in turquoise gasps) (gentle music continues) Jane is happy here.
- I hope you haven't been sitting in here when outside there's all manner of magnificence.
- Your sister, did she ever know love?
- Wasn't there a gentleman you both met in Sidmouth, and wasn't here even rivalry?
- Rivalry?
(gentle music continues) - [Narrator] "Miss Austen" on Masterpiece.
(gentle music continues)
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Clip: Ep2 | 1m 10s | Isabella runs into Mr. Lidderdale while out. (1m 10s)
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