Brief Encounter - Dialogues of The 1945 Film

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[ Bell Tolling ]
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[ Whistle Blows ]
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♪♪ [ Whistling ]
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- Evening, Mr. Godby.
- [ Mumbles ]
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- Hello, hello, hello.
- Quite the stranger, aren't you?
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- l couldn't get in yesterday.
- l wondered what had happened to you.

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- l had a bit of a dustup.
- What about?
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Saw a chap getting out
of a first-class compartment.
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When he came to give up his ticket,
it was only third class.
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l told him to pay the excess,
and he turned nasty.
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- l had to send for Mr. Saunders.
- Fat lot of good he'd be.
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- He ticked him off.
- Seeing's believing.
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l tell you, he ticked him off proper.
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"You pay the balance at once," he says,
"or l'll hand you over to the police."
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You ought to have seen the look on the chap's
face at the mention of the word "police."
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Changed his tune then, he did.
Paid up like lightning.
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That's just what l mean. He didn't have
the courage to handle it himself.

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- He had to call in the police.
- Aw, he's not a bad lot, Mr. Saunders.
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After all, you can't expect much spirit from
a man with only one lung and a wife with diabetes.
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l thought something must be wrong
when you didn't come.
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l'd have popped in to explain, but l had a date
and had to run for it the moment l went off.
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- Oh, indeed.
- Chap l know is getting married.
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Very interesting, l'm sure.
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- What's up with you, anyway?
- l'm sure l don't know to what you're referring.
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- You're a bit unfriendly all of a sudden.
- Beryl, hurry up.
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- Put some more coal in the stove while you're at it.
- Yes, Mrs. Bagot.
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l'm afraid l really can't stand here
wasting my time in idle gossip, Mr. Godby.
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- Aren't you going to offer me another cup?
- You can have another cup and welcome
when you've finished that one.

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Beryl'll give it to you.
l've got my accounts to do.
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l see. l'd rather you gave it to me.
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Time and tide wait for no man, Mr. Godby.
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- Laura, what a lovely surprise!
- Oh, Dolly.
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My dear, l've been shopping till l'm dropping.
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My feet are nearly off, and my throat's parched.

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l thought of having tea in Spindle's,
but l was terrified of losing the train.
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- Oh, dear.
- This is Dr. Harvey.
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- How do you do?
- Would you be a perfect dear
and get me my cup of tea?
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l really don't think l could drag
my poor old bones over to the counter.
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No, please.
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My dear, what a nice-looking man.
Who on earth is he?
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Really, you're quite a dark horse. l shall telephone
Fred in the morning and make mischief.
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[ Chuckling ] This is a bit of luck.
l haven't seen you for ages.
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l've been meaning to pop in, you know,
but Tony's had measles...
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and then l had
all that awful fuss over Phyllis.
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- But, of course, you don't know.
My dear, she left me.

- Oh, how dreadful.
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Mind you, l never really cared for her much,
but still, Tony did. Tony adored her.
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l'll tell you all about that later
in the train. Thank you so very much.
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There's certainly enough milk in it,
but still, it'll be refreshing.
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- Oh, dear, no sugar.
- lt's in the spoon.
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Oh, of course. What a fool l am.
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Laura, you're looking frightfully well.
l do wish l'd known you were coming in today.
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We could've come together
and lunched and had a good gossip.
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l loathe shopping by myself anyway.
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[ Bell Ringing ]
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- There's your train.
- Yes, l know.
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- Oh, aren't you coming with us?
- No, l go in the opposite direction.
My practice is in Churley.
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- Oh, l see.
- l'm a general practitioner at the moment.
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- Dr. Harvey's going out to Africa next week.
- Oh, how thrilling.
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[ Man Over P.A. ] ...the 5:40
to Churley, Leigh Green and Langdon.
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- l must go.
- Yes, you must.
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- Good-bye.
- Good-bye.
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[ Dolly ] He'll have to run, or he'll miss it.
He's got to get right over to the other platform.
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Talking of missing trains reminds me
of that awful bridge at Broadham Junction.
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You've got to go traipsing all up one side
along the top and down the other.
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- Well, the other day, l'd been over to see Bob's
solicitor about renewing the lease of the house.
- [ Train Engine Chugging ]
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And l arrived at the station
with exactly half a minute to spare.
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My dear, l flew. l'd got Tony with me...
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and like a fool, l just bought a new
shade for the lamp in the drawing room.
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l could've gotten it
just as easily here in Milford.
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Well, it was the most enormous thing.
l could hardly see over it.
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l've never been in such a frizz in all my life.
l nearly knocked a woman down.
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[ Chuckling ] Of course, by the time
l got home, it was battered to bits.

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- [ Bell Ringing ]
- Oh, is that our train?
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Can you tell me,
is that the Ketchworth train?
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- [ Mrs. Bagot ] No, it's the express.
- The boat train.
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Oh, of course. That doesn't stop, does it?
l want some chocolate, please.
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- Milk or plain?
- Plain, l think.
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Or, no, perhaps milk would be nicer.
Have you any with nuts in it?
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Nestle's Nut Milk. Shilling or sixpence?
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- [ Train Rumbling ]
- [ Faint ] One plain and one nut milk.
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- Large or small?
- Large, please.
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Oh.
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Where is she?
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l never noticed her go.
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[ Dolly ] Oh, l couldn't think
where you'd disappeared to.
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l just wanted to see the express go through.
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What on earth's the matter?
Are you feeling ill?
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- l feel a little sick.
- My dear, come and sit down.
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[ Bell Ringing ]
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- There's our train.
- lt's all right.
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- Have you any brandy?
- l'm afraid it's out of hours.
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- Oh, surely, if somebody's feeling ill -
- l'm all right, really.
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- Just a sip of brandy will buck you up. Please.
- Very well.
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- Thank you. How much?
- Tenpence, please.
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[ Man Over P.A. ] The train for Ketchworth
is now arriving at platform three.

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We shall have to hurry.
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[ Train Approaching ]
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[ Whistle Blows ]
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Oh, well, this is a bit of luck.
This train's generally packed.
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l really am very worried about you, dear.
You look terribly peaky.
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l'm all right. Really, l am.
l just felt faint for a minute, that's all.

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lt often happens to me. l did it once
in the middle of Bobby's school concert.
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- l don't think he's ever forgiven me.
- [ Laughs ]
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- Well, he certainly was very good-looking.
- Who?
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Your friend, Doctor - whatever his name was.
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- Yes, he's a nice creature.
- Have you known him long?
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No, not very long.
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l hardly know him at all, really.
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Well, my dear,
l've always had a passion for doctors.
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l can well understand how it is
that women get - [ Voice Fades ]
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[ Laura's Voice ]
I wish I could trust you.
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I wish you were a wise, kind friend...
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instead of a gossiping acquaintance
I've known casually for years...
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and never particularly cared for.
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I wish. I wish.
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Fancy him going all the way to Africa.
ls he married?
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- Well, yes.
- Any children?
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Yes, two boys. He's very proud of them.
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ls he taking them with him -
his wife and children, l mean?
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Yes. Yes, he is.
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l suppose it's sensible in a way rushing off...
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to start life anew in the wide open spaces
and all that sort of thing, but...
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wild horses wouldn't
drag me away from England...
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and home and all the things l'm used to.
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l mean, one has one's roots after all,
hasn't one?
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Oh, yes, one has one's roots.
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l knew a girl once years ago
who went to Africa.
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Her husband was something to do
with engineering or something.
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And, my dear,
she had the most dreadful time.
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She caught some awful kind of germ
through going out on a picnic...

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and she was ill for months and months.
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[ Laura's Voice ]
l wish you'd stop talking.
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I wish you'd stop prying
and trying to find things out.
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I wish you were dead.
No, l don't mean that.
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That was silIy and unkind,
but l wish you'd stop talking.
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My dear, all her hair came out, and she said

the social life was quite, quite horrid.
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- Provincial, you know, and very nouveau riche.
- Oh, Dolly.
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- What's the matter, dear? Are you feeling ill again?
- No, not really ill. l feel a bit dizzy.
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- l think l'll close my eyes for a little.
- Oh, you poor darling.
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And here am l chattering away
1 9 to the dozen. l won't say another word.
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lf you drop off, l'll wake you up
when we get to the level crossing.

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That'll give you a chance to pull yourself together
and powder your nose before we get out.
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Thanks, Dolly.
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[ Laura's Voice ]
This can't last.
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This misery can't last.
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l must remember that
and try to control myself.
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Nothing lasts, realIy -
neither happiness nor despair.

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Not even life lasts very long.
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There'll come a time in the future
when l shan't mind about this anymore...
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when I can look back and say quite peacefully
and cheerfully how silly l was.
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No, no, l don't want that time to come ever.
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I want to remember every minute...
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always -
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always to the end of my days.
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- [ Brakes Screeching ]
- [ Porter ] Ketchworth!
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- [ Dolly ] Wake up, Laura. We're here.
- Ketchworth!
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l could easily come to the house with you, dear.
lt isn't very much out of my way.
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Thank you.
All l have to do is walk down Elmore Lane...
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past the grammar school

and l shall be home in two minutes.
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lt's sweet of you, Dolly,
but l'm perfectly all right now, really l am.
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- You're quite sure?
- Absolutely positive. Thank you for being so kind.
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Oh, nonsense, dear. l shall telephone
in the morning and see if you've had a relapse.
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l shall disappoint you. Good night.
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Good night. Oh, give my love
to Fred and the children.
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- [ Man ] ls that you, Laura?
- Yes, dear.
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Thank goodness you've come back.
The place has been in an uproar.
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- Why? What's the matter?
- Bobby and Margaret have been fighting again.
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They won't go to sleep
until you go in and talk to them about it.
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- [ Girl ] Mummy? ls that you, Mummy?
- Yes, Margaret.
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Come upstairs at once, Mummy!

l want to talk to you.
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You're both very naughty.
You should have been asleep hours ago.
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Now what is it, you two?
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Well, Mummy, tomorrow's my birthday,
and l want to go to the circus.
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And tomorrow's not Margaret's birthday,
and she wants to go to the pantomime.
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My birthday's in June.
There aren't any pantomimes in June.
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lt's far too late to discuss it tonight...
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and if you don't go to sleep at once,
l shall tell Daddy not to let you go to either.
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Oh, Mummy!
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Why not take them to both?
One in the afternoon, one in the evening?
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You know that's impossible.
We shouldn't get them to bed till all hours...
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and they'd be tired and fractious.
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Well, then, one on one day
and the other on the other.
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You're always accusing me
of spoiling the children.
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Their characters would be ruined in a fortnight
if l left them to your over-tender mercies.
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All right, have it your own way.
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- Circus or pantomime?
- Neither.
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We'll thrash them both soundly,
lock them up in the attic...

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and go to the pictures by ourselves.
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[ Train Whistle Blows ]
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[ Crying ]
Oh, Fred.
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What on earth's the matter?
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Nothing. lt's nothing.
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Darling, what's wrong?
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- Tell me, please.
- Really and truly, it's nothing. l -
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l'm just a little run-down, that's all.
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l had a sort of fainting spell
at the refreshment room at Milford.
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lsn't it idiotic?
Dolly Messiter was with me...
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and she talked and talked and talked
until l wanted to strangle her.
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Still, she meant to be kind.

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lsn't it awful about people
meaning to be kind?
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- Would you like to go to bed?
- No, Fred, really.
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Come and sit by the fire
in the library and relax.
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You can help me with the Times crossword.
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- You have the most peculiar ideas of relaxation.
- That's better.
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- There you are, darling.

- Thank you.
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But why a fainting spell?
l can't understand it.
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Don't be silly, darling. l've often
had fainting spells, and you know it.
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Don't you remember Bobby's
school concert and Eileen's wedding...
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and that time you insisted on taking me
to that symphony concert at the town hall?
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Go on, that was a nosebleed.
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l suppose l must be that type of woman.
lt's very humiliating.
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l still maintain there'd be no harm
in you seeing Dr. Graves.
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- lt would be a waste of time.
- Now, listen -
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Oh, but do shut up about it, darling.
You're making a fuss about nothing.
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l'd been shopping and l was tired...
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and the refreshment room
was very hot, and l suddenly felt sick.

217
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- Nothing more than that.
- All right.
218
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Really nothing more than that. Now you get on
with your old puzzle and leave me in peace.
219
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Have it your own way.
220
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You're a poetry addict.
See if you can help me over this. lt's Keats.
221
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"When l behold,
upon the night's starred face...
222
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huge cloudy symbols of a high" -
something in seven letters.
223
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Romance, l think. l'm almost sure it is.
224
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"Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance."
lt'll be in the Oxford Book of English Verse.
225
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No, that's right, l'm sure, because it fits
in with "delirium" and "Baluchistan."
226
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- Would some music throw you off your stride?
- No, dear, l'd like it.
227
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- ♪♪ [ Big Band Jazz ]
- [ Channel Switches ]
228
00:14:32,580 --> 00:14:34,581
[ Man Chattering ]
229
00:14:34,665 --> 00:14:36,624
♪♪ [ Classical ]
230
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♪♪ [ Continues ]
231
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[ Laura's Voice ]
Fred.
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Fred.
233
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Dear Fred.
234
00:15:35,851 --> 00:15:39,354

There's so much
that I want to say to you.
235
00:15:39,438 --> 00:15:44,067
You're the only one in the world with enough
wisdom and gentleness to understand.
236
00:15:44,652 --> 00:15:48,112
lf only it were
somebody else's story and not mine.
237
00:15:48,864 --> 00:15:52,200
As it is, you are the only one
in the world that l can never teIl.
238
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Never, never.
239
00:15:55,329 --> 00:15:59,874
Because even if I waited until we were
old, old people and told you then...

240
00:15:59,959 --> 00:16:03,670
you'd be bound to Iook back
over the years and be hurt...
241
00:16:03,754 --> 00:16:06,631
and, oh, my dear,
I don't want you to be hurt.
242
00:16:06,715 --> 00:16:11,678
You see, we're a happily married couple...
243
00:16:11,762 --> 00:16:14,055
and must never forget that.
244
00:16:14,723 --> 00:16:16,683
This is my home.
245
00:16:17,309 --> 00:16:19,519
You're my husband...
246
00:16:19,603 --> 00:16:21,562
and my children are upstairs in bed.
247
00:16:22,690 --> 00:16:25,066
I'm a happiIy married woman -
248
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or, rather, I was until a few weeks ago.
249
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This is my whole world...
250
00:16:32,408 --> 00:16:34,534
and it's enough -
251
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or, rather, it was, untiI a few weeks ago.
252
00:16:38,872 --> 00:16:41,457
But, oh, Fred, l've been so foolish.

253
00:16:42,501 --> 00:16:44,961
I've falIen in love.
254
00:16:45,045 --> 00:16:47,672
I'm an ordinary woman.
255
00:16:47,756 --> 00:16:51,592
I didn't think such violent things
could happen to ordinary people.
256
00:16:53,095 --> 00:16:56,222
It alI started on an ordinary day...
257
00:16:56,306 --> 00:16:59,017
in the most ordinary place in the world...
258
00:16:59,101 --> 00:17:02,103
the refreshment room at Milford Junction.
259
00:17:02,813 --> 00:17:05,023

I was having a cup of tea...
260
00:17:05,107 --> 00:17:07,734
and reading a book
that I'd got that morning from Boots.
261
00:17:07,818 --> 00:17:10,153
My train wasn't due for ten minutes.
262
00:17:10,696 --> 00:17:14,365
I looked up and saw a man
come in from the platform.
263
00:17:14,950 --> 00:17:19,704
He had on an ordinary mac. His hat
was turned down, and l didn't even see his face.
264
00:17:19,788 --> 00:17:21,831
He got his tea at the counter and turned.
265
00:17:21,915 --> 00:17:24,208

Then I did see his face.
It was rather a nice face.
266
00:17:24,293 --> 00:17:26,002
- Any sugar?
- ln the spoon.
267
00:17:26,086 --> 00:17:26,711
Thank you.
268
00:17:26,795 --> 00:17:30,256
- He passed my table on the way to his.
- [ Mrs. Bagot ] You're neglecting your duty.
269
00:17:30,340 --> 00:17:32,967
The woman at the counter
was going on as usual.
270
00:17:33,052 --> 00:17:36,554
You know, I told you about her the other day -
the one with the refined voice.

271
00:17:36,638 --> 00:17:39,557
- Minnie hasn't touched her milk.
- Did you put it down for her?
272
00:17:39,641 --> 00:17:42,185
Yes, but she never came for it.
273
00:17:42,269 --> 00:17:44,520
- Fond of animals?
- ln their place.
274
00:17:44,605 --> 00:17:47,065
My landlady's got a positive mania for animals.
275
00:17:47,149 --> 00:17:49,484
She's got two cats - one Manx, one ordinary -
276
00:17:49,568 --> 00:17:53,237
three rabbits in a hutch in the kitchen -
they belong to her little boy by rights -

277
00:17:53,322 --> 00:17:56,115
and one of those dark-looking dogs
with hair over its eyes.
278
00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:58,117
l don't know to what breed you refer.
279
00:17:58,202 --> 00:18:00,453
[ Laughing ]
l don't think it knows itself.
280
00:18:00,537 --> 00:18:02,163
[ Bell Ringing ]
281
00:18:02,247 --> 00:18:05,416
Go and clean off number three, Beryl.
l can see the crumbs on it from here.
282
00:18:05,501 --> 00:18:09,462
[ Godby ] What about my other cup? l'll have
to be moving. The 5:40 will be in in a minute.

283
00:18:09,546 --> 00:18:12,465
- [ Mrs. Bagot ] Who's on the gate?
- [ Godby ] Young William.
284
00:18:38,158 --> 00:18:40,159
Please, could you give me a glass of water?
285
00:18:40,244 --> 00:18:42,703
l've got something in my eye,
and l want to bathe it.
286
00:18:43,664 --> 00:18:46,791
- Would you like me to have a look?
- No, don't trouble. l expect the water will do.
287
00:18:46,875 --> 00:18:49,627
- Thank you.
- Bit of coal dust, l expect.
288
00:18:49,711 --> 00:18:52,964

A man l knew lost the sight in one eye
through getting a bit of grit in it.
289
00:18:53,048 --> 00:18:55,049
- Nasty, very nasty.
- Better?
290
00:18:55,134 --> 00:18:58,261
- l'm afraid not. Ooh.
- Can l help you?
291
00:18:58,345 --> 00:19:00,304
Oh, no, please, it's only something in my eye.
292
00:19:00,389 --> 00:19:04,225
- Try pulling your eyelid down as far as it'll go.
- And then blowing your nose.
293
00:19:04,309 --> 00:19:07,395
- Please let me look. l happen to be a doctor.
- lt's very kind of you.

294
00:19:07,479 --> 00:19:09,939
Turn around to the light, please.
295
00:19:10,023 --> 00:19:11,941
Now look up.
296
00:19:13,026 --> 00:19:14,944
Now look down.
297
00:19:16,905 --> 00:19:19,365
Keep still. l see it.
298
00:19:21,994 --> 00:19:24,287
- There.
- Oh, what a relief. lt was agonizing.
299
00:19:24,413 --> 00:19:27,957
- Looks like a bit of grit.
- lt was when the express went through.
Thank you very much, indeed.

300
00:19:28,041 --> 00:19:30,585
- [ Godby ] There we go. l must run.
- How lucky for me you happened to be here.
301
00:19:30,669 --> 00:19:33,337
- Anybody could've done it.
- Never mind, you did, and l'm most grateful.
302
00:19:33,422 --> 00:19:36,132
- There's my train. l must go. Good-bye.
- Good-bye.
303
00:19:40,762 --> 00:19:42,680
[ Laura's Voice ]
That's how it all began -
304
00:19:42,764 --> 00:19:46,100
just through me getting
a little piece of grit in my eye.
305
00:19:46,810 --> 00:19:50,855

I completeIy forgot the whole incident.
It didn't mean anything to me at all.
306
00:19:52,524 --> 00:19:54,358
At Ieast l didn't think it did.
307
00:19:59,698 --> 00:20:02,825
The next Thursday l went
into Milford again, as usual.
308
00:20:12,753 --> 00:20:14,712
l changed my book at Boots.
309
00:20:14,796 --> 00:20:17,757
Miss Lewis had at last managed
to get the new Kate O'Brien for me.
310
00:20:17,841 --> 00:20:20,885
l believe she'd kept it hidden
under the counter for two days.
311
00:20:20,969 --> 00:20:24,138
On the way out, l bought
two new toothbrushes for the children.
312
00:20:24,223 --> 00:20:26,891
I like the smeIl of a chemist's
better than any other shop.
313
00:20:26,975 --> 00:20:30,811
It's such a mixture of nice things -
herbs and scent and soap.
314
00:20:31,438 --> 00:20:33,814
That awful Mrs. Leftwich
was at the other end of the counter...
315
00:20:33,899 --> 00:20:35,942
wearing one of the silliest hats
l've ever seen.
316
00:20:36,526 --> 00:20:40,154
Fortunately, she didn't look up,

so I got out without her buttonhoIing me.
317
00:20:41,323 --> 00:20:43,074
Just as I stepped out onto the pavement -
318
00:20:43,158 --> 00:20:44,825
- Good morning.
- Oh, good morning.
319
00:20:44,910 --> 00:20:46,535
- How's the eye?
- Perfectly all right.
320
00:20:46,620 --> 00:20:49,747
- How kind it was of you to take so much trouble.
- lt was nothing at all.
321
00:20:49,831 --> 00:20:52,583
- lt's clearing up, l think.
- Yes, it's going to be nice.
322
00:20:52,668 --> 00:20:56,254
- Well, l must be getting along to the hospital.
- And l must be getting along to the grocers.
323
00:20:56,338 --> 00:20:59,298
- What exciting lives we lead, don't we? Good-bye.
- Good-bye.
324
00:21:01,093 --> 00:21:04,095
[ Laura's Voice ] That evening l had to run
nearly all the way to the station.
325
00:21:04,179 --> 00:21:06,764
l'd been to the Palladium, as usual,
but it was a terribly long film...
326
00:21:06,848 --> 00:21:09,433
- and l was afraid l'd be late.
- [ Train Whistle Blows ]
327
00:21:09,518 --> 00:21:13,771
As l came up onto the platform,

the Churley train was just puffing out.
328
00:21:13,855 --> 00:21:18,943
I looked up idIy as the windows of the carriages
went by, wondering if he was there.
329
00:21:19,027 --> 00:21:21,988
l remember this crossing my mind,
but it was quite unimportant.
330
00:21:22,072 --> 00:21:24,282
I was reaIly thinking of other things.
331
00:21:24,366 --> 00:21:27,326
The present for your birthday
was worrying me rather.
332
00:21:27,411 --> 00:21:29,829
It was terribly expensive,
but I knew you wanted it...
333
00:21:29,913 --> 00:21:32,957
and I had sort of half taken the plunge
and left a deposit on it...
334
00:21:33,041 --> 00:21:35,710
at Spink and Robson's untiI the next Thursday.
335
00:21:36,628 --> 00:21:38,671
The next Thursday.
336
00:21:39,256 --> 00:21:43,301
Well, l squared my conscience by thinking
how pleased you would be and bought it.
337
00:21:43,385 --> 00:21:44,969
- Yes, l'll have it.
- Thank you, madam.
338
00:21:45,053 --> 00:21:48,389
lt was wildIy extravagant,
l know, but having committed the crime...

339
00:21:48,473 --> 00:21:51,058
I suddenly felt reckIess and gay.
340
00:21:51,143 --> 00:21:55,271
The sun was out, and everybody in the street
looked more cheerful than usual...
341
00:21:55,355 --> 00:21:57,690
and there was a barreI organ
at the corner by Harris's...
342
00:21:57,774 --> 00:22:00,067
and you know how I love barrel organs.
343
00:22:00,152 --> 00:22:03,154
It was playing
"Let the Great Big World keep Turning"...
344
00:22:03,238 --> 00:22:07,116
and I gave the man sixpence
and went to the Kardomah for lunch.

345
00:22:07,909 --> 00:22:11,996
It was very full, but two people had got up
from the table just as l had come in.
346
00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:15,583
That was a bit of luck, wasn't it?
Or was it?
347
00:22:15,667 --> 00:22:18,169
Just after l had given my order,
l saw him come in.
348
00:22:18,253 --> 00:22:21,756
He looked a Iittle tired, l thought,
and there was nowhere for him to sit...
349
00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:24,008
- so l smiled and said -
- Good morning.
350
00:22:24,092 --> 00:22:27,553
- Oh, good morning. Are you all alone?
- Yes, l am.
351
00:22:27,637 --> 00:22:31,098
Would you mind if l shared your table? lt's very full.
There doesn't seem to be anywhere else.
352
00:22:31,183 --> 00:22:32,475
No, of course not.
353
00:22:36,104 --> 00:22:39,315
l'm afraid we haven't been introduced properly.
My name's Alec Harvey.
354
00:22:39,399 --> 00:22:41,859
How do you do? Mine's Laura Jesson.
355
00:22:41,943 --> 00:22:43,986
- Mrs. or Miss?
- Mrs.
356
00:22:44,112 --> 00:22:47,406
- You're a doctor, aren't you? l remember
you said so that day in the refreshment room.
- Yes.
357
00:22:47,491 --> 00:22:51,118
Not a very interesting one.
Just an ordinary G.P. My practice is in Churley.
358
00:22:51,203 --> 00:22:53,412
- Yes, sir?
- What did you plump for?
359
00:22:53,497 --> 00:22:56,624
- Excuse me, sir.
- Um, the soup and fried sole.
360
00:22:57,292 --> 00:22:59,502
- Yes, l'll have the same.
- Anything to drink?
361
00:22:59,586 --> 00:23:01,796
No, thank you. That is,
would you like anything to drink?
362
00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:05,174
- No, thank you. Just plain water.
- Plain water, please.
363
00:23:05,258 --> 00:23:07,551
♪♪ [ Classical Trio ]
364
00:23:14,267 --> 00:23:16,477
Will you just look at the cellist?
365
00:23:23,735 --> 00:23:26,070
[ Laughing ]
lt really is dreadful, isn't it?
366
00:23:26,154 --> 00:23:28,322
But we oughtn't to laugh. They might see.
367
00:23:28,407 --> 00:23:31,742
There should be a society for the prevention
of cruelty to musical instruments.
368
00:23:31,827 --> 00:23:34,412
- You don't play the piano, l hope?
- l was forced to as a child.
369
00:23:34,496 --> 00:23:37,248
- You haven't kept it up?
- No, my husband isn't musical at all.
370
00:23:37,332 --> 00:23:38,582
Good for him.
371
00:23:38,667 --> 00:23:41,127
For all you know, l might have
a tremendous burning professional talent.
372
00:23:41,211 --> 00:23:43,921
- Oh, dear, no.
- Why are you so sure?

373
00:23:44,005 --> 00:23:45,756
You're too sane and uncomplicated.
374
00:23:47,551 --> 00:23:50,761
l suppose it's a good thing to be uncomplicated,
but it does sound a little dull.
375
00:23:50,846 --> 00:23:52,805
You could never be dull.
376
00:23:53,849 --> 00:23:57,601
- Do you come here every Thursday?
- Yes, to spend a day at the hospital.
377
00:23:57,686 --> 00:24:00,271
Stephen Lynn, the chief physician here,
graduated with me.
378
00:24:00,355 --> 00:24:03,566
l take over from him once a week.

Gives him a chance to go up to London.
379
00:24:03,650 --> 00:24:06,318
- Gives me a chance to study the hospital patients.
- l see.
380
00:24:06,403 --> 00:24:09,071
- Do you?
- Do l what?
381
00:24:09,156 --> 00:24:13,659
- Come here every Thursday?
- Oh. Yes, l do the week's shopping. Thank you.
382
00:24:13,743 --> 00:24:17,288
Change my library book, have lunch
and generally go to the pictures.
383
00:24:17,372 --> 00:24:19,623
Not a very exciting routine,
but it makes a change.

384
00:24:21,626 --> 00:24:24,545
- Are you going to the pictures this afternoon?
- Yes.
385
00:24:25,088 --> 00:24:27,715
How extraordinary. So am l.
386
00:24:27,799 --> 00:24:29,800
l thought you had to spend
all day at the hospital.
387
00:24:29,885 --> 00:24:33,554
Well, between ourselves, l killed
two patients by accident this morning.
388
00:24:33,638 --> 00:24:37,475
The matron's very displeased with me.
l simply daren't go back.
389
00:24:37,559 --> 00:24:41,145
- How can you be so silly?

- Seriously, l really did get through
most of my work this morning.
390
00:24:41,229 --> 00:24:43,063
lt won't matter at all if l play truant.
391
00:24:43,148 --> 00:24:45,983
Would you mind very much
if l came to the pictures with you?
392
00:24:46,067 --> 00:24:49,320
- Well, l -
- l could sit downstairs, and you could sit upstairs.
393
00:24:49,404 --> 00:24:51,489
Upstairs is too expensive.
394
00:24:51,573 --> 00:24:53,491
♪♪ [ Ends ]
395
00:24:53,575 --> 00:24:56,160

The orchestra stopped
as abruptly as it had started...
396
00:24:56,244 --> 00:24:58,162
and we began to laugh again.
397
00:24:58,246 --> 00:25:00,956
l had no premonitions,
aIthough l suppose l should have had.
398
00:25:01,041 --> 00:25:03,792
It alI seemed so natural and so innocent.
399
00:25:04,377 --> 00:25:07,838
We finished lunch, and that idiot
of a waitress had put the bill aIl on one.
400
00:25:07,923 --> 00:25:10,007
- l really must insist.
- l couldn't possibly.
401
00:25:10,091 --> 00:25:13,302
Having forced my company on you, it's only fair
that l should pay through the nose for it.
402
00:25:13,386 --> 00:25:15,638
Please don't insist.
l should so much rather we halved it.
403
00:25:15,722 --> 00:25:18,933
- l would really, please.
- l shall give in gracefully.
404
00:25:19,017 --> 00:25:21,060
We haIved it meticulously.
405
00:25:22,103 --> 00:25:24,104
We even haIved the tip.
406
00:25:27,150 --> 00:25:29,109
♪♪ [ Orchestra ]
407
00:25:33,740 --> 00:25:35,658
- Thank you.
- [ Coin Clinks ]
408
00:25:36,910 --> 00:25:39,828
We have two choices:
The Loves of Cardinal Richelieu at the Palace...
409
00:25:39,913 --> 00:25:42,122
- or Love in a Mist at the Palladium.
- You're very knowledgeable.
410
00:25:42,207 --> 00:25:45,292
There must be no argument about buying
the tickets. We each pay for ourselves.
411
00:25:45,377 --> 00:25:48,379
You must think me a very poor doctor
if l can't afford a couple of one-and-ninepennies.
412
00:25:48,463 --> 00:25:50,631
- l insist.
- l had hoped you were going to treat me.
413
00:25:50,715 --> 00:25:53,259
- Which is it to be: Palace or Palladium?
- Palladium.
414
00:25:53,343 --> 00:25:56,428
l was once very sick on a channel steamer
called Cardinal Richelieu.
415
00:25:57,013 --> 00:26:00,099
♪♪ [ Film: Orchestral Theme ]
416
00:26:19,828 --> 00:26:23,455
- [ Screaming ]
- [ Shouting ]
417
00:26:37,679 --> 00:26:39,179
Excuse me.
418
00:26:41,016 --> 00:26:43,517

l feel awfully grand perched up here.
lt was very extravagant of you.
419
00:26:43,602 --> 00:26:46,228
- lt was a famous victory.
- Do you feel guilty at all? l do.
420
00:26:46,354 --> 00:26:49,648
- Guilty?
- You ought to more than me really.
You neglected your work this afternoon.
421
00:26:49,733 --> 00:26:53,193
l worked this morning. A little
relaxation never did harm to anyone.
422
00:26:53,278 --> 00:26:55,362
Why should either of us feel guilty?
423
00:26:55,447 --> 00:26:58,782
- l don't know.
- How awfully nice you are.

424
00:26:58,867 --> 00:27:00,159
♪♪ [ Organ ]
425
00:27:12,589 --> 00:27:14,423
lt can't be.
426
00:27:15,717 --> 00:27:17,676
lt is.
427
00:27:17,761 --> 00:27:19,720
[ Both Laughing ]
428
00:27:20,805 --> 00:27:23,223
We walked back to the station together.
429
00:27:23,308 --> 00:27:26,518
Just as we reached the gates,
he put his hand under my arm.
430
00:27:27,020 --> 00:27:30,397
I didn't notice it then,
but l remember it now.
431
00:27:30,482 --> 00:27:33,233
- What's she like - your wife?
- Madeleine?
432
00:27:33,318 --> 00:27:36,445
Small, dark, rather delicate.
433
00:27:36,529 --> 00:27:38,489
How funny. l should have thought
she would've been fair.
434
00:27:38,573 --> 00:27:40,658
And your husband? What's he like?
435
00:27:40,742 --> 00:27:45,120
Medium height, brown hair, kindly,
unemotional and not delicate at all.

436
00:27:45,205 --> 00:27:47,498
- You said that proudly.
- Did l?
437
00:27:47,582 --> 00:27:49,500
- Good evening.
- Good evening.
438
00:27:49,584 --> 00:27:52,169
We've just got time for a cup of tea
before our trains go.
439
00:27:52,253 --> 00:27:55,839
And for the third time in one week,
he brought that common man and his wife...
440
00:27:55,924 --> 00:27:58,175
to the house without so much
as a "by your leave."
441
00:27:58,259 --> 00:28:01,095

- Two teas, please.
- Cake or pastry?
442
00:28:01,179 --> 00:28:03,430
- Cake or pastry?
- No, thank you.
443
00:28:03,515 --> 00:28:06,475
- Are those Bath buns fresh?
- Certainly they are. Made this morning.
444
00:28:06,559 --> 00:28:08,477
Two, please.
445
00:28:09,938 --> 00:28:11,855
That'll be sevenpence.
446
00:28:12,816 --> 00:28:16,276
- Take the tea to the table, Beryl.
- l'll carry the buns.
447
00:28:20,949 --> 00:28:22,866
You must eat one of these.
Fresh this morning.
448
00:28:22,951 --> 00:28:25,244
- Very fattening.
- l don't hold to such foolishness.
449
00:28:25,328 --> 00:28:27,121
They do look good, l must say.
450
00:28:27,205 --> 00:28:29,707
One of my earliest passions in life.
l've never outgrown it.
451
00:28:29,791 --> 00:28:32,710
- [ Beryl ] What happened then, Mrs. Bagot?
- Well -
452
00:28:32,794 --> 00:28:36,046
Well, it's all very fine, l said,
expecting me to do this, that and that other...

453
00:28:36,131 --> 00:28:38,048
but what do l get out of it?
454
00:28:38,133 --> 00:28:41,802
You can't expect me to be a cook, housekeeper
and char rolled into one during the day...
455
00:28:41,886 --> 00:28:44,888
and a loving wife in the evening,
just because you feel like it.
456
00:28:44,973 --> 00:28:49,810
Oh, dear me, no. There are just as good
fish in the sea, l said, as ever came out of it.
457
00:28:49,894 --> 00:28:52,104
And l packed me boxes
then and there and left him.
458
00:28:52,188 --> 00:28:54,982

- Didn't you never go back?
- Never.
459
00:28:55,066 --> 00:28:57,693
Went to my sister's place
at Folkestone for a bit.
460
00:28:57,777 --> 00:29:01,280
Then l went in with a friend of mine,
and we opened a tea shop in Hythe.
461
00:29:01,364 --> 00:29:04,908
- What happened to him?
- Dead as a doornail inside three years.
462
00:29:04,993 --> 00:29:06,744
Well, l never.
463
00:29:08,329 --> 00:29:11,248
ls tea bad for one?
Worse than coffee, l mean?

464
00:29:11,332 --> 00:29:14,084
lf this is a professional interview,
my fee is a guinea.
465
00:29:14,169 --> 00:29:17,463
- Why did you become a doctor?
- That's a long story.
466
00:29:18,006 --> 00:29:19,798
Perhaps because l'm a bit of an idealist.
467
00:29:19,883 --> 00:29:22,134
l should think all doctors
ought to have ideals really.
468
00:29:22,218 --> 00:29:25,095
- Otherwise their work would be unbearable.
- Surely you're not encouraging me to talk shop?
469
00:29:25,180 --> 00:29:27,514
Why shouldn't you talk shop?

lt's what interests you most, isn't it?
470
00:29:27,599 --> 00:29:31,435
Yes, it is. l'm terribly ambitious really.
471
00:29:31,519 --> 00:29:34,563
Not ambitious for myself
so much as for my special pigeon.
472
00:29:34,647 --> 00:29:37,357
- What is your special pigeon?
- Preventive medicine.
473
00:29:37,442 --> 00:29:40,235
- l see.
- l'm afraid you don't.
474
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:43,280
- l was trying to be intelligent.
- Most good doctors...
475
00:29:43,364 --> 00:29:45,491
especially when they're young,
have private dreams.
476
00:29:45,575 --> 00:29:47,743
That's the best part of them.
Sometimes, though...
477
00:29:47,827 --> 00:29:50,120
those get over-professionalized
and strangulated - am l boring you?
478
00:29:50,205 --> 00:29:52,956
No, l don't quite understand,
but you're not boring me.
479
00:29:53,041 --> 00:29:58,253
What l mean is this: All good doctors
must primarily be enthusiasts.
480
00:29:58,338 --> 00:30:01,381
They must, like writers

and painters and priests -
481
00:30:01,466 --> 00:30:03,383
they must have a sense of vocation...
482
00:30:03,468 --> 00:30:07,137
- a deep-rooted, unsentimental desire to do good.
- Yes, l see that.
483
00:30:07,222 --> 00:30:10,474
Well, obviously one way of preventing disease
is worth 50 ways of curing it.
484
00:30:10,558 --> 00:30:12,392
That's where my ideal comes in.
485
00:30:12,477 --> 00:30:14,895
Preventive medicine isn't anything to do
with medicine at all really.
486
00:30:14,979 --> 00:30:19,233

lt's concerned with conditions -
living conditions and hygiene and common sense.
487
00:30:19,317 --> 00:30:22,277
For instance, my speciality is pneumoconiosis.
488
00:30:22,362 --> 00:30:26,448
- Oh, dear.
- Don't be alarmed. lt's simpler than it sounds.
489
00:30:26,533 --> 00:30:28,909
lt's nothing but a slow process
of fibrosis of the lung...
490
00:30:28,993 --> 00:30:31,286
due to the inhalation of particles of dust.
491
00:30:31,371 --> 00:30:33,372
ln the hospital here
there are splendid opportunities...
492
00:30:33,456 --> 00:30:36,166
for observing cures and making notes
because of the coal mines.
493
00:30:36,251 --> 00:30:38,085
You suddenly look much younger.
494
00:30:38,169 --> 00:30:41,713
- Do l?
- Almost like a little boy.
495
00:30:42,257 --> 00:30:44,424
What made you say that?
496
00:30:45,051 --> 00:30:46,844
l don't know.
497
00:30:46,928 --> 00:30:48,554
Yes, l do.
498
00:30:49,055 --> 00:30:50,597

Tell me.
499
00:30:51,140 --> 00:30:55,602
Oh, no, l couldn't, really.
You were saying about the coal mines.
500
00:30:56,187 --> 00:30:58,772
Oh, yes, the inhalation of coal dust.
501
00:31:00,525 --> 00:31:04,570
That's one specific form of the disease.
lt's called anthracosis.
502
00:31:05,780 --> 00:31:08,365
What are the others?
503
00:31:08,449 --> 00:31:12,202
Chalicosis -
that comes from metal dust -
504
00:31:12,287 --> 00:31:14,538

steelworks, you know.
505
00:31:14,622 --> 00:31:16,874
Yes, of course, steelworks.
506
00:31:16,958 --> 00:31:19,877
And silicosis -
507
00:31:19,961 --> 00:31:23,922
that's stone dust - gold mines.
508
00:31:25,091 --> 00:31:28,886
- l see.
- [ Bell Ringing ]
509
00:31:28,970 --> 00:31:30,554
- Yes.
510
00:31:30,638 --> 00:31:33,348
- You mustn't miss it.

- No.
511
00:31:33,433 --> 00:31:36,476
- What's the matter?
- Nothing. Nothing at all, really.
512
00:31:38,104 --> 00:31:40,230
lt's been so very nice.
l've enjoyed my afternoon enormously.
513
00:31:40,315 --> 00:31:43,734
l'm so glad. So have l. l apologize
for boring you with long medical words.
514
00:31:43,818 --> 00:31:46,945
l feel dull and stupid
not to be able to understand more.
515
00:31:47,739 --> 00:31:49,615
Shall l see you again?
516
00:31:49,699 --> 00:31:51,700
lt's the other platform, isn't it?
You'll have to run.
517
00:31:51,784 --> 00:31:53,911
Don't bother about me.
Mine's not due for a few minutes.
518
00:31:53,995 --> 00:31:55,746
Shall l see you again?
519
00:31:55,830 --> 00:31:57,956
Yes, of course. Perhaps you'd come out
to Ketchworth one Sunday.
520
00:31:58,041 --> 00:32:01,084
- lt's rather far, l know, but we should be delighted.
- Please, please.
521
00:32:01,169 --> 00:32:03,128
- What is it?
- Next Thursday, the same time.

522
00:32:05,089 --> 00:32:07,466
- No, l couldn't possibly.
- Please.
523
00:32:07,550 --> 00:32:10,344
l ask you most humbly.
524
00:32:10,428 --> 00:32:13,472
- You'll miss your train.
- All right.
525
00:32:14,515 --> 00:32:15,974
- Run.
- Good-bye.
526
00:32:16,059 --> 00:32:17,559
l'll be there.
527
00:32:17,644 --> 00:32:19,519
Thank you, my dear.

528
00:32:47,465 --> 00:32:51,385
I stood there and watched his train
draw out of the station.
529
00:32:52,804 --> 00:32:58,225
l stared after it until its taiIlight
had vanished into the darkness.
530
00:33:00,979 --> 00:33:03,563
I imagined him getting out at Churley...
531
00:33:03,648 --> 00:33:06,149
giving up his ticket...
532
00:33:06,234 --> 00:33:08,694
waIking back through the streets...
533
00:33:08,778 --> 00:33:12,030
letting himseIf into his house
with his Iatchkey.

534
00:33:12,615 --> 00:33:15,575
His wife - Madeleine -
535
00:33:16,536 --> 00:33:19,413
would probably be in the haIl to meet him.
536
00:33:20,456 --> 00:33:24,668
Or perhaps upstairs in her room,
not feeIing very welI.
537
00:33:24,752 --> 00:33:27,504
"Small, dark and rather deIicate."
538
00:33:28,589 --> 00:33:31,174
I wondered if he'd say...
539
00:33:31,259 --> 00:33:34,094
"l met such a nice woman at the Kardomah.
540
00:33:34,178 --> 00:33:36,596
We had lunch and went to the pictures."
541
00:33:38,683 --> 00:33:40,684
Then suddenly, l knew that he wouIdn't.
542
00:33:40,768 --> 00:33:43,353
I knew beyond a shadow of doubt
that he wouldn't say a word.
543
00:33:43,438 --> 00:33:46,690
At that moment, the first awful feeIing
of danger swept over me.
544
00:33:46,774 --> 00:33:48,734
545
00:33:55,658 --> 00:33:57,701
I got into the first compartment l saw.
546
00:33:57,785 --> 00:33:59,995

l wanted to get home as quickIy as possible.
547
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:04,833
l looked hurriedIy round the carriage
to see if anyone was Iooking at me...
548
00:34:04,917 --> 00:34:07,502
as if they couId read my secret thoughts.
549
00:34:07,587 --> 00:34:10,964
No one was, except a cIergyman
in the opposite corner.
550
00:34:11,049 --> 00:34:16,136
I felt myself blushing and opened
my library book and pretended to read.
551
00:34:18,639 --> 00:34:21,016
By the time l'd got to Ketchworth,
l'd made up my mind definitely...
552
00:34:21,100 --> 00:34:23,518
- that I wasn't going to see Alec anymore.
- Good evening, Mrs. Jesson.
553
00:34:23,603 --> 00:34:27,355
lt was silly and undignified,
flirting like that with a complete stranger.
554
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:29,775
Oh, good evening.
555
00:34:29,859 --> 00:34:32,486
I walked up to the house
quite briskly and cheerfully.
556
00:34:32,570 --> 00:34:35,614
l'd been behaving like an idiot, admittedIy,
but after all, no harm had been done.
557
00:34:38,659 --> 00:34:42,829
You met me in the hall. Your face was
strained and worried, and my heart sank.

558
00:34:42,914 --> 00:34:44,706
Fred, what's the matter?
559
00:34:44,832 --> 00:34:48,502
- lt's all right, old girl,
but you must keep calm and not be upset.
- What is it? What's wrong?
560
00:34:48,586 --> 00:34:51,046
lt's Bobby. He was knocked down
by a car on the way home from school.
561
00:34:51,130 --> 00:34:53,673
Now it's not serious.
He was just grazed by the mudguard...
562
00:34:53,758 --> 00:34:55,759
but it knocked him against the curb,
and he's got slight concussion.
563
00:34:55,843 --> 00:34:58,512
The doctor's upstairs with him now.
564
00:35:04,644 --> 00:35:06,728
lt's all right, Mrs. Jesson.
Nothing to worry about.
565
00:35:06,813 --> 00:35:09,731
He'll be as right as rain in a few hours.
566
00:35:10,983 --> 00:35:13,443
You're sure? You're sure it's not serious?
567
00:35:13,528 --> 00:35:17,280
Quite sure, but it was
certainly a very lucky escape.
568
00:35:17,365 --> 00:35:19,741
l've given him a little sedative,
and l shall advise...
569
00:35:19,826 --> 00:35:21,743
keeping him at home for a couple of days.
570
00:35:21,828 --> 00:35:23,745
lt must have been a bit of a shock -
[ Voice Fades ]
571
00:35:23,830 --> 00:35:26,373
l feIt so dreadful, Fred,
Iooking at him, Iying there...
572
00:35:26,457 --> 00:35:27,958
with that bandage round his head.
573
00:35:28,042 --> 00:35:30,961
l tried not to show it,
but I was quite hysterical inside...
574
00:35:31,045 --> 00:35:33,463
as though the whole thing were my fault -
575
00:35:33,548 --> 00:35:37,425
a sort of punishment,
an awful, sinister warning.
576
00:35:39,095 --> 00:35:42,264
An hour or two later, of course,
everything became quite normal again.
577
00:35:42,348 --> 00:35:44,349
He began to enjoy
the whole thing thoroughIy...
578
00:35:44,433 --> 00:35:47,102
and reveled in the fact
that he was the center of attraction.
579
00:35:47,186 --> 00:35:49,104
- Oh, good!
- [ Chuckling ]
580
00:35:49,188 --> 00:35:52,315
Do you remember how we spent

the whole evening planning his future?
581
00:35:53,651 --> 00:35:55,944
But he's much too young to decide really.
582
00:35:56,028 --> 00:35:57,946
Good life, if the boy has a feeling for it.
583
00:35:58,030 --> 00:36:00,740
How can he possibly really know
if he has a feeling for it?
584
00:36:00,825 --> 00:36:03,076
He'll probably want to be
an engine driver next week.
585
00:36:03,161 --> 00:36:05,912
No, it was last week
he wanted to be an engine driver.
586
00:36:05,997 --> 00:36:09,666

lt seems so final, somehow,
entering a child of that age for the navy.
587
00:36:09,750 --> 00:36:11,877
- lt's a healthy life.
- l know it's a good life...
588
00:36:11,961 --> 00:36:13,670
and l know it's a healthy life...
589
00:36:13,754 --> 00:36:16,756
and l know he'll be able to see the world
and have a wife in every port...
590
00:36:16,841 --> 00:36:19,384
and keep on calling everybody "sir,"
but what about us?
591
00:36:19,468 --> 00:36:22,345
- What do you mean, "What about us?"
- We shall hardly ever see him.

592
00:36:22,430 --> 00:36:25,265
- Oh, nonsense.
- lt isn't nonsense.
593
00:36:25,349 --> 00:36:28,059
He'll be sent away to sea
as a smooth-faced boy...
594
00:36:28,144 --> 00:36:31,438
and the next thing we know, he'll come
walking in with a long beard and a parrot.
595
00:36:31,522 --> 00:36:35,692
l think you take rather
a Victorian view of the navy, my dear.
596
00:36:35,776 --> 00:36:38,987
He's our only son, and l should like
to be there while he's growing up.
597
00:36:39,071 --> 00:36:41,323

All right, old girl.
Then we'll put him into an office...
598
00:36:41,407 --> 00:36:44,201
and you can see him off
on the 8:50 every morning.
599
00:36:44,285 --> 00:36:47,329
You really are very annoying.
You know perfectly well l should hate that.
600
00:36:47,413 --> 00:36:49,831
All right, have it your own way.
601
00:36:53,294 --> 00:36:55,253
- Fred?
- Hmm?
602
00:36:57,048 --> 00:36:59,758
l had lunch with a strange man today,
and he took me to the movies.

603
00:36:59,842 --> 00:37:01,384
Good for you.
604
00:37:01,969 --> 00:37:04,221
He's awfully nice. He's a doctor.
605
00:37:04,931 --> 00:37:07,641
A very noble profession.
606
00:37:08,726 --> 00:37:10,101
Oh, dear.
607
00:37:11,312 --> 00:37:14,481
lt was Richard lll who said
"My kingdom for a horse," wasn't it?
608
00:37:14,565 --> 00:37:16,066
Yes, darling.
609
00:37:16,150 --> 00:37:19,277

Yes, well, l wish to goodness he hadn't,
'cause it spoils everything.
610
00:37:20,488 --> 00:37:23,073
l thought perhaps we might
ask him to dinner one night.
611
00:37:23,157 --> 00:37:25,116
By all means.
612
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:27,661
Who?
613
00:37:28,329 --> 00:37:31,248
Dr. Harvey -
the one l was telling you about.
614
00:37:31,332 --> 00:37:33,708
- Must it be dinner?
- Well, you're never at home for lunch.
615
00:37:33,793 --> 00:37:35,710
Exactly.
616
00:37:36,879 --> 00:37:39,965
Oh, Fred.
[ Laughing ]
617
00:37:40,049 --> 00:37:42,509
Now what on earth's the matter?
618
00:37:43,552 --> 00:37:46,721
lt's nothing. lt's only - Oh, Fred.
619
00:37:47,306 --> 00:37:49,599
l really don't see what's so frightfully funny.
620
00:37:49,684 --> 00:37:52,394
Oh, l do. lt's all right, darling.
l'm not laughing at you.
621
00:37:52,478 --> 00:37:55,146

l'm laughing at me.
l'm the one that's funny.
622
00:37:55,231 --> 00:37:59,442
l'm an absolute idiot, worrying myself
about things that don't exist...
623
00:37:59,527 --> 00:38:01,861
and making mountains out of molehills.
624
00:38:01,946 --> 00:38:04,698
l told you when you came in
that it was nothing serious.
625
00:38:04,782 --> 00:38:06,825
There was nothing to get
into such a state about.
626
00:38:06,909 --> 00:38:09,327
l do see that now, l really do.
627
00:38:09,412 --> 00:38:11,371
[ Laughing ]
628
00:38:18,504 --> 00:38:20,964
When Thursday came,
l went to meet Alec...
629
00:38:21,048 --> 00:38:24,301
more as a matter of politeness
than for any other reason.
630
00:38:24,385 --> 00:38:28,263
It didn't seem of any importance,
but, after alI, l had promised.
631
00:38:29,223 --> 00:38:31,266
l managed to get the same table.
632
00:38:31,851 --> 00:38:34,728
l waited a bit, but he didn't come.
633
00:38:35,563 --> 00:38:38,606
The ladies' orchestra
was playing away, as usual.
634
00:38:38,691 --> 00:38:42,068
l looked at the cellist.
She had seemed to be so funny last week...
635
00:38:42,153 --> 00:38:44,738
but today, she didn't seem funny anymore.
636
00:38:44,822 --> 00:38:46,906
She looked pathetic, poor thing.
637
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:51,911
After Iunch,
I happened to pass by the hospital.
638
00:38:52,913 --> 00:38:55,874
l remember looking up at the windows
and wondering if he were there...

639
00:38:55,958 --> 00:38:59,294
or whether something awful
had happened to prevent him turning up.
640
00:38:59,378 --> 00:39:01,338
l got to the station earlier than usual.
641
00:39:01,422 --> 00:39:03,340
I hadn't enjoyed the pictures much.
642
00:39:03,424 --> 00:39:06,509
lt was one of those noisy
musical things, and l'm so sick of them.
643
00:39:06,594 --> 00:39:08,678
I had come out before it was over.
644
00:39:08,763 --> 00:39:13,099
As l took my tea to the table,
I suddenly wondered if I'd made a mistake...

645
00:39:13,184 --> 00:39:15,268
and he'd meant me to meet him there.
646
00:39:30,117 --> 00:39:32,535
- [ Slap ]
- [ Mrs. Bagot ] Albert Godby, how dare you!
647
00:39:32,620 --> 00:39:35,538
- l couldn't resist.
- l'll trouble you to keep your hands to yourself.
648
00:39:35,623 --> 00:39:39,667
Oh, you're blushing. You look wonderful
when you're angry, just like an avenging angel.
649
00:39:39,752 --> 00:39:43,046
l'll give you avenging angel,
coming in here taking liberties.
650
00:39:43,130 --> 00:39:46,257
l thought after what you said last Monday

you wouldn't object to a friendly little slap.
651
00:39:46,342 --> 00:39:49,344
Never you mind about last Monday.
l'm on duty now.
652
00:39:49,428 --> 00:39:52,263
A nice thing if Mr. Saunders had happened
to be looking through the window.
653
00:39:52,348 --> 00:39:54,307
lf Mr. Saunders is in the habit
of looking through windows...
654
00:39:54,392 --> 00:39:56,309
it's about time he saw something
worth looking at.
655
00:39:56,394 --> 00:40:00,063
- You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
- lt's high spirits, don't be mad at me.

656
00:40:00,147 --> 00:40:03,316
High spirits, indeed.
Take your tea, and be quiet.
657
00:40:03,401 --> 00:40:06,486
- lt's all your fault, really.
- l don't know to what you're referring.
658
00:40:06,570 --> 00:40:08,738
l was thinking of, um, tonight.
659
00:40:08,823 --> 00:40:13,368
lf you don't learn to behave yourself, there
won't be a tonight or any other night, either.
660
00:40:13,452 --> 00:40:16,037
- Give us a kiss.
- l'll do no such thing. The lady might see us.
661
00:40:16,122 --> 00:40:18,289
- Come on, a quick one across the bar.

- Albert, stop it!
662
00:40:18,374 --> 00:40:20,417
- Come, there's a love.
- Let go of me this minute.
663
00:40:20,501 --> 00:40:23,837
Albert! Now look at me Banburys
all over the floor.
664
00:40:25,673 --> 00:40:27,966
Just in time, or born in the vestry?
665
00:40:28,050 --> 00:40:31,845
You shut your mouth
and help Mr. Godby pick up them cakes.
666
00:40:32,471 --> 00:40:34,681
Come along now -
what are you standing there gaping at?
667
00:40:37,017 --> 00:40:38,977
- [ Door Closes ]
- [ Bell Ringing ]
668
00:40:52,867 --> 00:40:54,367
669
00:40:54,452 --> 00:40:59,164
As l left the refreshment room,
l saw a train coming in - his train.
670
00:40:59,248 --> 00:41:02,417
He wasn't on the platform,
and I suddenly felt panic-stricken...
671
00:41:02,501 --> 00:41:04,919
at the thought of not seeing him again.
672
00:41:12,052 --> 00:41:14,596
My dear, l'm so sorry.
l'd no way of letting you know.

673
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:17,765
- Your train, you'll miss it.
- The house surgeon had to operate suddenly.
674
00:41:24,482 --> 00:41:27,901
l was going to send a note
to the Kardomah, but l thought they might
shout your name out and embarrass you.
675
00:41:27,985 --> 00:41:29,652
Please don't say any more.
676
00:41:33,199 --> 00:41:35,867
[ Whistle Blowing ]
677
00:41:35,951 --> 00:41:38,077
Quickly, quickly, the whistle's gone.
678
00:41:38,954 --> 00:41:40,497
[ Train Whistle Blows ]

679
00:41:41,373 --> 00:41:44,417
l'm so glad l had a chance to explain.
l didn't think l'd see you again.
680
00:41:44,502 --> 00:41:46,461
How absurd. Quickly, quickly.
681
00:41:48,464 --> 00:41:50,381
- Next Thursday?
- Yes, next Thursday.
682
00:41:50,466 --> 00:41:52,050
- Good-bye!
- Good-bye!
683
00:41:52,134 --> 00:41:54,219
Next Thursday! Good-bye!
684
00:41:55,763 --> 00:42:01,392
is about to leave from platform three.

685
00:42:01,477 --> 00:42:03,394
[ Laughing ]
686
00:42:03,479 --> 00:42:05,438
[ Donald Duck Quacking ]
687
00:42:11,904 --> 00:42:14,822
The stars can change in their courses,
the universe go up in flames...
688
00:42:14,907 --> 00:42:17,575
and the world crash around us,
but there'll always be Donald Duck.
689
00:42:17,660 --> 00:42:21,162
l do love him so - his dreadful energy
and his blind frustrated rages.
690
00:42:21,247 --> 00:42:22,705
♪♪ [ Orchestral Theme ]
691
00:42:22,790 --> 00:42:27,085
lt's the big picture now. Here we go.
No more laughter. Prepare for tears.
692
00:42:31,298 --> 00:42:33,508
[ Laura's Voice ]
It was a terribIy bad picture.
693
00:42:33,592 --> 00:42:36,886
We crept out before the end,
rather furtively...
694
00:42:36,971 --> 00:42:39,389
as though we were committing a crime.
695
00:42:39,473 --> 00:42:42,642
The usherette at the door
looked at us with stony contempt.
696
00:42:43,602 --> 00:42:47,272

It was a lovely afternoon,
and it was a relief to be in the fresh air.
697
00:42:47,356 --> 00:42:49,857
We decided we'd go to the botanical gardens.
698
00:42:49,942 --> 00:42:52,902
Do you know, l believe we should
aIl behave quite differentIy...
699
00:42:52,987 --> 00:42:55,780
if we lived in a warm,
sunny climate aIl the time.
700
00:42:55,864 --> 00:42:58,658
We shouldn't be so withdrawn
and shy and difficult.
701
00:42:59,868 --> 00:43:02,078
Oh, Fred, it really was a lovely afternoon.
702
00:43:02,162 --> 00:43:05,915
There were some little boys sailing their boats.
One of them looked awfully like Bobby.
703
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:09,043
That should have given me
a pang of conscience, l know, but it didn't.
704
00:43:09,128 --> 00:43:13,047
l was enjoying myself -
enjoying every single minute.
705
00:43:13,132 --> 00:43:15,592
Alec suddenly said that he was
sick of staring at the water...
706
00:43:15,676 --> 00:43:17,677
and that he wanted to be on it.
707
00:43:18,637 --> 00:43:22,640
All the boats were covered up, but we managed
to persuade the old man to let us have one.

708
00:43:23,267 --> 00:43:27,520
He thought we were raving mad.
Perhaps he was right.
709
00:43:28,272 --> 00:43:30,273
Alec rode off at a great rate...
710
00:43:30,357 --> 00:43:32,442
and l trailed my hand in the water.
711
00:43:32,526 --> 00:43:35,445
It was very cold, but a lovely feeling.
712
00:43:41,035 --> 00:43:43,536
You don't row very well, do you?
713
00:43:43,621 --> 00:43:46,164
l'm going to be perfectly honest
with you - l don't row at all...

714
00:43:46,248 --> 00:43:48,708
and unless you want to go round
and round in ever-narrowing circles...
715
00:43:48,792 --> 00:43:50,918
you'd better start steering.
716
00:43:53,005 --> 00:43:54,922
Oh, we had such fun, Fred.
717
00:43:55,007 --> 00:43:57,884
I felt gay and happy and sort of released.
718
00:43:58,636 --> 00:44:01,137
That's what's so shameful about it aIl.
719
00:44:01,221 --> 00:44:04,140
That's what would hurt you
so much if you knew -
720
00:44:04,224 --> 00:44:06,601
that I could feel as intensely as that...
721
00:44:06,685 --> 00:44:10,229
away from you, with a stranger.
722
00:44:12,107 --> 00:44:15,360
- Oh, look out! We can't get through!
- Pull on your left!
723
00:44:20,574 --> 00:44:24,077
Oh. Oh, dear, l never could
tell left from right.
724
00:44:24,161 --> 00:44:26,120
l'm most awfully sorry.
725
00:44:35,255 --> 00:44:38,007
- [ Splashes ]
- [ Laughing ]
726
00:44:39,051 --> 00:44:40,927
[ Laughing Continues ]
727
00:44:43,597 --> 00:44:45,556
[ Laughing ]
728
00:44:49,478 --> 00:44:52,355
You know the British have always
been nice to mad people.
729
00:44:52,439 --> 00:44:56,401
That boatman thinks we're quite dotty,
but look how sweet he's been.
730
00:44:56,485 --> 00:44:59,612
Tea, milk, even sugar.
731
00:45:05,369 --> 00:45:06,869
Thank you.
732
00:45:20,092 --> 00:45:22,510

You know what's happened, don't you?
733
00:45:24,972 --> 00:45:26,931
Yes.
734
00:45:27,015 --> 00:45:29,475
Yes, l do.
735
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:31,978
l've fallen in love with you.
736
00:45:34,022 --> 00:45:35,982
Yes, l know.
737
00:45:39,486 --> 00:45:43,823
Tell me honestly. Please tell me honestly
if what l believe is true.
738
00:45:44,867 --> 00:45:48,077
- What do you believe?
- That it's the same with you -

739
00:45:48,162 --> 00:45:50,621
that you've fallen in love too.
740
00:45:52,249 --> 00:45:54,167
- lt sounds so silly.
- Why?
741
00:45:54,251 --> 00:45:57,170
- l know you so little.
- lt is true though, isn't it?
742
00:45:59,673 --> 00:46:01,591
- Yes, it's true.
- Laura.
743
00:46:01,675 --> 00:46:04,802
No, please, we must be sensible.
Please help me to be sensible.
744
00:46:04,887 --> 00:46:08,806

We mustn't behave like this. We must
forget that we've said what we've said.
745
00:46:08,891 --> 00:46:12,518
- Not yet, not quite yet.
- But we must. Don't you see?
746
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:18,524
Listen, it's too late now
to be as sensible as all that.
747
00:46:18,609 --> 00:46:20,610
lt's too late to forget what we've said...
748
00:46:20,694 --> 00:46:23,654
and anyway, whether we'd said it or not
couldn't have mattered.
749
00:46:23,739 --> 00:46:26,365
We know.
We've both of us known for a long time.

750
00:46:27,367 --> 00:46:29,577
How can you say that?
751
00:46:29,661 --> 00:46:31,996
l've only known you for four weeks.
752
00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:34,832
We only talked for the first time
last Thursday week.
753
00:46:34,917 --> 00:46:36,834
Last Thursday week.
754
00:46:37,377 --> 00:46:39,670
Has it been a long time for you since then?
755
00:46:39,755 --> 00:46:41,464
Answer me truly.
756
00:46:42,049 --> 00:46:43,466

Yes.
757
00:46:43,550 --> 00:46:47,011
How often did you decide that
you were never going to see me again?
758
00:46:47,095 --> 00:46:48,805
- Several times a day.
- So did l.
759
00:46:48,889 --> 00:46:53,601
- Oh, Alec.
- l love you. l love your wide eyes...
760
00:46:53,685 --> 00:46:55,978
and the way you smile...
761
00:46:56,063 --> 00:46:58,397
and your shyness...
762
00:46:58,482 --> 00:47:00,817

- and the way you laugh at my jokes.
- Please don't.
763
00:47:00,901 --> 00:47:04,195
l love you. l love you. You love me too.
764
00:47:04,279 --> 00:47:07,281
lt's no use pretending
it hasn't happened, because it has.
765
00:47:07,366 --> 00:47:09,158
Yes, it has.
766
00:47:09,243 --> 00:47:12,495
l don't want to pretend anything
either to you or to anyone else...
767
00:47:12,579 --> 00:47:14,497
but from now on, l shall have to.
768
00:47:14,581 --> 00:47:18,000

That's what's wrong, don't you see?
That's what spoils everything.
769
00:47:18,085 --> 00:47:21,546
That's why we must stop
here and now talking like this.
770
00:47:21,630 --> 00:47:25,967
We're neither of us free to love each other.
There's too much in the way.
771
00:47:26,051 --> 00:47:28,261
There's still time...
772
00:47:28,345 --> 00:47:32,890
if we control ourselves
and behave like sensible human beings.
773
00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:35,601
There's still time to -
774
00:47:35,686 --> 00:47:37,854
[ Sobbing ]
775
00:47:37,938 --> 00:47:40,022
There's no time at all.
776
00:47:40,107 --> 00:47:41,649
[ Ringing ]
777
00:47:42,985 --> 00:47:46,529
- Yes.
778
00:47:46,613 --> 00:47:49,073
l'll come over to the platform with you.
779
00:47:52,578 --> 00:47:54,495
[ Bell Ringing ]
780
00:48:10,095 --> 00:48:12,722
No, Alec, not here. Someone will see.

781
00:48:12,806 --> 00:48:14,724
l love you so.
782
00:48:19,021 --> 00:48:20,980
[ Train Rumbling ]
783
00:48:22,149 --> 00:48:27,069
♪♪ [ Radio Blaring: Classical ]
784
00:48:27,154 --> 00:48:29,989
[ Fred ] Do you think we might
have that down a bit, darling?
785
00:48:30,616 --> 00:48:32,533
Hi, Laura.
786
00:48:34,119 --> 00:48:37,955
- Yes, dear?
- You were miles away.

787
00:48:38,040 --> 00:48:40,583
- ♪♪ [ Continues ]
- Was l? Yes, l suppose l was.
788
00:48:40,667 --> 00:48:43,336
Do you mind if we turn that down
a little? lt really is deafening.
789
00:48:43,420 --> 00:48:45,338
No, of course not.
790
00:48:49,009 --> 00:48:50,927
♪♪ [ Volume Decreases ]
791
00:48:53,889 --> 00:48:56,891
l shan't be long over this, darling,
then we'll go up to bed.
792
00:48:56,975 --> 00:48:58,684
You look a bit tired, you know.

793
00:48:59,269 --> 00:49:01,187
Don't hurry. l'm perfectly happy.
794
00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:12,782
[ Laura's Voice ]
How can l possibly say that?
795
00:49:13,450 --> 00:49:15,868
"Don't hurry. l'm perfectly happy."
796
00:49:16,912 --> 00:49:19,205
If only it were true.
797
00:49:19,289 --> 00:49:22,792
Not, l suppose, that anybody
is ever perfectly happy, really.
798
00:49:22,876 --> 00:49:27,004
But just to be ordinariIy contented,
to be at peace.
799
00:49:28,048 --> 00:49:30,925
lt's such a littIe while ago, realIy,
but it seems an eternity...
800
00:49:31,009 --> 00:49:33,970
since that train went out of the station...
801
00:49:34,054 --> 00:49:37,056
taking him away into the darkness.
802
00:49:37,140 --> 00:49:39,141
I was happy then.
803
00:49:39,226 --> 00:49:41,477
As l went back through
the subway to my own platform...
804
00:49:41,561 --> 00:49:43,729
l was walking on air.
805
00:49:43,814 --> 00:49:47,817
When l got into the train,
I didn't even pretend to read.
806
00:49:47,901 --> 00:49:51,529
l didn't care whether people were
Iooking at me or not. I had to think.
807
00:49:51,613 --> 00:49:55,491
I should have been utterly wretched and ashamed.
l know l should, but l wasn't.
808
00:49:55,575 --> 00:49:58,327
I felt suddenly quite wildly happy...
809
00:49:58,412 --> 00:50:02,665
Iike a romantic schoolgirl,
like a romantic fool.
810
00:50:02,749 --> 00:50:08,629
You see, he had said he loved me,
and l had said l loved him.

811
00:50:08,714 --> 00:50:11,674
And it was true. lt was true.
812
00:50:12,384 --> 00:50:15,219
l imagined him holding me in his arms.
813
00:50:15,303 --> 00:50:18,723
l imagined being with him in all sorts
of glamorous circumstances.
814
00:50:18,807 --> 00:50:22,018
lt was one of those absurd fantasies,
just like one has when one is a girl...
815
00:50:22,102 --> 00:50:25,104
being wooed and married
by the ideal of one's dreams.
816
00:50:30,277 --> 00:50:33,738
l stared out of that

raiIway carriage window into the dark...
817
00:50:33,822 --> 00:50:38,075
and watched the dim trees
and the teIegraph posts slipping by...
818
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:40,327
and through them, l saw Alec and me.
819
00:50:42,289 --> 00:50:44,623
Alec and me -
820
00:50:44,708 --> 00:50:47,960
perhaps a little younger than we are now,
but just as much in love...
821
00:50:48,045 --> 00:50:50,463
and with nothing in the way.
822
00:50:55,302 --> 00:50:58,471
I saw us in Paris, in a box at the opera.

823
00:50:58,555 --> 00:51:00,973
The orchestra was tuning up.
824
00:51:05,645 --> 00:51:09,231
Then we were in Venice, drifting along
the Grand Canal in a gondola...
825
00:51:09,316 --> 00:51:13,110
with the sound of mandoIins
coming to us over the water.
826
00:51:13,195 --> 00:51:15,696
I saw us traveling far away together...
827
00:51:15,781 --> 00:51:18,908
aIl the places I've always longed to go.
828
00:51:20,660 --> 00:51:24,622
I saw us leaning on the rail of a ship,
looking at the sea and the stars...

829
00:51:26,666 --> 00:51:28,709
standing on a tropicaI beach
in the moonlight...
830
00:51:28,794 --> 00:51:31,545
with the palm trees sighing above us.
831
00:51:32,130 --> 00:51:35,591
Then the palm trees changed into those
pollarded wiIlows by the canal...
832
00:51:35,675 --> 00:51:38,427
just before the level crossing...
833
00:51:38,512 --> 00:51:41,514
and all the silly dreams disappeared...
834
00:51:41,598 --> 00:51:45,476
and l got out at Ketchworth
and gave up my ticket...

835
00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:47,853
and walked home as usual...
836
00:51:47,938 --> 00:51:50,272
- quite soberly and without wings -
- [ Whistle Blows ]
837
00:51:50,357 --> 00:51:52,399
without any wings at all.
838
00:51:52,484 --> 00:51:55,528
When l had changed for dinner and was
doing my face a bit - Do you remember?
839
00:51:55,612 --> 00:51:58,280
I don't suppose you do, but l do.
840
00:51:58,365 --> 00:52:00,866
You see, you didn't know that that was
the first time in our life together...

841
00:52:00,951 --> 00:52:03,202
that I had ever lied to you.
842
00:52:03,286 --> 00:52:07,540
It started then -
the shame of the whole thing...
843
00:52:07,624 --> 00:52:11,127
the guiItiness, the fear.
844
00:52:11,211 --> 00:52:15,339
- Good evening, Mrs. Jesson.
- Hello, dear.
845
00:52:15,423 --> 00:52:17,633
- Had a good day?
- Yes, lovely.
846
00:52:18,552 --> 00:52:21,095
- What'd you do?

- Well, l shopped...
847
00:52:21,179 --> 00:52:23,097
and had lunch
and went to the pictures.
848
00:52:23,181 --> 00:52:25,474
- All by yourself?
- Yes.
849
00:52:25,559 --> 00:52:27,726
Uh, no, not exactly.
850
00:52:27,811 --> 00:52:30,187
What do you mean, "not exactly"?
851
00:52:30,272 --> 00:52:34,066
Well, l went to the pictures by myself,
but l had lunch with Mary Norton.
852
00:52:34,151 --> 00:52:37,069

She couldn't come to the pictures
'cause she had to go and see her in-laws.
853
00:52:37,154 --> 00:52:39,321
They live just outside Milford, you know.
854
00:52:39,406 --> 00:52:42,116
So l walked with her to the bus
and then came home on my own.
855
00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:44,994
Haven't seen Mary Norton for ages.
How is she looking?
856
00:52:45,078 --> 00:52:47,329
Very well, really. A little fatter, l thought.
857
00:52:47,414 --> 00:52:50,416
Hurry up with all this beautifying.
l want my dinner.
858
00:52:50,500 --> 00:52:52,418
You go on down. l won't be five minutes.
859
00:53:14,941 --> 00:53:17,359
- [ Operator ] Number, please?
- Ketchworth 3-7, please.
860
00:53:17,444 --> 00:53:19,403
Ketchworth 3-7.
861
00:53:26,369 --> 00:53:28,537
- [ Man ] Hello?
- Hello, is Mrs. Norton there, please?
862
00:53:28,622 --> 00:53:31,665
- Yes. WiIl you hold on?
- Yes, l'll hold on.
863
00:53:33,877 --> 00:53:35,961
- Hello?
- Hello? ls that you, Mary?

864
00:53:36,046 --> 00:53:39,632
Oh, Laura! Fancy hearing from you.
l thought you were dead.
865
00:53:39,716 --> 00:53:42,551
[ Chuckling ]
No, l haven't seen you for ages.
866
00:53:42,636 --> 00:53:44,720
Listen, my dear...
867
00:53:44,804 --> 00:53:48,057
will you be a saint and back me up
in the most appalling domestic lie?
868
00:53:48,141 --> 00:53:51,393
- As bad as all that?
- My life depends on it.
869
00:53:51,478 --> 00:53:54,730
Well, today, l went into Milford, as usual,

to do my shopping...
870
00:53:54,814 --> 00:53:58,984
with the special intention of buying
a far too expensive present for Fred's birthday.
871
00:53:59,069 --> 00:54:01,737
- [ Chuckles ]
- WelI, Spink and Robson's
hadn't got what l wanted...
872
00:54:01,821 --> 00:54:05,282
which was one of those clocks
with, um, barometers and everything in one...
873
00:54:05,367 --> 00:54:08,202
but they rang up their branch
in Broadham and said there was one there...
874
00:54:08,286 --> 00:54:10,412
so l hopped on the 1 :30 train
and went to get it.

875
00:54:10,497 --> 00:54:15,584
- Go on.
- Well, this is where the black lie comes in.
876
00:54:15,669 --> 00:54:18,921
Fred asked me if l'd had a good day,
and l said yes...
877
00:54:19,005 --> 00:54:22,049
and that you and l had lunch together
and that you had gone to see your in-laws...
878
00:54:22,133 --> 00:54:24,051
and l had gone to the pictures.
879
00:54:24,135 --> 00:54:28,597
- So if you run into him, don't let me down, will you?
- Darling, of course not.
880
00:54:28,682 --> 00:54:32,268

- l'll do as much for you, l promise.
- Well, Iet's really lunch one day.
881
00:54:32,352 --> 00:54:35,271
- Yes, that'd be lovely.
- What about next Thursday?
882
00:54:35,355 --> 00:54:39,483
No, l can't on Thursday.
That's my Milford day. What about Friday?
883
00:54:39,567 --> 00:54:43,612
- Fine, better make it here.
- All right, perfect.
884
00:54:43,697 --> 00:54:46,407
You know what my cook's like.
lt'll have to be early.
885
00:54:46,491 --> 00:54:48,826
Yes, all right.

886
00:54:48,910 --> 00:54:50,869
- Good-bye.
- Good-bye.
887
00:55:04,718 --> 00:55:07,177
[ Laura's Voice ]
That week was misery.
888
00:55:08,555 --> 00:55:10,973
I went through it in a sort of trance.
889
00:55:13,268 --> 00:55:17,146
How odd of you not to have noticed that
you were living with a stranger in the house.
890
00:55:19,774 --> 00:55:22,067
Thursday came at last.
891
00:55:22,152 --> 00:55:25,738
l had arranged to meet Alec
outside the hospital at 12:30.

892
00:55:32,495 --> 00:55:34,747
- Hello.
- Hello.
893
00:55:34,831 --> 00:55:38,751
l thought you wouldn't come. l've been
thinking all the week that you wouldn't come.
894
00:55:39,336 --> 00:55:42,755
l didn't mean to really, but here l am.
895
00:55:48,094 --> 00:55:51,555
Do you know, l hadn't been inside the Royal
since Violet's wedding reception.
896
00:55:51,639 --> 00:55:53,557
lt aIl seemed very grand.
897
00:55:53,641 --> 00:55:55,726
He actually ordered a bottle of champagne...

898
00:55:55,810 --> 00:55:58,729
and when l protested, he said
that we were only middle-aged once.
899
00:55:58,813 --> 00:56:01,899
We were very gay during Iunch
and taIked about quite ordinary things.
900
00:56:01,983 --> 00:56:03,692
Oh, Fred, he really was charming.
901
00:56:03,777 --> 00:56:06,570
I know you would have liked him
if only things had been different.
902
00:56:07,072 --> 00:56:09,573
As we were going out,
he said that he had a surprise for me...
903
00:56:09,657 --> 00:56:13,077

and that if l would wait in the lounge
for five minutes, he'd show me what it was.
904
00:56:13,161 --> 00:56:15,204
He went out and down the steps at a run...
905
00:56:15,288 --> 00:56:18,791
more like an excited schoolboy
than a respectabIe doctor.
906
00:56:19,459 --> 00:56:23,796
Suddenly out of the dining room came Mary Norton
and that rich over-made-up cousin of hers.
907
00:56:24,422 --> 00:56:26,382
They must have been
in the dining room all the time...
908
00:56:26,466 --> 00:56:28,384
and seen Alec and me
and the champagne and everything.

909
00:56:29,803 --> 00:56:33,305
Laura! So it was you after all.
Hermione said it was.
910
00:56:33,390 --> 00:56:35,432
- How are you?
- You know how shortsighted l am.
911
00:56:35,517 --> 00:56:37,434
l peered and peered and still couldn't be sure.
912
00:56:37,519 --> 00:56:40,729
l never saw you at all. How awful of me.
l expect it was the champagne.
913
00:56:40,814 --> 00:56:42,815
l'm not used to champagne for lunch.
914
00:56:42,899 --> 00:56:45,359
Or for dinner either, for that matter,
but Alec insisted.

915
00:56:45,443 --> 00:56:47,611
Alec? Alec who, dear?
916
00:56:47,695 --> 00:56:51,323
Alec Harvey, of course. Surely you remember
the Harveys. l've known them for years.
917
00:56:51,408 --> 00:56:53,951
- No, l don't think l ever -
- He'll be back in a minute.
918
00:56:54,035 --> 00:56:56,120
You'll probably recognize him
when you peer very closely.
919
00:56:56,204 --> 00:56:58,747
He looks very charming and very attentive.
920
00:56:58,832 --> 00:57:02,334
He's a dear. One of the nicest people

in the world and a wonderful doctor.
921
00:57:05,255 --> 00:57:09,216
- Oh, Alec, you remember Mrs. Norton, don't you?
- l'm afraid l don't.
922
00:57:09,300 --> 00:57:13,637
lt's no use, Laura. We've never seen each other
before in our lives. l'm quite sure we haven't.
923
00:57:13,721 --> 00:57:16,515
How absurd. l made certain he and Madeleine
were there when you dined with us...
924
00:57:16,599 --> 00:57:18,517
just before Christmas last year.
925
00:57:18,601 --> 00:57:20,436
- Alec, this is Mrs. Rolandson.
- How do you do?
926
00:57:20,520 --> 00:57:22,938
- How do you do? Horrid weather, isn't it?
- Yes.
927
00:57:23,022 --> 00:57:25,941
Of course, one can't really expect spring
at this time of the year, can one?
928
00:57:26,025 --> 00:57:29,278
- No. No.
- [ Chuckling Nervously ]
929
00:57:29,362 --> 00:57:34,366
Well, we must be going. l'm taking Hermione
with me to see the in-laws as moral support.
930
00:57:34,451 --> 00:57:35,951
- Good-bye, Dr. Harvey.
- Good-bye.
931
00:57:36,035 --> 00:57:39,955
Good-bye, my dear.
l do so envy you your champagne.
932
00:57:40,039 --> 00:57:42,040
- Good-bye.
- Good-bye.
933
00:57:47,046 --> 00:57:49,465
- That was awful.
- Never mind.
934
00:57:49,549 --> 00:57:51,884
They'd been watching us
all through lunch. Oh, dear.
935
00:57:51,968 --> 00:57:55,262
Forget it. Come out and look at the surprise.
936
00:57:56,055 --> 00:57:59,057
There at the foot of the steps
was a little two-seater car.
937
00:57:59,142 --> 00:58:02,478
Alec had borrowed it
from Stephen Lynn for the afternoon.
938
00:58:02,562 --> 00:58:05,647
I tried so hard to look pleased,
but it wasn't any good.
939
00:58:05,732 --> 00:58:09,902
I kept thinking of those two
Iaughing and talking...
940
00:58:09,986 --> 00:58:13,906
Iaughing and taIking about us,
and I couldn't get them out of my mind.
941
00:58:14,657 --> 00:58:18,702
When we were out in the real country -
I think it was a few miles beyond Brayfield -
942
00:58:18,786 --> 00:58:21,413
we stopped the car

just outside a village and got out.
943
00:58:21,998 --> 00:58:24,333
There was a little bridge and a stream...
944
00:58:24,417 --> 00:58:28,086
and the sun was making an effort to come out,
but really not suceeeding very well.
945
00:58:28,588 --> 00:58:32,466
We leaned on the parapet of the bridge
and looked down into the water.
946
00:58:32,550 --> 00:58:34,968
I shivered, and Alec put his arm round me.
947
00:58:35,053 --> 00:58:37,679
- Cold?
- No, not really.
948
00:58:37,764 --> 00:58:39,264

Happy?
949
00:58:42,268 --> 00:58:44,186
No, not really.
950
00:58:45,271 --> 00:58:47,648
l know exactly what you're going to say.
951
00:58:48,358 --> 00:58:51,151
That it isn't worth it.
952
00:58:51,236 --> 00:58:56,323
That the furtiveness and lying outweigh
the happiness we might have together.
953
00:58:56,407 --> 00:58:58,617
lsn't that it?
954
00:58:58,701 --> 00:59:00,619
Something like that.

955
00:59:04,123 --> 00:59:07,417
l want to ask you something,
just to reassure myself.
956
00:59:07,502 --> 00:59:10,045
What is it?
957
00:59:10,129 --> 00:59:12,422
lt is true for you, isn't it?
958
00:59:12,507 --> 00:59:14,466
This overwhelming feeling
we have for each other -
959
00:59:14,551 --> 00:59:17,511
it's as true for you
as it is for me, isn't it?
960
00:59:18,179 --> 00:59:20,138
Yes, it's true.

961
00:59:26,604 --> 00:59:29,648
We must have stayed
on that bridge for a long time...
962
00:59:30,316 --> 00:59:33,986
because when we got back to
Stephen Lynn's garage, it was getting dark.
963
00:59:35,488 --> 00:59:38,198
l remember feeling as if
I was on the edge of a precipice.
964
00:59:38,283 --> 00:59:40,784
I think Alec felt that too.
965
00:59:40,868 --> 00:59:44,496
You see, we both knew
how desperately we loved each other.
966
00:59:46,791 --> 00:59:49,918
Alec said that he had to leave the keys

of the car in Stephen Lynn's flat...
967
00:59:50,003 --> 00:59:52,129
and suggested that I came up with him.
968
00:59:52,213 --> 00:59:54,548
I refused rather too vehemently.
969
00:59:54,632 --> 00:59:59,177
Alec reminded me that Stephen wasn't
coming back tilI late, but I still refused.
970
01:00:08,313 --> 01:00:11,607
l'm going back.
l'm going to miss my train.
971
01:00:12,191 --> 01:00:14,359
- Back where?
- To Stephen's flat.
972
01:00:14,444 --> 01:00:16,612

- [ Train Whistle Blowing ]
- Oh, Alec.
973
01:00:16,696 --> 01:00:19,531
[ Train Rumbling ]
974
01:00:31,210 --> 01:00:34,880
Alec, l must go home now.
l really must go home.
975
01:00:56,402 --> 01:00:58,362
A cup of tea, please.
976
01:01:07,372 --> 01:01:08,455
Good afternoon.
977
01:01:08,539 --> 01:01:10,165
- Afternoon, lady.
- Afternoon.
978
01:01:10,249 --> 01:01:12,918

- Couple of whiskeys, please.
- Very sorry. lt's out of hours.
979
01:01:13,002 --> 01:01:16,046
Well, just sneak 'em to us under
the cover of them poor old sandwiches.
980
01:01:16,130 --> 01:01:18,965
Them sandwiches were fresh this morning,
and l shall do no such thing.
981
01:01:19,050 --> 01:01:22,886
- Come on, be a sport.
- You can have as much as you want to after 6:00.
982
01:01:22,970 --> 01:01:26,848
My throat's like a parrot's cage. Listen.
[ Rasping ]
983
01:01:26,933 --> 01:01:30,268
l'm sorry. My license does not
permit me to serve alcohol out of hours.

984
01:01:30,353 --> 01:01:33,230
That's final. You wouldn't want
to get me into trouble, would you?
985
01:01:33,314 --> 01:01:36,733
Just give us the chance, lady.
That's all we ask. Just give us the chance.
986
01:01:36,818 --> 01:01:39,695
[ Both Laughing ]
987
01:01:39,779 --> 01:01:42,698
- Beryl!
- Yes, Mrs. Bagot?
988
01:01:42,824 --> 01:01:46,034
- Ask Mr. Godby
to come here for a moment, will you?
- Yes, Mrs. Bagot.
989
01:01:46,119 --> 01:01:48,537
- Oh, and who's he when he's at home?
- You'll soon see.
990
01:01:48,621 --> 01:01:51,248
- Coming in here cheeking me.
- Come off it, mother. Be a pal.
991
01:01:51,332 --> 01:01:55,210
- l'll give you "mother," you saucy upstart.
- Oi, oi, who you callin' an upstart?
992
01:01:55,294 --> 01:01:57,754
You! And l'll trouble you
to get out of here double quick.
993
01:01:57,839 --> 01:02:00,257
Disturbing the customers
and making a nuisance of yourselves.
994
01:02:00,341 --> 01:02:02,926
Here, where's the fire, where's the fire?

995
01:02:03,010 --> 01:02:06,221
- What's going on in here?
- Mr. Godby, these gentlemen are annoying me.
996
01:02:06,305 --> 01:02:08,390
What? We haven't done nothing,
have we, Johnnie?
997
01:02:08,474 --> 01:02:10,434
All we did was ask a couple of drinks,
that's all.
998
01:02:10,518 --> 01:02:14,312
- They insulted me, Mr. Godby.
- We never did anything of the kind.
999
01:02:14,397 --> 01:02:16,690
- Just having a little joke, that's all.
- Hop it, both of you.
1000
01:02:16,774 --> 01:02:20,152
- We've got a right to stay here as long as we like.
- You heard what l said. Hop it.
1001
01:02:20,236 --> 01:02:22,738
Now, look here. What is this, a free country
or a bloomin' Sunday school?
1002
01:02:22,822 --> 01:02:24,531
[ Godby ]
l checked your warrants at the gate.
1003
01:02:24,615 --> 01:02:27,451
- Your train's due in one minute,
number two platform. Hop it.
- Now, look here -
1004
01:02:27,535 --> 01:02:29,286
Aw, come on, Johnnie. Come on.
1005
01:02:29,370 --> 01:02:33,165
- Don't argue with the poor basket.

- Hop it.
1006
01:02:36,836 --> 01:02:38,628
[ Johnnie ]
Cheerio, mother.
1007
01:02:40,465 --> 01:02:43,675
And if them sandwiches were made
this morning, you're Shirley Temple.
1008
01:02:46,220 --> 01:02:49,431
- Thank you, Albert.
- What a nerve - talking to you like that, Mrs. Bagot.
1009
01:02:49,515 --> 01:02:53,518
Be quiet, Beryl. Pour me out a nip of Three Star.
l'm feeling quite upset.
1010
01:02:53,603 --> 01:02:57,063
- l must get back to the gate.
- l'll be seeing you later, Albert.

1011
01:02:57,648 --> 01:02:59,524
Okay.
1012
01:03:00,651 --> 01:03:02,652
[ Bell Ringing ]
1013
01:03:04,697 --> 01:03:07,741
[ Man Over P.A. ]
The train now arriving at platform three...
1014
01:03:07,825 --> 01:03:10,827
is the 5:43 for Ketchworth.
1015
01:03:14,624 --> 01:03:18,168
- l reaIly must go home.
- [ Alec ] I'm going back to the flat.
1016
01:03:18,252 --> 01:03:22,672
- I must go home. l reaIly must go home.
- l'm going back to the flat.

1017
01:03:25,551 --> 01:03:27,469
l'm going home.
1018
01:03:51,244 --> 01:03:54,079
- Excuse me. l've forgotten something.
- [ Train Whistle Blows ]
1019
01:04:51,971 --> 01:04:53,930
[ Ringing ]
1020
01:04:58,811 --> 01:05:00,312
Darling.
1021
01:05:07,570 --> 01:05:09,237
lt's raining.
1022
01:05:10,281 --> 01:05:12,574
lt started just as l turned out
of the high street.
1023
01:05:12,658 --> 01:05:15,327
You had no umbrella, and your coat's wet.
1024
01:05:15,411 --> 01:05:18,163
You mustn't catch cold.
That would never do.
1025
01:05:22,126 --> 01:05:25,503
- l look an absolute fright.
- Let me put that down for you.
1026
01:05:25,588 --> 01:05:27,088
Thank you.
1027
01:05:29,634 --> 01:05:32,135
l hope the fire will perk up in a few minutes.
1028
01:05:33,179 --> 01:05:36,932
- l expect the wood was damp.
- Yes, l expect it was.
1029
01:05:39,685 --> 01:05:41,603
Do sit down, darling.
1030
01:05:47,818 --> 01:05:51,112
l got right into the train
and then got out again. Wasn't it idiotic?
1031
01:05:51,197 --> 01:05:53,490
We're both very, very foolish.
1032
01:05:59,163 --> 01:06:02,457
- Alec, l can't stay, you know. Really, l can't.
- Just a little while.
1033
01:06:02,541 --> 01:06:05,001
- Just a little while.
- [ Door Opens ]
1034
01:06:06,545 --> 01:06:08,546
Quickly, quickly! l must go.
1035
01:06:08,631 --> 01:06:11,549
- [ Door Closes ]
- Here, through the kitchen.
There's a tradesman's staircase.
1036
01:06:21,936 --> 01:06:24,688
- [ Stephen ] ls that you, Alec?
- Yes.
1037
01:06:28,651 --> 01:06:30,860
- You're back early.
- Yes, l felt a cold coming on...
1038
01:06:30,945 --> 01:06:33,363
so l denied myself
the always questionable pleasure of dining...
1039
01:06:33,447 --> 01:06:36,908
with that arch-arguer Roger Hinchley
and decided to come back to bed.
1040
01:06:36,993 --> 01:06:40,036

lnflamed membranes
are unsympathetic to a dialectic.
1041
01:06:40,121 --> 01:06:41,830
What'll you do about food?
1042
01:06:41,914 --> 01:06:44,791
l can always ring down to the restaurant
if l want any later on.
1043
01:06:44,875 --> 01:06:49,170
- We live in a modern age, and this is a service flat.
- Yes, yes, of course.
1044
01:06:49,255 --> 01:06:51,923
lt caters for all tastes.
1045
01:06:57,263 --> 01:07:00,807
You know, my dear Alec, you have hidden
depths which l never even suspected.
1046
01:07:00,891 --> 01:07:04,269
- Look here, Stephen -
- Oh, for heaven's sake, Alec.
No explanations or apologies.
1047
01:07:04,353 --> 01:07:07,981
l am the one who should apologize
for returning so inopportunely.
1048
01:07:08,065 --> 01:07:11,359
lt's quite obvious to me that you were
interviewing a patient privately.
1049
01:07:11,444 --> 01:07:14,070
Women are frequently
rather neurotic creatures...
1050
01:07:14,155 --> 01:07:16,406
and the hospital atmosphere
is upsetting to them.
1051
01:07:16,490 --> 01:07:20,827

By the rather undignified scuffling
which l heard when l came into the hall...
1052
01:07:20,911 --> 01:07:23,872
l gather that she beat a hasty retreat
down the back stairs.
1053
01:07:23,956 --> 01:07:27,709
l'm surprised at this farcical streak
in your nature, Alec.
1054
01:07:27,793 --> 01:07:31,171
Such carryings-on are quite unnecessary.
After all, we've been friends for years...
1055
01:07:31,255 --> 01:07:34,215
and l am the most broad-minded of men.
1056
01:07:34,300 --> 01:07:36,718
l'm really very sorry, Stephen.
1057
01:07:36,802 --> 01:07:40,722
l'm sure that the whole situation
must seem inexpressibly vulgar to you.
1058
01:07:40,806 --> 01:07:42,807
Actually, it isn't in the least.
1059
01:07:42,892 --> 01:07:45,143
However, you're perfectly right:
Explanations are unnecessary...
1060
01:07:45,227 --> 01:07:46,936
particularly between old friends.
1061
01:07:47,021 --> 01:07:48,563
- l must go now.
- Very well.
1062
01:07:48,647 --> 01:07:51,733
- l'll collect my hat and coat. Good-bye.
- Perhaps you'll let me have my latchkey back.

1063
01:07:51,817 --> 01:07:55,779
l only have two, and l'm so afraid of losing them.
You know how absentminded l am.
1064
01:07:58,157 --> 01:08:02,619
-You're very angry, aren't you?
-No, Alec, not angry, just disappointed.
1065
01:08:27,853 --> 01:08:32,440
l ran until l couldn't run any longer. l leant
against a lamppost to try and get my breath.
1066
01:08:32,525 --> 01:08:35,151
I was in one of those side roads
that Iead out of the high street.
1067
01:08:35,236 --> 01:08:39,280
I know it was stupid to run,
but l couldn't heIp myself.
1068
01:08:39,365 --> 01:08:44,410

I felt so utterly humiIiated and defeated
and so dreadfulIy, dreadfulIy ashamed.
1069
01:08:46,497 --> 01:08:49,207
After a moment or two
I pulled myself together...
1070
01:08:50,251 --> 01:08:52,961
and walked on in the direction of the station.
1071
01:08:53,045 --> 01:08:55,755
lt was stilI raining, but not very much.
1072
01:08:55,840 --> 01:08:58,174
l suddenly realized that l couldn't go home...
1073
01:08:58,259 --> 01:09:01,803
not until l had got myself more
under control and had a Iittle time to think.
1074
01:09:01,887 --> 01:09:04,472

Then l thought of you waiting at home
and the dinner being spoilt...
1075
01:09:04,557 --> 01:09:08,518
so l went into the high street and found
a tobacconist and telephoned to you.
1076
01:09:09,562 --> 01:09:11,521
Do you remember?
1077
01:09:34,086 --> 01:09:35,378
[ Coins Clink ]
1078
01:09:35,462 --> 01:09:37,505
Hello, Fred, is that you?
1079
01:09:37,590 --> 01:09:39,757
Yes, dear, it's me, Laura.
1080
01:09:40,342 --> 01:09:44,095
Yes, everything's perfectly all right,

but l shan't be home to dinner.
1081
01:09:44,180 --> 01:09:46,139
l'm with Miss Lewis.
1082
01:09:46,223 --> 01:09:50,101
Miss Lewis, dear. You know,
the librarian l told you about at Boots.
1083
01:09:50,186 --> 01:09:54,480
Y-Yes, l can't explain in any detail
because she's outside the box now.
1084
01:09:54,565 --> 01:09:58,610
Well, l met her in the high street
a little while ago in a terrible state.
1085
01:09:58,694 --> 01:10:02,864
Her mother's been taken ill, and l've promised
to stay with her until the doctor comes.
1086
01:10:03,616 --> 01:10:07,869
Yes, l know, but she's always been awfully kind
to me, and l feel so sorry for her.
1087
01:10:08,954 --> 01:10:13,875
No, l'll get a sandwich, but ask Ethel to leave me
some soup in a saucepan in the kitchen.
1088
01:10:15,169 --> 01:10:17,462
Yes, of course, as soon as l can.
1089
01:10:18,505 --> 01:10:20,506
All right. Good-bye.
1090
01:10:21,592 --> 01:10:25,511
It's awfulIy easy to lie when you know
that you're trusted implicitly -
1091
01:10:25,596 --> 01:10:29,098
so very easy and so very degrading.
1092
01:10:29,642 --> 01:10:31,935
l started walking without much purpose.
1093
01:10:32,019 --> 01:10:34,520
I turned out of the high street
almost immediately.
1094
01:10:35,105 --> 01:10:37,982
I was terrified that l might run into Alec.
1095
01:10:38,067 --> 01:10:41,027
l was pretty certain
that he'd come after me to the station.
1096
01:10:42,112 --> 01:10:45,949
I walked for a long whiIe.
FinalIy, l found myself at the war memorial -
1097
01:10:46,033 --> 01:10:48,743
you know,
it's right at the other side of the town.

1098
01:10:48,827 --> 01:10:52,413
lt had stopped raining aItogether,
and I felt stifIingly hot...
1099
01:10:52,498 --> 01:10:55,583
so l sat down on one of the seats.
1100
01:10:55,668 --> 01:10:57,710
There was nobody about, and I lit a cigarette.
1101
01:10:57,795 --> 01:11:01,547
I know how you disapprove of women smoking
in the street - I do too, really -
1102
01:11:01,632 --> 01:11:05,093
but l wanted to calm my nerves,
and l thought it might help.
1103
01:11:06,512 --> 01:11:10,181
I sat there for ages -
l don't know how long -

1104
01:11:10,849 --> 01:11:14,602
then I noticed a policeman
walking up and down a Iittle way off.
1105
01:11:14,687 --> 01:11:17,230
He was looking at me rather suspiciousIy.
1106
01:11:18,315 --> 01:11:20,692
Presently he came up to me.
1107
01:11:21,235 --> 01:11:23,278
Feeling all right, miss?
1108
01:11:23,362 --> 01:11:26,489
- Yes, thank you.
- Waiting for someone?
1109
01:11:26,573 --> 01:11:28,950
No. No, l'm not waiting for anybody.

1110
01:11:29,034 --> 01:11:33,079
Don't go and catch cold now.
lt's a damp night for sitting about on seats.
1111
01:11:33,163 --> 01:11:35,331
l'm going now anyhow.
l've got to catch a train.
1112
01:11:35,416 --> 01:11:37,750
You're sure you feel quite all right?
1113
01:11:37,835 --> 01:11:40,795
Quite, thank you. Good night.
1114
01:11:40,879 --> 01:11:43,131
Good night, miss.
1115
01:11:43,215 --> 01:11:47,635
l walked away, trying to look casual,
knowing that he was watching me.

1116
01:11:47,720 --> 01:11:49,887
I felt like a criminal.
1117
01:11:49,972 --> 01:11:53,808
l walked rather quickIy back
in the direction of the high street.
1118
01:11:53,892 --> 01:11:57,812
I got to the station 15 minutes
before the last train to Ketchworth.
1119
01:11:57,896 --> 01:12:01,316
And then I realized that I had been
wandering about for over three hours...
1120
01:12:01,400 --> 01:12:03,568
but it didn't seem to be any time at aIl.
1121
01:12:04,653 --> 01:12:06,821
Stan, you are awful.

1122
01:12:06,905 --> 01:12:09,157
- See ya in the yard.
- All right.
1123
01:12:10,242 --> 01:12:12,160
[ Giggles ]
1124
01:12:12,244 --> 01:12:14,954
- I'd like a glass of brandy, please.
- We're just closin'.
1125
01:12:15,039 --> 01:12:17,457
Yes, l see you are, but you're
not quite closed yet, are you?
1126
01:12:17,541 --> 01:12:19,834
- Three Star?
- That'll do.
1127
01:12:24,757 --> 01:12:27,258
Oh, and have you got

a piece of paper and an envelope?
1128
01:12:27,343 --> 01:12:31,429
- l'm afraid you'll have to get that at the bookstall.
- Well, the bookstall's closed.
1129
01:12:31,513 --> 01:12:34,349
Please, it's very important.
l should be so much obliged.
1130
01:12:34,433 --> 01:12:36,601
All right. Just a minute.
1131
01:12:38,645 --> 01:12:40,605
[ Train Engine Chugging ]
1132
01:12:53,452 --> 01:12:56,037
- Thank you very much.
- We close in a few minutes, you know.
1133
01:12:56,121 --> 01:12:58,039

Yes, l know.
1134
01:13:30,614 --> 01:13:33,032
- Darling, l've been looking for you everywhere.
- Please go away. Please don't.
1135
01:13:33,117 --> 01:13:35,159
- l've watched every train.
- Please go away.
1136
01:13:35,244 --> 01:13:38,538
- l can't leave you like this.
- You must. lt'll be better, really it will.
1137
01:13:38,622 --> 01:13:42,083
You're being dreadfully cruel. lt was just
an accident that he came back early.
1138
01:13:42,167 --> 01:13:45,586
- He doesn't know who you are.
He never even saw you.
- l supposed he laughed, didn't he?

1139
01:13:45,712 --> 01:13:48,339
- l suppose you spoke of me together
as men of the world.
- We didn't speak of you.
1140
01:13:48,465 --> 01:13:51,467
- We spoke of some nameless creature
who has no reality.
- Why didn't you tell him who l was?
1141
01:13:51,552 --> 01:13:53,719
Why didn't you say we were cheap
and low and without courage?
1142
01:13:53,804 --> 01:13:55,721
- Stop it, Laura. Pull yourself together.
- lt's true, isn't it?
1143
01:13:55,806 --> 01:13:58,558
lt's nothing of the sort.
We know we really love each other.

1144
01:13:58,642 --> 01:14:00,226
That's true. That's all that really matters.
1145
01:14:00,310 --> 01:14:02,937
lt isn't all that really matters.
Other things matter too.
1146
01:14:03,021 --> 01:14:06,941
Self-respect matters, and decency.
l can't go on any longer.
1147
01:14:08,694 --> 01:14:12,363
Could you really say good-bye,
never see me again?
1148
01:14:14,032 --> 01:14:16,325
Yes, if you'd help me.
1149
01:14:26,295 --> 01:14:30,381
l love you, Laura. l shall love you

always until the end of my life.
1150
01:14:33,135 --> 01:14:35,845
l can't look at you now
because l know something.
1151
01:14:36,555 --> 01:14:38,848
l know that this is the beginning of the end -
1152
01:14:38,932 --> 01:14:42,977
not the end of my loving you,
but the end of our being together.
1153
01:14:43,061 --> 01:14:45,730
But not quite yet, darling.
Please, not quite yet.
1154
01:14:47,691 --> 01:14:49,901
Very well. Not quite yet.
1155
01:14:50,486 --> 01:14:54,655

l know what you feel about this evening -
l mean about the sordidness of it.
1156
01:14:55,282 --> 01:14:59,911
l know about the strain of our different lives -
our lives apart from each other.
1157
01:15:00,496 --> 01:15:04,081
The feeling of guilt,
doing wrong is too strong, isn't it?
1158
01:15:04,750 --> 01:15:07,919
Too great a price to pay
for the happiness we have together.
1159
01:15:09,880 --> 01:15:13,466
l know all this
because it's the same for me too.
1160
01:15:16,220 --> 01:15:18,638
You can look at me now. l'm all right.

1161
01:15:24,228 --> 01:15:28,356
Let's be very careful.
Let's prepare ourselves.
1162
01:15:28,941 --> 01:15:32,818
A sudden break now, however brave
and admirable, would be too cruel.
1163
01:15:32,903 --> 01:15:35,780
We can't do such violence
to our hearts and minds.
1164
01:15:36,865 --> 01:15:40,284
- Very well.
- [ Bell Rings ]
1165
01:15:41,328 --> 01:15:44,539
- l'm going away.
- l see.
1166
01:15:44,623 --> 01:15:46,958

- But not quite yet.
- Please, not quite yet.
1167
01:15:47,042 --> 01:15:48,417
[ Door Opens ]
1168
01:15:50,212 --> 01:15:52,964
- That's the 1 0:1 0. lt's after closing time.
- Oh, is it?
1169
01:15:53,048 --> 01:15:55,341
- l shall have to lock up.
- All right.
1170
01:16:07,479 --> 01:16:10,898
- l want you to promise me something.
- What is it?
1171
01:16:10,983 --> 01:16:13,568
Promise me that however unhappy you are...
1172
01:16:13,652 --> 01:16:15,570
and however much you think things over...
1173
01:16:15,654 --> 01:16:18,406
- that you'll meet me again next Thursday.
- Where?
1174
01:16:18,490 --> 01:16:21,409
Outside the hospital at 1 2:30.
1175
01:16:21,493 --> 01:16:24,662
- All right. l promise.
- l've got to talk to you. l've got to explain.
1176
01:16:24,746 --> 01:16:26,747
- About going away?
- Yes.
1177
01:16:26,832 --> 01:16:30,001
Where will you go? Where can you go?
You can't give up your practice.

1178
01:16:30,919 --> 01:16:33,921
l've had a job offered me.
l wasn't going to tell you.
1179
01:16:34,006 --> 01:16:38,092
l wasn't going to take it,
but l know now it's the only way out.
1180
01:16:38,176 --> 01:16:42,013
- Where?
- A long way away - Johannesburg.
1181
01:16:43,056 --> 01:16:46,183
- Oh, Alec.
- My brother's out there.
1182
01:16:46,268 --> 01:16:48,686
They're opening a new hospital.
They want me in it.
1183
01:16:50,147 --> 01:16:53,941

lt's a fine opportunity, really.
l'll take Madeleine and the boys.
1184
01:16:54,526 --> 01:16:57,695
lt's been torturing me - the necessity
of making a decision one way or the other.
1185
01:16:57,779 --> 01:17:00,489
l haven't told anybody, not even Madeleine.
1186
01:17:01,825 --> 01:17:05,119
l couldn't bear the thought of leaving you...
1187
01:17:05,203 --> 01:17:08,372
but now l see
it's got to happen soon anyway.
1188
01:17:09,458 --> 01:17:11,375
lt's almost happening already.
1189
01:17:14,671 --> 01:17:17,048

[ Beryl ]
Stanley! [ Giggling ]
1190
01:17:17,132 --> 01:17:20,760
- [ Both Laughing ]
- [ Bell Ringing ]
1191
01:17:20,844 --> 01:17:22,762
When will you go?
1192
01:17:23,847 --> 01:17:27,767
Almost immediately,
in about two weeks' time.
1193
01:17:28,852 --> 01:17:32,396
- Quite near, isn't it?
- Do you want me to stay?
1194
01:17:32,481 --> 01:17:36,025
- Do you want me to turn down the offer?
- Don't be foolish, Alec.

1195
01:17:36,109 --> 01:17:38,194
l'll do whatever you say.
1196
01:17:38,779 --> 01:17:40,571
That's unkind of you, my darling.
1197
01:17:40,656 --> 01:17:45,743
is now arriving at platform three.
1198
01:18:02,344 --> 01:18:04,553
You're not angry with me, are you?
1199
01:18:04,638 --> 01:18:06,555
No, l'm not angry.
1200
01:18:06,640 --> 01:18:09,183
l don't think l'm anything, really.
l just feel tired.
1201
01:18:09,267 --> 01:18:10,810
Forgive me?
1202
01:18:11,395 --> 01:18:13,187
Forgive you for what?
1203
01:18:13,271 --> 01:18:17,191
For everything -
for meeting you in the first place...
1204
01:18:17,275 --> 01:18:20,069
for taking the piece of grit out of your eye...
1205
01:18:20,153 --> 01:18:23,864
for loving you,
for bringing you so much misery.
1206
01:18:26,118 --> 01:18:28,703
l'll forgive you if you'll forgive me.
1207
01:18:37,045 --> 01:18:38,963

[ Alec ]
Thursday.
1208
01:18:40,882 --> 01:18:43,175
[ Laura's Voice ]
All that was a week ago.
1209
01:18:43,260 --> 01:18:45,970
lt's hardly credible
that it should be so short a time.
1210
01:18:47,723 --> 01:18:50,057
Today was our last day together -
1211
01:18:50,142 --> 01:18:53,310
our very last together in alI our Iives.
1212
01:18:53,395 --> 01:18:56,897
I met him outside the hospital
as l had promised at 12:30 -
1213
01:18:56,982 --> 01:18:59,233
at 12:30 this morning.
1214
01:19:00,318 --> 01:19:02,445
That was only this morning.
1215
01:19:02,529 --> 01:19:05,906
We drove into the country again,
but this time he hired a car.
1216
01:19:05,991 --> 01:19:08,743
l Iit cigarettes for him
every now and then as we went along.
1217
01:19:08,827 --> 01:19:13,289
We didn't taIk much.
I felt numbed and hardly alive at aIl.
1218
01:19:14,124 --> 01:19:16,208
We had lunch in a viIlage pub.
1219
01:19:18,211 --> 01:19:21,255
Afterwards, we went to the same bridge
over the stream -
1220
01:19:21,923 --> 01:19:24,008
the bridge that we'd been to before.
1221
01:19:26,344 --> 01:19:29,096
Those Iast few hours went by so quickly.
1222
01:19:32,309 --> 01:19:34,226
[ Train Rumbling ]
1223
01:19:40,442 --> 01:19:44,195
As we waIked through the station,
I remember thinking...
1224
01:19:44,279 --> 01:19:46,489
"This is the last time with Alec.
1225
01:19:47,616 --> 01:19:50,075

l shalI see all this again, but without Alec."
1226
01:19:51,203 --> 01:19:53,829
I tried not to think of it...
1227
01:19:53,914 --> 01:19:56,665
not to Iet it spoil our last moments together.
1228
01:20:22,734 --> 01:20:24,819
Are you all right, darling?
1229
01:20:24,903 --> 01:20:27,488
Yes, l'm all right.
1230
01:20:27,572 --> 01:20:29,740
l wish l could think of something to say.
1231
01:20:31,117 --> 01:20:32,993
lt doesn't matter -
not saying anything, l mean.

1232
01:20:33,119 --> 01:20:37,498
- l'll miss my train and wait to see you to yours.
- No, please don't. l'll come over with you
to your platform. l'd rather.
1233
01:20:37,582 --> 01:20:38,874
Very well.
1234
01:20:41,628 --> 01:20:44,129
Do you think we shall ever
see each other again?
1235
01:20:45,215 --> 01:20:48,259
l don't know. Not for years anyway.
1236
01:20:49,344 --> 01:20:51,887
The children will all be grown up.
1237
01:20:52,556 --> 01:20:54,723
l wonder if they'll ever meet
and know each other.

1238
01:20:54,808 --> 01:20:57,476
Couldn't l write to you,
just once in a while?
1239
01:20:57,561 --> 01:21:00,187
No, Alec, please.
You know we promised.
1240
01:21:00,272 --> 01:21:05,609
Well, all right, dear.
l do love you so very much.
1241
01:21:05,694 --> 01:21:08,112
l love you with all my heart and soul.
1242
01:21:10,615 --> 01:21:12,533
l want to die.
1243
01:21:13,827 --> 01:21:15,911
lf only l could die.

1244
01:21:15,996 --> 01:21:19,915
lf you died, you'd forget me.
l want to be remembered.
1245
01:21:21,001 --> 01:21:23,460
Yes, l know. l do too.
1246
01:21:27,299 --> 01:21:31,552
- We've still got a few minutes.
- [ Dolly ] Laura, what a lovely surprise!
1247
01:21:31,636 --> 01:21:33,721
My dear, l've been shopping till l'm dropping.
1248
01:21:33,805 --> 01:21:36,223
My feet are nearly falling off.
My throat's parched.
1249
01:21:36,308 --> 01:21:39,310
l thought of having tea at Spindle's,

but l was terrified of losing the train.
1250
01:21:39,394 --> 01:21:40,853
Oh, dear!
1251
01:21:40,937 --> 01:21:42,730
- Oh, this is Dr. Harvey.
- How do you do?
1252
01:21:42,814 --> 01:21:45,649
How do you do? Would you be
a perfect dear and get me a cup of tea?
1253
01:21:45,775 --> 01:21:49,153
- l really don't think l could drag
my poor old bones over to the counter.
- No, please.
1254
01:21:49,237 --> 01:21:52,907
[ Laura ] lt was cruel of fate to be
against us right up to the very last minute.

1255
01:21:52,991 --> 01:21:57,661
DoIly Messiter - poor, well-meaning,
irritating Dolly Messiter -
1256
01:21:57,746 --> 01:22:01,665
crashing into those last few
precious minutes we had together.
1257
01:22:01,750 --> 01:22:05,252
She chattered and fussed,
but I didn't hear what she said.
1258
01:22:05,337 --> 01:22:08,047
- I felt dazed and bewildered.
- [ Dolly ] Oh, dear. No sugar.
1259
01:22:08,131 --> 01:22:10,758
- [ Alec ] lt's in the spoon.
- Alec behaved so beautifully...
1260
01:22:10,842 --> 01:22:12,843

with such perfect politeness.
1261
01:22:12,928 --> 01:22:15,638
No one could have guessed
what he was realIy feeIing.
1262
01:22:16,181 --> 01:22:18,891
- And then -
- [ Bell Ringing ]
1263
01:22:19,517 --> 01:22:21,602
- Yes, l know.
1264
01:22:21,686 --> 01:22:25,356
- Oh, aren't you coming with us?
- No, l go in the opposite direction.
My practice is in Churley.
1265
01:22:25,440 --> 01:22:27,775
- Oh, l see.
- l'm a general practitioner at the moment.

1266
01:22:27,859 --> 01:22:31,445
- Dr. Harvey's going out to Africa next week.
- Oh, how thrilling.
1267
01:22:31,529 --> 01:22:34,823
[ Man Over P.A. ]
The train now arriving at platform four...
1268
01:22:34,908 --> 01:22:39,453
is the 5:40 for ChurIey,
Leigh Green and Langdon.
1269
01:22:39,537 --> 01:22:41,038
- l must go.
- Yes, you must.
1270
01:22:41,122 --> 01:22:42,623
- Good-bye.
- Good-bye.
1271
01:22:47,545 --> 01:22:50,714
l feIt the touch of his hand
on my shoulder for a moment...
1272
01:22:51,466 --> 01:22:53,634
and then he walked away -
1273
01:22:54,719 --> 01:22:56,929
away, out of my life forever.
1274
01:22:57,013 --> 01:22:59,807
[ Laughs ] He's got to get
right over to the other platform.
1275
01:22:59,891 --> 01:23:03,310
Talking of missing trains reminds me
of that awful bridge at Broadham Junction.
1276
01:23:03,395 --> 01:23:06,063
Dolly stilI went on talking,
but l wasn't listening to her.

1277
01:23:06,147 --> 01:23:07,648
[ Whistle Blows ]
1278
01:23:07,732 --> 01:23:11,527
- l was Iistening for the sound of his train starting.
- [ Whistle Blows ]
1279
01:23:12,570 --> 01:23:16,031
- Then it did.
- [ Train Engine Chugging ]
1280
01:23:16,116 --> 01:23:18,701
I said to myself, "He didn't go.
1281
01:23:18,785 --> 01:23:21,745
At the Iast minute his courage failed him.
He couldn't have gone.
1282
01:23:22,288 --> 01:23:24,331
Any minute now he'lI come back
into the refreshment room...

1283
01:23:24,416 --> 01:23:26,333
pretending he's forgotten something."
1284
01:23:26,418 --> 01:23:28,544
I prayed for him to do that...
1285
01:23:28,628 --> 01:23:31,171
just so that l could
see him again for an instant.
1286
01:23:34,759 --> 01:23:38,178
- But the minutes went by.
- [ Bell Ringing ]
1287
01:23:38,263 --> 01:23:42,182
ls that the train? Oh, can you tell me,
is that the Ketchworth train?
1288
01:23:42,267 --> 01:23:44,351
- [ Mrs. Bagot ] No, it's the express.

- The boat train.
1289
01:23:44,436 --> 01:23:46,520
Oh, of course.
That doesn't stop, does it?
1290
01:23:46,604 --> 01:23:49,648
- l want some chocolate, please.
- Milk or plain?
1291
01:23:49,733 --> 01:23:53,152
[ Train Whistle Blowing ]
1292
01:24:00,869 --> 01:24:03,620
[ Whistle Continues ]
1293
01:24:19,054 --> 01:24:22,473
l meant to do it, Fred.
I really meant to do it.
1294
01:24:23,099 --> 01:24:25,642

l stood there trembling right on the edge...
1295
01:24:27,562 --> 01:24:29,897
but l couldn't.
1296
01:24:29,981 --> 01:24:32,107
l wasn't brave enough.
1297
01:24:33,026 --> 01:24:35,444
I should like to be able to say
that it was the thought...
1298
01:24:35,528 --> 01:24:38,322
of you and the children
that prevented me, but it wasn't.
1299
01:24:39,407 --> 01:24:41,366
l had no thoughts at all.
1300
01:24:42,827 --> 01:24:47,122
Only an overwhelming desire

not to feel anything ever again.
1301
01:24:47,832 --> 01:24:50,084
Not to be unhappy anymore.
1302
01:24:50,168 --> 01:24:52,127
I turned...
1303
01:24:53,713 --> 01:24:56,381
and went back into the refreshment room.
1304
01:25:03,389 --> 01:25:05,599
That's when l nearly fainted.
1305
01:25:08,103 --> 01:25:11,563
♪♪ [ Radio: Classical ]
1306
01:25:28,373 --> 01:25:30,874
♪♪ [ Continues ]
1307
01:25:45,098 --> 01:25:46,390
Laura.
1308
01:25:49,144 --> 01:25:50,853
Yes, dear?
1309
01:25:50,937 --> 01:25:55,566
Whatever your dream was,
it wasn't a very happy one, was it?
1310
01:25:58,194 --> 01:26:00,112
No.
1311
01:26:00,196 --> 01:26:02,781
ls there anything l can do to help?
1312
01:26:05,368 --> 01:26:07,661
Yes, Fred. You always help.
1313
01:26:07,745 --> 01:26:10,330
You've been a long way away.

1314
01:26:11,749 --> 01:26:13,250
Yes.
1315
01:26:13,751 --> 01:26:16,461
Thank you for coming back to me.
1316
01:26:19,007 --> 01:26:20,924
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- Evening, Mr. Godby.

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- Hello, hello, hello.

- Quite the stranger, aren't you?

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- l couldn't get in yesterday.

- l wondered what had happened to you.

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- l had a bit of a dustup.

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Saw a chap getting out

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When he came to give up his ticket,

it was only third class.

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l told him to pay the excess,

and he turned nasty.

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- l had to send for Mr. Saunders.

- Fat lot of good he'd be.

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l tell you, he ticked him off proper.

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"You pay the balance at once," he says,

"or l'll hand you over to the police."

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You ought to have seen the look on the chap's

face at the mention of the word "police."

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Changed his tune then, he did.

Paid up like lightning.

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That's just what l mean. He didn't have

the courage to handle it himself.

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- He had to call in the police.

- Aw, he's not a bad lot, Mr. Saunders.

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After all, you can't expect much spirit from

a man with only one lung and a wife with diabetes.

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l thought something must be wrong

when you didn't come.

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l'd have popped in to explain, but l had a date

and had to run for it the moment l went off.

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- Chap l know is getting married.

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- What's up with you, anyway?

- l'm sure l don't know to what you're referring.

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- You're a bit unfriendly all of a sudden.

- Beryl, hurry up.

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