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here on two though it's lost innocence

that concerns us now

as jeremy irons ben kingsley and

patricia hodge

star in the first television showing of

harold pinter's variation

on the eternal triangle betrayal some

viewers may wish to be warned that the

original dialogue of this classic film

has been retained

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um

oh

uh

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well

cheers

how are you i'm fine

just like old times it's been a long

time yes

i thought of you the other day good god

why

why well it's nice sometimes to think

back isn't it

absolutely do you know how long it is

since we last met

well i came to that private view at the

gallery

when was it no i don't mean that oh you

mean alone

yes uh

two years yes i thought it must be

a long time yes it is

how's robert when did you last see him

i haven't seen him for months don't know

why why why what

why did you ask when i last saw him i

just wondered

oh sam you mean judith

do i you remember the form i ask about

your husband you ask about my wife

yes of course how is your wife

all right

sam must be tall he is tall quite tall

does a lot of running he's a long

distance runner

he wants to be a zoologist no really

good and sarah she's 10.

god suppose she must be

yes she must be

ned's five isn't he you remember

well i would remember that yes

you're all right though oh

yeah sure ever think of me

i don't need to think of it though

i don't need to think of you

anyway i'm all right how are you fine

really all right

you're looking very pretty really

thank you i'm glad to see you

so am i i mean to see you

you think of me sometimes i think of you

sometimes

i saw charlotte the other day no where

she didn't mention it she didn't see me

in the street

but you haven't seen her for years i

recognized her

how could you how could you know

i did what does she look like

you no what did you think of her really

i thought she was lovely yes

she's very she's smashing

she's 13.

do you remember that time oh god it was

when you picked her up and threw her up

and caught her

she was very light she remembers that

you know

really being thrown up

was a memory

she doesn't know about us does she

of course not she just remembers you as

an old friend

that's right

yes everyone was there that day standing

around your husband my wife all the kids

i remember

what day when i threw her up

it was in your kitchen it was in your

kitchen

darling don't say that

it all seems such a long time ago

does it

i thought of you the other day

i was driving through kilburn suddenly i

saw where i was

i just stopped and then i turned down

kinsale drive and drove into wessex

grove

i drove past the house and then stopped

about 50 yards further on like we used

to do do you remember

yes people were coming out of the house

they walked up the road what sort of

people oh young people

then i got out of the car and went up

the steps and looked at the bells you

know the names on the bells

i looked for our name green

couldn't see it eh no

that's because we're not there anymore

we haven't been there for years

no we haven't

i hear you're seeing a bit of casey

what casey i just

heard you were seeing a bit of him where

did you hear that from

oh people talking christ

finally was the only thing i really felt

was irritation

i mean irritation that nobody gossiped

about us like that in the old days i

nearly said now look

she may be having the occasional drink

with casey but she and i had an affair

for seven years and none of you bastards

had the faintest idea it was happening

i wonder i wonder if everyone knew

all the time don't be silly we were

brilliant nobody knew

whoever went to killman in those days

just you and me

anyway what's all this about you and

casey

what do you mean what's going on

we have the occasional drink i thought

you didn't admire his work

i've changed or his work has changed

are you jealous of what

i couldn't be jealous of casey i'm his

agent

i advised him on his divorce i read all

his first drafts i

persuaded your husband to publish his

first novel

escort him to oxford to speak at the

union he's my

he's my boy i discovered him when he was

a poet and that's a bloody long time ago

now

he's even taken me down to southampton

to meet his mum and dad i couldn't be

jealous of casey

anyway it's not as if we're having an

affair now is it we haven't seen each

other for years

really i'm very happy if you're happy

what about robert

well i think we're going to separate

oh

we had a long talk last night last night

you know what i found out last night

he's betrayed me for years he's had

other women for years no

good

but we betrayed him for years he

betrayed me for years

well i never knew that nor did i

what a funny thing

we were such close friends weren't we

robert and me even though i haven't seen

him for a few months but through all

those years

all the drinks all the lunches

we had together i never even gleaned

i never suspected there was anyone else

in his life but you never for example

when you're with a fellow in a

pub or a restaurant for example from

time to time he pops out for a piss you

see who doesn't but what i mean is if

he's making a crafty telephone call you

can sort of sense it you see you can

sense the

pips i never did that with robert

he never made any pip pip telephone

calls in any pub i was with him in

the funny thing is that it was me that

made the pitfap course

to you when i left him

boozing at the bar

that's the funny thing

when did he tell you this last night

i think we were up all night

you talked all night yes

oh yes

i didn't come into it today what

i just i just phoned you this morning

you know that's all

because i because we're old friends

i've been up all night the whole thing's

finished i suddenly felt i wanted to see

you

well look i'm happy to see you i am

i'm sorry about

do you remember i mean you do remember

i remember

you didn't tell robert about me last

night did you

i had to

he told me everything i told him

everything we were up all night

at one point ned's came down i had to

take him up to bed had to put him back

to bed then i went down again

i think it was the voices woke him up

you know

you told him everything i had to

you told him everything about us

i had to but he's my oldest friend

i mean i picked his own daughter up in

my own arms and

threw up and caught her in my own

kitchen and he watched me do it it

doesn't matter it's all

gone is it what has it's all

all over

turn that record down

hello

come in

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in here

it's gotta be the camp not at all

gonna say that well i might yes in a

minute

judy's at hospital on night duty

i must speak to you it's important speak

yes

you look quite rough what's the trouble

it's not about you and emma is it

i know all about that yeah so i've been

told ah

well it's not very important has it been

over for years hasn't it it is important

really why well i thought i was gonna go

mad

when this evening just now wondering

whether to phone you

well i had to phone you it took me

two hours to phone you and then you were

with the kids

i thought i wasn't gonna be able to see

you i thought i'd go mad

i'm very grateful to you for coming oh

for god's sake look what exactly

do you want to say

i don't know why she told you i don't

know how she could tell you

i just don't understand listen i know

you've got

look i i saw her today we had a drink

i haven't seen her for

and she told me that you're in trouble

both of you

and so on i know that

i mean i'm sorry don't be sorry why not

the fact is i can't understand why she

felt it necessary

after all these years to tell you so

suddenly

last night last night without

consulting me without warning me after

all

you and me she didn't tell me last night

what do you mean know about last night

she told me you were up all night

weren't you that's correct

and she told you last night about her

and me did she not no she didn't

she didn't tell me about you and her

last night she told me about you and her

four years ago

so she didn't have to tell me again last

night because i knew

and she knew i knew because she told me

herself four years ago

what i think i will sit down

i thought you knew knew what

but i knew but i've known for years i

thought you knew that

if you've seen each other a great deal

over the past four years we've had lunch

never played squash there

i was your best friend well yes

sure

oh don't get upset there's no point

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i did but it's still too loud it's not

the same record

alright

why didn't you tell me well i'm not here

oh boy

why didn't you tell me that's all you

might know

but you didn't know for certain did you

you didn't know

no then why didn't you tell me tell you

what

that you knew you bastard oh damn call

me ambassador jerry

what are we gonna do you and i are not

gonna do anything

my marriage is finished i've just got to

make proper arrangements that's all

are the children

you hadn't thought of telling judy

telling judith what

oh about you and emma

you mean she never knew are you quite

sure

no i haven't thought of telling judith

actually you don't seem to understand

you don't seem to understand that i

don't give a [ __ ] about any of this

it's true i've hit emma once or twice

but that wasn't a defender principle i

wasn't inspired to do it from any kind

of moral standpoint it just felt like

giving her a good bashing

the old itch you understand

but you betrayed her for years didn't

you oh yes

and she never knew about it did she

didn't she

i didn't no you didn't know very much

about anything really did you

no yes you did yes i did

i lived with her yes in the afternoons

sometimes very long ones for seven

years yes you certainly knew all there

was now about that

about the seven years of afternoons

i don't know anything about that

i hope she looked after you all right

we used to like each other we still do

i bumped into old casey the other day

i believe he's having an affair with my

wife

we haven't played squat for years casey

and me

used to have a damn good game

he's put on weight yes i thought that

he's over the hill is he

don't you think so men want respect

it's work his books oh his books his art

yes his art does seem to be falling away

doesn't it

still cells oh sells very well it sounds

very well indeed

very good for us for you and me

yes

have you read any good books lately

i've been reading yates oh yeah it's yes

you read yates on torchello once

hunter hello please remember

years ago you went over to torcello in

the dawn hello

and red yates so i did i told you that

yes

where are you going this summer you and

the family

the lake district

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so

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so

what do you want to do then

i don't quite know what we're doing

anymore that's all

i mean this flat yes

can you actually remember when we were

last here

in the summer was it well was it

i know it was the beginning of september

well that's the summer isn't it

it was actually extremely cold it was

early autumn

it's pretty cold now we were going to

get another electric fire

yes i never got that not much point in

getting it we're never here we're here

now

not really

well things have changed you've been so

busy your

job and everything well i know but i

mean i like it i want to do it no it's

great

it's marvelous for you but you're not if

you're running a gallery you've got to

run it you've got to be there

but you're not free in the afternoons

are you no

so how can we meet

but look at the times you're out of the

country you're never here but when i am

here you're not free in the afternoon so

we can never meet we can meet for lunch

we can meet for lunch but we can't come

all the way out here for a quick lunch

too old for that i didn't suggest that

you see in the past we were inventive we

were determined it was

it seemed impossible to meet impossible

and yet we did

we met here we took this flat and we met

in this flat because we wanted to

it would not matter how much we wanted

to if you're not free in the afternoons

and i'm in america

knights have always been out of the

question and you know it i have a family

i have a family too

i know that perfectly well i might

remind you that your husband is my

oldest friend

what do you mean by that i don't mean

anything by it but what are you trying

to say by saying that

jesus i'm not trying to say anything i

said precisely what i wanted to say

i see

the fact is that in the old days we used

our imagination

and we take a night and make an

arrangement and go to a hotel

yes we did but that was

in the main before we got this flat we

haven't spent many nights

in this flat no

not many nights anywhere really

can you afford to keep it going months

after month

oh it's a waste nobody comes here

i just can't bear to think about it

actually just

empty all day and night

day after day and night after night

i mean the crockery and the curtains and

the bed spread

and everything and the table cloth i

brought from venice

it's ridiculous

it's just an empty home it's not a home

i know i know what you wanted but it

could never

actually be a home

you have a home i have a home with

curtains etc and children

two children in two homes

there are no children here so it's not

the same

kind of home it was never intended to be

the same kind of home

was it

you didn't ever see it as a home in any

sense did you

no i saw it as a flat you know

for [ __ ] no for loving well there's

not much of that left is there

i don't think we don't love each other

oh well

what will you do about all the furniture

what the contents

you know we can do something very simple

if we want to do it you mean said it to

mrs banks for a small salmon

and she can let it as a furnished flat

that's right

wasn't the bed here what

wasn't it we bought the bed we bought

everything we bought the bed

together ah

yes

you'll make all the arrangements then

with mrs banks

i don't want anything nowhere i can put

it you see i have a home

with tablecloths and all the rest of it

i'll go into it with mrs banks

there'll be a few quid units no i don't

want any cash

thank you very much i'm going now

oh here's my key

oh christ you take it off

can you just do it please i'm picking up

charlotte from school i'm taking a

shopping

do you realize this is an afternoon it's

the gallery's afternoon off that's why

i'm here

we close every thursday afternoon

can i have my keyring

thanks

listen i think we've made absolutely the

right decision

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fetch me his pajamas michaela

come on

come on sunshine how'd you come

three that's

yes

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cheers cheers

how's emma she's just putting that to

bed i should think he'll be off in a

minute

off where dreamland ah

yes how's your sleep these days what you

still have bad nights

with ned i mean oh i see well no no it's

getting better

but you know what they say what they say

boys are worse than girls

worse babies they say boy babies cry

more than girl babies

do they you didn't find that to be the

case uh

yes i think we did did you yes

what do you make of it why do you think

that is

i suppose boys are more anxious

boy babies yes what the hell are they

anxious about

at their age do you think well

facing the world i suppose

leaving the womb all that but what about

girl babies

they leave the womb too that's true it's

also true they don't make such a fuss

about it that's true

why do you think that is i have no

answer

do you think it might have something to

do with the difference between the sexes

good god you're right that must be it

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what a surprise i was having tea with

casey

where around the corner

i thought he lived in hampstead or

somewhere

you're out of date

he's left susanna

he's living alone around the corner oh

writing a novel about a man who leaves

his wife and three children and goes to

live alone on the other side of london

to write a novel

about a man who leaves his wife and

three children i hope it's better than

the last one

the last one ah the last one

wasn't that the one about the man who

lived in a big house in hampshire with

his wife and three children and he's

writing a novel

about

why didn't you like it i've told you

actually

i think it's the best thing he's written

maybe the best thing is written but it's

still bloody dishonest

dishonest in what way dishonest i've

told you

actually have you

yes she has once when we were all having

dinner

i remember you me emma and judith where

was it

emma gave a dissertation over the

pudding about dishonesty in casey with

reference to his last novel

drying out it was most stimulating

judith had to leave unfortunately in the

middle of it for her night shift

at the hospital how is judith by the way

very well

when are we going to play squash

you're too good not at all i'm not good

at all i'm just fitter than you

but why why are you fitter than me

because i play squash

oh you're playing regularly

with whom casey actually casey

good lord

what's he like he's a brutally honest

squash player

no really we haven't played for years we

must play

you were rather good yes i was quite

good

give you a ring why don't you we'll make

a date right

yes we must do that and then i'll take

you to lunch

no no i'll take you to lunch

the man who wins buys the lunch can i

watch

what why can't i watch and then take you

both to lunch

well to be brutally honest you wouldn't

actually want a woman around would be

jerry

i mean a game of squash isn't simply a

game of squash it's rather more than

that

you see first there's the game and then

there's the shower

and then there's the pint and then

there's lunch

after all you've been at it you've had

your battle what you want is your pint

and your lunch

you really don't want a woman buying you

lunch you don't actually want a woman

within a mile of the place any of the

places really

you don't want her in the squash court

you don't want her in the shower

or the pub or the restaurant you see at

lunch

you want to talk about squash or cricket

or books or even women

with your friend and be able to warm to

your theme without fear of improper

interruption

that's what it's all about what do you

think jerry

i haven't played scotch for years well

let's play next week

i can't next week i'm in new york are

you

yes i'm going over with one of my more

celebrated writers actually

who casey someone wants to film that

novel of his you didn't like

we're going over to discuss it if it was

a question of them coming over here or

asking over there

and kissy felt he deserved the chip what

about you

what do you deserve the trip judith's

going

no he can't go alone

we'll have that game of squash when i

get back a week what the most 10 days

lovely

bye thanks for the drink bye

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can i read just a little

but you have to rest you don't want to

be sleepy over dinner do you

no i don't

i love venice where are we going

tomorrow

we're going to torchello

it's torcello tomorrow isn't it

what we're going to torcello tomorrow

aren't we

yes that's right that'll be lovely

can't wait

look good hmm yes what is it

this new book this man spinks oh that

jerry was telling me about it

jerry was he he was telling me about it

at lunch last week

really does he like it sphinx is his boy

he discovered him

oh i didn't know that unsolicited

manuscript

you think it's good do you yes i do i'm

enjoying it

jerry thinks it's good too you should

have lunch with us one day and chat

about it

is that absolutely necessary

it's not as good as all that you mean

it's not good enough for you to have

lunch with jerry and me and chat about

it

what the hell are you talking about

i must read it again myself now it's in

hardcovers again

jerry wanted us to publish it oh really

well naturally

anyway i turned it down why oh

not much more to say on that subject

really is there what do you consider the

subject to be

betrayal no it isn't

isn't it oh what is it then i haven't

finished it yet i'll let you know

well do let me know

of course i could be thinking of the

wrong book

by the way i went into american express

yesterday

oh yes i went to cash some travelers

checks you get a much better rate there

you see than you do in a hotel

how do you oh yes anyway there's a

letter there for you

they asked me if you were any religion

and i said yes so they asked me if i

wanted to take it i mean they gave it to

me

but i said no i would leave it did you

get it

yes i suppose you popped in when you

were out shopping yesterday evening

that's right oh well i'm glad you got it

to be honest i was amazed they suggested

i take it you could never happen in

england

but these italians so free and easy

i mean just because my name is downs and

your name is downs it doesn't mean that

we're the mr and mrs downs are they in

their

laughing mediterranean way assume we are

we could be and in fact are vastly more

likely to be total strangers

so let's say i whom they laughingly

assumed to be your husband had taken the

letter

having declared myself to be your

husband but in truth being a total

stranger

and opened it and read it out of nothing

more than idle curiosity

and then thrown it in a canal you would

never have received it

and would have been deprived of your

legal right to open your own mail and

all this because the venetian jamon

futisma

have a good mind to write to the doge of

venice about it

that's what stopped me taking it by the

way and bringing it to you

the thought that i could very easily be

a total stranger

what they of course did not know and had

no way of knowing was that i am your

husband

pretty inefficient bunch only in a

laughing mediterranean way

it was from jerry yes i recognized the

handwriting

how is he okay good and judith

fine

what about the kids i don't think you

mentioned them they're probably all

right then if they're ill or something

you'll probably mentioned it

any other news no

you're looking forward to torchella

how many times have we been to tortilla

twice

i remember how you loved it the first

time i took you there you fell in love

with it

that was about 10 years ago wasn't it

about

six months after we were married

yes do you remember

i wonder if you'll like it as much

tomorrow

what do you think of jerry as a letter

writer

you're trembling are you cold no

he used to write to me at one time long

letters about ford maddox ford

i used to write to him too come to think

of it long letters about ooh

wp8s i suppose that was the time when we

were both

editors of poetry magazines in the

cambridge me at oxford did you know that

we were bright young man and close

friends well we still are close friends

oh that was long before i met you long

before he met you i've been trying to

remember when i introduced him to you i

simply can't remember

i'd take it i did introduce him to you

yes but when

can you remember no you can't no

how odd

he wasn't best man at our wedding was he

you know he was

ah yes well that's probably when i

introduced him to you

was there any message for me in his

letter

i mean in the line of business to do

with the world of publishing

has he discovered any new and original

talent he's quite talented at uncovering

talent oh jerry

no message no message

not even his love

we're lovers ah yes i thought it might

be something like that something along

those lines

when what when did you think

yesterday only yesterday when i saw his

handwriting on the letter before

yesterday i was quite ignorant

i'm sorry sorry

where does it take place must be a bit

awkward

i mean we've got two kids he's got two

kids not to mention a wife

we have a flat well i see

nice

a flat it's quite well established then

you're

um of that

yes how long

sometime yes but how long exactly

five years

five years

ned is one year old

did you hear what i said yes he's your

son

jerry was in america for two months

do you write you from america of course

and i wrote to him did you tell him that

ned had been conceived

not by letter but when you did tell him

was he happy to know i was to be a

father

i've always liked jerry to be honest

i've always liked him rather more than

i've liked you

maybe i should have had an affair with

him myself

tell me are you looking forward to our

trip to torchella

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die oh

god

i must put this down i'm not saying

lunch what

things you like

how do i look

beautiful

how was it it was lovely

did you go to todd shannon no

why not oh i don't know the speed boats

were on strike or something

i'll strike yes on the day we're going

ah i got your letter

good got mine of course

you haven't been here at all no needs

hoovering

later i've been dying for you

i'm crazy about you

it's been such a long time

i couldn't bear it i couldn't bear to be

without you

i spoke to him this morning who

robot

oh i'm taking him to lunch on thursday

thursday why well it's my turn

no i meant why are you taking him to

lunch

because it's my turn last time he took

me to lunch

you know what i mean no what what is the

subject or point

of your lunch no subject or point just

we've been doing it for years his turn

followed by my turn you've misunderstood

me

okay oh well quite simply you do often

meet or have lunch to discuss a

particular writer or a particular book

don't you so to those meetings or

lunches there is a point

or a subject well there isn't to this

one

you haven't discovered any new writers

while i've been away

no sam fell off his bike

no he was knocked out he was out for

about a minute

were you with him no judith

he's all right then i caught a bug oh

dear i had time for nothing

everything will be better now i'm back

yes i bought something in venice

for the house

do you like it it's lovely

do you think we never go to venice

together

no probably not

you don't think i should see robert for

lunch on thursday

or friday for that matter why do you say

that

you don't think i should see him at all

i didn't say that how can you not see

him

don't be silly

i had a terrible panic when you were

away

i was sorting out a contract

we couldn't remember putting it in the

safe

i said i had to look for something in

the safe

i opened the safe it wasn't there

i had to go on with a damn contract

i kept seeing it lying somewhere in the

house

being picked up

did you find it

it is in the pocket of a jacket in my

wardrobe at home

god

what would you have done if judith had

found it

i don't know what i would have done

listen do you remember when was it years

ago we were all in your kitchen it must

have been

christmas or something do you remember

all the kids were running about

and suddenly i picked charlotte up

i lifted her high up high up and then

down and up down

up

do you remember how she laughed everyone

laughed

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why shouldn't you throw her up

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god

um

is

hello robert hello

i'd like a scotch on the rocks scotch

you don't usually drink scotch at lunch

time i've had a bug actually oh

and the only thing to get rid of this

bag was scotch at lunchtime as well as

at night so i'm still drinking scotch at

lunch time in case it comes back

like an apple a day precisely

cheers cheers

how is venice ready to order the scenery

what do you have

uh melanie and uh

piccata are lemony with green salad

i'll have prosciutto and maloney

fried scampi and spinach espinacci on a

bottle of corvo bianco straight away

is either one who's always been here is

it his son you mean has a son always

been here

no is he his son i mean is he the son of

the one who's always been

here no he's his father ah

is he he's the one who speaks wonderful

italian

yes

your italian's pretty good isn't he no

not at all

yes it is no it's emma's italian which

is very good

emma's italian is very good is it

i didn't know that corvo bianco thank

you

how was it anyway venice

venice is the most beautiful place of

italy

remember you laughed there oh yes

how's judith what oh

you know okay busy

so how was it it was good

i went for a trip to torcello oh

really lovely place incredible day

i got up very early and huh right across

the lagoon

not a cell starring watch the

speedboat oh i thought

what it's so long ago i'm obviously

wrong i thought i went to tortello by

gondola

it would take hours no no

across the lagoon in the dorm

sounds good i was quite alone

where was emma i think asleep

ah i was alone for ours as a matter of

fact

on the island high point actually of the

whole trip

was it well

it sounds marvelous yes

i sat on the grass and red yates thanks

one fourth shadow they went well

together

one melone one prosciutto melon

emma read that novel of that sham of

yours

what's his name i don't know what

sphinx oh for things yes

the one you didn't like that one i

wouldn't publish it i remember

did emma like it she seems to be madly

another

good you like it yourself do you

i do and it's very successful it is

tell me do you think that makes me a

publisher of unique critical judgment or

a foolish publisher

a foolish publisher i agree with you i'm

a very foolish publisher no you're not

what are you talking about

you're a good what are you talking about

i'm a bad publisher because i hate books

or to be more precise pros

or to be even more precise modern prose

i mean

modern novels first novels and second

novels

all that promise and sensibility it

falls upon me to judge to put the firm's

money on and then to push for the third

novel see it done

see the dash jacket down see the dinner

for the national literary editor's done

see the signing enhancers done see the

lucky order cook himself to death all in

the name of literature

you know what you and emma have in

common you love literature i mean you

love modern prose literature i mean you

love the new novel by the new case your

sphinx it gives you both a thrill

you must be pissed really you mean you

don't think it gives amer a thrill

how do i know she's your wife

yes yes you're quite right

i shouldn't have to consult you i

shouldn't have to consult anyone

i'd like some more wine yes yes wait up

another bottle of cover bianca and

where's our lunch

this place is going to pop mind you it's

worse in venice they really don't give a

[ __ ] to her

i'm not drunk you can't get drunk on

corvo bianco

corvo bianco glass

where's our lunch it comes i'll pour

oh i'm sorry have another drink

i'll tell you what it is it's just that

i can't bear

being back in london i was happy

such a rare thing not in venice i don't

mean that i mean on torcello

when i walked about torchello in the

early morning alone i was happy

i wanted to stay there forever

we all

yes we all

feel that sometimes

oh you do yourself do you

i mean there's nothing really wrong you

see i've got the family

emma and i are very good together

i think the world of her and

i actually consider casey to be a

first-rate writer

do you really first rage i'm

proud to publish him and discovered him

and i was very clever of you

thanks you got a good news and you care

and

i respect that in you so does emma

we often talk about it

how is emma very well

you must come and have a drink sometime

she'd love to see you

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vodka lunchtime just feel like one

i ran into judith yesterday did she tell

you

no she didn't where in the street in the

street

she didn't tell you what street

kensington church street

kensington church street what the hell

was she doing in kensington church

street

shopping by the look of it she was

carrying a shopping bag

kensington church street's a hell of a

long way from the hospital of course it

isn't

well i suppose not she didn't tell you

i haven't really seen her i was out late

last night with casey

and she was out early this morning

do you think she knows knows

does she know about us

no

you sure she's busy at the hospital

and the kids she doesn't go in for

speculation but what about clues

isn't she interested to follow clues

what clues

well there must be some available to her

to pick up there are none

available to her oh

well good

she has an admirer

another doctor she takes her for drinks

it's irritating i mean she says that's

all there is to it

he likes her she's fond of him etc etc

perhaps that's what i find irritating

but i don't know exactly what's going on

oh why shouldn't she have an admirer i

have an admirer

who uh you i think

ah yes

i'm more than that

tell me have you ever thought

of changing your life

changing hmm

it's impossible

do you think she's being unfaithful to

you no

i don't know when you're in america just

now for instance no

have you ever been unfaithful to whom

to me of course yeah

have you to me

no

if she was what would you do she isn't

she's busy she's got lots to do

she's a very good doctor and she likes

her life

she loves the kids ah

she loves me ah

all that means something it certainly

does

i adore you i adore you

yes

isn't something i have to tell you

i'm pregnant it was when you were in

america

it wasn't anyone else it was my husband

yes yes of course

i'm very happy for you

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it's very quiet the house is empty

i should hope so

normally it's quite lively

the kids you know

bloody noisy

it's judas we'll answer it

yes yes yes hello

are you

and the kids

yeah fine how's your mother

oh no really

well never mind tell her

no nothing

no i just had something

bloody awful

no fine

nothing reading

oh i'll be there by five at the outside

yes

but that's the whole point i'm avoiding

the rush hour about five

my love

yeah what's that

yes

it's hot it's lovely toasted cheese

hello it's me robert

i'm going to be about an hour late

that's all right

hi charlotte fine she's just come in

everything all right yes

yes bye

tomorrow tomorrow 12 the pub

okay till then

who's that on the telephone daddy

he sends you his love

i'm taking the afternoon off what about

some squash

squash

what's the squash i can't why not

uh i can't start to name damn it why

what are you doing

i'm a working man i'm not a rich

publisher

and a boyfriend with a beautiful young

poetess i trust

yes casey he's just finished the novel

i hope you're not going to send it to me

next week it's my turn for lunch it is

tuesday tuesday enjoy your purchase

there's no one on top of you that's the

main thing no one clumping about on top

of your head

that's the kitchen

and this is the main room

it's quiet it's nice it is that

you're private

business people are you yes we live in

leicester

oh leicester yes

but we have a lot of business

appointments in london you see and

hotels are so expensive they are i

know you can't keep rushing back to

leicester between appointments can you

no it's impractical well you wouldn't

get any business done would you

mrs banks would you just let us walk

about in it by ourselves for a few

minutes you want to get the feel of it

that's right go on walk about by

yourselves

get the feel of it thank you

i like it

do you

i like you

you will like it you will

let's take it

have you seen

again

hello and what's your name

charlotte

me a seat come hello

good god i've been waiting for you

what do you mean i knew you'd come

i've just come in to comb my hair

i knew you'd have to and you'd have to

comb your hair

i knew you'd have to get away from the

party

aren't you enjoying the party

you're beautiful

listen i've been watching you all night

i must tell you i want to tell you i

have to tell you

please you're incredible

you're drunk nevertheless

jerry i was best man at your wedding

i saw you in white i watched you glide

by in white

i wasn't in white you know what should

have happened what

i should have had you in your white

before the wedding

i should have blackened you in your

white wedding dress

blackened you in your bridal dress

before ushering you into your wedding is

your best man

my husband's best man your best friend's

best man

no your best man

i must get back

you're lovely i'm crazy about you

all these words i'm saying don't you see

that ever been said before can't you see

i'm crazy about you

it's a whirlwind have you ever been to

the sahara desert listen to me it's true

listen

you overwhelm me you're so lovely i'm

not

you're so beautiful look at the way you

look at me i'm not

looking at you look at the way you're

looking at me

i can't wait for you i'm bowled over i'm

totally knocked out you dazzle me you

jewel

my jewel i can't ever sleep again

now listen it's the truth i won't walk

i'll be a [ __ ] i'll descend i'll

diminish

into total paralysis

my life is in your hands that's what

you're banishing me to a state of

catatonia do you know the state of

catatonia

do you a state of

where the reigning prince is the prince

of emptiness the prince of absence

the prince of desolation i love you

my husband is the other side of that

door

i adore you i'm madly in love with you i

can't believe that what anyone's at this

moment saying has ever happened has ever

happened

nothing has ever happened nothing this

is the only thing that ever happened

your eyes kill me

i'm lost you're wonderful

no yes

hahahahaha

people are leaving

you're best friends drunk as you are my

best

and oldest friend and in the present

instance my host

i decided to take this opportunity to

tell your wife

how beautiful she was quite right

it is quite right too to face up to the

facts

and to offer a token without blush

token of one's unalloyed appreciation

no holds barred absolutely

i wonder about you this is so that this

is the case

that her beauty is the case quite right

i speak as your oldest friend your best

man

are actually

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me

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so

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so

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you