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Don't you ever do anything in the

evenings? Don't you go out dancing or

anything like that?

No, I'm too tired.

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You don't have to finish your

wine. You can go to bed. Would you mind,

sir?

Good night.

Night, sir.

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Okay. If it was just about love, I think

I could get over

it. Love all over the place. family and

fellow men and animals and the Holy

Ghost could cut me coat according to the

cloth where love's

concerned. But I wanted so much

more.

Children. I look at children sometimes

and something inside me just turns over

like a fish. Well, that is a natural and

wonderful instinct.

The trouble is when I opened the door to

Domingo, I felt exactly the

same. Is that a natural and wonderful

instinct to look at another

person, a grown man, and think you are

something that I want?

I've always

believed that the love between a man and

a

woman is a living image of the love that

God has for his church. And that it's

probably impossible to feel the true

depth of that love without having

experienced the joy of marriage.

That must make your job quite difficult.

It's not without its consolations.

Should I try and find consolation in

this

father? Should I try and make a

sacrifice for God?

I will try if you say I should. No, I'm

not going to say that.

God, should we not be sitting here?

Should I have come to confessional?

No. No. because you haven't sinned.

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Good morning, Mr. Moss. Gentlemen and

motor.

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Iris has had a proposal of marriage and

you are flying in the face of God.

Whose god would that be? Then

there is only one god, Mr.

Moss. As well you know, everything else

is just a matter of opinion and that is

a matter of opinion in itself.

Besides, the conjurer has withdrawn his

application for her harm.

And is that a source of satisfaction to

you? It means my daughter is free to do

her

duty. And what would you define as a

duty, Mr. Moss?

cooking and washing and waiting on you,

tending to her brother and her sisters.

Iris is my eldest

child. She was her mother's right

hand. She does things her mother's

way. Mr.

Moss, you have three girls and I am

going to say two things to

you.

One, you will never replace your wife.

To try to do so with her daughter is an

insult to her

memory from all this. Where you going

with that? To the poor

boss and

two. Have you never heard of compromise?

He did it there.

Domingo Hennessy, I despise you. You're

a papist and you pull handkerchiefs out

of your heart for a living. But you have

a fine eye for that which is beyond all

calculable price. And if I give my

firstborn to you, she can marry before

an altar lit with candles wearing white,

which is more than I could ever give her

more.

Is that it, sir?

No. We need our back for an hour every

day to cook our

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dinner. I'm not in favor of anything

subdued. This will be a short engagement

and keeping it quiet might just look

whole and corner.

If it's to do with funds, I have a

little nest egg. Are you suggesting we

can't afford to give the girl a decent

send off? No, sir. And we do have a

little nest egg of our own. We call it

the cocoa tin money.

We call it the grave money. And we won't

be needing it anymore. Oh, this will be

better for Domingo now. And we're just

supposed to make our own arrangements.

Ignore her.

I won't take the grave money, man. You

will. We're going to need new clothes.

Shetty, trifle, and a ham. My employees

entertain a lot. You find an over the

fall. You'll not fit many in this small

parlor.

Well, there's only the yard. I like the

fresh air. You'll be getting enough of

that outside the church.

Dada, you must come inside the church.

You can't just stop outside. I can't go

in a Catholic church. You went in for

your wedding.

Make him see reason. Billy, I can't come

in either. You'll just have to walk up

the aisle on your

own. I'll let you think that it doesn't

matter. That I don't mind that you're

both bigots.

You've made her cry again. I'm not

crying. I'm just

disgusted.

Would you be wanting a formal

bouquet? And how do you propose we pay

for that?

I'll be quite happy carrying mama's

missile.

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I'm sorry, Domingo.

It's like punching Judy only with more

puppets.

Close the door. Why?

I thought you might want to kiss me.

People do kiss when they're engaged, and

we never have.

I want you wearing white inside and out.

Iris,

one kiss wouldn't be the ruin of me.

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There'll be so much time.

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Booby. Ruby, I brought you some dinner.

Got your crispy bits.

What did you get?

Fishcake was missing.

Honest to God, you've got a face on you

like a jar of worms.

The grave money matters, Billy. So why

you say nothing else will change? But

Iris and May and I will always be

together.

Just get so sick of endings, Billy.

Always endings and takings away. Iris

isn't ending anything. She's starting

something