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28 more shopping days till Christmas.

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It's the longest month of my life.

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Did you say something, dear?

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Not that I was aware of.

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Not a moment. I thought you were talking
to yourself.

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It's cold outside.

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Wouldn't be surprised if we had a white
Christmas.

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This year, my dear, we're going to have
a black Christmas. Black?

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Why black?

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All Christmases are black. Some are
blacker than others.

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It's a season of rush and crush.

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Drinking and drunks.

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Jobs undone. Letters unanswered.

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That was a Christmas card.

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Much too early.

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Above all, it's the season of the office
party.

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The office party is the bane of my life.

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Couldn't you get young Leighton to
organise it? He seems a very capable

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He may seem a very capable sort.

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He may think he's a very capable sort.
He's merely a very ambitious sort.

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which isn't quite the same thing.

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In this country, if you want something
done properly, you have to do it

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yourself. I have been organising the
office party now for the last 30 years.

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During that time, I dread to think how
many bottles of sherry and how many

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pies have gone down their greedy
gullets. I don't know why bother.

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Everybody hates it.

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Why do you say that? I love it. You
know, Mrs Peckham simply lives for it.

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Mrs Peckham is 110 and has not anything
else to live for. Of course, the

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pensioners like it. Gives them a chance
to talk over old times.

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We've got more pensioners now at
Peckhams than we have actual staff.

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Dozens of them in wheelchairs, on
crutches, shuffling, snuffling, cracking

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their teeth, talking at the top of their
voices, slurping the sherry, munching

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the mince pies, crunching the chips,
grabbing at everything that's going, or

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merely sitting slumped in a chair with a
paper cap on their head.

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Our office parties are a living argument
for euthanasia. One day, I'm going to

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put brown glass in the mince pies,
cyanide in the sherry, salt the chips

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arsenic, and give an office party to end
all office parties. You're tired,

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darling. You always get overwrought at
this time of the year. Now, tuck your

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scarf in properly. I'm not overwrought.
I'm not underwrought. I'm merely fed up,

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as I have every right to be.

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Premier exercice.

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Quel beau temps aujourd 'hui,
mademoiselle. Quel beau temps aujourd

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mademoiselle.

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À Noël, il ne fait pas.

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Darling. Do you know how long I've been
at Peckham's? Yes, dear, I do. Forty

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years, and you've done very well. Now
you're the general manager. General

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body. Why do you say that? Mr. Peckham
thinks the world of you. Mr. Peckham's a

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senile old fool.

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He's not old.

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You don't have to be old to be senile.

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Mr. Peckham was born senile.

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Nous avons une soirée bien agréable.

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Bonne nuit.

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Bonne nuit.

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For a change.

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All his temps get tempier and tempier.

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I don't know.

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We get him women in their 60s. We get
him grandmothers.

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And he still can't keep his hands to
himself. Cheers.

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Yes, well, I can only tell you he's the
perfect gentleman with me.

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Yes, well, I wouldn't be if I was in his
position.

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Oh, where's your boss?

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Isn't he with Peckham?

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I thought he was.

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And Peckham thinks he should be.

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But he doesn't appear to be anywhere.

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I don't know what's happening to him.

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You're not the first person to say that.
It's always a trifle on edge around

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Christmas. It's still four weeks to
Christmas.

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I think I know what's worrying him.

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What? The takeover.

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The what?

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Takeover. It's a merger, not a takeover,
and you're not supposed to know

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anything about it yet. There's very
little in this building that I don't

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especially now I'm taking Peckham's
letters.

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Well, I'll tell you something.

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Though if you breathe a word about it to
anyone, I'll kill you.

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The deed's as good as done.

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Leclerc will be in this office in
another week or two's time to settle and

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And when that's done, no one's job is
safe. Not yours, not mine, not even

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Knox's.

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And that, incidentally, is why I want
the party to go off with a bang.

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Eat, drink and be merry, but tomorrow
we're redundant.

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You don't mean it, do you?

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Well, the junior staff is safe, but I'm
not sure about the others and I

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certainly wouldn't like to be in Knox's
shoes.

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That's good.

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Can't imagine Peckhams without Knox.

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No.

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No, neither can I.

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But when Peckhams becomes Peckham and
Leclerc, or worse, if it becomes Leclerc

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and Peckham and the head office moves to
Brussels, we shall have an entirely new

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regime.

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Oh.

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And don't forget, he hardly speaks a
word of French. He's been trying very

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to learn.

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I know he has, but he's left it about 40
years too late.

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And none of us is really safe.

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which is why, as I said, it will be the
party of parties.

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I want there to be gay abandon till
dawn.

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Ah, Mr Knox.

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I do believe Mr Peckham was looking for
you.

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Mr Peckham has found me, thank you.
There is such a thing, you know, as an

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internal telephone, which I'm pleased to
say Mr Peckham has now learnt to use.

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It was very nice of you to come in
search. Yes.

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What were you saying about a party?

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A party? A party.

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Oh, that's just something small we're
having at the George. Oh, I see.

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Not the office party.

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Well, you see, the office party is
rather... The office party is what, Miss

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Lake? Well, what I'm trying to explain
is that the party at the George is for

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youngsters, really. It's a disco
dancing, that sort of thing.

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Of course, the office party is for old
fogies like Mr Peckham, Mr Peckham's

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mother and myself.

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Do you know how long I've been at
Peckham's?

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Forty years. Rather longer, I fancy,
than you've been on the earth.

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During that time, we've managed to see
the old year out without discos.

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There can be no question of Peckhams
paying for a disco. But Peckhams

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have to pay.

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Wouldn't it? No, of course not. This is
a private party, though of course you'd

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be perfectly welcome to come and bring
your wife. Oh, that is kind of you. I

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rather fancy Mrs. Knox and I will be
otherwise engaged that evening.

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Well, now, perhaps if you'll get back to
your work and allow this young lady to

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get back to hers.

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Yes.

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You going to the disco?

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I haven't thought about it. It's some
time away.

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When are they planning to have it?

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Um, December the 20th, I think.

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December the 20th?

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That's the day before the office party.

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The office party's going to be rather a
come -down after that, isn't it?

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What are sherry and mince pies?

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Compared to discos, canned beer,
Bacardi, rum. Bacardi is rum.

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You seem to know more about these things
than I do.

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Martinis, Camparis, drinks I'd never
even heard of when I was your age. Of

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course, there are more dark corners in
the George, aren't there?

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Forty -watt bulbs, if I remember
correctly.

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I'm surprised they haven't lost their
license. Oh, yes, the office bar is

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to be a comedown, all right. Not much
fun for you young people.

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My mother wouldn't miss it for anything.

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I'm not talking about your mother. I'm
talking about you.

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Well, it's a tradition.

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Well, it's not likely to stay a
tradition much longer.

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If you people are going to have orgies
at the George, we might as well scrap

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One lump or two.

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Sorry to barge in like this, sir, but
something rather urgent has cropped up.

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Urgent? It's about the party.

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Party? The Christmas party.

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Well, it's not Christmas yet, is it? It
will be in four weeks. Will it now? How

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time flies.

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Can I ask you to take that in hand? The
party, I mean.

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I'm already doing so, sir. I've been
organising the office party for the last

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years. I do feel it should be taken over
by a younger man. Quite understand?

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Quite understand.

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Try young Leighton. Seems a very capable
sort.

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Not quite what I mean, sir. I've no
objection to organising the office

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It's not what they want.

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They are planning a disco.

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A what?

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A disco, sir. Basically, it's a
gramophone, records and dancing, if you

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it dancing.

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It's not the sort of thing I fancy
myself.

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The wife has a slipped disc. But if
that's what you want... Of course it's

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what I want. It isn't? Good heavens, no.

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Well, then, damn it, what do you want?

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I'm a fairly busy man, you know.

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Mr. Peckham, do you know how long I've
been with this firm?

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Is this some sort of riddle?

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As a point of interest, do you know how
long I've peed with Peckhams?

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As a matter of fact, somebody mentioned
it to me the other day.

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Forty years. And for the last thirty, I
have been organising the office party.

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Still don't know what you're getting at.

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Mr Peckham, if the disco is going to be
on the 20th, what is the point of having

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the office party on the 21st? I don't
see any sense in having party after

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night after night.

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Neither do I, really, but after all,
Christmas is Christmas, isn't it?

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I'm your teddy bear.

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I love you.

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Jolly, isn't it?

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Yes. Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Beckham. I'll
come back. Oh, come in. Come in, Gary.

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Sit yourself down.

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Mr. Knox and I have just finished.

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Yes, well, if you'll excuse me, sir.

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I like it when you stroke my fur.

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Now then, Gary, what do you think about
this? Just right for Christmas?

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Take me to bed with you every night.

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But I thought you liked lamb casserole.

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Is that what it was?

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Oh, delicious.

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You've hardly touched it.

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I'm slightly off food.

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You seem to me to be more than slightly
off everything.

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If you're upset about something, why
don't we talk about it?

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I've been speaking to Mrs. Peckham.

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Is it true the company's going to be
taken over?

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Is that what she told you? No, she
didn't. But she's been hearing all sorts

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rumours and claims nobody tells her
anything.

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For a woman to whom nobody tells
anything, she seems to know rather too

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Oh, so it is going to be taken over.

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If that's what the proprietor's wife
says, dear, who am I to deny it? She

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all the jobs are going to be absolutely
safe, especially yours.

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Peckham's wouldn't be Peckham's without
you, Henry. That may be her opinion. It

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may not be the opinion of our new
masters.

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To tell you the truth, I don't think I
care very much.

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In some ways, I wouldn't be sorry to go.

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But Peckham's is your life, Henry.

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Peckham's was my life.

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Peckham's isn't Peckham's anymore.

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You know the trouble I always take with
the office party?

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Of course I do, dear.

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Having a rival party.

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A disco.

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It's sabotage.

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Sabotage? What is?

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Having the disco the night before the
office party.

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Well, this morning you said you hated
the office party.

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Well, I hate the Albert Memorial. I
don't want it blown up in my face.

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I'll tell you what.

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Let's have a party of our own that
evening. Remember that little Italian

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restaurant on Queen Street? Oh, wasn't
it lovely?

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It was expensive.

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Yes, but you got value for money.

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I got indigestion.

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I know. Perhaps you could ask the
Peckhams and make up a fortune. Oh, my

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see quite enough of him at the office.
Thank you very much.

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Besides, he'd probably leave me to pay
the bill.

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That's how the rich stay rich.

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No, we're not poor, Henry.

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Not yet.

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Put out the light, darling.

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I put it out.

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Fast, fast.

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We'll appreciate delays are not uncommon
at this time of the year or in the

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congestion at the post office. However,
in order to save you any further

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inconvenience, we are dispatching a
fresh confinement of pandas, which we

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you will find... Do we have a lunch at
the door?

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Sometimes have a sandwich and a beer.
The meals are too pricey. Doesn't seem

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stop our Mr. Layton.

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What time is it?

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Nearly four o 'clock.

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He's meant to be Christmas decorations
or an obstacle course.

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Did you put them up?

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Gary helped me.

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Gary? Um, Mr. Leighton. Oh, yes.

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Extraordinary. Mr.

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Leighton seems to find time to do
everything except what he's supposed to

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Well, next time he puts up the
decorations, will you remind him that

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grown men in this office who do not wish
to have their brains dashed out with

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his wretched baubles?

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Your health, monsieur.

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Merci, monsieur Pékin. A votre santé et
joyeux Noël.

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Yes.

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Ah, here you are, Knox. We've just been
talking about you. Now, you've met

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Monsieur Leclerc, haven't you? Bonjour,
Monsieur.

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Hello Sir.

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Allow me to introduce my
assistant, Mr. Claus. Oh yes. Oh,

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Christmas, the weather is not good.

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And very often here in winter.

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Yes.

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Anything particularly urgent? Non, pas
at all.

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I'll come back tomorrow morning.

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Oh, couldn't it wait until tomorrow
morning?

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Parfait.

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Parfait? I didn't know he spoke French.

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He doesn't.

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Blast. It's all right, dear.

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It'll soon be over.

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I don't know which will be over first,
me or Christmas.

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The office closes tomorrow, doesn't it?

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Try and be back early, dear.

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I've ordered a table at the restaurant
for seven.

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Seven? Seven o 'clock, dear. Oh.

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Then put on your dinner jacket. We'll do
it in style.

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I wear a dinner jacket. Everybody thinks
I'm the head waiter.

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You have to explain you're off duty.

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You look very elegant in a dinner
jacket.

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And I'll have my hair done.

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Again? Aren't we overdoing it a bit? No,
dear. You'll be working very hard.

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Oh.

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Henry, you are clever.

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My,

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my. We are in a hurry.

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Disco time already?

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Where are the glasses?

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Oh, they haven't sent them yet.

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Well, you'd better phone the George.

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No, no, no bother.

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I'll do it myself.

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I don't want to keep you from your
innocent pleasures.

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You'll be in early in the morning, won't
you?

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There'll be a good deal to do.

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Oh, don't worry. I'll be here first
thing.

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Looking like a zombie, no doubt, after a
night of debauchery.

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Is that the George?

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This is Knox of Peckham's.

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I want to speak to Mr. Tapstall, please.

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How do you mean he's not available?

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An important function? Oh, has he?

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Well, will you tell him that I have an
important function tomorrow?

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And if he doesn't call me back in five
minutes, the order is cancelled.

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Moreover, he'll never get another order
from this firm.

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Sue? I'm the temp.

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Oh, another one.

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I'm just going to have a word with Mr
Peckham. Oh, you can't. How do you mean

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can't? He's gone to the party at the
George.

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They've nearly all gone.

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There's hardly a soul in the building.

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Aren't you going?

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Mr Peckham's gone to the George?

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That's what he said.

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I'm the only one that hasn't been
invited. Worst luck.

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Congratulations.

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Disco?

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This isn't a disco.

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It's a banquet.

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Mr. Layton.

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Mrs. Layton.

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Mrs. Peckham.

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Honored guest.

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Mr. Peckham.

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Honored guest.

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I see.

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A wedding feast.

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The union of Peckhams and the clerk.

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Minus Knox.

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So this is the climax to the comings and
goings, the furtive looks.

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Ladies and gentlemen, it is my privilege
to propose the toast of our new

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masters, the clerk. As you know, I have
been at Peckham's now for 40 years, man

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and boy.

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I would like to have stayed a little
longer. You can't expect a man to linger

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his own funeral.

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However, I cannot let this occasion pass
without paying my tribute to old Mrs.

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Peckham, the brains behind the sperm,
who during the second childhood of her

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has selected the toys which we have
tried to market.

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So, ladies and gentlemen, please be
upstanding and drink the toast of the

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of Peckham and Leclerc.

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Ladies and gentlemen...

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There seems to be a small emergency.

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Don't panic. I shall deal with this.

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On the other hand...

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Goodness, where have you been? And what
are you wearing on your head?

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Oh, it's Christmas, dear. I could do
with a drink. You could bring me one in

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bath.

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Yes, dear.

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I'm afraid we're going to be late.
Nonsense. These attendant places stay

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till midnight.

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I can smell a burning.

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I can't smell anything.

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Henry! Henry, it's the police!

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Typical.

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Any idea what's happening?

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I've no idea.

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I'm afraid we're going to be late.

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Yes, we are.

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But as long as he's here, we're all
right.

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It's the George. The George? What, on
fire?

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Yeah, they think it's Arston. In fact,
they're sure it is. One of the barmaids

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saw a chap running out of the building.

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Well, they'll catch him, I suppose, but
that won't help us much.

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Henry. Shall we tell him?

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But there's no point in keeping it a
secret now.

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Secret? You mean the merger?

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There isn't going to be any merger.
That's all over and done with.

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That frog fellow wanted us to take on
his name, Leclerc.

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I told him to go and jump in the Ghent
Canal.

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Peckham's is Peckham's.

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What secret?

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Oh, let the poor chap out of his agony.

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We were planning a dinner here to
celebrate your 40 years with Peckham's.

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The press was invited, the mayor, the
lord lieutenant of the county.

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I thought we were going to an Italian
restaurant.

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You thought we were, but we were really
bringing you to the George.

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What was all that about a disco? A
smokescreen.

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Darling, it's a presentation for you. A
gold watch.

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Swiss. Goes underwater.

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Very useful if you should go down with
your ship.

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I can't read the inscription.

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Anyway, Henry, we're offering you a
place on the board.

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Many congratulations and a very happy
Christmas. Happy Christmas. Darling.