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Thank you.

She acts so high and mighty with me.

Do this, do that.

Yesterday, she calls me back.

This cup is cracked, she says.

Yes, I said. It's old. It gets cracked from all the using.

Her best cups.

She's had them since the day she got married.

I know. I was there. I made the cake.

Good morning, good day, fair present cup. Morning, baby.

You wouldn't talk to me like that if Mr. O'Sullivan was still alive, I said.

Never. I did. I told her straight out.

Who's Miss Rose Sullivan?

Cookie's first husband.

He was Irish, you know. From Dublin.

Not just okay town like her.

He was as white as she is.

Whiter. White as my house.

Remember what soap tastes like?

Went to Rhodesia with the railways.

Never came back.

Ah, yeah.

Wouldn't believe a man could have such legs.

Black hairs.

Just like...

Dead straight.

Little pictures have big ears.

Listen. She's got nothing else to do all day.

She'll be done in a minute.

Her? Never.

41 years, your gran never dare put her foot in my kitchen.

Doesn't know what a stove looks like either.

Jean, better take her tray up.

Where's the Cape Times?

I told you, it hasn't come.

Yeah.

Take this one. She'll never notice.

A star fell from heaven, it landed nearby. No matter who tells you,

it's always goodbye.

Mary, the brain's gone at last.

I'm not surprised.

It was touch and go when Jed gave theory in 46.

Suddenly, it says.

Surely they were expecting it. She must have been 70.

Mm, he's died too.

Oh, well, I dare say it's a comfort for them both.

Why is it a comfort? Don't interrupt.

In a plane crash, he started.

That's what it says.

Oh, at their age.

Carol sucks.

Ah, ah, ah, don't fidget.

Turn your toes out and stand up straight.

You'll grow up to see nothing but the ground under your feet.

Don't pull it.

The fingers are like sausages this morning.

Can I go to you to watch soccer?

No.

I have to go to the farm.

Can't I go and play with Robert?

You know you're not meant to play with him.

Why not?

He's colored, that's why.

He is not. His grandmother's colored, so he's colored. She is not. Who says she

is? Cookie. Well, she should know.

There's nobody for me to play with.

All the wrong people are dying. It's these modern drugs.

It's Thursday.

We always go to see your Auntie Karen on Thursday.

Now get your shoes on.

And you, that's enough now.

So when I've got any hair left, will you picket it?

Here. Take these to Cookie.

Now, out, both of you.

That's because she's all alone.

What about me?

You're just young.

If people are on edge, you miss them.

Cookie's old.

That's different.

Why?

Because, that's why.

Here, you take this.

I'll give you sausage and chips if you wiggle your hips, Argentina.

I'll give you bacon and eggs if you open your legs, Argentina.

notice. I'm not invited on any smart outing. It can wait.

You coming this time too?

And why not?

I had my holidays there also. You don't think they left us behind?

I didn't sleep in the cottage.

She slept on the felt with the baboons.

Comical funny.

Who's going to do the cleaning up, you little bugger? I've been scrubbing in

years since hour and a half.

Are those meant to be clean?

No music today?

Just farts.

Turn it off.

The lightning will come down the wire.

Nothing is coming down the plug since you put all that tape on it. It's

irritating the valves, all that insulation.

that blew the bells, then I'd like to know.

There's storms about today. You mark my words.

The telephone's cut off. That's a sure sign.

Storms in January.

Keep still.

Five past nine.

Johnny's late.

We'll never get started.

That clock's always wrong. You know it. The hands lose, so it gains.

What when the hand's going up, eh?

It catches.

Jean, stop messing him about.

Tying that poor child's arm in slings all the time. He's bound to grow up

paralyzed. Paralyzed, paralyzed.

Gene, gene.

Moisture face and paraffin. Remember what life boy tastes like.

That means new.

Give me by your light, mommy.

God rest her soul.

Are you partial to Amber?

Prefer turquoise.

Amber does nothing to me.

Shouldn't wet, then. It's made for a white skin.

I'm not

a native. I'm a colored person.

We're all colored persons in this kitchen.

You stay out until you find your manners.

I ran all the way.

Where's your grand?

Upstairs.

Johnny! Yes, what is it?

What's a cavers?

Cavers are trouble.

And don't bother me now.

The boys aren't working. I haven't even stopped them today.

Madam says, why are you late?

That's what I asked him. He won't tell.

Johnny says the neighbors all say this is the day. What day?

I haven't seen any.

You haven't been out.

They've been buying all the bread for two days now.

My sister said shop where she worked was sold right out yesterday.

Trouble. You better go and tell the madam.

I'll go.

No, you stay where you are.

Johnny, you better get on with your work.

Why is Johnny so afraid of the Africans?

Because they don't like the government or the council or us.

Ungrateful. Don't appreciate the houses they've given.

Dirty lot.

If we don't go soon, all the stuff will turn.

Can't keep nothing in the seat.

Madam says it's nothing to worry about.

Nobody's come round to tell her.

Johnny, get the car.

And hurry.

How are we going to get there if the road's blocked?

Madam says by the side road. If you're so frightened by the police and a few

drunk natives.

It's not good.

It's my belief he's on the bottle again.

I don't know.

He says all the colors down his way are locked in their houses.

They say it really is the day.

Madam, does madam want the folding chairs in? Of course.

Some thickening out there today didn't come...

Leave it down, Johnny. We're late already.

Back up, ma'am.

They didn't come because they're natives.

That's why.

It's the day.

You're getting worse than the servants, Raymond.

Gossip, gossip, gossip.

Ready, ma'am.

Two more garden boys.

And don't forget to change the sheets today.

Turn around and sit still.

And hardly any people either.

What's the matter now?

Send the sergeant to me.

Well? He won't come. He says we must go home.

Rubbish. There's been a fight.

Well, it's clearly over. Drive around it.

He won't let us through, madam.

Huh? There's ambulances further on, he says.

I think I can see blood on the road.

Can I get out? Certainly not. Stay where you are.

Drive around and take the coast road, Johnny.

Back up, ma'am.

Drunk clip drunk, a whole lot of them.

That was the bottle they threw.

Where is everybody?

Madam, let's go home. There's trouble here.

What's the matter with you? Always romancing.

Carmen, go and find Auntie Carmen and tell her we're here.

I'm scared.

Madam, they've gone. There's no one here.

Nonsense. They haven't heard us, that's all.

So warm.

Perhaps madam had better phone the police.

Operator?

Hello?

Operator?

Johnny, go up to the cottage and see where the maids are.

Well, don't stand there catching flies. Go on, men.

Raymond, you go with him.

There's nobody there.

Do you remember our holidays here?

This was my little room.

Long ago.

You used to come and talk to me through the wall, from the kitchen.

Remember?

I came into the kitchen when it was dark, when everyone was asleep.

Go next door. I want to see if I can still hear you through the wall.

Annie Marie.

Sleep well, Anna.

Did you hear?

I didn't realize how much I'd forgotten.

We're old.

What are you doing?

Look again.

Raymond, how many times...

Poor Caroline, such a pretty girl she was.

My sister was dead before you were born, and anyway, her name wasn't Caroline.

Hey, stop that.

Cookie, what were you looking at in the mirror?

The future.

You forgot the salt, as usual.

What did you see in the future, Cookie?

Nothing. But you must have seen something.

People can't see the future, and if they do, they lie.

Event watching each other.

What's watching?

All the past and the future things.

Nonsense.

They're watching us.

Then Sir Bedivere left the king, and that time he took the sword quickly from

the place where he'd hidden it, and forbearing even to look upon it, he

twisted the belt about it and flung it with all his force into the water.

A wondrous sight he saw. For as the saw touched the water, a hand rose from out

the deep, caught it, brandished it thrice, and drew it beneath the surface.

Bushfires everywhere.

Where's your gran?

Over the hill.

She says to come.

This is a bear day, you know that?

A bear day? I felt it when I woke up.

Yeah.

It's your grape juice.

Why, much better off here.

We must go and tell the police about the burglars.

A lorry.

Like the one we saw this morning.

Africa.

They're singing about Africa.

Masquerade. Hear me.

Keep still.

You wait here until I'm in the house.

Then run to your gran and tell her you must wait up there until I come back.

You hear me, Master Ray? What are you going to do?

Don't let them see you.

Wait here and then run.

People are such fools.

Go and see what's keeping those two.