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after their brief glimpse of George

Kennan in Dartmoor Prison Edwin and

Hilda have returned to the five towns

Oh George you need insane yeah well can

I go you can't it's also don't know it

isn't pressed alert alright shut the

door oops okay your infant I'm supposed

to be busy I just had this by the

afternoon post read it dear mrs. clay

anger just a line to say that my husband

is at last discharged it has been weary

waiting we are together and I am looking

after him with renewed thanks for your

sympathy and help believe me Sincerely

Yours Charlotte M can orange so it's

over we can begin again well that's

alright didn't always tell you it would

take time

it's a strange letter isn't it what

makes you say that well read it again

it's the letter of a very jealous woman

it was got what she wants and he's going

to keep it very Curt isn't it after all

this time - that letter is exactly what

it ought to be couldn't possibly have

been better turned you don't keep it or

suppose dear

and burn all the others

No I told you I should be working late

there's a lot of work to do but if you

run off I'll be with you in an hour

no on the other hand I didn't worse

have to call it Clara's about that rule

for Maggie I thought you didn't like

calling a Clara come on Maggie you asked

me to and I like Maggie you know I'll

bring the kid up jr. hardly 1 pound 3

and 6p cami and 19 shillings are carry

thorne one Guinea kill me but without

her what couldn't be bothered to live

yes poor old auntie she's always been a

wonderful woman yes oh yes so sudden - I

couldn't have been more something right

enough there just sat down to tea we had

she was sitting at the table with just

that minute started tea moment or two I

thought to myself she swallowed

something the wrong way that's what

she's done but she hadn't no well then I

could see she was fighting for breath

auntie I said what's the matter auntie

she couldn't talk no it was quite

dreadful to watch we loosened her dress

and we laid her down but she only seemed

to get worse

thank you doctor I said so I said - bird

run round to dr. Forbes in acre life is

the nearest doctor is dr. Forbes go

round there I said tell him to come at

once tell him your aunt is having a

heart attack

auntie and it was so dreadful of course

that the children were there oh they

were frightened poor little dears if

only they'd been at their dancing class

no no Kay they've given up dancing class

we've agreed to that oh yes I know only

if they had been at dancing they

wouldn't have seen auntie some ways I

bet they've learnt quite enough dancing

the money that woman charges now oh I

know well but I know all I say even if

they don't mean it dancing class that's

inventive and okay yes but not at that

well let's leave it shall we

whatever you say

just called in for your wall I could

have given that world to aunty Maggie I

didn't know what he was calling she

didn't tell me

the first Sonya when he was here was

when he sent dirt round to tell me she

was ill didn't even say she'd be out the

team what's the doctor saying he says

he'll stay with her there's not much she

can do I'm afraid she's very ill so she

must have been moved well no she'll have

to stay here yes but what about you

Clara we're sure you sleep I should be

all right

the Chairman arrest yourself you know

you are the doctor said so there's

nothing Betty what's the matter with me

I would see one of those things you know

he said the Clary must be careful I

don't see any call to talk about it does

Edwin know about empty no he sir still

it works say that the words his past

seven its we very busy just now is he

indeed how nice things seemed very slack

elsewhere in the towns not slack Larry

just going through a phase

oh yes bound to pick up zoom well I do

think ed Witten should be told

yes I'll go around to the works and tell

him right now

sim son shoot the outer door and this

one too

we're waitin to see me yes

the Clark said you mustn't be disturbed

and asked me to wait then he went out

I'm gonna do for ya it's really after

hours but some of us are working a bit

late I'm George Kennan will you come in

please

Timpson I'm engaged

yes sit down

you needn't be afraid nobody can hear

unless you shaft

did she recognize me down there

Dartmoor yes

I wasn't sure we were halted before I

could see and I didn't look round after

been punished I've been punished before

now for looking up at the sky and

exercising

however I've not come all the way here

to talk prison so you needn't be afraid

I'm not one of your reformers she was

right to feel pity for him and he's

still attached to a poor devil what have

you gone for mm-hmm you know all about

it about my affair of course well I

expect you know how much I'll know I'm

an honest man you know that I don't have

to begin by explaining that to you you

weren't honest towards ilknur if it

comes to that

when I say honest I mean you know what I

mean about Hilda I don't defend that

only I couldn't help myself I dare say I

should do it again well it's no he was

talking about that that's over she's

come out of it all right she's not

harmed and I thank God for it if they've

been a child living well now that would

be different well I mean is I am an

honest man I have been damnably treated

yeah not that I want to her going about

that no I'm a fatalist that's silver

that's done with I'm not whining all I

am insisting is that I'm not a thief and

I am NOT a forger and I have nothing to

hide I've just on six good years for

being innocent I never did anything

wrong or even silly except let myself

get too fond of somebody well that could

happen to anyone and it did happen to me

but there's nothing else you understand

yes nobody has the right to look down on

me is what I mean on the contrary this

country owes me an apology however

that's done with spilled milk spilt

I know what the world is I agree I agree

yes well to cut it short

I want help and I've come to you for it

nee you mr. clay anger have come

straight here from London I haven't got

a friend in the whole world not one it's

not everybody they can say that and I'm

well aware that you're not a friend of

mine I've no claim on you you don't know

me but you do know about me when I saw

you in Dartmoor

I guessed who you were and I said to

myself you look like the sort of a man

that might help another man why did you

come to the prison why did you bring her

there you must have known that I was

there

didn't bring her there it was however we

needn't go into that if you don't mind

was she

upset

of course what do you want me to do

money money you won't feel it but it'll

save me after all mr. clay hanger there

is a bond between us if it comes to that

there is the bond between us and you've

had all the look at it but surely your

wife

surely mrs. cannon mrs. cannon mrs.

cannon cannon that's the shortest mrs.

cannon isn't without funds I know she

was short a little while back Russia

well she was a little short my wife sent

her ten pounds how fancy it was 10

pounds towards expenses you know never

told me understood she was a woman of

property

mr. Utley anger I have left my wife as

you call her if I'd stayed with a nicer

to kill dare run off oh I know what

she's done for me I know that without

her I should probably be in prison today

and for a couple of years to come but

I'd sooner be in prison or in Hell or

anywhere else you like them with mrs.

cannon she's an old woman she always

wasn't a old woman she was nearly 40

when she helped me and I was 22 and I'm

young yet I'm not middle-aged yet well

she's got a clear conscience as mrs.

cannon she always does her duty

she let me walk over her and never

complain if she could only keep me she

just play and smile oh yes she'd turned

the other cheek and keep on turning it

but she's not going to have me oh but

all she's done for me I'm not grateful

hag that's what she is you're a man you

know what's what you'll understand what

I mean believe me when I say I wouldn't

stay with that woman for eternal

salvation I couldn't I couldn't do it

I've taken some of her money

a little and ever enough now I've only

just got here I had to ask your

whereabouts I might have been recognised

in the streets but I haven't been I

didn't expect to find you here at this

hour I might have had to spend the night

in the town oh I wouldn't have gone to

your private house but now that I have

seen you I shall get along to crew

tonight I shall be safer there and it's

on the way to Liverpool and America I

want to go to America with a little bit

of capital or I shall be all right there

it is my one chance but it's a good one

but I must have some capital no use

landing in New York with empty pockets

oh no no I can tell you that's no use

it's all

under the impression you'd been to

America once yes yes I hope that's how I

know I hadn't any money and what's more

I was brought back to face a bigamy

charge excuse me a second

auntie hamsters had an attack heart the

doctor says you can't possibly live

through the night it was a claret ah so

that's it is it

then she's a claret yes have you seen er

yes they made me I suppose I'd better go

round you go back and I'll follow you

no there's someone in there can't talk

yes I say simple have you done those

letters yes took them to the pillar then

call around mr. Benn Bo's and tell them

I'll be about a quarter of an hour I

don't know that you need come back

Oriole

whatever is the matter with you writer

nothing so quick well you come along

with these shocks no queer when you came

out you've upset yourself my child it's

all hey don't I tell you it's a customer

what makes you feel that as I was

walking through the town

I noticed somebody he was talking to the

fishmonger of course I couldn't see him

properly but then as I was walking on I

said to myself it looks like George

Cannon and then I said to myself no of

course it couldn't be

and then of all this business about

Auntie hands the idea went right out of

my head well it is if you want

did you know he was coming no I did not

show the least notion now if you are not

going in there

what is he what he wants me to help him

go to America yeah he says he hasn't a

friend but his wife that's what I said

he's left her says he can't live with

her but I do think it very strange him

coming to see you so do i but there are

a lot of strange things in this world

now listen here I'm not going to keep

him waiting I can't find George and take

him home at once I do think it very

wrong you should be asked to help him

don't get him out of this town and out

of the country now do as I say as things

are he doesn't know there is any George

and it's just as well he shouldn't but

if he stays anywhere about he's bound to

know now off you go George is in the

engine house

helped him in your place

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are you going to help me yes I'll do

what I can

what do you want hundred pounds I can't

let you have it all know what could you

send it to me in notes I can clear a

dress and leave a wait a second yeah

here's 20 pounds take the bag - it'll be

under write the address on the envelope

will you I'll send you 100 tomorrow you

can rely on it

you mean 80 no 120 will get you over and

you'll have wandered clear when you get

to the other side

you're very kind

I

he's the envelope little pencil

you got it all back you see that's

alright don't you worry I don't want it

you owe me nothing

you'll get every penny back and before

too long

well good look you'll get to crow

alright

there's a train from shore ported 87

who'da thought it

they say these chaps always turn up

again like bad pennies that are Betty

won't has he gone how much did you give

him

ADA's just putting the dishes out I'll

just go to the bathroom

how don t Hubbs well if anything she's a

bit easier

I don't mind betting she gets over it

Edwin scene George cannon and George

cannons gone

he's been bribed and he's gone

nobody else in the world would have

helped him but Edwin did I owe

everything I have in the world what all

those school books doing there on the

sideboard other clearly understood that

you would do your lessons in your

mother's boudoir well you could take him

away wrong schoolbooks on books don't

always say that Amelie and I saw all

right so it was my mistake but does he

have to be such an autocrat I'd never

bathed like that to him do you like

carrots and mushrooms too

yes please thank you lad we're not

equals aren't we how can we be he

commands and it's done in the end I must

listen to him because I found no money I

am a parasite thank you dear would you

like carrots and mushrooms or just

carrots please there was a time when I

could say I shall go to London I shall

leave London now I'm deceived and I'm

ruined but I own myself of course I

don't want to leave him but even if I

did I'm a captive now well yes I submit

of course I do

and I'm so quite young I'm only 36 next

year it will be only 37 then 38 and 39

I shall never submit

what you're doing scraping off the right

or four it's a pretty card she told me

yesterday to spell them all out no

waiter

you seemed after me you know one of the

Mandan them over how old is she she

reckon

well no checking any rate up all day I'd

say she tries not to play the part

thirty-nine well not suffer night you

know different to me

well she second out about her suppose

and a chance daughter to which man had

just started she takes care you know but

if she can't who can

well what else oh she got to do with

herself one man and one kid just to look

after and she's got you and my to do

most of that what does the writing say a

happy birthday to my dear elder from

aunty

she's a tough agonal thought she were

dying three years ago I was at Akshay ad

I remember takes more than a heart

attack to kill offer her a euro she's

had six or seven since then the good ins

like me you'll kick off at fifty if I

last that blasted long Maddie's uncle

gave this to me cousin it's her birthday

next week where is shade you know she's

in a boudoir I saw you in my master went

back to work I think I could manage

another drop best not let us see me

fetch it though what about the washing

gotta buy she's got to be done I know he

says I'm just getting a bottle to give

me strength Nance against it have you

I'm just saying that's all I thought for

a minute she was ordering me a bite if

you want to drink you of it Oh she'll

but I won't have you labeling the work

to make you hold up you won't tell

anybody you think as you was mr. easy

you been here longer than you out long

and what's that meant to mean if I were

put on the way you were I'd have move

myself out of here years ago I've

noticed you in an order to go well it

won't be much longer the way she carries

on her come funny with me just one more

time I'll have me die name steers before

shake inspect I'll conform yourself a

position anytime

the steed can push from the last one as

I heard it you watch your blasted tongue

may go a soul knows about you tied to

her apron strings you are you'd be

frightened to doctor shift yourself out

of it and don't you think er doesn't

know it too

why do you think treads all over you

great big ugly mouth oh listen to this

beauty doc you go ahead and swill

yourself with beer well if I want a

busted sound that's it I'm not doing

yeah busted washing gone oh I can see

you've been drinking now don't lie to me

what's the farmer's Marbury tease I

don't care whose it is I do not allow my

students to have alcohol not while

they're on duty anyhow don't you know

don't you know you please not use that

much to me I'm not using no voice I'm

using my own show me your own huh I wish

to see your room take me there at once

it's your room not mine you know where

it is please do as I say I wish to see

your room my room

it is quite disgusting I suppose you

realize that and what's that supposed to

mean you'd be just busting yourself of

your lived in here it is your

responsibility to see that this room is

kept clean oh is it now and when am I

supposed to do that if you don't mind me

asking I'm working every hour that God

sent as you do please do not be insolent

will be insolence

Plus speed OIT toity you are and all

this cuz I like a bottle of beer and

need a bottle of beer what's the matter

with having a bottle of beer look look

man if you want to see my best if you

leave at once please pack your trunk and

leave at once

I shall do the cooking myself for

tonight Ada and I shall expect you to

help me by preparing the vegetables now

hurry along with that soup it should

have been done by now

then you take out the carrots and start

on those not to have told me about

Eliza's drinking you may have thought it

was loyal to her but that was not so it

was disloyal to me disloyal and

secretive it was you're always hiding

things from me ADA I think it's very

wrong with you I haven't forgotten that

I once had to give you notice and you

shouldn't forget that it was concern for

you and led me into withdrawing it hello

yes this is a good place to meet we

should have it properly cooked for a

change and a fish - it is your mistress

and not your fellow servants that matter

the most to you eh do you remember that

hmm see you the pace at which this

kitchen usually works oh no no no no

you'll have to rub that one again look

at the map you've left up there oh you

have the makings of a good servant a

loyalty and hard work that's what you

need oh yes I think that between us we

shall manage but well that cook made

such a fuss about something so

straightforward

can't possibly think

well it's time this house was

reorganized and I shall do more yes I

shall for one thing I shall have new

clothes

oh do i I don't know and Edwin shall

have new clothes he's beginning to

slouch he must stand up straight he

could be mayor of this town if he wanted

to be he hasn't even gone on the council

yet well he shall do I shall see to that

and why shouldn't I be Maris I could

certainly set an example to some when I

think what we suffered to come together

it's also well we shall live in the

country I've quite decided that how do

the sort out of the grime out of filthy

Trafalgar Road ten miles from the Ben

bows and four Monty HAMP's we're

servants are servants and there's space

and air some are just like TV mansion

somewhere where we can really start a

new life I shall Drive Edwin to the

station in a dog-cart all right into

Bursley if I want to shop oh no I would

never shop in Bursley shop in old castle

of course I should be active busy

dignified elegant influential and kind

I should make his life a miracle Oh

however she'd come home right now

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can I speak to you in the kitchen yes

put them on and then come up here and

see what you have to say I was thinking

I better give you notice mom what's the

matter now there's no place in Yuma the

way you talked to me in the kitchen so

now is always a hiding things from you I

felt it very much

Joey what's wrong with you ada

you're a little fool I know you'll never

get a better place than you have here

but you'll get an idea in your head and

there you are now do be sensible you say

you want to give notice think it over

before you do anything ridiculous sleep

on it

we'll see how you feel in the morning I

think I'd better give notice especially

saying as I'm a fool in celli so you

would leave me without a maid and with

Christmas coming on and that's all the

thanks I get for what I've done for you

well mum we've had such a queer lotta

girls here lately haven't we five cooks

in three years without a year now and

some of them very queer I don't hardly

care to stay I feel we should both be

better for a change like very well ADA I

shall take you back again whatever

happens

can I leave at once mum same as Coke and

may I inquire where you'd go at this

time of night you can't possibly go home

to your parents

oh it could go to me cousins of a tuft

road and it could send down a lad with a

barrel for me box I suppose you realize

you're forfeiting the wages due to you

the day after tomorrow I should ask my

cousin about that mom I should I

certainly should deserves our coz of me

rights that will do ADA go go box

I'll get from him

what next

surely she knows how to organize this

house be her course haven't seen George

but he's not back from school yet I

can't help was no light on the landing

guy that I wish you'd see to these

servants of yours

as it happened as there aren't any

servants aren't any servants what do you

mean when I found the Attic full of beer

bottles I sent her off I'm a spotter to

off Eliza

what about Heder she's gone too boy

she seemed to want to and she was very

impertinent about it too much over it is

hmm

I told him this what happened I told her

it would he's always saying I know soft

I am with people at work she thinks they

laugh at me she thinks they think I'm a

simpleton at least I don't lose my

entire working stuff in one afternoon

there's a million domestic servants in

this blessed country and not one of them

works less than 100 hours a week and

nobody cares

do I even really care yourself it's

quite obvious it's all gotten in bins

can we donate no of course I haven't

forgotten

I sent for mrs. Tam's mrs. tan yes

she'll come hmm if she's doing nothing

else

what of course she's doing nothing else

she always comes to help me out when

there's a problem and she needs the

money you know she does I wish you'd go

out to look for George how can I look

for him I wouldn't know where to begin

no he will you be quite safe with it

he's a very good bicyclist I'm not sure

about that the roads are very greasy

tonight anything could have happened I

really do want you to go out and look

for George oh don't play the fool have

you fallen off your bike lukkage a new

overcoat and don't leave your satchel a

mother made me take my overcoat

you know I can't cycling my overcoat I

haven't been on my bike all day my legs

broken where is your bike now in the

shed of course then why you so late

captain all this time what for

Latin Oh work again haven't you done it

properly the headache last night of your

Latin headaches you didn't seem to have

much of a date when you came in well I

just forgot a minute that's all it's my

eyes I told you these specs would never

suit me but you wouldn't believe me

death master wouldn't believe me what's

the good of telling you in

if you only think I'm coming

I am going to take George to London

tomorrow about his eyes to London yes

well it's no use doing these things as

last charlie or grief to recommend me a

first-class oculist wouldn't have that

boy's eyes I played with for anything

but he's doing tomorrow

what's wrong with Birmingham Manchester

we shall just see about that

Luke don't you worry about those eyes we

shall do something there you shall make

sure you see a first-class specialist

stick into Birmingham or Manchester if

you like doing us a service deadline

run round to mrs. Thames you know the

woman who came around when we lost the

last coupe ask her if she can come round

an AW mother out

mrs. Thames

what right have we got to drag her out

at this time of night

why should she stop whatever she's doing

leave her husband and family to fend for

themselves and come here to do our

washing top because she needs the money

of course well I've had some pretty good

meals in his house but this is certainly

the best bit of dish I ever tasted

so the catastrophe of the kitchen leaves

me humble

oh I do like so now then your callous

brute what do you say Oh Edwin never

praises me yes I do no he's too wrapped

up in his works to think of crazies 100

by the way teddy yep

I heard a rumor you've been asked to

stand for the town council in the South

Road

why didn't you who told you that tail it

was about never come from me yes well he

was asked to stand but he wouldn't

I thought he ought to I begged him to

but no he wouldn't do you know he

refused a JP ship - oh that sort of

things not my line I wasn't it whose

line is it then look at all the rotters

in the council all the more reason why

you should be on it well I don't know

time I'll tell you what's the matter

whether you're well man you may not know

it but you're in a groove you become a

good example of the generous

domesticated businessman you forgotten

what life is I mean do you fancy you're

at full stretch all the time but you're

in a coma well I suppose you'll never

see 40 again and have you ever been

outside this island you went to London

no this year because you went last year

and he'll go next year because you went

this year and if you should happen now

and again to worry about the failure of

your confounded Liberal Party then you

think you're in good broad-minded fellow

what we do where are your musical

evenings and I asked you to come with me

to a concert in Manchester last week but

one you thought I'd gone dotty simply

because it meant you're leaving your

works early and not getting to bed until

the unheard of our a 1:30 a.m. John no

one no I will I mean

but you haven't got a vise left I'm

device would interfere with your lovely

life Oh as any one thing would upset you

more than a machinery breakdown at the

world sir what's that what if one of the

hinges of your garden gate came off what

if you lost your nuts key well look I

didn't mean struck wall of a heat bother

servant affair they probably occur to

you that your breakfast might be five

minutes late in the morning circle call

of a pending post natal de Courcey balls

no I know thinks it's my fault

aren't you usual thing the usual thing I

never heard of a happy marriage yet that

didn't end in the same way happy

marriage écoles it no I don't see what

marriage is to do with it no of course

you don't I don't know if you don't we

have the diagnosis what's the

prescription in Hulme much too close to

your infernal works why don't you get

right away and live in the country like

a sensible man instead of being stuck in

this filthy Oh somebody on my side don't

you'll say you couldn't even actually

would course he would just like he

thinks is impossible to get a London

tomorrow

London mm-hmm why do you want to get a

London for about Georgia spectacles they

don't shoot her at all they give him

headaches edwin would have me take him

to the local man what's his name at

ambridge I was afraid it would be risky

but Edwin Ward habit no I'm taking him

to London so we going on far too long as

it is he hasn't said a word don't you

think it's best to get along Oh chief

thing in these cases to satisfy the

maternal instinct if I should go to

London tomorrow look what will happen to

his worship with no servants in the

house I'm hoping he'll come with us

that'll shake him up

I'm afraid that's quite out of the

question why is it out of the way stores

are gone go um why do you have to go

tomorrow what what does a day or two

matter I'll tell you why it matters I

will not take chances with my child's

eyesight it is going on far too long as

it is and how do you know a day won't

make any difference it might make all

the difference in the world

anyway I can't go to London tomorrow

then what shall you do I don't know they

said their beams of smoke well we shall

see

oh yes we shall when we are alone

tonight we shall have this thing out

he'll soon see you wins the battles in

this house tomorrow to see about my eyes

we're going to stay with uncle Charles

and auntie Janet and she says she's

going to take me to the Egyptian Hall

isn't it topping Oh auntie Maggie's here

Maggie he's here hello max good evening

miss clay hugger auntie amps is being

naughty again do anything with her she's

about to let herself in for another

attack if she doesn't take care of

herself and she won't take care of

herself she won't listen to the doctor

anybody else she's always on her feet

and she's got sewing meetings on the

brain just now I've got her to bed early

tonight she's frightfully shaky and I

thought have come up and tell you you're

the only one that can do anything

whether at all and you really must come

and see her tomorrow on your way to the

works

alright alright I'll drop in only I got

no influence over her Georgie's eyes hmm

see it's absolutely necessary for he'll

they detect him to London tomorrow and

you've got no servants at all can't you

come and sleep a Dumpty's for a night or

two you've no idea what a relief it had

made to me think you might

I asked him to come

could have been the start of our new

life not that I would expect him to see

that well I'm going to London

yes oh that's good thing anyway I'll

give your regards to Janet and Charlie

shut up of course I shall write a note

to aunty HAMP's to say when we'll be

back don't forget to lock up when you

get well short goodbye then hmm I know

now I'm being turned out in my own house

why should I tolerate her there's no

reason why my marriage is finished

that's all there is

oh yes they'll be a scandal of course

there will be a scandal

okay she doesn't see what she's doing

she doesn't see it at all

[Applause]

you