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00:00["Pomp and Circumstance"]
00:31While shepherds watched their flocks by night,
00:37All singing on the band.
00:39That cheeky lad from four hours is down.
00:41The one that pinched my knickers off the line that time.
00:43The angel of the Lord came down
00:48And wore his garment round.
00:57Oh, it's you, Tommy Cox.
00:59Yes, Mrs. Ashton.
01:00You're starting a bit early, aren't you?
01:02Yes, Mrs. Ashton.
01:03What time do you call this?
01:04It's Christmas Eve, Mrs. Ashton.
01:05It's half past twelve in the afternoon.
01:07I don't know.
01:08Here you are, then.
01:09Don't come back, right?
01:11And don't go sending your friends round, either,
01:13because they shan't be in.
01:14Yes, Mrs. Ashton.
01:15Ta, Mrs. Ashton.
01:16Here you are.
01:17Naked pincher.
01:19Ta.
01:22Oh, how is that age again?
01:24Can you make the tea?
01:25Yes, ma'am.
01:26Have you seen that present of Dad's?
01:28Well, there were a couple of packages
01:30upstairs under the bed.
01:31Oh, yes, ma'am.
01:32There was this lad I used to play tiggy with
01:34up Spinklum.
01:36He was bandy from Ricketts,
01:37but he had a lovely face.
01:39I often think about him.
01:42Have you two got Christmas off from the hospital, then?
01:45No, we're on nights.
01:46And we've got carols this afternoon
01:48before we're on ward.
01:49And they're good for the patients.
01:50A. Frieder's the back of the ward
01:52and Sketch is the front.
01:54Oh, Mr. McKenzie, the gynaecologist.
01:56Remember when Robert Taylor left for V & Lee
01:58on Waterloo Bridge and never saw her again?
02:00Yeah.
02:01Well, he looks like that.
02:02Really interesting, you know.
02:03They're all gooey about him down there.
02:05The green about Frieder being bat legs.
02:07Why, has she clicked with him, then?
02:09Well, one of the surgeons.
02:10They like clicking with the archangel Gabriel.
02:12And he wrote his forties a day.
02:16Sheila?
02:17Oh.
02:18Um, hello, Colin.
02:20Uh, just off then, are you?
02:23Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:25Just, uh, off to get the train to Preston.
02:28Christmas with the folks, you know.
02:29Yes, yes, you said.
02:30Hey, Sheila.
02:31Oh, look, this is, um, Frieder and Doris.
02:33This is Colin.
02:34Hello.
02:35Hello.
02:37Um.
02:38Oh, I, uh, brought you a present.
02:41Oh.
02:42Look, you shouldn't.
02:47Mmm.
02:50Yeah, well, uh, I'd better not miss it.
02:52They'll be jammed worse than usual today.
02:54Yes, uh, well, you'd better take this.
03:00Oh, thanks, thanks.
03:01That's all right.
03:03Well, I'll see you, uh, see you at Christmas.
03:05Yes, yes.
03:06Well, I'll come and I'll see you to the door.
03:08Right.
03:09Merry Christmas.
03:12Same to you.
03:16You sure it's all right for me to come to dinner to your place tomorrow?
03:19Look, it was Mum's idea.
03:21Anyway, you wouldn't want to miss seeing Mrs. Porter, now would you?
03:31Anyway, I don't know why we're going at all, I'm sure.
03:34Going where we're not wanted.
03:36If they hadn't wanted us to go, they wouldn't have asked us.
03:39Of course, they would have obliged to.
03:41That's why they asked us.
03:42They would have obliged to, because of John.
03:45Not that he cares.
03:46Tottenham's, whether we go or not.
03:48See, you...
03:49A liar.
03:50That's what he called me, a liar.
03:52His own mother.
03:53The boy's ill, when people are ill, my dear.
03:56Oh, I know well enough about people who are ill.
03:59Well, I should do.
04:01Had you to cope with for the past 12 months.
04:05Anyway, you weren't there, you didn't hear him.
04:08I know well enough where the poison in his mind's coming from.
04:12Well, she'll be glad that he's alive and he's back.
04:15Back?
04:16Back where?
04:18Well, it's been the same since the day he was married.
04:21Everything changed on that day, everything.
04:23Life was a joy before that day.
04:25You should have been more careful of the things you said to him.
04:28All I asked was that he should think about coming to live in Charlie.
04:32Oh, I don't mean just that.
04:33I mean the things you said about women being tempted when their men are away.
04:38What a thing to say to a man in John's circumstances.
04:42I see.
04:43You've been talking to Edwin Ashton on the telephone, haven't you?
04:46He told me it was one of the things that upset John, yes.
04:48It's not a tittle-tattle.
04:50Anyway, I didn't say it about John.
04:52I said it about that libertine son of theirs.
04:54You put the thought in his mind.
04:57It's so morbid.
04:59Oh, yes.
05:00Of course, we all know you think she's wonderful, don't you?
05:03Well, we're coming into the station.
05:04Now, Celia, please, let us try to have a happy Christmas for John's sake.
05:12I can manage.
05:13No, I will do it.
05:14I can...
05:27Cozy, isn't it?
05:29It can all last for Christmas.
05:32It's your sister's place, did you say?
05:34Well, it's the parents', actually.
05:35Only Dad's ministry's been evacuated to Wales, and Mum's gone with him.
05:39Grace lives here, but she's away for a couple of days.
05:42Well, take your coat off, you ass.
05:44Oh, yes.
05:45I'll see what the drink situation is.
05:49How long have you lived here, then, Pete?
05:51Oh, well, since I was hatched, more or less.
05:54We shuttled up and down between here and Brighton before the war.
05:57Of course, I had a way at school, and...
05:59Yeah, yeah, you said.
06:00Good grief.
06:02American rye whiskey, the real stuff.
06:04Now, I wonder where that came from.
06:05Hey, Peter, have you got a... a bathroom?
06:08Oh, yes, yes, through that door there.
06:11Thanks.
06:17Hello. I didn't expect to see you here.
06:20I thought you were away for the holds.
06:22Well, it's all gone for a burden.
06:24Andrew's unit's been posted along with the rest of the gang.
06:27Right little damper on the proceedings.
06:30But... but... weren't you going to Wales?
06:32At Christmas, in a wild chapel country.
06:35Do me a favour.
06:36Oh, there's a message from Patsy by the phone.
06:38She said, will you ring her?
06:39Oh, yes, I was going to anyway.
06:41Hey, where... where did this stuff come from?
06:43Our great and glorious allies.
06:45Oh, you mean the overpaid, over-sexed and over-hear brigade?
06:47I like that. You're getting quite a good turn of phrase.
06:50Well, it's not mine, I'm afraid. It's in all the guidebooks.
06:53So what are you going to do?
06:54I could go over to Fanny's.
06:56I haven't really given it a thought.
06:58Any brilliant ideas?
07:00Grace, this is Dave Ashton, my navigator.
07:03My sister, Grace.
07:05How do you do?
07:06Not very well at the moment, I'm afraid.
07:08I'm an abandoned woman.
07:10Yes, her friends have been posted.
07:12Grace, I hope you don't mind. I've asked Dave to stay for three days.
07:16He's from Liverpool.
07:17Oh, the great industrial north.
07:20Well, thank God I'm not going to be on my own anyway.
07:36What's all this then?
07:37Mind your own business.
07:38They're wigwams for ducks to peep on.
07:51Hello, love.
07:54A piece of pork won't go far. The porter's coming.
07:59Sefton's gone to stay near Tony. We shan't have his peace offering.
08:03I've got it here.
08:05It was delivered at the office this morning.
08:08In a plain wrapper?
08:10What? How do you mean?
08:13It's black market, isn't it?
08:15Well, it's damaging. You know Sefton. I don't know where he gets it from.
08:19I won't touch it.
08:23I know very well where he gets it from.
08:26Food comes in ships, Edwin.
08:29Which is why we're all rationed.
08:32It comes in ships with boys like Robert on them.
08:36You've never objected before.
08:39No.
08:41But you did, didn't you?
08:44I seem to have found my principles. Where have yours gone to?
08:48My principles were sacrificed to expediency the day I sold myself to your family.
08:53The day you married me, you mean.
08:55Well, don't you?
08:57I didn't say that. Look, we mustn't talk to each other like this.
09:00And you shouldn't push me into saying things like that.
09:04We mustn't tell the truth to each other, you mean.
09:07There's got to be some understanding between us. Tolerance, compassion.
09:13How can we live with each other if there isn't?
09:17Forgiveness, Jean.
09:20Forgiveness?
09:22When shall I see him again, Edwin?
09:25Never.
09:27Never, Edwin.
09:31There's a word.
09:33Never.
09:36My love.
09:38My boy.
09:40My good, sweet boy.
09:48Oh!
09:51All these months.
09:54You've bottled it all up, kept it all to yourself.
09:59Don't turn away from me.
10:02Please.
10:04Don't turn away from me.
10:07Don't touch me.
10:09Don't ever touch me again.
10:13Do you know, she was engaged to three patients last week.
10:18Don't be daft.
10:20Can't get used to having all those men at your mercy, can you?
10:23Mr Mackenzie to you.
10:25Mr Mackenzie?
10:27Don't make me laugh.
10:29Laugh? You're blushing.
10:31Anyway, I've got to call up my sisters on the way back,
10:34so I'll see you back at the hostel.
10:36I'll be there before you.
10:40Well, how's John?
10:42He's fine.
10:44Everything all right, then?
10:46Sort of.
10:48Do you want that?
10:50Sort of.
10:52He keeps writing to me.
10:54Michael?
10:56Yes.
10:58Do you write back?
11:00No.
11:02Just once to ask him not to.
11:04But he did, eh?
11:06Yes.
11:08Yes.
11:10Well, do you want me to go and see him?
11:12Could you?
11:14Well, I could.
11:16I don't particularly want to.
11:20Still, rather me than you.
11:22I mean, we don't want to go through all that again, do we?
11:25What's wrong with your own room?
11:27Well, the element's gone and I'm not a brass monkey.
11:30Your friend's giving me a hungry look.
11:32Oh, yes?
11:34He says he hasn't eaten. Call yourself a host.
11:36I'm in a bit of a spot.
11:38I rang Patsy to see if Brenda might be there for Dave.
11:41But she's gone out of Brighton.
11:43And Patsy's expecting you, hence the shower.
11:46And two's company and three's a bloody nuisance.
11:48Well, yes, something like that.
11:50And you're wondering if you can risk throwing him to the lions.
11:53Well, the thought had occurred to me.
11:55Me too. He has a certain rough, unpolished charm
11:58and the hunger seems to be mutual.
12:00Where could I take him? The Savoy?
12:03Now, come on, Grey. He's a hell of a good chap and a damn good navigator.
12:06Anyway, he's married.
12:08Good heavens! I don't recognise this high moral tone.
12:12Is this the little lad who used to bring his friends in to watch me while I was having a bath?
12:16Oh, come on. We were kids, you idiot.
12:18Anyway, you're married too.
12:20Yes, and I'm grim with envy when I think of what Charles is up to in Cairo at this moment.
12:23The fact is...
12:25Stop worrying. Just leave your little friend to me.
12:28I won't eat him.
12:30I'll just show him how the other half lives.
12:32And go back and tell them that we're all just as beautifully decadent
12:35as they always thought we were.
12:37It could be very satisfying for him.
12:39Is he chapel or church?
12:42Sheila is coming round here tomorrow, isn't she?
12:45Sophie just said.
12:47David's on leave in London.
12:49Selfish hog.
12:51No, no. The kind of life he's living, we mustn't grudge him that
12:53and the way things are back here.
12:55But anyway, I rang that pub he goes to and I spoke to a friend of his
12:59and he gave me a number to ring in London.
13:01A friend David's staying with.
13:03You're not going to ring him while Sheila's here.
13:05Well, it's Christmas.
13:07If they can share nothing else, they've still got to share in those two kids.
13:09They've got to talk to each other sometime
13:11even if it's only as civilized human beings.
13:14I mean, look at him. Look at his face.
13:17He's as yellow as a Chinese.
13:19Oh, rubbish, Mum.
13:21I see.
13:23Well, of course, if I'm talking rubbish, I'd better stay silent, hadn't I?
13:29Aye.
13:33He had this marvellous job in the office and what does he go and do?
13:37Signs on as a labourer.
13:39The most dangerous part of the factory, too.
13:42And all this powder turning his skin yellow.
13:45It's not the most dangerous part of the factory by any means, Celia.
13:49There was an explosion there last week, Mrs Dawson told me.
13:52That was in detonators.
13:54Anyway, somebody has to do it and the money's better.
13:56John's done his bit for us.
13:58John has?
14:00It was because of John that I...
14:03Do you want to drop more of this, Dad?
14:05Yes, thank you, son. I'd love some.
14:07There we are.
14:09Right up to the top.
14:11Well, I wouldn't say...
14:13There you are, then.
14:15Merry Christmas to you.
14:21Didn't our card come, then?
14:25Mrs Ashton?
14:29I'm sorry, I...
14:31I said, didn't our card come?
14:33It was only posted the day before yesterday, Celia.
14:36I suspect there'll be another delivery today.
14:39We've only had one.
14:41They usually are a bit erratic at Christmas time.
14:44Oh, it's like everything else, isn't it?
14:46That case we brought, not a helping hand at the station.
14:49What do I mean? It's too heavy for me and he's in no fit condition.
14:53Do you see what it did to my stocking?
14:55Look, see that?
14:58And that taxi driver.
15:00Oh, do you see the look he gave me when I gave him that threepence?
15:04You'd have thought he was doing us a favour.
15:09What are you looking at me like that for?
15:12CHOIR SINGS
15:28CHOIR CONTINUES
15:58CHOIR CONTINUES
16:28CHOIR CONTINUES
16:36Glad to see me, then.
16:38Glad to see me, then.
16:40Glad to see me, then.
16:42Glad to see me, then.
16:44Glad to see me, then.
16:46Glad to see me, then.
16:48Glad to see me, then.
16:50Glad to see me, then.
16:52Glad to see me, then.
16:59CHOIR SINGS
17:01CHOIR SINGS
17:27ORGAN PLAYS
17:31ORGAN PLAYS
17:47Good morning.
17:49Morning.
17:51And a happy Christmas.
17:53The same to you.
17:55With knobs on. Tea?
17:57You're spoiling me, eh?
17:59Oh, but I spoil everyone.
18:01Everyone that's the type I enjoy spoiling, that is.
18:04How did you like the Savoy?
18:08Oh, yes, I liked it.
18:10But isn't that what it's for? Aren't you supposed to like it?
18:14I think we'd better cover you up.
18:23Here.
18:25Try this on for size.
18:46Whose is the tin helmet?
18:48Mine. I drive an ambulance.
18:51Say, they rather suit you.
18:53You look sort of, um, cuddly.
18:56Hungry?
18:58Yes. Good.
19:01I can cook, too, believe it or not.
19:12A cup of tea?
19:14Oh, thank you. Thank you very much.
19:16She insisted. I told her you were used to getting straight up.
19:20I suppose you are going to get up today, are you?
19:24Yes, I've had a bit of a headache, but it's going off now.
19:27Oh, well, thank goodness for that.
19:29There's enough long faces in this house today.
19:32Christmas.
19:35Oh, I suppose I'd better go and show Willie.
19:39I'll be down directly.
19:57Fuck.
20:28Hello?
20:30Oh, morning, Harry.
20:32Morning.
20:33Merry Christmas.
20:34Merry Christmas to you.
20:35I heard you were up, thought I'd let you know the bathroom's empty.
20:38That's very good of you. I'm afraid I overslept.
20:40A good thing, too.
20:42Nice to have you here.
20:47You know,
20:49I often think of those dark days we went through when John was first missing.
20:54Dark days we went through when John was first missing?
20:57Yes, they were dark days, weren't they?
21:00My brother-in-law won't be coming this year.
21:02I thought you and I might take a trip down to the pub before dinner.
21:05With John, perhaps.
21:07Well, I'm sure John would love to, but the fact is...
21:10Oh, well, I'll take the blame.
21:15You said it for me.
21:16What?
21:17That I'd need an excuse.
21:19Oh, well, I shan't get off scot-free myself.
21:21You know, there will be something said.
21:24Um, Harry,
21:27you're not the only one that wonders about his marriage, you know?
21:31No.
21:32Not that there's very much point when you get to our age.
21:35And if anyone's been at fault, of course it's been me.
21:38Why, of course?
21:39I seem to have failed her in some way.
21:41I don't quite know what or how.
21:44A sin of omission, I suppose you might call it.
21:48You don't look like a great sinner to me.
21:50No. No, well, nothing spectacular.
21:54Maybe that's been the trouble. I think she's found me a bit dull.
21:57You think she'd have preferred Douglas Fairbairn?
22:00I expect she would.
22:02It's not very funny at the time, though, is it?
22:05No, it isn't.
22:07I used to wonder about Margaret and John.
22:10He was always the quiet sort of lad.
22:13You wonder sometimes, young folk,
22:16whether they're getting married for the right reason,
22:19whatever the right reason might be.
22:22But I think they're going to be all right, aren't you?
22:25Yes. Yes, I'm sure they are.
22:47KNOCK AT DOOR
23:02It's you.
23:04Yes, it's me.
23:08You cheated. You told me Margaret was coming.
23:11Yes, I'm sorry. I knew you wouldn't come if you thought it was just me, you see.
23:16She asked you to come? Yes.
23:18Because of me writing to her, I suppose? Oh, yes.
23:23She might have come herself.
23:28The last time we met, we couldn't talk.
23:32We had five minutes.
23:34Five minutes we had to put yourself straight for the rest of your life.
23:39What good's talking?
23:42Look, she's not going to come back to you, Michael.
23:46I know.
23:48But am I something to be just pushed off?
23:51Wasn't I something in her life, something important to be just pushed off?
23:55It's not like that.
23:57Look, if she saw you, she'd have to start all over again, wouldn't she?
24:01Knowing that there's no hope, just like she did with John.
24:04She believed John was dead.
24:06I know she's back there, don't I, at your house, washing up,
24:10seeing to John George, looking out of the window at the garden,
24:15living in the same world I'm living in.
24:18Well, nothing's...
24:20permanent.
24:22Permanent?
24:24It's odd you saying that. There's a friend of mine over there. He's waiting for me.
24:28We were talking about something or other being permanent, and I said,
24:31in a million years, the whole world's going to explode. What's permanent?
24:37I suppose how you feel about somebody can be as permanent as you are.
24:46Yes.
24:49Yes.
24:51Yes.
25:04How's, um...
25:06What's his name? Owen?
25:09Oh, we, uh...
25:11We don't.
25:13Oh.
25:15Well, it was nice while it lasted, as they say.
25:19So, you've got nobody, too, eh?
25:22Nobody.
25:26Well, I have to go.
25:28Can I tell Margaret to...?
25:30No, I won't write again.
25:32I'll tell her.
25:34And you'll give her my love?
25:36Yes.
25:38Goodbye, then.
25:40Goodbye.
25:48Goodbye.
26:05What was it he said? Go on, tell us again.
26:09He said, Charlie doesn't like it.
26:14What's all this about, then?
26:16Well, we're back.
26:18Oh, it seems. You've been long enough about it, haven't you?
26:21Are we in the dark, Alice? I'm afraid you are a bit.
26:23Margaret?
26:27Well...
26:28Harriet? Is that you?
26:30Oh, God.
26:32I'll see you in a minute.
26:34We'll go in the back room, eh? Yes, yes, all right.
26:43You wanted me?
26:46I suppose you only came back because it was closing time.
26:50As a matter of fact, they ran out of beer.
26:53No beer sold out.
26:55Charlie doesn't like it.
26:58You're drunk, aren't you?
27:01No, Celia, I'm not drunk.
27:04But I wish to God I were.
27:06Self.
27:08Self, self, self.
27:10It's, um...
27:12Is this what's rotting your soul away?
27:16What's that?
27:18It was in our case.
27:20You put it there.
27:22Oh, yes, it's a Christmas card or something, is it?
27:24Oh, Celia, for God's sake, what do you take me for?
27:26It's not for us. It's for Mrs Margaret Ashton.
27:29Yes, well,
27:31should be Mrs Margaret Porter, shouldn't it?
27:34It's a man's handwriting, but...
27:36Look at that! Look at that!
27:39And when you were in hospital
27:42and we thought we'd lost the baby because of your back...
27:45Good God!
27:49She... She had another man!
27:52While John was away, she was pregnant!
27:55You're ill! You're mad!
27:57Read it. Go on, read it, if you don't believe me. Read it!
28:01Let me pass.
28:03You're not going out of here till you've...
28:05Let me pass.
28:07You're not going out of here till you've come to your senses!
28:09Read it! Read it! Read it!
28:23There's your precious Margaret for you.
28:27You'll say nothing to John about this. Nothing.
28:31If you do, you'll destroy him.
28:33You understand? You'll destroy him!
28:47Oh, sorry.
28:50Don't think I want any pudding.
28:53There was this chap we had on the ward last week,
28:55and he was, like, blown up with wind.
28:57We had to lure it out with a tube.
28:59I've forgotten the crackers.
29:01There are only those cheap watering things.
29:03Oh, sorry.
29:16And no, Mum said not to, but I think I'll go and give her a hand.
29:19You stay there. I'll go.
29:32You know, I know no-one will believe me,
29:34but I'm quite missing poor old Uncle Sefton.
29:47Oh, it'll be the King shortly. I'll switch it on.
29:49Oh, yes.
29:52Excuse me.
29:54Right.
29:56Oh, yes.
29:58Let's all have a cracker.
30:00There might be some funny mottos in,
30:02and then we can all have a laugh.
30:05Enjoying your Christmas?
30:08Yeah.
30:10I'm almost beginning to believe in Santa Claus.
30:14Sweet.
30:16PHONE RINGS
30:18Oh, damn.
30:20Sloan 0629.
30:22Oh, um, could I speak to David Ashton?
30:26Could I speak to David Ashton, please?
30:29Yes. Yes, of course.
30:31Hold on a minute.
30:33It's for you.
30:36Hello?
30:38David?
30:40Hello, Dad.
30:42David, um, I rang that pub you go to,
30:44and one of your mates gave me the number.
30:46How are you, son?
30:48Enjoying your Christmas?
30:50Yeah, yeah.
30:52Well, yeah, you know, it's all right.
30:55How is everybody up there?
30:57Oh, they're all all right, I think.
30:59The Porters are staying with us.
31:01Sheila!
31:03Oh, uh, good.
31:05David, there's somebody here wants to talk to you.
31:08Dad, I don't want to.
31:10Just hang on, David.
31:11Dad, I don't want to talk to David.
31:13You've got to talk to him.
31:16Hello, David.
31:18Oh, hello.
31:20How are you?
31:22Um, I'm fine, fine.
31:24Uh, how are you?
31:26Fine, thank you.
31:28Uh, good, um...
31:32I sent the kids their Christmas presents.
31:35Yes, yes, I know.
31:37Uh, yeah, Peter sent me a little plane, you know,
31:40a little model of something he'd done at school.
31:42Tea?
31:44Oh, just a minute.
31:46There's somebody at the door. Hang on.
31:48All right, I'll see you do it.
31:53No, it's all right. Dad's gone.
31:55For his great mercy.
31:57What?
31:59I'm sorry.
32:01I'm sorry.
32:03I'm sorry.
32:06I've heard.
32:08He says he's the front legs.
32:10He's waiting in the car.
32:11Hey, it's Mackenzie.
32:12It can't be.
32:13Well, are you ready?
32:14Yes.
32:15Um, can you say goodbye to Mum for us?
32:17Uh, yes, yes.
32:18Bye-bye, Sheila.
32:19Bye.
32:20Hey, she's clicked with the archangel Gabriel.
32:22Yes, she's just going.
32:24Um, can you hang on a minute, David?
32:26I'll go and get her.
32:27Wants to speak to Mum.
32:29Oh, wow.
32:30Hello, David.
32:32Mum?
32:33We are sharing it with so many of our comrades in arms
32:38from the United States of America.
32:44Um, here's your mother now.
32:46And Frieda said to say goodbye for her.
32:53David?
32:54Hello, Mum.
32:56Just to say happy Christmas.
32:58Happy Christmas, love.
33:00Yeah, well, let's hope that the New Year sees an end to this lot, eh?
33:04Mm.
33:06Here's hoping.
33:08Um, I'm thinking of you all up there.
33:13I'm thinking of you too, love.
33:17Take care of yourself.
33:19Yeah, and you, Mum.
33:24Goodbye, love.
33:26Bye.
33:30Bye.
33:45There's a little place down the road that never closes
33:49and never runs out of scotch.
33:51Shall we go there?
33:54You know, when I was a lad in Liverpool,
33:59I remember seeing this Yankee film at the local flea pit.
34:04In this film, it was Christmas
34:08and there was snow and kids on sledges and all that.
34:13And this big house
34:16with a big log fire and a great big Christmas tree
34:20with presents all over it.
34:23And all the people there were nice people.
34:27Good people.
34:29You know, nice to each other.
34:32Nobody said a wrong word.
34:35Nobody bitched.
34:41It was a lovely world.
34:47Where is it, Grace?
34:49Where is it, Grace?
34:51Where is it?
34:56Shall we go there?
35:10You're all here to play a game.
35:13I don't have a developed sense of morality.
35:17Everyone's lying to me.
35:19Where?
35:32Right.
35:34Now, you trot upstairs and I'll finish off these for you.
35:37No. I might as well finish them.
35:40You might as well do nothing of the sort.
35:42Now, you go on up and I'll bring you a cup of tea when the time comes.
35:45Come on.
35:47Did Sheila get her bus?
35:50Yes, Sheila got her bus.
35:53I don't see why she had to go so early.
35:55Don't you? I do.
35:57Anyone who wants to get out of this house today has my sympathy.
36:00Look, she's gone to see her mum and dad.
36:02I thought she said they were staying at her brother's.
36:05Well, she's gone to see her brother then.
36:07Come on. You go and have a rest.
36:10What do you want?
36:12Don't bite my head off.
36:14Sorry, love.
36:16Going for a walk with your dad?
36:18Oh, well, that's the first sensible thing I've heard today.
36:22Wish I was coming with you.
36:24Oh, why don't you?
36:26Well, I might tag along later. Where are you going?
36:28Sefton Park.
36:29Yes, well, I might see you later. Isn't your father going?
36:32He's asleep next door. Seems a pity to disturb him.
36:36I would take John George off your hands.
36:38Yes, well, that might be a blessing under the circumstances.
36:42You're still the same, aren't you?
36:44The same?
36:46A calm, collected Margaret who knows her own mind.
36:49Am I? Do I?
36:52That's what kept me going, knowing that you would be.
36:55Don't think I could have got through it if I hadn't known that.
36:58I know how lucky I am. Honestly, I do.
37:01If I don't say so, things still don't seem to be quite right.
37:05I can't.
37:06You're being called for. Off you go.
37:09See you soon, then.
37:10Yes, see you soon.
37:27Getting down to your system, are you?
37:29I thought you were asleep.
37:31What, was this racket going on?
37:33Sorry.
37:35Let me help.
37:37Let me help you.
37:38Well, I'm practically done.
37:39I said, let me help you.
37:45Why didn't you go for the walk?
37:47Why didn't you?
37:51You and John are all right, aren't you?
37:54Have I said something I shouldn't?
37:56No, it's...
37:58Just it's a question I'm asked every day.
38:01Not in words, maybe, but by looks, you know.
38:04Mum, Dad, Freda.
38:06Me.
38:07Yes, and now you.
38:10You know, it's rather like being put in a cage to mate
38:12and everybody peeping and saying,
38:14are they doing it? Is it working?
38:16If I tell you that John and I are sharing the same bed
38:19and have been for months, would that put your mind at rest?
38:22I didn't mean just that.
38:24Anyway, it's not me. It's Celia.
38:28You see, she knows about this other man.
38:33I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
38:36That was brutal of me to say it like that.
38:39I'm sorry.
38:41You see, I think I can understand.
38:44Margaret, look at me, please.
38:47Come on, look at me.
38:49God, how stupid of me.
38:52You know how highly I think of you.
38:55Margaret, please, look at me, look at me.
38:59Oh, come in.
39:03It's me.
39:05Can I get you anything? No, thank you.
39:09I hope you get a chance to see Philip tomorrow before you go.
39:14He'd have been here now and he's coming up on a special train.
39:18Oh, children.
39:20I don't care.
39:23Perhaps it's us.
39:28Perhaps we care too much.
39:33Too much.
39:36So it becomes all of us.
39:39When they're gone, there's nothing left.
39:45I remember once, years ago.
39:49Remember?
39:51You remember?
39:54That's all there is.
39:58It's in this room.
40:02I slapped one of the boys and locked him in.
40:10Went down the road to shop.
40:16When I came back...
40:20I looked up at the window.
40:24His face looking down.
40:28Tears on the glass.
40:33Robert.
40:38Let me know if I can get you something.
40:43I went there the full term, you know.
40:48But it was stillborn.
40:51A year and three months yesterday.
40:56Sometimes when I go into John George I can see two of them.
41:02Celia had a miscarriage the year after John was born.
41:06We never talk about it now.
41:09I sometimes wish there'd been two of them to share.
41:13Share the burden?
41:15Maybe if that's what it is.
41:17Do you...
41:19Do you still see this man?
41:21No.
41:23And John has no idea?
41:25No.
41:28No.
41:30Maybe sometime I'll have to tell him.
41:34Maybe sometime I won't be able not to.
41:40Now that she knows...
41:42She's not ready for it, is she?
41:44No.
41:46Well, I shall just have to stop her, that's all.
41:49How?
41:50I don't know. You'll have to leave that to me.
41:53She must hate me.
41:55She hates as she loves much too easily.
42:01You make me feel ashamed, you know.
42:04This job you're doing, you did it because of John.
42:07In the war, I mean, didn't you?
42:10What did I do?
42:12Except indulge myself.
42:14I don't believe it was just that.
42:16I'm not the person that you think I am, you know.
42:19I don't believe that either.
42:21I suppose we're all much more complicated than we appear on the surface.
42:25You'll be surprised what goes on under this rather tutty middle-aged exterior, you know.
42:31This, um, what does he call it?
42:33Yellow as a Chinese exterior.
42:38Go on.
42:40Say something else like great industrial north voice of yours.
42:44I can't. My teeth are all caught up in my tongue.
42:47Oh, go on. Say something.
42:50Are you getting up, droopy drawers?
42:53Say it again.
42:56Come here. Are you laughing at me?
42:58No, I'm just a bit drunk, that's all.
43:00So are you.
43:02I've never met anyone like you before.
43:04Oh, go on. I bet you'd send that to all the girls.
43:07No, only those that aren't like any that I've ever met before.
43:10Oh, an honest man. I don't believe it.
43:12Yeah, well, I'll tell you something else I don't tell all the girls, and that is that I'm married.
43:16I know. Peter told me.
43:20You're, uh...
43:22You're very sophisticated, aren't you?
43:24I'll tell you something.
43:26What?
43:27I'm married too.
43:31Aren't we awful?
43:33Well, what the bloody hell is a war on, isn't there?
43:36That's right. The good old war.
43:41Who's that?
43:43Someone with a key, obviously.
43:46Oh, it's you.
43:48Pat's he not with you?
43:50No, she's coming on later. Hi, Dave.
43:52Hi.
43:53What's the matter?
43:55Oh, you thought it was my husband, didn't you?
43:58It's all right, darling.
44:00Charles is away in Cairo, doing his bitters, they say.
44:07Yeah, well, if somebody'd like to put the kettle on, I'll be back in a minute.
44:13Do you think we're a bit much for him?
44:15Yes, I think we probably are.
44:18He's the lovely little man, darling.
44:21Have you got any more where he came from?
44:23No.
44:24Hmm. Well, I'll have to stick to him, won't I?
44:27We had a marvellous time at the Savoy yesterday.
44:30Oh? Who paid?
44:32Oh, he did, of course.
44:34Oh, it's all right. His father's got a printing works.
44:37Well, he's never all that flush, though.
44:39Don't worry. He's having a marvellous time.
44:42And they're all stinking rich up there, anyway.
45:10SHE SOBS
45:15Who's that?
45:17Me.
45:19Who is it?
45:21Me. Colin.
45:23Colin?
45:25Oh!
45:27Um... Oh.
45:29Just a minute!
45:31Er...
45:34Yeah.
45:38Oh.
45:40Hello.
45:42Can I come in? What?
45:44Can I come in? Yes, of course you can come in.
45:47Aw.
45:50I thought you'd gone home.
45:52I go... I come back.
45:55I thought they'd had enough of me, so...
45:57You came to see me. Yeah. Aw.
46:00Can I, er... take me...
46:02Yes, of course you can. Come on.
46:04Let me help you. Come on.
46:06Daddy. Come on.
46:08Oh, I'm so lovely to see you, honestly.
46:12Well, it's, er...
46:14It's nice to be here.
46:16You came cos you thought I'd be on my own, didn't you?
46:19Er... Yes.
46:22Oh, it's so nice to see you.
46:26Oh, Colin.
46:29Daddy, what are you playing at?
46:32Oh, God, I've been drinking that sherry.
46:35But, you know, Colin, it's ever so funny
46:37because it doesn't half make you see things differently, really.
46:40I mean, all sorts of things.
46:54Um, look, I just, um...
46:56I must go. I won't be a minute.
46:58I'll just go upstairs. I'd better tidy up a bit.
47:01If you want some of that sherry, you have some, won't you?
47:04Because I won't be a minute, honestly.
47:26Read all night?
47:28I shouldn't think so.
47:30I'm not disturbing you, am I?
47:32The light's in my eyes.
47:35Turn over the other side, then.
47:37I can't sleep on that side, you know that.
47:40Yes.
47:42All right.
47:48What about...?
47:50Aren't you going to draw the curtains?
47:56Ooh.
48:04Didn't leave me alone with him for one minute, did you?
48:10Yes, well, you won't be able to keep that up forever.
48:14Not that it makes any difference.
48:17If I can't say it without you,
48:19I shall have to say it in front of you, shan't I?
48:21Over my dead body, Celia.
48:23Don't be ridiculous.
48:25You think I don't mean it?
48:27You play acting. I know you.
48:32I think...
48:34if we could have heard this conversation 30 years ago...
48:39You can abuse me all you like.
48:41Abuse you?
48:43You abuse me every time you open your mouth.
48:46And you know the worst abuse of all?
48:48The way you took my son away from me all those years.
48:51He's my son, too.
48:53But you put a wall around him all those years to keep me away.
48:57Well, you've lost him now.
48:59And if you tell him what you say you're going to tell him,
49:02I doubt if he'll ever want to speak to you again.
49:04You're awful to me, you are. You're awful.
49:06I know John. I know me for what that's worth.
49:09And if you don't believe me, just you go ahead and try it.
49:12You're awful.
49:14And who will you be left with, Celia?
49:16Who is there to care twopence whether you live or die?
49:19You're awful.
49:21There. That's better.
49:24I'm sorry I took so long.
49:26It's all right. I, er...
49:28just waited to say goodnight.
49:30Goodnight?
49:32Yes. I'm off.
49:35Look, if I stop here and anything happens,
49:38and obviously it will, tomorrow you're going to chuck the kitchen sink at me.
49:41No! I won't, Colin, honestly.
49:44Sheila. Sheila. Sheila, I want you.
49:47Not...
49:49Not what a bottle of sherry kids you want to be.
49:53Look, if you feel the same in the morning, OK, right?
50:01Goodnight, Sheila.
50:05Colin!
50:10No.
50:13Yeah, and I would have done too, David Ashton, I would have done.
50:19I would have.
50:21I'm sorry to roll up at this hour, Dad.
50:24I hope Mum didn't mind me not coming yesterday,
50:27but it was easier to come by the special train,
50:30and it was just another day.
50:32And you know how it is.
50:34Yes, I know. Back at last, eh?
50:36Yes.
50:38How does it look?
50:40Well, it's just like I...
50:43Just like I used to remember it.
50:51It's what the chaps all dream about, you know.
50:54First time home.
50:56We dream about it too.
50:58Good to see you.
51:00I hope I haven't woken anybody else up.
51:02Well, it doesn't sound like it.
51:06Eyes all right?
51:08They're coming on fine.
51:10The specialist wouldn't have let me out otherwise.
51:12It is good to see you and to know that you can see me.
51:15We owe your doctors a very great debt.
51:19Philip?
51:21Mum.
51:28Why didn't you tell me he'd come?
51:30I haven't had a chance yet, love.
51:32I wasn't going to let him disturb you anyway.
51:34Oh, I should just hope you were indeed.
51:36Oh, come on. Let me look at you.
51:38Well, will I do?
51:40Oh, yes, you'll do.
51:42We got him back, you see.
51:44You hungry?
51:46Well... Well, go on. Tell her you're hungry.
51:49I'm starving.
51:51I'll go and get you something, eh?
51:53Oh, hey.
51:55Look at your table.
51:58Look after it for you then, don't I?
52:01Don't I polish it for you every day?
52:07My table.
52:10It's one Robert brought her.
52:13She gets things a bit mixed up these days.
52:17Come and talk to me then.
52:36I love you.
52:38I love you.
53:06I love you.