In "A Separate Peace," the Ashton family becomes so engrossed in their personal struggles that they fail to notice Jean's sudden disappearance. She is eventually found wandering amidst the bombed ruins of buildings from her past, highlighting the emotional toll and psychological impact of the ongoing war on individuals and families alike.
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00:00["Pomp and Circumstance"]
00:30Hello!
00:30Oh, what's the matter with these people?
00:33Are you having trouble, Mr. Lee?
00:34Mind your own business.
00:37Hello!
00:39Hello?
00:44Where is he?
00:45He's still on the telephone.
00:46I don't think he's actually talked to anybody yet.
00:48Well, he's supposed to be ringing anyway.
00:49Don't ask me.
00:50Nearly jumped down my throat just now.
00:52Who does he think he is, talking to people like that?
00:53Oh, don't take any notice.
00:55It's just his manner.
00:57It's because everybody wasn't here for his big entrance
00:59with his half bottle of scotch, I suppose.
01:01Probably.
01:02Anyway, mum will be back soon.
01:03She'll smooth him down.
01:06We should go to the pub now.
01:08Oh.
01:10Why don't you, eh?
01:11Go on.
01:12Go on, and tell those others it's time they were coming back.
01:14They've been there long enough.
01:15They can come and share the burden.
01:18Ah, yes, and about time, too.
01:20I've been trying to get through for the last half hour.
01:22Yes, I know it was engaged.
01:24It is, Willie.
01:27Where do you say he was?
01:29Are they on the telephone?
01:31Oh, no, I didn't suppose they would be.
01:33What the devil?
01:34Sorry, blackout.
01:36Yes, yes, just a minute, just a minute.
01:39Yes.
01:41Well, you better get him to ring me back.
01:44I'm not at home.
01:45I'm at my brother-in-law's.
01:47The telephone number is Lark Lane 8241.
01:52My name?
01:54My name, madam, is Sefton Briggs.
01:56And as soon as he comes in, mind you tell him,
01:58as soon as he comes in.
02:00Well, he was on this machine with a belt drive, you see.
02:04Well, he was a bit careless for a second or two.
02:06And before he knew what was happening, it whipped him up.
02:08He's clogged at the roof.
02:10And he landed, four square, right where he'd been
02:12talking to this mate of his.
02:14Blimey, that were a bit spectacular.
02:16Don't tell the missus, or she'll lock me out.
02:17Oh, Colin.
02:20Oh, he's a curse, isn't he, Dad?
02:23You'll like him.
02:24Something different about you tonight.
02:27Now what?
02:29Well, I don't know, do I?
02:32Go in the scullery and take your trousers off.
02:35Beg your pardon?
02:36I said go and take your trousers off,
02:38because I'm not mending that scene with the man.
02:40Come on.
02:41Oh, is that what you're saying?
02:44You'll find a towel that's hanging up there by the sink,
02:46if you're bashful.
02:49Come on, then, don't take all night.
02:51All right, all right.
02:55Have you won the Irish sweep or something?
02:58No, they made it illegal, didn't they?
03:01Well, there's certainly something different.
03:05Yeah, uh, yeah, there probably is, as a matter of fact.
03:10Well?
03:15Sheila, look, uh, well, look, I've
03:19been meaning to tell you for a bit, but, uh, well,
03:22I've met this girl, you see.
03:24And, uh, I thought, oh, do you want me to go upstairs?
03:31No, you stay where you are.
03:32I've got nothing to be ashamed of.
03:33It's probably only Mrs. Blatchel, anyway.
03:37Oh, Mum, uh, excuse me, I, uh, let this up a minute.
03:50No, no, no, there's nothing to explain.
03:52Unless you didn't look all up for her.
03:53I don't care anymore.
03:55Now, come on, please.
03:56Come on.
03:58I've got my trousers on.
04:02I've made you some tea, Uncle.
04:04Hm?
04:05Tea.
04:06Oh, yes, thank you very much.
04:07I'll leave you to put your own sugar in.
04:08Sugar?
04:10Oh, yes, uh, sugar.
04:15Yes, sugar.
04:18John's gone to the pub to tell Philip and Dad
04:20that you're here.
04:21I don't expect them to come rushing back for me.
04:23Oh, it's time they were back, anyway.
04:25Was it all in aid of her?
04:26Forgot what Edwin said?
04:28Philip's birthday.
04:29Oh, yes, yes, uh, that's right.
04:31Except it's really to cheer Mum up.
04:33She's been a bit down lately.
04:35So, uh, if you wouldn't mind remembering that.
04:38Hm, telling me to watch my P's and Q's, are you?
04:41I suppose I am, yes.
04:43You always were a bit of a manager in this family,
04:45weren't you?
04:46Hm, oh, now, don't get me wrong.
04:48I wasn't being critical.
04:51I shall never understand why you got into that mess
04:53like you did with that young watch's name, though.
04:55I was surprised at you, Margaret.
04:56Yes, well, that's my business, Uncle Sefton.
04:58I know it is.
04:59I said I didn't understand.
05:00I didn't ask you to explain.
05:03And would you mind not being rude to John?
05:05Rude?
05:06When have I been rude?
05:07Well, perhaps it was just your manner.
05:10Well, he shouldn't be so damn thin-skinned.
05:14He'll have a lot worse than my manner
05:15to put up with before he's finished in this life.
05:19And you don't have to tell me about your mother.
05:23If I've seemed a bit irritable tonight,
05:25it's because it's her I was worried about.
05:29She may be promised not to tell, but under the circumstances.
05:33Under what circumstances?
05:35Tell what?
05:37She came to my place because she wanted to see Dr. Willie.
05:40Been getting headaches, she said, slowing down a bit.
05:44We're all of us slowing down, I said, all of us.
05:46Well, what did he say?
05:47Well, he'd gone when I got back.
05:48He'd, uh, left a prescription for these.
05:52More to the point, she'd gone too.
05:56I've been trying to get him on the telephone
05:57to find out what the trouble is, but he's out
05:59seeing his damn panel patients.
06:01Anyway, better not to say anything.
06:03She'll be back before long, I'm sure.
06:05What did she say?
06:06She was coming straight back?
06:06There was nobody there for her to say it to.
06:09Mrs. Foster had gone out for these, we just assumed.
06:12Oh, I wouldn't have thought twice about it now,
06:15but she said a very odd thing when she first
06:19came into the house.
06:21She said she kept having the feeling that she wanted mother.
06:28He's a friend.
06:29He pops around sometimes.
06:32From Preston.
06:34Only his firm sent him over here once a week,
06:37so I do see quite a lot of him.
06:40He seems very nice.
06:41Yes, yes, he is nice.
06:44He's one of the nicest men I've ever met, but, uh,
06:46well, he is just a friend, mum.
06:49Now, I know I can't expect you to believe that,
06:50but anyway, well, that's the way it is.
06:54Don't talk like that, love.
06:56Like what?
06:57As if you didn't care.
06:58Well, I don't.
06:59I can afford not to, can't I?
07:01Because I've got a clean conscience.
07:05Whatever that means.
07:07Oh, well, you can believe what you like.
07:10I know you've always been good to me, mum,
07:11but you didn't want me to marry David and you're on his side.
07:13I can understand it.
07:14It's natural, I suppose.
07:34I was a suffragette years ago, you know?
07:37About the time I met Edwin.
07:41I remember heckling Churchill at the Free Trade Hall,
07:44Manchester.
07:46I was politically advanced, I suppose you'd say,
07:52as Edwin was.
07:55When I married him, I think father
07:57would have turned his back on me forever
07:59if it hadn't been for mother.
08:05Can you see that girl when you look at me now?
08:12People change, don't they?
08:14I still wish you hadn't married David, yes.
08:18But for your sake, no, not his.
08:21Yours and the children's.
08:24When I think of how he's behaved to you, I'm ashamed.
08:29I love him, but I am ashamed.
08:35I still love him, you know, mum.
08:37I still love him, you know, mum.
08:41I can't seem to care about anybody else, not in that way.
08:46It's funny.
08:49Oh, I'm sorry I was sharp with you.
08:53Oh, dear, you do look so tired.
08:57Hm?
08:58Oh, yes, well, I've been walking.
09:03Walking, I seem to tire very easily these days.
09:10I think sometimes, about when it's all over.
09:14Perhaps, oh, not that he'll come back, even when he is.
09:21I can't think about this war as having anything to do with us,
09:24Hitler and the Germans.
09:26What's a German?
09:28I wouldn't know one if I saw one.
09:31To me, the war is just me, the children, and David.
09:37That's all.
09:39On and on, day after day.
09:43No, I won't have any flags to wave.
09:54It's cold in here, love.
09:57Oh, yes.
09:59I've let the fire go, Jan.
10:01I'll get some more coal.
10:22Is Philip enjoying his leave, Mum?
10:25Mum?
10:29Mum?
10:34Oh?
10:35I thought you'd fallen asleep.
10:38Yes, I think perhaps I did for a second.
10:41Look, why don't you stay for a bit and rest?
10:45Hm?
10:47No.
10:49No, I must go.
10:51I'm going to Mother's.
10:54Oh, gosh, I'm five minutes late.
10:56My fault. Let me make the excuses.
10:57Oh, no, thanks all the same, but I like to make my own excuses.
11:00You're late, there, Sash.
11:01Yes, I know, Sister.
11:02I'm sorry, Sister.
11:02You can tell me why later.
11:04Go and help Miss Jackson with the drinks.
11:05Yes, Sister.
11:09Well, hadn't you better get off to maternity
11:12to all those young mums of yours?
11:13What time do you finish?
11:14Oh, I don't know, really.
11:15Don't know or won't tell?
11:18I don't know, honestly.
11:19When you do know and if you want a lift.
11:21Thanks.
11:22Well, better get off and do what Sister says.
11:24Good night.
11:25Good night.
11:27Hey, I thought you were on days.
11:30Yeah, well, six night staff went down with flu this afternoon.
11:34Look, if you get your day off, it's side of Easter.
11:37Just come from home?
11:38Yeah.
11:39Had to change in a rush, though.
11:41Care a lift?
11:42Yeah, and if you say any more about it, I'll thump you.
11:45Stopped for fish and chips, did you?
11:47Or just fancy some fish and chips?
11:48Well, I'm sick to the back teeth of fish and chips.
11:52Now, don't come over all superior at the mention
11:54of fish and chips.
11:55It is not only very tasty and very sweet,
11:58it's first class grub.
11:59You've been listening to the radio, Doctor.
12:01Hey, what's she like?
12:02Sister?
12:03Okey-dokey, I think.
12:04Hey, that salt you put in there?
12:06Yeah, I know, we've got this whole stomach
12:07disorder on the ward.
12:09He whistled me over and said, I like a bit of salt
12:11in me cocoa, Nurse.
12:13Big wink.
12:14Oh, well, it strikes me that's where his trouble comes from.
12:17Yeah, well, he'll die happy.
12:19Here you are, love.
12:20Ah, thanks, son.
12:23Did you know something?
12:24This is the first time I've bought you a drink with money
12:26I've actually earned myself.
12:27You found your freedom at last, eh?
12:29Freedom?
12:30Financial independence, then, if you like.
12:32It amounts to the same thing.
12:33Well, in a way, I suppose.
12:34In a lot of ways, son, in a lot of ways.
12:38Yeah, I think we'd better be getting
12:39home after this, don't you?
12:40Home?
12:41Well, we get shot if we don't.
12:43I'm not sure if I haven't had enough of home.
12:45I'm not sure if I can face much more of home, Philip.
12:49What's wrong, Dad?
12:50You know what's wrong.
12:52Partly, I suppose, but it's not as bad as all that.
12:56You've been away, you've missed a few installments.
12:58Do you know what your mother said to me at Christmas?
13:01Don't touch me, she said.
13:03Don't ever touch me again.
13:05I've given 30-odd years of my life to what you call home.
13:08What am I supposed to do now, start again?
13:11And other things she had said to me.
13:14When I told her she made me feel a failure, no, no, she said.
13:19You're a good man, a good man.
13:22And the way she said it, you know what it was?
13:24Patronage, Philip.
13:25It was said with less affection than you'd give to a dog.
13:27Dad, don't ask me to take sides.
13:30I'm not asking you to take sides,
13:31I'm just telling you how it's been.
13:33But I've got to take sides when you talk like this.
13:35And you'd rather I stayed silent?
13:37No.
13:40I've always looked upon home as a place I'd be happy to be.
13:43And I'm destroying that for you.
13:45Yes, Dad.
13:46I'm sorry.
13:47No.
13:49No, if the truth's something else,
13:50well, I'd rather face up to the facts.
13:53You've grown up quite a lot, haven't you?
13:55A bit, I suppose.
13:56I owe the army that much.
13:58Home isn't just your mother, you know.
14:00It's me too.
14:01Yes, I know.
14:02But that's not quite the same thing, is it?
14:04Not altogether, no.
14:05Well, I understand that.
14:08Yes, I know you do.
14:10Well, nothing's going to be quite the same
14:11after this lot anyway, is it?
14:13No, it isn't.
14:15I was going to say something else just now.
14:17I was going to say, never marry out of your class.
14:21But perhaps even that won't matter by the time
14:23you get to it.
14:24Oh.
14:26Ah, I went to the wrong pub.
14:28I thought you'd be at the Victoria.
14:29You mean Santa Fetch's home?
14:31Well, a hint was dropped.
14:33Don't see why I shouldn't have a pint, though.
14:35You stay where you are.
14:36You sit down, John.
14:37Oh, all right.
14:38Thanks.
14:40My turn to do the honors.
14:42Dad, don't you think you've had enough?
14:44I've never had it for three.
14:46Don't you think you've had enough?
14:48Do you hear that?
14:50A couple of years in the army, and he's
14:52telling me what I can drink.
14:53Oh.
15:03No.
15:05You're a good man, Edwin.
15:08A good man.
15:12I've never been able to forgive.
15:16Not easily.
15:19David, Margaret, or you, not easily, maybe never,
15:35though I know you mourn him, as I do.
15:38And there are children dying all over the world
15:46without papers, without mourning.
15:54And the mourners are dying, too, and mother,
16:08like a vegetable in that hole, living forever.
16:38There was that tree in the corner of the garden
16:45that father planted, standing in the drawing room,
16:52looking out of the window.
16:55Edwin and father in the garden, Edwin agreeing, submitting.
17:05If it's what you want, he said to me.
17:09And I said, it's not what I want.
17:14It's what you want, Edwin starting not
17:19to be Edwin anymore, letting father destroy him.
17:26If it's what you want, he said, but it wasn't.
17:33It wasn't.
17:47This is like Guy Fawkes night.
17:51It's these new AA shelves, you know.
17:56There's a marvelous new shelter at the Dorchester, darling.
17:59Open all night, full restaurant service
18:03if you're interested, pet.
18:04Yes, a 10 quid a night.
18:08And there's always the tube, bunks, libraries,
18:13drinking fountains.
18:16There was a resident population there.
18:19Even after the raid stopped, couldn't
18:22seem to tear themselves away.
18:24Believe they even have lavatories now.
18:28No liquor license, of course.
18:31You weren't ever here during the blitz, were you?
18:34I was in Liverpool during May week.
18:36That was bad enough.
18:37Oh, but not as bad as here, surely.
18:40Oh.
18:42You should have seen Cologne from up top there.
18:45Oh.
18:48What's it all about anyway, Grace?
18:50Hm?
18:52Some sort of bloody competition.
18:55First gent left standing when we run out of bombs
18:58wins the first prize.
19:00We all know where he'll be, don't we?
19:02Knocking back double bloody Scotches at the Dorchester's
19:05marvelous bloody shelter.
19:06No, don't be bitter, darling.
19:08I just want my way of life back, that's all.
19:12You've got to hope.
19:30Mrs. Ashton?
19:37Mrs. Ashton?
19:50Mrs. Ashton?
19:58George Askew?
20:01Yes.
20:05The old house, eh?
20:08The last time we met was in the drawing room.
20:14Somewhere over there.
20:18Your father's will.
20:21Yes, I remember.
20:24Been seeing Mother lately?
20:26Hm.
20:29Few days ago.
20:32Yes, I want a few days ago.
20:36About the same, I suppose.
20:38Hm.
20:39Yes, about the same.
20:42I was having a chat with Sefton about the will some time ago.
20:48We thought it'd be a good idea if you came around
20:50that little chat with me sometime.
20:54Question of the works, you know.
20:57Ticket business.
21:00No sense in being unprepared.
21:07Perhaps I could telephone you someday.
21:14Yes.
21:16Yes.
21:25Look what happens.
21:27Look at that.
21:34A perfectly formed T, all on its own.
21:40Off the gate post, I suppose.
21:44What was the name of the house?
21:47My Star.
21:49It was the title of one of Browning's poems
21:52that Mother liked.
21:56Can I keep it?
22:02Yes, of course.
22:06Funny thing, Blast.
22:12He's got a lot to answer for, Mr. Hitler.
22:22Can I give you a lift?
22:26Mother?
22:30Mother?
22:37All right, all right.
22:38I'm waiting on this.
22:39I'm going to go upstairs for a minute.
22:41But don't be long.
22:42I've got problems, too, you know.
22:44You all right, then?
22:45Yes, yes, I'm all right.
22:49We're back.
22:50I can see that.
22:51Where have you been all this time?
22:52Well, Dad started to let his hair down.
22:55We had a bit of trouble getting him back.
22:57I don't mean that he's drunk.
22:58No, no, just a bit, you know.
23:01Here, Mum's not back yet.
23:03Well, hasn't she telephoned?
23:04Well, Uncle Sefton said that she went round to his place
23:06so that she could see old Dr. Willie without us knowing.
23:09What's she want to do that for?
23:10What about this headache she's been having, I suppose?
23:12But he said she was a bit weepy.
23:16Oh, Lord, poor old Mum.
23:21Are you sure he's not drunk?
23:23I've said I won't do it.
23:25It's against the regulations.
23:26Let's leave it at that, shall we?
23:27If we can't get the paper, then we'll
23:28have to turn the job down.
23:29Regulations?
23:30It's more than we can handle anyway.
23:31Regulations were made to be broken.
23:33What does that mean?
23:34It means that getting around the regulations is what
23:36keeps the wheels going round.
23:38Poppycock, what keeps the wheels going round
23:40is what Churchill offered us, blood, sweat, and tears.
23:42The trouble is the people who do the cheering
23:44aren't usually the ones that do the work.
23:46The people who do the work are the people who always did it,
23:48the poor, bloody rank and file.
23:50You don't have to swear at me, Edwin,
23:51even if you have been drinking.
23:53I've had four pints of watered down working class beer.
23:56The scotch goes to the people with the shares these days,
23:59doesn't it?
24:00Like shares in a pig, for instance.
24:02I don't like swearing at others any more
24:04than I should like it in myself.
24:05And I never talk politics in other people's houses.
24:07You must find that very convenient.
24:09I know your views, Edwin.
24:10As far as I know, I've always been
24:12very tolerant in that respect.
24:13Tolerant?
24:14You can afford to be tolerant.
24:15Any time during the past 30 years,
24:17you could have had me queuing at the labor exchange.
24:19It's me who's had to be tolerant, obsequious.
24:23Swallow my pride till there wasn't
24:24any pride left to swallow.
24:26You think I'd have let my sister be married
24:28to a man who was out of work?
24:29And that's about the sum of it, isn't it, Sefton?
24:32That's what's kept me in work for the past 30 years,
24:34the fact that I was married to your sister.
24:36Not any ability, any talent I might have had.
24:39He married well.
24:42That's the grand total of my obituary, isn't it, Sefton?
24:46You don't have to worry about my politics.
24:49I paid lip service to everything.
24:53I'm a disgrace to the people that bore me.
24:59I'm sorry you feel you have to talk to me like this, Edwin.
25:01Yes, I'm sorry too.
25:02My god, I am.
25:03And at this particular time too.
25:05Yes, it should have happened a long time ago.
25:07Edwin, there's something I haven't told you about Jean.
25:13Jean what?
25:15She saw Dr. Willie this afternoon.
25:17I don't know what the outcome was,
25:18but I'm very worried about her.
25:21We don't know where she is, you see.
25:23Didn't she come with you?
25:25No, she didn't.
25:27We don't know where she is, Edwin.
25:32PHONE RINGING
25:45Yes?
25:47Oh, he's gone out, Mr. Askew, to his brother-in-law's.
25:51Yes, I could do that.
25:53What do you want me to tell him?
25:56Oh, good heavens.
26:01What hospital did you say?
26:11I've told Miss Ashton to get the empty sideboard ready.
26:14There's a patient coming up from, where be your shoes, nurse?
26:17They're, um, they're in the oven, sister.
26:20The oven?
26:21Yes, sister, I got my feet wet coming on duty.
26:24That drives all puddles, you know.
26:26Get them out.
26:28Yes, sister.
26:30Puff them on.
26:31Yes, sister.
26:32And in future, nurse.
26:33Not to put them in the oven, sister.
26:36There's a patient coming up from casualty.
26:37Tell Miss Ashton she's on the way up.
26:39Yes, sister.
26:46Sister sent me to help you.
26:47Oh, thank heavens.
26:48Finish this lot up, will you?
26:49Wash basin's filthy.
26:50Oh, my feet are cooking.
26:53I had my shoes in the oven and sister came in.
26:55They were smelling just like whale meat gone off.
26:57Oh, I'll never get used to these things
26:59being open at both ends.
27:02I have just been talking to that double
27:03earner on men's ward.
27:05Asked him how he got it.
27:06Over enthusiastic, he says, whatever that means.
27:09If you're going up tomorrow, that'll give us something to.
27:12Rita?
27:13Yeah?
27:17I'll, I'll ring you from the hospital.
27:19Yes, yes, yes, all right.
27:20Is, um, somebody going to ring David?
27:22Oh, do you think we ought to?
27:24I think it might be as well, Margaret.
27:25Oh, well, do you think you could?
27:27Yes, yes, yes.
27:28I could ring him before we go.
27:30The taxi's waiting, Edwin.
27:31John will see to it, Dad.
27:33Yes, well, the number's in the little book.
27:34It's the number of his station.
27:35You may have to leave a message.
27:37Yes, yes, well, John will see to it.
27:38Shall I put the light out, then?
27:39Yes, yes.
27:46The fire wants mending.
27:48Yes, well, don't, don't worry about it.
27:49I'll see to it, I think.
27:56I'll ring you.
27:58Mm.
28:03It was you that sent for me, sister?
28:05Yes, doctor.
28:06Nurse Jackson told me you sometimes
28:08take Miss Ashton home.
28:09I do live quite near there, yes.
28:11Her mother's been brought in.
28:13It's quite serious.
28:14It's been a terrible shock for the poor girl.
28:16Now, you'd like me to take her home?
28:17If you were, I don't quite know whether to.
28:19No, it's, it's all right.
28:20I've finished up maternity.
28:21She's in the restroom.
28:22I've given her a sedative.
28:23I'll bring her out.
28:41Oh.
28:41Yes?
28:42Mrs. Foster, Mr. Briggs' housekeeper.
28:44Oh, um, well, would you come in?
28:47Oh.
28:48Oh, I'm sorry.
28:48I've got to go.
28:49I've got to go.
28:50I've got to go.
28:51I've got to go.
28:52I've got to go.
28:53I've got to go.
28:54I've got to go.
28:55I've got to go.
28:56I've got to go.
28:57I've got to go.
28:58Uh, the telephone.
29:00Oh, there's no need to ask if I can do anything.
29:02Oh, hello.
29:04What?
29:05Yeah, it's, um, your uncle's housekeeper's just come.
29:11How is she?
29:13Ah.
29:15Yes, yes.
29:16Um, I rang the station.
29:17They gave me a number of pubs.
29:18I rang there, and a friend of David's
29:21gave me a London number.
29:23Yes, it seems he is on leave.
29:26Well, I tried once, but it was engaged.
29:28So I'm going to try again in a f-
29:31Shh.
29:32Don't cry, love.
29:35Don't cry, my love.
29:40Would you like a cup of tea?
29:42No, thanks.
29:45You don't remember me, do you?
29:47Yes, of course I do.
29:48You're Frieda's friend.
29:49I'm sorry about your mother.
29:50Nurse!
29:51Oh, here we go again.
29:57Come on.
30:05Did you talk to John?
30:08Where's Uncle Sefton?
30:10He's gone in there.
30:15Look, why don't you let me take you home?
30:17If there's going to be no change.
30:19Perhaps I will.
30:21I'll just wait a bit longer.
30:26OK.
30:52Can I?
30:54Can I have a peach, Father?
31:01What does your bloke do when he's here?
31:03Hmm?
31:05Your bloke.
31:06Oh, he's a barrister.
31:08He's doing much the same sort of thing in Cairo, I believe.
31:11But for the army, of course.
31:14Haven't you ever wanted kids?
31:17Not really.
31:20What about him?
31:21Well, I don't think so.
31:23You've got, um, two, haven't you?
31:26You did say two, didn't you?
31:28Yeah, I did say two.
31:31They're evacuated to Wales, you know.
31:35Yeah, she'll be putting them to bed now, Mrs. Thomas.
31:41Don't forget to say your prayers.
31:43God bless, Mommy.
31:44God bless, Daddy.
31:46Who's he?
31:47You sound like the morning after the night before.
31:50Yeah, that's about it, too, isn't it?
31:53Oh, it's no good crying over spilt milk, is it?
31:57Right, where do you want to go?
31:58Anywhere you like.
31:59You feeling reckless?
32:00Yes, I'm feeling bloody reckless.
32:04You know, the more it looks as if we're
32:05going to win this war, the more I want to go on living.
32:08I'm off ops for a bit now, but when I go back,
32:11I'm going to be terrified, scared out of my bloody wits.
32:14Do you know that?
32:17Oh, I want a good life, Grace.
32:20I want to know what it feels like.
32:23But the more I like it, the more scared I'm going to be.
32:28I mean, how's that for a problem?
32:31But isn't it like that for all of us?
32:33Isn't life a sort of op?
32:35Um.
32:36Hello?
32:43Oh.
32:45Yes, yes, I was given your number
32:47by a friend of David Ashton's.
32:48I'm trying to get in touch with him.
32:51Hold on.
32:52It's for you, Per.
33:04Yes?
33:08Yeah.
33:09It's, um, it's John Porter here, David.
33:13Yeah?
33:15Margaret asked me to ring you.
33:17She's at the hospital.
33:19It's your mother, David.
33:21Mum?
33:23Yes, uh, she's had a stroke.
33:30Yeah, well, tell her I'm on my way.
33:32I'll see you then, all right?
33:37I take it we're not going out?
33:39Yes.
33:44Thank you very much.
33:45Yes, sister.
33:49Would you like a cup of tea, sir?
33:51Oh, thank you very much.
33:53And, uh, the other two?
33:55My nephew's taking his sister home.
33:57The doctor said he thought it would be the best.
33:59Yes.
34:06Edward?
34:09Edwin?
34:40Give it another minute or two.
34:43I've arranged for a new grave in the new section.
34:46No good her going with our lot.
34:48There wouldn't be room for Edwin.
34:51Uh, I reserved another plot while I was at it.
34:53It's getting very crowded up there.
34:55My cousin's up there, hmm?
34:58He'd have been with us now if he'd listened to me.
35:01He got in with a bad set, you know.
35:04Burning the candle up there, you know.
35:06A bad set, you know.
35:08Burning the candle at both ends, I told him.
35:11You reap what you sow.
35:12He's got a lovely headstone, though.
35:14Quite unusual, a white angel.
35:20John, are you coming back?
35:21Yes, yes, all right.
35:26Margaret?
35:29Margaret, are you all right?
35:30Yes, yes, I'm just going up to help Dad with Frieda.
35:33Look, see if you can find out what's happened to Sheila,
35:35will you?
35:36Oh, um, she's here.
35:37I'm so sorry I'm late, Margaret.
35:39I'll see you later.
35:41First bus must have been early, and, uh,
35:44the one I caught seemed to crawl.
35:47Yes, um, look, they're all in there.
35:50Yes.
35:56And when you were no bigger than that,
35:59you swallowed a sixpence in the Christmas pudding.
36:03Your David wanted to turn you upside down and shake you.
36:07Now you're a great big lad in the army.
36:11Are they treating you proper?
36:13Well, not too badly, I thought.
36:15They gave her some lovely flowers, didn't they?
36:18You wouldn't think they could find such flowers in wartime.
36:23Well, I'll be getting me coat on.
36:27Oh.
36:29There'll be no more tea you wanted, for sure.
36:37My throat, my throat's dry.
36:42Uh, look, I'm just going into the garden.
36:44Uh, let me know when.
36:48I missed the bus I meant to catch.
36:52Did you come straight from the naffy?
36:54No, no.
36:55I came from home.
37:06Oh, is that tea?
37:07No, it's water.
37:09Do you want some?
37:11Oh, well, I thought there might be some tea going.
37:14No, it's gone cold.
37:17Your father could have come, you know.
37:19He hardly ever takes a day off.
37:22I don't like sitting in there with all those people.
37:24I hardly know anybody.
37:25Well, we'll be going soon, Mum.
37:29She was a good woman.
37:31Yes, yes, she was.
37:33She had her blind spots, of course.
37:35But then we all have those, don't we?
37:37I think I'd better go and see if Margaret's all right.
37:39Oh, yes.
37:40You go and see if Margaret's all right.
37:43Tell her if there's anything I can do.
37:45Yes, well, you've been telling her that all morning.
37:48Come on.
37:51Yes, and the things I could tell you, my lad.
37:56Beg your pardon, sir.
37:57Uh, what, me?
37:59We're about to close the coffin.
38:01Anybody wants to see her?
38:03Oh, yes.
38:05Um, but should I ask that?
38:07If you wouldn't mind, sir.
38:10Yes.
38:11Yes, yes.
38:12All right, then.
38:19Uh, they're about to close.
38:22If anybody wants to see her?
38:30Oh, I forgot to ask you if you were going back tonight.
38:33Tomorrow.
38:34Oh.
38:36You'll be staying the night, then?
38:38Yes.
38:41I didn't hear you.
38:44I said, yes, I'll be staying the night.
39:11Dad, I don't want to see her.
39:14I just don't.
39:18Hey.
39:28It was a beautiful service, Vic.
39:31It was quite beautiful.
39:35Oh.
39:42That's my cousin over there, the tall one with gray hair.
39:47headstone with the white angel.
39:50I have a brother buried here somewhere. I don't know where. He died before I was born.
39:56are you a relative?
39:58no but I lived like one of the family for many years before the war.
40:03I was a cleaner for mrs Ashton. I lived in until the kiddies grew up and they needed the room.
40:10all right dad I'll take her.
40:13come on love.
40:15come on love.
40:17I'll take her.
40:39dad says he's not going back to the house.
40:42we're going straight home apparently.
40:44oh?
40:46there's no special significance is there?
40:49well they had a bit of a blow-up just before.
40:54oh well I'll try and get them to tell me about it.
40:57I thought there was something.
40:59dad was a bit sloshed.
41:01I'll come with you John.
41:16there's no room mum. get in the next one.
41:31don't you think we ought to go round?
41:37we've been asked.
41:39we don't have to be asked father.
41:41he hurt me the other night did Edwin.
41:43he hurt me.
41:45he was a bit sloshed.
41:47he hurt me.
41:49all right father whatever you say.
42:02are you coming to the house then?
42:05well um I said I'd go and see my dad.
42:08he's not been too well lately.
42:10oh.
42:14well I'll see you sometime then.
42:16oh look David that's not something that I've just made up.
42:21yeah well uh
42:25remember me to him will you?
42:28David
42:31you don't remember me.
42:34Ethel
42:36how long are you?
42:38times have smacked his bottom.
42:42she thought the world of you.
42:46god bless you.
42:51goodbye then David.
43:01where's dad?
43:09I'll fetch him.
44:01they love the wardens round.
44:07that window.
44:09it's long past black outside.
44:13oh yeah.
44:15yes yes I forgot.
44:30it'll be my turn next.
44:32your turn?
44:34oh for god's sake mum please.
44:44I shall put it all in writing before then.
44:46all what?
44:48all the things I should have said and never have said.
44:52things that people have a right to know.
44:54oh yes I shall do my duty.
44:56I shall go with a clear conscience.
44:58there's no time you went to the Grants.
45:00I thought you're supposed to be going there for tea.
45:04why aren't you taking me?
45:06it's only two minutes walk mum.
45:10oh I see.
45:12oh yes well
45:14very well then.
45:16two minutes.
45:18two minutes out of a lifetime.
45:21two minutes out of a lifetime.
45:33I say goodbye to Dan and Phil.
45:35why are you off then?
45:37yes.
45:39did you talk to Sheena?
45:43yes I talked to her.
45:45what's the good of talking Mag?
45:47it's what you do that counts.
45:50that's true.
45:52where's Freda?
45:54she's in the kitchen.
45:56I'll just say goodbye to her then.
46:02let me help you.
46:04it's all right thank you.
46:06I can manage.
46:08off to the Grants?
46:10yes.
46:12out into the blackout.
46:14it's a good moon tonight anyway.
46:17looking down on us eh?
46:22what a sight we must seem.
46:29you know that time when you came to see me in hospital
46:32and you said we should be closer
46:34you and I
46:36it's still true you know.
46:40I'll see you tomorrow.
46:47you know
46:49I sat with her for ten minutes or so
46:51not long before she died.
46:54it's a funny thing the mind.
46:57she only ever said one thing
47:00and that wasn't to me or Edwin.
47:04she said
47:06can I have a drink with you?
47:08I said no.
47:10she said
47:12can I have a drink with you?
47:14she said
47:16can I have a peach father?
47:24all right? yes.
47:26where's Freda? I've taken her up to bed.
47:28she wants to go back to the hospital tomorrow.
47:30she says she doesn't want to stay here.
47:32yes.
47:34but I shall have to now
47:36for a while of course.
47:38you do know that.
47:40yes of course.
47:42I'd say it's not a good time to be
47:44getting a house anyway.
47:46if the raids start again we could end up with a pile of bricks.
47:50not that they will I shouldn't think.
47:55all those nights in the freezing shelter.
47:58it was the war that killed her.
48:00the war
48:02and us.
48:04and Robert being lost most of all.
48:08do you remember that night when you first came here
48:10we were having a party for her anniversary.
48:12how contented we all seemed.
48:16we weren't really.
48:18what would we have been like
48:20if it had all never happened?
48:22you can't say can you?
48:24would we still have hurt each other?
48:26mum and dad
48:28David
48:32oh I tell all the lies in creation
48:34after this rather than be the cause
48:36of anyone being hurt.
48:39the truth doesn't really hurt Margaret.
48:42doesn't it?
48:46doesn't it?
49:04they told me I'd find you here.
49:07young Philip was just on his way.
49:09you leave it to me I told him.
49:11we old ones understand one another.
49:19I'm drunk.
49:21nobody's going to blame you for that.
49:23come on home lad.
49:25come on home.
49:27shh
49:33lay me down and do it again
49:35so this is number five
49:37and she had me by the thighs
49:39roll me over
49:41lay me down and do it again
49:43roll me over
49:45in the clover
49:47roll me over
49:49lay me down and do it again
49:57roll me over
49:59in the clover
50:01roll me over
50:03in the clover
50:05in the clover
50:07in the clover
50:09in the clover
50:11in the clover
50:13in the clover
50:15in the clover
50:17in the clover
50:19in the clover
50:21in the clover