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00:00To be continued...
00:30It's the last one. Make the most of it.
00:38Anyhow, this Jimmy Crute's one I'm seeing tonight, he can get stockings.
00:42I promise you, three pairs. Three, real silk.
00:45Where does he get them from, darling?
00:46Oh, you don't ask questions like that.
00:54Surgical. Hang on, I'll see.
01:00Any happen to know where your boyfriend is?
01:02Sure, sister's door's open.
01:04Nurse Ashton, do you know where Mr Mackenzie is?
01:07Examining Mrs Finn, I think.
01:08Hey, Frida, give someone else a look in.
01:10You'll have him to yourself all evening.
01:15Telephone, Mr Mackenzie.
01:17Thank you, nurse.
01:22Ready on the dot, it's a fair driver.
01:24Is that a clue?
01:26Hello, Mackenzie. Oh, put her through, please.
01:29Where's he taking you tonight, then?
01:31Hey, pass me that, will you?
01:32It's a surprise, if you must know.
01:34Oh, I see.
01:35Somewhere special?
01:36No, not at all.
01:37I bet you're tan with tears.
01:39Look, he just wants to take me somewhere special, yeah?
01:42No.
01:43Different.
01:46Um, look, Frida, I'm sorry.
01:48Something has cropped up.
01:49Would you mind making your own way home tonight?
01:51Oh, no, not at all.
01:52I'm sorry.
01:53I'll see you later, Ollie.
01:54Yes.
01:55Night.
01:56See you.
01:57What was all that about, then?
01:58What was all what about?
01:59That call.
02:00Couldn't you wait five minutes and you're off duty?
02:02Oh, do give it a rest, Doris.
02:03Yeah, well, he hadn't said no lift home tonight for that call, had he?
02:06Look, perhaps he's not going straight home.
02:08It's nothing to do with me.
02:10Oh, no.
02:11I wish I'd have switched forward who wanted him now.
02:15Hey, he might have been a jeweller.
02:17Mr Mackenzie, the way he ordered it.
02:19No, I'll switch the thing at you if you don't stop it.
02:21Look, when a man buys me a ring, there'll be no surprise.
02:25I'll be there.
02:26I'll choose it.
02:27If and when.
02:34Ian's still lost in his work, is he?
02:37Oh, not entirely.
02:38Oh, he said he'd be about 20 minutes, by the way.
02:42I'm sorry.
02:43I had to come.
02:47You're wishing I hadn't, aren't you?
02:49If you've come to ask Ian's advice about something, why should I be sorry?
02:54It's perfectly natural.
02:56Even divorce can be a bond between people.
02:59If that's all you want, Mary, I'm glad to see you.
03:03It's not absolutely certain, then.
03:08Er, the doctor gets the results of the test tomorrow.
03:11Tests?
03:12There's nothing wrong.
03:13He just thought because of the trouble we had last time we ought to check.
03:16That's all.
03:17You all right?
03:18Yes, I'm just a bit hot, that's all.
03:20They inject rats or mice or something.
03:22It takes about a week.
03:24I'm sorry to keep you waiting.
03:27You seem very keen to have a second grandchild.
03:30It'll be very good for both of you.
03:32Does John know?
03:33No.
03:34No, I've told nobody but you.
03:37Then if I am wrong, it saves heartaches, doesn't it?
03:40Hello, there's somebody home.
03:42Shall we go and see who it is?
03:43It might be Dad.
03:44Come on.
03:45Come on.
03:46Come on.
03:47Come on.
03:48Come on.
03:49Come on.
03:50Oh, hello.
03:51Hello, little man.
03:52Oh, I've got something for you.
03:54Where is it?
03:55There we are.
03:56There you are.
03:57Did I?
03:58Never mind.
03:59Hello, love.
04:00Hello.
04:01Is David here yet?
04:02No.
04:03Oh, but Hala's come.
04:04Oh, good.
04:05We'll go to the kitchen, shall we?
04:06Get some pastry.
04:07He doesn't look too good.
04:12We did the last time we saw one love.
04:14No, no, but he looks worse, if anything.
04:17You can have one, it's all right.
04:20Hello, Harry.
04:22Don't get up.
04:23Oh, it's a scorcher, isn't it?
04:25It sure is.
04:26Well, this is a surprise.
04:28A nice surprise, mind you.
04:29I just thought I'd drop in.
04:31Celia, not with you then?
04:32No, no, not this time.
04:34She had things to do.
04:39What's the news?
04:40I thought D-Day had put pay to the bombing.
04:43These flying bombs haven't half pasted London.
04:45Casualty is nearly as bad as the Blitz, they say.
04:50That's what.
04:51That's just a month since I started.
04:54Barely.
04:58Seems no end to it.
05:01And I'm beginning to wonder whether I shall see it out.
05:04Well, can't go on that long.
05:08Everything all right, Harry?
05:11Oh, hello, John.
05:12Oh.
05:13Hello, John.
05:14Hello, Dad.
05:15What brings you over?
05:16Nothing in particular.
05:17How are you?
05:18Oh, don't ask.
05:19What's stopped me from packing the job in this afternoon?
05:21I don't know.
05:22Apart from the regulations.
05:23Oh, hello.
05:24It's not getting as bad as that, is it?
05:27I don't want to talk about it, even.
05:28I'm absolutely browned off.
05:30Come on.
05:31Oh, you've been eating stones again, haven't you?
05:32Like when you were little.
05:34You caught the sun a bit.
05:36You've been out.
05:37It's a lovely day, isn't it?
05:38Huh?
05:57Isn't that his car?
05:59I do wish you hadn't phoned.
06:00I could have waited.
06:03Yes, it is.
06:04He's not going to have very long.
06:06He's got to go out again soon.
06:08He's dead.
06:09The last thing I want is to upset his arrangements.
06:11Oh, no, don't worry.
06:13He won't let you do that.
06:30Hello, Mary.
06:33Hello.
06:39Mother?
06:41I do feel awful, Ian.
06:43Your mother's just told me you're going out.
06:45I wouldn't have come if I'd known.
06:47It's all right.
06:48I've got a little time.
06:49If Mary wants to talk to you, I'll leave you.
06:51No, you don't have to go.
06:53I wanted Ian to know first, that's all.
06:55Not good news, Mary.
06:57I don't know.
06:58Gilbert's walked out.
06:59It...
07:00It's been coming some time.
07:01It...
07:02It's over.
07:04I see.
07:05Oh, I...
07:06I won't burden you with all the details.
07:08It's...
07:09It's my fault, I'm sure.
07:11I...
07:12I don't seem to be able to keep a husband, do I?
07:14You said you were just as much at fault when we broke up.
07:17But...
07:18That was just making it easier for me, wasn't it?
07:20Well, I must have been at fault for you to want to leave me.
07:23Gilbert seemed great fun when I met him.
07:26Now it's happened to me a second time.
07:28I...
07:29I knew it must be me.
07:30Well, have you tried discussing it?
07:32With Gilbert?
07:33Yeah.
07:34We didn't split up like you and I did.
07:36It was...
07:37Well...
07:38Noisy to say the least.
07:39Well, supposing someone else tried to talk to him?
07:41Oh, I've no idea where he is.
07:43He...
07:44Put them all together someone told me.
07:46Anyway, I don't want him back.
07:47That's the last thing.
07:48Don't even wish it on me.
07:50Well, is there anything I can do?
07:52I...
07:53Anything.
07:54I'm sorry.
07:55I shouldn't have come.
07:56Don't let me keep you.
07:57Oh, it's alright.
07:58Freda won't mind waiting a minute or two.
07:59It's a girl then.
08:01Funny, I never thought of you having girlfriends.
08:03Silly of me.
08:05Ian, don't forget you have to change.
08:07And you shouldn't keep her waiting.
08:09Do you tell your girlfriends?
08:11About our divorce?
08:12Yes.
08:13I told her.
08:15That was very sensible of you.
08:17Well, I would have had to sooner or later, wouldn't I?
08:20Um, look.
08:22I'll get changed quickly and then whatever time's left we can talk.
08:28I get on very well with Freda.
08:31Between ourselves I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
08:33I know I shouldn't be saying so but I am.
08:36In the beginning I thought perhaps she was a bit too young for him.
08:39Is she younger than me?
08:40Oh, yes.
08:41Hmm, quite a bit.
08:42I envy her.
08:43Oh, not just her age.
08:45I mean, it's...
08:46It's awful how sometimes you...
08:49You have to lose something to find it.
08:51I did say no to you, didn't I?
08:54Yes, three times.
08:55Good.
08:56Couldn't remember.
08:57Must be love.
08:58Oh, no.
08:59Shhh.
09:00Hey.
09:01Well, good.
09:02Aren't you going to say goodbye?
09:04Well, it must I?
09:05Yes, come on.
09:06Uh, I'm sorry I can't stay.
09:09I've got a heavy date.
09:10Oh, well, off you go then.
09:11Yes.
09:12Bye.
09:13What it is to be young.
09:14Wish you were that age again?
09:15No fear.
09:16I was off to the trenches.
09:17Yeah.
09:18The war took the best years of your life, Dad.
09:19Now this one's taken mine.
09:20You have had a bad day, John.
09:21Oh, every day's a bad day in that lousy place.
09:23I'm sorry.
09:24I'm sorry I can't stay.
09:25I've got a heavy date.
09:26Oh, well, off you go then.
09:27Yes.
09:28Bye.
09:29Bye.
09:30What it is to be young.
09:31Wish you were that age again?
09:32No fear.
09:33I was off to the trenches.
09:34Every day's a bad day in that lousy place.
09:36What's wrong with it?
09:37It didn't used to feel like this.
09:39Oh, I don't know.
09:40Thanks.
09:41I don't know why.
09:42Adding up rows and rows of figures.
09:44Checking the same blasted forms all day and every day.
09:47It's so boring and soul-destroying.
09:50How do you like a boss like Mr Temple?
09:53He's so bloody pernickety.
09:54He doesn't hang his hat up.
09:55He positions it at the exact same angle every day.
09:58Oh, dear.
09:59How about laying the table for me, eh?
10:02Dad?
10:03Yes, yes.
10:04All right, love.
10:13Lots of lads are going to feel like John and they get back to normality.
10:16Yes.
10:17And yet right now all that most of them want is just that.
10:20To get back.
10:21I know I did.
10:23But as you say, it's not the coming back of what you come back to.
10:27Look, your dad's not in any state to listen to other people's grumbles.
10:34I wasn't grumbling.
10:35I was facing facts.
10:39His job's not up to much either.
10:41Does that mean I mustn't talk about mine?
10:43Why don't you try evening classes again, eh?
10:48You know that correspondence course?
10:50Then when you're more qualified, you'd have a better chance of getting out of the treasurer's office.
10:54I couldn't care less about the Phibbing Institute of Treasurer's and Accountants exam.
11:00That's the trouble.
11:01Sauce?
11:02Yes, please.
11:03And mustard.
11:04There's some made in the pot.
11:06Oh, nice.
11:07I quite like to study to get expert at something.
11:13I can't stand the subject.
11:16It wasn't for you and you and Buster there.
11:19Yes.
11:20Yes, well, take that lot in from me, would you love?
11:24Go on, go on, shoot then.
11:26All right, show yourself.
11:28Not easily with me, Gary.
11:30Here he goes.
11:31Whatcha making, then?
11:47You're looking much smarter these days.
11:51Mary's going to take Pocklough with me.
11:54Oh, good.
11:55Um, you know the times of your train's back tonight, do you?
11:59Well, I...
12:00Oh, I should have explained before.
12:02Gilbert got so he was selling anything worth anything.
12:05After he left, I found out the debts he'd been running up and how far the rent was behind.
12:11Of course, I couldn't pay so I've had to sell up and get out.
12:14Oh, I'm making it sound as if I was turned out into the snow.
12:18You must go in, please.
12:20What about your brother?
12:22Wilfred, isn't it?
12:23He was killed in Burma.
12:25Easter Saturday I got the telegram.
12:27Of course you wouldn't know.
12:29I haven't been in touch since then, have I?
12:31No.
12:32Oh, my dear, I am so sorry.
12:34He was the only relative you had left, wasn't he?
12:37Hmm.
12:38Oh.
12:39So what are your plans now?
12:41Well, the last thing I'd dream of is to impose on you, of course.
12:45But I wondered, that's why I came, really, to ask you.
12:50Ian, do you know of a vacancy for an ominous secretary?
12:53You know I haven't worked for a year or two, but I'm sure I could pick it up again quickly.
12:57If there were a hospital where I could get away from Oldham...
13:00Oh, I think that's a splendid idea, Mary.
13:03Well, I'll make some inquiries with pleasure.
13:05Oh, maybe I'd get something quicker, wouldn't I?
13:07Oh, there's bound to be something.
13:09Somewhere in the country.
13:10Oh, yes.
13:11I wasn't expecting there'd be a vacancy in your hospital.
13:14Well, all the places I know are bursting at the seams.
13:17I'll ring the hospital secretary.
13:19I've got his number somewhere.
13:20He might just know of somewhere.
13:21Thanks, Ian.
13:22Oh, what about your girl?
13:29I'll ring her first.
13:32PHONE RINGS
13:41Hello.
13:42Oh, it's you.
13:43Oh, thought you might like these for tonight.
13:45Doris!
13:46They're e-jacks, but you can't tell.
13:48That's smashing, eh?
13:49Yeah.
13:50It's going to revolve around stockings these days, isn't it?
13:52Hey, look.
13:53How much?
13:54Well, he won't take a bean for him.
13:55I know why to until.
13:56You know more where those came from?
13:58Well, he's waiting for me on the corner.
14:00Tell you what, I'll work on him tonight.
14:02The risk of having to fight for me on the...
14:03Yeah, well, don't blame me if you lose.
14:04See you later on tonight.
14:05OK.
14:06Yeah.
14:07Yeah, she is.
14:08See you.
14:09Hmm.
14:10Hello?
14:11Hello?
14:12Hello, Phoebe.
14:13Listen, I'll be a bit late tonight.
14:14Um...
14:15Not much.
14:16Is that all right?
14:17No, I'm furious.
14:18I'm sorry, love.
14:19It's all right.
14:20I'm only joking.
14:21Has something cropped up?
14:22Yes, but it won't take me more than a few minutes.
14:24I'm sorry.
14:25Hey, listen.
14:26I'll tell you what, I'll walk round.
14:27No, no, don't bother doing that.
14:28I'll pick you up as I said.
14:29It's no bother.
14:30It's a pleasure.
14:31I'll see you soon then.
14:32Ian shouldn't go to all this trouble.
14:33I'm sorry.
14:34Hey, listen.
14:35I'll walk round.
14:36No, no.
14:37Don't bother doing that.
14:38I'll pick you up as I said.
14:39It's no bother.
14:40It's a pleasure.
14:41I'll see you soon then.
14:42Ian shouldn't go to all this trouble.
14:59Well, he doesn't know of any vacancies off hand, but he's going to look at his office records in the morning.
15:05Well, that's a help.
15:07Thanks.
15:08Is the bed in the back room made up?
15:10Well, no, but it soon could be.
15:14No, really, I couldn't.
15:15It looks as though I forced myself on you.
15:17Oh, nonsense.
15:18Well, if Mary doesn't want, do you?
15:19Where else couldn't you go at this time of night?
15:35Well, yes, of course she must stay.
15:48Miss Frieda.
15:49Well, all right, I'll stay.
15:51Providing you go now.
15:52Fair offer.
15:53Ian, don't bring her in.
15:54Why not?
15:55Well, if you don't mind.
15:57She may not like the idea of your ex-wife being around either.
16:02You women do have strange ideas.
16:04The offer for right.
16:12Oh, I thought I'd save a bit of time.
16:14Still too old?
16:15No.
16:16Perfect.
16:17I'm just going to call you.
16:21All sorted out, whatever it was?
16:23Well, no.
16:26It doesn't have to spoil our evening.
16:34No.
16:35No.
16:36No.
16:37No.
16:38No.
16:39No.
16:40No.
16:41No.
16:42No.
16:43No.
16:44No.
16:46No.
16:47No.
16:48No.
16:49she is young isn't she she's the best thing that could happen to him
16:55believe me mary i hope she isn't going to mind me being here
16:59but perhaps he won't tell
17:03i've seen a doodle bog leave a spitfire standing that's how fast
17:18they are how do they stop them then well the spits they hang about at the top to get extra speed from
17:24a power dive and they come in they tip the bug's wings with theirs and it nosedives still explodes
17:30doesn't it you know kills people well yes maggie you know once they reach the outskirts of london
17:37the only way is to pump in cannon shell try and explode them in the air that's a bit dicey isn't
17:43it yeah i'll say once the pilot got in too close he blew himself up as well
17:48what's machine against machine it's coming
17:51yes well uh what we all need is a couple of pints
17:57come on first round's on me
18:00dad
18:01hattie and i want to put our feet up
18:03it's henry hall tonight isn't it
18:06wednesday dad
18:07your memory's slipping
18:08come on john it'll be all right
18:13oh it's a lovely evening john
18:17yeah do you remember the light nights
18:20when we were kids playing out past bedtime
18:23oh yes they were the days john
18:25russ yes didn't know what was happening did we
18:28our dad's back from their war with damn all except medals
18:31one will be the same after this lot too you bet
18:34look the couple
18:36the sooner we get a couple of jills down you the better
18:39harry
18:45i've got an idea you've got something on your mind
18:48you've not just come visiting have you
18:51well when you're in trouble you run to someone you feel you can talk to and
18:56and you find it's not so easy as you thought
19:00celia
19:01no no no it's it's not celia this time
19:04what then
19:06well to put it bluntly
19:09i'm in a mess
19:12well what sort of a mess
19:13money edwin
19:16oh
19:17it's this clarking job
19:19the pay is so much less
19:21i'm not able to make ends meet anymore
19:24you're not well enough to go back to your old job i suppose
19:28oh no they wouldn't have me
19:29what does celia say
19:32well she only knows the money's down
19:34i haven't told her the worst
19:37what's the worst harry
19:39well i've had to let the mortgage payment slide
19:43much
19:45it soon adds up
19:47how much
19:48best part to 100 quid by now
19:52the pressing you i suppose
19:54pressing
19:55when you say you just haven't got it
19:57they go stone deaf and keep on pressing
20:00i don't suppose you uh
20:03you know anyone who uh
20:04could tie me over to you
20:06well that's a lot of money harry
20:08i'd like to be able to lend it to you myself
20:12nothing can give me more pleasure
20:13well i won't pretend that that wasn't in my mind
20:16well things are better than they were as you know
20:19but not in terms of cash
20:21it's um all tied up in the works
20:23well i don't know where to turn
20:26i could ask sefton
20:30no no you mustn't do that i won't have you embarrassed not on any account
20:33i can't think what else to suggest
20:37well i just thought i'd ask
20:40makes you feel so damned weak and useless not being able to run your own life
20:46well you're not weak and useless
20:48you did your bit in the first lot and you lost your health doing a bit in this
20:52if society can't do better for the people who sustain it
20:57it's society that's weak and useless
20:59all that doesn't help you to pay the bills does it
21:02somewhere at sea
21:03not forgetting of course that rival of mine the parrot
21:07haven't you discovered whether it's male or female yet
21:09many thanks for the picture of the ship
21:12it's up on the wall in the office for everybody to see
21:15and in case there's any delay in your mail arriving
21:18here's hutch with a letter from her
21:19she knows you and i seem to have seen her someone before
21:44well you probably recognize her from a temperature chart
21:47oh yes that's right um
21:49stillborn twins for d-day
21:51touch and go i'll take mrs
21:52rigby
21:53cesarean section made me promise to come and have a meal
21:56well we were driving up i thought where the heck's he taking me
22:00first impressions are always wrong
22:02here we are then
22:04are you known as ashton
22:05yes and i'm fine thank you
22:07couldn't place your first love or pushed up without your uniform
22:11and what's more you come on the right night
22:13we've just had our rationing this very day
22:15s-t-e-a-k
22:17of course we keep it strictly for the lads and lasses in uniform
22:20oh well then what else is on
22:22oh get away with you
22:23you two weren't in uniform last time i saw you
22:25i don't know who was
22:26not to mention that article food
22:28it'll have to be chips and peas
22:31but of course that's all the veg that's on
22:32sorry
22:33freda?
22:34well are you sure we're not taking anybody else's?
22:36no it's the cafe's ration for the week
22:38if i vlogged a lot on the black market
22:40who'd be the wiser
22:41i wouldn't have any for my customers then would i?
22:44so it's steak, peas and chips twice right?
22:47it is
22:48you can't say that i don't know all the best places to eat can you?
22:54no it was a very personal service
22:56have you read all that stuff on the national health service to be yet?
23:02look ian you only lent the book to me yesterday and i'm desperately keen to see well to be interested
23:09but giving it to me
23:10uh-uh no excuses you've got to make the effort
23:13you don't deserve a national health service
23:15are most of the doctors for it then?
23:18well those i've discussed it with are
23:19the opposition is at the top in the vma
23:22but do you think it'll happen then?
23:24we've got to make it happen
23:25did you educate your wife too?
23:29yes
23:29i'll get some water will you?
23:50what happened?
23:51well i don't know i think it must be the weather
23:53he said he'd better be getting home struggled to get up and fell back
23:58should i get the doctor?
23:59well he might only have fainted
24:02harry
24:04harry?
24:05harry?
24:09no lie still
24:10no lie still
24:14look harry you're not fit enough to get back to chorley tonight
24:17i'm all right i know just just let me be here let me let me crack myself
24:23oh what what what's up dad?
24:26he's just fainted i think john no need to worry about
24:28you'll be far better off in bed here you know
24:32yes um give me a hand we'll get here upstairs
24:35so hot it is
24:36you take this please
24:36leave him to us
24:37hot
24:38up you go
24:39oh what is all to do
24:40are you all right?
24:40i've never done that before
24:41well it's the heat i expect
24:43oh
24:48he's not that bad is he dad?
24:50no no no no it's worrying more than anything i think
24:55you you weren't long beer's off is it?
24:59no but john is a write-off oh he's a real comedian these days he is
25:05make allowances for what he's been through
25:08oh it's not that he's uh he's nattering on you know
25:13on about the future you know when a beverage's dream is going to become reality what's going to happen after this bloody war's over
25:20don't you agree with equal shares for everyone then?
25:25yes of course but i just object to having somebody quoting chapter and verse at me while i'm drinking
25:31it seems to be all you can think about
25:35how is he john?
25:36oh it's what's happened to him more like
25:41yeah that powder filling jobs turned his skin an awful color he comes out and rashes
25:45he's breathing like mad at the top of the stairs he's been moved off the line for a long time now john
25:51well thank god too yeah well that's probably why they moved him well he reckons they haven't
25:56proved any connection well it doesn't mean to say there isn't no you know i i look at him sometimes
26:04a hero back from his war back to a land fit for bloats like him to live in what was it somebody's
26:10told me they were promised an acre of land and a cow or was it a donkey
26:16anyway where's that brave new world he hasn't seen it another war john hitler happened i know what
26:23it'll be like after this one too still be survival of the fittest well the slickest the wide boys living
26:28off our backs look john some people get on better than others you know they always have done they always
26:35will i intend to go after my share of the cake i can tell you you should go after yours should have
26:41been in the navy david i'm all right jack is that it he's sleeping breathing better oh good no i i just
26:50wonder when we're his age whether we'll have had a better deal from life we'll see what's to be done
26:56tomorrow
26:59that puts a pain to you sweet i'm afraid doctor because it takes over five bob per person well i
27:05couldn't eat another thing really normie delicious i could manage two coffees though thanks
27:10did you uh wonder why i asked you to hang on a bit tonight well no not really only in a miles
27:20of the way putting off an alternate today
27:23well mary turned up this afternoon gilbert has left her
27:28well it was her turn wasn't it it's only what she did to you she's had a pretty rough
27:36time with him look she picked
27:38sorry i shouldn't have said that what's she come for oh she wants me to help her to get back into
27:46hospital work she was an ominous secretary i didn't tell you didn't know no i don't you did
27:53oh so you met in a hospital like we did yes but it's not history repeating itself freedom
27:58in fact not at all and uh do we happen to have a vacancy in the ominous office no we don't but i put
28:04phillips onto it supposing we did have well i wouldn't like that but we could live with it couldn't we
28:12yes we could but why should we i mean more to the point why should you look and i know i've never
28:18met her but she did play the dirty on you and your mother told me that you you don't have a
28:23backwards to make it easy for her and then she gets a taste of a nasty medicine she goes runs
28:27you over a lump of sugar what should i have said too bad i'm not going to lift a finger
28:32i don't mean that i'm glad you told me better late than never isn't it i didn't want anything to
28:38spoil it how does talking about mary spoil it it's all right not spoil it interrupted perhaps
28:51she was there wasn't she when i came round yes she was but why didn't you introduce us
28:57isn't that a formality we can do without you know what i mean no i don't tell me
29:01well just seems sort of funny as if your ex-wife is something not quite nice to talk about though
29:07you've been avoiding it all evening i haven't been avoiding it all evening that's a ridiculous thing
29:12to say anyway why make an issue it's not me who's making an issue of it so there is something to make
29:18an issue of it no okay i mean we've always been straightforward and honest with each other
29:24and why can't we keep it that way it is that way look i think you're making a great deal of fuss about
29:29very little
29:38i think i'd like to go back to the home if you don't mind now yes if you don't mind excuse me
29:47well it's a comfy room and it gets the morning sun too now stop worrying about me and don't let me
29:54keep you up do you're not keeping me up you don't wait for ian do you well unless he's very late
29:59and he shouldn't be tonight
30:01it never occurred to me that you'd want to meet her i didn't say i did in fact mary just didn't want
30:19me to waste time introducing you oh so it was her idea i see i don't think you do mary and i were married
30:27too young we weren't right for each other i wanted a family and a home she wanted something different
30:35well she met gilbert and i agreed to a divorce with less song and dance than there is here now
30:39look why don't you come and meet her she's not a monster i'm sure she isn't
30:46she's staying the night isn't she well where do you suggest she sleeps in the mercy tunnel
30:58drop me back at the home if you don't mind that's what you want it is
31:13now why don't you go up i'll wait for ian
31:18he has got his key you know neither of us need wait for him
31:22will you bring her in sometimes he don't i've changed my mind i'd like to meet her oh do go on up
31:33well
31:36yes all right i will good night good night
31:42i hope things look better for you in the morning yes so do i
31:51good night
32:11look don't you think you're being just a little bit childish
32:16must be the wide gap in our ages then mustn't it oh come on
32:18see you tomorrow yes of course i'm going to work in the morning aren't i good night
32:38i'm not going up yes she was tired nice evening
33:08Well...
33:11it didn't work out exactly as planned.
33:14Oh I'm sorry.
33:17You know where you're sleeping?
33:19Yes. I'm sorry your evening wasn't.
33:22Well can I make you a drink or something?
33:24No thanks. I've got to be up early in the morning.
33:27Strange isn't it? You and me under the same roof again.
33:31Remember our late-night routine?
33:33I locked the front door and you locked the back
33:36and banked that temperamental boiler.
33:42Yes that boiler.
33:44It's a pity it took me so long to grow up.
33:46Because I think I have at long last.
33:51Well we'll see what can be done in the morning.
33:58May I...
34:00may I bolt the front door as I go up?
34:03I already have.
34:06Good night Mary.
34:08Good night.
34:19Hello.
34:21Hello Mrs Mack. Could I have a word with Ian please?
34:23Oh Mrs Mackenzie's in bed.
34:25Oh Ian Lovett's for you.
34:31Hello?
34:36Hello?
34:39They rang off?
34:40They say it was?
34:41No.
34:42It was a woman's voice.
34:44Well they'll ring again if it's important won't they?
34:46Good night Mary.
34:47Good night Mary.
34:48Good night.
34:49Good night.
34:51Good night Mary.
34:54Good night Mary.
34:55Good night Mary.
34:56Hey.
35:01Good night Lord.
35:04so i said to him you can keep your silk stockings i mean three pairs of rejects and he thought he
35:24owned me frida yes look love what's up you look as if you lost a bob and found a threatening
35:31oh just let it drop bryce please well we haven't been with us half the time so i said just let it drop
35:41sorry
35:44oh i'm sorry yes doctor have you a moment please well i'm just going to give these drinks
35:51thank you you have been avoiding me on purpose have i
35:57and you can't go in here now would you mind explaining you explained last night rather
36:07late for some reason frida you're reading more into this than there is well i wondered if i was
36:11so i phoned up to say i was sorry and mary answered the phone now what difference does that i don't
36:14know it just does don't you trust me frida yes well then well i don't know i'm just very unhappy about
36:23it and i'm not very good at explaining my feelings neither am i now that's the only way i can tell
36:34tell you how i feel now the rest is up to you
36:48i'm sorry love it wasn't your fault doris it's me it must be me
37:06it's a race it's a race tell you what let's skip to 19 and 20. i think it'll be all right
37:23i've done 19. have we well let's do 20. and then 21. that's it there you go full speed
37:3220. that's it straight down that's it now we're off oh that's a real moment there wasn't there 26
37:44um come on now you give round out a rest come into the garden 29 never mind we'll remember
37:50come on into the garden help me fix them tomorrow
38:02oh you're up harry good yes i'm feeling much brighter today
38:25must be making strides shortly uh celia phoned uh i didn't go into details about
38:31um you're not feeding dicky oh uh the other business oh good god no well no i only told
38:38you because i know it would go no further did i ever tell you harry we had plans to have a car
38:43before the war gene and i yes a ford popular wasn't it 105 pounds x works god knows what they'll cost
38:49if they start making them again i could have had any number at 10 pounds a time the day war broke out
38:53anyway the money stayed in the bank and uh it's collected a bit of interest so uh pay me back when
39:01you can well there's no use spending it on these days and we're covered for that rainy day if ever
39:09it comes i can't pretend i don't need it yes well you do need it and i'm happy for you to take it
39:15i've only got one more daughter to marry off and i find i can still cope with that so there you are
39:25i should never be able to repay you what am i saying well of course i should be able to repay
39:31you as soon as i can what a thing to say right yes well tell me the joke i'll get to with a laugh oh
39:42well it wasn't all that funny was it oh you're looking better anyways i'm feeling much better
39:48today thank you john and don't forget to tell your doc as soon as you get back no i won't and edwin
39:54thank you oh god what a day i was right on the brink of telling temple where to stick his
40:00public health accounts i gotta do him an injury one day i really am good heavens that doesn't
40:04sound like the quiet young lad that came courting our margaret there are worse jobs you know john oh
40:09tell me what mine i'll be a little late i got held up i better go until i shan't be staying for supper
40:17i shan't be a minute all right johnny playing out yeah i think he's out there with his girlfriend
40:23have you seen the paper oh no don't want to either
40:26i shan't be staying margaret oh you sure no i'd best be getting along
40:36i got the result positive oh are you happy yes yes i think so but aren't the tests reliable then
40:47oh more often right than wrong the doctor said but as good as you knew anyway you don't sound very
40:51exciting well it doesn't help john get out of that job does it i don't quite know how he's going to
40:58see it mood is in another millstone probably wait for a better moment to tell him what happened the
41:06last time i did that oh yes well that was different hmm well life goes on doesn't it in spite of this old war
41:15the wvs committee meeting yes of course when tuesday the 24th right what time three o'clock thank you yes i'll be there bye
41:30i had hoped that ian might have telephoned to say he found something for you yes well i i hope he has
41:44mary i've been trying not to say this all day but perhaps it's better that i should what
41:49well i could see that something was wrong at breakfast and i managed to drag it out of ian that
41:56freda wasn't very happy last night oh why not you mary i'm afraid me you're being here he uh
42:06he wouldn't go into details does she imagine i'm trying to get in back when i look at it from her point
42:13of view i asked ian if he'd made it quite clear that there wasn't the slightest possible chance of
42:19that uh to freda i mean i see and he said he said that freda was in no doubt about it at all
42:27and none whatsoever well i i'd hate him to think that i'd come between him and the happiness i wasn't
42:34able to give him i i think too much of him for that i must make it clear to him yes i'd do that mary if i
42:42were you i'd have him back like a shot you know that don't you i knew it the moment i opened the door
42:51to you no you see she hasn't got a shred of evidence i thought you said this solicitor of yours
42:59was on the ball yes he is he is it's her solicitor that insists that i should provide the evidence
43:07yes well you are the guilty party david yes i know dad but will the law accept a written confession no
43:18do you know they've even suggested that i should go through the motions of spending the night with
43:22some paid bint so that i can then show the bill to sheila and the solicitor can check up in court for
43:30evidence that'll set you back a bob or two yeah i'll probably have sheila's costs to pay as well not
43:37to mention me own it's not very nice i agree but did you ever expect it would be oh are you lecturing
43:45me again dad it was just a comment you know i can't remember once when you were on my side in this
44:00do you know that not once going right back that night i came to you and i said dad i'll have to marry
44:15sheila because she's pregnant it was all my fault then wasn't it not just half my fault all my fault
44:21well there's a lot you don't know dad and there's a lot you didn't know then
44:30she'd made up her mind to marry me whatever
44:37yeah she knew what she was doing in sefton park that night my god she did
44:51well what's going on in there now hmm oh you know david
45:00i'll be glad when it's all over for everybody's sake
45:03yes not uh not much of an advertisement for marriage is it makes you and me seem like
45:09darby and joan oh thank you very much i'm not that agent even if i do look it
45:16no no of course you don't look it oh don't i no another couple of months maybe
45:22here give us a kiss
45:31well no need to ask if you're feeling better yes
45:37i'm sorry i've been growling around oh i was beginning to get used to it what with that and my
45:41condition what what what condition well what do you think i don't i well it's the back
45:51is the back bothering you oh oh it's agonizing well you've had to see the doctor then i've been to
45:56see a doctor you fool that's what i'm trying to say i'm pregnant
46:01oh
46:06um is that all you're gonna say are you no no no i mean i
46:11you mean there'll be a brother for johnny oh you men and your egos
46:16why not a sister for a change yes yes yes all right a sister well are you happy
46:20yes of course yes of course i'm happy look oh look oh my face though my i'm happy
46:27is that you ian yes the hospital telephone they do want you to go away they said it would be for
46:38about uh three weeks oh hell where's mary in our room have you been able to find anything for us oh well
46:49it's difficult i explained the position to him and he's been trying all day but what with
46:54so many hospital staff working away from home and bomb damage anyway he says let me know as soon as
46:59possible when will that be well maybe a week or two he says yeah i don't want her here until then
47:09with the best will in the world it isn't right anyway where else can she go
47:14she came here to get you back you know that don't you of course you didn't no it would never occur
47:22to you would it you know all this kindness and consideration it's building up false hopes
47:29don't you see that well it's out of the question we all know that mary doesn't know it
47:35well i'll spell it out for her she's upstairs
47:44ian can we talk um yes i'll go into the lounge
47:55frida before you say anything there was some question of mary staying longer
48:15well i'm asking her to go well i hope it isn't because of me i mean it really doesn't concern me
48:19well it would if there was anything to be concerned about but there isn't honestly
48:26i know there isn't not in that way it's not that oh hello uh uh frida this is mary
48:37hello mary hello ian i've been looking it doesn't seem as if anything's going to crop up for you for
48:42at least a week or two um the problem is accommodation so i thought that it's very sweet of you
48:46ian dear but i've been thinking now pauline asked me to go and help out at blackpool some time ago
48:50she's she's full of raft boys they train in the winter gardens i think i'll give it a try might
48:56solve the problem well yes it would actually i should have thought of it before shouldn't i
49:03well frida it's hello and goodbye then yes i'll just go and say goodbye to your mother
49:08to buy in bye mary oh if it doesn't work out i'm sure it will but thanks anyway goodbye good luck
49:31now she tells you as if she hadn't thought of it before can't you see that frida i'm not a fool
49:35just got a soft spot for her is that it well of course i have when you've been married to someone
49:43and they go away there's always something left behind people become a part of you for all time
49:48whether you like it or not good or bad you gave her an open invitation to come back ian i'm all she's
49:54got and all i can give her is help and advice and not very much of that now don't you think that's
49:59rather sad well i just don't seem to be able to come to terms with the fact that i'm just one of the
50:02women in your life well that's only because you're so young now i can't explain that logically you
50:07have to take that on trust well i can't be very trusting then can i i'm obviously not very
50:10sophisticated or mature or understanding i took you out last night to ask you to marry me
50:21oh that's a good job you didn't then isn't it i mean just look what you would have been stuck
50:26with to somebody else to feel sorry for frida you're not being rational well then that's something
50:29else i'm not isn't it rational look look i've got to go away tomorrow for three weeks now if we're
50:35going to settle this we'll have to do it now now can we please talk about it calmly and
50:46please
50:58please
50:59please
51:09please
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