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00:00Here we go.
00:30he's back I've just seen him who who Ian who else oh well what well are you going to tell me all
00:51about it then how's it going there's nothing to tell he's been away for three weeks he didn't
00:57bother to write so honestly Freedia as dim as a tock age lamp today the wedding day what other days
01:04are in a girl's life haven't you ever heard of the morning after Doris well shall I get myself
01:14measure for my bridesmaids frock or not look Doris will you stop jumping to conclusions there isn't
01:19going to be any wedding so save your coupons well if I had half a chance to marry a consultant you
01:25wouldn't catch me hanging around honest I can't see what's holding you back no I don't suppose you
01:32would didn't you tell her you were coming then no I sneaked out and left a note well how's the baby
01:45coming along all right John looking after you properly is he yes John's doing all the right
01:52things he's not very happy at work though oh he talked to you about making a change no he can't can
02:02I mean it's not allowed only if it's essential work you know a special job well I see a special job in
02:10night well Uncle Sefton's offered him a job says he can do something about the regulations Sefton it
02:20would be to his advantage I suppose you may need John now but he could always get rid of him when
02:25the boys come home no John mustn't do anything risky for your sake there is such a thing as being
02:31too cautious you know if it would make him happy I'd rather he took the gamble anything's better than the
02:36way he's been the last month or so well we all have our problems don't we I'm going to the hospital
02:45tomorrow oh well they they only want me to have another test about the baby it seems to go on
02:51forever doesn't it but I didn't think there was any doubt well there's always a doubt isn't there
02:56well I've told you my problems so what about yours oh I don't think oh come on you know share and share a
03:05life I don't think I'm Margaret I'm in my wit's end I'm going down
03:16didn't you see him at the hospital then no no he uh sent me a note to say that he'd call in this
03:37evening oh won't you sit down well I can't stay it's my lunch break yeah well I know Ian wants to see
03:43you he'll be disappointed oh did he say I mean well it's only natural isn't it he's been away more
03:52than three weeks I expect it seemed rather a long time to you has it well yes in a way I mean we've
04:02been very busy and um time passed when did he come back didn't you met yesterday yesterday
04:14oh I don't know know what well nothing's clear I can't see any kind of future
04:26has Mary really gone for good oh oh yes yes I should think so you know I don't wish her any harm
04:39well I certainly hope so don't you well I don't know that's one thing I'm not very sure about
04:48you see I wondered last night I couldn't sleep and I thought am I right
04:54or am I coming between them oh my dear that's utter nonsense put it clean out of your head
05:02but it worries me it really does Freda Rashton homebreaker oh really I gave you credit for more
05:12sense is he using me to take his mind off her now look my dear has he ever said anything done
05:21anything no yes not sure what an answer
05:30it's just a feeling but I think he wants me to be someone else I mean his his mind's not on me
05:39and and and I keep asking myself who does he want and the answer is always the same
05:45her rubbish but it's now look my dear you can't stop Ian wanting to help people it's in his nature
05:58he can't help himself and that may be why you love him
06:02but don't you see how much he needs help himself and in my opinion you're just the person to give
06:11it to him Ian needs help from me hmm a man always needs help from a woman and a woman from a man
06:19it's not a bad arrangement and look Freda you're a nurse well Ian's a consultant he's alone
06:31who does he go to for help when he's in trouble his mother you
06:38yes well I suppose my trouble is I'm still jealous
06:46quite right and proper too you wouldn't be a woman if you weren't
06:51and it means the thing is still very much alive between the two of you
06:55there are three of us no Freda you're jealous of a ghost she's lost him
07:05national health I'm sorry Mr. Mr. Porter
07:15Mr. Porter well I don't quite know I didn't quite catch what you say look I'll go and see how Freda's getting on for you
07:21the reason I ask about free medicine is that well this is something that's going to affect everyone isn't it
07:27rich and poor alike I mean we're all of us ill at some time or another but we're not all of us rich
07:33well yes that's absolutely right but of course it's quite wrong to think of it as free medicine
07:37it isn't charity a handout everybody pays for it and everybody gets it
07:41I'm glad very glad well what if you don't what if you can't pay
07:45well you still get the same treatment I'm not quite sure how that's going to work out in practice
07:49nobody does yet it's still only embryonic but I think this is the biggest step forward in medicine
07:54this country has taken since the discovery of anaesthetics
07:56oh yes you see because it's social medicine I've seen far too much of the other kind
08:01what sir what other kind
08:03oh the medicine of privilege you know the sort of thing you've got to be well off in order to be well
08:08do you know that this country is full of people who feel they can't afford to be ill
08:12now why should that be just because they happen to be born in a different bed one with
08:17clean sheets and a soft mattress
08:18I hadn't realized you were interested in politics Ian
08:21oh it's not just politics Mr Ashton it's it's medicine
08:24do you know the first thing I found when I got back to the hospital yesterday morning
08:28a woman with a septic womb
08:30a very advanced case and why
08:32she'd been too frightened to come in earlier because she thought it was going to cost her money
08:36she didn't have and because she thought her husband would get angry with her and knock her
08:39hello love hello are you looking nice what's going to happen to me
08:45well she'll probably die
08:47oh did you do the hysterectomy
08:51yes that's nasty
08:54well we'd best be going
08:58yes yes if you're ready
09:01well bye bye dad bye bye bye goodbye
09:03goodbye kids
09:04oh what a nice fellow
09:08yes
09:08yes
09:09he's got a bright future ahead of him too
09:11I must say he surprised me though the way he talked
09:14pleasant surprise him
09:16oh why
09:17well you look at it man like him still young almost the top of his profession
09:21I mean he could set up in private practice as a consultant
09:24and coin it
09:26he could be rolling in it by the time he's 50
09:28oh
09:29I'd like to have a proper talk with him one day
09:31what about gynecology
09:33well about things in general
09:36how he does it
09:37does what
09:39he succeeds
09:41glad day
10:05the usual
10:07oh sorry
10:08me too
10:10and you
10:11oh nothing very
10:14interesting
10:14serious thank god
10:16no much the same as you
10:18the usual
10:19oh when's something unusual going to happen
10:24um
10:25is it rationed or something
10:28if it is I don't seem to have a card for it
10:33I mean it's like an accident isn't it
10:35anything really interesting
10:36something that happens to other people
10:38people like you
10:39the lucky girls
10:40oh my life's pretty routine
10:42oh I know but there are routines and routines aren't there
10:45oh look at that
10:47I mean just look at it
10:48holidays at home
10:50I ask you
10:51if that isn't a contradiction in terms
10:53I'd like to know what is
10:54my idea of a real holiday
10:58if you'd get as far away from home as possible
11:00and stay there for as long as I could
11:02forever if I'd get away with it
11:04yes
11:05and that includes the hospital
11:06and everybody in it
11:07including the consultants
11:09and the patients
11:10oh the patients
11:11can look after themselves
11:12oh but they can't can they
11:14that's one definition of a patient
11:16don't be so logical
11:18I'm sorry I can't help it
11:19no I can't stand it
11:20I'm sorry
11:21egg and spoon race
11:26brass band concert
11:28amateur talent quest
11:30grand raffle
11:32prize one saving certificate
11:34all the fascinating delights of exotic liverpool
11:40holidays at home
11:43oh god I'm so sick of it
11:45mind you
11:58it all depends on what sort of home you've got
12:00doesn't it
12:01now you've got one with all the comforts of home in it
12:05haven't you
12:05well I thought you liked it
12:06oh I do
12:07I do
12:07don't get me wrong
12:10it's a lovely home
12:12that's just it
12:13can you see me fit into it
12:16well why shouldn't you
12:17because you're a consultant
12:20and I'm a nurse
12:21I love a big gulf
12:23well
12:25there are such things as bridges
12:29do I look like an engineer
12:32oh I know us nurses are supposed to do all the donkey work for you doctors
12:38like section carry spoon feed you
12:41change your luffies
12:43even take the blame when one of your patients dies
12:48oh Frida
12:53I'm sorry I shouldn't have said that
13:03you know I'd like to take you away on a real holiday once all this is over
13:09a wet afternoon in Sefton Park
13:13remember our honeymoon dear
13:16so romantic
13:18lovely afternoon
13:19Thursday wasn't it
13:21yes yes of course
13:22that's the only day he can get away
13:24look Frida I don't pretend to know why you're so bitter
13:26well can't you diagnose
13:27that's a cover-up word for her
13:29guess
13:30but you know
13:31how
13:31am I supposed to be a mind reader as well as a bloody bridge builder
13:34there you see that wasn't very ladylike was it
13:38ladies only say bloody behind locked doors
13:45the word ladies is clearly printed on the door
13:49that's how you tell
13:52now if I could get a word in H-way
13:55anyway you don't need a holiday do you
13:57you've just had one three weeks gadding about
13:59it was not a holiday I was not gadding about
14:02what were you doing then
14:03now look if you can be reasonable
14:05reasonable
14:06three weeks
14:08three whole weeks
14:09he didn't write to me once
14:10not once
14:11not one measly postcard
14:13wish you were here
14:14but having a marvellous time without you
14:16X marks my bed
14:18double papers
14:20look Frida I have said I am sorry
14:22now what more do you want
14:24I mean it I'm just no good at putting things down on paper
14:27you could have written care of the hospital just a few words
14:30oh yes and let everyone know about it
14:32oh I see
14:33you're ashamed of me now are you
14:35I should have known
14:36what do you want me to do about it
14:38shout it from the housetops
14:40alright
14:41I love Peter Ashton
14:43is that what you really want
14:53yes
14:56yes
14:57yes as a matter of fact it is
14:59I should like that very much
15:01if for one moment I believe that you actually meant it
15:04wait are you coming to dinner tomorrow night
15:08where's dad?
15:09he's done the disappearing acts
15:10sensible man
15:11always knew he had his head screwed on the right way
15:12he's done the disappearing acts
15:13sensible man
15:14always knew he had his head screwed on the right way
15:18John
15:19hmm
15:20hmm
15:21hmm
15:22what am I going to do John?
15:23what am I going to do John?
15:24what about?
15:25what about?
15:26I'm going to do John
15:27what about?
15:28I'm going to do John
15:29what about?
15:30about everything
15:32facing facts
15:45I'm going to do John
15:46what about?
15:47about everything
15:48facing facts
15:50I'm going to do John
15:51what about?
15:53What about?
15:55About everything.
15:58Facing facts.
16:00Facts? What facts?
16:03Oh, one in particular.
16:05A hard, black one.
16:09The fact that I borrowed £100 from Edwin Ashton.
16:15Why didn't you tell me?
16:17Oh, there's no point in bothering you.
16:19Bothering me?
16:20I had to screw up my courage to come here today
16:24to tell him that I can't pay him back.
16:27I haven't had a chance.
16:29Not how I'd live to be £100.
16:32Now that I'm here, I can't even look him in the face.
16:35Or you either. Or Margaret.
16:39I said something to her just a minute ago.
16:41Something about going down.
16:45I am not going down. I'm going under.
16:46I'm going under.
16:50Oh, good evening, Mr Briggs.
17:05Come in.
17:06I'm afraid Mr Ashton's just gone out on urgent business.
17:09Yes, I saw him. Paid my respects.
17:12Anyways, you have come to see a young man.
17:15Oh.
17:16Yes.
17:17Well, do come on in.
17:19Margaret's making some tea.
17:20Tea? Is that all the ever drink in this house?
17:23It's all we can get, Mr Briggs.
17:24Oh, good evening.
17:31Good evening.
17:33Yes.
17:35You're not looking so well as you did last time we met.
17:38You should look after yourself a bit better like I do.
17:41Like Mrs Foster does, you mean?
17:43Good evening, Uncle Sefton.
17:44I shan't be needing any tea, thank you, Margaret.
17:46Thank you, Margaret.
17:46I didn't tell you, Dad.
17:52Mr Briggs has come about a new job.
17:55He's very kindly offered me an opening.
17:57Oh, he has?
17:58What?
17:59Yes, I'm thinking of developing the retail side of the business, expanding.
18:04I have a vacancy in accounts and I need somebody with your John's kind of experience.
18:09Yes.
18:11Where's it going to lead, Mr Briggs?
18:12Well, that's rather up to you, isn't it?
18:16You're in a dead-end job now, but after the war, the retail business is going to boom.
18:20Is it?
18:22Doesn't boom sound rather like crash to you?
18:26And it did on Wall Street in 1929.
18:2829 happened to be a very good year for me, young man.
18:31Very good indeed.
18:33It does sound like a bit of a gamble, John.
18:35I don't mind a gamble, Dad.
18:38I just want to be sure it's the right one.
18:42Here we are.
18:44Thanks.
18:45No progress?
18:47No.
18:48David?
18:49Dog in the manger, David.
18:52I've just been having a long chat with my solicitor, Mr Dews.
18:55He told me straight.
18:57Hardly unusual for a solicitor.
18:59What did he tell you?
19:00That there's nothing I can do unless or until David agrees to cooperate.
19:05There's not a thing in the world.
19:06Yes, that's a hard one, all right, getting David to change his mind.
19:09And there's a lot of mule in him, I sometimes think.
19:12All he's got to do is to provide the evidence.
19:15It's not all that easy, you know.
19:17It's easy to talk about, but to do.
19:20What, sleep with a woman, David?
19:23Oh, honest to God, Dad.
19:25I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
19:28David has got to pretend to sleep with a woman
19:31in order not to have any legal right to go on sleeping with me.
19:34Now, that is evidence.
19:34I mean, supposing you had to provide evidence
19:38that you'd been happily married all your life
19:40and that you wanted to go on being happily married
19:42and have that read out in court.
19:44What about that, eh?
19:47Half ruddy Liverpool had failed the test.
19:51I'm seriously thinking of becoming a man-eating myself.
19:54What about you, Frida?
19:57Why?
19:58Well, something awful happened to me last night.
20:01Awful.
20:02Can hardly bring myself to speak about it.
20:03Well, don't you want to hear about it, then?
20:08Well, you know me new boyfriend?
20:10You know where he's got?
20:12My wife and five kids, that's what.
20:14They're all liars.
20:16Can't trust them an inch.
20:17They lead you on, and before you know where you are,
20:19where are you?
20:21Up the creek with no paddles.
20:24And all for a pair of silk stockings
20:25and a mouldy bar of chocolate.
20:27I ask you, was it worth it?
20:30Did the stockings run?
20:32No, but I did.
20:33Miss Ashton, come here a moment.
20:38Mr Mackenzie would like a word with you.
20:40Yes, sister.
20:40Well, did he examine you, then?
21:05What's the verdict?
21:06There isn't one.
21:08What?
21:09I'm not pregnant.
21:12But I thought the doctor was quite definite.
21:14I mean, you'd had tests.
21:16It's like I said, there's always a doubt.
21:20Never been fallible, you know, doctors,
21:22any more than we are.
21:23It's just a comfort to think they are.
21:26Well, does John rule?
21:27Not yet.
21:29Well, he ought to, aren't you?
21:31I mean, it could affect any decision he has to take in the future.
21:33That's tomorrow.
21:35Sufficient unto the day.
21:36Well, when are you going to turn him?
21:42When we're private.
21:45Oh, don't look at me like that.
21:47I will do it soon.
21:51Did he say where he was going?
21:52Out.
21:53Just out?
21:55Yes.
21:58Yes, I'm glad you could come round, lad.
22:02Here we are.
22:07Good luck.
22:08Yes.
22:08Well, have you thought over my offer then?
22:15Yes, Mr. Briggs, I have.
22:17But, um, not right through to the end.
22:20I can seem away so far, but no further.
22:22I see.
22:24You're a slow thinker, aren't you?
22:26But thorough, too, I hope.
22:27You've got to learn to think on your feet this day and age.
22:30Hard and fast, like a boxer in and away.
22:33No, I'm not saying a bit of caution,
22:34a bit of prudence ever comes amiss.
22:36It's unusual, though, in a young man.
22:39Ah, still, fair's fair.
22:42You're quite right to think of everything.
22:45After all, it's your future that's at stake.
22:48Yours and Margaret's.
22:50Not to mention the kiddies.
22:54Look, lad, I've been doing a bit of homework on you.
22:57Oh?
22:58Yes.
22:59I had a quiet word with your Mr. Temple down at the club.
23:02Well, he tells me he thinks your heart really isn't in the city treasurer's.
23:07So now I'll ask you a very simple, very frank question.
23:13Where is it, then?
23:15Well, frankly, I'm not sure that I know.
23:19Besides, I can't quite understand how I can move up with all the regulations and everything.
23:23Oh, there are ways, you know.
23:25Yes, well, I'm sure there are, but...
23:27All's fair in love and business, lad.
23:30I'm like you.
23:31Did you know that?
23:32A thinker.
23:33We're birds of a feather, you and me.
23:35It may not look much like it, but it's underneath that counts, eh?
23:38That's very kind of you to say so, Mr. Briggs.
23:41All the same...
23:42I'm saying that you've got brains.
23:45Well, look to the future.
23:47What do you see?
23:48Yourself in a good job with a good steady salary and wonderful prospects.
23:53Well, what's holding you back?
23:54The control of employment regulations, Mr. Briggs.
23:57I told you to leave that side of it to me.
24:00Trust me, that's all you've got to do.
24:03Hmm.
24:04Well, supposing that the future that you see and the future that I see aren't the same?
24:09Oh, rubbish lad, there's only one future and we're all into together, sink or swim.
24:14The future's tomorrow.
24:15Yes, well, I suppose that's really what I'm trying to say.
24:19What kind of tomorrow?
24:21Look, I want to help you, don't you see that?
24:24I want to help you.
24:26Why, Mr. Briggs?
24:27Well, why?
24:29Well, to be perfectly straight, it'll help us all, won't it?
24:32It's helping the family business and you're part of the family now, John.
24:37Yes, you have been straight with me and I want to be straight with you.
24:41Good, that's what I like to hear in a man.
24:44No nonsense, no bluff.
24:46I'm not absolutely certain that I am the right man for the job.
24:50Let me be the judge of that, eh?
24:52Oh, I know what you're thinking.
24:55You're thinking about your youth, aren't you?
24:57Yes, yes, yes.
24:59Yes, you're inexperienced.
25:00Well, of course, in a way, you're right.
25:02Ideally, I would like to have a more experienced man, a more qualified man.
25:07But I ask you, where am I going to find one?
25:11Well, I think I might be able to help you there, Mr. Briggs.
25:13Thanks.
25:14Thanks.
25:15Thanks.
25:16Thanks.
25:17Thanks.
25:18Thanks.
25:19Thanks.
25:20Thanks.
25:21Thanks.
25:22Thanks.
25:23Thanks.
25:24Thanks.
25:25Thanks.
25:26Thanks.
25:27Thanks.
25:28Thanks.
25:29Thanks.
25:30Thanks.
25:31Thanks.
25:32Thanks.
25:33Thanks.
25:34Thanks.
25:35Thanks.
25:36Thanks.
25:37Thanks.
25:38Thanks.
25:39Thanks.
25:40Thanks.
25:41Thanks.
25:42Thanks.
25:43Thanks.
25:44Thanks.
25:45Thanks.
25:46Thanks.
25:47Thanks.
25:48Thanks.
25:49Thanks.
25:50Thanks.
25:51Thanks.
25:52We've got to keep up appearances, mustn't we?
25:53At all costs.
25:54Must we?
25:56Couldn't that be what does go wrong?
26:00Look.
26:01It's what happens between the two of you when you're alone together that really decides whether
26:05it's going to work or not.
26:07Hm.
26:08We're hardly ever alone, so it's always somebody in the way.
26:11Discovery, I think, mainly.
26:13everyday discovery about someone you think you already know very well from
26:19the inside and they're full of surprises.
26:22Pleasant surprises.
26:24Some are.
26:26Some aren't.
26:29Shouldn't you hurry?
26:31Oh yes.
26:35Well thanks Mags.
26:37You've helped me make up my mind.
26:39Hey wait a minute.
26:41Well I've seen him tonight.
26:43I'll tell him then.
26:44Now just stay there for one moment.
26:46What has been happening between you two?
26:48Oh the usual.
26:49We had a flaming row last night that's all.
26:51Just like a real married couple in fact.
26:58Bye.
27:11Hello.
27:15Who's chasing her?
27:17Hitler in person with a bayonet.
27:19Well she's either running very hard towards someone or even harder away from herself.
27:24Hmm.
27:25What?
27:26Why do women talk in riddles?
27:28Where's dad?
27:29He's in there.
27:30Look couldn't it wait a minute.
27:31No no I've got something to tell him.
27:33It grows fast.
27:48Only did it last week.
27:50Oh hello John.
27:55Well what have you been up to?
27:57I've been to see Mr Briggs dad about the offer.
28:00Oh yes.
28:01I've told him I would be prepared to work for him.
28:04Did you?
28:05But only under you.
28:08What?
28:11You asked him for a job for me?
28:13Yes in a way.
28:15I told him I'd be prepared to work for him but only if he took you too.
28:20Good God.
28:22What did he say?
28:23Well he's sleeping on it.
28:27What?
28:28Humiliating?
28:29No it wouldn't be.
28:30It's common sense.
28:32Look dad.
28:33I'm trying to help.
28:34I can only help if I face facts not look the other way.
28:37Help?
28:38Well you need it dad.
28:39You've always given it to me when I need it.
28:41I'm just returning it.
28:42That's fair isn't it?
28:43But it's not a debt.
28:44No I know that.
28:46Well?
28:49No I couldn't possibly.
28:52Oh I know you meant it for the best but I couldn't possibly accept that sort of charity.
28:57Dad face it you're broke.
29:00And it's not charity.
29:01I may be broke as you call it but I'm not completely finished.
29:05Where am I?
29:08I told him you were the better man.
29:11I meant it dad.
29:16I mean that he'd met a correction where I found it.
29:19It's common sense to the�� paraan power and fool shop and which he taught me on sale.
29:20Yes.
29:22No actually in a Society of the Meetingdir.
29:29But how did I do these things?
29:31It did prove himself.
29:33In a Siob der eckai thing.
29:35Yeah.
29:36How did he put car on, he said?
29:38I did not jeszcze.
29:40All right here.
29:41There are a lot of training I told him.
29:43that that says half past three that can't be right can it hmm oh no no dear no that stopped
29:59in 1941 went quite a small barn dropped quite a long way away oh they're funny things clots
30:06temperamental they have their own idea of time like some people I could name yes oh one at home's
30:15a bit odd too oh he should have been here by now oh he has his own inner clock and who's to say when
30:24that's wrong what oh yes I'm sorry no idea you haven't done anything wrong have you given the
30:33wrong baby to the wrong mother or something mind you it's easily done hmm they all look the same when
30:40they're one day old Ian looked like Queen Victoria on one of her bad days what were you like me oh I
30:48don't know very ordinary baby I expect no such thing dear to the mother that is mrs. Mackenzie have
30:57your watch hmm yes dear I have my husband gave it me in an absent-minded fit it's upstairs on my bedside
31:07table on top of my gas mask case oh he's forgotten all about me I know he has look dear do sit down
31:16on you're making me feel quite nervous oh I'm sorry don't keep saying you're sorry never apologize never explain
31:26anyway you're not sorry you're angry and so should I be if I were in your shoes they're very nice by the way oh thank you they're very cheap of course
31:38mm-hmm but not nasty that's the main thing no yeah I think Ian is behaving so scandalously that he calls for a drink hmm what'll it be
31:49sherry sherry or sherry that's all there is as if sherry it is well that settles that then
31:58ah there you are
32:03but don't you think
32:06no buts drink up
32:08what
32:09drink it dear
32:11drink it
32:12do you good
32:14drink it's any rate let's hope it can't do any serious harm
32:18although it is wartime Empire type mock Spanish
32:22they treat the grapes with their boots on
32:25cheers
32:27hmm
32:29oh cheers
32:31oh dear
32:33not a very strong swallow for a nurse have you
32:36oh well never mind it'll come with practice
32:39do you think I ought to go no don't be silly
32:45oh now you think I'm silly
32:47all girls in your condition are silly yes they're right and why not pray
32:52and what's my condition do you think
32:54acute indecision advanced otherwise known as cold feet Ian's got it too
33:00has he
33:01mm-hmm
33:02still you know I think we ought to be grateful to Ian for his disgraceful behavior
33:07grateful why
33:08he's given us a cast iron excuse to drown our sorrows
33:12drink up dear come on make the most of it
33:15excuse me
33:25excuse me
33:26excuse me
33:26excuse me
33:27sorry
33:31sorry
33:32I'm sorry was that in the tone
33:37I don't mind standing
33:41I don't know well I expect someone
33:43you sure gin's all right I thought it was supposed to
33:48oh no I just fancy it tonight
33:51I won't do any harm
33:53right
33:53it's nice to get away from time to time
34:01yes
34:04yes very
34:06well I took the morning off this morning
34:10sure
34:11you don't want to go asking for trouble
34:13no no no it's all right
34:14went down to the labor exchange
34:15see what jobs were going
34:16ones I'd be allowed to take
34:18and
34:20and nothing
34:23it'd be funny if it wasn't so frustrating
34:27obviously when work becomes a drudgery
34:29you want to get out
34:31before the war you
34:33there weren't the jobs
34:34and now it's the regulation
34:35well you'll think of something
34:37oh
34:38yes I hope so
34:40I think there's one
34:43just she's just gone
34:45thanks very much
34:49anyway this
34:56this security
34:57is it all that safe
34:58I mean take dad for example
35:00he dug himself into a rut
35:02it's turned into his grave almost
35:03yes
35:04yes I like your dad very much
35:07I wish something could be done
35:09I'll take it to Michelle
35:10yes
35:11well I'm ready for another
35:14what about you
35:14um
35:15will it be bad for the baby
35:16there's going to be one
35:19what
35:20I'm not pregnant
35:22doctor made a mistake
35:26he gave me another examination
35:28what
35:30what
35:31what did he say
35:32three times
35:33well he said
35:36I may never be able to have babies again
35:40do you help me something went wrong
35:43on the inside
35:44when I had that lats
35:45what you mean
35:47what you mean the time before
35:54when you lost the other
35:56yes
35:57oh poor love
36:02do you feel alright
36:04that's the main thing
36:05yes yes I'm fine
36:06it's just a bit disappointed
36:09I don't know what to say really
36:22except that I'm sorry
36:23why don't you tell me before though
36:26I couldn't get a word in could I
36:29won't you have soap here talking his head off
36:31I'd like to hear you I do really
36:33I mean it makes a change doesn't it
36:35usually I'm the one
36:36anyway
36:38you won't have to worry about a large family now
36:41when you're looking around for another job will you
36:43couldn't you
36:45take a risk
36:46what do you mean
36:47well he was he was definite was he the doctor
36:49oh well fairly I mean you know what I'm about
36:52yes well
36:53he's made one mistake he could have made another
36:56there's only one way to find out isn't there
37:00try again
37:02yes
37:03yes
37:05as you know
37:13he always forgets my birthday
37:15regular as clockwork
37:17it's the only thing I can really rely on him to do
37:20and what do you do when he dies
37:22forget to remind him he's forgotten
37:25yeah have some more
37:27taste grows on you after about five
37:30you're too far gone to care
37:32do you know you make him sound quite different
37:37nicer
37:39mmm
37:40more human in a way
37:42good that's the idea
37:45well now before he comes in
37:47if he ever does come in
37:49I think there's one other little thing
37:52I ought to tell you about him
37:53in the strictest confidence of course
37:55oh what's that
37:56well do you remember you said that sometimes you felt his mind wasn't quite on you
38:02yes
38:04well don't you know where it is at those times
38:07no I wish I did where
38:09on other women
38:11what
38:13it's perfectly straightforward dear
38:15I merely said that my son cannot keep his mind off other women it's the most natural thing in the world to a man like Ian
38:21his father was just the same
38:23you'll just have to learn to live with it dear I did
38:26other women
38:28hmm
38:29well
38:30how many
38:32well it varies
38:33never less than a couple of hundred
38:36there are the outpatients
38:37and the others are in
38:38and you and I
38:40well we're just the in-betweens
38:42oh my dear
38:44Edwin
38:48yeah
38:49do you mind if I ask you an unfair question
38:52it depends
38:53what is it
38:56do you see yourself as a failure
38:59well
39:01now it um
39:03how do you mean exactly
39:05I mean
39:06there are so many ways a man can be a failure
39:08father
39:10husband
39:11lover
39:12breadwinner
39:13no as a man
39:14oh the whole thing you mean
39:16yes
39:16well sometimes I do
39:19sometimes I don't
39:20I'm not trying to dodge the question Harry
39:23but as Jode would say
39:24it all depends what you mean by a man
39:26why
39:27it's um
39:28it's the money
39:29the hundred pounds
39:31I can't pay you back
39:34unless something
39:36happens
39:36some miracle
39:37I shall never be able to pay you back
39:39I see
39:40there's um
39:41nowhere at all
39:43none that I can see
39:44I'm earning less money now
39:47but we're still spending the same
39:48and the equation just doesn't work out eh
39:50no
39:51then there's my health to us
39:53you know I'm none too well
39:54well but none of us getting any younger
39:57I'm just dreading the day that I'm not
40:01laid off for a younger man
40:02and have to have scraped by on a pension
40:04from bread and miles to bread and dripping eh
40:07and then just dry bread
40:09I know
40:10it's bread and butter for Celia
40:12best butter
40:13do you know I think I'm almost more afraid
40:17breaking it to her than I was to you
40:19are you afraid of me
40:21oh come on Harry
40:22I mean
40:22we're both men of an age
40:25I was a fool to ask you for it in the first place
40:27but I was desperate
40:28I honestly believed I could pay it back
40:30I honestly did
40:31I hope you believe that
40:33I never doubted your sincerity for a moment
40:36I couldn't stop hoping
40:37could I hoping that something would turn up
40:39I don't know what
40:40hoping against hope I suppose
40:43well certainly against probability
40:45let's put it like that
40:46look Harry
40:53stop eating your insides out about the money
40:56I won't pretend it's nothing
40:58it's a hundred pounds
41:00it's a hell of a lot
41:01it could go towards financing my dreams
41:05but first
41:06I'll settle for reality
41:08you look after yourself first and foremost
41:11get yourself straight
41:12then we'll see
41:14we'll work something out
41:16yes but what
41:16well I don't know
41:17I'm not in charge of the future
41:19hope to God somebody is
41:21hoping against hope
41:23it's stupid
41:25it's irrational
41:26it's mad even
41:26you know what I think
41:27what
41:27it's the only thing that makes life bearable
41:31well look if you're expecting this
41:33now stay where you are
41:34now stay where you are
41:35whoever it is
41:36they can take us as they find us
41:38good evening
42:06well
42:06good evening
42:08perhaps I'd better come back
42:11sit yourself down
42:12and make yourself at home
42:13John won't be long
42:14I promise you
42:16so there you are at last
42:23what?
42:28oh yes
42:29nurse Ashton
42:31nurse Ashton
42:32nurse Ashton
42:34oh dear
42:35what have I said now?
42:36oh Ian
42:37you might have had the decency to phone
42:39phone who?
42:40what about?
42:41is it important?
42:42no no
42:42no
42:43not the least
42:43it's just that you've kept your mother and your
42:45you've kept us waiting
42:47Freda
42:48I'm a doctor
42:51not a tram
42:52I do not and cannot run to a timetable
42:55I do what I can
42:57when I'm called wherever I'm needed
42:59is that quite clear?
43:01yes I'm sorry
43:03Ian what's happened?
43:06I lost a patient
43:10no that's not right
43:12a woman died
43:14she was a woman
43:15not a patient
43:16who?
43:19the one with the septic womb
43:21and as if that wasn't quite enough to be going on with
43:29matron herself waylaid me on the way out
43:32and regaled me with the horrible details of her complaint
43:35you
43:36me?
43:37well not just you specifically
43:39the whole giggling idle lot of you
43:42the nurses
43:43nurses of the world unite
43:46you have nothing to lose but your bedpans
43:48she's got a nerve
43:50she paralyzes mine
43:51I don't mind telling you
43:52I'm sorry about tonight
43:54I hadn't forgotten
43:54truly I hadn't
43:55oh that's all right
43:56forget it
43:57oh terrible advice to give a doctor with amnesia
43:59well what can you expect from a woman
44:01if not terrible advice
44:02oh
44:03do you know the most profound question
44:05ever asked by the most profound doctor
44:07one Sigmund Freud
44:08Freud said
44:10I have been practicing psychiatry for 30 years
44:13and I have only one question
44:15what do women want?
44:17I know what this woman wants
44:20dinner
44:21oh
44:22a communique just received from General Koenig
44:26announces that it has been liberated by French forces of the interior
44:30the National Council of Resistance
44:33and the Paris Committee of Liberation
44:35in agreement with representatives of the provisional government of the republic
44:39decreed a general rising in Paris
44:41stay away yourself and save your legs
44:44let the young ones come to you
44:46don't go chasing after them
44:47oh hello John
44:51oh hello Mr. Briggs
44:52hello Dan
44:53well you should have come with us
44:55had a nice little drink
44:56drink
44:57well he's entitled to a drink if he feels like one
44:59he's a working man and is a free country
45:01so they say in the papers
45:02which aren't free of course
45:04I find things look a lot clearer
45:06through the bottom of an empty glass
45:08don't you find that Mr. Briggs
45:09just my point John
45:10beats a crystal ball any day of the week
45:13isn't it?
45:15Margaret in the kitchen
45:15yes sir she's making some cocoa
45:18well I think I'll go and phone your mother
45:22she'll be wondering where I am
45:24you know what she is
45:25well lad
45:33we better get one thing quite clear
45:35there's only one job
45:37and it's a job for a young man
45:39ah
45:41yes well
45:42that makes things a lot easier for me
45:45see I've talked it over thoroughly with Margaret
45:49and I think and she agrees with me
45:50that I should stay where I am
45:53thanks all the same
45:54the city treasury
45:56well
45:58you'll regret it that's all I can say
46:02I must be getting old
46:08well I shall go and get on with the dishes
46:22and leave you two in peace and quiet
46:24oh by the way
46:26I forgot to tell you
46:27Mary's coming next week
46:29what
46:29what
46:30you know the trouble with you two don't you
46:33what
46:34you can't take a joke
46:36oh you
46:37oh night
46:48I hate them
46:51can't wait for them to end
46:53still may not last that long this week
46:56well let's hope that's the position we can reverse
46:59nurse
47:00is that a proposal
47:01no no suggestion
47:03hmm
47:04the improper one by the sound of it then
47:07great moments in a girl's life
47:10my first proper improper suggestion by a real life consultant
47:15you are still alive aren't you
47:21what
47:21oh yes sorry
47:23nodding off
47:25bored
47:26thinking
47:27about
47:28about us
47:30the future
47:32oh what about it
47:34well it's difficult
47:37you can't be specific about the future
47:40because you can't imagine it in any detail
47:42you've just got to take your hopes and carve them into
47:46rough shapes
47:48so
47:52it would be very wrong of me
47:54to try and make you believe that I can plan happiness because I can't
47:58you just have to
48:00oh hell
48:01it's all coming out wrong
48:03all the things I've wanted to say to you
48:05I've forgotten
48:06never mind
48:08you just have to take my word for it
48:10it's all in here
48:12but I don't seem able to get it out
48:13not much good with words I'm afraid
48:16it's better with my hands
48:18hmm they're shaking did you know
48:20what?
48:25Frida
48:26hmm
48:27I know I've failed once
48:29failed?
48:30how do you mean?
48:32I don't see you as a failure
48:33you're the most successful person I know
48:35in fact you're the only successful person I know
48:38I'm a failed husband
48:39oh come on now
48:40you're too hard on yourself
48:42it wasn't all on one side
48:44these things never are
48:45but did I do everything I could to save it
48:48you see the trouble is you can't analyse marriages
48:52so you go on wondering about them
48:53I'm not even sure I've got the right to think about marrying again
48:58do you know what they do in the RAF in cases like this
49:03no one
49:03no it's simple
49:05when a pilot crashes they send him straight back up in the air again
49:08don't you think it should be like that with marriage
49:12or would you prefer a second opinion
49:16Frida
49:19would you
49:23yes he is
49:27yes
49:29I've never wanted anything so much in all my life
49:31nor me
49:34oh good
49:37I'm glad that settled at last
49:40may I?
49:41oh yes
49:41I thought he'd never get around to it
49:44he's very indecisive for a surgeon
49:46oh well I'll go again
49:48I'm sure I'll be wanting to lay plans
49:49is it an early wedding?
49:50oh good
49:51I'm so glad you're being sensible at last
49:54hi Dan
49:54cocoa for the Ashton family
50:02dad
50:03ah thanks Luke
50:05the Ashton family
50:07look at us
50:08half is trying to come together
50:09the other half trying to split up
50:11family
50:13what is that
50:14a lot of strangers
50:15and a head-on collision
50:17a little box of her house
50:18intimate strangers
50:21we don't have privacy
50:22we have grubby little secrets
50:25secret lives like worms in the ground
50:29I bet that's Frida
50:34she's another one
50:35she's longing to get married
50:36and she's terrified to take the plunge
50:38if she goes straight upstairs
50:40I bet it's all off
50:40if she comes in here
50:41congratulations Frida
50:44oh thank you
50:46you quite took the wind out of my sails
50:49yes
50:49yes
50:51yes I'm getting married soon daddy
50:55oh yes
50:57anyone we know
50:58Ian
51:00Ian McKenzie
51:02nice man
51:04funny man
51:06oh I'm so tired
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