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00:00.
00:30Is anybody at home?
00:39Oh, hello, Frida.
00:40I've got you in at last.
00:42I came round on Monday, but you weren't.
00:44Hey, haven't you ever thought of getting that front door so close?
00:47Well, David was going to do that.
00:49David?
00:49Yeah, about six years ago.
00:51Oh.
00:53Hey, what's all this then?
00:55Oh, I'm just packing a few bits and pieces.
00:57Hey, he looks as if he's seen better days.
00:59Yeah, no, that was Peter's.
01:01He left it behind when he went away, but he never asked for it,
01:03so I never gave it to him.
01:05Keeps me company now instead, don't you?
01:08Hey, do you say you're packing?
01:09Well, going through the motions.
01:11The what?
01:12The big moon.
01:14You never said.
01:16Well, then I suppose I haven't seen you for a while since I got married.
01:20I wonder why Dad didn't tell me.
01:22I was round there last night.
01:23That's why I came round.
01:24We were talking about you.
01:25Yeah, no, he worries about me, doesn't he,
01:26if I don't go round there at least once a week.
01:27He's about the only person who does apart from your mother.
01:31And me.
01:32Oh, come on now.
01:34Why should you worry about me?
01:35You've got enough troubles of your own now.
01:36You've got a husband and a job and...
01:38Oh, I've got it cushy.
01:39I have and I know it.
01:41I need someone to worry about.
01:44So when is this big move taking place then?
01:47Oh, um, sometime.
01:50Where to?
01:52I don't know.
01:54Oh, Frida, have you got any ideas?
01:56Like that, is it?
01:58Yes, it's just that, I don't know, I've been thinking about moving for years,
02:02so I thought, well, if I start and pack a few things,
02:05something actually might happen.
02:07I mean, look at the stuff I'm taking.
02:10It's pathetic.
02:12Janet's old shoes that she grew out of before she'd hardly worn them.
02:16Should have thrown them away years ago.
02:18Here I am on the edge of a divorce.
02:20I don't know, some women never give up, do they?
02:23It's just that I would have liked another baby, really.
02:27You'd never have thought it, though, the way I used to keep on it, David.
02:30Just stop.
02:31No money for three, though, was there?
02:33Well, not to look too late, anyway.
02:34Are you taking the old shelter with you?
02:40Well, you can keep chickens in it.
02:42Do you remember there are raids in Mayweek when you mean Doris slept in it?
02:45Oh, yeah.
02:46How is she, by the way?
02:48Doris?
02:48I don't really know.
02:50Haven't seen much of her, have I?
02:53So, what's the news, then?
02:54Oh, well, my solicitor has written to that girl.
02:58You know, the one that had David's baby.
03:00Oh, yeah.
03:01And we're waiting to hear from her.
03:03To see if she'll give evidence?
03:05Yes.
03:06Oh, I'd have thought you'd been through enough of that, haven't you?
03:08Go through all this.
03:09I mean, if I want a divorce, Freda, which I do, then I've got to go through with it, haven't I?
03:14Mm.
03:18Hey!
03:19Why don't you come and stay with us for a couple of days?
03:22I mean, you could go off to work in the mornings, and then we'd see you in the evenings.
03:25It'd be fun for both of us.
03:27What, fun for Ian?
03:29Don't you think you'd better ask him first?
03:30Oh, I'll tell him.
03:31You may not like it, but I'll tell him.
03:33Ian, I'll say.
03:35Remember that time you asked me why I didn't have a friend to stay?
03:38He didn't, but he's got a memory like a sieve.
03:41You can do almost anything with a man, as long as you make him think it's his idea.
03:47Who started it, anyway?
03:49He did.
03:50Yes, I did, actually.
03:51Well, if you can't discuss politics without raising your voices, I suggest you finish the argument.
03:55Well, the daft thing is, we're both on the same side, I think.
03:57Yes, well, you're heading for a split in the ranks, so you'd better call it a day.
04:01Anyway, a coalition would never work in peacetime.
04:03Don't always want the last word.
04:05Yeah.
04:06And if you're going to stand on your dignity, hadn't you better wait till you put your trousers on?
04:10Well, Captain, move on and finish them, then.
04:12Go on.
04:13You know you love wandering around in your underwear.
04:16Ever since I told him that Marjorie said he had nice legs.
04:18Oh, you didn't.
04:20I did.
04:21Mummy.
04:22What love?
04:22Not what you did.
04:24Sorry.
04:25She's never seen my legs.
04:26Last September at the baths, hasn't he got nice legs for a man, she said.
04:31Can't see what she sees in them myself and why I ever told you.
04:34Oh, well, I'd better cover them up, then, hadn't I?
04:37Could I, please?
04:38Right, here you are, exhibitionist.
04:39They're good enough for Marjorie, then.
04:41Well.
04:42Why anyone cares what a man's legs look like, anyway, I don't know.
04:45Well, obviously, Marjorie does.
04:47Well, she's after anything in trousers.
04:48Without trousers, you mean, don't you?
04:51And I always believed she was one of those intelligent socialists.
04:55You know, someone who actually does something about it, like being on all those committees
04:59and so on.
05:00Well, she's not stupid.
05:02Just man mad.
05:03It is practically an all-male world, and that's what really interests Marjorie.
05:06It's a social institution, like going to a club.
05:09Does that, too, you know.
05:10Drinks beer in pints, laughs at the jokes.
05:12Well, you should know she's your friend.
05:13Well, um, I don't see much of that side of her.
05:16We discuss teaching, mostly.
05:18And how do you know so much, anyway?
05:21Oh, a bloke on the committee called me in one night having some problem with the accounts.
05:26Yeah, she was standing at the bar, surrounded.
05:28If they'd get stuck into some work, they wouldn't need to drag in outsiders to sort out the problems.
05:33Need a bit of dedication at a time like this.
05:36There's a new world coming.
05:38Well, it sounds to me as if you ought to have got involved yourself, John.
05:40Just what I was going to say.
05:42Well, aren't you one of the ones who does something about it?
05:45I'll go.
05:47She's got you cornered there.
05:49All right, it'll do you good.
05:50Anyway, take your mind off the treasurer's department.
05:54Well, aren't you going to put them on after all the trouble I've taken?
05:58Legs, sir?
06:00Hello, Tony.
06:01Hello, Uncle Owen.
06:02Where have you been hiding?
06:03I haven't seen you since, um, let's see, Frida's wedding.
06:06Yes, I got her 48 hours in a couple of months ago.
06:09I didn't manage to get around so much.
06:10Well, come along in.
06:11I shouldn't go in the living room.
06:12John's got his trousers off.
06:13Come in the kitchen, have a chat.
06:15Right.
06:17What a romantic couple we are.
06:20Are we?
06:22Well, I keep making all these romantic suggestions,
06:25and you appear not to hear me.
06:28Hmm?
06:28I said, why not put out the light so he can sit in the firelight?
06:34Well, I couldn't see to read this, then, could I?
06:36Were you always so damn practical, Mrs Mackenzie?
06:40Oh, I've, uh, I've asked Sheila to come stay, by the way.
06:58Oh?
06:58Oh?
07:00You've asked, or you intend to ask?
07:01I've asked?
07:03Well, why?
07:04I thought you said I ought to have a friend stay now and again.
07:07Well, she's not really one of the family, is she?
07:11Oh.
07:12I'm sorry, I didn't know you stipulated it should be a blood relative.
07:15Well, no, no, it's just that I find her a bit difficult to talk to, that's all.
07:19Well, no problem.
07:19I'll do the talking and you can chew your pipe.
07:22She's in a state of acute depression and I feel responsible for her.
07:26Oh, because of David?
07:27Yes.
07:27And don't tell me I'm not my brother's keeper because she already has.
07:33You're a bit like Tony, aren't you?
07:35In what way?
07:37A bit of a snob.
07:38Oh, come on.
07:40Why can't you have the grace to admit it?
07:42He did.
07:42It's just that I find her a bit difficult to talk to.
07:44Look, she's very nice.
07:47And she's deserved a much better life than our David's given her.
07:49No, I don't dispute that.
07:50And if she isn't as respectful to you as you're used to some of the nurses being.
07:53It depends which nurse.
07:54Well, we can't all be consultants and be treated like God.
07:56No, I did suggest that she should treat me like...
07:58Look, I've asked her to come from state for a week.
08:01So you'll be able to try very hard to get to know her, won't you?
08:09Oh, damn blast.
08:30Oh, who's that?
08:33I'm from Clark and Osgood.
08:35Oh, oh, look, it's locked.
08:37Now, if you go four doors down, there's a ginnel.
08:40Then four gates back and you'll come to the backyard.
08:43Oh, I hope.
08:44Here is the news.
08:46And this is Alvar Liddell, read it.
08:503,650 British and American planes
08:53have been out in the latest raids on targets in Germany.
08:58Dresden, less than 75 miles ahead of the advancing Russians,
09:02was blasted by 800 heavies of bomber command during the night.
09:06The Americans went there as well.
09:09Hello.
09:10Sorry about the door.
09:11Come in.
09:12I'm Mr. Osgood's clerk.
09:13He asked me to call.
09:14It's more or less on my way home, you see.
09:15Dresden, I filled this basket so full now I can't lift it.
09:18Do you think you could give me a hand with it, Mr. Clark?
09:20There isn't a Mr. Clark.
09:22I'm Mr. Osgood's clerk.
09:24My name's Turner, actually.
09:26Understandable confusion.
09:28Shall I take this one?
09:29Yes, would you?
09:30Thanks.
09:31Oh, it is heavy, isn't it?
09:32I packed the flat irons in it, you see.
09:36Thank you very much.
09:37Oh, a bit of a cheek asking you, really.
09:42Oh, that's all right.
09:44We'll put it on the bill.
09:46Oh.
09:47I'm joking.
09:50Um, would you like a cup of tea?
09:52No, thanks.
09:53My wife expected me half an hour ago.
09:56Well...
09:56Mr. Osgood wondered if you'd heard from Mrs. Gartside.
09:59Mrs. Gartside?
10:01Mrs. Peggy Gartside, the woman your husband had the child by.
10:03Oh, yes, just a minute.
10:04We wrote to her son two weeks ago asking if she'd be willing to make a statement for the divorce proceedings.
10:10We hadn't heard and we wondered if she'd written to you, direct.
10:13No.
10:14No, she hasn't.
10:15No, I don't even know that she's got my address.
10:18Oh, dear.
10:19Looks like she's not going to help, doesn't it?
10:22Well, there's still time, of course.
10:23Yeah, but you don't think so.
10:25It's not very likely.
10:27But it always was a bit of a long chance.
10:29I mean, she's married.
10:31There's the child.
10:32Well, her husband isn't going to be very keen, is he?
10:35No.
10:37Anyway, I'll tell Mr. Osgood, and if there's no further development, we'll have to proceed accordingly.
10:42Yes.
10:44Well, thank you for coming, anyway.
10:45I'll probably see you at the office sometime.
10:47Yes.
10:48And I'm sorry about using this door.
10:51We did that to stop the draft about five or six years ago, and it's a stoplight ever since...
10:54It'll stop any unwelcome visitors, anyway.
10:57Oh, I don't get many of those living on me own.
11:00No.
11:01No, I'm sure.
11:03Good night, Mrs. Ashton.
11:04Good night, Mr. Clarke.
11:05Turner.
11:06Sorry.
11:07Sorry.
11:07I don't get any of those living on me.
11:37Oh, hey, Mr. Clarke.
11:45Good night.
12:07Tom!
12:11Hi.
12:12Tea.
12:13Coming.
12:14Come on!
12:29Mummy?
12:34Yes, chick?
12:36What's that, Mummy?
12:38Oh, it's only the wind, chick.
12:40Can I bring you one up in a minute?
12:44It's the devil of a wind blowing for the shipping.
12:48It's coming down from the roof.
12:51I'll have to see if I can do something about that.
12:54Junie just said she could hear noises.
12:57I hope they can get the tractor starter in the morning.
13:02I'm unpacking the last chest.
13:05Has my great jersey turned up?
13:07Oh, yes, I'll put it over there.
13:09It's a bleak old country this time of year.
13:15It didn't look like this when we saw it in the summer, did it?
13:19The house is cosy, though.
13:21Aye.
13:23Aye.
13:25Thanks for you.
13:35Sounds good.
13:43Tom?
13:44Aye.
13:45I had a letter the other week, before we moved, from a solicitor.
13:52Yes?
13:54Well, they were writing for David Ashton's wife.
13:57She's trying to divorce him and she wanted me...
14:00Oh, they wanted me to give some kind of evidence.
14:04What kind of evidence?
14:06Evidence about me having his child?
14:12Oh, yes.
14:15I didn't say anything at the time cos I didn't see much point.
14:18I wrote and said I couldn't.
14:20Well, I wrote to her, actually.
14:23Yeah?
14:25I've been worrying about it.
14:27Why?
14:28Whether I did the right thing or not.
14:30You've suffered enough from that man.
14:32I wasn't thinking of him.
14:34I was thinking of her.
14:35Chaps like that.
14:38Flashy uniforms.
14:39Big ideas.
14:43It's not just chaps like him that went in the war, you know.
14:45Some of us have to keep the other things going.
14:47Hard work.
14:48No medals.
14:50I don't care tappence about him, Tom.
14:52You know that.
14:54I was thinking of her.
14:55She suffered too, you know.
14:58Let him take care of his own.
15:00Like I do mine.
15:03You want me to leave it like that, then?
15:05It's up to you, isn't it?
15:07I want to do what you think's best.
15:10Best left alone, then, isn't it?
15:13Yes.
15:14I suppose so.
15:16Best forgotten.
15:18Yes.
15:19Best forgotten.
15:22Mummy!
15:23Oh, hello, love.
15:24Hello, Tony.
15:25I'm just on my way to do the washing up.
15:26Oh.
15:27Volunteered.
15:28We've got a visitor.
15:29Oh, dear.
15:30Have I come at the wrong time?
15:31Who do you want to see?
15:32Well, nobody's special.
15:33I just want somebody to talk to, really.
15:34Oh.
15:35Do I come up to specification?
15:36Um, yes.
15:37Yes, yes.
15:38I should think so.
15:39Right, into the kitchen.
15:40One good turn deserves another.
15:41No, what we really need is a bit of sex appeal.
15:42Why don't you show a leg?
15:43Shut up.
15:44Well, I didn't like to mention it, but we are short of a treasurer.
15:46With sex appeal?
15:47There you are.
15:48Figures.
15:49Right up your street.
15:50Yeah, well, I mean, I'd like to help...
15:51You've got yourself a treasurer.
15:52Well, hey, hey, hey, hang on a minute.
15:53You know, that's what I like about my husband.
15:54He always practices what he preaches.
15:55He's always ranting on about people who just talk and don't do anything.
15:58When he gets the chance to actually do something himself, what does he do?
15:59He does it.
16:00He does it.
16:01No.
16:02No.
16:03No.
16:04No.
16:05No.
16:06No.
16:07No.
16:08No.
16:09No.
16:10No.
16:11No.
16:12No.
16:13No.
16:14No.
16:15No.
16:16No.
16:17No.
16:18No.
16:19No.
16:20No.
16:21That's it.
16:22Don't you, John?
16:23Try getting out of that one.
16:24Well, I...
16:25Here come the excuses.
16:26No.
16:27Why don't you volunteer?
16:28Me?
16:29With my reactionary tendencies, as Philip would say.
16:31Yeah, you wouldn't get Philip just paying lip service.
16:34He'd be up on both legs doing something.
16:37It's just a laugh to you, isn't it?
16:39Oh, no.
16:40No, of course it isn't.
16:41It'd be a nice little hobby for you.
16:43Oh, a nice little hobby, I see.
16:45There's something to take my mind off the fact that I'm bored stiff with my job.
16:48Is that a good reason to get involved in politics?
16:50There's no reason at all.
16:52Well, the only reason to get involved in politics today is to...
16:55is to try and make more sense out of life after the war than...
16:59Thanks.
17:00...than we did before it.
17:01There's one thing that spurs me on, though.
17:03Thought of your Uncle Sefton's face if the Socialists get...
17:06Get in.
17:07Now, what was it he said?
17:08They're not educated men.
17:09What rubbish?
17:10Which university did he go to?
17:12Ah, hey, hey, hey, please.
17:14That's something he's not learnt.
17:16Thanks.
17:17Never underestimate the opposition.
17:18We could do with you on the platform.
17:20Never mind the books.
17:21Hmm?
17:22Oh, no, you're wrong.
17:24I'll be absolutely useless.
17:27What I've read about politics wouldn't fill an air graph.
17:31Just like all the other Joes, I...
17:33I get a bit mad sometimes when I'm not too tired to think.
17:37It's worked well, though, isn't it?
17:40Keeping us too tired, too hungry, too worried about paying the rent.
17:43Oh, the...
17:44Is it?
17:45Oh, you just think about it some time.
17:47Well, if that's all you're going to be able to come up with,
17:49maybe you'd better not bother.
17:50Look, if you want to read some books,
17:52I've got all the Left Book Club stuff at home.
17:54Yours for the asking.
17:55Hmm, thanks.
17:56I'll take you up on that.
17:57He won't keep it up, you know.
17:58Yes, I will.
17:59If I ever feel I'm flagging, I'll think of Uncle Sefton,
18:01who never went short on scotch or bacon or clothing coupons
18:04when we were all on short rations.
18:06Here, here.
18:07What do you think you had for breakfast this morning?
18:08He brought it last week.
18:09Wouldn't take no for an answer.
18:10Well, nobody gave him no for an answer.
18:11I suppose you'd rather have gone without.
18:13Yes, I bloody well would.
18:15Well, you've got to give him credit for one thing.
18:17He does have a function in life,
18:18even if it is only to create an aggressive opposition.
18:22He'll only have himself to blame if we do get in.
18:30Here we are, then.
18:31Is that a lot of words?
18:33Yes, apart from a couple of sunbeams on the table.
18:37Eh?
18:38A couple of plates nobody's used.
18:40Oh.
18:43So what would you do, chum?
18:46A day or a day.
18:48Oh, come on.
18:49No, Tony.
18:50I'm serious.
18:51Yeah, I know you are, love.
18:52You really do want this divorce, don't you?
18:55Oh, yes.
18:56More than I could ever have imagined possible five or six years ago.
19:01I must be one of your wartime statistics, I think.
19:04It's becoming quite fashionable, isn't it?
19:06Well, if you want it, you need the evidence.
19:10You could go and see her, of course.
19:13Wouldn't be very pleasant, would it?
19:15David's child.
19:17I'm sorry if it upsets you, love, but you've got to think what it's going to be like.
19:21I have thought.
19:22But it's the only way, isn't it?
19:24Are you sure you wouldn't like to look at this?
19:43Okay, thank you.
19:45Er, some new developments concerning my profession.
19:50Oh!
19:51It's terribly rude of me, I'll put it away.
19:54Oh, no, that's all right.
19:55I don't mind.
19:56I'm nearly finished.
19:59Oh, reading's prohibited.
20:01Conversation isn't.
20:02Especially with guest friends.
20:03Oh, Frida, come on, I don't mind.
20:05Well, I do.
20:06Can't you two think of anything to talk about?
20:08Oh, well, it's something to do with this work, you see.
20:11Well, he has got five minutes before he goes to work,
20:14and he has got to change his suit before then.
20:17Why?
20:18Because I'm taking it to the cleaners on my way in.
20:21Oh.
20:22Right, I'm going to get my moment to go with it.
20:25I bet you can't get a word in age-wise, can you?
20:28I'm sorry, I just don't seem to be a sort of talkative bloke.
20:32Oh, he's all right.
20:33Frida thinks I should be.
20:35She carries on conversations while she's walking around.
20:38In a house this size, she's out of earshot half the time.
20:41Yeah.
20:42Yes, sir.
20:43It is a big house, isn't it?
20:44No, it's too big.
20:45Make a damn good nursing home, as a matter of fact.
20:47Yes.
20:48Frida doesn't want to move.
20:49Hasn't got over the novelty of living here yet.
20:51Until she gives up work and has to do the cleaning.
20:54That's what I keep telling you.
20:56Do you?
20:57Good for you.
20:58Keep it up, will you?
20:59I can't wait to get into somewhere sensible.
21:00Oh.
21:01Well, my face is coming empty, you can tell her.
21:03Oh, that's interesting.
21:04How big is that?
21:06Oh, just about right for you two, I think.
21:09Hasn't she told you about it?
21:11No, no, she hasn't.
21:12Will it be all right if I mention it?
21:13Yes, yes, you do that.
21:14You tell her I told you.
21:16Do you know it takes me a whole day to mow the lawn here?
21:18Oh, shocking.
21:19Well, look, you ask her to bring you around, right?
21:21Or I could give you the key.
21:23Yes, I will.
21:24Yeah, I'd better go and get changed.
21:25Takes me five minutes to walk through this room.
21:27Good heavens, they're talking.
21:28Yeah, I was just telling him about my house coming empty.
21:30He thinks that you and him might be interested in it,
21:32so if I write the address down, he can go round.
21:35Yes, I could call on my way to work.
21:37Yes.
21:38Or on the way back.
21:39Don't forget to tell him to go round the back.
21:41Oh, yes, yes.
21:42And the key goes in upside down.
21:44Oh, it sounds quaint.
21:45Yes, it is sort of quaint, isn't it, Sheila?
21:47It might be just the place we're looking for.
21:48Yes, just the place to bring up children
21:50and put you right off living here, Ian.
21:52Yes, well, I'd better go and get changed.
21:54Well, hello, David.
21:55Hello, mate.
21:56On leave?
21:57Yes.
21:58Just a week.
21:59Did they know you're coming?
22:00No, I didn't know myself until yesterday.
22:06I thought I'd spend a few days at home with the old man and then go and see the kids.
22:13Mm-hmm.
22:14You don't know where Sheila is, do you?
22:15Well, she's staying with us, actually.
22:16She's gone out for the day, why?
22:17Did you want to see her?
22:18No, no.
22:19No, I don't know where she's coming.
22:20No, no, no, no.
22:21Yeah.
22:22No, no, no, no.
22:23No, no, no, no.
22:24No, I didn't know anything.
22:25So I don't know where she is.
22:26No.
22:27It's been out of the day, man.
22:28I didn't know where she is coming?
22:29Then, yes, just a week.
22:30I didn't know you're coming.
22:31you don't happen to know where sheila is do you well she's staying with us
22:36actually but she's gone out for the day why did you want to see her no no I
22:41just I just came around to pick up a few odds and sods you know what are you
22:48doing here anyway ah well they were pulling my leg
22:52Frieda and Sheila I've never been here before you see and Sheila said she'd be
22:57leaving here soon leaving where's she going now she didn't say it's just that
23:04Frieda and I were thinking of buying a place I've always wanted to move into
23:07somewhere smaller you see and a big joke eh well it was intended to be yeah well
23:14it's no joke living here mate believe you me no I was gonna say I think perhaps it
23:19was intended to have serious undertones so when are you and Frieda going to start
23:25a family then I don't know sometime I suppose you were lucky though weren't
23:32you lucky yes you didn't have children my first marriage otherwise you've been
23:38stuck with it well we wanted them actually and they just didn't happen
23:44maybe if it had well you all seem to try harder when there's children involved
23:48don't you oh god I'm sorry this must be very painful for you no no I uh I think
23:54you're right I think you do try a bit harder but not always hard enough it seems
24:18I've made some tea do you want it out here or will you come in for it I'll have it out here you can't keep stopping the job every couple of hours for tea never get down will it send Junie with it she's gone down to the bottom of the
24:39meadow with the dog I'd like to go to the shops today any chance tomorrow eh
24:55yes all right then tomorrow
24:58Hey! What about the old man?
25:25It's all right. Coming up then, I don't know. What in patience?
25:29What, you two?
25:31It's not the time I mind the work, love. I've got to get mine and Johnny's ready anyway.
25:35But it's such a rush for you. Is it really worth coming home for dinner?
25:39What? I didn't say anything.
25:41It's worthy to me just to get away from that place for an hour.
25:44It's a pretty half-term. It doesn't last longer, really.
25:47Well, you'll give yourself indigestion, that's all. Is it all right, then?
25:52When do you start?
25:55Well, start what?
25:57Oh, planning for post-war Britain.
25:59Helping to make a land fit for heroes to live in.
26:04Helping Marjorie at the Labour Club, I mean.
26:07Come on, eat up, or you'll be too tired to go out this afternoon.
26:10You know, it was you that got me into that.
26:12Where are we going? Me?
26:14Where are we going?
26:15You got me into such a state, didn't know what I was saying.
26:18You didn't want to get...
26:19Come on, Helen.
26:20You're going out with your Aunt Helen, now, shut up.
26:22You didn't want to get involved, you mean.
26:24After those long speeches that you made me twice a week.
26:26Well, not with her. It's just socialising to her.
26:28No, you're wrong, dear.
26:29She's as serious about it as you are. More so, perhaps.
26:32Now, the rest is just an act.
26:35Well, er...
26:37I'm not going to do it.
26:40You promised.
26:42Well, I'll just have to say that it was on impulse and, erm...
26:46And I don't want to do it any more and...
26:48And that's that.
26:50It's all right.
26:51She'll be sorry she ever took a fancy to your legs.
26:54Oh, funny, funny.
26:56Funny, funny, funny.
26:57Come on, I bet that's Aunt Helen come to connect you.
26:59Come on, let's see who it is.
27:00I'll race you there.
27:01Come on.
27:02I'll look there before you.
27:05Yeah.
27:06I bet you, Daddy.
27:07Come on, let's see who it is.
27:08Oh, David!
27:10Hello.
27:11Hello.
27:12Oh, here, I'll shoot, Daddy.
27:14Didn't tell me you were coming.
27:15Hello, Johnny.
27:16No, er...
27:17Well, I didn't ring you, sir.
27:18I got it dropped on me at the last minute.
27:19Oh, how long?
27:20Hello, Johnny.
27:21Just a week.
27:22Oh.
27:23Off to see the kids in a couple of days.
27:24Oh, well, er...
27:25Take your things off and then come into the kitchen and have a chatty.
27:27We're just having something to eat.
27:28What about...
27:29How are you, Johnny?
27:30What?
27:31Hey?
27:32Oh!
27:33Sorry, I had to take Tom his tea.
27:43But didn't you want to go inside?
27:46Well, I don't see many fields living in the city.
27:50Oh, only when I go to Wales.
27:53Well, my children are in Wales, you see.
27:57I...
27:58Yes, er...
27:59I know.
28:00Look, er...
28:02I'm sorry to bother you.
28:03Didn't you get my letter?
28:05Yes, yes, I did.
28:06But I...
28:07Well, I thought if I could just see you.
28:09I was just about to feed the hens.
28:11If you wouldn't mind coming with me...
28:12No, no.
28:13I've just got to get that call.
28:32There's something I've wanted to say to you ever since, er...
28:36I didn't know about you when David and me...
28:40Well, honestly, I didn't.
28:42Told you he was single, did he?
28:44Oh, no.
28:45No, he didn't do that.
28:46He just didn't tell me he was married.
28:47Oh.
28:48Well, if he had, er...
28:50I wouldn't have dreamed of...
28:52Honestly, I wouldn't.
28:54Yes.
28:55Well, I can see that now.
28:58I didn't know what kind of a person you were, though.
29:01And I used to get these letters.
29:03Letters?
29:04Yes, telling me that David had a baby by a girl called Peggy.
29:07Well, I thought that you'd written them.
29:09It must have been mother.
29:12She never got over it, me having the baby.
29:15She had a friend in the records office at the station.
29:18She must have got your address from her.
29:21Well, she died last year.
29:23She must care for you a great deal, your husband.
29:38Good man.
29:39Good man.
29:40Good man.
29:41Yes, he is.
29:43There are one or two of them about, thank goodness.
29:46You feel very bitter about David.
29:49Well, don't you?
29:51Not now.
29:53I feel...
29:54Well, I feel sorry for him in a way.
29:58He told me you were going to marry another man.
30:01Last time I saw him.
30:03Is that when he asked you to marry him?
30:06He told you?
30:07Yes.
30:08Yes.
30:09Yes.
30:10Yes, he said that you can love people in different ways.
30:15Doesn't he want a divorce?
30:18I think so.
30:19I don't know.
30:20I don't care all that much either.
30:22It wears off, you know.
30:25Yes.
30:26Look, Peggy, it's me that wants it.
30:29Me.
30:30That's why I came to see you.
30:33I would have said yes.
30:35Given evidence, I mean.
30:37Only it's him.
30:39Your husband?
30:40Yes.
30:41He's married me with another man's child.
30:44It's because of that I can't go against him, you see.
30:48He doesn't want to see the whole thing all stirred up again.
30:51He thinks it might get in the papers or something and people know.
30:56We've started again out here.
30:59He likes people to think that she's...
31:02That June is his, you see.
31:05His pride, I suppose.
31:07Yes, well, I can understand all that, but I don't really see why it should, you know.
31:12Get in the papers.
31:13I couldn't risk it.
31:15I'd never forgive myself if it's like he fears.
31:18I know, I could say to him, it doesn't matter about people knowing.
31:23But it matters to him.
31:27Won't David give you the evidence?
31:29I mean, there must have been other women.
31:33Well, sometimes he will, sometimes he won't.
31:36He keeps changing his mind.
31:37I don't know.
31:38I'm...
31:39God, I'm sick of it.
31:41I'm sorry.
31:43I'd like to help.
31:44Honestly, I would.
31:45Well, never mind.
31:46It doesn't matter.
31:47I wouldn't have asked you if I'd known.
31:49I'm glad I came anyway.
31:50Curiosity.
31:51Yes, a bit.
31:52Can you?
31:53Yes.
31:54Yes.
31:55Where's Daddy?
31:56Over there.
31:57In the field, over there.
32:01I'll talk to him.
32:03Yes.
32:15Where's Daddy?
32:17Over there. In the field, over there.
32:29I'll talk to him. I'll see what I can do.
32:33Sorry, I'll slot some in the saucer.
32:38Oh, don't worry.
32:47Hey, how did you know what time I finished work?
32:50Or that I'd be at the same hospital?
32:53I didn't. I told you I was just passing.
32:55Anyway, why shouldn't you be at the same hospital?
32:57It's not allowed. Not if you're a consultant.
33:00Oh.
33:01But he was due for a move, so that solved it.
33:03But he has to get up half an hour earlier.
33:05And does he complain?
33:09I can't say long, I'm afraid.
33:11No, you said that before.
33:13So, er, how's married life, cousin?
33:18Oh, fine, thanks, cousin.
33:20Had your honeymoon yet?
33:21Well, not apart from a few days.
33:23Just straight after the wedding.
33:24But we're off in a couple of days' time.
33:26London, we thought.
33:27Oh, braving the buzz-bums, eh?
33:29Well, I've never actually been to London.
33:31No, it's not the same without the lights.
33:34Well, nothing's the same without the lights, is it?
33:37I sometimes think I preferred the blackout to the dim-out.
33:41I mean, the dim-out, it's so dismal, isn't it?
33:45Better one thing or the other, I think.
33:48Yeah, well, I'm just waiting for it all to be over with now.
33:51My chances of winning the Purple Heart have vanished up the proverbial.
33:54Hey, I thought the Purple Heart's was only for the Yanks.
33:56Oh, God, you know what I mean.
33:59Tony Briggs.
34:00Eaching to shed blood for king and country.
34:02I thought you had more sense.
34:04Well, a lot of people have.
34:05A lot of people are going to.
34:07And you think they're all that keen?
34:10I mean, our filth's in the thick of it.
34:11You think he's aching to shed his blood?
34:13Yeah, he volunteered, he was willing.
34:15Well, so were you when you've done your bit, as they say.
34:17Yeah, what cost to me?
34:19Oh, five years of your life that might have been spent in idle pastimes,
34:23that might have made you a completely different person.
34:27A better person?
34:29No, I don't think so.
34:32Hey, perhaps you should be grateful.
34:35You mean, it's made me into a man?
34:38It's made you into a much nicer man than I used to think I knew.
34:42You know, there seems to be something missing for you.
34:47Yeah, what good's talking?
34:51It's not going to change anything.
34:55Are you happy?
34:56Yes, I'm happy.
35:02I'm happy and I've got to go.
35:05Thanks for the tea, Tony. I'm sorry.
35:08Um, I'll see you soon.
35:12Bye-bye.
35:13Well, does your mother still live here?
35:17Oh, good heavens no. She went to Bournemouth right after the wedding.
35:20Been dying to get me off her hands so she could do just that.
35:23Well, this is a big house for two, isn't it?
35:26Oh, it's ridiculous.
35:28That's how the joke started this morning about your house.
35:31Oh, yes.
35:32Would you like some more whisky?
35:36Oh, that could be Sheila now, though it's probably Frieda.
35:39Excuse me a minute.
35:47Hello, darling. Hello.
35:49Oh, my, my, we are demonstrative this evening.
35:52Are we?
35:53Not that I'm complaining.
35:55Is Sheila back?
35:57No.
35:58But David's in there.
35:59What?
36:00What you want.
36:01Well, didn't you tell him she wasn't here?
36:02Yes, but I said she'd be back later.
36:05Well, I had to.
36:06Why?
36:07Haven't you ever heard of little white lies?
36:10Better go and see what he wants, I suppose.
36:11You're a funny family, aren't you?
36:14He's your brother and yet basically you're on her side.
36:16What's wrong with that?
36:17Nothing.
36:18Nothing.
36:19I applauded.
36:20But I thought blood was thicker than water.
36:22Isn't it?
36:26Better go and see what he wants.
36:28I'm sorry to let you in.
36:29It's all right.
36:30Thy people shall be my people, et cetera, et cetera.
36:34David.
36:35Hello, Fred.
36:39Have you been home?
36:42Yes.
36:43Yes, I've been home.
36:44Look, what's all this packing up lark, Freda, you know?
36:57I mean, if Sheila's up in sticks, I think I ought to be told, don't you?
36:59I mean, it's my house too, you know.
37:01It's my home.
37:02That house has never been anybody's but the landlord's, David.
37:06Yes, you could be right there.
37:09Well, it's not like this place, is it?
37:11Hmm.
37:12Ian thinks this is too big.
37:14He's probably right.
37:16The windows are rotting.
37:17Just can't seem to get the paint.
37:19Yeah, you've done all right for yourself.
37:22Why are you still working?
37:23Well, same reason as you, I suppose.
37:26There is still a little one.
37:31Look, she's gone to see an old girlfriend of mine, hasn't she?
37:35What Sheila does is her own business, as far as I can say.
37:39You're not giving anything away, you know.
37:42I saw the letter that she got.
37:44She's gone to try and talk her round, hasn't she?
37:47Well, she wouldn't have to if she'd do things her way.
37:50Oh, it's easy to see who side you're on.
37:53Sides?
37:54I'm not interested in sides, David.
37:57Do you think I enjoy watching what you and Sheila have been through?
38:00It nearly put me off marriage for life, I can tell you.
38:03No, there's no comparison, Freda.
38:05You'll make a go of it. You know why?
38:09You've got money in the bank.
38:12You'll make a go of it.
38:14Yes, I damn well will.
38:16And it is nothing to do with money.
38:19Oh.
38:22Marriage suits you.
38:24You've grown up, haven't you?
38:26Look, David, please go.
38:28I mean, just let her do what she wants to do.
38:31Look, Freda, she doesn't know what she wants to do.
38:33She only thinks she does.
38:39Oh.
38:41I'm sorry, Fred, but I'm staying.
38:42Hold it, Vince.
38:43Hold it up for Daddy to see.
38:47Are you tired?
38:48I've been.
38:49I'm getting on top of it now, though.
38:50The house is looking cosy, though, isn't it?
38:53Aye.
38:54Thanks to you.
38:55Thanks to you.
38:56I'm getting on top of it now, though.
38:57The house is looking cosy, though, isn't it?
38:58Aye.
38:59Thanks to you.
39:00I'm getting on top of it now, though.
39:01The house is looking cosy, though, isn't it?
39:02Aye.
39:03Thanks to you.
39:04Is that woman coming again?
39:05No.
39:06If I say I can't, she's coming to me.
39:07I'm getting on top of it now, though.
39:09I'm getting on top of it now, though.
39:10I'm getting on top of it now, though.
39:11I'm getting on top of it now, though.
39:14The house is looking cosy, though, isn't it?
39:16Aye.
39:18Thanks to you.
39:27Has that woman come on again?
39:30No.
39:32If I say I can't she'll understand.
39:35She's a nice woman.
39:38You want to help her don't you?
39:40Yes.
39:42Smack in the eye of him if you did.
39:44Yes.
39:46That's not what I think about it though.
39:48Is it?
39:50Well if I did it it'd be for her.
39:55Up to you there.
39:58Yes.
40:03One thing though.
40:05This one will never know about him you know.
40:08Not from me.
40:10No matter either way.
40:12When she grows she'll know who cared.
40:16Counts more that.
40:18In the end.
40:20Yes.
40:21She'll know who cared.
40:23It's the three of us we've got to think of now isn't it?
40:27Not other people.
40:29Hi.
40:30What's going on in there anyway?
40:34He's looking at the books.
40:36That's very unhygienic.
40:38Take it off.
40:39Oh sorry love.
40:40What's Margie doing?
40:41Looking at his legs?
40:43You know you're the one who should be pushing him not me.
40:46Why should I be throwing him into the arms of the opposition?
40:48Well except to get him out of the house for a bit.
40:51That is the point isn't it?
40:53They've asked John to be treasurer of the local Labour Party.
40:57He said yes and now he wants to get out of it before he's even started.
41:01Well he hasn't broken the bad news yet then.
41:03You know John he's terrified of hurting her feelings.
41:06He's in there ploughing through all that stuff making doubtful noises.
41:10Well you don't really need somebody like me to do this job enough.
41:33What too easy?
41:35Well what's been keeping him seems pretty well on top of it to me.
41:39I see.
41:41Oh well go on then tell me you don't want to do it.
41:44It's not altogether a question of not wanting to do it.
41:48Oh rush you're like all the rest.
41:50You don't want to get involved.
41:52All the rest of what?
41:53People who can't be bothered who should be.
41:55They give you their vote and they think that's all that counts.
41:57I've been sitting here listening to you grunting away.
41:59I knew what you were going to say.
42:01I'm sorry to be so frank but I get very depressed about it.
42:05Well er...
42:07Look is your job all consuming?
42:10No I can't make that excuse.
42:12Well what's thought you off then?
42:13Is it the people you've met down at the club?
42:15Partly.
42:16Well most of our best blokes are aware and the forces have that occurred to you?
42:19Yes yes of course it's...
42:20But when they come back there are going to be changes.
42:22What we've got to make sure is there's something solid for them to come back to.
42:26We've got to win the next election you know.
42:30Against Churchill.
42:31Oh I never doubt in commerce.
42:33Well it just seems a pretty tall order that's all.
42:35They're going to think of Churchill when they put their crosses down.
42:37They're going to think of what it was like before.
42:39Two million people unemployed, not enough to eat, slums to live in, the means test.
42:43Well there's been talk of a coalition.
42:45No not on our side there hasn't.
42:47It takes two to make a coalition.
42:49Divided nation again.
42:51It's inevitable isn't it?
42:52Well that just seems a pity.
42:54Oh well.
42:55A lot of things are a pity.
43:02When I went to training college my dad was out of work.
43:06Told them in two to let me go.
43:08They'd had no kind of life for years and it meant even less for longer.
43:12I knew what it was like to them all the time I was there.
43:15It was like a great big cloud hanging over me.
43:17I ought to have been able to enjoy myself but I felt guilty.
43:21So I just got stuck into the work.
43:24Work all the time.
43:27Existence isn't enough you know.
43:31I'm sorry.
43:34Sorry to make a speech.
43:36Sorry to sound so bitter and divided.
43:41There are a lot of wrong people in politics.
43:43People in it for the kudos in it to chuck the weight about.
43:48A lot of the right people shy away from it like you do.
43:52Hmm.
43:54You make a lot of sense.
43:56Oh do I?
43:58Sometimes I think it's just a lot of hot air.
44:00Have you sold me anyway?
44:02I have?
44:04Mm-hmm.
44:06You got yourself a treasurer?
44:08Here you are then.
44:09I'm sorry to interrupt.
44:10Well it's all settled.
44:11Settled?
44:12He's just talked himself into a job.
44:14Did I tell you I'd moved in with Frida for a bit?
44:20Oh?
44:21When did that come about?
44:23Yesterday.
44:24I was packing and she came round and took pity on me.
44:27You were packing?
44:28Well I just got in the mood you know.
44:30I felt I couldn't stand the place a minute longer.
44:33Well don't blame you for that.
44:35It's time I was moving anyway.
44:36I should want to get the kids back soon and I'm not bringing them back to that.
44:40So if you hear of anywhere.
44:43Seriously?
44:44Oh yes.
44:45Seriously.
44:46I know what I want now.
44:47I see.
44:49And it definitely doesn't include David.
44:51Oh no.
44:52It definitely doesn't include David.
44:55Now what are you looking at me like that for dad?
44:57Do you think it should?
44:58You know what I think on that school.
45:01I was just thinking.
45:03I've never seen you look so determined.
45:06Oh.
45:07Well it must be making up your mind that does that for you.
45:10I know exactly where I'm going now.
45:12If only I'd known this a bit sooner maybe I wouldn't have missed out.
45:17On what?
45:19Oh.
45:20Another man that I like very much.
45:23Who went and married somebody else because he thought I wouldn't be persuaded.
45:27Oh dear.
45:28If only he'd waited just a little bit longer.
45:31Still it's easy to be wise afterwards isn't it?
45:36I had quite an experience today dad.
45:40Oh?
45:41Yes.
45:42I went to see one of your grandchildren.
45:46Have you been to Wales?
45:47No, no.
45:48The other side of Manchester.
45:50You got me flummoxed now.
45:53The one that David had by that other girl.
45:56You went to see her?
45:59Yes.
46:00I went to see her.
46:02Oh you'd have liked her.
46:03She...
46:04Oh I can just imagine how she was taken in by David.
46:08God what she must have felt like afterwards.
46:11It helped me in a way.
46:13And then coming back on the train I don't know.
46:15Something happened that made me more determined than ever to get this divorce.
46:19I will you know I don't care what David does.
46:21What happened to you on the train love?
46:24Well thinking about Peggy and seeing that little girl I don't know.
46:31I stopped even liking David.
46:34Stop apologising for him Frieda.
46:37As a matter of fact I quite like him.
46:38Well it takes all sorts doesn't it?
46:40Come on.
46:41What does that mean?
46:42Well you're only saying because he's my brother anyway aren't you?
46:44I'm not obliged to like your brother or your friends or your sister.
46:47Yes but it just makes life very uncomfortable if you don't.
46:49Is that it?
46:50No no no.
46:51If I say I like him I like him.
46:52Well let's hope the barman at the Jubilee likes him.
46:54There might just be enough scotch to fill that decanter again.
46:57Trust David.
46:58Do you see who you're important?
46:59Oh why shouldn't he for heaven's sake?
47:00Anyway if you'll pardon the expression that sort of thing is wearing a bit thin now.
47:04We're winning.
47:05Stop having such a down on him.
47:06It's only because Sheila's staying here.
47:08Oh er how did you like the place by the way?
47:11When are we moving in?
47:12I'm glad I saw it.
47:13It helps me to understand a bit more though I do see a fair bit of squalor in my job you know.
47:16It's just different when it's somebody you know who's living in it isn't it?
47:21Yes.
47:22Helps you feel more involved.
47:24Look when Sheila does arrive back I think we ought to leave them alone together.
47:28We don't get involved.
47:30No well it's not our problem is it?
47:32And I don't expect either of them would like it.
47:34No.
47:35Well when we get to that stage.
47:37Oh don't say that.
47:39I didn't mean it.
47:40You mustn't even think it.
47:42Why not?
47:43Well think him.
47:44Success!
47:45I had a couple at the bar too.
47:46Oh.
47:47What would you do without that uniform David?
47:48I'm not going to do without it Fred.
47:49No I'm stopping in.
47:50Cushy little number this you know in peacetime.
47:51All I have to do is survive.
47:52Well aren't you going to offer us one then?
47:53Yeah.
47:54A present from your big brother.
47:55Hmm.
47:56Remember that time I got Robbie drunk at Christmas.
47:57Yes I remember that time.
47:58Yes I remember that time.
47:59I don't mind you saying it.
48:00I don't mind you saying it.
48:01It only hurts as much as I'm saying it.
48:02Oh.
48:03I remember that time.
48:04Oh.
48:05Oh.
48:06A present from your big brother.
48:07Oh.
48:08Oh.
48:09Oh.
48:10Oh.
48:11Oh, well, I'll go with you.
48:12Oh, well.
48:13Well, I'll go with you.
48:14Oh.
48:15Yeah. A present from your big brother.
48:20I remember that time I got Robbie drunk at Christmas.
48:25Yes, I remember that time.
48:28It's all right. I don't mind you saying it.
48:30It only hurts as much now as it always will.
48:35Well, that'll be Sheila.
48:38I'll go and see you.
48:42Hello. Hello.
48:44Successful trip?
48:45Um, yes, I think so.
48:47I called in to see your dad on the way here.
48:50Well, David's here.
48:52Here?
48:53Well, didn't dad tell you?
48:55No, no, he didn't. He told me that David had come on leave,
48:57but he didn't tell me he'd come round here.
48:59Well, perhaps he didn't know.
49:00Well, look, Freda, would you go and tell him to go away, please?
49:02Because I don't want to see him.
49:03Look, I can't, Sheila.
49:04Freda, please, he's wasting his time now. Go and tell him, will you?
49:08Well, I think you ought to, quite honestly.
49:12Yes, all right, I'll go and tell him.
49:14Shall we evacuate to the kitchen?
49:22Hmm.
49:29What do you want?
49:30Just to talk.
49:33Go away, David.
49:35Look, I thought I might go and see the children in a couple of days, and then we can...
49:39Well, what do you think that entitles you to?
49:42What do you mean by that?
49:43Well, don't expect any medals for it from me.
49:45If you go and see the children, it's for you.
49:46It's nothing to do with me or them.
49:48They don't need you, David.
49:50Not one of the three of them need you.
49:52Three of them?
49:52Yes, three.
49:54I went to see your other one today.
49:57Oh, I see.
50:01You, er, didn't tell me you were thinking of moving.
50:04Who told you I was moving?
50:05I went round.
50:06You've got things planned.
50:07Oh, really?
50:08How did you get in?
50:09I got the key from next door.
50:11Well, I shall see that doesn't happen again.
50:13Sheila, I wanted things.
50:15Things that belonged to me.
50:15Yes, all right.
50:16Well, if you want things, would you mind writing and asking?
50:19Look, stop talking to me as if I was a bloody stranger.
50:22You are a bloody stranger.
50:23Well, you're still my wife.
50:24Yes, maybe, but not for much longer.
50:26Oh, you want to marry someone else, I suppose.
50:27Yes, perhaps I do.
50:28So that my children can be brought up properly.
50:30Yeah, well, that would be a change, wouldn't it?
50:33Well, you'll get no help from me.
50:35All right, David, I'll do it without you.
50:37And you'll get no help from Peggy, either.
50:39Oh, you read the letter, did you?
50:41I shall go and see Peg.
50:43What for?
50:44Go and see her?
50:45Why?
50:45Just to upset her.
50:47Oh, Sheila, please!
50:48Please?
50:49You saying please to me, David, what's the matter with you?
50:52You going soft or something?
50:53Well, I'm not.
50:54I've made up my mind.
50:55I'm not going to change it.
50:57You're as hard as bloody nails.
51:00Yes, maybe I am as hard as bloody nails, but she's not.
51:03Will you leave her alone, please?
51:04You've done enough to her.
51:06Don't make me spend the rest of my life being ashamed that I ever married you.
51:09Stop talking to me as if I was something else.
51:11Oh, God, David, you make me sick.
51:13You really make me sick.
51:14Look, I haven't finished talking.
51:15Well, I've finished talking to you, so get out of the way.
51:17So leave me alone.
51:18Sheila, please.
51:20Leave me alone, will you?
51:21Look, I said I haven't finished.
51:23I'm sorry, Sheila.
51:42Go away.
51:43Look, I said I'm sorry.
51:46Peggy.
51:46Oh, you're right.
52:03I won't go and see Peggy.
52:04I've...
52:05You're right.
52:07I've done enough to her.
52:08If you want a divorce, I'll give you the evidence.
52:15I'll see to it first thing tomorrow.
52:18I'll give you the evidence, Sheila.
52:19There.
52:30I'll give you the evidence.
52:32I'll give you the evidence.
52:33Don't laugh.
52:36Bye-bye.
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