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00:27You think you can go to sleep on this?
00:53Not really. The machine stopped. No, I certainly felt stopped.
00:58Tired? A bit.
01:00I've got the remains of a flask in the office.
01:03It would be tight rations, but would you like a nip?
01:06You know, I wouldn't mind. I wouldn't mind at all.
01:09I'm trying to put off going home, actually.
01:11Frieda and Ian are coming to stay with us for a week or so till their new place is ready.
01:15They sold their old house too soon.
01:18And bang goes a quiet life, eh?
01:20Yeah, it's funny, isn't it?
01:22You get used to a place being quiet to the point where you long for something to happen.
01:25Along comes a bit of noise.
01:27And you wish you were back where you started.
01:33No pleasing some people, is there?
01:38We haven't brought this kitchen sink with us, Margaret.
01:40We're only imposing ourselves for a couple of weeks.
01:42Glad to have you.
01:43Well, you won't be saying that in a week or two.
01:47How's dad?
01:48Quiet.
01:49Quieter than I've ever known him, I think.
01:52Phil was his favourite, wasn't he?
01:54Yes.
01:55It's not supposed to be fair for parents to have favourites, but it is human.
01:59Did you ever mind?
02:01No.
02:02A minded mum worrying herself sick over David, though.
02:04He wasn't worth it.
02:05Sheila still seems to think he is.
02:07Still giving him the benefit of the doubt, is she?
02:10She might be bringing the kids round tomorrow.
02:12It'll be just like old times.
02:15God forbid.
02:16Do you know you sounded just like mum, then?
02:18Did I?
02:19Always looking back to yesterday.
02:21What's wrong with tomorrow, Margaret?
02:22I never said anything was wrong with tomorrow.
02:24Honestly, to hear some people talk, you think things just got worse and worse.
02:27Are you sniping at me already?
02:30Oh, I'm sorry.
02:31It's all this packing up and clearing out gets on my nerves.
02:33Are you telling him where to go?
02:34Yes, and I'll tell you where to go if you don't cheer up.
02:37Honestly, I think it's about time you had some kids to worry about.
02:39Kids?
02:41Why do you say that?
02:42Well, isn't it?
02:44What in God's name is so special about having kids?
02:52Everything all right?
02:53Oh, fine, fine.
02:54Just like old times.
02:56Why don't you dry squeezing it?
02:59Yes.
03:00It's right about tight rations.
03:02Well, I don't suppose you miss it, though.
03:03You're not much of a drinking man, are you?
03:05I've been known to go over the top when things are a bit rough.
03:12How are you finding Civvy Street?
03:14Oh.
03:16Challenging, I suppose.
03:17Mm-hmm.
03:19You know, you've been looking a bit down lately.
03:22Why don't you take a holiday?
03:23But in December, when the hotels are still requisitioned anyway.
03:26Well, a break then.
03:28Sit by the fire, read a book.
03:30I can manage for a week or two.
03:31You can manage permanently, no damn well you can.
03:33Rubbish.
03:34It's true, and you know it.
03:35Don't pretend otherwise.
03:36Certainly not for my sake.
03:37I'm expendable, and you know it.
03:39But...
03:40So does Fraser.
03:41Well, even if you are.
03:44And I dispute it.
03:46It's only because you've gone out of your way to teach me the trade.
03:49When you were here before the war, your father gave you the job that I wanted.
03:56I was sometimes tempted to keep something back to protect my value.
03:59Little human meannesses you don't think you're capable of.
04:03Sort of thing that insecurity breeds.
04:05There'll always be a place for you while I'm here.
04:08You have ambitions for Briggs & Son, don't you?
04:11Well, maybe.
04:13I've seen you sizing things up.
04:14I know the feeling.
04:16I used to imagine what I'd do here if I didn't have your father to contend with.
04:19Exciting.
04:20The feel of the boss's seat.
04:22Power.
04:24Even in the backstreet printing works.
04:26And you're a staunch socialist.
04:28I'm a poor socialist, Tony.
04:29I just cast my vote, and apart from that I'm just an old chap...
04:32that remembers hard times and the voice of his father.
04:36I said to your Aunt Jean once...
04:38about the trip I've made to see my dad.
04:40Something he said when I was coming away.
04:42He said...
04:43She had a manager now, then.
04:45I felt as if I'd been disinherited.
04:48But I don't think she understood.
04:54Can I give you a lift anyway?
04:56It's Saturday afternoon.
04:57The rest of the days, you know.
04:58No thanks.
04:59I've got a call to make.
05:00I'll drop you anywhere you want.
05:02No.
05:03No thanks.
05:04You get off.
05:05Oh, you don't happen to know we have any flats going, I suppose?
05:08Try Margaret.
05:09She and John are looking.
05:11I haven't told them yet, but I do know the looking...
05:14of what the chances are after five or six years without nothing being built.
05:18Things not too good at home.
05:20Oh, a bit edgy.
05:22Father doesn't get on with this bloke Howells, I think.
05:25In fact, I know damn well he doesn't.
05:27I gave him a chance to talk about it the other day, but he wouldn't bite.
05:30Too bloody proud, I suppose.
05:32I warned him about that so-and-so at the beginning.
05:35Still, I wouldn't want to see him taken for a ride.
05:39Family pride, et cetera, et cetera.
05:41He's a pretty astute man, your father, don't he?
05:44I should be glad to be out of it anyway, believe me.
05:54Scotch?
05:55No, thank you.
05:56Not for this time of the morning.
05:58Well?
06:00I'm not quite sure, Sefton.
06:02It's all here, is it?
06:03Of course it's all there.
06:04The whole damn mess.
06:05And I'm not keeping quiet about anything, if that's what you're suggesting.
06:07I'm not.
06:08You've got the sense to realise I can't be much help if you do.
06:11Well, what do you think, George?
06:13You don't expect me to give you an opinion after spending five minutes on the thing.
06:18You've got a claim against ours, I suppose.
06:20I think I'm fairly safe in saying that.
06:21The question is, can he meet it?
06:23He's bankrupt.
06:24Who says he's bankrupt?
06:25He does.
06:26It's not necessarily a fact, is it?
06:27Telling me a tale you mean to get out of paying.
06:29It's possible.
06:30Oh, I've put everything into it, George.
06:34Everything?
06:35Well, more or less everything.
06:36There's still the property, of course.
06:38If he'd kept it quiet for another two weeks, I'd have sold those houses in Canterbury Road.
06:41Oh, you've got an income, then?
06:43Oh, £11 a week, and that includes Edwin's repayments.
06:46Damn it, it's less than I used to pay him at the works. He'll be better off than I am.
06:49You should never have sold the shop, Sefton.
06:51If this had happened a few months earlier, I wouldn't have.
06:53I knew you'd regret it.
06:54It was a good, sound business, even given the state of the Times.
06:57It's no good saying I told you so. I told you so solves nothing.
07:00It's this damned government.
07:02I never liked that investment, Sefton. I said so at the time.
07:06It's no good blaming Clem Atley.
07:07Well, look at the state of things. Who else should we blame?
07:11We've had a war for five years. That could have something to do with it, don't you think?
07:15I'll come through all that and end up with this.
07:18Jackson, sir, of your account.
07:21For what little use he is.
07:22Have you told him? He can't be much use if you haven't.
07:24I'm seeing him later. That'll be another I told you so.
07:27Well, I'll see him for you if you like.
07:30How much is this place for?
07:33The house.
07:35It's something you'll be able to realise on.
07:37Sell this house?
07:42You may have to, Sefton.
07:44I'm sorry, old man.
07:46But it's as well to look on the black side.
07:49And there is a fantastic housing shortage.
07:51To make two damn good flats.
07:55Some good have come of it.
08:02Oh, Dan.
08:07Hello.
08:09Hello.
08:11Can I come in?
08:12Yes, of course. Come in.
08:16Sorry, I've just made this.
08:19Do you mind if I eat it or are you in a hurry?
08:21No, no, not in a hurry.
08:22Well, good then. Well, make yourself at home.
08:32Oh, you've...
08:35Yes, you've changed things around a bit.
08:36Since when?
08:37Well, since I was here last.
08:39That was months ago.
08:40Yes, it was.
08:42I thought we'd agreed you weren't going to come here again.
08:45Yes, I suppose we did.
08:47Well, why have you come?
08:49Just wanted to see you.
08:50Impulse?
08:52No.
08:55She thinks we are having an affair.
09:00You turn up from nowhere, come out with a thing like that and expect me to go on quietly eating.
09:04Sorry.
09:05Well, you've told her we aren't, of course.
09:07No.
09:08Why?
09:09Weren't we both supposed to regret it?
09:11No, I didn't regret it, Margaret.
09:13I did.
09:14You're married.
09:15Margaret's my friend.
09:16I don't want to get involved in something like that.
09:18I don't have the time to waste on affairs.
09:21If I'd regretted it, I wouldn't be here.
09:24I didn't look at it as wasted time.
09:26You don't have my problems.
09:28I've got my own.
09:29Things not too good at home, then?
09:31No.
09:33I didn't just come for comfort.
09:36Look, I do wish you'd eat that.
09:38Thanks.
09:39Somehow my appetite seems to have disappeared.
09:42Did you come straight from work?
09:43Yes.
09:44You hungry?
09:47You still haven't told me why you've come.
09:51Would you like something to eat?
09:54I'll go and make you some coffee.
09:59Do I lay a place for Dad and John?
10:01Might as well.
10:02There's always a chance that one of them might turn up.
10:04People come and go as they please in this house.
10:15Margaret, I can't sleep in that room.
10:18What room?
10:19The room you put us in.
10:20The boys' room.
10:21It's the only room with two beds in.
10:22Well, I don't care.
10:23I just can't sleep in it, that's all.
10:24All right, all right, then.
10:25But what can we do?
10:26I mean, your old room won't take another bed.
10:29I know.
10:30Well, I'll sleep in there just the same.
10:31What's going on between you two?
10:34Oh, he wanted me to go and see Gone With The Wind with him this afternoon.
10:37Well, apart from the fact that I've seen it three times already, I'm on duty.
10:42I think my working is beginning to get on his nerves.
10:45Oh?
10:47How long are you going to keep it up?
10:48Well, at least as long as he does.
10:50I mean the job.
10:52Oh, well, why shouldn't I keep that up?
10:53I mean, it's a useful profession.
10:54It fulfills a social need.
10:56There are other needs, you know.
10:59My needs, you mean?
11:00If you like.
11:02Back to babies again, are we, Margaret?
11:03Why not?
11:07Has he been talking to you?
11:08Only in general terms.
11:10Like, why doesn't it happen?
11:11Do you want it to happen?
11:12Do you want it to happen?
11:14Yes.
11:16I thought perhaps you didn't.
11:18Well, we say we don't.
11:20Not in so many words.
11:21It's a sort of game we play.
11:23But we haven't tried very hard not to, if we see what I mean.
11:27You mean you think you can't have children?
11:30Perhaps.
11:31Have you spoken to him about it?
11:32I told you we don't.
11:33Don't you think perhaps you should?
11:35I mean, after all, he is a gynaecologist.
11:36He's also my husband.
11:37It's all just too bloody clinical.
11:40Anyway, perhaps I'm wrong.
11:41Perhaps he wants to be home just to answer the telephone.
11:45If he really wanted a family, he would talk to me, wouldn't he?
11:47You can't just pretend it isn't happening.
11:49Or the lid will blow off.
11:51Well, I've come to the conclusion I'm a career woman anyway.
11:54Oh, Freda, don't pretend.
11:57Are there any fags around? I'm out.
11:59Shouldn't think so.
12:00Oh, I'll dash down to the parade then.
12:04Hey, do you remember that time Mum bought me a packet of cigarettes
12:07after she caught me puffing on the sly
12:09and then started smoking herself?
12:12Go on, go on, get your coffin nails
12:14and stop pretending to be so bloody hard.
12:18I haven't seen you at the Labour Club recently.
12:20Still going there, are you?
12:23Yes, you stopped going about the same time I started.
12:25Is it a coincidence?
12:26No.
12:28I've stayed away.
12:30I miss it.
12:32There aren't many places I can go where I can meet people.
12:34People I know, people I can talk to.
12:37I used to go because I hoped that I would see you.
12:40I didn't know that.
12:42I assumed you would have come here if you wanted to see me.
12:44But you hoped I wouldn't?
12:45Yes.
12:47Loyalty to Margaret?
12:48No.
12:49Protecting myself, I suppose.
12:52I'm too far down in the States for dalliance, I suppose.
12:57I'm sorry I stopped you going to the Labour Club.
12:59I won't be going again.
13:00Don't like it much.
13:02It got me out of the house.
13:04And it's not dalliance.
13:05You like being got out of the house, do you?
13:08Yes, these days I do.
13:09That's funny because that's one thing I envy you for.
13:12Going back to a house with people in it.
13:15Michael turned up.
13:16Who?
13:17Michael, the chap she was with when I was in Belgium.
13:20What did he want?
13:21To see Dad, or so he said.
13:23Did you meet him?
13:24Yes.
13:27I wasn't very impressed.
13:29Margaret probably wonders what the hell you see in me.
13:31Who was it said?
13:33There's nobody so unlovable that you can't be loved by somebody.
13:37You're not fair to yourself.
13:38If you knew the way I think about you, you wouldn't talk like that.
13:41It's a cruel thing to say.
13:43Cruel?
13:44Offering some hope where there isn't any.
13:46How do you know there isn't?
13:47I know you.
13:48I know me.
13:49I know Margaret.
13:50I've seen this sort of thing so often.
13:53With other people?
13:54Yes, of course.
13:55With other people it's just a laugh or a bit of gossip or a passing interest, isn't it?
14:02Why haven't you taken that teacher training course you're always going on about?
14:06Because Margaret would have to more or less keep me for a year.
14:09Does she object to that?
14:10I object to it.
14:12You know what your trouble is, don't you?
14:16You never really came home.
14:18Not in reality.
14:20You came back to some glamorous picture that you built up in your mind when you were in Belgium.
14:25It was never really like that, was it?
14:27If there'd never been a Michael Armstrong, you'd still have been disillusioned.
14:32You'd still be looking for the greener grass on the other side of the fence.
14:38Now come on, be honest and admit it.
14:40What's the point?
14:41It's happened.
14:42You and I and Margaret are just part of the backwash of a war.
14:45There'll be thousands of people like us.
14:47And me?
14:48Let the thousands look after themselves.
14:49You call yourself a socialist?
14:51I'm not talking about economics.
14:52Neither am I.
14:53We are heading for an argument.
14:57You'd like that, wouldn't you?
14:59Yes.
15:00Yes, I like the kind of arguments I have with you.
15:02It's the other kind.
15:03I can't stand.
15:04Domesticity.
15:05Yes, I suppose so.
15:06Bores you.
15:07Stiff.
15:08Life's more than trivialities, isn't it?
15:10I wonder how long it'll be before I bore you stiff.
15:14Marjorie.
15:15No.
15:17Not again.
15:19Not until.
15:20Until what?
15:21You've thought about the consequences.
15:23Because you haven't yet.
15:24Not really.
15:25Have you?
15:30See ya!
15:31Out here!
15:32After that!
15:33People who upset you!
15:34I'm saying NHS!
15:35If Mr Krugow and I won't go near your friends,ắp it with some capital
15:43to send friends!
15:46Ah!
15:47It's great!
15:48Yes, dear!
15:50Stop!
15:51dle over there!
15:52Why the hell might try?
15:56Come on!
15:57Come on, let's go!
16:00Come on, come on.
16:02Come on.
16:24Oh, hello.
16:26Hello. Ready for lunch?
16:28Lunch ready for me?
16:29Just about.
16:30Give him another five minutes.
16:31Dad out.
16:32He's gone to see his accountant.
16:34Oh, that should give him a thick head.
16:36You don't think he's in some kind of trouble?
16:38How else?
16:40Well, George Askew was here this morning. I don't know what went on.
16:43Yes, and of course he didn't tell you.
16:45George? No, he didn't.
16:46No, no, no. I meant father, actually.
16:48He never does when he's in trouble. Not in my experience, anyway.
16:51Nor mine.
16:52He was drunk the other night. He fell on the stairs. Did you hear him?
16:55That wasn't your father.
16:57Hmm?
16:58That was me.
17:00Oh.
17:01I do sometimes drink too much, didn't you know?
17:03Um...
17:04Well...
17:05Are you embarrassed?
17:06Women aren't supposed to do that sort of thing, are they?
17:09I really don't see why they shouldn't.
17:11Oh, well, I do.
17:13It's just that I sometimes get so bloody lonely.
17:17Your father was once rash enough to tell me to help myself, so I do.
17:21I think he thought I was just a Christmas drinker.
17:24I...
17:26I...
17:27I didn't know.
17:28I...
17:29I...
17:30I thought you'd settle down rather well.
17:32Well, I tried, but I don't seem to have made many friends outside the family.
17:36I had a lot of friends in Australia.
17:38And you're thinking of going back?
17:41Yes.
17:42I booked a berth months ago.
17:44There's a waiting list about a mile long.
17:46And then I said, no, I'll stay, and I told him I would.
17:50I've changed my mind twice weekly ever since.
17:54And now it's made up?
17:56It is, actually.
17:59So...
18:00You'll be alone in this house again.
18:03Not even Mrs. Foster to fight with.
18:05She won't come back.
18:06Well, he's got you.
18:08I'm moving out.
18:09Oh.
18:10I should have moved out years ago.
18:11Well, I wouldn't argue about that, but it does seem we've chosen a rather bad time.
18:15Why?
18:16Well, because he's maybe in some sort of trouble, or...
18:19Oh, don't worry about Father.
18:21He'll survive it.
18:22It thrives on it, actually.
18:24That labyrinthine mind.
18:26He's matched for more than half a dozen like Howells.
18:29Oh, when were you thinking of going?
18:31Soon as I can get aflatter, I suppose.
18:33You?
18:34After Christmas.
18:35We're beginning to sound a bit conspiratorial, aren't we?
18:39Well, it's just a coincidence, that's all.
18:41Have you got a girl?
18:43What?
18:45Oh.
18:46Er, no.
18:47Not really.
18:48Well, it's time you had.
18:50I can't seem to get anybody to take me on.
18:53All ones I like seem to prefer other blokes.
18:55Rubbish.
18:56Not all of them, I'm sure.
18:59Perhaps the ones I'm attracted to do prefer other blokes.
19:02That's the thought, isn't it?
19:03Frida.
19:07Perhaps it's just as well you are going.
19:09Tony!
19:12Oh.
19:13Ah, Helen.
19:14Wondering where I got to.
19:15Oh, no.
19:16We knew you'd turn up.
19:17Eventually.
19:18Like the bad penny, you mean?
19:19No, of course he did.
19:20Oh, yes, he did.
19:21Everything all right at the works?
19:23Yes, yes.
19:24Making a fortune, are you?
19:25No, Father.
19:26Just a living.
19:27Oh, well, that's something these days, isn't it?
19:29Well, lunch when you're ready.
19:31Well, Christmas in three weeks' time.
19:33The first is the peace.
19:34We can't let that pass a notice, can we?
19:36Had you made any plans?
19:39Well, Fraser invited me down to his place.
19:41Oh, you said you'll go.
19:42All right.
19:43I said I'd let him know.
19:44Oh, I see.
19:45I think I've just got time for a wash.
20:01Central 2192.
20:08Is that you, George?
20:10Septon here?
20:11Yes, I've just been to see Jackson.
20:14Oh, you have?
20:16Yes, yes, he said the same thing, more or less.
20:19If you wouldn't mind, I'd appreciate it.
20:22Thank you, George.
20:24Thank you, George.
20:51What you expected?
20:53What I feared, yes.
20:56A friend of mine.
20:58A bit shattering for him.
21:00Yes, just a bit.
21:03Anyway, thank you, George.
21:05Call on me any time.
21:10Oh, Johnny, do you have to do that?
21:12Yeah.
21:13That'll be ganderer.
21:14Come on now, clear the decks.
21:15I want to lay the table.
21:16You can have it in here if he chooses to be this late.
21:19Oh, it's you.
21:20Anything to eat?
21:21It's in the oven, but you'll have to wait.
21:23I've only just put the gas back on.
21:25I thought I told you not to do that.
21:29Do as your mother says.
21:33Look, if you want something to read, I've bought you a comic.
21:35It's in the bottom drawer of the dressing table in my room.
21:37Now, off you go.
21:39I'm spoiling him again.
21:42I can't make spoiling him.
21:44He should do as he's told because you tell him to.
21:46If you must know, I sent him out of the room because I could tell what was coming.
21:49The moment I saw your face.
21:50Ah, so that makes it my fault.
21:51Where have you been?
21:52I came back through the park to get some fresh air.
21:56Don't get much of it.
21:57Well, he's been asking if you'd take him to the park later on and I said you would.
22:03Oh, you might have asked me first.
22:05Well, if you can't be bothered...
22:06I didn't say I couldn't be bothered.
22:07I said you might have asked me first.
22:08All right, keep your voice down. Ian's in the background.
22:11Oh, well, he'll know what he's bought himself out of then, won't he?
22:14Bought himself out of what?
22:15Keeping his voice down because he's sharing the house with somebody else.
22:18First Dad, now Ian.
22:19All right, don't bother then. Let it rip.
22:21Let everybody know what kind of a life we need.
22:23Didn't take them long to find a house, did it?
22:25They paid through the nose for it.
22:27Yes, that's what I mean.
22:28The cornerstone of our great blood-won democratic society.
22:31To him the house shall be given.
22:32Look, we could afford a house. You know we could.
22:34But when if we ever really considered looking for one properly,
22:37and I mean real...
22:38I thought you were.
22:39I said we, and we don't, do we?
22:40And you know why we don't.
22:41Mary, Mary, go on now.
22:43You can't make up your mind, will you?
22:45Hello, young man.
22:46Oh, there.
22:47Why did I say that?
22:48You don't have to say it.
22:49It's the way you behave.
22:50The way you put up with us.
22:51The way you made capital out of Michael Armstrong turning up.
22:54Ah, just let me know when I can eat.
23:00If you have to carry on like that,
23:02you might at least shut the door.
23:07Come on, let's get to the comic and take for a walk in the park when I had something to eat.
23:19Sorry I'm late. Ian back?
23:21He's in there.
23:22I suspect he heard the lot.
23:23How much did you hear?
23:25Is that why you're looking for a house?
23:26So you can shout at each other in peace?
23:28How did you know we were looking for a house?
23:29All those little crosses and the property column of the echo.
23:32I'm not as daft as I might look here.
23:34Now look dad, we weren't gonna tell you till we'd found somewhere definite.
23:37Well you don't think I expect you to live here forever?
23:39I mean it's about time we started to stand on our own feet, you know.
23:43Has he gone off that teaching course altogether?
23:47I don't know dad, I've given up asking.
23:51Sometimes I think I've given up caring too.
23:54Remember that time in this kitchen after we'd had the telegram to say he was missing?
23:59Seems years ago now.
24:02And I said to you I want someone to tell me that John is dead.
24:06You know if they had I think they'd have been right.
24:09Certainly about the man I married anyway.
24:12It seems years ago because it was years ago.
24:14And long years at that.
24:16What you're really saying is that he's changed.
24:19Well why should that surprise you?
24:20You've changed yourself.
24:21Me?
24:22Yes you see that surprises you too.
24:24Do you honestly believe you haven't?
24:26In some ways perhaps yes.
24:28In lots of ways up here.
24:29Things I can't see and you're not aware of.
24:31But they affect the way you think.
24:33And the way you react.
24:34And you don't even notice.
24:35Margaret!
24:36Acomics on here!
24:38It's probably looking in the wrong drawer.
24:40I'd better go.
24:41I'll be back in a minute to do your lunch.
24:53Oh you're back.
24:54Yes sir.
24:55You had your lunch?
24:56Um yes.
24:57Yes thank you I have.
24:58You're lucky then I haven't.
25:00Is there anything I can do to help?
25:03Never offer to work your passage in this house.
25:05You'll always get landed with the shopping and the queues.
25:09How much longer I wonder.
25:11Well it's the uh the queues.
25:13Queues, rationing.
25:15It's even worse the grey shabby look of everybody.
25:18Do you expect the promised land?
25:20Overnight?
25:21Well no.
25:22A sight of it at least.
25:23How's your national health service coming along?
25:26Ah not so quickly I'm afraid.
25:28There you are you see.
25:29The yanks won't let us have the queens back to bring our lads back home.
25:33The ones that are coming.
25:35Yes it's going to be a long hard winter.
25:37We've learned to put up with such a lot.
25:39When are we going to dig our heels in Ian?
25:42I don't know.
25:43I suppose our generation is too conditioned to the other thing.
25:46Well I hope you'll teach my grandchildren that there's more to life than putting up with things.
26:07Hello.
26:08I thought I might bump into you.
26:09Are you um?
26:10I'm in for the baby.
26:11Ex-nurse turned patient.
26:12You still living at home?
26:13No they've gone to Manchester.
26:14I'm at my sister's now.
26:15Staff nurse Ashton.
26:16Yes I'm coming.
26:17Oh you made it then.
26:18Staff nurse.
26:19Yeah I made it.
26:20Look I'll see you later.
26:22Tawny gone down to the plough?
26:23Yes I think so.
26:24He never asked me if I'd like to go with her.
26:25I've gone to Manchester.
26:26I've gone to Manchester.
26:27I'm at my sister's now.
26:28Staff nurse Ashton.
26:29Yes I'm coming.
26:30Oh you made it then.
26:31Staff nurse.
26:32Yeah I made it.
26:33Look I'll see you later.
26:47Tawny gone down to the plough?
26:49Yes I think so.
26:50He never asked me if I'd like to go with him.
26:52I don't expect he thinks you'd prefer the club.
26:54I haven't been to the club for weeks.
26:56It's as quiet as the grave down there these days.
26:58That's where most of them are if you ask me.
27:00In the grave.
27:01The members?
27:02Yes of one foot in anyway.
27:05Who are you knitting for this time?
27:06You.
27:07Oh?
27:08That cardigan I promised you.
27:09Oh.
27:10You know it's comforting to see you sitting there.
27:13Has it?
27:14Yes it is.
27:15Aye the world's changing Helen.
27:17It certainly is.
27:18Some things don't change though thank God.
27:20Family relationships don't change.
27:23It was good of you to stay with me Helen.
27:27Sefton is something wrong?
27:29Wrong?
27:30In what respect wrong?
27:31Well.
27:32Business perhaps?
27:33Now one of the reasons why I stayed was that you seemed a bit fraught.
27:37And then things seemed to go all right again.
27:40Well of course it's all right.
27:41Never been better.
27:42Why?
27:43Just wanted to be sure.
27:45Oh well.
27:46Stay where you are.
27:47I'll go.
27:48George.
27:49Hello.
27:50Hello.
27:51Hello George.
27:52Is it still raining?
27:53Oh yes it's a dismal night out there.
27:54Well at least there's no blackout.
27:55All the times we've said we'd never complain as long as things got back to normal.
27:56We forgot about the weather.
27:57Well thank God for that.
27:58What would we do without something to complain about?
27:59Um would you like a cup of coffee?
28:00I'm afraid we've seen the last of the scotch.
28:01Coffee's fine thanks.
28:02I'll take this with me.
28:03I brought these back.
28:04Yes.
28:05Spoke to Jackson.
28:06Yes.
28:07It'll be a week or two before we know how things really stand.
28:10But it's not the end of the world, Sefton.
28:12You've got one or two.
28:13And you've got one or two.
28:14And you've got one or two.
28:15I'm sorry.
28:16We've been there.
28:17No, no, no, no.
28:18Well, that's not good.
28:19Oh well.
28:20It's a good time.
28:21Well, for the time we've said we'd never complain as long as things got back to normal.
28:23We forgot about the weather.
28:24Well, thank God for that.
28:25What would we do without something to complain about?
28:26Um, would you like a cup of coffee?
28:27I'm afraid we've seen the last of the scotch.
28:30Coffee's fine thanks.
28:31It's not the end of the world, Sefton.
28:32You've got one or two very nice bits of property there.
28:34It's the end of life, as I've known it, George.
28:36You'll hang on to the property, of course.
28:39If I can afford it.
28:41I should if you can.
28:42It's bound to go up.
28:43No houses built for six years.
28:45There are slums to cope with.
28:48It could take as much as ten years to get everybody decently housed.
28:51The mortgage on Edwin's place isn't a very good investment, though.
28:55It wasn't meant to be.
28:56It was a promise I made to Jean.
28:58He's in a position to buy it now, though, isn't he?
29:00His shares and the business.
29:01I couldn't do anything there, George.
29:03Whatever I did would be misconstrued, as usual.
29:06You haven't said anything to anybody about the way things are.
29:10No, of course not.
29:12I don't want the family to know, George.
29:14I'd like to know the worst myself before I start putting my house in order.
29:22You had a bottle of Yankee scotch the first time I came here.
29:27Lend-lease is over, love, didn't you know?
29:30Is it time you went home?
29:34You sound like Margaret's guardian angel.
29:36No.
29:38It's just that I'm not quite sure why you're still sitting here.
29:41Maybe I'd just like your company.
29:43Or something.
29:45Or something isn't going to happen.
29:47No, I didn't think it was.
29:50If you're expecting words of wisdom, I don't have any.
29:53Do you remember Councillor Dewsbury?
29:58What?
29:59Yeah, well, I see him at the club sometimes.
30:01He came here once.
30:03One morning at election time.
30:06The day before you came.
30:08He said he wanted to give me a lift.
30:11He knew damn well I was canvassing this side of the park.
30:16That's how it is for unmarried ladies of my age.
30:19Well, landing fields for unhappily married men with engine trouble.
30:23Is that how you classify me?
30:25Don't classify you.
30:26If I did, it would be easy.
30:28I wouldn't be standing here waiting for you to make up your mind.
30:30You make me sound like a way out of something.
30:34Isn't that what we both are?
30:36For each other.
30:38Suppose we are.
30:39What's wrong with that?
30:41I thought that's what we were trying to find out.
30:43Well, not by talking about it.
30:44We'll end up talking each other out of it.
30:46Good.
30:49Good?
30:50It'll mean we can't survive the boredom.
30:51What you're running away from, in fact.
30:55Do you know,
30:56there's probably nothing the matter with you and Margaret
30:58that a good holiday wouldn't cure.
31:00Holiday?
31:02When did you last have a holiday?
31:04Six.
31:05Yes.
31:06Six years ago.
31:07Scarborough.
31:08I went with a bloke from school, George Carter.
31:11Margaret knows him.
31:13Knew him.
31:14We were mad about each other.
31:17Trying to make me jealous?
31:18He went out to the Middle East in the army.
31:21Used to send me letters about the sand and the heat
31:23and the leaves he had in Cairo.
31:25Got dysentery out there and died from it.
31:28Why didn't you get married, if that's how you felt about each other?
31:30He was out of work before the war.
31:32Two years.
31:34I lent him the money for that holiday.
31:36That was the only thing he ever took from me.
31:37Oh, I know what his dreams of home were.
31:40They were me.
31:41I wonder if I'd have ever lived up to them.
31:45That's another thing the war's taught us.
31:47To dream about a better land far, far away.
31:50I'm sick of dreams.
31:53I want reality.
31:56I don't think I've had a dream yet
31:58that hasn't seemed a big laugh in the cold light of day.
32:01Like mine.
32:03Better give reality a chance, John.
32:06If it still doesn't work, let me know.
32:10You'll find me at the Labour Club
32:11being ogled by Councillor Dewsbury.
32:13Kettle's warm.
32:27Has Ian gone to bed?
32:28They all have.
32:29Apart from John, he's not back yet.
32:32Oh.
32:32Bit of a dirty stop out these days, isn't he?
32:34He's probably at the Labour Club.
32:37Well, that's as good an excuse as any, I suppose.
32:40Excuse?
32:40Well, they're going through a bad patch, aren't they?
32:45Aren't we all?
32:46We had to readjust to the war,
32:47now we're having to readjust to the peace.
32:50And other things.
32:51Things are going on all the time.
32:53What other things?
32:54Oh, marriage, children, old age.
32:58Life in general, I suppose.
33:01I saw Doris this afternoon.
33:03Oh, where?
33:04At the hospital.
33:05She's in for her baby.
33:07Oh.
33:08Poor Doris.
33:08Yes, poor Doris.
33:12What are you burning?
33:14Old letters.
33:18Mums.
33:19Yes, do you want to read them?
33:23No, Dad, I couldn't.
33:25It's your last chance to see us in another dimension, as they say.
33:29I wonder if you'd recognise the people in here as your mother and father.
33:32We'd started to get on each other's nerves when you were growing up.
33:36We weren't always like her.
33:38I know you weren't.
33:40You were all conceived in love, all five of you.
33:43Not one of you that wasn't wanted.
33:46When you have your children, Frida,
33:48have them because you want them.
33:50I don't think I'll bother with a drink.
33:55I think I'll go straight up.
33:56I don't know.
33:56Good night, dear.
33:58Good night, dear.
34:00Dad, don't read them.
34:02They can't hurt me, love.
34:05They're my past.
34:06They're what I am.
34:09And why are you burning them?
34:10Well, there's a time to write letters.
34:12There's a time to read them.
34:14Seems that it's time to burn them.
34:17Good night, love.
34:39Morning.
34:40Oh, morning.
34:43Sleep well?
34:44Oh, so-so.
34:45And you?
34:46Oh, not really.
34:48I heard you coming back last night.
34:50Oh, I thought you'd probably be asleep,
34:51so I didn't disturb you.
34:52A bit late, weren't you?
34:53Emergency?
34:55No, as a matter of fact,
34:56I stopped to chat to Doris.
34:57Doris?
34:59She's coming to our place to have her baby.
35:01From over the river?
35:02No, she's left home.
35:03She's living with her sister again.
35:05How is she?
35:07Very down, very broke.
35:09Well, doesn't she get any money from the father?
35:11No, and she won't ask,
35:13even if she could prove it.
35:15Well, not even for the child's sake.
35:17That's what I said.
35:18All she could say was that she'd manage.
35:21God knows how.
35:22Well, we could help, couldn't we?
35:24She won't take charity either.
35:26Well, it wouldn't be charity,
35:26not in a narrow sense, anyway.
35:28You're a friend of hers.
35:28She was my friend, Ian.
35:29She's not anymore.
35:31Oh, it's my fault, not hers.
35:33As she keeps saying, we're different.
35:35What she means is, of course,
35:37I've fallen on good times.
35:39She's fallen on bad.
35:42We used to go everywhere together.
35:44Until you married me.
35:46Yes.
35:48Still, she's not the only one who missed out on that, is she?
35:50Meaning you?
35:52No, meaning you.
35:55I'm sorry, I don't understand.
35:56Yes, you do.
35:57It's just that we don't talk about it, either of us.
35:59Well, we're talking now,
36:00and I haven't a clue what you're talking about.
36:02Oh, Ian, stop being so damn protective.
36:03I'm not a child.
36:04I have been known to face unpleasant truths, you know.
36:08Morning.
36:09Morning.
36:09Morning.
36:10John George keep you awake last night?
36:12No, no, John George.
36:13I don't know.
36:14Anybody bother to put the kettle on?
36:16I bet you're longing for a cup of tea, aren't you?
36:18Well, I wouldn't...
36:19Is this the way she looks after you, then?
36:20Well, she's a working woman, you know, like you.
36:23Yes, I'm a working woman.
36:26A woman's place isn't in the home anymore, you know.
36:29It's in the factories, in the fields,
36:31in the schools.
36:32There's nowhere else an honest bobs to be earned.
36:35We've been emancipated by the war, you know.
36:38It's all part of the master plan to exterminate the race.
36:43No wonder the population's falling.
36:45Well, it isn't, actually.
36:46There was a downward trend.
36:49It's been reversed.
36:50Trust you to come up with accurate statistics.
36:52Anyway, you shouldn't say things like that in front of Margaret.
36:56She'll be asking us when it's our turn to perpetuate the species.
37:01To replace all the Roberts and the Phillips.
37:03I'll put the kettle on.
37:04I'll be back before it boils.
37:13Oh, he's asleep.
37:14Johnny, yes, I know he'll be asleep for another two hours at least, yet.
37:17Do you think he ought to do something?
37:18What?
37:19Um, well, uh, ring the doctor or something.
37:21He was up half the night.
37:22He'll be all right when he's awake.
37:23He's had these headaches before, you know.
37:26Well, to my knowledge, he hasn't.
37:27Must have been when you weren't here, then.
37:29It could be a symptom or something.
37:31Like trying to understand grown-ups and failing dismally, do you mean?
37:35Look, do we have to talk on the stairs?
37:37No, no, no.
37:37We could share our conversation with Ian in the kitchen,
37:40Dad in the back room,
37:41or we could freeze to death in the front room.
37:43Take your pick.
37:44Look, if you want a private battleground,
37:46you might try finding us a house.
37:48Well, we're back to that, are we?
37:50Well, it's you who seems to need one most.
37:52There aren't any houses.
37:53Aren't there?
37:54I could show you one right now.
37:55I've known about it for a week.
37:57It goes up for sale in a fortnight's time,
37:59and we've got first refusal if we want it.
38:01Why didn't you say so?
38:03Because I wasn't aware that you were interested.
38:06Interested in the house or me or the child.
38:08Oh, and as for worrying about his headaches,
38:10what the eye doesn't see,
38:11the heart isn't going to grieve over, is it?
38:13And you won't be here to see, will you?
38:16Won't be here?
38:17What do you mean, won't be here?
38:18Oh, John, what do you take me for?
38:22Can I come past?
38:28Father, George is here.
38:32You're not sitting down to Sunday dinner or anything?
38:34Oh, good heavens, no.
38:35We haven't been up all that long.
38:36Oh, I used to lie in bed on Sunday mornings
38:38before I joined the Home Guard.
38:39Another bad habit the war deprived me of.
38:42How's the work these days?
38:43Oh, prospering, as far as the paper controls allow.
38:47Mm-hmm.
38:48I try to advise him against selling out, you know.
38:51Yeah, this be in his bonnet about reinvestment.
38:54Not that he's ever actually taken by bonnets.
38:56Serve him damn well right.
38:58Oh, I wouldn't be too hard on him.
39:00I can't wait to show him this year's balance sheets.
39:02Still, he seems to be having his usual luck.
39:05Oh, he's...
39:07He's ploughing on, I should say.
39:10Oh.
39:12George!
39:12Father, I'm going down to the works.
39:15I wonder if you'd tell Aunt Helen
39:16I'll have something cold later on.
39:18I thought we might run over to your Uncle Edwin's
39:20this afternoon, the three of us.
39:21Sorry, too much on.
39:22Oh, that used to be my excuse.
39:24When I was your age, I've lived to regret it.
39:26Well, there's just a bit of a push on at the moment, that's all.
39:29That's what I always used to say.
39:30I'll see you later, Father.
39:31It'd be nice to say I was on my way back from church,
39:35but I'm just off to the club, actually.
39:37Thought you might like to come along.
39:39Feelings sorry for me, George?
39:42No.
39:42I couldn't, George.
39:43Not the way things are, not the club.
39:45But thanks for asking.
39:46Tell me, who does he remind you of?
39:49Tony.
39:51His brother, mostly, I suppose.
39:52Oh, an honest man.
39:53Not given to flattery, are you?
39:55Only with the opposite sayings.
39:57I wondered if you had any correspondence with Howells
40:00other than what you've shown me.
40:01I doubt it.
40:02You invested in the company Howells formed,
40:06and he bought the land,
40:08and then he couldn't get the stuff to build with?
40:10Yes, yes.
40:11Then a fairish proportion of the money
40:13could be realised from the sale of the land.
40:15Assuming the land exists,
40:17I was shown a so-called deed.
40:20You mean you think he could have pulled the wool
40:21over your eyes to that extent?
40:22There were other businesses he had an interest in.
40:25Young David worked for one of them for a time.
40:27It folded up.
40:30Lost money, probably.
40:31Maybe my money went to help cover up.
40:34That's when I started to get the wind up anyway.
40:35You might have come and seen me.
40:37You're certain I'm surprised, that you.
40:38Post-mortems aren't going to do any good.
40:40I might have made a mess of things this time,
40:42but I wasn't a complete fool in my day, you know.
40:44Even so, just something so specific in writing.
40:48Oh, well, I'll go and look.
40:50I'll go and look, it'll please you.
40:52I thought I heard a familiar voice.
40:54Entertain him for me for a minute or two, will you?
40:56He's a nice chap.
40:58Oh, and Tony's out to lunch.
40:59How do they get on these days?
41:05Oh, no worse, no better.
41:06Not just the barrier of age, though it's that too, of course,
41:09but it's as if there was someone in between them,
41:12keeping them apart.
41:13He's changed, you know.
41:14Sefton?
41:16Lost a lot of the old bite.
41:17Well, he was different when I came back from Australia.
41:21Different from how I remember him.
41:23Well, time softens people as it softens memories, I suppose.
41:28Well, he's still very self-sufficient, you know.
41:30He won't really miss me.
41:33I'm going back.
41:35To Australia?
41:36Yes, I'm going back.
41:37I haven't told him yet.
41:39Oh, yeah.
41:40Don't you think you should, perhaps?
41:41Yes, perhaps it's time I did.
41:43Oh, he'll be a bit hurt, maybe, but he'll soon pass.
41:47I always think of him as sort of bouncing through life, don't you?
41:52I know he hasn't got many friends,
41:53but I don't think he's ever been really aware of other people.
41:58Good heavens.
42:06Can't you even spend a day of rest away from here?
42:08I'll ask you the same thing.
42:10Any port in a storm, even the works on a Sunday, eh?
42:12Well, not exactly a storm.
42:13A few raised voices, an atmosphere.
42:15Yes, an atmosphere.
42:17Is that what brings you here?
42:18Partly.
42:19Are you having a clear-out?
42:20Yeah, a lot of old rubbish in here.
42:21It goes back to force its time, some of it.
42:23Oh, look at that.
42:28Oh, yes.
42:30Recognize even farther.
42:31Yeah, that's old Reg Clark, isn't it?
42:33That's Reg.
42:33Outing to Morecambe, 1927.
42:35Was it 28?
42:36Oh, I didn't know father used to lash out and things like that.
42:39He didn't.
42:39Well, I'd have whipped around and invited him.
42:41There were usually a fair number of dissenters,
42:43but he usually got in, a narrow majority,
42:46that odd British working-class respect for management,
42:50even bad management.
42:52They're logical, isn't it?
42:53Respect or tolerance?
42:54Tolerance, I suppose.
42:55Something you never thought about at the time.
42:57That's how things were, and you just accepted it.
43:00Hmm.
43:01I don't know if that's going to work for me, is it?
43:03The war's made people think, you mean.
43:05Oh, sometimes things like that I feel like shoving down his throat.
43:10The fact that he's been tolerated.
43:12It wasn't just him, Tony.
43:14It was the times, too.
43:16You talk as if they were past.
43:18Are they?
43:19In a way, we're on the edge of something different.
43:21That's how I feel, anyway.
43:22Maybe that's why we're all so damn jumpy these days.
43:24We're wondering what comes next.
43:26What comes after father?
43:30Ah, how many of your ideas did he claim credit for?
43:33No, most of them, I suppose.
43:34And if he couldn't, he'd try and credit somebody else.
43:37You never liked to feel in my debt, didn't you, father?
43:41Anyway, you've got work to do.
43:43Yeah.
43:44You might like to look at that sometime.
43:45What is it?
43:46A list of stuff I thought we might keep.
43:47There's not a lot.
43:49Half the blocks in the store can go for scrap.
43:52And here's a list of some of our pre-war clients.
43:55It might be worth looking up again, when you can get the paper.
43:58Thought you were going to do that.
44:00Yes.
44:00Well, it's as well to get these things down in writing, isn't it?
44:03I'll put the kettle on.
44:04Um...
44:05Would you say I'd always been fair to your father, Tony?
44:18Fallen over backwards, I'd say.
44:20I've not been true to myself in that.
44:22I've always resented him to a greater or lesser degree, but I've tried to like him for some reason or other.
44:29Lately, I've resented him even more for the loss of all those years before the war, that wilderness I lived in, always under threat.
44:36It's my fault, too.
44:38It's my fault, too.
44:39But he could have made it possible for me to be a better man, not the self-pitying creature I've too often felt.
44:47Can I help?
44:50Oh, yes.
44:51Frida said the bicarb is in here somewhere.
44:53Second shelf, round the corner, out of sight.
44:55Indigestion.
44:56Yes.
44:57Case of physician, heal thyself.
44:58Oh, here it is.
44:59Dr Mackenzie's patent remedy, bicarb.
45:02I'm sorry things are a bit, uh, fraught.
45:06Still, you'll be out of here by Christmas.
45:08Oh, nonsense.
45:09It's very good of you to have it.
45:10I'm going out for a walk with John George, if anyone should ask.
45:14John's having his afternoon nap.
45:16I didn't want to wake him.
45:17Oh, so's Frida.
45:20Frida does want children, Ian.
45:24I'm sorry, but I really don't see what...
45:25You don't see what business is of mine, and you're quite right, of course.
45:28It's just that I thought you might not be sure, and you might be glad to know, but still, I'm sorry.
45:32Are you sure?
45:34Yes, I am.
45:35She talks to you then?
45:36Oh, come now.
45:37This doesn't make you the husband who can't be told, you know.
45:40It's just that it's easier between women.
45:42It's inevitable, sort of.
45:45It's the same with me and John.
45:47Sometimes I find it more possible to talk to someone else.
45:52You're no different to any other man, you know.
45:55You're going to drink all that yourself?
46:00You don't want any whiskey at this time of day.
46:03Oh, why not? You obviously do.
46:05But it's the last bottle.
46:07Oh, I'll get you a glass.
46:10Cheer up. If it's your last bottle, I wouldn't drink.
46:13I was pulling your leg.
46:14Oh.
46:15Anyway, I thought you had a permanent supply.
46:19So did I.
46:20Like a tap.
46:21Like a tap.
46:22You turn it on, and there it is for a lifetime, that's all you think.
46:25Did you do without anything during the war, Sefton?
46:27Oh, I had more than my share, I admit.
46:30I wasn't the only one, though. They were all at it, you know.
46:32You're a wicked old man.
46:34I dare see you get a few votes on that proposition.
46:36Yes, I haven't got many friends, you know.
46:38Whose fault's that?
46:39A good few acquaintances, but very few friends.
46:41That's a pity you fell out with Edwin.
46:44Fell out with Edwin?
46:45When did I fall out with Edwin?
46:47Well, all that business about the works.
46:48Oh, don't start on at me about that again.
46:50That's all in the past, Helen.
46:52You reek what you saw.
46:53By God, you do.
46:55That's really the last bottle, hadn't you?
46:57Better go easy.
46:58I never could, you know.
47:00The last bottle was always the fastest to go.
47:04There's no rush over that thing, that cardigan, you know.
47:06You do keep on at it, don't you?
47:07I want to finish it before I go.
47:09Go?
47:11To Australia, Sefton.
47:14Oh.
47:15Oh, you've changed your mind then.
47:17Yes.
47:18Well, I've been in two minds for quite some time now.
47:22I'm sorry, but you don't really need me, do you?
47:25Oh, that's what you want.
47:26Well, I have Christmas together.
47:27I shall miss you.
47:28Rubbish.
47:29Oh, it's a big house, Helen.
47:30It seems more like home with you, innit?
47:32You are a funny old thing, aren't you?
47:34You always have to say the right thing.
47:36Oh, the right thing, is that what I said?
47:38You are the most self-contained man I know.
47:41You no more need me than you need anybody else.
47:43You like this house, you like the bigness of it.
47:45Now, don't say the right thing.
47:47Say what you honestly mean.
47:49Will you really miss me all that much?
47:53More than I can say, Helen.
47:56You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
47:59You always have to say what you think people want to hear, don't you?
48:03You mean to say that that's the absolute maximum?
48:07What's all this then?
48:09Name is Christian Fellowship.
48:13There's some in the pot.
48:15Oh, thank you.
48:17Frieda still asleep?
48:18Yes, I think I'll go and see you.
48:20Look, if you two were telling each other smutty stories, please carry on.
48:23Don't tell me to shut her.
48:25Come back to have a row, have you?
48:28I've had a good walk and a good think
48:31and I've made up my mind about one or two things.
48:34Oh, lovely.
48:35Are you still interested in that house I told you about?
48:38Yes, of course I'm interested.
48:40Then you'd like to go and have a look at it?
48:42We can look at it, I suppose.
48:43It wouldn't put us under any obligation, would it?
48:46You mean it doesn't put you under any obligation?
48:49I meant what I said.
48:51Well, whether you did or not.
48:53If I like that house, we're going to have it.
48:56What if I don't like it?
48:58I go with the house, John.
49:00Oh, that gives me a big say in where we live, doesn't it?
49:03And about that teacher's training course,
49:05you'd better make up your mind whether you're going to do it or not by Christmas
49:08because that's when I handed my resignation.
49:11Unless, of course, you do decide to do it,
49:13then I'll gladly carry on working.
49:16Issuing ultimatums now?
49:18Yes, I am.
49:20I've come to the conclusion that men are basically selfish creatures.
49:23They put themselves first and their families afterwards
49:26and if they feel like packing up, they just pack up and go.
49:30Leaving their responsibilities in the form of children for someone else to look after.
49:34I'm not David.
49:36Oh, no, no.
49:37You wouldn't leave me for just sordid physical reasons.
49:40There'd have to be something much loftier there for you.
49:43But I'm not going to sit at home like Sheila, John,
49:46with two kids and no money, wondering whether my husband's coming home for Christmas
49:49and what lies I'll have to tell them if he doesn't.
49:51You're pairing me to David.
49:53There'll be no second chance with me, John.
49:56If you go, you go.
49:58I suppose I did go. What difference would this house business make?
50:01It would make it that much harder, wouldn't it?
50:03No.
50:04I can be selfish too.
50:06If you don't like it, you're going to have to make your mind up pretty soon.
50:10Turn this down at the works.
50:17Yes, hello. I was down there myself.
50:20Edwin, this is a pleasant surprise.
50:22Shall I make some tea?
50:23No, thanks. I can only stay a minute or two.
50:25Aren't you even going to take your coat off?
50:26Well, I called in to ask a favour.
50:28Well, you might at least sit down.
50:30I want to pay off the mortgage on the house.
50:32Your house?
50:33The house I live in.
50:34What do you want to pay it off for?
50:36You get the tax benefit.
50:39Well, will you sell it?
50:41You've got it at a bargain figure, you know.
50:43They've gone up leaps and bounds since then.
50:45Well, if you want me to pay more...
50:47I wasn't intending to ask you to pay more.
50:50I was just pointing out that you've got a very good capital asset there.
50:54Then you'll sell it to me.
50:55Of course I will if that's what you want.
50:57Though I don't understand your reasons, I must say.
50:59I have my reasons, Sefton.
51:01Well, shall we shake hands to seal the bargain?
51:05Or better still, let me pour you a scotch.
51:08Hm.
51:09It's the last bottle.
51:11No thanks, Sefton.
51:12I just came about the house.
51:31I Christ.
51:32Moore, may you suffer yourина?
51:33Oh, she's there as well as she died.
51:34Never like you!
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