• 7 months ago
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00:06:01Where is she?
00:06:04I never noticed her go.
00:06:08Oh, I couldn't think where you disappeared to.
00:06:11I just wanted to see the express go through.
00:06:14What on earth's the matter? Are you feeling ill?
00:06:17I feel a little sick.
00:06:18Oh, my dear, come and sit down.
00:06:22There's our train.
00:06:24That's all right. Have you any brandy?
00:06:26I'm afraid it's out of hours.
00:06:28Oh, surely, if somebody's feeling ill.
00:06:29I'm all right, really.
00:06:30Just a sip of brandy will buck you up.
00:06:32Please.
00:06:33Very well.
00:06:34Thank you. How much?
00:06:35Tenpence, please.
00:06:38The train for Hetchworth is now arriving at platform three.
00:06:43I'll have to hurry.
00:06:55Oh, well, this is a bit of luck.
00:06:57This train's generally packed.
00:07:00I really am very worried about you, dear.
00:07:02You look terribly peaky.
00:07:03I'm all right, really, I am.
00:07:04I just felt faint for a minute, that's all.
00:07:06It often happens to me.
00:07:07I did it once in the middle of Bobby's school concert.
00:07:09I don't think he's ever forgiven me.
00:07:12Well, he certainly was very good-looking.
00:07:14Who?
00:07:15Well, your friend, Doctor whatever-his-name-was.
00:07:18Yes, he's a nice creature.
00:07:20Have you known him long?
00:07:21No, not very long.
00:07:24I hardly know him at all, really.
00:07:26Well, my dear, I've always had a passion for doctors.
00:07:29I can well understand how it is that women get neurotic.
00:07:34I wish I could trust you.
00:07:37I wish you were a wise, kind friend.
00:07:40Instead of a gossiping acquaintance I've known casually for years
00:07:42and never particularly cared for.
00:07:46I wish...
00:07:47I wish...
00:07:48Fancy him going all the way to Africa.
00:07:50Is he married?
00:07:51Yes.
00:07:52Any children?
00:07:53Yes, two boys. He's very proud of them.
00:07:55Is he taking them with him, his wife and children, I mean?
00:07:57Yes. Yes, he is.
00:07:59Oh, I suppose it's sensible in a way,
00:08:01rushing off to start life anew in the wide open spaces and all that sort of thing,
00:08:04but wild horses wouldn't drag me away from England and home
00:08:08and all the things I'm used to.
00:08:09I mean, one has one's roots, after all, hasn't one?
00:08:12Oh, yes. One has one's roots.
00:08:14I knew a girl years ago who went to Africa.
00:08:16You know, her husband was something to do with engineering or something.
00:08:18And, my dear, she had the most dreadful time.
00:08:20She got some awful kind of jam through going out on a picnic
00:08:24I wish you'd stop talking.
00:08:27I wish you'd stop prying and trying to find things out.
00:08:30I wish you were dead. No, I don't mean that.
00:08:32That was silly and unkind.
00:08:35But I wish you'd stop talking.
00:08:36My dear, all her hair came out,
00:08:38and she said the social life was quite, quite horrid,
00:08:41provincial, you know, and very nouveau riche.
00:08:43Oh, Dolly.
00:08:44What's the matter, dear? Are you feeling ill again?
00:08:45No, not really ill. I feel a bit dizzy.
00:08:47I think I'll just close my eyes for a little.
00:08:49Oh, you poor darling.
00:08:50And here am I, chattering away 19 to the dozen.
00:08:52I won't say another word.
00:08:54Oh, and if you drop off,
00:08:55I'll wake you up when we get to the level crossing.
00:08:57That'll give you a chance to pull yourself together
00:08:58and powder your nose before we get out.
00:09:00Thanks, Dolly.
00:09:07This can't last.
00:09:10This misery can't last.
00:09:13I must remember that and try to control myself.
00:09:17Nothing lasts, really.
00:09:19Neither happiness nor despair.
00:09:21Not even life lasts very long.
00:09:24There'll come a time in the future
00:09:26when I shan't mind about this anymore,
00:09:29when I can look back and say quite peacefully and cheerfully
00:09:32how silly I was.
00:09:35No, no, I don't want that time to come ever.
00:09:39I want to remember every minute.
00:09:42Always.
00:09:45Always to the end of my days.
00:09:49Get well.
00:09:51Wake up, Laura. We're here.
00:09:53Get well.
00:09:55I can easily come to the house with you, dear.
00:09:57It isn't very much out of my way.
00:09:58Thank you.
00:09:59All I have to do is to walk down Elmore Lane
00:10:00past the grammar school, and I shall be home in two minutes.
00:10:02Oh, it's sweet of you, Dolly,
00:10:03but I'm perfectly all right now, really I am.
00:10:05Now, you're quite sure?
00:10:06Absolutely positive.
00:10:07Thank you for being so kind.
00:10:08Oh, nonsense, dear.
00:10:10Well, I shall telephone in the morning
00:10:11and see if you've had a relapse.
00:10:13I shall disappoint you.
00:10:14Good night.
00:10:15Good night.
00:10:16Oh, give my love to Fred and the children.
00:10:28Is that you, Laura?
00:10:30Yes, dear.
00:10:32Thank goodness you've come back.
00:10:33The place has been in an uproar.
00:10:35Why, what's the matter?
00:10:36Bobby and Margaret have been fighting again.
00:10:38They won't get asleep until you go in
00:10:39and talk to them about it.
00:10:40Mummy, is that you, Mummy?
00:10:42Yes, Margaret.
00:10:43Come upstairs at once, Mummy.
00:10:45I want to talk to you.
00:10:53You're both very naughty.
00:10:54You should have been asleep hours ago.
00:10:56Now, what is it, you two?
00:10:57Well, Mummy, tomorrow's my birthday,
00:11:00and I want to go to the circus.
00:11:02And tomorrow's not Margaret's birthday,
00:11:04and she wants to go to the pantomime.
00:11:06My birthday's in June,
00:11:07and there aren't any pantomimes in June.
00:11:09It's far too late to discuss it tonight,
00:11:11and if you don't go to sleep at once,
00:11:12I shall tell Daddy not to let you go to either.
00:11:14Oh, Mummy.
00:11:16Well, why not take them to both?
00:11:18One in the afternoon, one in the evening.
00:11:19You know that's impossible.
00:11:21We shouldn't get them to bed till all hours,
00:11:22and they'd be tired and fractious.
00:11:24Well, then, one on one day and the other on the other.
00:11:27You're always accusing me of spoiling the children.
00:11:30Their characters would be ruined in a fortnight
00:11:31if I left them to your over-tender mercies.
00:11:33All right, have it your own way.
00:11:36Circus or pantomime?
00:11:38Neither.
00:11:39We'll thrash them both soundly,
00:11:40lock them up in the attic,
00:11:41and go to the pictures by ourselves.
00:11:44Oh, Fred.
00:11:47Well, now, what's the matter?
00:11:49Nothing, really, it's nothing.
00:11:52Darling, what's wrong?
00:11:54Tell me, please.
00:11:56Really and truly, it's nothing.
00:11:57I'm just a little run down, that's all.
00:12:00I had a sort of fainting spell
00:12:02at the refreshment room at Milford.
00:12:04Wasn't it idiotic?
00:12:06Dolly Messiter was with me,
00:12:07and she talked and talked and talked
00:12:09till I wanted to strangle her.
00:12:11Still, she meant to be kind.
00:12:13Isn't it awful about people meaning to be kind?
00:12:16Would you like to go to bed?
00:12:18No, Fred, really.
00:12:20Come and sit by the fire in the library and relax.
00:12:22You can help me with the Times Crossword.
00:12:24You have the most peculiar ideas of relaxation.
00:12:28That's better.
00:12:29There you are, darling.
00:12:30Here.
00:12:32But why a fainting spell?
00:12:34I can't understand it.
00:12:35Don't be silly, darling.
00:12:36I've often had fainting spells, and you know it.
00:12:38Don't you remember Bobby's school concert
00:12:40and Eileen's wedding,
00:12:41and that time you insisted on taking me
00:12:43to that symphony concert at the town hall?
00:12:45Go on, that was a nosebleed.
00:12:47I suppose I must be that type of woman.
00:12:49It's very humiliating.
00:12:50I still maintain there'd be no harm in you seeing Dr. Graves.
00:12:53It'd be a waste of time.
00:12:55Oh, listen, I...
00:12:56Oh, but do shut up about it, darling.
00:12:57You're making a fuss about nothing.
00:12:59I'd been shopping, and I was tired,
00:13:00and the refreshment room was very hot,
00:13:02and I suddenly felt sick.
00:13:04Nothing more than that.
00:13:06Nothing more than that.
00:13:08All right.
00:13:09Really nothing more than that.
00:13:11Now you get on with your old puzzle and leave me in peace.
00:13:13Have it your own way.
00:13:17You're a poetry addict.
00:13:18See if you can help me over this.
00:13:20It's Keats.
00:13:21When I behold upon the night-starred face
00:13:23huge cloudy symbols of a high...
00:13:25Something in seven letters.
00:13:27Romance, I think.
00:13:29I'm almost sure it is.
00:13:31Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance.
00:13:33It'll be in the Oxford Book of English first.
00:13:35That's right, I'm sure,
00:13:36because it fits in with Delirium and Baluchistan.
00:13:43Put some music to throw you off your stride.
00:13:45No, dear, I like it.
00:14:05I love you.
00:14:07I love you.
00:14:35I love you.
00:14:50Fred.
00:14:52Fred.
00:14:54Dear Fred.
00:14:57There's so much that I want to say to you.
00:15:00You're the only one in the world
00:15:02who has the wisdom and gentleness to understand.
00:15:05If only it were somebody else's story and not mine.
00:15:09As it is, you're the only one in the world that I can never tell.
00:15:13Never, never.
00:15:16Because even if I waited until we were old, old people
00:15:19and told you then,
00:15:21you'd be bound to look back over the years and be hurt.
00:15:25And don't worry, dear, I don't want you to be hurt.
00:15:28You see,
00:15:30we're a happily married couple
00:15:32and must never forget that.
00:15:35This is my home.
00:15:38You are my husband
00:15:40and my children are upstairs in bed.
00:15:43I'm a happily married woman.
00:15:46Or rather, I was until a few weeks ago.
00:15:50This is my whole world
00:15:53and it's enough.
00:15:55Or rather, it was until a few weeks ago.
00:15:59But, oh, Fred, I've been so foolish.
00:16:03I've fallen in love.
00:16:05I'm an ordinary woman.
00:16:08I didn't think such violent things could happen to ordinary people.
00:16:13It all started on an ordinary day
00:16:16in the most ordinary place in the world,
00:16:19the refreshment room at Milford Junction.
00:16:23I was having a cup of tea
00:16:25and reading a book that I'd got that morning from Boots.
00:16:28My train wasn't due for ten minutes.
00:16:31I looked up and saw a man come in from the platform.
00:16:35He had on an ordinary mac.
00:16:37His hat was turned down and I didn't even see his face.
00:16:40He got his tea at the counter and turned.
00:16:42Then I did see his face. It was rather a nice face.
00:16:45Any sugar?
00:16:47He passed my table on the way to his.
00:16:50The woman at the counter was going on as usual.
00:16:53You know, I told you about her the other day,
00:16:55the one with the refined voice.
00:16:57Minnie hasn't touched her milk.
00:16:59Did you put it down for her?
00:17:00Yes, but she never came for it.
00:17:02Fond of animals?
00:17:04In their place.
00:17:05My landlady's got a positive mania for animals.
00:17:08She's got two cats, one manx, one ordinary,
00:17:10three rabbits and huts in the kitchen.
00:17:12They belong to her little boy, by rights.
00:17:14And one of those daft-looking dogs with hair over its eyes.
00:17:17I don't know to what breed you refer.
00:17:19I don't think it knows itself.
00:17:22Go and clean off number three, Beryl.
00:17:24I can see the crumbs on it from here.
00:17:26What about my other cup?
00:17:27I'll have to move him. The 5.40 will be in a minute.
00:17:30Who's on the gate?
00:17:31Young William.
00:17:57Oh, please, could you give me a glass of water?
00:17:59I've got something in my eye and I want to bathe it.
00:18:03Would you like me to have a look?
00:18:05Oh, no, don't trouble. I expect the water will do.
00:18:07Thank you.
00:18:08Bit of coal dust, I expect.
00:18:09A man I knew lost the sight of one eye
00:18:11through getting a bit of grit in it.
00:18:13Nasty. Very nasty.
00:18:14Better?
00:18:15I'm afraid not. Ooh.
00:18:16Can I help you?
00:18:18Oh, no, please, it's only something in my eye.
00:18:20Try pulling your eyelid down as far as it'll go.
00:18:23And then blowing your nose.
00:18:24Please let me look. I happen to be a doctor.
00:18:26That's very kind of you.
00:18:27Turn round to the light, please.
00:18:29Now look up.
00:18:32Now look down.
00:18:36Keep still.
00:18:37That's it.
00:18:41There.
00:18:42Oh, what a relief. It was agonising.
00:18:44Looks like a bit of grit.
00:18:45It was when the express went through.
00:18:46Thank you very much indeed.
00:18:47There we go. I must run.
00:18:48How lucky of me you happened to be here.
00:18:50Anybody could have done it.
00:18:51Never mind, you did, and I'm most grateful.
00:18:53There's my train. I must go.
00:18:54Goodbye.
00:18:55Goodbye.
00:19:00That's how it all began.
00:19:02Just through me getting a little piece of grit in my eye.
00:19:06I completely forgot the whole incident.
00:19:08It didn't mean anything to me at all.
00:19:12At least, I didn't think it did.
00:19:19The next Thursday, I went into Milford again as usual.
00:19:24At the same time, I was under the impression that she had beenrafting by Miss Lewis.
00:19:33I changed my book at Boots.
00:19:35Miss Lewis had at last managed to get the new Kate O'Brien for me.
00:19:38I believe she had kept it hidden under the counter for two days.
00:19:41On the way out, I bought two new toothbrushes for the children.
00:19:45I like the smell of a chemist better than any other shop.
00:19:48It's such a mixture of nice things.
00:19:49Herbs and scent and soap.
00:19:51That awful Mrs. Leftwich was at the other end of the counter
00:19:54wearing one of the silliest hats I've ever seen.
00:19:56Fortunately, she didn't look up, so I got out without her button-holing me.
00:20:00Just as I stepped out onto the pavement...
00:20:03Good morning.
00:20:04Oh, good morning.
00:20:05How's the eye?
00:20:06Perfectly all right. How kind of you to take so much trouble.
00:20:08It was nothing at all. It's clearing up, I think.
00:20:10Yeah, it's going to be nice.
00:20:12Well, I must be getting along to the hospital.
00:20:14No, I must be getting along to the grocer's.
00:20:16What exciting lives we lead, don't we?
00:20:18Goodbye.
00:20:21That evening, I had to run nearly all the way to the station.
00:20:24I'd been to the Palladium, as usual, but it was a terribly long film
00:20:27and I was afraid I'd be late.
00:20:29As I came up onto the platform,
00:20:31the chariot train was just puffing out.
00:20:33I looked up idly as the windows of the carriages went by,
00:20:37wondering if he was there.
00:20:39I remember this crossing my mind, but it was quite unimportant.
00:20:42I was really thinking of other things.
00:20:44The present for your birthday was worrying me rather.
00:20:47It was terribly expensive, but I knew you wanted it
00:20:50and I'd sort of half taken the plunge
00:20:52and left a deposit on it at Spink and Robson's
00:20:54until the next Thursday.
00:20:56The next Thursday.
00:20:59Well, I squared my conscience
00:21:01by thinking how pleased you'd be and bought it.
00:21:03Yes, I'll have it.
00:21:04Thank you, madam.
00:21:05It was wildly extravagant, I know,
00:21:07but having committed the crime, I suddenly felt reckless and gay.
00:21:10The sun was out
00:21:12and everybody in the street looked more cheerful than usual
00:21:15and there was a barrel organ at the corner by Harris's
00:21:18and I loved barrel organs.
00:21:20It was playing Let the Great Big World Keep Turning
00:21:23and I gave the man sixpence
00:21:25and went to the Cardoma for lunch.
00:21:27It was very full,
00:21:29but two people had got up from the table just as I'd come in.
00:21:32That was a bit of luck, wasn't it?
00:21:34Or was it?
00:21:36Just after I'd given my order, I saw him come in.
00:21:39He looked a little tired, I thought,
00:21:41and there was nowhere for him to sit, so I smiled and said...
00:21:44Good morning.
00:21:45Oh, good morning. Are you all alone?
00:21:47Yes, I am.
00:21:48Would you mind if I showed your table?
00:21:49It's very full. There doesn't seem to be anywhere else.
00:21:51No, of course not.
00:21:56I'm afraid we haven't been introduced properly.
00:21:58My name's Alec Harvey.
00:21:59How do you do?
00:22:00Mine's Laura Jessen.
00:22:02Mrs. or Miss?
00:22:03Mrs.
00:22:04You're a doctor, aren't you?
00:22:05I remember you said so that day in the refreshment house.
00:22:07Yes. Not a very interesting one, just an ordinary GP.
00:22:10I practice this in Churley.
00:22:11Yes, sir.
00:22:12What did you plump for?
00:22:14Um, the soup and fried sole.
00:22:17Yes, I'll have the same.
00:22:18Anything to drink?
00:22:19No, thank you.
00:22:20That is, would you like anything to drink?
00:22:22Uh, no, thank you. Just plain water, please.
00:22:24Plain water, please.
00:22:34Oh, you just look at the chest.
00:22:44Oh, dear. It really is dreadful, isn't it?
00:22:47But we oughtn't to laugh. They might see.
00:22:49There should be a society for the prevention of cruelty to musical instruments.
00:22:52You don't play the piano, I hope.
00:22:54I was forced to as a child.
00:22:55You haven't kept it up?
00:22:56No. My husband isn't musical at all.
00:22:58Good for him.
00:22:59For all you know, I might have a tremendous, burning professional talent.
00:23:02Oh, dear, no.
00:23:03Why are you so sure?
00:23:05You're too sane and uncomplicated.
00:23:08I suppose it's a good thing to be uncomplicated, but it does sound a little dull.
00:23:11You can never be dull.
00:23:14Do you come here every Thursday?
00:23:15Yes, to spend a day at the hospital.
00:23:17Stephen Lynn, the chief physician here, graduated with me.
00:23:20I take over from him once a week.
00:23:22Gives him a chance to go up to London.
00:23:23Gives me a chance to study the hospital patients.
00:23:25I see.
00:23:26Do you?
00:23:27Do I what?
00:23:29Come here every Thursday.
00:23:30Oh, yes, I do the week's shopping. Thank you.
00:23:33Change my library book, have lunch and generally go to the pictures.
00:23:37Not a very exciting routine, but it makes a change.
00:23:41Are you going to pictures this afternoon?
00:23:43Yes.
00:23:44Hmm. Extraordinary, so am I.
00:23:47I thought you had to spend all day at the hospital.
00:23:49Well, between ourselves, I killed two patients by accident this morning.
00:23:53The matron is very displeased with me.
00:23:55I simply can't go back.
00:23:57Can you be so silly?
00:23:58But seriously, I really did get through most of my work this morning.
00:24:01It wouldn't matter at all if I played truant.
00:24:03Would you mind very much if I came to pictures with you?
00:24:05Well...
00:24:06I could sit downstairs. You could sit upstairs.
00:24:09Upstairs is too expensive.
00:24:11The orchestra stopped as abruptly as it had started,
00:24:15and we began to laugh again.
00:24:17I had no premonitions, so I suppose I should have had.
00:24:20It all seemed so natural and so innocent.
00:24:23We finished lunch, and that idiot of a waitress had put the bill all on one.
00:24:27I really must insist.
00:24:28I couldn't possibly.
00:24:29Having forced my company on you, it's only fair that I spay through the nose for it.
00:24:32Oh, please don't insist. I should so much rather we halved it.
00:24:35I would really please.
00:24:36I shall give in gracefully.
00:24:38We halved it meticulously.
00:24:40We even halved the tip.
00:24:52Thank you.
00:24:55We have two choices.
00:24:56The loves of Cardinal Richly at the palace
00:24:58or love in the midst of the Palladium.
00:25:00You're very knowledgeable.
00:25:01And there must be no argument about buying the tickets.
00:25:03We each pay for ourselves.
00:25:04You must think me a very poor doctor
00:25:06if I can't afford a couple of one-and-nine pennies.
00:25:08I insist.
00:25:09I had hoped you were going to treat me.
00:25:10Which is it to be, palace or Palladium?
00:25:12Palladium.
00:25:13I was once very sick on a channel steamer called Cardinal Richly.
00:25:39Ah!
00:26:00I feel awfully grand perched up here.
00:26:02I was very extravagant of you.
00:26:03It was a famous victory.
00:26:04Do you feel guilty at all?
00:26:05I do.
00:26:06Guilty.
00:26:07You do more than me.
00:26:08You neglected your work this afternoon.
00:26:10I worked this morning.
00:26:11A little relaxation never did harm to anyone.
00:26:13Why should either of us feel guilty?
00:26:15I don't know.
00:26:16How awfully nice you are.
00:26:32It can't be.
00:26:35It is.
00:26:37We walked back to the station together.
00:26:39Just as we reached the gates,
00:26:41he put his hand under my arm.
00:26:43I didn't notice it then,
00:26:45but I remember it now.
00:26:47What's she like, your wife?
00:26:49Madeleine?
00:26:50Small, dark, rather delicate.
00:26:52How funny.
00:26:53I should have thought she would have been fair.
00:26:55And your husband, what's he like?
00:26:57Medium height, brown hair,
00:26:59kindly, unemotional,
00:27:00and not delicate at all.
00:27:02You said that proudly.
00:27:04Did I?
00:27:05Evening.
00:27:07We've just got time for a cup of tea
00:27:09before our trains go.
00:27:10And for the third time in one week,
00:27:12he brought that common man and his wife to the house
00:27:15without so much as a bye or leave.
00:27:17Two teas, please.
00:27:18Cake or pastry?
00:27:19Cake or pastry.
00:27:20No, thank you.
00:27:21Are those bath buns for us?
00:27:23Certainly.
00:27:24They are made this morning.
00:27:26Two, please.
00:27:27That'll be sevenpence.
00:27:29Take the tea to the table, Beryl.
00:27:32I'll carry the buns.
00:27:34You must eat one of these.
00:27:36Fresh this morning.
00:27:37Very fattening.
00:27:38I don't hold to such foolishness.
00:27:40They do look good, I must say.
00:27:42One of my earliest passions in life.
00:27:44I've never outgrown it.
00:27:45What happened then, Mrs. Packard?
00:27:47Well, it's all very fine, I said,
00:27:49expecting me to do this, that, and the other,
00:27:52but what do I get out of it?
00:27:54You can't expect me to be a cook,
00:27:56housekeeper, and chair rolled into one during the day
00:27:59and a loving wife in the evening
00:28:01just because you feel like it.
00:28:03Oh, dear me, no.
00:28:04They're just as good fish in the sea, I said,
00:28:07as ever came out of it.
00:28:09I packed my boxes then and there and left him.
00:28:12Didn't you never go back?
00:28:14Never.
00:28:15I went to my sister's place at Folkestone for a bit.
00:28:18Then I went in with a friend of mine
00:28:20and we opened a tea shop in Hathe.
00:28:22What happened to him?
00:28:23Dead as a doornail inside three years.
00:28:25Well, I never.
00:28:26Is tea bad for one?
00:28:28Worse than coffee, I mean.
00:28:31If this is a professional interview, my fees are guinea.
00:28:34Where did you become a doctor?
00:28:36That's a long story.
00:28:38Perhaps because I'm a bit of an idealist.
00:28:40I think all doctors ought to have ideals.
00:28:42Otherwise their work would be unbearable.
00:28:44Surely you're not encouraging me to talk shop.
00:28:46Why shouldn't you? It's what interests you most.
00:28:48Yes, it is.
00:28:49I'm terribly ambitious, really.
00:28:51Not ambitious for myself, so much as for my special pigeon.
00:28:54What is your special pigeon?
00:28:56Preventive medicine.
00:28:57I see.
00:28:58I'm afraid you don't.
00:29:00I was trying to be intelligent.
00:29:01Most good doctors, especially when they're young,
00:29:03have private dreams.
00:29:04That's the best part of them.
00:29:06Sometimes, though, those get over-professionalised
00:29:08and strangulated. Am I boring you?
00:29:10No. I don't quite understand, but you're not boring me.
00:29:13What I mean is this.
00:29:14All good doctors must primarily be enthusiasts.
00:29:17They must, like writers and painters and priests,
00:29:20they must have a sense of vocation,
00:29:22a deep-rooted, unsentimental desire to do good.
00:29:25Yes, I see that.
00:29:26Well, obviously, one way of preventing disease
00:29:28is worth 50 ways of curing it.
00:29:30That's where my ideal comes in.
00:29:32Preventive medicine isn't anything to do with medicine at all.
00:29:34It's concerned with conditions,
00:29:36living conditions and hygiene and common sense.
00:29:38For instance, my speciality is pneumoconiosis.
00:29:41Oh, dear.
00:29:42Don't be alarmed. It's simpler than it sounds.
00:29:45It's nothing but a slow process of fibrosis of the lung
00:29:48due to the inhalation of particles of dust.
00:29:50In the hospital here, there are splendid opportunities
00:29:52for observing cures and making notes because of the coal mines.
00:29:55You suddenly look much younger.
00:29:57Do I?
00:29:59Almost like a little boy.
00:30:01What made you say that?
00:30:04I don't know.
00:30:06Yes, I do.
00:30:08Tell me.
00:30:10No, I couldn't really.
00:30:12You were saying about the coal mines.
00:30:15Oh, yes. The inhalation of coal dust.
00:30:20That's one specific form of the diseases.
00:30:22It's called anthracosis.
00:30:25What are the others?
00:30:27Chalicosis.
00:30:29That comes from metal dust.
00:30:31Steelworks, you know.
00:30:33Yes, of course, steelworks.
00:30:36And silicosis.
00:30:39That's stone dust.
00:30:41Coal mines.
00:30:44I see.
00:30:48There's your train.
00:30:49Yes.
00:30:50You mustn't miss it.
00:30:51No.
00:30:52What's the matter?
00:30:53Nothing. Nothing at all, really.
00:30:57It's been so very nice. I've enjoyed my afternoon enormously.
00:31:00I'm so glad. So have I. I apologise for boring you with long medical words.
00:31:03I feel dull and stupid not to be able to understand more.
00:31:07Shall I see you again?
00:31:09It's the other platform, isn't it? You have to run.
00:31:11Don't bother about me. Mine's not due for a few minutes.
00:31:13Shall I see you again?
00:31:15Yes, of course. Perhaps we'll come out to Ketchworth one Sunday.
00:31:17It's rather far, I know, but we should be delighted.
00:31:19Please. Please.
00:31:21What is it?
00:31:22Next Thursday, the same time.
00:31:24No, I couldn't possibly.
00:31:26I ask you most humbly.
00:31:29You'll miss your train.
00:31:31It's all right.
00:31:33Run.
00:31:34Goodbye.
00:31:35I'll be there.
00:31:36Thank you, my dear.
00:31:56I stood there...
00:31:58and watched his train draw out of the station.
00:32:01I stared after it...
00:32:03until its taillight had vanished into the darkness.
00:32:09I imagined him getting out at Chirley...
00:32:12giving up his ticket...
00:32:14walking back to the station...
00:32:16and looking for his train.
00:32:18I imagined him...
00:32:20walking back to the station...
00:32:22and looking for his train.
00:32:25Walking back through the streets...
00:32:28letting himself into his house with his latchkey.
00:32:32His wife, Madeleine...
00:32:35would probably be in the hall to meet him.
00:32:39Or perhaps upstairs in her room...
00:32:42not feeling very well.
00:32:44Small, dark, and rather delicate.
00:32:47I wondered if he'd say...
00:32:50I met such a nice woman at the Cardoma.
00:32:53We had lunch and went to the pictures.
00:32:56Then suddenly I knew that he wouldn't.
00:32:59I knew beyond a shadow of doubt that he wouldn't say a word.
00:33:03And at that moment...
00:33:05the first awful feeling of danger swept over me.
00:33:15I got into the first compartment I saw.
00:33:18I wanted to get home as quickly as possible.
00:33:21I wandered around the carriage to see if anyone was looking at me...
00:33:25as if they could read my secret thoughts.
00:33:28No one was...
00:33:30except a clergyman in the opposite corner.
00:33:33I felt myself blushing...
00:33:35and opened my library book and pretended to read.
00:33:38By the time I'd got to Ketchworth...
00:33:40I'd made up my mind that I wasn't going to see Alec any more.
00:33:44The silly and undignified flirting like that...
00:33:47was a complete stranger.
00:33:49I walked up to the house quite briskly and cheerfully.
00:33:52I'd been behaving like an idiot, admittedly, but no harm had been done.
00:33:58You met me in the hall.
00:34:00Your face was strained and worried, and my heart sank.
00:34:03Fred, what's the matter?
00:34:05It's all right, old girl, but you must keep calm and not be upset.
00:34:08It's Bobby. He was knocked down by a car on the way home from school.
00:34:11Now, it's not serious. He was just grazed by the mudguard...
00:34:14but he's got slight concussion. The doctor's upstairs with him now.
00:34:20It's all right, Mrs. Jesson. Nothing to worry about.
00:34:24He'll be as right as rain in a few hours.
00:34:27You're sure? You're sure it's not serious?
00:34:30Quite sure, but it was certainly a very lucky escape.
00:34:33I'd given him a little sedative...
00:34:35and I shall advise keeping him at home for a couple of days.
00:34:38It must have been a bit of a shock.
00:34:40I felt so dreadful, Fred, looking at him lying there...
00:34:43with that bandage round his head.
00:34:45I tried not to show it, but I was quite hysterical inside.
00:34:48As though the whole thing were my fault.
00:34:50A sort of punishment.
00:34:52An awful, sinister warning.
00:34:55An hour or two later, of course, everything became quite normal again.
00:34:59He began to enjoy the whole thing thoroughly...
00:35:01and reveled in the fact that he was the center of attraction.
00:35:04Oh, God.
00:35:06Do you remember how he spent the whole evening planning his future?
00:35:10But he's much too young to decide, really.
00:35:13Good life. The boy has a feeling for it.
00:35:15Good life. The boy has a feeling for it.
00:35:17How can we possibly really know if he has a feeling for it?
00:35:20He'll probably want to be an engine driver next week.
00:35:22No, it was last week he wanted to be an engine driver.
00:35:25Seems so final, somehow, entering a child of that age for the Navy.
00:35:28A healthy life.
00:35:30I know it's a good life, and I know it's a healthy life.
00:35:33I know he'll be able to see the world and have a wife in every port...
00:35:36and keep on calling everybody sir, but what about us?
00:35:39What do you mean, what about us?
00:35:41You shall hardly ever see him.
00:35:43Nonsense. He'll be sent away to sea as a smooth-faced boy...
00:35:47and the next thing we know, he'll come walking in with a long beard and a parrot.
00:35:51I think you take rather a Victorian view of the Navy, my dear.
00:35:55He's our only son, and I should like to be there while he's growing up.
00:35:58All right, old girl, then we'll put him into an office...
00:36:01and you can see him off on the 850 every morning.
00:36:04You really are very annoying. You know perfectly well I should hate them.
00:36:07All right, have it your own way.
00:36:09Fred.
00:36:11Hmm?
00:36:13I had lunch with a strange man today, and he took me to the movies.
00:36:16Good for you.
00:36:18He's awfully nice. He's a doctor.
00:36:21A very noble profession.
00:36:25Oh, dear.
00:36:27It was Richard III who said, my kingdom for a horse, wasn't it?
00:36:31Yes, darling.
00:36:33Yes, well, I wish to goodness he hadn't, because it spoils everything.
00:36:37I thought perhaps we might ask him to dinner one night.
00:36:40By all means.
00:36:43Who?
00:36:45Dr. Harvey, the one I was telling you about.
00:36:48Must it be dinner?
00:36:50Well, you're never at home for lunch.
00:36:52Exactly.
00:36:54Oh, Fred.
00:36:57Now, what on earth's the matter?
00:36:59It's nothing. It's only...
00:37:02Oh, Fred.
00:37:05Oh, Fred.
00:37:07I really don't see what's so frightfully funny.
00:37:09Oh, I do. It's all right, darling.
00:37:11I'm not laughing at you. I'm laughing at me.
00:37:14I'm the one that's funny. I'm an absolute idiot.
00:37:16Worrying myself about things that don't exist
00:37:19and making mountains out of molehills.
00:37:21I told you when you came in that it was nothing serious.
00:37:24There was nothing to get into such a state about.
00:37:26I do see that now. I really do.
00:37:34When Thursday came,
00:37:37I went to meet Alec more as a matter of politeness
00:37:40than for any other reason.
00:37:42It didn't seem of any importance,
00:37:44but after all, I had promised.
00:37:46I managed to get the same table.
00:37:48I waited a bit,
00:37:50but he didn't come.
00:37:52The ladies' orchestra was playing away as usual.
00:37:55I looked at the cellist.
00:37:57She'd seemed to be so funny last week,
00:37:59but today she didn't seem funny any more.
00:38:01She looked pleased.
00:38:03She looked pathetic, poor thing.
00:38:06After lunch,
00:38:08I happened to pass by the hospital.
00:38:10I remember looking up at the windows
00:38:12and wondering if he were there
00:38:14or whether something awful had happened
00:38:16to prevent him turning up.
00:38:18I got to the station earlier than usual.
00:38:20I hadn't enjoyed the pictures much.
00:38:22It was one of those noisy musical things,
00:38:24and I'm so sick of them.
00:38:26I'd come out before it was over.
00:38:28As I took my tea to the table,
00:38:30I suddenly wondered if I'd made a mistake.
00:38:32And he'd meant me to meet him there.
00:38:49Oh, but God be! How dare you!
00:38:51I couldn't resist it.
00:38:53I'll trouble you to keep your hands to yourself.
00:38:55Oh, you're blushing. Oh, you look wonderful when you're angry.
00:38:58Just like an avenging angel.
00:39:01Coming in here taking liberties.
00:39:03I thought after what you said last Monday
00:39:05you wouldn't object to a friendly little slap.
00:39:07Have you mind about last Monday?
00:39:09I'm on duty now.
00:39:11Nice thing if Mr. Saunders had happened to be looking through the window.
00:39:14Well, if Mr. Saunders is in the habit of looking through windows,
00:39:17it's about time he saw something worth looking at.
00:39:19You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
00:39:21Oh, it's high spirits. Don't be mad at me.
00:39:23High spirits indeed. Take your tea and be quiet.
00:39:25It's all your fault, really.
00:39:27You don't know to what you're referring.
00:39:28If you don't learn to behave yourself, there won't be a tonight
00:39:31or any other night either.
00:39:33Give us a kiss.
00:39:35Oh, do no such thing. The lady might see us.
00:39:37Come on, a quick one across the bar.
00:39:39Albert, stop it. Come on, there's a lot.
00:39:41Let go of me this minute. Albert!
00:39:43Now, look at me Banburys all over the floor.
00:39:45Just in time or born in the vestry.
00:39:47You shut your mouth
00:39:49and help Mr. Gogby pick up them cakes.
00:39:51Come along now.
00:39:53What are you standing there gaping at?
00:39:59Come along.
00:40:13As I left the refreshment room,
00:40:15I saw a train coming in.
00:40:17His train.
00:40:19He wasn't on the platform,
00:40:21and I suddenly felt panic-stricken
00:40:23at the thought of not seeing him again.
00:40:29I'm so sorry.
00:40:31It's so disturbing, sir. I had no way of letting you know.
00:40:33It's your train. You'll miss it.
00:40:35The house surgeon had to operate, sir.
00:40:43I thought they might shout your name out of the barricade.
00:40:46Please don't say any more.
00:40:54Quickly, quickly. The whistle's gone.
00:40:59I'm so glad I had a chance to explain.
00:41:01I didn't think I'd see you again.
00:41:03I'm sad. I mean, quickly, quickly.
00:41:07Next Thursday?
00:41:09Yes, next Thursday.
00:41:11Goodbye.
00:41:13Thursday. Bye.
00:41:15The train for Ketchworth
00:41:17is about to leave from Platform 3.
00:41:29The stars can change in their courses.
00:41:31The universe go up in flames
00:41:33and the world crash around us,
00:41:35but there'll always be Donald Duck.
00:41:37I do love him, sir.
00:41:39His dreadful energy and his blind, frustrated rage.
00:41:41It's a big picture now.
00:41:43Here we go. No more laughter.
00:41:45Prepare for tears.
00:41:50It was a terribly bad picture.
00:41:52We crept out before the end,
00:41:54rather furtively,
00:41:56as though we were committing a crime.
00:41:58The usherette at the door
00:42:00looked at us with stony contempt.
00:42:02It was a lovely afternoon
00:42:04and it was a relief to be in the fresh air.
00:42:06We decided we'd go to the botanical gardens.
00:42:08Do you know,
00:42:10I believe we should all behave quite differently
00:42:12if we lived in a warm, sunny climate all the time.
00:42:14We shouldn't be so withdrawn
00:42:16and shy and difficult.
00:42:18Oh, Fred, it really was a lovely afternoon.
00:42:20There were some little boys sailing their boats.
00:42:22One of them looked awfully like Bobby.
00:42:24That should have given me a pang of conscience.
00:42:26I know, but it didn't.
00:42:28I was enjoying myself,
00:42:30enjoying every single minute.
00:42:32Alec suddenly said that he was sick of staring at the water
00:42:34and that he wanted to be on it.
00:42:36All the boats were covered up,
00:42:38but we managed to persuade the old man
00:42:40to let us have one.
00:42:42He thought we were a raving man.
00:42:44Perhaps he was right.
00:42:46Alec rode off at a great rate
00:42:48and I trailed my hand in the water.
00:42:50It was very cold, but a lovely feeling.
00:42:56You don't row very well, do you?
00:42:58I'm going to be perfectly honest with you.
00:43:00I don't row at all.
00:43:02And unless you want to go round and round
00:43:04in ever-narrowing circles,
00:43:06you'd better start steering.
00:43:08Oh, we had such fun, Fred.
00:43:10I felt gay and happy
00:43:12and sort of released.
00:43:14That's what's so shameful about it all.
00:43:16That's what would hurt you so much
00:43:18if you knew
00:43:20that I could feel as intensely as that
00:43:22away from you.
00:43:25With a stranger.
00:43:27Hmm.
00:43:29Oh, look out! We can't get through.
00:43:31Pull on your left.
00:43:37Oh.
00:43:39Oh, dear, I never could tell left from right.
00:43:41I'm most awfully sorry.
00:43:55You know, the British have always been nice to mad people.
00:43:57That boatman thinks we're quite dotted.
00:43:59Look how sweet he's been.
00:44:01Tea, milk,
00:44:03even sugar.
00:44:09Thank you.
00:44:11Oh, dear, I never could tell left from right.
00:44:13I'm most awfully sorry.
00:44:15I'm most awfully sorry.
00:44:17Oh, dear, I never could tell left from right.
00:44:19I'm most awfully sorry.
00:44:21Oh, dear, I never could tell left from right.
00:44:23Thank you.
00:44:38You know what's happened, don't you?
00:44:43Yes.
00:44:45Yes, I do.
00:44:47I've fallen in love with you.
00:44:49Yes, I know.
00:44:55Tell me honestly.
00:44:57Please tell me honestly if what I believe is true.
00:44:59What you believe?
00:45:01That it's the same with you.
00:45:03That you've fallen in love, too.
00:45:07It sounds so silly.
00:45:09Why?
00:45:11I know you so little.
00:45:13It is true, though, isn't it?
00:45:15Yes, it's true.
00:45:18Yes, it's true.
00:45:20Laura... No, please.
00:45:22We must be sensible. Please help me to be sensible.
00:45:24We mustn't behave like this.
00:45:26We must forget that we've said what we've said.
00:45:28Not yet. Not quite yet.
00:45:30But we must, don't you see?
00:45:32Listen.
00:45:34It's too late now to be as sensible as all that.
00:45:36It's too late to forget what we said.
00:45:38And anyway, whether we'd said it or not couldn't have mattered.
00:45:41We know.
00:45:43We've both of us known for a long time.
00:45:45How can you say that?
00:45:47I've only known you for four weeks.
00:45:49We only talked for the first time last Thursday week.
00:45:52Last Thursday week.
00:45:54Has it been a long time for you since then?
00:45:57Answer me truly.
00:45:59Yes.
00:46:01How often did you decide that you were never going to see me again?
00:46:04Several times a day.
00:46:06I love you.
00:46:08I love your wide eyes.
00:46:10The way you smile.
00:46:12And your shyness.
00:46:14And the way you laugh at my jokes.
00:46:16Please don't.
00:46:18I love you. I love you.
00:46:20You love me, too.
00:46:22It's no use pretending it hasn't happened, because it has.
00:46:25Yes, it has.
00:46:27I don't want to pretend anything, either to you or to anyone else.
00:46:30But from now on, I shall have to.
00:46:32That's what's wrong, don't you see?
00:46:34That's what spoils everything.
00:46:36That's why we must stop here and now talking like this.
00:46:39We're neither of us free to love each other.
00:46:41There's too much in the way.
00:46:44There's still time.
00:46:47If we control ourselves and behave like sensible human beings...
00:46:51there's still time.
00:46:56There's no time at all.
00:47:02There's your train.
00:47:04Yes.
00:47:06I'll come over to the platform with you.
00:47:14Oh, no, Alec. Not here. Someone will see.
00:47:17I love you, Sam.
00:47:44Do you think we might have that down a bit, darling?
00:47:47Hi, Laura.
00:47:51Yes, dear?
00:47:53You were miles away.
00:47:55Was I? Yes, I suppose I was.
00:47:58Do you mind if we turn that down a little? It really is deafening.
00:48:01Of course not.
00:48:03Bye-bye.
00:48:13It shan't be long after this, darling, then we'll go off to bed.
00:48:16You look a bit tired, you know.
00:48:18Don't hurry. I'm perfectly happy.
00:48:29How can I possibly say that?
00:48:32Don't hurry. I'm perfectly happy.
00:48:35If only it were true.
00:48:37Not, I suppose, that anybody's ever perfectly happy, really.
00:48:41But just to be ordinarily contented, to be at peace.
00:48:45It's such a little while ago, really, but it seems an eternity...
00:48:49since that train went out of the station,
00:48:52taking him away into the darkness.
00:48:55I was happy then.
00:48:57As I went back through the subway to my own platform, I was walking on air.
00:49:02And when I got under the train, I didn't even pretend to read.
00:49:06I didn't care whether people were looking at me or not. I had to think.
00:49:10I should have been utterly wretched and ashamed. I know I should, but I wasn't.
00:49:14I felt suddenly quite wildly happy,
00:49:17like a romantic schoolgirl, like a romantic fool.
00:49:21You see, he'd said he loved me,
00:49:25and I'd said I loved him.
00:49:27And it was true. It was true.
00:49:30I imagined him holding me in his arms.
00:49:33I imagined being with him in all sorts of glamorous circumstances.
00:49:37It was one of those absurd fantasies, just like one has when one is a girl,
00:49:41being wooed and married by the ideal of one's dreams.
00:49:48I stared out of that railway carriage window into the dark
00:49:52and watched the dim trees and the telegraph posts slipping by.
00:49:56And through them I saw Alec and me.
00:50:00Alec and me.
00:50:02Perhaps a little younger than we are now, but just as much in love
00:50:06and with nothing in the way.
00:50:13I saw us in Paris, in a box at the opera.
00:50:17The orchestra was tuning up.
00:50:23Then we were in Venice, drifting along the Grand Canal in a gondola
00:50:27with the sound of mandolins coming to us over the water.
00:50:30I saw us travelling far away together,
00:50:33all the places I've always longed to go.
00:50:38I saw us leaning on the rail of a ship, looking at the sea and the stars.
00:50:44Standing on a tropical beach in the moonlight
00:50:47with the palm trees sighing above us.
00:50:50Then the palm trees changed into those pollarded willows by the canal
00:50:54just before the level crossing.
00:50:57And all the silly dreams disappeared.
00:51:00Then I got out at Ketchworth and gave up my ticket
00:51:04and walked home as usual, quite soberly and without wings.
00:51:08Without any wings at all.
00:51:10When I changed for dinner and was doing my face a bit, do you remember?
00:51:14I don't suppose you do, but I do.
00:51:16You see, you didn't know that that was the first time in our life together
00:51:20that I'd ever lied to you.
00:51:22It started then.
00:51:24The shame of the whole thing.
00:51:26The guiltiness. The fear.
00:51:29Good evening, Mrs. Jessen.
00:51:31Hello, dear.
00:51:33Had a good day?
00:51:35Yes, lovely.
00:51:37What did you do?
00:51:39I shopped and had lunch and went to the pictures.
00:51:42All by yourself?
00:51:44Yes. No, not exactly.
00:51:46What do you mean, not exactly?
00:51:48I went to the pictures by myself, but I had lunch with Mary Norton.
00:51:52She couldn't come because she had to go and see her in-laws.
00:51:55They lived just outside Milford.
00:51:57So I walked with her to the bus and then came home on my own.
00:52:00Haven't seen Mary Norton for ages. How's she looking?
00:52:03Very well, really. A little fatter, I thought.
00:52:05Hurry up with all this beautifying. I want my dinner.
00:52:08You go on down. I won't be five minutes.
00:52:22Number, please.
00:52:24Hedgeward 37, please.
00:52:26Hedgeward 37.
00:52:34Hello?
00:52:36Hello. Is Mrs. Norton there, please?
00:52:38Yes. Will you hold on?
00:52:40Yes, I'll hold on.
00:52:44Hello.
00:52:46Hello.
00:52:48Hello.
00:52:51Hello.
00:52:53Hello. Is that you, Mary?
00:52:55Oh, Laura. Fancy hearing from you. I thought you were dead.
00:52:58No, I haven't seen you for ages.
00:53:01Listen, my dear.
00:53:03Will you be a saint and back me up in the most appalling domestic lie?
00:53:06As bad as all that.
00:53:08My life depends on it.
00:53:10Well, today I went into Milford as usual to do my shopping.
00:53:13With the special intention of buying a far too expensive present for Fred's birthday.
00:53:17Uh-huh.
00:53:19I just hadn't got what I wanted,
00:53:21which was one of those clocks with barometers and everything in one.
00:53:24But they rang up their branch at Broadham and said there was one there.
00:53:27So I hopped on the one-place train and went to get it.
00:53:30Well, this is where the black lie comes in.
00:53:33Fred asked me if I'd had a good day.
00:53:36And I said yes, and that you and I had lunch together
00:53:39and that you'd gone to see your in-laws and I'd gone to the pictures.
00:53:42So if you run into him, don't let me down, will you?
00:53:45Darling, of course not.
00:53:47I won't do as much for you, I promise.
00:53:49Well, let's really lunch one day.
00:53:51Yes, that'd be lovely.
00:53:53What about next Thursday?
00:53:55No, I can't on Thursday. That's my Milford day.
00:53:58What about Friday?
00:54:00Fine. Better make it here.
00:54:02All right, perfect.
00:54:04You know what my cook's like. It'll have to be early.
00:54:07Yes. All right.
00:54:09Goodbye.
00:54:11Goodbye.
00:54:17That week was misery.
00:54:21I went through it in a sort of trance.
00:54:26How odd of you not to have noticed
00:54:28that you were living with a stranger in the house.
00:54:33Thursday came at last.
00:54:35I'd arranged to meet Alec outside the hospital at 12.30.
00:54:47Hello.
00:54:49Hello.
00:54:51I thought you wouldn't come.
00:54:53I'd been thinking all the week that you wouldn't come.
00:54:56I didn't mean to, really, but here I am.
00:55:04Do you know I hadn't been inside the Royal
00:55:06since Violet's wedding reception?
00:55:08It all seemed very grand.
00:55:10He actually ordered a bottle of champagne.
00:55:12And when I protested, he said that we were only middle-aged once.
00:55:15We were very gay during lunch
00:55:17and talked about quite ordinary things.
00:55:19Oh, Freddie really was charming.
00:55:21I know you'd have liked him if only things had been different.
00:55:24As we were going out, he said that he had a surprise for me
00:55:27and that if I would wait in the lounge for five minutes,
00:55:30he'd show me what it was.
00:55:32He went out and down the steps at a run,
00:55:35more like an excited schoolboy than a respectable doctor.
00:55:38Suddenly, out of the dining room came Mary Norton
00:55:41and that rich, over-made-up cousin of hers.
00:55:44I'd seen Alec and me and the champagne and everything.
00:55:47Laura! So it was you, after all.
00:55:50Come on, you said it was.
00:55:52But you know how short-sighted I am.
00:55:54I peered and peered and still couldn't be sure.
00:55:56I never saw you at all. How awful of me.
00:55:58I expected it was the champagne.
00:56:00I'm not used to champagne for lunch or for dinner either,
00:56:03but Alec insisted.
00:56:05Alec? Alec who, dear?
00:56:07Alec Harvey, of course.
00:56:09Sure you remember the Harveys. I've known them for years.
00:56:12You'll probably recognize him when you peer very closely.
00:56:15He looks very charming and very attentive.
00:56:17He's a dear. One of the nicest people in the world and a wonderful doctor.
00:56:23Alec, you remember Mrs Norton, don't you?
00:56:25I'm afraid I don't.
00:56:27It's no use, Laura. We've never seen each other before in our lives.
00:56:30I'm quite sure we haven't.
00:56:32How absurd. I made certain he and Madeline were there
00:56:35when you dined with us just before Christmas last year.
00:56:38Alec, this is Mrs Rowlands. How do you do?
00:56:41I can't really expect spring at this time of the year, can one?
00:56:47Well, we must be going.
00:56:49I'm taking Hermione with me to see the in-laws as moral support.
00:56:52Goodbye, Dr Harvey. Goodbye.
00:56:54Goodbye, my dear. I do so envy you, your champagne.
00:56:57Goodbye. Goodbye.
00:57:05It was awful. Never mind.
00:57:07They've been watching us all through lunch. Oh, dear.
00:57:11All right. Come out and look at the surprise.
00:57:14There at the foot of the steps was a little two-seater car.
00:57:17Alec had borrowed it from Stephen Lynn for the afternoon.
00:57:20I tried so hard to look pleased, but it wasn't any good.
00:57:24I kept thinking of those two, laughing and talking,
00:57:27laughing and talking about us, and I couldn't get them out of my mind.
00:57:33When we were out in the real country, I think it was a few miles beyond Brayfield,
00:57:37we stopped the car just outside a village and got out.
00:57:40There was a little bridge and a stream,
00:57:42and the sun was making an effort to come out, but really not succeeding very well.
00:57:46We leaned on the parapet of the bridge and looked down into the water.
00:57:50I shivered, and Alec put his arm round me.
00:57:53Cold? No, not really.
00:57:55Happy?
00:58:00No, not really.
00:58:03I know exactly what you're going to say.
00:58:06That it isn't worth it.
00:58:08That the furtiveness and lying outweigh the happiness we might have together.
00:58:13Isn't that it?
00:58:15Something like that.
00:58:21I want to ask you something, just to reassure myself.
00:58:24What is it?
00:58:27It is true for you, isn't it?
00:58:29This overwhelming feeling we have for each other.
00:58:32It's as true for you as it is for me, isn't it?
00:58:35Yes, it's true.
00:58:38It's true.
00:58:44We must have stayed on that bridge for a long time,
00:58:47because when we got back to Stephen Lynn's garage, it was getting dark.
00:58:53I remember feeling as if I was on the edge of a precipice.
00:58:56I think Alec felt that too.
00:58:58You see, we both knew how desperately we loved each other.
00:59:04Alec said that he had to leave the keys of the car in Stephen Lynn's flat
00:59:08and suggested that I came up with him.
00:59:10I refused rather too vehemently.
00:59:12Alec reminded me that Stephen wasn't coming back till late,
00:59:15but I still refused.
00:59:26I'm going back. I'm going to miss my train.
00:59:30Back where?
00:59:31To Stephen's flat.
00:59:33Oh, Alec.
00:59:38Oh, Alec.
00:59:49Alec, I must go home now. I really must go home.
01:00:08A cup of tea, please.
01:00:20Good afternoon.
01:00:21Afternoon, lady.
01:00:22Afternoon.
01:00:23A couple of whiskies, please.
01:00:24Very sorry, it's out of hours.
01:00:26Well, just sneak them to us under the cupboard of them poor old sandwiches.
01:00:29Them sandwiches were fresh this morning, and I shall do no such thing.
01:00:32Come on, be a saint.
01:00:34Them sandwiches were fresh this morning, and I shall do no such thing.
01:00:37Come on, be a sport.
01:00:38You can have as much as you want to after six o'clock.
01:00:41My throat's like a parrot's cage. Listen.
01:00:45I'm sorry, my license does not permit me to serve alcohol out of hours.
01:00:48That's final.
01:00:49You wouldn't want to get me into trouble, would you?
01:00:51Just give us the chance, lady. That's all we ask.
01:00:53Just give us the chance.
01:00:57Gabriel!
01:01:00Ask Mr. Godley to come here for a moment, will you?
01:01:03How does he when he's at home?
01:01:05You'll soon see.
01:01:06Coming in here cheeking me.
01:01:07Shove off it, mother. Be a pal.
01:01:09I'll give you mother, you saucy upstart.
01:01:11Oh, you're you. You callin' an upstart.
01:01:13You. And I'll trouble you to get out of here double quick.
01:01:15Disturbing the customers and making a nuisance of yourselves.
01:01:18Here, where's the fire? Where's the fire?
01:01:20What's going on in here?
01:01:21Mr. Godley, these gentlemen are annoying me.
01:01:24What? We haven't done nothing, have we, Johnny?
01:01:26We did besides a couple of drinks, that's all.
01:01:28They insulted me, Mr. Godley.
01:01:31I never did anything of the kind. Just having a little joke, that's all.
01:01:34Op it, both of you.
01:01:35We've got a right to stay here as long as we like.
01:01:37You heard what I said. Op it.
01:01:38Now, look here. What is this, a free country or a blooming Sunday school?
01:01:41I checked your warrants at the gate. Your train's due in one minute, number two platform.
01:01:44Op it.
01:01:45Now, look here.
01:01:46Ah, come on, Johnny, come on. Don't argue with the poor basket.
01:01:50Op it.
01:01:55Cheerio, mother.
01:01:56And if them sandwiches were made this morning, you're surely triple.
01:02:02Thank you, Albert.
01:02:03What's the nerve, talking to you like that, Mrs. Bagot?
01:02:05Be quiet, Beryl.
01:02:06Pour me out a nip of three star. I'm feeling quite upset.
01:02:09Let's get back to the gate.
01:02:10I'll be seeing you later, Albert.
01:02:13Okay.
01:02:14Okay.
01:02:21The train now arriving at platform three is the 543 from Ketchworth.
01:02:31I really must go home.
01:02:32I'm going back to the flat.
01:02:35I must go home.
01:02:37I really must go home.
01:02:38I'm going back to the flat.
01:02:40I'm going home.
01:03:07Excuse me, I've a question.
01:03:08Excuse me, I've forgotten something.
01:03:38I'm sorry.
01:03:39I'm sorry.
01:03:40I'm sorry.
01:03:41I'm sorry.
01:03:42I'm sorry.
01:03:43I'm sorry.
01:03:44I'm sorry.
01:03:45I'm sorry.
01:03:46I'm sorry.
01:03:47I'm sorry.
01:03:48I'm sorry.
01:03:49I'm sorry.
01:03:50I'm sorry.
01:03:51I'm sorry.
01:03:52I'm sorry.
01:03:53I'm sorry.
01:03:54I'm sorry.
01:03:55I'm sorry.
01:03:56I'm sorry.
01:03:57I'm sorry.
01:03:58I'm sorry.
01:03:59I'm sorry.
01:04:00I'm sorry.
01:04:01I'm sorry.
01:04:02I'm sorry.
01:04:03I'm sorry.
01:04:04I'm sorry.
01:04:05I'm sorry.
01:04:06I'm sorry.
01:04:07I'm sorry.
01:04:08I'm sorry.
01:04:09I'm sorry.
01:04:10I'm sorry.
01:04:16Darling...
01:04:25It's raining.
01:04:27It started just as I turned out of the High Street.
01:04:30You had no umbrella and your coats wet.
01:04:33You mustn't catch cold, that will never do.
01:04:35Let me put that down for you.
01:04:37Thank you.
01:04:41I hope the fire will perk up in a few minutes.
01:04:45I expect the wood was damp.
01:04:47Yes, I expect it was.
01:04:51Do sit down, darling.
01:05:05I got right into the train and then got out again.
01:05:07Wasn't it idiotic?
01:05:09We're both very, very foolish.
01:05:17Eric, I can't stay, you know. Really, I can't.
01:05:19Just a little while.
01:05:21Just a little while.
01:05:25Quickly, quickly. I must go.
01:05:27Here, through the kitchen.
01:05:29There's a train in the staircase.
01:05:36Is that you, Eric?
01:05:38Yes.
01:05:43You're back early.
01:05:45Yes, I found a cold coming on,
01:05:47so I denied myself the always questionable pleasure
01:05:49of dining with that arch-arguer Roger Hinchley
01:05:51and decided to come back to bed.
01:05:53Inflamed membranes are unsympathetic to a dialectic.
01:05:55What'll you do about food?
01:05:57I can always ring down to the restaurant if I want any later on.
01:06:00We live in a modern age, and this is a service fare.
01:06:03Yes, yes, of course.
01:06:05It caters for all tastes.
01:06:12You know, my dear Alec,
01:06:14you have hidden depths which I never even suspected.
01:06:16Look here, Stephen, I really...
01:06:18For heaven's sake, Alec, no explanations or apologies.
01:06:20I'm the one who should apologize for returning so inopportunely.
01:06:23It's quite obvious to me
01:06:25that you were interviewing a patient privately.
01:06:27Women are frequently rather neurotic creatures,
01:06:29and the hospital atmosphere is upsetting to them.
01:06:31By the rather undignified scuffling
01:06:33which I heard when I came into the hall,
01:06:35I gather that she beat a hasty retreat down the back stairs.
01:06:38I'm surprised at this farcical streak in your nature, Alec.
01:06:42Such carryings on are quite unnecessary.
01:06:44After all, we've been friends for years,
01:06:46and I am the most broad-minded of men.
01:06:49I'm really very sorry, Stephen.
01:06:51I'm sure that the whole situation
01:06:53must seem inexpressibly vulgar to you.
01:06:55Actually, it isn't in the least.
01:06:57However, you're perfectly right, Alec.
01:07:00However, you're perfectly right, explanations are unnecessary,
01:07:02particularly between old friends.
01:07:04I must go now. I'll collect my hat and coat.
01:07:06Good-bye.
01:07:07Perhaps you'll let me have my latchkey back.
01:07:09I only have two, and I'm so afraid of losing them.
01:07:11You know how absent-minded I am.
01:07:15You're very angry, aren't you?
01:07:17No, Alec, not angry, just disappointed.
01:07:30I ran until I couldn't run any longer.
01:07:32I leaned against a lamppost to try and get my breath.
01:07:35I was in one of those side roads that lead out of the high street.
01:07:38I know it was stupid to run, but I couldn't help myself.
01:07:41I felt so utterly humiliated and defeated and so despised.
01:07:45I couldn't help myself.
01:07:47I couldn't help myself.
01:07:49I couldn't help myself.
01:07:51I couldn't help myself.
01:07:53I couldn't help myself.
01:07:55I couldn't help myself.
01:07:57I was so utterly humiliated and defeated
01:07:59and so dreadfully, dreadfully ashamed.
01:08:04After a moment or two, I pulled myself together
01:08:07and walked on in the direction of the station.
01:08:10It was still raining, but not very much.
01:08:13I suddenly realised that I couldn't go home.
01:08:15Not until I got myself more under control
01:08:17and had a little time to think.
01:08:19Then I thought of you waiting at home and the dinner being spoilt.
01:08:22So I went into the high street and found a tobacconist
01:08:24and telephoned to you.
01:08:26Do you remember?
01:08:52Hello, Fred, is that you?
01:08:54Yes, dear, it's me, Laura.
01:08:57Yes, everything's perfectly all right, but I shan't be home to dinner.
01:09:01I'm with Miss Lewis.
01:09:03Miss Lewis, dear, you know, the librarian I told you about at Boots.
01:09:07Yes, I can't explain in any detail because she's outside the box now.
01:09:11Well, I met her in the high street a little while ago in a terrible state.
01:09:15Her mother's been taken ill and I've promised to stay with her
01:09:18until the doctor comes.
01:09:20Yes, I know, but she's always been awfully kind to me
01:09:23and I feel so sorry for her.
01:09:25No, I'll get a sandwich,
01:09:27but ask Ethel to leave me some soup in a saucepan in the kitchen.
01:09:32Yes, of course, as soon as I can.
01:09:35All right, good-bye.
01:09:38It's awfully easy to lie when you know that you're trusted implicitly.
01:09:42So very easy and so very degrading.
01:09:46I started walking without much purpose.
01:09:49I turned out of the high street almost immediately.
01:09:52I was terrified that I might run into Alec.
01:09:55I was pretty certain that he'd come after me to the station.
01:09:59I walked for a long while.
01:10:01Finally, I found myself at the war memorial.
01:10:03You know, it's right at the other side of the town.
01:10:06It stopped raining altogether and I felt stiflingly hot.
01:10:09So I sat down on one of the seats.
01:10:12There was nobody about and I lit a cigarette.
01:10:15I know how you disapprove of women smoking in the street.
01:10:18I didn't want to, really, but I wanted to calm my nerves
01:10:21and I thought it might help.
01:10:23I sat there for ages.
01:10:25I don't know how long.
01:10:27Then I noticed a policeman walking up and down a little way off.
01:10:31He was looking at me rather suspiciously.
01:10:35Presently, he came up to me.
01:10:38Feeling all right, miss?
01:10:40Yes, thank you.
01:10:42Waiting for someone?
01:10:44No. No, I'm not waiting for anybody.
01:10:46You're going to catch cold now.
01:10:48It's a damp night to be sitting about on seats.
01:10:50I'm going now, anyhow. I've got to catch a train.
01:10:53Are you sure you feel quite all right?
01:10:55Quite, thank you.
01:10:57Good night.
01:10:58Good night, miss.
01:11:00I walked away, trying to look casual,
01:11:03knowing that he was watching me.
01:11:05I felt like a criminal.
01:11:07I walked rather quickly back in the direction of the high street.
01:11:11I got to the station 15 minutes before the last train to Ketchworth
01:11:15and I realised that I'd been wandering about for over three hours,
01:11:18but it didn't seem to be any time at all.
01:11:21Stan, you are awful.
01:11:23See you in the yard.
01:11:25All right.
01:11:29A light glass of brandy, please.
01:11:31We're just closing.
01:11:32Yes, I see you are, but you're not quite closed yet, are you?
01:11:34Three star.
01:11:35That'll do.
01:11:41Oh, and have you got a piece of paper and an envelope?
01:11:44I'm afraid you'll have to get that at the bookstall.
01:11:46Well, the bookstall is closed.
01:11:48Please, it's very important. I should be so much obliged.
01:11:51All right, just a minute.
01:12:10Thank you very much.
01:12:11We close in a few minutes, you know.
01:12:13Yes, I know.
01:12:44Darling, I've been looking for you everywhere.
01:12:46Please go away. Please don't.
01:12:47I've watched every train.
01:12:48Please go away.
01:12:49I can't leave you like this.
01:12:50You must. It'll be better. Really, it will.
01:12:52You're being dreadfully cruel.
01:12:54It was just an accident that he came back early.
01:12:56He doesn't know who you are. He never even saw you.
01:12:58I suppose he laughed, didn't he?
01:13:00I suppose you spoke of me together as men of the world.
01:13:02We didn't speak of you.
01:13:03We spoke of some nameless creature who has no reality at all.
01:13:05Why didn't you tell him who I was?
01:13:06Why didn't you say we were cheap and low and without courage?
01:13:08Stop it, Laura. Pull yourself together.
01:13:09But it's true, isn't it? It's true.
01:13:10It's nothing of the sort.
01:13:11We know we really love each other. That's true.
01:13:13That's all that really matters.
01:13:14It isn't all that really matters.
01:13:15Other things matter, too.
01:13:16Self-respect matters and decency.
01:13:18I can't go on any longer.
01:13:22Could you really say goodbye?
01:13:24Never see me again?
01:13:27Yes, if you'd help me.
01:13:42I love you, Laura.
01:13:44I shall love you always, until the end of my life.
01:13:49I can't look at you now because I know something.
01:13:53I know that this is the beginning of the end.
01:13:55Not the end of my loving you, but the end of our being together.
01:13:59But not quite yet, darling. Please, not quite yet.
01:14:04Very well, not quite yet.
01:14:07I know what you feel about this evening.
01:14:09I mean about the sordidness of it.
01:14:12I know about the strain of our different lives.
01:14:14Our lives apart from each other.
01:14:17The feeling of guilt, of doing wrong, is too strong, isn't it?
01:14:21Too great a price to pay for the happiness we have together.
01:14:26I know all this because it's the same for me, too.
01:14:33You can look at me now. I'm all right.
01:14:40Let's be very careful.
01:14:42Let's prepare ourselves.
01:14:45A sudden break now, however brave and admirable, would be too cruel.
01:14:49We can't do such violence to our hearts and minds.
01:14:53Very well.
01:14:57I'm going away.
01:15:00I see.
01:15:01But not quite yet.
01:15:02Please, not quite yet.
01:15:04That's for 10.10. It's after closing time.
01:15:06Oh, is it?
01:15:07I shall have to lock up.
01:15:08All right.
01:15:22I want you to promise me something.
01:15:24What is it?
01:15:25Promise me that however unhappy you are,
01:15:28and however much you think things over,
01:15:30that you'll meet me again next Thursday.
01:15:32Where?
01:15:33Outside the hospital at 12.30.
01:15:36All right, I promise.
01:15:37I've got to talk to you. I've got to explain.
01:15:39About going away?
01:15:40Yes.
01:15:41Where will you go? Where can you go? You can't give up your practice.
01:15:45I've had a job offered me. I wasn't going to tell you.
01:15:48I wasn't going to take it.
01:15:50But I know now it's the only way out.
01:15:52Where?
01:15:53A long way away. Johannesburg.
01:15:57Oh, I see.
01:15:59Oh, Eric.
01:16:01My brother's out there.
01:16:02They're opening a new hospital. They want me in it.
01:16:06It's a fine opportunity, really.
01:16:08I'll take Madeline and the boys.
01:16:11It's been torturing me, the necessity of making a decision one way or the other.
01:16:14I haven't told anybody, not even Madeline.
01:16:18I couldn't bear the thought of leaving you.
01:16:21But now I see it's got to happen soon anyway.
01:16:25It's almost happening already.
01:16:30Stanley!
01:16:36When will you go?
01:16:39Almost immediately.
01:16:41In about two weeks' time.
01:16:44Quite near, isn't it?
01:16:46Do you want me to stay? Do you want me to turn down the offer?
01:16:49Oh, don't be foolish, Eric.
01:16:51I'll do whatever you say.
01:16:55That's unkind of you, my darling.
01:16:57The train for Ketchworth is now arriving at Platform 3.
01:17:18You're not angry with me, are you?
01:17:21No, I'm not angry.
01:17:23I don't think I'm anything, really. I just feel tired.
01:17:26Forgive me?
01:17:28Forgive you for what?
01:17:30For everything.
01:17:31For meeting you in the first place.
01:17:34For taking a piece of grit out of your eye.
01:17:37For loving you.
01:17:38For bringing you so much misery.
01:17:43I'll forgive you if you'll forgive me.
01:17:53Thursday.
01:17:57All that was a week ago.
01:17:59It's hardly credible that it should be so short a time.
01:18:04Today was our last day together.
01:18:06Our very last together in all our lives.
01:18:10I met him outside the hospital, as I had promised, at 12.30.
01:18:13At 12.30 this morning.
01:18:16That was only this morning.
01:18:19We drove into the country again, but this time he hired a car.
01:18:22I lit cigarettes for him every now and then as we went along.
01:18:25We didn't talk much.
01:18:27I felt numbed and hardly alive at all.
01:18:30We had lunch in a village pub.
01:18:34Afterwards we went to the same bridge over the stream.
01:18:38The bridge that we'd been to before.
01:18:42Those last few hours went by so quickly.
01:18:48As we walked through the station, I remember thinking...
01:18:52This is the last time with Alec.
01:18:55I shall see all this again, but without Alec.
01:18:59I tried not to think of it.
01:19:01Not to let it spoil our last moments together.
01:19:19THE END
01:19:39You all right, darling?
01:19:41Yes, I'm all right.
01:19:44I wish I could think of something to say.
01:19:47It doesn't matter. Not saying anything, I mean.
01:19:49I'll miss my train and wait to see you in...
01:19:51No, please don't. I'll come over with you to your platform, I'd rather.
01:19:53I will.
01:19:57Do you think we shall ever see each other again?
01:20:01I don't know. Not for years, anyway.
01:20:05Children will all be grown up.
01:20:08I wonder if they'll ever meet and know each other.
01:20:11Couldn't I write to you, just once in a while?
01:20:13No, Alec, please. You know we promised.
01:20:16Oh, my dear.
01:20:18I do love you, so very much.
01:20:22I love you with all my heart and soul.
01:20:27I want to die.
01:20:30If only I could die.
01:20:32If you died, you'd forget me.
01:20:34I want to be remembered.
01:20:37Yes, I know I do, too.
01:20:43We've still got a few minutes.
01:20:45Laura! What a lovely surprise.
01:20:48My dear, I've been shopping till I'm dropping.
01:20:50My feet are nearly falling off, my throat's parched.
01:20:52I thought of having tea at Spindle's, but I was terrified of losing the train.
01:20:55Oh, dear.
01:20:57Oh, this is Dr. Harvey.
01:20:58How do you do?
01:20:59Oh, how do you do? Would you be a perfect day and get me a cup of tea?
01:21:01I really don't think I could drag my poor old bones over to the counter.
01:21:04No, please.
01:21:05It was cruel of fate to be against us right up to the very last minute.
01:21:09Dolly Messitter.
01:21:10Poor, well-meaning, irritating Dolly Messitter.
01:21:13Crashing into those last few precious minutes we had together.
01:21:17She chattered and fussed, but I didn't hear what she said.
01:21:20I felt dazed and bewildered.
01:21:23It's in the spoon.
01:21:24Alec behaved so beautifully.
01:21:26With such perfect politeness.
01:21:28No one could have guessed what he was really feeling.
01:21:31And then...
01:21:34There's your train.
01:21:35Yes, I know.
01:21:36Oh, aren't you coming with us?
01:21:38No, I go in the opposite direction. My practice is in Churley.
01:21:40Oh, I see.
01:21:41I'm a general practitioner at the moment.
01:21:42Dr. Harvey's going out to Africa next week.
01:21:44Oh, how thrilling.
01:21:46The train now arriving at platform four is the 540
01:21:51for Churley, Lee Green and Langford.
01:21:54I must go.
01:21:55Yes, you must.
01:21:56Goodbye.
01:21:57Goodbye.
01:22:02I felt the touch of his hand on my shoulder for a moment.
01:22:06And then he walked away.
01:22:07Away, out of my life forever.
01:22:10He's got to get right up to the other platform.
01:22:12Talking of missing trains reminds me of that awful bridge at Broadham Junction.
01:22:15Dolly still went on talking, but I wasn't listening to her.
01:22:20I was listening for the sound of his train starting.
01:22:25Then it did.
01:22:29I said to myself, he didn't go.
01:22:31The last minute his courage failed him, he couldn't have gone.
01:22:34Any minute now, he'll come back into the refreshment room
01:22:36pretending he's forgotten something.
01:22:38I prayed for him to do that.
01:22:40Just so that I could see him again for an instant.
01:22:46But the minutes went by.
01:22:49Is that the train?
01:22:50Oh, can you tell me, is that the Ketchworth train?
01:22:53No, it's the express.
01:22:54The boat train.
01:22:55Of course, that doesn't stop, does it?
01:22:57I want some chocolate, please.
01:22:59No, no, no, no, no.
01:23:01Of course, that doesn't stop, does it?
01:23:03I want some chocolate, please.
01:23:05No, go play.
01:23:32I meant to do it, Fred.
01:23:34I really meant to do it.
01:23:36I stood there trembling, right on the edge.
01:23:41But I couldn't.
01:23:43I wasn't brave enough.
01:23:46I should like to be able to say that it was the thought of you
01:23:48and the children that prevented me, but it wasn't.
01:23:52I had no thoughts at all.
01:23:55Only an overwhelming desire not to feel again.
01:23:59Only an overwhelming desire not to feel anything ever again.
01:24:04Not to be unhappy anymore.
01:24:06I turned.
01:24:10I went back into the refreshment room.
01:24:19That's when I nearly fainted.
01:24:28I nearly fainted.
01:24:59Laura.
01:25:04Yes, John.
01:25:06Whatever your dream was,
01:25:08it wasn't a very happy one, was it?
01:25:13No.
01:25:15Is there anything I can do to help?
01:25:20Yes, Fred, you always help.
01:25:22You've been a long way away.
01:25:24Thank you for coming back to me.
01:25:54You