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Brief Encounter (1945) is a beautifully crafted classic drama that follows two individuals who form a meaningful connection while navigating the routines and responsibilities of everyday life. With elegant storytelling, expressive performances, and thoughtful emotions, the film highlights friendship, understanding, and the quiet moments that shape personal journeys. Timeless and deeply moving, it remains one of cinema’s most beloved stories of reflection and heartfelt emotion.
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00:00:00Merci.
00:00:30Merci.
00:01:00Merci.
00:01:30Merci.
00:02:00Merci.
00:02:16Evening, Mr. Godwin.
00:02:18Hello, hello, hello.
00:02:20Quite a stranger, aren't you?
00:02:22I couldn't get in yesterday.
00:02:23I wondered what had happened to you.
00:02:25I had a bit of a dust-up.
00:02:26What about?
00:02:27Saw a chap getting out of a first-class compartment.
00:02:29He gave up his ticket.
00:02:30It was only third-class.
00:02:31I told him he'd have to pay the excess
00:02:32and then he turned nasty
00:02:33and I had to send to Mr. Saunders.
00:02:34That's not a good he'd be.
00:02:35Oh, he ticked him off.
00:02:36Seeing's believing.
00:02:37I tell you, he ticked him off proper.
00:02:39You pay the balance at once, he says,
00:02:41or I'll hand you over to the police.
00:02:42You ought to see the look on the chap's face
00:02:44at the mention of the word police.
00:02:45Changed his tune, then he did,
00:02:47paid up like lightning.
00:02:48That's just what I mean.
00:02:49He didn't have the courage to handle it himself.
00:02:51He had to call in the police.
00:02:52Oh, he's not a bad lot, Mr. Saunders.
00:02:54After all, he can't expect much spirit
00:02:56from a man with only one lung
00:02:59but something must be wrong when you didn't come.
00:03:01Well, I'd have popped in to explain
00:03:02but I had a date and had a run for it
00:03:03the moment I went off.
00:03:04Oh, indeed.
00:03:05The chap I know is getting married.
00:03:07Very interesting, I'm sure.
00:03:09What's up with you, anyway?
00:03:11I'm sure I don't know to what you're referring.
00:03:13You're a bit unfriendly, all of a sudden.
00:03:15Beryl, hurry up.
00:03:16Put some more coal on the stove while you're at it.
00:03:18Yes, Mrs. Adair.
00:03:19I'm afraid I really can't stand here
00:03:21wasting my time in idle gossip, Mr. Godby.
00:03:23Well, aren't you going to offer me another cup?
00:03:24You can have another cup and welcome
00:03:26when you've finished that one.
00:03:27Beryl will give it to you.
00:03:28They've got me accounts to do.
00:03:30I say, I'd rather you gave it to me.
00:03:32Tame and tade.
00:03:33Weak for no man, Mr. Godby.
00:03:37Laura, what a lovely surprise.
00:03:39Oh, darling.
00:03:40My dear, I've been shopping till I'm dropping
00:03:42my feet are nearly off, my throat's parched.
00:03:44I thought of having teared spindles
00:03:46but I was terrified of losing the train.
00:03:48Oh, dear.
00:03:49Oh, this is Dr. Harvey.
00:03:51How do you do?
00:03:52Would you be a perfect day and get me my cup of tea?
00:03:53I really don't think I could drag my poor old bones
00:03:55over to the counter.
00:03:56No, please.
00:04:00My dear, what a nice looking man who on earth is he really?
00:04:02You're quite a dark horse.
00:04:03It'll telephone Fred in the morning and make mischief.
00:04:06This is a bit of luck.
00:04:08I haven't seen you for ages.
00:04:10I've been meaning to pop in but Tony's had measles, you know,
00:04:12and then I had all that awful fuss over Phyllis.
00:04:14But, of course, you don't know.
00:04:15My dear, she left me.
00:04:16Oh, how dreadful.
00:04:17Mind you.
00:04:18I never really cared for her much but still Tony did.
00:04:20Tony adored her.
00:04:21And I'll tell you all about that later in the train.
00:04:24Thank you so very much.
00:04:26There's certainly enough milk in it.
00:04:28But still, it'll be refreshing.
00:04:32Oh, dear.
00:04:33No sugar.
00:04:34It's in the spoon.
00:04:35Oh, of course.
00:04:36What a fool I am.
00:04:37Laura, you're looking frightfully well.
00:04:39I do wish I'd known you were coming in today.
00:04:41We could come together and lunch and have a good gossip.
00:04:43I loathe shopping by myself anyway.
00:04:48There's your train.
00:04:49Yes, I know.
00:04:50Oh, aren't you coming with us?
00:04:51No, I go in the opposite direction.
00:04:52My practice is in Chirley.
00:04:54Oh, I see.
00:04:55I'm a general practitioner at the moment.
00:04:56Dr. Harvey's going out to Africa next week.
00:04:58Oh, has really?
00:05:00It's a 5.40 for Chirley, Lee Green and Langdon.
00:05:04I must go.
00:05:05Yes, you must.
00:05:06Goodbye.
00:05:07Goodbye.
00:05:08He'll have to run or he'll miss it.
00:05:21He's got to get right over to the other platform.
00:05:23Talking of missing trades reminds me of that awful bridge at Broadham Junction.
00:05:27You've got to go traipsing all up one side along the top and down the other.
00:05:30Well, the other day, I'd been over to see Bob's solicitors about renewing the lease of the house.
00:05:34And I arrived at the station with exactly half a minute to spare my idea.
00:05:38I flew.
00:05:39I'd got Tony with me.
00:05:41And like a fool, I'd just bought a new shade for the lamp in the drawing room.
00:05:44I could have got it just as easily here in Milford.
00:05:46Well, it's the most enormous thing.
00:05:49I could hardly see over it.
00:05:50I've never been in Scherfriesen all my life.
00:05:52I nearly knocked a woman down.
00:05:53Of course, by the time I got home, it was battered to bits.
00:05:56Oh, is that our train?
00:05:59Can you tell me?
00:06:00Is that the Ketchworth train?
00:06:01No, it's the express.
00:06:02The boat train.
00:06:03Oh, of course.
00:06:04That doesn't stop, does it?
00:06:05I want some chocolate, please.
00:06:07Milk or plain?
00:06:08Plain, I think.
00:06:09Or...
00:06:10No, perhaps milk would be nicer.
00:06:11Have you any with nuts in it?
00:06:13Nestle's not milk.
00:06:14We're shelling all sexpots.
00:06:15I'll take one place.
00:06:17Large or small?
00:06:18Large.
00:06:19Large.
00:06:30Where is she?
00:06:33I never noticed a girl.
00:06:37Oh, I couldn't think where you disappeared to.
00:06:40I just wanted to see the express go through.
00:06:43What on earth's the matter? Are you feeling ill?
00:06:45I feel a little sick.
00:06:47Oh, my dear, come and sit down.
00:06:49There's our train.
00:06:53That's all right.
00:06:54Have you any brandy?
00:06:55I'm afraid it's out of ours.
00:06:56Oh, surely, if somebody's feeling ill.
00:06:58I'm all right, really.
00:06:59Just a sip of brandy, buck you up.
00:07:01Please.
00:07:02Very well.
00:07:03Thank you.
00:07:04How much?
00:07:05Tenpence, please.
00:07:07The train for Ketchworth is now arriving at a platform free.
00:07:11Would you have to hurry?
00:07:19Oh, well, this is a bit of luck.
00:07:20This train's generally packed.
00:07:21I really am very worried about you, dear.
00:07:22You look terribly peaky.
00:07:23I'm all right.
00:07:24Really, I am.
00:07:25I just felt faint for a minute, that's all.
00:07:26Often happens to me.
00:07:27I did it once in the middle of Bobby's school concert.
00:07:28I don't think he's ever forgiven me.
00:07:29Well, he certainly was very good looking.
00:07:30Who?
00:07:31Well, your friend, doctor whatever his name was.
00:07:32Yes.
00:07:33He's a nice creature.
00:07:34Have you known him long?
00:07:35No, not very long.
00:07:36I hardly know him at all, really.
00:07:37Well, my dear, I've always had a passion for doctors.
00:07:39I can well understand how I do it.
00:07:40I can well understand how I do it.
00:07:41I can well understand how I do it.
00:07:42I can well understand how I do it.
00:07:43I can well understand how I do it.
00:07:44I can well understand how I do it.
00:07:45Of course, other than games don't even work.
00:07:47I wish I could trust you.
00:07:48I wish I could trust your wife.
00:07:50And now I could trust you.
00:07:52And we believe about the doctor whatever his name was.
00:07:53Yes, he's a nice creature.
00:07:54Have you known him long?
00:07:55No, not very long.
00:07:56I hardly know him at all.
00:07:57Well, my dear, I've always had a passion for doctors.
00:07:59I can well understand how it is that women get neurotic.
00:08:01Of course, other women go...
00:08:02You can trust you.
00:08:03I wish I could trust you.
00:08:05You were a wise, kind friend,
00:08:08instead of a gossiping acquaintance I've known casually for years
00:08:12and never particularly cared for.
00:08:14I wish. I wish.
00:08:16Fancy him going all the way to Africa. Is he married?
00:08:19Oh, yes.
00:08:20Any children?
00:08:21Yes, two boys. He's very proud of them.
00:08:23Is he taking them with him, his wife and children, I mean?
00:08:25Yes, yes, he is.
00:08:27Oh, I suppose it's sensible in a way,
00:08:28rushing off to start life anew in the wide open spaces
00:08:31and all that sort of thing,
00:08:32but wild horses wouldn't drag me away from England and home
00:08:36and all the things I'm used to.
00:08:37I mean, one has one's roots, after all, hasn't one?
00:08:40Oh, yes, one has one's roots.
00:08:42I knew a girl years ago who went to Africa, you know.
00:08:44Her husband was something to do with engineering or something.
00:08:46And, my dear, she had the most dreadful time.
00:08:48She got some awful kind of chance through going out on a picnic
00:08:51and she was ill for months and months.
00:08:53I wish you'd stop talking.
00:08:55I wish you'd stop prying and trying to find things out.
00:08:58I wish you were dead. No, I don't mean that.
00:09:00That was silly and unkind.
00:09:03But I wish you'd stop talking.
00:09:04My dear, all her hair came out
00:09:06and she said the social life was quite, quite horrid,
00:09:09provincial, you know, and very nouveau riche.
00:09:11Oh, darling.
00:09:12What's the matter, dear? Are you feeling ill again?
00:09:13No, not really ill. I feel a bit dizzy.
00:09:15I think I'll just close my eyes for a little.
00:09:17Oh, you poor darling.
00:09:18And here am I, chattering away 19 to the dozen.
00:09:20I won't say another word.
00:09:22Oh, and if you drop off,
00:09:23I'll wake you up when we get to the level crossing.
00:09:25That'll give you a chance to pull yourself together
00:09:26and powder your nose before we get out.
00:09:28Thanks, darling.
00:09:35This can't last.
00:09:36This misery can't last.
00:09:41I must remember that and try to control myself.
00:09:45Nothing lasts, really.
00:09:47Neither happiness nor despair.
00:09:50Not even life lasts very long.
00:09:53There'll come a time in the future
00:09:54when I shan't mind about this anymore.
00:09:56when I can look back and say
00:09:59quite peacefully and cheerfully
00:10:00how silly I was.
00:10:03No, no, I don't want that time to come ever.
00:10:07I want to remember every minute.
00:10:11Always.
00:10:13Always to the end of my days.
00:10:15I can easily come to the house with you, dear.
00:10:25It isn't very much out of my way.
00:10:26Thank you.
00:10:27All I have to do is to walk down Elmore Lane,
00:10:29past the grammar school,
00:10:30and I shall be home in two minutes.
00:10:30Oh, it's sweet of you, darling,
00:10:31but I'm perfectly all right now.
00:10:33Really, I am.
00:10:33Now, you're quite sure?
00:10:34Absolutely positive.
00:10:36Thank you for being so kind.
00:10:37Oh, nonsense, dear.
00:10:38Well, I shall telephone in the morning
00:10:39and see if you've had a relapse.
00:10:41I shall disappoint you.
00:10:43Good night.
00:10:43Good night.
00:10:44Oh, give my love to Fred and the children.
00:10:56Is that you, Laura?
00:10:59Yes, dear.
00:11:00Thank goodness you've come back.
00:11:01The place has been in an uproar.
00:11:03Why, what's the matter?
00:11:04Bobby and Margaret have been fighting again.
00:11:06They won't get to sleep
00:11:06until you go in and talk to them about it.
00:11:08Mummy?
00:11:09Is that you, Mummy?
00:11:10Yes, Margaret.
00:11:12Come upstairs at once, Mummy.
00:11:13I want to talk to you.
00:11:21You're both very naughty.
00:11:22You should have been asleep hours ago.
00:11:24Now, what is it, you two?
00:11:26Well, Mummy, tomorrow's my birthday
00:11:28and I want to go to the circus.
00:11:30And tomorrow's not Margaret's birthday
00:11:32and she wants to go to the pantomime.
00:11:34My birthday's in June
00:11:35and there aren't any pantomimes in June.
00:11:37It's far too late to discuss it tonight
00:11:39and if you don't go to sleep at once,
00:11:40I shall tell Daddy not to let you go to either.
00:11:43Oh, Mum.
00:11:45Well, why not take them to both?
00:11:46One in the afternoon, one in the evening.
00:11:48You know, that's impossible.
00:11:49You shouldn't get them to bed till all hours
00:11:51and they'd be tired and fractious.
00:11:52Well, then, one on one day
00:11:54and the other on the other.
00:11:56You're always accusing me of spoiling the children.
00:11:58Their characters would be ruined in a fortnight
00:12:00if I left them to your over tender mercies.
00:12:02All right, have it your own way.
00:12:05Circus or pantomime?
00:12:07Neither.
00:12:07We'll thrash them both soundly,
00:12:09lock them up in the attic
00:12:10and go to the pictures by ourselves.
00:12:17Oh, Fred.
00:12:19What would a nurse the matter?
00:12:21Darling, really, it's nothing.
00:12:24Darling, what's wrong?
00:12:26Tell me, please.
00:12:27Really and truly, it's nothing.
00:12:29I'm just a little run down, that's all.
00:12:32I had a sort of fainting spell
00:12:34at the refreshment room at Milford.
00:12:35I wasn't an idiotic.
00:12:37Darling Messeter was with me
00:12:38and she talked and talked and talked
00:12:40till I wanted to strangle her.
00:12:42Still, she meant to be kind.
00:12:44Isn't it awful about people meaning to be kind?
00:12:46Would you like to go to bed?
00:12:48No, Fred, really.
00:12:50Come and sit by the fire in the library and relax.
00:12:53You can help me with the Times crossword.
00:12:54Oh, you have the most peculiar ideas of relaxation.
00:12:59That's better.
00:13:00There you are, darling.
00:13:01Thank you.
00:13:03But why a fainting spell?
00:13:05I can't understand it.
00:13:06Don't be silly, darling.
00:13:07I've often had fainting spells and you know it.
00:13:09Don't you remember Bobby's school concert
00:13:11and Eileen's wedding
00:13:12and the time you insisted on taking me
00:13:14to that symphony concert at the town hall?
00:13:16Go on, that was a nosebleed.
00:13:18I suppose I must be that type of woman.
00:13:20It's very humiliating.
00:13:21I still maintain there'd be no harm
00:13:23in you seeing Dr. Graves.
00:13:24It'd be a waste of time.
00:13:26Oh, listen.
00:13:27Oh, but do shut up about it, darling.
00:13:28You're making a fuss about nothing.
00:13:30I've been shopping and I was tired
00:13:31and the refreshment room was very hot
00:13:33and I suddenly felt sick.
00:13:34Nothing more than that.
00:13:36All right.
00:13:37Really nothing more than that.
00:13:39Now you get on with your old puzzle
00:13:40and leave me in peace.
00:13:41Have it your own way.
00:13:42You're a poetry addict.
00:13:46See if you can help me over this.
00:13:48It's Keats.
00:13:49When I behold upon the night-starred face
00:13:51huge cloudy symbols of a high
00:13:52something in seven letters.
00:13:55Romance, I think.
00:13:57I'm almost sure it is.
00:13:59Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance.
00:14:02It'll be in the Oxford Book of English first.
00:14:03No, that's right, I'm sure
00:14:04because it fits in with delirium and balukastan.
00:14:06Would some music throw you off your stride?
00:14:13No, dear, I like it.
00:14:14No, dear, I like it.
00:14:44No, dear, I like it.
00:15:14Fred.
00:15:18Fred.
00:15:22Dear Fred.
00:15:24There's so much that I want to say to you.
00:15:28You're the only one in the world
00:15:29with enough wisdom and gentleness to understand.
00:15:33If only it were somebody else's story and not mine.
00:15:37As it is, you're the only one in the world
00:15:39that I can never tell.
00:15:40never, never.
00:15:44Because even if I waited until we were old, old people
00:15:47and told you then,
00:15:49you'd be bound to look back over the years and be hurt.
00:15:51And, oh, my dear, I don't want you to be hurt.
00:15:55You see, we're a happily married couple
00:15:59and must never forget that.
00:16:02This is my home.
00:16:04This is my home.
00:16:05You are my husband
00:16:07and my children are upstairs in bed.
00:16:10and I'm a happily married woman.
00:16:14Or rather, I was until a few weeks ago.
00:16:18This is my whole world
00:16:20and it's enough.
00:16:23Or rather, it was until a few weeks ago.
00:16:25But, oh, Fred, I've been so foolish.
00:16:31I've fallen in love.
00:16:34I'm an ordinary woman.
00:16:36I didn't think such violent things could happen to ordinary people.
00:16:41It all started on an ordinary day
00:16:44in the most ordinary place in the world,
00:16:48the refreshment room at Milford Junction.
00:16:51I was having a cup of tea
00:16:53and reading a book that I'd got that morning from Boots.
00:16:56My train wasn't due for ten minutes.
00:16:59I looked up
00:17:00and saw a man come in from the platform.
00:17:03He had on an ordinary Mac.
00:17:05His hat was turned down
00:17:06and I didn't even see his face.
00:17:08He got his tea at the counter and turned.
00:17:11Then I did see his face.
00:17:12It was rather a nice face.
00:17:13Yeah, sugar.
00:17:14In a spoon.
00:17:15Yeah.
00:17:15He passed my table on the way to his.
00:17:19The woman at the counter was going on as usual.
00:17:21You know, I told you about her the other day.
00:17:24The one with the refined voice.
00:17:25Minnie hasn't touched her milk.
00:17:27Did you put it down for her?
00:17:28Yes, but she never came for it.
00:17:31Fond of animals?
00:17:32In their place.
00:17:33My landlady's got a positive mania for animals.
00:17:36She's got two cats, one manx, one ordinary,
00:17:38three rabbits and huts in the kitchen.
00:17:40They belong to our little boy by rights
00:17:41and one of those daft-looking dogs
00:17:43with hair over its eyes.
00:17:45I don't know to what breed you refer.
00:17:48I don't think it knows itself.
00:17:50Go and clean off number three, Beryl.
00:17:52I can see the crumbs on it from here.
00:17:54What about my other cup?
00:17:56I'll have to move in.
00:17:57The 5.40 being in a minute.
00:17:58Who's on the gate?
00:17:59Young William.
00:18:00Oh, please, could you give me a glass of water?
00:18:29I've got something in my eye and I want to bathe it.
00:18:32Would you like me to have a look?
00:18:34Oh, no, don't trouble.
00:18:35I expect the water will do.
00:18:36Thank you.
00:18:37A bit of cold dust, I expect.
00:18:38A man I knew lost the sight of one eye
00:18:40through getting a bit of grit in it.
00:18:42Nasty, very nasty.
00:18:43Better?
00:18:44I'm afraid not.
00:18:45Ooh.
00:18:45Can I help you?
00:18:47Oh, no, please.
00:18:48It's only something in my eye.
00:18:49Try pulling your eyelid down as far as it'll go.
00:18:52And then blowing your nose.
00:18:53Please let me look.
00:18:54I happen to be a doctor.
00:18:55That's very kind of you.
00:18:56Look, turn around the light, please.
00:18:57Now, look up.
00:19:01Now, look down.
00:19:05Keep still.
00:19:07That's it.
00:19:10There.
00:19:11Oh, what a relief.
00:19:12It was agonizing.
00:19:13Looks like a bit of grit.
00:19:14It was when the express went through.
00:19:15Thank you very much, indeed.
00:19:16There we go.
00:19:17On must run.
00:19:18I like it for me.
00:19:18You happen to be here.
00:19:19Anybody could have done it.
00:19:20Never mind, you did.
00:19:21And I'm most grateful.
00:19:22There's my train.
00:19:22I must go.
00:19:23Goodbye.
00:19:23Goodbye.
00:19:24Goodbye.
00:19:27That's how it all began.
00:19:32Just through me getting a little piece of grit in my eye.
00:19:35I completely forgot the whole incident.
00:19:37It didn't mean anything to me at all.
00:19:41At least I didn't think it did.
00:19:42The next Thursday, I went into Milford again, as usual.
00:19:51I changed my book at Boots.
00:20:03Miss Lewis had at last managed to get the new Kate O'Brien for me.
00:20:06I believe she'd kept it hidden under the counter for two days.
00:20:09On the way out, I bought two new toothbrushes for the children.
00:20:13I like the smell of a chemist better than any other shop.
00:20:15It's such a mixture of nice things.
00:20:17Herbs and scent and soap.
00:20:19That awful Mrs. Leftwich was at the other end of the counter,
00:20:22wearing one of the silliest hats I've ever seen.
00:20:25Fortunately, she didn't look up.
00:20:27So I got out without her buttonholing me.
00:20:30Just as I stepped out onto the pavement...
00:20:32Good morning.
00:20:33Oh, good morning.
00:20:34How's the eye?
00:20:34Perfectly all right.
00:20:35How kind it was of you to take so much trouble.
00:20:37Nothing at all.
00:20:38It's clearing up, I think.
00:20:39Yes, going to be nice.
00:20:41Well, I must be getting along to the hospital.
00:20:43And I must be getting along to the grocers.
00:20:44What exciting lives we lead, don't we?
00:20:46Goodbye.
00:20:49That evening I had to run nearly all the way to the station.
00:20:52I'd been to the palladium as usual, but it was a terribly long film and I was afraid I'd be late.
00:20:58As I came up onto the platform, the churly train was just puffing out.
00:21:02I looked up idly as the windows of the carriages went by, wondering if he was there.
00:21:06I remember this crossing my mind, but it was quite unimportant.
00:21:10I was really thinking of other things.
00:21:13The present for your birthday was worrying me rather.
00:21:16It was terribly expensive, but I knew you wanted it.
00:21:18And I'd sort of half taken the plunge and left a deposit on it at Spink and Robson's until the next Thursday.
00:21:25The next Thursday.
00:21:28Well, I squared my conscience by thinking how pleased you'd be and bought it.
00:21:32Yes, I'll have it.
00:21:33Thank you, madam.
00:21:34It was wildly extravagant, I know, but having committed the crime, I suddenly felt reckless and gay.
00:21:39The sun was out and everybody in the street looked more cheerful than usual.
00:21:44And there was a barrel organ at the corner by Harris's, and you know how I love barrel organs.
00:21:48It was playing, let the great big world keep turning.
00:21:51And I gave the man sixpence and went to the cardoma for lunch.
00:21:56It was very full, but two people had got up from the table just as I'd come in.
00:22:00That was a bit of luck, wasn't it?
00:22:02Oh, was it?
00:22:04Just after I'd given my order, I saw him come in.
00:22:07He looked a little tired, I thought, and there was nowhere for him to sit.
00:22:10So I smiled and said,
00:22:11Good morning.
00:22:13Oh, good morning.
00:22:14Are you all alone?
00:22:15Yes, I am.
00:22:16Would you mind if I showed you a table?
00:22:18It's very full, but it doesn't seem to be anywhere else.
00:22:19No, of course not.
00:22:21I'm afraid we haven't been introduced properly.
00:22:26My name's Alec Harvey.
00:22:28How do you do?
00:22:29Mine's Laura Jessen.
00:22:30Mrs. or Miss?
00:22:31Mrs.
00:22:32You're a doctor, aren't you?
00:22:33I remember you said so that day in the refreshment.
00:22:35Yes.
00:22:36Not a very interesting one, just an ordinary GP.
00:22:38I practice this in Chirley.
00:22:40Yes, sir?
00:22:41What did you plump for?
00:22:42Excuse me, sir.
00:22:42Um, the soup and fried soap.
00:22:46Yes, I'll have a say.
00:22:47Anything to drink?
00:22:48No, thank you.
00:22:49That is, would you like anything to drink?
00:22:50Er, no, thank you.
00:22:51Just plain water, please.
00:22:52Just plain water, please.
00:22:53Yes, please.
00:22:53Yes, please.
00:22:53Yes, please.
00:23:02Oh, you're just a look at the chest.
00:23:04Oh, dear.
00:23:13It really is dreadful, isn't it?
00:23:15If we oughtn't to laugh, they might see.
00:23:16There should be a society for the prevention of cruelty to musical instruments.
00:23:20You don't play the piano, I hope.
00:23:22I was forced to as a child.
00:23:23You haven't kept it up?
00:23:24No.
00:23:24My husband isn't musical at all.
00:23:26Good for him.
00:23:27Well, for all you know, I might have a tremendous burning professional talent.
00:23:29Oh, dear, no.
00:23:31Why are you so sure?
00:23:32You're too sane and uncomplicated.
00:23:35I suppose it's a good thing to be uncomplicated, but it does sound a little dull.
00:23:39You can never be dull.
00:23:42Do you come here every Thursday?
00:23:43Yes, to spend a day at the hospital.
00:23:46Stephen Lynn, the chief physician here, graduated with me.
00:23:49I take over from him once a week.
00:23:50Gives him a chance to go up to London.
00:23:52Gives me a chance to study the hospital patients.
00:23:53I see.
00:23:54Do you?
00:23:56Do I what?
00:23:57Come here every Thursday.
00:23:59Oh, yes, I do the week shopping.
00:24:01Thank you.
00:24:02Change my library book, have lunch, and generally go to the pictures.
00:24:05Not a very exciting routine, but it makes a change.
00:24:10Are you going to the pictures this afternoon?
00:24:12Yes.
00:24:12Hmm.
00:24:13Extraordinary.
00:24:14So am I.
00:24:16I thought you had to spend all day at the hospital.
00:24:18Well, between ourselves, I killed two patients by accident this morning.
00:24:22The matron is very displeased with me.
00:24:24I simply dare to go back.
00:24:26Can you be so silly?
00:24:27But seriously, I really did get through most of my work this morning.
00:24:30Won't matter at all if I play truant.
00:24:31Would you mind, very much, if I came to the pictures with you?
00:24:34Well, I could sit downstairs.
00:24:36You could sit upstairs.
00:24:38Upstairs is too expensive.
00:24:42The orchestra stopped.
00:24:42As abruptly as it had started.
00:24:44And we began to laugh again.
00:24:46I had no premonitions.
00:24:48So I suppose I should have had.
00:24:49It all seemed so natural and so innocent.
00:24:52We finished lunch.
00:24:54And that idiot of a waitress had put the bill all on one.
00:24:56I really must insist.
00:24:57I couldn't possibly.
00:24:58Having forced my company on you, it's only fair that I should pay through the nose for it.
00:25:01Oh, please don't insist.
00:25:02I should so much rather have we halved it.
00:25:04I would really please.
00:25:05I shall give in gracefully.
00:25:07We halved it meticulously.
00:25:10We even halved the tip.
00:25:11Thank you.
00:25:25We have two choices.
00:25:26The loves of Cardinal Richelieu at the palace or love in the mist at the palladium.
00:25:30You're very knowledgeable.
00:25:30And there must be no argument about buying the tickets.
00:25:32We each pay for ourselves.
00:25:34You must think me a very poor doctor if I can't afford a couple of one and nine minutes.
00:25:36I insist.
00:25:37I had hoped you were going to treat me.
00:25:39Which is it to be, palace or palladium?
00:25:41Palladium.
00:25:41I was once very sick on a channel steamer called Cardinal Richelieu.
00:26:07I feel awfully grand, perched up here.
00:26:31I was very extravagant of you.
00:26:32It was a famous victory.
00:26:33Do you feel guilty at all?
00:26:34I do.
00:26:34Guilty.
00:26:35You ought to know more than me, really.
00:26:36You neglected your work this afternoon.
00:26:38I worked this morning.
00:26:39A little relaxation never did harm to anyone.
00:26:41Why should either of us feel guilty?
00:26:43I don't know.
00:26:45How awfully nice you are.
00:26:46It can't be.
00:27:02It is.
00:27:05We walked back to the station together.
00:27:11Just as we reached the gates, he put his hand under my arm.
00:27:15I didn't notice it then, but I remember it now.
00:27:19What's she like, your wife?
00:27:20Madeleine?
00:27:21Small, dark, rather delicate.
00:27:24How funny.
00:27:25I should have thought she would have been fair.
00:27:27And your husband, what's he like?
00:27:29Medium height, brown hair, kindly, unemotional, and not delicate at all.
00:27:33You said that proudly.
00:27:35Did I?
00:27:36Even.
00:27:36Even.
00:27:37You've just got time for a cup of tea before our trains go.
00:27:40And for the third time in one week, he brought that common man and his wife to the house without so much as a buy-your-leave.
00:27:46Two teas, please.
00:27:48Cake or pastry?
00:27:49Cake or pastry?
00:27:50No, thank you.
00:27:51Are those bath buns first?
00:27:53Certainly, they are made this morning.
00:27:55Two, please.
00:27:55That'll be seven pence.
00:28:01Take the tea to the table, Barry.
00:28:02I'll carry the buns.
00:28:09You must eat one of these fresh this morning.
00:28:11Very fattening.
00:28:12I don't hold to such foolishness.
00:28:13They do look good, I must, sir.
00:28:15One of my earliest passions in life.
00:28:16I've never outgrown this.
00:28:18What happened then, Mrs. Baggett?
00:28:19Well?
00:28:21Well, it's all very fine, I said, expecting me to do this, that, and the other.
00:28:24But what do I get out of it?
00:28:26You can't expect me to be a cook, housekeeper, and chai rolled into one during the day.
00:28:30And a loving wife in the evening just because you feel like it.
00:28:33Oh, dear me, no.
00:28:34There are just as good fish in the sea, I said, as ever came out of it.
00:28:38And I packed my boxes then and there and left him.
00:28:40Didn't you never go back?
00:28:42Never.
00:28:43Went to my sister's place at Folkestone for a bit.
00:28:45Then I went in with a friend of mine and we opened a tea shop in Hayth.
00:28:49What happened to him?
00:28:51Dead as a doornail inside three years.
00:28:53Well, I never.
00:28:56Is tea bad for one?
00:28:57Worse than coffee, I mean.
00:28:59If this is a professional interview, my fee is a guinea.
00:29:02Why did you become a doctor?
00:29:04Oh, that's a long story.
00:29:06Perhaps because I'm a bit of an idealist.
00:29:08I think all doctors ought to have ideals, really.
00:29:10Otherwise, their work would be unbearable.
00:29:11Surely you're not encouraging me to talk shop.
00:29:13Why shouldn't you talk shop?
00:29:14It's what interests you most, isn't it?
00:29:16Yes, it is.
00:29:17I'm terribly ambitious, really.
00:29:19Not ambitious for myself, so much as for my special pigeon.
00:29:22What is your special pigeon?
00:29:23Preventive medicine.
00:29:25I see.
00:29:26I'm afraid you don't.
00:29:28I was trying to be intelligent.
00:29:30Most good doctors, especially when they're young, have private dreams.
00:29:33That's the best part of them.
00:29:35Sometimes, though, those get over-professionalised and strangulated.
00:29:38Am I boring you?
00:29:38No.
00:29:39I don't quite understand if you're not boring.
00:29:41What I mean is this.
00:29:42All good doctors must, primarily, be enthusiasts.
00:29:46They must, like writers and painters and priests,
00:29:49they must have a sense of vocation.
00:29:51A deep-rooted, unsentimental desire to do good.
00:29:54Yes, I see that.
00:29:55Well, obviously, one way of preventing disease is worth 50 ways of curing it.
00:29:59That's where my ideal comes in.
00:30:00Preventive medicine isn't anything to do with medicine at all, really.
00:30:03It's concerned with conditions, living conditions and hygiene and common sense.
00:30:07For instance, my speciality is pneumoconiosis.
00:30:10Oh, dear.
00:30:12Don't be alarmed.
00:30:12It's simpler than it sounds.
00:30:14It's nothing but a slow process of fibrosis of the lung
00:30:17due to the inhalation of particles of dust.
00:30:19In the hospital here, there are splendid opportunities
00:30:21for observing cures and making notes because of the coal mines.
00:30:24You suddenly look much younger.
00:30:26Do I?
00:30:28Almost like a little boy.
00:30:30What made you say that?
00:30:31I don't know.
00:30:35Yes, I do.
00:30:37Tell me.
00:30:39No, I couldn't really.
00:30:41You were saying about the coal mines.
00:30:44Oh, yes.
00:30:45The inhalation of coal dust.
00:30:48That's one specific form of the diseases.
00:30:50It's called anthracosis.
00:30:53What are the others?
00:30:56Chalichosis.
00:30:58That comes from metal dust.
00:31:00Steelworks, you know.
00:31:01Yes, of course, steelworks.
00:31:05And silly curses.
00:31:08That's stone dust.
00:31:10Gold mines.
00:31:13I see.
00:31:17There's your train.
00:31:18Yes.
00:31:18You mustn't miss it.
00:31:19No.
00:31:20What's the matter?
00:31:22Nothing.
00:31:23Nothing at all, really.
00:31:26It's been so very nice.
00:31:27I've enjoyed my afternoon enormously.
00:31:28I'm so glad.
00:31:29So have I.
00:31:29I apologize for boring you with long medical words.
00:31:32I feel dull and stupid not to be able to understand more.
00:31:36Shall I see you again?
00:31:36It's the other platform, isn't it?
00:31:39You'll have to run.
00:31:39Don't bother about me.
00:31:40You might not do for a few minutes.
00:31:42Can I see you again?
00:31:43Yes, of course.
00:31:44Perhaps we'll come out to Ketchworth one Sunday.
00:31:46It's rather far, I know, but we should be delighted.
00:31:47Please.
00:31:48Please.
00:31:49What is it?
00:31:50Next Thursday.
00:31:50The same time.
00:31:53No, I couldn't possibly.
00:31:54Would you let please, I ask you, most humbly?
00:31:58You'll miss your train.
00:32:01All right.
00:32:02Run.
00:32:03Goodbye.
00:32:04I'll be there.
00:32:05Thank you, my dear.
00:32:24I stood there and watched his train draw out of the station.
00:32:40I stared after it until its tail light had vanished into the darkness.
00:32:48I imagined him getting out at Churney, giving up his ticket.
00:32:54Walking back through the streets, letting himself into his house with his latchkey.
00:33:00His wife, Madeline, would probably be in the hall to meet him.
00:33:08Or perhaps upstairs in her room, not feeling very well.
00:33:12Small, dark, and rather delicate.
00:33:16I wondered if he'd say,
00:33:19I met such a nice woman at the Cardoma.
00:33:21We had lunch and went to the pictures.
00:33:24And then suddenly, I knew that he wouldn't.
00:33:28I knew beyond a shadow of doubt that he wouldn't say a word.
00:33:31And at that moment, the first awful feeling of danger swept over me.
00:33:34I got into the first compartment I saw.
00:33:45I wanted to get home as quickly as possible.
00:33:49I looked hurriedly around the carriage to see if anyone was looking at me.
00:33:52As if they could read my secret thoughts.
00:33:54No one was.
00:33:56Except a clergyman in the opposite corner.
00:33:58I felt myself blushing.
00:34:00And opened my library book and pretended to read.
00:34:03By the time I'd got to Ketchworth, I'd made up my mind definitely that I wasn't going to see Alec anymore.
00:34:10Good evening, Mrs. Jessen.
00:34:11The silly and undignified, flirting like that with a complete stranger.
00:34:15Oh, good evening.
00:34:16I walked up to the house quite briskly and cheerfully.
00:34:19I'd been behaving like an idiot, admittedly.
00:34:22But after all, no harm had been done.
00:34:26You met me in the hall.
00:34:28Your face was strained and worried and my heart sank.
00:34:30Fred, what's the matter?
00:34:32It's all right, old girl, but you must keep calm and not be upset.
00:34:35Oh, what is it? What's wrong?
00:34:36It's Bobby.
00:34:36He was knocked down by a car on the way home from school.
00:34:39Now, it's not serious.
00:34:40He was just grazed by the mudguard, but it knocked him against the curb.
00:34:42And he's got slight concussion.
00:34:43The doctor's upstairs with him now.
00:34:52It's all right, Mrs. Jessen.
00:34:53Nothing to worry about.
00:34:55He'll be as right as rain in a few hours.
00:34:58You're sure?
00:35:00You're sure it's not serious?
00:35:01Quite sure.
00:35:02But it was certainly a very lucky escape.
00:35:05I've given him a little sedative,
00:35:06and I should advise keeping him at home for a couple of days.
00:35:09It must have been a bit of a shock.
00:35:11I felt so dreadful, Fred,
00:35:12looking at him lying there with that bandage around his head.
00:35:15I tried not to show it,
00:35:16but I was quite hysterical inside,
00:35:19as though the whole thing were my fault,
00:35:21a sort of punishment,
00:35:23an awful, sinister warning.
00:35:27An hour or two later, of course,
00:35:28everything became quite normal again.
00:35:30He began to enjoy the whole thing thoroughly
00:35:31and reveled in the fact that he was the center of attraction.
00:35:34Oh, God.
00:35:36Do you remember how he spent the whole evening planning his future?
00:35:41But he's much too young to decide, really.
00:35:43Good life.
00:35:44The boy has a feeling for him.
00:35:45Well, how can we possibly really know if he has a feeling for it?
00:35:48He'll probably want to be an engine driver next week.
00:35:50No, it was last week he wanted to be an engine driver.
00:35:53It seems so final somehow entering a child of that age for the Navy.
00:35:57It's a healthy life.
00:35:58Well, I know it's a good life,
00:36:00and I know it's a healthy life.
00:36:01And I know he'll be able to see the world
00:36:03and have a wife in every port
00:36:04and keep on calling everybody sir,
00:36:06but what about us?
00:36:07What do you mean, what about us?
00:36:09We shall hardly ever see him.
00:36:10Oh, nonsense.
00:36:11It isn't nonsense.
00:36:13He'll be sent away to sea as a smooth-faced boy,
00:36:16and the next thing we know,
00:36:17he'll come walking in with a long beard and a parrot.
00:36:19I think you take rather a Victorian view of the Navy, my dear.
00:36:23He's our only son,
00:36:24and I should like to be there while he's growing up.
00:36:27All right, old girl.
00:36:28Then we'll put him into an office,
00:36:29and you can see him off on the 8.50 every morning.
00:36:32You really are very annoying.
00:36:33You know perfectly well I should hate them.
00:36:35All right, have it your own way.
00:36:41Fred.
00:36:42Hmm?
00:36:44I had lunch with a strange man today,
00:36:46and he took me to the movies.
00:36:47Good for you.
00:36:49He's awfully nice.
00:36:50He's a doctor.
00:36:52A very noble profession.
00:36:56Oh, dear.
00:36:58It was Richard III who said,
00:37:00My kingdom for a horse, wasn't it?
00:37:02Yes, darling.
00:37:03Yes, well, I wish to goodness he hadn't,
00:37:05because it spoils everything.
00:37:08I thought perhaps we might ask him to dinner one night.
00:37:11By all means.
00:37:14Who?
00:37:16Dr. Harvey, the one I was telling you about.
00:37:17Must it be dinner?
00:37:20Well, you're never at home for lunch.
00:37:21Exactly.
00:37:24Oh, Fred.
00:37:27Now, what on earth's the matter?
00:37:29It's nothing.
00:37:32It's only...
00:37:33Oh, Fred.
00:37:33Well, I really don't see what's so frightfully funny.
00:37:37Oh, I do.
00:37:38It's all right, darling.
00:37:39I'm not laughing at you.
00:37:40I'm laughing at me.
00:37:42I'm the one that's funny.
00:37:43I'm an absolute idiot.
00:37:44Worrying myself about things that don't exist
00:37:47and making mountains out of molehills.
00:37:49Oh, I told you when you came in that it was nothing serious.
00:37:52There was nothing to get into such a state about.
00:37:54Oh, I do see that now.
00:37:55I really do.
00:38:06When Thursday came,
00:38:07I went to meet Alec
00:38:08more as a matter of politeness than for any other reason.
00:38:12It didn't seem of any importance,
00:38:13but after all, I had promised.
00:38:15I managed to get the same table.
00:38:19I waited a bit,
00:38:20but it didn't come.
00:38:23The ladies' orchestra was playing away as usual.
00:38:26I looked at the cellist.
00:38:27She'd seemed to be so funny last week.
00:38:30Today, she didn't seem funny anymore.
00:38:32She looked pathetic, poor thing.
00:38:36After lunch,
00:38:37I happened to pass by the hospital.
00:38:40I remember looking up at the windows
00:38:42and wondering if he were there
00:38:43or whether something awful had happened.
00:38:45to prevent him turning up.
00:38:47I got to the station earlier than usual.
00:38:49I hadn't enjoyed the pictures much.
00:38:51It was one of those noisy musical things
00:38:53and I'm so sick of them.
00:38:54I'd come out before it was over.
00:38:56As I took my tea to the table,
00:38:58I suddenly wondered if I'd made a mistake
00:39:00and he'd meant me to meet him there.
00:39:15Oh, with God me, how dare you?
00:39:20I couldn't resist it.
00:39:21What trouble are you to keep your hands to yourself?
00:39:23Oh, you're blushing.
00:39:24Oh, you look wonderful when you're angry.
00:39:26Just like an avenging angel.
00:39:27I'll give you a avenging angel.
00:39:29Coming in here, taking liberties.
00:39:30I thought I was what you said last Monday.
00:39:32You wouldn't object to a friendly little slap.
00:39:34Have you mind about last Monday?
00:39:35I'm on duty now.
00:39:37Nice thing if Mr Saunders had happened
00:39:38to be looking through the window.
00:39:39Well, if Mr Saunders is in the abbey
00:39:41looking through the windows,
00:39:42it's about time he saw something worth looking at.
00:39:43You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
00:39:45Oh, it's high spirits.
00:39:46Don't be mad at me.
00:39:48High spirits, indeed.
00:39:49Take it to him, be quiet.
00:39:51It's all your fault, really.
00:39:52I don't know to what you're referring.
00:39:54I was thinking of, um, tonight.
00:39:57If you don't plan to behave yourself,
00:39:58they won't be here tonight
00:39:59or any other night either.
00:40:01Give us a kiss.
00:40:02Oh, do no such thing.
00:40:03The lady might see us.
00:40:04Come on, a quick one, across the bar.
00:40:05Albert, stop it.
00:40:06Come on, let's allow it.
00:40:06Let go of me this minute, Albert.
00:40:08Now, look at me Banbury's all over the floor.
00:40:13Just in time or born in the vestry?
00:40:15You shut your mouth
00:40:16and help Mr Godby pick up them cakes.
00:40:20Come along, now.
00:40:21What are you standing there gaping at?
00:40:38As I left the refreshment room,
00:40:43I saw a train coming in.
00:40:45His train.
00:40:46He wasn't on the platform
00:40:47and I suddenly felt panic-stricken
00:40:50at the thought of not seeing him again.
00:40:51and I thought they might shout your name out of the barrack.
00:41:01Please don't let him argue.
00:41:02I didn't believe in.
00:41:03Sir, have a certain hurt.
00:41:04Sir, have a certain hurt.
00:41:13I thought they might shout your name out of the barrack.
00:41:15Please don't let him argue.
00:41:16Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada
00:41:46...on Platform 3.
00:41:58The stars can change in their courses.
00:42:00The universe grow up in flames and the world crash around us,
00:42:03...but there'll always be Donald Duck.
00:42:04I do love him, sir. His dreadful energy and his blind, frustrated rage.
00:42:08It's the big picture now. Here we go.
00:42:11No more laughter. Prepare for tears.
00:42:16It was a terribly bad picture.
00:42:20We crept out before the end, rather furtively,
00:42:23...as though we were committing a crime.
00:42:25The usherette at the door looked at us with stony contempt.
00:42:29It was a lovely afternoon, and it was a relief to be in the fresh air.
00:42:33We decided we'd go to the botanical gardens.
00:42:36Do you know, I believe we should all behave quite differently
00:42:39...if we lived in a warm, sunny climate all the time.
00:42:42We shouldn't be so withdrawn and shy and difficult.
00:42:45Oh, Fred, it really was a lovely afternoon.
00:42:48There were some little boys sailing their boats.
00:42:50One of them looked awfully like Bobby.
00:42:52That should have given me a pang of conscience. I know, but it didn't.
00:42:55I was enjoying myself, enjoying every single minute.
00:42:59Alec suddenly said that he was sick of staring at the water
00:43:02...and that he wanted to be on it.
00:43:04All the boats were covered up,
00:43:06...but we managed to persuade the old man to let us have one.
00:43:09He thought we were a raving man.
00:43:12Perhaps he was right.
00:43:14Alec rode off at a great rate, and I trailed my hand in the water.
00:43:18It was very cold, but a lovely feeling.
00:43:27You don't row very well, do you?
00:43:29I'm going to be perfectly honest with you. I don't row at all.
00:43:32And unless you want to go round and round in ever-narrowing circles,
00:43:35...you'd better start steering.
00:43:37Oh, we had such fun, Fred.
00:43:41I felt gay and happy and sort of released.
00:43:44That's what's so shameful about it all.
00:43:47That's what would hurt you so much if you knew.
00:43:50That I could feel as intensely as that, away from you,
00:43:54...with a stranger.
00:43:57Oh, look out! We can't get through.
00:44:00Pull on your left.
00:44:07Oh, dear. I never could tell left from right.
00:44:10I'm most awfully sorry.
00:44:12Oh, dear. I'm sorry.
00:44:14You know, the British have always been nice to mad people.
00:44:16That boatman thinks we're quite dotted. Look how sweet he's been.
00:44:18...tea, milk, even sugar.
00:44:22...
00:44:32...
00:44:33...
00:44:34...
00:44:35Thank you.
00:44:48Thank you.
00:44:54You know what's happened, don't you?
00:45:09...
00:45:12Yes.
00:45:13Yes, I do.
00:45:15I've fallen in love with you.
00:45:18Yes, I know.
00:45:22...
00:45:26Tell me honestly.
00:45:27Please tell me honestly if what I believe is true.
00:45:31What do you believe?
00:45:33That it's the same with you.
00:45:34That you've fallen in love, too.
00:45:39It sounds so silly.
00:45:40Why?
00:45:41I know you so little.
00:45:42It is true, though, isn't it?
00:45:46Yes, it's true.
00:45:47Laura.
00:45:48No, please.
00:45:49We must be sensible.
00:45:50Please help me to be sensible.
00:45:51We mustn't behave like this.
00:45:53We must forget that we've said what we've said.
00:45:55Not yet.
00:45:56Not quite yet.
00:45:57But we must, don't you see?
00:46:00Listen.
00:46:02It's too late now to be sensible as all that.
00:46:05It's too late to forget what we've said.
00:46:07And anyway, whether we'd said it or not couldn't have mattered.
00:46:10We know.
00:46:11We've both of us known for a long time.
00:46:14How can you say that?
00:46:16I've only known you for four weeks.
00:46:18We only talked for the first time last Thursday week.
00:46:21Last Thursday week.
00:46:23Has it been a long time for you since then?
00:46:26Answer me truly.
00:46:28Yes.
00:46:30How often did you decide that you were never going to see me again?
00:46:33Several times a day.
00:46:34So did I.
00:46:35No, I think.
00:46:36I love you.
00:46:38I love your wide eyes.
00:46:40And the way you smile.
00:46:42And your shyness.
00:46:45And the way you laugh at my jokes.
00:46:46Please don't.
00:46:47I love you.
00:46:48I love you.
00:46:50You love me too.
00:46:51It's no use pretending it hasn't happened.
00:46:52Because it has.
00:46:54Yes, it has.
00:46:56I don't want to pretend anything either to you or to anyone else.
00:46:59But from now on, I shall have to.
00:47:01That's what's wrong, don't you see?
00:47:03That's what spoils everything.
00:47:05That's why we must stop here and now talking like this.
00:47:08When either of us free to love each other, there's too much in the way.
00:47:11There's still time.
00:47:15If we control ourselves and behave like sensible human beings.
00:47:20There's still time.
00:47:24There's no time at all.
00:47:30There's your train.
00:47:31Yes.
00:47:33I'll come over to the platform with you.
00:47:41Yes.
00:47:57Oh, no, Alec, not here.
00:47:58Someone will see.
00:48:00I'll love you so.
00:48:11You think we might have that down a bit, darling?
00:48:17Hi, Laura.
00:48:20Yes, dear.
00:48:22You were miles away.
00:48:25Was I? Yes, I suppose I was.
00:48:27Do you mind if we turn that down a little?
00:48:29It really is death.
00:48:30Of course not.
00:48:31Thank you.
00:48:41She won't be long ever this, darling, then we'll go out to bed.
00:48:44You look a bit tired, you know.
00:48:46Don't hurry, I'm perfectly happy.
00:48:56How can I possibly say that?
00:48:58Je ne sais pas, je suis parfaitement heureux.
00:49:02Si ce n'était pas vrai.
00:49:05Je ne pense pas que personne n'est pas parfaitement heureux,
00:49:08mais juste qu'il soit content, qu'il soit en paix.
00:49:13C'était un peu plus tard, mais c'était l'éternité
00:49:17depuis le train de l'étranger.
00:49:20Il s'est passé à l'étranger.
00:49:23Je suis heureux, alors.
00:49:25As I went back through the subway to my own platform,
00:49:28I was walking on air.
00:49:30And when I got under the train,
00:49:32I didn't even pretend to read.
00:49:34I didn't care whether people were looking at me or not.
00:49:36I had to think.
00:49:38I should have been utterly wretched and ashamed.
00:49:40I know I should, but I wasn't.
00:49:42I felt suddenly quite wildly happy,
00:49:45like a romantic schoolgirl,
00:49:47like a romantic fool.
00:49:49You see, he'd said he loved me,
00:49:53and I'd said I loved him.
00:49:55And it was true.
00:49:56It was true.
00:49:58I imagined him holding me in his arms.
00:50:01I imagined being with him in all sorts of glamorous circumstances.
00:50:05It was one of those absurd fantasies,
00:50:07just like one has when one is a girl,
00:50:08being wooed and married by the ideal of one's dreams.
00:50:12I stared out of that railway carriage window into the dark,
00:50:19and watched the dim trees and the telegraph posts slipping by.
00:50:24And through them I saw Alec and me.
00:50:27Alec and me.
00:50:30Perhaps a little younger than we are now,
00:50:32but just as much in love,
00:50:34and with nothing in the way.
00:50:37I saw us in Paris, in a box at the opera.
00:50:44The orchestra was tuning up.
00:50:51Then we were in Venice,
00:50:53drifting along the Grand Canal in a gondola
00:50:55with the sound of mandolins coming to us over the water.
00:50:58I saw us travelling far away together,
00:51:01all the places I've always longed to go.
00:51:04I saw us leaning on the rail of a ship,
00:51:07looking at the sea and the stars.
00:51:10Standing on a tropical beach in the moonlight
00:51:12with the palm trees sighing above us.
00:51:16Then the palm trees changed into those polluted willows
00:51:20by the canal just before the level crossing.
00:51:23And all the silly dreams disappeared.
00:51:26Then I got out at Ketchworth,
00:51:28and gave up my ticket,
00:51:30and walked home as usual.
00:51:33Quite soberly and without wings.
00:51:36Without any wings at all.
00:51:38When I changed for dinner and was doing my face a bit,
00:51:40do you remember?
00:51:41I don't suppose you do, but I do.
00:51:43You see, you didn't know
00:51:45that that was the first time in our life together
00:51:47that I'd ever lied to you.
00:51:49It started then.
00:51:51The shame of the whole thing.
00:51:53The guiltiness.
00:51:55The fear.
00:51:57Good evening, Mrs. Jessen.
00:51:59Hello, dear.
00:52:01Had a good day?
00:52:02Yes, lovely.
00:52:04What did you do?
00:52:06Well, I shopped and had lunch and went to the pictures.
00:52:09All by yourself?
00:52:10Yes.
00:52:11Uh, no, not exactly.
00:52:13What do you mean, not exactly?
00:52:15Well, I went to the pictures by myself,
00:52:17but I had lunch with Mary Norton.
00:52:20She couldn't come to the pictures with me
00:52:21because she had to go and see her in-laws.
00:52:23They lived just outside Milford, you know.
00:52:25So I walked with her to the bus
00:52:26and then came home on my own.
00:52:28Haven't seen Mary Norton for ages.
00:52:30How's she looking?
00:52:31Very well, really.
00:52:32A little fatter, I thought.
00:52:33Hurry up with all this beautifying.
00:52:35I want my dinner.
00:52:36You go on down.
00:52:37I won't be five minutes.
00:52:39I want my dinner.
00:52:40I want my dinner.
00:52:41I want my dinner.
00:52:42I want my dinner.
00:53:01Number, please.
00:53:02Petua 37, please.
00:53:04Petua 37.
00:53:09Hello.
00:53:13Hello.
00:53:14Is Mrs. Norton there, please?
00:53:15Yes.
00:53:16Will you hold on?
00:53:17Yes, I'll hold on.
00:53:20Hello.
00:53:21Hello.
00:53:22Is that you, Mary?
00:53:23Oh, Laura!
00:53:24I fancy hearing from you.
00:53:25I thought you were dead.
00:53:27No, I haven't seen you for ages.
00:53:29Listen, my dear.
00:53:31Will you be a saint and back me up
00:53:32in the most appalling domestic lie?
00:53:34Bad as all that.
00:53:36My life depends on it.
00:53:38Well, today I went into Milford as usual to do my shopping.
00:53:41With the special intention of buying a far too expensive present for Fred's birthday.
00:53:45Uh-huh.
00:53:46Well, Spink and Robsons hadn't got what I wanted.
00:53:48Which was one of those clocks with barometers and everything in one.
00:53:51But they rang up their branch at Broadham and said there was one there.
00:53:54So I hopped on the 130 train and went to get it.
00:53:56Go on.
00:53:57Well, this is where the black lie comes in.
00:54:01Fred asked me if I'd had a good day.
00:54:04And I said yes.
00:54:05And that you and I had lunch together.
00:54:07And that you'd gone to see your in-laws and I'd gone to the pictures.
00:54:10So if you run into him, don't let me down, will you?
00:54:12Darling, of course not.
00:54:14I'll do as much for you, I promise.
00:54:16Well, let's really lunch one day.
00:54:18Yes, that'd be lovely.
00:54:19What about next Thursday?
00:54:21No, I can't on Thursday. That's my Milford day.
00:54:24What about Friday?
00:54:25Fine. Better make it here.
00:54:27All right, perfect.
00:54:29You know what my cook's like.
00:54:31It'll have to be early.
00:54:32Yes.
00:54:33All right.
00:54:34Goodbye.
00:54:35Goodbye.
00:54:49That week was misery.
00:54:54I went through it in a sort of trance.
00:54:59How odd of you not to have noticed that you were living with a stranger in the house.
00:55:06Thursday came at last.
00:55:08I'd arranged to meet Alec outside the hospital at 12.30.
00:55:19Hello.
00:55:20Hello.
00:55:21I thought you wouldn't come.
00:55:22I've been thinking all the week that you wouldn't come.
00:55:25I didn't mean to, really, but here I am.
00:55:34Do you know I haven't been inside the Royal since Violet's wedding reception?
00:55:37It all seemed very grand.
00:55:39He actually ordered a bottle of champagne.
00:55:41And when I protested, he said that we were only middle-aged once.
00:55:44We were very gay during lunch and talked about quite ordinary things.
00:55:48Oh, Freddie really was charming.
00:55:50I know you'd have liked him if any things had been different.
00:55:52As we were going out, he said that he had a surprise for me.
00:55:55And that if I would wait in the lounge for five minutes, he'd show me what it was.
00:55:59He went out and down the steps at a run.
00:56:01More like an excited schoolboy than a respectable doctor.
00:56:04Suddenly, out of the dining room came Mary Norton and that rich, over-made-up cousin of hers.
00:56:10They must have been in the dining room all the time and seen Alec and me and the champagne and everything.
00:56:15Laura! So it was you, after all.
00:56:18Hermione said it was.
00:56:19How are you?
00:56:20But you know how short-sighted I am.
00:56:21I peered and peered and still couldn't be sure of it.
00:56:23I never saw you at all. How awful, aren't me?
00:56:25I expect it was the champagne. I'm not used to champagne for lunch.
00:56:28Or for dinner either, for that matter, but Alec insisted.
00:56:31Alec? Alec who, dear?
00:56:33Alec Harvey, of course. Surely you remember the Harveys. I've known them for years.
00:56:37No, I don't think I've ever...
00:56:39Well, you'll be back in a minute. You'll probably recognize him when you peer very closely.
00:56:42He looks very charming and very attentive.
00:56:44Oh, he's a dear. One of the nicest people in the world and a wonderful doctor.
00:56:51Alec, you remember Mrs. Norton, don't you?
00:56:53I'm afraid I don't.
00:56:55It's no use, Laura. We've never seen each other before in our lives.
00:56:58I'm quite sure we haven't.
00:56:59How absurd. I made certain he and Madeline were there when you dined with us just before Christmas last year.
00:57:04Alec, this is Mrs. Rowlands.
00:57:06How do you do?
00:57:07How do you do? Horrid weather, isn't it?
00:57:08Yes.
00:57:09Of course, one can't really expect spring at this time of the year, can one?
00:57:12No.
00:57:15Well, we must be going.
00:57:17I'm taking Hermione with me to see the in-laws as moral support.
00:57:20Goodbye, Dr Harvey.
00:57:21Goodbye.
00:57:22Goodbye, my dear.
00:57:23I do so envy you your champagne.
00:57:26Goodbye.
00:57:27Goodbye.
00:57:28Goodbye.
00:57:33That was awful.
00:57:34Never mind.
00:57:35They've been watching us all through lunch, oh dear.
00:57:38Forget it.
00:57:39Come out and look at the surprise.
00:57:41There at the foot of the steps was a little two-seater car.
00:57:45Alec had borrowed it from Stephen Lynn for the afternoon.
00:57:48I tried so hard to look pleased, but it wasn't any good.
00:57:51I kept thinking of those two, laughing and talking, laughing and talking about us,
00:57:57and I couldn't get them out of my mind.
00:58:00When we were out in the real country, I think it was a few miles beyond Brayfield.
00:58:04We stopped the car just outside a village and got out.
00:58:07There was a little bridge and a stream, and the sun was making an effort to come out,
00:58:12but really not succeeding very well.
00:58:14We leaned down the parapet of the bridge and looked down into the water.
00:58:18I shivered, and Alec put his arm around me.
00:58:21Cold?
00:58:22No, not really.
00:58:23Happy?
00:58:28No, not really.
00:58:31I know exactly what you're going to say.
00:58:34That it isn't worth it.
00:58:37That the furtiveness and lying outweigh the happiness we might have together.
00:58:42Isn't that it?
00:58:44Something like that.
00:58:48I want to ask you something, just to reassure myself.
00:58:53What is it?
00:58:55It is true for you, isn't it?
00:58:58This overwhelming feeling we have for each other.
00:59:00It's as true for you as it is for me, isn't it?
00:59:03Yes, it's true.
00:59:05We must have stayed on that bridge for a long time.
00:59:15Because when we got back to Stephen Lynn's garage, it was getting dark.
00:59:20I remember feeling as if I was on the edge of a precipice.
00:59:24I think Alec felt that too.
00:59:26You see, we both knew how desperately we loved each other.
00:59:32Alec said that he had to leave the keys of the car in Stephen Lynn's flat.
00:59:35And suggested that I came up with him.
00:59:37I refused rather too vehemently.
00:59:39Alec reminded me that Stephen wasn't coming back till late.
00:59:42But I still refused.
00:59:54I'm going back.
00:59:55I'm going to miss my train.
00:59:57Back where?
00:59:58To Stephen's flat.
01:00:00Oh, Alec.
01:00:17Alec.
01:00:18I must go home now.
01:00:19I really must go home.
01:00:28A cup of tea, please.
01:00:53Good afternoon.
01:00:54Afternoon, lady.
01:00:55Afternoon.
01:00:56A couple of whiskies, please.
01:00:57Very sorry.
01:00:58It's out of hours.
01:00:59Well, just sneak them to us under the cupboard of them poor old sandwiches.
01:01:02Them sandwiches were fresh this morning and I shall do no such thing.
01:01:05Come on.
01:01:06Be a sport.
01:01:07You can have as much as you want to after six o'clock.
01:01:09My throat's like a parrot's cage.
01:01:11Listen.
01:01:13I'm sorry.
01:01:14My license does not permit me to serve alcohol out of hours.
01:01:16That's final.
01:01:17You wouldn't want to get me into trouble, would you?
01:01:19Just give us the chance, lady.
01:01:20That's all we ask.
01:01:21Just give us the chance.
01:01:22Gabriel!
01:01:23I suppose I'd ask Mr. Godby to come here for a moment, will you?
01:01:28Yes, Mrs. Megan.
01:01:29How knows he when he's at home?
01:01:30You'll soon see.
01:01:31Coming in here cheeking me.
01:01:32Charm of it, mother.
01:01:33Be a pal.
01:01:34I'll give you mother, you saucy upstart.
01:01:35Oh, you call in an upstart.
01:01:37I'll give you mother, you saucy upstart.
01:01:39Oh, you call in an upstart.
01:01:41You, and I'll trouble you to get out of here double quick.
01:01:44Disturbing the customers and making a nuisance of yourselves.
01:01:46Here, where's the fire? Where's the fire?
01:01:49What's going on in here?
01:01:50Mr. Godby, these gentlemen are annoying me.
01:01:52What? We haven't done nothing, have we, Johnny?
01:01:54We did us ask a couple of drinks, that's all.
01:01:56They insulted me, Mr. Godby.
01:01:58We never did anything of the kind.
01:02:00Just having a little joke, that's all.
01:02:02Hop it, both of you.
01:02:03We've got a right to stay here as long as we like.
01:02:04You heard what I said. Hop it.
01:02:06Now, look here, what is this? A free country or a blooming Sunday school?
01:02:09I checked your ones at the gate.
01:02:10The train's due in one minute, number two platform. Hop it.
01:02:12Now, look here.
01:02:13Ah, come on, Johnny, come on.
01:02:15Don't argue with the poor basket.
01:02:18Hop it.
01:02:23Cheerio, mother.
01:02:26And if them sandwiches were made this morning, you're Shirley Temple.
01:02:32Thank you, Albert.
01:02:33What a nerve talking to you like that, Mrs. Baggett.
01:02:35Be quiet, Beryl.
01:02:37Pull me out a nip of three star.
01:02:38I'm feeling quite upset.
01:02:39Let's go back to the gate.
01:02:41I'll be seeing you later, Albert.
01:02:43Okay.
01:02:50The train now arriving at platform three is the 543 from Ketchwell.
01:02:56I really must go home.
01:03:01I'm going back to the flat.
01:03:02I must go home.
01:03:04I really must go home.
01:03:05I really must go home.
01:03:06I'm going back to the flat.
01:03:07I'm going home.
01:03:11I'm going home.
01:03:12I'm going home.
01:03:14I'm going home.
01:03:15Excuse me.
01:03:16I've forgotten something.
01:03:20Excuse me, I've forgotten something.
01:03:21Excuse me, I've forgotten something.
01:03:51Thank you.
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01:06:59et l'atmosphère de l'atmosphère de l'hôpital est incroyable.
01:07:01Par l'indignifiant scuffling,
01:07:04ce que j'ai entendu quand j'étais dans le hall,
01:07:06je me souviens que j'ai eu de l'hôpital à l'hôpital.
01:07:09Je suis surpris à cette farcicale de votre nature, Alec.
01:07:12Such carreries ont été assez nécessaire.
01:07:14Après tout, nous avons été friends pour longtemps,
01:07:16et je suis le plus grand-minded de hommes.
01:07:19Je suis vraiment très désolé, Stephen.
01:07:21Je suis sûre que la situation
01:07:23doit être vulgar pour vous.
01:07:25En fait, il n'est pas le moins.
01:07:27Mais, vous êtes parfaitement correcte.
01:07:29Explanations sont nécessaires,
01:07:30particulièrement entre nos amis.
01:07:32Je m'en vais.
01:07:33Je vais m'en aller.
01:07:34Je vais m'en aller.
01:07:35Je vais m'en aller.
01:07:36Je vais m'en aller.
01:07:37Je n'en ai deux,
01:07:38et je m'en ai pas de perdre.
01:07:39Vous savez combien je n'en ai.
01:07:43Vous êtes très angry, n'est-ce pas ?
01:07:44Non, Alec.
01:07:45Pas d'angry.
01:07:46Pas d'angry.
01:07:47Pas d'angry.
01:07:57Pas d'angry.
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01:08:28...dreadfully ashamed.
01:08:31After a moment or two, I pulled myself together...
01:08:35...and walked on in the direction of the station.
01:08:38It was still raining, but not very much.
01:08:41I suddenly realized that I couldn't go home.
01:08:43Not until I'd got myself more under control...
01:08:45...and had a little time to think.
01:08:47Then I thought of you waiting at home and the dinner being spoiled.
01:08:49So I went into the high street...
01:08:51...and found a tobacconist and telephoned to you.
01:08:54Do you remember?
01:08:58Hello, Fred. Is that you?
01:09:04Yes, it's me, Laura.
01:09:07Yes, everything's perfectly all right, but I shall be home to dinner.
01:09:10I'm with Miss Lewis.
01:09:12Miss Lewis, dear. You know the librarian I told you about at Boots.
01:09:15Yes, I can't explain in any detail because she's outside the box now.
01:09:18Well, I met her in the high street a little while ago in a terrible state.
01:09:21Her mother's been taken ill and I promised to stay with her until the doctor comes.
01:09:25Yes, I know, but she's always been awfully kind to me and I feel so sorry for her.
01:09:31Now, I'll get a sandwich, but ask Ethel to leave me some soup and a saucepan in the kitchen.
01:09:37Yes, of course, as soon as I can.
01:09:41All right, goodbye.
01:09:42It's awfully easy to lie when you know that you're trusted implicitly.
01:09:45So very easy and so very degrading.
01:09:47I started to lie when you know that you're trusted implicitly.
01:09:49So very easy and so very degrading.
01:09:51I started walking without much purpose.
01:09:53I turned out of the high street almost immediately.
01:09:57I was terrified that I had to be able to see and see and see.
01:10:01I was afraid and I thought you couldn't find myself a place without my body.
01:10:04I thought you'd be as good.
01:10:06I could have been a girl.
01:10:08You might be a girl, so you're little girl, so you could not find yourself a pai.
01:10:12Let's wait.
01:10:14I have a friend, and I feel so sorry for her.
01:10:16No, I'll get a sandwich.
01:10:18But ask Ethel to leave me some soup and a saucepan in the kitchen.
01:10:20J'avais peur que j'aurais dû aller à Alec.
01:10:23J'étais certaine qu'il allait venir à la station.
01:10:27J'ai eu un peu de temps.
01:10:29Finalement, j'ai rencontré à la memorial.
01:10:31Vous savez, c'est à l'autre côté de la rue.
01:10:34Il ne s'est arrêté à l'intérieur et j'ai eu lancé.
01:10:38Donc, j'étais dans l'un de la salle.
01:10:41Il n'y avait pas de gens, et j'ai eu lancé.
01:10:43Je sais que vous approuvez des femmes dans la rue.
01:10:46Je suis aussi, mais j'ai voulu calmer mes nerfs et j'ai pensé que ça m'aide.
01:10:50Je suis là pour l'heure.
01:10:54Je ne sais pas combien de temps.
01:10:56J'ai vu un policier un peu plus loin.
01:11:00Il me a eu de plus de suspicions.
01:11:04Il me a eu.
01:11:06Vous êtes bien, ma?
01:11:08Oui, merci.
01:11:10Vous êtes en train de voir quelqu'un?
01:11:12Non. Non, je ne suis pas en train de voir quelqu'un.
01:11:14Ne t'en s'en s'en s'en s'en s'en s'en s'en s'en s'en s'en s'en s'en s'en s'en s'en s'en.
01:11:18Je suis en train de voir quelqu'un.
01:11:21Vous êtes sûre que vous vous sentez bien?
01:11:23Merci.
01:11:25Bonne nuit.
01:11:26Bonne nuit, miss.
01:11:28Je me suis en train de voir, en pensant qu'il était en train de voir.
01:11:33Je me suis en train de voir.
01:11:35Je me suis en train de voir quelqu'un.
01:11:36Je me suis en train de voir quelque chose de la rue.
01:11:38Je me suis en train de voir quelqu'un des LynES d'amener.
01:12:06Oh, et vous avez un papier dans l'enveloppe?
01:12:13Je suis afraid que vous devriez que ça à l'aise de l'aise de l'aise.
01:12:15L'aise de l'aise de l'aise de l'aise.
01:12:17C'est très important. Je suis très obligé.
01:12:20All right, juste un moment.
01:12:36Thank you very much.
01:12:40We close in a few minutes, you know.
01:12:41Yes, I know.
01:13:06I've been looking for you everywhere.
01:13:18Please go away. Please don't send me.
01:13:19Please go away.
01:13:20I can't leave you like this.
01:13:21You must. It'll be better, really, it will.
01:13:24You're being dreadfully cruel.
01:13:26It was just an accident that he came back early.
01:13:27He doesn't know who you are. He never even saw you.
01:13:29I suppose he laughed, didn't he?
01:13:31I suppose you spoke of me together as men of the world.
01:13:33We didn't speak of you.
01:13:34We spoke of some nameless creature who has no reality at all.
01:13:36Why didn't you tell him who I was?
01:13:37Why didn't you say we were cheap and low and without courage?
01:13:39Stop it, Laura. Pull yourself together.
01:13:40Well, it's true, isn't it? It's true.
01:13:41It's nothing of the sort.
01:13:43We know we really love each other. That's true.
01:13:45That's all that really matters.
01:13:46It isn't all that really matters. Other things matter, too.
01:13:48Self-respect matters and decency.
01:13:50I can't go on any longer.
01:13:54Could you really say goodbye?
01:13:56Never see me again?
01:13:59Yes, if you'd help me.
01:14:06I love you, Laura.
01:14:13I shall love you always until the end of my life.
01:14:18I can't look at you now because I know something.
01:14:22I know that this is the beginning of the end.
01:14:24Not the end of my loving you,
01:14:26but the end of our being together.
01:14:27But not quite yet, darling.
01:14:29Please, not quite yet.
01:14:33Very well, not quite yet.
01:14:35I know what you feel about this evening.
01:14:38I mean, about the sordidness of it.
01:14:40I know about the strain of our different lives.
01:14:43Our lives apart from each other.
01:14:45The feeling of guilt,
01:14:47of doing wrong is too strong, isn't it?
01:14:50Too great a price to pay
01:14:51for the happiness we have together.
01:14:52I know all this
01:14:56because it's the same for me, too.
01:15:01You can look at me now. I'm all right.
01:15:09Let's be very careful.
01:15:11Let's prepare ourselves.
01:15:14A sudden break now,
01:15:15however brave and admirable,
01:15:16would be too cruel.
01:15:18We can't do such violence
01:15:19to our hearts and minds.
01:15:20very well.
01:15:26I'm going away.
01:15:29I see.
01:15:30But not quite yet.
01:15:31Please, not quite yet.
01:15:35That's the 10-10.
01:15:36It's after closing time.
01:15:37Oh, is it?
01:15:38I should have to lock up.
01:15:39All right.
01:15:50I want you to promise me something.
01:15:55What is it?
01:15:56Promise me that however unhappy you are
01:15:58and however much you think things over,
01:16:01that you meet me again next Thursday.
01:16:03Where?
01:16:04Outside the hospital at 12.30.
01:16:07All right. I promise.
01:16:08I've got to talk to you.
01:16:08I've got to explain.
01:16:10About going away?
01:16:11Yes.
01:16:11Where would you go?
01:16:13Where can you go?
01:16:13You can't give up your practice.
01:16:16I've had a job offered me.
01:16:18I wasn't going to tell you.
01:16:19I wasn't going to take it.
01:16:21But I know now it's the only way out.
01:16:23Where?
01:16:24A long way away.
01:16:26Johannesburg.
01:16:28Oh, Alec.
01:16:29My brother's out there.
01:16:31They're opening a new hospital.
01:16:33They want me in it.
01:16:35It's a fine opportunity, really.
01:16:37I'll take Madeline and the boys.
01:16:40It's been torturing me,
01:16:41the necessity of making a decision
01:16:42one way or the other.
01:16:43I haven't told anybody,
01:16:44not even Madeline.
01:16:47I couldn't bear the thought of leaving you.
01:16:50But now I see it's got to happen soon, anyway.
01:16:55It's almost happening already.
01:16:59Stanley!
01:17:06When will you go?
01:17:09Almost immediately.
01:17:11In about two weeks' time.
01:17:14Quite near, isn't it?
01:17:16Do you want me to stay?
01:17:18Do you want me to turn down the offer?
01:17:19Oh, don't be foolish, Ellie.
01:17:21I'll do whatever you say.
01:17:24That's unkind of you, my darling.
01:17:26The train for Ketchworth
01:17:27is now arriving at Platform 3.
01:17:30You're not angry with me, are you?
01:17:49No, I'm not angry.
01:17:51I don't think I'm anything, really.
01:17:53I just feel tired.
01:17:54Forgive me?
01:17:56Forgive you for what?
01:17:57For everything.
01:18:00For meeting you in the first place.
01:18:02For taking the piece of grit out of your eye.
01:18:05For loving you.
01:18:07For bringing you so much misery.
01:18:11I'll forgive you if you'll forgive me.
01:18:22Thursday.
01:18:22All that was a week ago.
01:18:28It's hardly credible that it should be so short a time.
01:18:33Today was our last day together.
01:18:35Our very last together in all our lives.
01:18:38I met him outside the hospital, as I had promised, at 12.30.
01:18:42At 12.30 this morning.
01:18:45That was only this morning.
01:18:46We drove into the country again, but this time he hired a car.
01:18:51I lit cigarettes for him every now and then as we went along.
01:18:54We didn't talk much.
01:18:55I felt numbed and hardly alive at all.
01:18:59We had lunch in a village pub.
01:19:03Afterwards, we went to the same bridge over the stream.
01:19:07The bridge that we'd been to before.
01:19:11Those last few hours went by so quickly.
01:19:13As we walked through the station,
01:19:27I remember thinking,
01:19:28this is the last time with Alec.
01:19:32I shall see all this again, but without Alec.
01:19:36I tried not to think of it.
01:19:39Not to let it spoil our last moments together.
01:19:41You all right, darling?
01:20:08Yes, I'm all right.
01:20:11I wish I could think of something to say.
01:20:16It doesn't matter, not saying anything, I mean.
01:20:18I'll miss my train and wait to see you in the house.
01:20:20No, please don't.
01:20:20I'll come over with you to your platform, I'd rather.
01:20:22Very well.
01:20:26Do you think we shall ever see each other again?
01:20:30I don't know.
01:20:31Not for years, anyway.
01:20:34Children will all be grown up.
01:20:37I wonder if they'll ever meet and know each other.
01:20:39Couldn't I write to you just once in a while?
01:20:42No, Alec, please.
01:20:43You know, we promised.
01:20:45Oh, my dear.
01:20:47I do love you so very much.
01:20:50I love you with all my heart and soul.
01:20:55I want to die.
01:20:58If only I could die.
01:21:00If you died, you'd forget me.
01:21:03I want to be remembered.
01:21:06Yes, I know I do, too.
01:21:12We've still got a few minutes.
01:21:14Laura!
01:21:15What a lovely surprise!
01:21:17My dear, I've been shopping, clamp dropping.
01:21:19My feet are nearly falling off.
01:21:20My throat's parched.
01:21:21I thought of having tea at spindles, but I was terrified of losing the train.
01:21:24Oh, dear.
01:21:26Oh, this is Dr. Harvey.
01:21:27How do you do?
01:21:28Oh, how do you do?
01:21:28Would you be a perfecter and get me a cup of tea?
01:21:30I really don't think I could drag my poor old bones over to the counter.
01:21:33No, please.
01:21:34It was cruel a fate to be against us right up to the very last minute.
01:21:38Dolly Messeter.
01:21:39Poor, well-meaning, irritating Dolly Messeter.
01:21:43Crashing into those last few precious minutes we had together.
01:21:47She chattered and fussed, but I didn't hear what she said.
01:21:50I felt dazed and bewildered.
01:21:52No sugar.
01:21:53It's in the spoon.
01:21:54Alec behaved so beautifully, with such perfect politeness.
01:21:58No one could have guessed what he was really feeling.
01:22:01And then...
01:22:02There's your train.
01:22:05Yes, I know.
01:22:06Oh, aren't you coming with us?
01:22:08No, I go in the opposite direction.
01:22:09My practice is in Shirley.
01:22:10Oh, I see.
01:22:11I'm a general practitioner at the moment.
01:22:13Dr. Harvey's going out to Africa next week.
01:22:15Oh, how thrilling.
01:22:16The train now arriving at Platform 4 is to 5.40,
01:22:21with Shirley, Lee Green, and the Lange.
01:22:24I'm just go.
01:22:25Yes, you must.
01:22:26Goodbye.
01:22:26Goodbye.
01:22:32I felt the touch of his hand on my shoulder for a moment.
01:22:36And then he walked away.
01:22:39Away, out of my life forever.
01:22:43He's got to get right over to the other platform.
01:22:45Talking of missing trains reminds me of that awful bridge at Broadham Junction.
01:22:48Dolly still went on talking, but I wasn't listening to her.
01:22:52I was listening for the sound of his train starting.
01:22:57Then it did.
01:23:01I said to myself, he didn't go.
01:23:03The last minute his courage failed him, he couldn't have gone.
01:23:07Any minute now, he'll come back into the refreshment room,
01:23:09pretending he's forgotten something.
01:23:10I prayed for him to do that.
01:23:13Just so that I could see him again for an instant.
01:23:19But the minutes went by.
01:23:23Is that the train?
01:23:25Oh, can you tell me?
01:23:26Is that the Ketchworth train?
01:23:27No, it's the express.
01:23:28The boat train.
01:23:29Of course, that doesn't stop, does it?
01:23:31I want some chocolate, please.
01:23:33No complaint.
01:23:34Don't be welcome.
01:23:53What's up?
01:23:55Don't becuidant.
01:23:56Oh, can you tell me?
01:23:56Don't be пример.
01:23:59Hey.
01:24:00That'swhat's better.
01:24:01Yo, you��.
01:24:02Oh, sort of thing.
01:24:03Je me souviens. Je me souviens.
01:24:05Je me souviens.
01:24:07Je me souviens.
01:24:09Je me souviens.
01:24:11Mais je ne pouvais pas.
01:24:14Je n'étais pas assez brave.
01:24:17Je me souviens que c'était la pensée de vous et les enfants...
01:24:20mais je n'étais pas.
01:24:23Je n'avais pas des pensées.
01:24:27J'avais un désir de ne pas sentir quelque chose de nouveau.
01:24:32Je n'avais pas de ne pas.
01:24:34Je me souviens.
01:24:38Je me souviens.
01:24:40Je me souviens.
01:24:48J'ai eu l'impressionné.
01:25:02Je me souviens.
01:25:04C'est parti.
01:25:34Qu'est-ce que votre rêve, ce n'était pas un très heureux, était-ce que vous ?
01:25:43Non.
01:25:45Est-ce qu'il y a quelque chose que je peux faire pour aider ?
01:25:50Il faut toujours aider.
01:25:52Vous avez été un long chemin.
01:25:58Merci de venir à me retourner.
01:26:04Merci d'avoir regardé cette vidéo !
01:26:34Merci d'avoir regardé cette vidéo !
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