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First broadcast 25th January 1977.
A quietly unhappy housewife finds a stranger in her house and is attacked at knife-point by him.
Angela Down - Daphne
Heather Canning - Louise
Kate Nelligan - Hilary
Gerry Cowper - Rowena
Constance Chapman - Mops
John Welsh - Pops
Christopher Coll - John
Julian Hough - Terry
A quietly unhappy housewife finds a stranger in her house and is attacked at knife-point by him.
Angela Down - Daphne
Heather Canning - Louise
Kate Nelligan - Hilary
Gerry Cowper - Rowena
Constance Chapman - Mops
John Welsh - Pops
Christopher Coll - John
Julian Hough - Terry
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00:00:07The attack after lunch, West Indus score standing on 40 for 2, Greenwich 28, Kali Chiran yet to open his
00:00:14account, it's Kali Chiran to receive the first ball of the afternoon's play from John Snow.
00:00:22And it's a chance and it's caught, and a great blow again by John Snow, Kali Chiran out for naught,
00:00:28first ball of the afternoon's play, tremendous start here by England, rocking the West Indies now, the score standing on
00:00:3640 for 3, and a second wicket to John Snow.
00:01:02Snow, then with his sleeves rolled by to the biceps, turns at the beginning of his round, but just flapping
00:01:10against his back.
00:01:11He's past umpire constant, falls to Greenwich and Greenwich rashes that away between gully and cover for four more runs.
00:01:21Getting right above it, hitting it with a pull in place of the bat and the power of his shoulders
00:01:28for the Greenwich.
00:01:30And having taken a little time to play himself in, Greenwich now batting with characteristic aggression.
00:01:41Greenwich.
00:01:44Slowly Greenwich again.
00:01:50Greenwich plane, a bubble defensive.
00:01:53Backstroke, bang it down the floor.
00:01:56Good night, sticky outside the breeze.
00:01:58Hello? You looking for me?
00:02:05And now, creating chances.
00:02:10The end of these five slips, it comes old and falls to Greenwich.
00:02:14Greenwich with great care.
00:02:16Place down the middle of the snow.
00:02:19Five slips, it's done in the middle of the wall.
00:02:23On top of the walls, it's ready to set the end of the city.
00:02:28Seven men are holding it in close to the streets.
00:02:40Where will you expect me to do it?
00:02:43Pardon?
00:02:45Where will you want me to do it?
00:02:47What's your name?
00:02:49My name?
00:02:52What's yours?
00:02:53Terry.
00:02:54Oh.
00:02:57Mine's Louise.
00:03:00Are you finished?
00:03:02Yes.
00:03:04Come out.
00:03:16Can we not use the bed?
00:03:18I don't mind.
00:03:21Where?
00:03:23I lie on the floor.
00:03:27Here?
00:03:29Why not?
00:03:32Can I have a towel?
00:03:39Here.
00:03:52Lie down on it.
00:04:02Do you want a pillow under you?
00:04:03Or a cushion?
00:04:05Yes, please.
00:04:07Terry.
00:04:09Okay.
00:04:21Yes, sir.
00:04:23Come back.
00:04:24Do you like it?
00:04:26Do you like it?
00:04:30Yes, sir.
00:04:32Come back.
00:04:34Pops his brows and does so, the sun breaks, they're a little humid, a little debris, very sticky outside the
00:04:44debris, and of course, Lourdes is very much fenced in, and now Gregor's posted five slips and a gully, five
00:04:52slips and a gully, and old comes in the bowler Greenwich, up, falls to him, Greenwich goes back and plays
00:05:01meticulously back down the pitch for the bowler,
00:05:04who doesn't feel it quite cleanly, turns and chases after it, no attempt at the time.
00:05:21A bit snow actually, wants some straighter and deeper at mid-arm.
00:05:30You busy?
00:05:31No.
00:05:32Shall I come in?
00:05:34Yes.
00:05:39You look pretty bloody battered.
00:05:42Do I?
00:05:43Anything I can do?
00:05:44No.
00:05:46I rang you earlier today.
00:05:47I wasn't bloody in all day, Cha.
00:05:50No, I let it ring in case you were in the garden.
00:05:52Oh, that's finished all that. Just as soon as he comes back, he can cover that in concrete.
00:05:57He rang me from China last night, bloody China.
00:05:59Good Lord.
00:06:00Should he be there?
00:06:01Apparently.
00:06:03What on earth's he doing there?
00:06:04Selling?
00:06:05Oh, of course.
00:06:06It wasn't China actually, it was bloody Hong Kong.
00:06:08Oh, well, nearly China.
00:06:12I'm always cooking.
00:06:14I enjoy cooking.
00:06:15I don't.
00:06:16Well, there you are.
00:06:17Some do, some don't.
00:06:20Would you like a glass of wine?
00:06:22In the fridge?
00:06:23Yes.
00:06:24Get yourself one.
00:06:25I'll have one too.
00:06:27What is it?
00:06:27Oh, just supermarket.
00:06:29Nothing wrong with that.
00:06:30No, not at all.
00:06:34Are you giving somebody dinner?
00:06:36Yes.
00:06:37What?
00:06:38Minestra.
00:06:39What?
00:06:41Minestra.
00:06:42It's minestrone without the meat.
00:06:44Ah.
00:06:45Why?
00:06:46What's wrong with meat?
00:06:47Nothing.
00:06:48We're slimming.
00:06:49So am I.
00:06:51Ah.
00:06:52Well, I have been today.
00:06:55There's absolutely no need for you to slim.
00:06:57You're very slim.
00:06:59Am I?
00:07:00My God, you should see me stripped off.
00:07:03Well, slim enough anyway.
00:07:05Whereas I'm gross.
00:07:08Meat is alright.
00:07:09Yes, but just vegetables is very clean and refreshing, isn't it?
00:07:15What I want from you is your word of honour that you won't tell Ted I was out all day.
00:07:19I didn't know you were.
00:07:20Well, I was.
00:07:21Well, Ted isn't likely to ask me.
00:07:23We hardly ever see each other.
00:07:24Neither do we.
00:07:25But he's likely to ask me.
00:07:26Very likely, mate.
00:07:27What I want to do is to use your telephone to report mine as out of order.
00:07:31Oh, that's why I couldn't get you.
00:07:33Mm-mm.
00:07:34Why he couldn't get me was because I was giving my boyfriend a treat he rarely gets.
00:07:38Which is me in bed for more than five minutes.
00:07:40I can never get used to you talking about your boyfriend.
00:07:43You seem too old.
00:07:45I mean, surely we're too old to have boyfriends.
00:07:48We are.
00:07:49But he's not complaining.
00:07:50No, it's not that.
00:07:52It's the name.
00:07:53Boyfriend.
00:07:54Doesn't fit.
00:07:56I mean, I should hate to be called a girlfriend.
00:07:57I'm not a girl.
00:07:58All right.
00:07:59My fella?
00:08:01Yes, I suppose.
00:08:03I'll tell you because Ted...
00:08:05Ted might just ring you to ask why I'm not answering the phone and you can tell him I'm
00:08:08broken down and I've reported it.
00:08:10And if I do actually report it, you'll be telling the truth, won't you?
00:08:12Thanks.
00:08:14And I won't tell your fella what you've been up to.
00:08:17What?
00:08:18Weeping, dear.
00:08:19Weeping.
00:08:20Oh, well.
00:08:22I'm depressed.
00:08:23You should get yourself a lover.
00:08:26No, I don't think so.
00:08:28But you don't mind me having one.
00:08:29I don't care what you have.
00:08:32Have I been given another glass of your revolting plonk?
00:08:35Yes, if you want one.
00:08:36Don't you think I should have any more?
00:08:38Am I going anywhere?
00:08:40I'm going just where I want to go.
00:08:42Just as far as I want to go, honey, I am.
00:08:44I mean you're home for the day, no driving.
00:08:57I'm going to get a bloody job.
00:08:58Why not?
00:08:59Why don't you?
00:09:01Why?
00:09:01Thought you said you were depressed.
00:09:03Yes, but I don't want a job.
00:09:06I'm very happy just pottering about all day.
00:09:08You are.
00:09:09I know you are.
00:09:11Listen, I used to be bloody good at my job.
00:09:14So did I.
00:09:15Not as good as me.
00:09:16I don't know what you did.
00:09:18You do, I told you.
00:09:20Oh yes, the Admiralty at Bath.
00:09:22Right.
00:09:24Well, I don't want a job.
00:09:26You ought to have a job, get you out of the house.
00:09:29I don't want to be out of the house.
00:09:30I do.
00:09:31I don't spend any more time than I have to in the bloody house.
00:09:34Yes, well, you're different.
00:09:36Right, I am, Ducky.
00:09:40I can find heaps to do.
00:09:41Well, so can I if I look.
00:09:48My house is filthy.
00:09:50Well, clean it up.
00:09:51No.
00:09:53I don't clean it up.
00:09:54I'll have to clean it up.
00:09:55No.
00:09:55I'll have to clean it up before Ted gets back.
00:09:57No.
00:09:57Hell, you'll have to lump it.
00:09:59Fine.
00:10:00Do you want me to sod off?
00:10:03You're supposed to?
00:10:06I'll tell you, honey, I had a damn sight more exciting day than you had.
00:10:09Good.
00:10:10No, I didn't.
00:10:11Well, maybe.
00:10:13Well, bloody revolting, really.
00:10:16Revolting.
00:10:17He's revolting.
00:10:20He's drunk and he's fat and he flops about on top of me for hours before he feels like giving
00:10:24it up.
00:10:25Louise, I don't want to hear about it.
00:10:26Daphne, I don't want to tell you about it.
00:10:27I don't ask you to.
00:10:29He used to be such a private person.
00:10:32A mouse.
00:10:33A what?
00:10:35Yes.
00:10:36Right, well, I'll go home.
00:10:38I'll make the call to the GPO people first.
00:10:40Right.
00:10:42I don't care if he does find out.
00:10:44I don't care.
00:10:45Nevertheless.
00:10:46Well, I don't care.
00:10:49Not only don't you care, but you seem set on making sure he does find out.
00:10:53Ted?
00:10:54Aren't you?
00:10:55I don't care, that's all.
00:10:56There isn't any deep meaning to my baby.
00:10:58I just don't care whether he finds out or not.
00:11:02I made a decision today when Fat Fat was flopping about all over me.
00:11:07I made the decision to get some weight off, which is a start.
00:11:11What is a start?
00:11:12I don't know, but it is a start, isn't it?
00:11:14That and smoking.
00:11:15I can't give up smoking.
00:11:16I have this itch in my lungs which drives me to smoke.
00:11:19I'm forced to use cigarettes to scratch this deep itch.
00:11:23Find me something else to do it with and I'll use it, honey.
00:11:25Really, I will.
00:11:26But I haven't had one today.
00:11:28When I'm having one pleasure, I usually deny myself the other.
00:11:32Or an other, because I have so many pleasures, all of them harmful.
00:11:36Drink, smoking, driving fast, hurting Ted, having fat, fat flop about all over me
00:11:40for the last time, I promise you.
00:11:42Are you all right, Louise?
00:11:43Of course.
00:11:43Have you got a ciggy?
00:11:47What are you asking me to do?
00:11:49I suppose, advice?
00:11:51I don't know.
00:11:54No.
00:11:58Well, it's only this to show how wrong you can get.
00:12:01Bea, me, I mean me, saying I'd have a damn sight more exciting day than you had.
00:12:07Well, I won't say it hasn't happened to me because it has.
00:12:10I think.
00:12:12What?
00:12:13I was raped by a Pole at the end of the war, I think.
00:12:17Ah.
00:12:19I know it's not the same thing, is it?
00:12:22And after all, I did ask for it.
00:12:24I mean, I couldn't blame him.
00:12:25It would have been difficult to blame him anyhow.
00:12:27First of all, I couldn't pronounce his name.
00:12:29And secondly, it was dark.
00:12:31It could have been anyone, any one of them.
00:12:32There were four.
00:12:33Four?
00:12:33Only one did it.
00:12:35I think.
00:12:36Don't you know?
00:12:38I wasn't altogether altogether, if you know what I mean.
00:12:43I mean, I was very drunk, honey.
00:12:45I mean, it was just after the end of the war, which was marvellous for them.
00:12:48They were celebrating.
00:12:49Everybody was.
00:12:50So I joined in.
00:12:51Well, it didn't mean anything to me in the end of the war, I mean.
00:12:54But then I wasn't going to get killed, was I?
00:12:55Except by accident, or a bomb, or a gun sight blowing up.
00:13:00You know, by accident.
00:13:01Though there weren't any bombers anymore, and the doodlebugs had stopped.
00:13:04So, it wasn't really rape.
00:13:08It was just that I didn't particularly want to be done, I think.
00:13:11But I was.
00:13:13How old were you?
00:13:14Oh, honey, I was only 17, 19, 16.
00:13:18Actually, it was well after the end of the...
00:13:19They were Lithuanians.
00:13:22Didn't you do anything about it?
00:13:24Such as?
00:13:25Telling somebody?
00:13:25Yes, I told everybody.
00:13:27What happened to them?
00:13:28Nothing.
00:13:29Oh, I didn't tell them I'd been raped, because, quite honestly, I wasn't sure that I had been.
00:13:33Legally.
00:13:34I mean, I'd been willing to go up the road with them.
00:13:36Him.
00:13:37So, I'd only myself to blame, hadn't I?
00:13:40I suppose so.
00:13:41I mean, how do you feel about it?
00:13:44Angry.
00:13:44Yeah, I felt that.
00:13:45For a hell of a long time, deep down inside, just bloody angry.
00:13:49But after all, I did ask for it, didn't I?
00:13:52I didn't.
00:13:57Most rapes aren't.
00:13:59I mean, legally, are they?
00:14:01I don't know.
00:14:03You could go to the police.
00:14:05But do you want everybody to know?
00:14:07I don't know.
00:14:08I don't know what to suggest.
00:14:11What was he like?
00:14:14You'll probably find if you go to the police, they'll know him, know of him at least.
00:14:17You'll probably find he's done it before.
00:14:19He has.
00:14:19How do you know?
00:14:20He told me.
00:14:20You talked to him?
00:14:21Yes.
00:14:22He knew all about me.
00:14:23He's been watching the house for some time.
00:14:25Really?
00:14:26Do you know, I don't think he expects me to say anything.
00:14:33Daphne, did he actually force you?
00:14:38Yes.
00:14:38You sure?
00:14:40He held a carving knife at my throat.
00:14:42Let me see.
00:14:44There isn't a wound.
00:14:45Of course not.
00:14:46Did you struggle?
00:14:47No.
00:14:48Good girl.
00:14:49That's what I tell my girls.
00:14:51I was frightened.
00:14:53Yes, of course you were.
00:14:53You would have some bruises.
00:14:55Do you bruise easily?
00:14:56I do.
00:14:57I'm covered in bruises all the time.
00:14:58I mean, look.
00:15:00Look, that's what happens to me.
00:15:01I mean, normally that's what happens to me.
00:15:04Well, I don't know.
00:15:05I shouldn't think so.
00:15:06I didn't struggle.
00:15:09I was sick after he'd gone.
00:15:11You've left it too late now.
00:15:13Nobody will believe you after all this time.
00:15:14You've left it too late.
00:15:15Do you think so?
00:15:16Do you want to go through all that?
00:15:18No, not much.
00:15:19Medical examinations, all that.
00:15:21No, not at all.
00:15:22It's not as if you're a child.
00:15:23A young girl dragged off into the bushes.
00:15:28No, but...
00:15:30But what?
00:15:32But it was dreadful.
00:15:35Yes, I imagine it was.
00:15:37If you were frightened.
00:15:39Don't you think I was?
00:15:40You must have been.
00:15:40I was.
00:15:41But you didn't struggle.
00:15:42I didn't want to be murdered.
00:15:43Well, no.
00:15:44I don't suppose you did.
00:15:46Did he threaten to murder you?
00:15:48Did it seem as if he would?
00:15:50No, no.
00:15:51I never thought he'd actually kill me.
00:15:53Then you haven't got a leg to stand on.
00:15:55I beg your pardon?
00:15:55Did he threaten to hurt you?
00:15:57In so many words?
00:15:58Yes.
00:15:58Do it or I'll stab you.
00:16:00He didn't need words.
00:16:01You said he talked to you.
00:16:02Afterwards.
00:16:03Look, he had this carving knife.
00:16:06My carving knife.
00:16:07The one I gave John on his birthday when he said he wanted to do more in the kitchen.
00:16:10The broad-bladed one which is terribly sharp.
00:16:13John keeps it terribly sharp.
00:16:14I can't use it.
00:16:15It's so sharp.
00:16:17And he won't because I found out they'd run out of butcher's aprons and blocks and I was
00:16:21going to buy the whole lot, you see, because he's already got a straw hat so that he could
00:16:25do more things like cutting up meat for the deep freeze.
00:16:28Where'd you go for your meat?
00:16:29What's his name?
00:16:30Same place that you live.
00:16:31They cut out my meat.
00:16:32Yes, they do mine.
00:16:33But when we bought the deep freeze, we expected to buy whole sides of beef when it was cheap,
00:16:36so John bought a book.
00:16:38Look, I mean, I know how sharp it was.
00:16:41But you can't prove it.
00:16:42You're not held together with stitches, baby.
00:16:44No, thank God.
00:16:45Quite.
00:16:45Quite.
00:16:52Well, I wasn't going to make a fuss about it.
00:16:54I mean, I was perfectly safe.
00:16:57Unless he's got some foul disease.
00:17:01If you hadn't come in, I perhaps wouldn't have said anything to anyone after all.
00:17:04Oh, I'm damn glad you did, honey.
00:17:05I mean, you may not worry about what happens to you, but I've got three teenage daughters, honey.
00:17:11Well.
00:17:14What do you mean, well?
00:17:16I'm trying to decide what to do.
00:17:18I don't know.
00:17:21Hillary's coming round.
00:17:22I've asked Hillary to come over.
00:17:23She's the American.
00:17:24Yes, they're making a big thing of rape in the States now.
00:17:27She'll know what to do.
00:17:28If she tells you to go to the police, don't.
00:17:31What else can I do?
00:17:32You were going to do nothing.
00:17:33Yes, but now you know.
00:17:35I've got the girls, honey.
00:17:37So surely I should go to the police.
00:17:41This is the first time it's happened up here.
00:17:43We haven't had a burglary or anything up here.
00:17:46We don't have everybody to know.
00:17:48These things happen again and again, baby.
00:17:51One thing leads to another, baby.
00:17:54We're trying to sell our house.
00:17:57Oh, I didn't know.
00:17:59This bloody police is wearing me down.
00:18:02So we decided to put it on the market.
00:18:04Well, that's what the bloody row is about with Ted.
00:18:06He likes living here.
00:18:06He's never here.
00:18:07He doesn't know how bloody crushingly dreary it is.
00:18:10No way.
00:18:11You go around saying that you've been raped.
00:18:13Everybody will want one.
00:18:14No way.
00:18:15You won't get your price.
00:18:17We won't get that anyway.
00:18:19You've put our house on the market, I was going to tell you.
00:18:21You've what?
00:18:21Yes.
00:18:22I haven't had anyone to look at it yet.
00:18:25Oh.
00:18:26Is it in the estate agent's window?
00:18:28Has been.
00:18:29Not long.
00:18:29Just two days.
00:18:30It'll be in the post tonight.
00:18:32You sneaky lot.
00:18:33Well, that's it.
00:18:34We'll never get our price now.
00:18:36Now, what are you asking?
00:18:38We're asking what we'll get, baby.
00:18:40Hillary's interested.
00:18:42Has she got the money?
00:18:43Oh, yes.
00:18:45She dresses that way because she wants to, but her shoes are extremely expensive.
00:18:49You look at her shoes.
00:18:49Her boots are beautiful.
00:18:51She doesn't want this one because it's obviously too much for her, I suppose,
00:18:55with the extra room and the larger garden.
00:18:57She doesn't want a garden at all.
00:19:00She likes the other houses with their smaller gardens.
00:19:02Yours would suit her.
00:19:03I thought you liked living here.
00:19:06We do.
00:19:07Well, then what are you doing putting it on the market?
00:19:10John wants to live in the country.
00:19:11This is the bloody country.
00:19:13Trees everywhere.
00:19:17I want a flat in Clifton.
00:19:20Yes, well, everyone wants different things in life.
00:19:24I must say, I don't want to move much, but...
00:19:29Are you taking pills?
00:19:32What for?
00:19:32What have you got them for?
00:19:34I take some.
00:19:35I took Valium or whatever it is after I was raped.
00:19:38In fact, I took two.
00:19:40I would imagine under the circumstances that would be considered reasonable.
00:19:43I can't believe it.
00:19:44You know, your story is very difficult to believe, Daphne.
00:19:48I know it is.
00:19:50I think I should have struggled.
00:19:52I remember reading somewhere someone saying,
00:19:55after she'd been through all this shit in court, raped, and then he got away with it,
00:19:59that she'd have had a better case dead or beaten after death.
00:20:04In a way, I think Terry would have appreciated it more if I had struggled.
00:20:09I think that's why I didn't, why I just lay there.
00:20:14You all right?
00:20:17No, I feel sick.
00:20:19Wait.
00:20:25Here.
00:20:25What?
00:20:26Be sick in this.
00:20:27I'm not going to be sick.
00:20:29You said you felt sick.
00:20:30Yes, but...
00:20:31Well, in case you do.
00:20:34I've been sick.
00:20:35I'm not going to be sick again, and certainly not in the bowl my mother used to make summer pudding
00:20:39when I was a child.
00:20:40I didn't know.
00:20:43Daphne, you look filthy.
00:20:44I feel filthy.
00:20:45I didn't mean that.
00:20:46I meant filthy awful, not filthy dirty nasty.
00:20:49Thanks, but I still feel filthy.
00:20:52Although he wasn't.
00:20:55If I was a prostitute or anything, I might have thought he was quite pleasant.
00:21:00You see, the whole point is that I was only doing what they do all the time.
00:21:04I mean, they must often be frightened, don't you think?
00:21:07But they get on with it and get it over with as quickly as they can, don't they?
00:21:11And he was clean and gentle and considerate.
00:21:16Terry.
00:21:17Your story's not good enough.
00:21:20I think you know him, after all, his name.
00:21:23Well, it won't be his name, will it?
00:21:24How do you know he's got a name at all?
00:21:26Well, that's why it won't be his name. He told me his name was Terry.
00:21:28He introduced himself.
00:21:29I suppose so, but it won't be his name, will it?
00:21:31Did you tell him your name?
00:21:32No.
00:21:33He didn't ask.
00:21:34I suppose he knew it.
00:21:35After all, he said he'd been watching the house for some time.
00:21:38So, no, I didn't tell him my name.
00:21:39I told him yours.
00:21:41I'm sorry, Louise, but your name seemed to fit the circumstances,
00:21:44and it was the first one that occurred to me that wasn't my own,
00:21:47and I didn't want him to feel that he was violating me,
00:21:50and it helped to think that he was doing it to you, after all.
00:21:56Louise, I know him.
00:21:57In what sense?
00:21:59In the sense that I've seen him before in Clifton.
00:22:04Well, there are faces, you know, belonging to people you don't know at all.
00:22:09You just know them, don't you?
00:22:11I mean, Bristol's a very small place, really.
00:22:15People you've seen at the theatre, or at the art centre, or shopping.
00:22:20I've seen him shopping.
00:22:21You sure you didn't have some sort of...
00:22:25Trist?
00:22:26What?
00:22:27Trist?
00:22:28Yes.
00:22:29No.
00:22:32No.
00:22:35I think this is probably the most awful thing that's happened to me in my life.
00:22:42I'm becoming aware of it very gradually.
00:22:44I mean, after all, it obviously takes time, doesn't it?
00:22:50After all, you don't expect it at home, in your own home,
00:22:57not from people you don't know, people who aren't your friends.
00:23:04Hilary.
00:23:20Oh, wow.
00:23:23Yes, well, it's true.
00:23:26You lucked out, eh?
00:23:28I did.
00:23:31This is Louise.
00:23:32You know her and you don't like her, but...
00:23:34Yeah, I know I won't.
00:23:36Now listen, how do you feel?
00:23:37I mean, do you feel dirty?
00:23:38Because you don't have to feel like that, Daphne.
00:23:40No.
00:23:42You're not going to be able to tell John.
00:23:45I know John, and I know he's not going to come anywhere near to understanding this truly horrendous situation.
00:23:49Daphne doesn't want to tell anyone.
00:23:51I can understand that, I really...
00:23:53Look, do you want me to tell John?
00:23:55No.
00:23:56He's going to have to be told, Daphne.
00:24:00Well...
00:24:00You're not going to be able to have him come near you for a very long time.
00:24:04John?
00:24:06You will find that you've been...
00:24:08Subtracted from all that love.
00:24:10Why?
00:24:11It happens.
00:24:14This is forcible rape you've undergone, Daphne.
00:24:17I mean, this is it.
00:24:19Shit, this is it.
00:24:21Men do it. A man has done it.
00:24:23John is a man.
00:24:23Okay, like it's a morbid trip, but it has to be faced. You've been damaged.
00:24:26Not so you can tell.
00:24:27Oh, yeah?
00:24:28It appears to have been the nicest rape anyone has ever experienced.
00:24:30Don't accrue. It wasn't that at all.
00:24:32Apart from the carving knife, and we only have your word for that.
00:24:34Yes, but it is my word.
00:24:36Daphne, I'm going to have to hurt you.
00:24:38Hasn't she been hurt enough?
00:24:40I don't know what she's been. Do you know what she's been?
00:24:42I only know what Daphne's told me.
00:24:43Maybe she hasn't told you everything.
00:24:45I think that's possible. What makes you think she'll tell you everything?
00:24:47I don't know that she will.
00:24:48I think it's extremely unlikely Daphne will tell you anything that she hasn't told me.
00:24:51Which brings us to precisely what has she told you.
00:24:53Mind your own goddamn business.
00:24:56Sure.
00:24:58Do you want me to do that, Daphne?
00:25:00Or do you want me to sit down here with you and let's see what we have in this situation
00:25:04so we can get it together, right?
00:25:06Okay?
00:25:12Don't try to remember.
00:25:15Forget it.
00:25:17Take it out.
00:25:19Lose it.
00:25:20Subtract it.
00:25:22Utterly erase it.
00:25:23You know what I mean?
00:25:23Like, I mean blank, blank, blank.
00:25:25I really do.
00:25:26Because you are not that person who was used.
00:25:29You are Daphne.
00:25:30Who loves her husband.
00:25:32Who loves her friends.
00:25:33Who loves her being.
00:25:34Has a psyche.
00:25:35You can't rape a psyche, Daphne.
00:25:37You really can't.
00:25:38Because it's soul, spirit.
00:25:40I mean, like, you can put your finger in it and you can stir it around some, but you really
00:25:43cannot rape it.
00:25:44You really cannot do that to a person who is sure of where she is at.
00:25:47And you are one of the surest type people I have ever known.
00:25:50I mean, like, Daphne, you come on to me so strongly as a person that I quail.
00:25:54I really do.
00:25:54You know what I mean?
00:25:55So what is this crap availing you, Daphne?
00:25:59Which crap exactly?
00:26:00This tears junk.
00:26:03Which tears junk is this?
00:26:04On the phone.
00:26:05You are crying on the phone.
00:26:06You are under stress.
00:26:07I'd been...
00:26:07I know what you had been.
00:26:09So...
00:26:10So...
00:26:11Let it be.
00:26:14Take the path you have not taken before so that you can usefully be here now.
00:26:22Erase the bad news.
00:26:24Come good.
00:26:25And be here now, Daphne.
00:26:28Know what that guy was stuck into.
00:26:30Dig why?
00:26:30Because the whole thing is just a trip.
00:26:31Just a trivial trip.
00:26:33Be here now.
00:26:36Forget the past.
00:26:37Erase the future.
00:26:39And reach silence now.
00:26:45I did that.
00:26:46Last time.
00:26:49I did.
00:26:51Garden gnomes.
00:26:54What?
00:26:57Last night, I formed a bond, right?
00:27:00I gunged up a crack and I formed a relationship with this guy called Hans.
00:27:03And he told me about garden gnomes.
00:27:05We rapped about garden gnomes.
00:27:06About the Ziderzee and about how the Dutch don't do it.
00:27:09Don't make it on Sunday.
00:27:09Do you know that?
00:27:10They don't let their animals make it either.
00:27:13Hans told me that the Dutch do not have sexual congress leading to love on Sundays
00:27:17and they do not let the cock in among the hens.
00:27:19Now, what do you say about that?
00:27:20Isn't that religious, mystical?
00:27:23And garden gnomes, you know what I mean?
00:27:24I don't know what you mean.
00:27:25I'm not communicating with you.
00:27:27I really am not.
00:27:28I don't believe that Dutchmen don't on Sundays.
00:27:30I really don't.
00:27:30I don't believe it either.
00:27:31I don't either.
00:27:33But I believe in garden gnomes because it is the most beautiful situation.
00:27:39Peace, he says.
00:27:40And he hands you a garden gnome.
00:27:42Crazy, eh?
00:27:44Like, whatever the situation, whatever the trip, no matter how bad, how heavy, you end up with a garden gnome,
00:27:49okay?
00:27:50Actually, Hans, he's crazy.
00:27:52He is so straight, like, oh, wow.
00:27:56But garden gnomes.
00:27:58Like, you go through a bad time with some mother in glass-lined walls, won't pay you your social,
00:28:04and you just smile at him, and you come back, and you give him a garden gnome.
00:28:09You dig?
00:28:10Do you mind if I go now, Daphne?
00:28:13No.
00:28:14You're going to be all right?
00:28:15Yes, of course.
00:28:17Louise, you want to come outside with me?
00:28:19No, why?
00:28:20Because I would like you to.
00:28:21You're going to leave Daphne alone?
00:28:23I don't know that Daphne shouldn't be left alone.
00:28:25I really don't.
00:28:25I don't know that we aren't coming on too strong, you know what I mean?
00:28:28What do you think, Daphne?
00:28:29Do you mind if you're left alone?
00:28:30What are you going to do if you're left alone?
00:28:32Come on, Daphne, what are you going to do?
00:28:33I'm not going to do anything.
00:28:35I might go to bed.
00:28:37I would if I didn't have a dinner to prepare.
00:28:38Right.
00:28:39Well, I think that's the best possible thing you can do.
00:28:41Just go out there in the kitchen, Daphne, and do something.
00:28:43Do you want me to leave you alone with Hilary?
00:28:45No, not much.
00:28:45Fine, then.
00:28:46All you've got to do is to say so.
00:28:48Are you frightened of me, Daphne?
00:28:50No, I'm utterly confused by you.
00:28:52I wish I hadn't asked you to come.
00:28:53Doesn't seem to be very sensible.
00:28:56You don't like me, right?
00:28:57I wouldn't dream of saying so.
00:28:58No, that's okay.
00:28:59You can tell me.
00:29:00Oh, you don't like Louise at all, Hilary.
00:29:01You never mind saying so.
00:29:02So why should you expect her to like you?
00:29:05Louise should like me because I understand her totally.
00:29:08Like I really do.
00:29:08Like I really know her.
00:29:10Whereas I cannot like her because I know her better than she knows herself.
00:29:14She must surely not be frightened of me because, like,
00:29:15I'm just far too complex a personality for her to dig at all.
00:29:19Surely she must like, even love, the person who knows her
00:29:22and is strong enough to say that she's an open book,
00:29:24her every motivation known and disliked.
00:29:26I don't understand a word you say.
00:29:28Okay, that's okay, that's okay, that's honest, okay.
00:29:31But you can't dislike me.
00:29:33You can only dislike someone who cares for Daphne as much as I do, as much as you do.
00:29:38But I don't care for Daphne.
00:29:39She doesn't care for me.
00:29:40No, I'm merely a neighbour.
00:29:41You care, sure you care.
00:29:42No.
00:29:42No.
00:29:44Well, I guess I care.
00:29:46You care because I've asked you to care.
00:29:48I care because you've been hurt, because you're in pain.
00:29:50But I'm not.
00:29:51She hasn't even got a bruise on her.
00:29:52Oh, come on.
00:29:53It's true.
00:29:55Unless some have come up since I last looked.
00:29:57Excuse me.
00:30:05Horans.
00:30:06Woodstroke.
00:30:07What over the top of that?
00:30:09Mike Greedy is the one diving away to look for.
00:30:19That man is beautiful.
00:30:23Daphne has not been raped.
00:30:26I thought it occurred to me.
00:30:27I don't know.
00:30:28She has not.
00:30:29Then she isn't well.
00:30:30I can see that.
00:30:31She might be going potty.
00:30:33I'd go potty if I had to put up with what she has to put up with.
00:30:36He doesn't take her anywhere.
00:30:37She's got to the stage now where she doesn't want to go anywhere.
00:30:39Have you ever known her go anywhere at all?
00:30:40Even to a show or anything?
00:30:43Well.
00:30:45Oh, isn't he beautiful?
00:30:49Well, can I leave you to cope?
00:30:52Daphne's about to go through some sort of emotional or mental crisis.
00:30:54Don't you think you ought to be here?
00:30:55No.
00:30:57I have a lecture.
00:30:58Giving or attending?
00:30:59It's a bit of both, I guess, and I don't want to duck it, you know.
00:31:01Still at school.
00:31:03Are we all of us still at some kind of school?
00:31:05Do you mean the school of life?
00:31:06Right.
00:31:06Bullshit.
00:31:08I don't think so.
00:31:10I just don't think you can dismiss a situation just because it happens to be a cliche.
00:31:14I mean, life is just one big cliche.
00:31:16I mean, we have a cliche situation here, you know, but it doesn't stop it from being a very real
00:31:20situation.
00:31:23Does he turn you on?
00:31:25Who?
00:31:26Isn't that what you say?
00:31:27I don't know.
00:31:28What are you talking about?
00:31:29What man?
00:31:31Oh, he's marvelous.
00:31:33Look.
00:31:35I guess so.
00:31:36You would like me to tell you objectively whether or not I'm turned on by that guy on the television
00:31:40set.
00:31:40Well, I guess so.
00:31:41I can't tell you exactly because I have no way of measuring my changes of vaginal blood volume.
00:31:45You know what I mean?
00:31:47I do have some sensation of body arousal, but no more than I would consider normal.
00:31:50But then I guess you would ask me what I would consider normal and I can't answer that.
00:31:54Am I excited?
00:31:55No, because the guy isn't here and I'd like to have to fantasize him a lot more before I could
00:31:58say I was aroused.
00:31:59They don't understand the game anyway.
00:32:00That's totally unimportant.
00:32:02Oh, no.
00:32:03Oh, no.
00:32:04There are very many different things to consider here.
00:32:05This is a gladiatorial contest, right?
00:32:07No, it's cricket.
00:32:08Right.
00:32:09But if one doesn't know the rules, one doesn't know whether one's being asked to respond to a winner or
00:32:12to a loser.
00:32:13And the response is different, surely.
00:32:15The difference between one's response to one's husband and or lover and one's response to one's son, right?
00:32:21Right.
00:32:21Well, I'll be going.
00:32:23I hope not.
00:32:24I mean, I just don't think it's a very neighborly thing to do just to up and leave when the
00:32:27going gets emotional.
00:32:28Oh, but we're not that kind of neighbors.
00:32:31This group of houses is not at all neighborly.
00:32:33We rarely speak to each other.
00:32:34We meet once a month in order not to speak to each other.
00:32:38We're a community, you see.
00:32:41We all have shares in the Residence Association, which has a committee of management, and we're all members of that.
00:32:46And what happens is that we get all our non-talking to each other over very quickly once a month,
00:32:51and then don't even say hello should we meet in the street.
00:32:53Daphne is the only person I talk to, and I wouldn't regard her as a friend entirely or even as
00:32:57a neighbor.
00:32:57I mean, she can always count on me for the odd cup of sugar.
00:33:00But not to have me pick her up off the floor.
00:33:02I'll lie to her husband for her because that's part of the fight, and I'll expect her to lie to
00:33:06mine for me.
00:33:06But I don't tell anyone to get mixed up in her emotional bloody problems if you don't mind, whereas you
00:33:11seem to revel in them.
00:33:11Oh, no.
00:33:12So...
00:33:12Look, what was the first thing she said to you? What was her first remark?
00:33:15When?
00:33:15What she told you.
00:33:16She's making it up.
00:33:18It's all a bloody story.
00:33:21Some kind of justification for her ridiculous role as wife and mother.
00:33:26Non-mother. She hasn't got any children, that's what it is.
00:33:28This ridiculous lie down on the floor and let them walk right over you that she does.
00:33:32She licks his bloody arse.
00:33:35She pretends to enjoy this cooking crap, dicing, shredding stew.
00:33:39She has to make up stories.
00:33:40Not a mark on her.
00:33:42I'd come some way near to believing her story if she's some signs of it on her body.
00:33:46My God.
00:33:47When I was raped by four GIs during the war, not just one, but four, I was black and bloody
00:33:51blue mate.
00:33:53When they'd finished with me, I knew I'd been raped, I can tell you.
00:33:56My first sexual experience that was, honey. I couldn't walk for a week, honey.
00:34:02It was vile the way those sods treat us, vile.
00:34:05She licks his bloody arse.
00:34:07Have you met him?
00:34:08Do you know what I mean?
00:34:09Butter wouldn't melt in his mouth, that bloody stuffed shirt.
00:34:12Well, I can't fiddle and fart around here all day listening to tales of...
00:34:16Listen, honey.
00:34:17Rape is impossible.
00:34:19Man with trousers down.
00:34:21You know what I mean?
00:34:21You know what I mean.
00:34:22Woman with skirt up faster than man with trousers down, and that's a bloody fact.
00:34:26I would come nearer to believing her story if I'd ever heard her tell her precious John to piss off.
00:34:30Never. And I live next door, honey.
00:34:32Walls paper thin.
00:34:33I live next door in that bloody egg box next door and you can hear every word.
00:34:38These houses cost the bloody earth.
00:34:40Townhouses for executive level, two bloody bathrooms and every word you can hear.
00:34:44I have never heard one word spoken in anger between those two.
00:34:49You two.
00:34:50I don't believe a word of your bloody story, Daphne. I don't.
00:34:59Well, I've looked very closely and I haven't got any bruises at all.
00:35:06So, what kind of pills did you take? Up or down or...?
00:35:09Well, perhaps it didn't happen.
00:35:10Now we're getting to it. Now, now we're getting to the truth. Now, Valium.
00:35:14Do you have them on prescription?
00:35:15I get them from the doctor.
00:35:17Why's that?
00:35:18Just for when I'm a bit fed up.
00:35:19Oh, so all is not bloody sweetness and light.
00:35:21Is it ever?
00:35:23Look, Daphne, I think you owe it to your friends to admit that you have not actually experienced the experience
00:35:28you were so hysterical about on the phone.
00:35:30I think you owe it to me because I have work to do.
00:35:32So have I. I've got two girls coming home to tea.
00:35:36All right.
00:35:39She isn't hysterical.
00:35:40She wasn't hysterical.
00:35:41She wasn't even distressed.
00:35:42I've been crying.
00:35:43Honey, I cry every day about normal things.
00:35:46You don't believe her because, simply because she isn't hysterical, which is why I don't believe her either.
00:35:51I mean, my God, if it had happened to me, I'd be raving. I'd be out of my mind.
00:35:54And if it happened to one of my girls, I'd castrate the sod.
00:35:57It's what I said before. I'd have a better case dead.
00:35:59Daphne, is this some kind of elaborate put on?
00:36:03No.
00:36:05No.
00:36:06Even though he was gentle and clean and even considerate, it was a hateful experience.
00:36:13It was a violation, you know?
00:36:16In some ways, it was quite funny.
00:36:19He covered himself in aftershave.
00:36:21Oh, yes.
00:36:22He'd taken great care with his appearance.
00:36:25Nice, clean nails, aftershave, clean shirt, clean and freshly ironed, so somebody looks after him.
00:36:32He asked if he could come back.
00:36:35He said lots of ladies allowed him to come back because he was so considerate.
00:36:38And, well, I mean, I suppose it might be true, after all, the stories you hear about Milkman, don't you?
00:36:43Have you seen our bloody Milkman?
00:36:46The thing I found most hateful was the assurance that I would find him irresistible.
00:36:52His assurance that, because he was considerate, he allowed me to go to the bathroom to deal with myself and
00:36:59held the door open, but I don't think he looked.
00:37:01And he understood when I asked him not to use the bed.
00:37:03He was sensitive and clean and considerate, not attractive, not handsome, but not foul-looking, not ugly, not unpleasant.
00:37:11Well, yes, very unpleasant in intention, as it turns out, but then I knew that, so...
00:37:14All things considered, no more than countless women have had to put up with countless times, forced to allow a
00:37:22stranger into them for fear of violence of some kind.
00:37:25Well, it's violence even if it's the weight of a body that's violence of a kind.
00:37:31And the act in itself can be extremely violent, just in itself.
00:37:35But, after all, no more than any of us have submitted to, and still will.
00:37:39To strangers, I mean.
00:37:40But, how dare they? I mean, how dare they?
00:37:45After all, it's my body, isn't it? I have every right, don't I?
00:37:48Even if I only object with my eyes, how dare anybody?
00:37:53Well, if I objected to an injection, for instance, I'd be able to stop it, wouldn't I? Nobody would force
00:37:57me, would they?
00:37:57Daft, you know you're going to be asked this.
00:38:00You're going to be asked whether or not you invited this person into your home.
00:38:03It's not unknown, I mean, it really is not.
00:38:05You're going to ask me why, and I'm going to tell you why.
00:38:08Because you don't seem to be reacting to this so-called experience in quite the way that one would expect,
00:38:13you know?
00:38:13And you don't seem to have any actual physical...
00:38:16I know.
00:38:19Who's going to ask me?
00:38:21You're going to go to the police?
00:38:22I don't have a leg to stand on, do I?
00:38:24I must warn you that they're going to ask you a lot of very intimate questions as to your morals,
00:38:28you know what I mean?
00:38:28And there's no way you can remain apart from all that.
00:38:30I can show them semen stains, I can allow them to examine me, I can allow that.
00:38:34Well, that's a violation too, isn't it, if I say no?
00:38:37And, as it happens, I have a very nice and very considerate young gynaecologist who never makes me feel that
00:38:41I should say no.
00:38:42I mean, after all, why should I say no?
00:38:43I want him to do that, which I'm paying him to do.
00:38:46Well, I'm not paying him to do, but John is paying him to do, which is to look at me
00:38:49and tell me in good time whether I'm being violated by cancer.
00:38:52Well, not that we have any of that kind of nonsense, I mean, we've always had a joint account up
00:38:55till now and I've always known just at any time how much money is.
00:38:58What? Rowena? Rowena?
00:39:01You don't want her to hear any of this, do you?
00:39:02I mean, do you mind not saying anything about this in front of her?
00:39:05Is she coming in?
00:39:06You try stopping her, she adores you.
00:39:08Daphne this, Daphne that.
00:39:09Ro!
00:39:10Daphne, bloody everything.
00:39:14Right, uh, okay, sure. Daphne, I've got to go. I don't want to go, but I've just got to go.
00:39:20And look, about John, do you want I should talk to him? I mean, I don't know that I should,
00:39:23but I mean, I don't know that...
00:39:27You don't believe me?
00:39:28I didn't say that. No, I did not say that. I just think you ought to stay cool, we'll try
00:39:31and work something out.
00:39:32I can come back later. I really hate dreadfully to leave you like this, but look, I'll come back later.
00:39:37Now, are you going to be alright?
00:39:39Yes, I think so.
00:39:40Are you sure?
00:39:40Alright, alright. Come on, come on, I'll come back later.
00:39:43See you later, okay?
00:39:44In fact, cream cakes will break.
00:39:50Oh, vile, oh cricket, such bad class.
00:39:54Turn it up if you want to.
00:39:57Have tea with me, Rowena.
00:39:58Great.
00:39:59Oh no, come on, you don't want her around here all the time. You don't have to have her around
00:40:02here all the time, she can get her own tea.
00:40:03I enjoy it.
00:40:05I wouldn't sell that woman in my house, honey.
00:40:07She'd squat in it or something, turn it into a clinic.
00:40:10I don't like her boots.
00:40:12I'm sorry, I forgot to mention it to her.
00:40:14Forget it, honey, don't bother, I wouldn't sell it to her.
00:40:16Yes, you would, you'd sell it to anybody.
00:40:18How was school?
00:40:19How was school?
00:40:21Ugh, really?
00:40:22Oh, I can't tell you.
00:40:23Hariff, how was here?
00:40:24She claimed she was fine.
00:40:27Fine.
00:40:31Oh, it's all so boring.
00:40:33Pariff.
00:40:34You know what you mean?
00:40:35Awful.
00:40:35Well, it isn't related to real life at all, is it?
00:40:38Home economics.
00:40:39Not like Latin is, you mean?
00:40:40No, you know what I mean.
00:40:41I mean, it's a perfect world of ironing and how to deep freeze and how to sew cushion covers.
00:40:45It doesn't take into consideration murder and pills and will your husband drink, does it?
00:40:49I should hope not.
00:40:50Whereas Latin does, you see?
00:40:52Oh, I suppose it does, yes.
00:40:53Well, I mean passions, baby.
00:40:55I mean Tarquin.
00:40:56Do you?
00:40:56Well, I expect I do.
00:40:58You know, I always felt sorry for Tarquin.
00:41:00I mean, it was obviously besotted with Lucrece.
00:41:03I mean, that's what I like about Latin.
00:41:05Passion.
00:41:07And I'm very good at it.
00:41:11Have you heard from John?
00:41:14No, I haven't.
00:41:15You haven't told your mother?
00:41:17I haven't told anyone.
00:41:18Good.
00:41:20I've got the in-laws tonight.
00:41:21Oh, Harif.
00:41:23I don't keep saying that.
00:41:25Harif, Harif, Harif.
00:41:27Cheeky bitch.
00:41:28I'm a penny of catchphrases.
00:41:30Picked up, no doubt, for too much talking to Clifton College, lads.
00:41:33Oh, is it?
00:41:33Shows you how little you know.
00:41:35Don't be so bloody cheeky.
00:41:36Don't swear.
00:41:37That's the worst thing you ever hear, my girl.
00:41:39Oh, no, it won't be.
00:41:40What's more, it isn't the worst thing I've heard from you.
00:41:42Some of the things I've heard from you have been what I can only describe as sheer Harif.
00:41:45Well, that's the way the world is, honey.
00:41:47Oh, I see.
00:41:49Yes, I'm smoking again.
00:41:51Yes, I've noticed.
00:41:52Right.
00:41:52Give us one, then.
00:42:06Rowena, I'm very fond of you, and I don't say much, but you ought to think of not smoking.
00:42:11Your mother's trying to stop.
00:42:12I haven't been doing it long enough to consider stopping it.
00:42:15I only do it to shame her.
00:42:16I do everything she does.
00:42:17You don't shame me, baby.
00:42:20She tried to stop us to make the sip when we were babies, you know.
00:42:23Oh, you know the twisted reasoning.
00:42:25Give them a whiff of the weed with their milk with their cow and gate.
00:42:27You know, put them off for life, you know.
00:42:29But no way.
00:42:30No way, Mummy.
00:42:31To use a phrase you've no doubt picked up from talking too much to strangers in Clifton pubs.
00:42:35No way.
00:42:36Well, we weren't sick, were we?
00:42:38Not me or Dina or Sadie, were we?
00:42:40In fact, we were hooked, weren't we, though?
00:42:43Sadie doesn't smoke what?
00:42:44Forty a day.
00:42:45Rubbish.
00:42:46If I thought they only did it to annoy me, I'd soon put a stop to it.
00:42:49Nope.
00:42:49We only do it to shame you, honey.
00:42:51You don't shame me, baby.
00:42:53Do, though?
00:42:53You shouldn't.
00:42:54Look at her.
00:42:55She doesn't inhale.
00:42:56I do.
00:42:56Look.
00:42:57Observe.
00:43:01Well, I don't care what you do to your lungs.
00:43:03We're smoked like hippies in our family.
00:43:05Look at her skin.
00:43:06It's yellow under the pancake.
00:43:08What do you think about cancer, Rowena?
00:43:10Yes.
00:43:10Am I being arsed?
00:43:12She doesn't smoke at school.
00:43:13Oh, no.
00:43:13I only smoke after school, so I won't get cancer, will I?
00:43:18Well, what do I think of cancer?
00:43:20Well, everything causes cancer, doesn't it?
00:43:22Every mortal thing, doesn't it?
00:43:23I mean, what about elderberry wine?
00:43:25That's the latest one, isn't it?
00:43:26An air.
00:43:27What would they all do if they said air?
00:43:29Well, it is life, isn't it?
00:43:31After all, some people have babies, other people have cancer.
00:43:34Others have both.
00:43:36Well, I don't want either, thank you very much.
00:43:38But when I have got it, I don't want to be shoved off to some hospital to die,
00:43:41put with the old pupil, because there isn't anywhere else to put me, do I?
00:43:45Meanwhile, I shall learn to accept my cancer.
00:43:47I never heard such bosh.
00:43:48Bosh?
00:43:49You'll find out.
00:43:50Oh, what will I find out?
00:43:51That smoking can kill me.
00:43:52Well, you know that's just part of it, isn't it?
00:43:54Just part, because I could die very easily from you being smashed
00:43:57and driving me into a lamppost, more likely, I should think.
00:43:59I see.
00:44:00I refuse to be picked up from school now.
00:44:02Have you noticed, Daphne?
00:44:03I walk, and I shall walk from now on.
00:44:05Not in the winter, you won't mind, though.
00:44:06I shall.
00:44:06We'll see what your father has to say about that.
00:44:08Well, Daddy won't know, because Daddy's never here.
00:44:09And when he is, he's smashed, just like you.
00:44:11Charming.
00:44:13It isn't.
00:44:15Well, I'm not a drunk, though you did your best there as well.
00:44:18We were given whiskey with our can gate as well, Daphne, so we wouldn't become alcoholics
00:44:21when we grew up.
00:44:23Same twisted reasoning.
00:44:24But actually, I'm not.
00:44:27Yet.
00:44:28That sounds like a threat.
00:44:30No, I'm not sure it's a threat.
00:44:31Might be a promise.
00:44:34Well, prep.
00:44:36What is it tonight?
00:44:37Biology.
00:44:39Remember our nature walks, Rowena?
00:44:40Well, use contraceptives is all we found.
00:44:42It wasn't at all.
00:44:44It was rose hips, and old man's beard, and deadly nightshade.
00:44:47I wouldn't let you pick it, remember?
00:44:49Right.
00:44:49I saw my first black one the other day, outside the coffee shop.
00:44:52Black what?
00:44:53That's enough, Rowena.
00:44:54Out.
00:44:55Well, that's all we ever saw.
00:44:57All I ever saw, anyway.
00:44:59I used to think of little babies being strangled with a knot in their necks.
00:45:02I used to think of little babies being strangled with a knot in their necks.
00:45:02That's enough, Rowena.
00:45:02Out.
00:45:02I did a drawing of it once, and you thought it was lovely.
00:45:05I did not.
00:45:06Oh, you did.
00:45:07You had it framed.
00:45:09I thought it was abstract.
00:45:11Don't touch me!
00:45:13You're drunk.
00:45:18Daphne, have you got any flapjacks?
00:45:20No, I didn't make any.
00:45:21Danish pastries?
00:45:22No, I didn't get any.
00:45:24What's this?
00:45:26It's going to be soup.
00:45:28Well, can I stay?
00:45:29Oh, she's going to be awful, can I?
00:45:31You've been pretty awful.
00:45:32Yes, I know, but she drives me to it.
00:45:34Oh, she'll make me pay for it later.
00:45:36Well, if I don't stay, what'll happen?
00:45:37I don't know.
00:45:40There's ages left over again.
00:45:41She'll be back.
00:45:42Oh, yeah.
00:45:43She'll be back with another illiterate long hair.
00:45:46Another thing we found in our nature walks was lots of bag packets, wasn't it?
00:45:53And, uh, what was the name of that flower, Daphne?
00:45:55You know the one.
00:45:56We looked everywhere for it.
00:45:57Never found it.
00:45:58I wanted to give it to Daddy.
00:45:59Or rather I wanted to find one for Mummy to give to Daddy.
00:46:02Oh, a very pretty flower.
00:46:03What was it called?
00:46:03I didn't know very well what it was called.
00:46:05No, no, no one of the names.
00:46:06Something like a Joan's beard.
00:46:08We never looked for it.
00:46:09It rarely grows in England, if at all, and certainly not in Ashland Park.
00:46:12Forcing its way through the...
00:46:13No, that's enough of that.
00:46:14Frag packets and coat tins.
00:46:17Yes, for you to give to Daddy, Mummy.
00:46:19It was called Welcome Home, Husband, however drunk you be.
00:46:22Wasn't it?
00:46:23That is the name of a flower, Louise.
00:46:25Is it?
00:46:26Is it?
00:46:28You're as thick as bloody thieves, you two.
00:46:30Yes.
00:46:30Oh, I think we are.
00:46:32Oh, you may not have noticed, but I've been practically living here for the past week.
00:46:35Practically.
00:46:35Popping back to stop your tilly making that dreadful noise that won't waken you from your
00:46:39drunken slumber.
00:46:40Make sure your fag isn't burning a hole in your dress, that sort of thing.
00:46:43Home economics, really.
00:46:44Please, Rowena.
00:46:45Come on, you've gone too far.
00:46:47I shall go home and change out of this horrific uniform.
00:46:49But, put a teat on your bottle, Mumsy, and then come back if I may, Daphne.
00:46:53No, I'd rather you didn't tonight, Rowena.
00:46:54Why?
00:46:55Oh, yes.
00:46:55What are you going to be up to, Mumsy?
00:46:57Don't call me that.
00:46:57Why?
00:46:58I've got my in-laws coming tonight.
00:47:00My God.
00:47:01I don't know why they bother.
00:47:02All they ever want to do is talk about their son.
00:47:04Yes, but afterwards.
00:47:05Well, you don't want to be on your own, do you?
00:47:06Come on.
00:47:07She isn't going to be on her own, is she?
00:47:09You'll have to go to the pictures.
00:47:10Of course she is.
00:47:11Why do you think I've been coming to stay all these nights?
00:47:14She's been on her own all this week.
00:47:16She can't be left on her own.
00:47:18She gets so missed.
00:47:18That's enough, Rowena.
00:47:19I told you not to tell anyone.
00:47:24Well, she doesn't want anyone to know.
00:47:26But John's left her.
00:47:27Horrith.
00:47:51I must say, Daphne, this soup is superb.
00:47:53I expect she got it out of a packet.
00:47:55Shh, Pops.
00:47:56It's too synthetic for a homemade.
00:47:58No need meeting it.
00:48:00Glad you started, Pops.
00:48:02Always do.
00:48:03Why shouldn't I?
00:48:03He's been belligerent all day.
00:48:05He's been very boring.
00:48:07He's been stamping and storming
00:48:09and taking impossibly long time to come out of the bathroom.
00:48:12Hmm.
00:48:12Once in, I make it my domain.
00:48:13Always have.
00:48:15Now I've got a rowing machine,
00:48:16I can do something useful while I'm in there.
00:48:18Instead of just sitting there waiting for Mops
00:48:20to get sufficiently irritated
00:48:21to make it worth my while to come out and hit her.
00:48:23It's quite appalling.
00:48:25Live not beyond the pain.
00:48:26Same thing, same thing.
00:48:29Mmm.
00:48:30This soup is superb, but to pity you couldn't have taken more time over it.
00:48:35That's a backhanded compliment if ever I heard one.
00:48:38Are we only having soup?
00:48:40No, we're having a real dinner.
00:48:42I mean, a joint.
00:48:43Oh, fine, fine.
00:48:44I don't mind.
00:48:45I'd just like to know whether or not I'm expected to fill myself up with bread.
00:48:48I can do it, good Lord.
00:48:50Another bowl of soup and a great deal of bread,
00:48:52and I could have necessarily tightened my belt and say no more about it.
00:48:55We don't want you to be put to any uneasiness,
00:48:58to any extra expense and extravagance.
00:49:00My son isn't a rich man.
00:49:03Though he will be the husband of a rich lady very soon,
00:49:05and that's what we wish to discuss with you.
00:49:07Oh.
00:49:09I've said it, now I can relax.
00:49:10You'll probably get in an awful state now that I have said it.
00:49:13Yes, you will.
00:49:13I know Mops you said wait until we've eaten because of my digestion,
00:49:16but I haven't, so you'll have to suffer my indigestion.
00:49:21He's, er, he's very much in love with her, of course.
00:49:25And, er, she's prepared to give him some children.
00:49:29Oh, which is what he's always wanted.
00:49:31She's very much older than he is, but, er,
00:49:34she hopes to be fertile for another year.
00:49:36Mm.
00:49:37Yes, she's willing to risk her life in having one child this year
00:49:41and hopes to catch another on the change.
00:49:44She says she'd be quite content with one,
00:49:46but she knows John would like to.
00:49:49Yes.
00:49:49Well, what they'll do is go on having as many as they can,
00:49:52you see, helped by her money and frequent trips to Switzerland
00:49:55where she can obtain a drug, so she says.
00:49:59Oh, it all sounds very romantic to me.
00:50:02But then you wouldn't oblige, would you?
00:50:05So John had to go elsewhere, didn't he?
00:50:08She's very beautiful for her age.
00:50:10I'm told that she's famous, but, er, as I only read the Times,
00:50:13I'm not likely to know of her famous exploits or accomplishments.
00:50:16They're not, er, noteworthy in that sense.
00:50:19In what sense?
00:50:20Er, the Times sense.
00:50:21No fool.
00:50:23I give as good as I get.
00:50:25In what sense is she famous?
00:50:27I don't know, woman.
00:50:28Perhaps she's a famous sex symbol.
00:50:29Perhaps she's got insured legs or titties, something like that.
00:50:32Oh, I'm not interested in that sort of thing.
00:50:36But, er, I would like to point out that I am insured.
00:50:39Every bit of me.
00:50:40As a cadaver, nothing else.
00:50:42He reduces everything to golf.
00:50:45Something the Times would not note more than once,
00:50:48and then only in the diary,
00:50:49which I don't read anyway because I don't have time for the Times diary.
00:50:52By the time I get to the foot of the page,
00:50:54I'm ready for my day, which cuts out the letters, thank God.
00:50:57Aha, you last know in the geography of your times,
00:51:00how does he take in the leader?
00:51:01Answer, he turns to the leader first.
00:51:03Read that.
00:51:04Then turn back to page one and get at it like a dog to a bone.
00:51:08No point in reading your bits and sails.
00:51:09Haven't got any money and don't give a fresh fart a win for a host day this week.
00:51:13Never had any time for royalty.
00:51:15They expect too much.
00:51:16So there you are.
00:51:16There you have it.
00:51:18And you had better get used to the idea of John being married to a rich woman soon, young lady.
00:51:24He'll give you a study, of course.
00:51:25We hope to go away this evening bearing your wants.
00:51:28I have finished the soup, which was superb but meatless.
00:51:34Have mine.
00:51:41Are you still hungry?
00:51:43There is plenty.
00:51:48Coffee?
00:51:49Mmm.
00:51:57Well, what a day.
00:52:01Are you allowed coffee this late, Rowena?
00:52:03Won't it mean you won't be able to sleep?
00:52:05No, it doesn't work that way with me.
00:52:06Shall I get the cups?
00:52:08Thanks.
00:52:11Do you want more music?
00:52:13I'll do it.
00:52:16Do you want another tape to the other side?
00:52:18Don't care.
00:52:19I don't care.
00:52:21Oh boy, you saved my life, you really did.
00:52:24I've had nothing to eat all day.
00:52:25Well, I mean, I guess I have now but until you fed me.
00:52:29Do you want something to drink?
00:52:31I'll do it.
00:52:33You want something?
00:52:36What have we got here?
00:52:37There's almost everything.
00:52:39A little of almost everything.
00:52:41Well, Brandy.
00:52:42All right.
00:52:43I'll have some Brandy.
00:52:44Some of that man's Brandy.
00:52:45And you can have some of that man's Cherry Brandy.
00:52:49Oh, no.
00:52:49I hate the stuff.
00:52:50I'll have Brandy.
00:52:51You will?
00:52:51Okay.
00:52:52And it's my Brandy.
00:52:54Right.
00:52:56Rowena, are you allowed to drink?
00:52:57I'm allowed to do anything I like.
00:52:59Or rather, I do what I like mostly because nobody notices what I'm doing.
00:53:02So, but not for me, thank you.
00:53:06All right.
00:53:08How long does this coffee pot take?
00:53:10Not long.
00:53:11Well, ages really.
00:53:13It's just that I know that Hillary will be rude if the coffee isn't proper.
00:53:16Wouldn't it be quicker to make instant?
00:53:18Hillary, will it be rude if the coffee isn't proper?
00:53:20Not at all.
00:53:21That's all right then.
00:53:23Rowena, be allowed and make instant.
00:53:25Sure.
00:53:25Why not?
00:53:31So.
00:53:33So, you would have been proud of me.
00:53:34I poured the soup over his head.
00:53:37I don't know that I would have been proud of you, Daphne.
00:53:39I don't know.
00:53:39No, I really don't.
00:53:41Do you care?
00:53:43About you being proud of me?
00:53:44Yeah.
00:53:46Christ, no.
00:53:47Then why did you say that?
00:53:49I was being sarcastic, I thought.
00:53:53Actually, I wasn't at all proud of what I did.
00:53:55Poor old Pops.
00:53:57Well, no, he is the most awful man, but then that's nothing new.
00:53:59He always has been.
00:54:01She's worse.
00:54:02They're both bloody ghastly.
00:54:05Still, it was too easy and at the wrong time and too obvious.
00:54:10Messy.
00:54:10My God, the mess.
00:54:13Still, it gave you satisfaction.
00:54:15No, I was going to say still, it didn't take long to clear up.
00:54:19Are you still serious about wanting to buy one of these houses?
00:54:22I don't know.
00:54:24I'm serious about wanting to live here.
00:54:26Well, I guess I don't actually want to live here so much as need to.
00:54:29I intend to observe the inhabitants of this, uh, this, uh, what would you call it?
00:54:35Warren?
00:54:36Graveyard?
00:54:37Blight?
00:54:37Chicken coop?
00:54:38Right.
00:54:39I hope to understand the motivations of chickens.
00:54:42But sure, but I don't know that I want to buy a house like I might, but...
00:54:46I mean, do you think you ought to be left alone?
00:54:50I mean, sure, you can cope and everything, but why don't I move in?
00:54:53You know what I mean?
00:54:55That way I get to understand, I get to know the people who live here, this kind of environment.
00:54:59I mean, these houses are not cheap.
00:55:00They're not the kind of houses that the blue-collar worker could afford to live in.
00:55:04And I guess that even if a worker could afford to live here, he wouldn't be exactly welcome, right?
00:55:08It's a very interesting situation, actually.
00:55:10It's potential.
00:55:11It's horrifying.
00:55:12It's a ghetto, you know what I mean?
00:55:13And I can only get to understand this upper-class type ghetto by living in it.
00:55:17And it's very convenient for the polytechnic.
00:55:18And two or three birds with one stone.
00:55:21I get to give you the support I would want to give you as a friend that I love.
00:55:24I can cut down on the journey every morning, and I can observe the inhabitants of this community.
00:55:29Their anxieties, their fears, taboos, mores.
00:55:33Better, you know?
00:55:35Don't they have chicken coops in America?
00:55:38In the States?
00:55:39Yeah, sure, but here it's sort of different.
00:55:42It's kind of...
00:55:43Well, for instance, there's no kind of discrimination, but do I see a black face?
00:55:48Where?
00:55:49Here.
00:55:50No.
00:55:51There's me, and there's Rowena, who's not known for her excessive washing.
00:55:54I mean, in the kibbutz.
00:55:55This isn't a kibbutz.
00:55:57I hear it can be quite nice in a kibbutz.
00:56:00Oh, actually, it isn't that bad.
00:56:03Actually, that's a very good idea.
00:56:06A kibbutz?
00:56:08Well, now that I'm an abandoned woman, I shall go and work on a kibbutz.
00:56:11Do you want me to arrange it for you?
00:56:12Oh, no, I think I can arrange it for myself.
00:56:14My audition is Jewish.
00:56:15No, no, you leave it to me.
00:56:16We'll go together.
00:56:17Oh, Daphne, it is fantastic.
00:56:19You know, working in the orange groves?
00:56:21I mean, orange groves, you would not believe.
00:56:25I mean, up at six o'clock, and this army-type truck comes, and it picks you up, and you
00:56:29go,
00:56:29and you work in these orange groves.
00:56:31It is, like, unreal.
00:56:35You've done it.
00:56:36Yeah, but I don't like going again.
00:56:38Oh, well, I'd want to go on my own.
00:56:40Oh, no, you'd hate it.
00:56:41You have to have someone to enjoy it with.
00:56:42You really do.
00:56:43Well, then I'll do something else.
00:56:45Sure.
00:56:46There are other things.
00:56:47What part of America do you come from?
00:56:50Sorry?
00:56:51Don't they have orange groves in California?
00:56:53Yeah.
00:56:55Haven't you been to California?
00:56:58No, I haven't.
00:57:00Well, I suppose that's just like us, really.
00:57:02I mean, I haven't been to East Anglia as far as I know.
00:57:04I may have been in Paris.
00:57:05They don't have orange groves in East Anglia, do they?
00:57:07Of course not.
00:57:08It's just that she was so delighted with the idea of orange groves.
00:57:11You wouldn't believe orange groves.
00:57:14Like, unreal orange groves.
00:57:18Well, there's no reason why one shouldn't be an American and not have been to California,
00:57:22I guess.
00:57:23I mean, exactly like me not having been to East Anglia.
00:57:25Though, actually, I have now come to think of it.
00:57:28Well, I've been to Kings Lynn.
00:57:29That's East Anglia, isn't it?
00:57:30Yes, I think so.
00:57:31I thought it might be.
00:57:32But Scotland, I certainly haven't been there.
00:57:34But that isn't as good a comparison, is it?
00:57:36What did you get my point, Hilary?
00:57:38Sure.
00:57:39Good.
00:57:40Oh, I should have lit a fire.
00:57:42Oh, hey, look.
00:57:43I have my jacket.
00:57:44Oh, no, no thanks.
00:57:45I can get a woolly from upstairs.
00:57:46Oh, I'll get it.
00:57:47You put this on.
00:57:47You tell me where to get your sweater and I'll put it on.
00:57:49No, it's all right.
00:57:49I'm not cold.
00:57:51Just sort of shivery.
00:57:52Are you sure?
00:57:53Yes, quite sure.
00:57:53It's no trouble.
00:57:54Hilary, I really don't want you rooting through my drawers.
00:58:03Old Perkins?
00:58:04She's horrific.
00:58:05Well, you don't go along to Old Perkins without you cast iron bra and pants on.
00:58:09She's the squeezer as Old Perks.
00:58:12Everybody knows.
00:58:13Well, it's a bit sad, really, because sometimes some of the girls have to go a bit far,
00:58:16and then she bursts into tears and gives them things.
00:58:19Silly things like pencils and rubbers.
00:58:22She wears these lull stockings, still gets them.
00:58:24I didn't know you could still get them.
00:58:25Well, she darns them.
00:58:27Well, she must have brought up one of those old Clifton haberdashers
00:58:29when they closed all their stockings, because you can't really get them anymore.
00:58:33Hey!
00:58:34Do you think they make lull tights for old Dykes?
00:58:36Horriff?
00:58:37Oh, she teaches home economics.
00:58:39She's the one.
00:58:40Horriff.
00:58:41Don't you have any homework to do, study?
00:58:43I've finished all that.
00:58:45Ah, it's a classic example, isn't it?
00:58:47So what are you going to do?
00:58:48Give me a fiver to upset myself?
00:58:50I am very tired, Rowena.
00:58:52Oh, well.
00:58:53Poor old mums.
00:58:54You want me to tiptoe gently in, putting the light out,
00:58:56pulling the coverlet around her neck, kissing her gently on the cheek,
00:58:59whispering softly nighty night-byes.
00:59:02You know, darling daughter making sure that darling mumsie isn't drowning
00:59:06in her own pretty green vomit.
00:59:08Horriff.
00:59:12Nighty-byes, Daphne.
00:59:16Rowena, let me see you out.
00:59:20You don't need to see me out, you know, even open the door for me.
00:59:23I can do all of these things for myself.
00:59:25I mean, goodness.
00:59:26I practically live here.
00:59:28And while John's been away, I've been sleeping with Daphne most nights.
00:59:31I really have.
00:59:32Have you now?
00:59:32Yes.
00:59:33Oh, in the spare room, of course.
00:59:34Well, you don't sleep in the spare room tonight, okay, sweetheart?
00:59:37Because stuff's going on here bigger than you can know.
00:59:39No, you mean just relax, sweetie, and I'll tell you where it's at.
00:59:42That's right.
00:59:44Do you masturbate, Rowena?
00:59:46Mind your own business.
00:59:48No, it's okay.
00:59:50Rowena?
00:59:53You should learn about your own body.
00:59:57Until you know about your own body and the pleasures that you can give yourself,
01:00:00you can't expect anybody else to give you pleasure because you can't tell them what to do.
01:00:06Experiment.
01:00:06There are techniques.
01:00:07Do you want to find out?
01:00:10It isn't something that you do when you're lying alone in bed and you haven't got a guy to love.
01:00:14It's a pleasure in itself.
01:00:15And at the same time, you're learning about yourself, learning about what's good for you.
01:00:20Sex for two is one thing.
01:00:22So, it's not better.
01:00:24It's not worse.
01:00:25It's just something else to do.
01:00:27Okay?
01:00:33Okay.
01:00:44But I don't love you.
01:00:46I don't ask you to.
01:00:48Well, I don't want to do that either.
01:00:49I only ask to be allowed to comfort you.
01:00:53Really?
01:00:54I'm sorry.
01:00:56I think you better go.
01:00:58Look, it won't happen again.
01:00:59I promise you.
01:00:59Okay?
01:01:00No, it isn't okay.
01:01:01I guess they just flipped.
01:01:03I think you tried to take advantage of the fact that I'm in a very bewildered state.
01:01:08You took advantage of me.
01:01:10I thought I was going to be raped again.
01:01:12I only asked you to put your hand.
01:01:13You put my hand.
01:01:16Okay.
01:01:16Was it so dreadful?
01:01:18No, but I didn't want to do it.
01:01:21Okay, I'm sorry.
01:01:24I mean, twice in one day.
01:01:26Oh, God.
01:01:27I really blew it, didn't I?
01:01:30Yes.
01:01:32I can't bear to be used.
01:01:34I'm not using you.
01:01:35I'm trying to help you get over this truly horrendous experience you've had.
01:01:39Oh, so you believed me at last?
01:01:41I didn't say that.
01:01:42You still don't?
01:01:43I didn't say that.
01:01:45I just think you might be psyched out, you know, by all this crap you've been handed by John.
01:01:50Well, Daphne, I'm not some kind of bull dyke.
01:01:53Believe me.
01:01:54Believe me?
01:01:56Yeah, all right.
01:01:56But you believe me, eh?
01:01:59Yes.
01:02:01Right.
01:02:04I guess I just got egocentric, you know what I mean?
01:02:07I was only trying to comfort you, show you that I could comfort you.
01:02:11I mean, you can comfort me, so maybe we can get behind the situation as women.
01:02:15But, well, I wigged out.
01:02:17All I can say is I'm sorry, you know what I mean?
01:02:19Yes, that's what everyone says to me.
01:02:22I'm very tired of being prey.
01:02:24Do you know what I mean?
01:02:25It won't happen again.
01:02:26I promise.
01:02:29All right.
01:02:33You don't hate me, do you?
01:02:35I don't anything you!
01:02:39That's cruel.
01:02:42You want to be comforted, not me.
01:02:46John still has his comfort.
01:02:48A piece of old blanket he used to suck as a child.
01:02:51Then he got me.
01:02:53Now he's back to his blanket, I bet.
01:02:56Sitting in some corner, sucking his blanket.
01:03:00I know him.
01:03:03Oh.
01:03:05Put your bra on and piss off.
01:03:07I see you still wear one.
01:03:10Kindly adjust your dress before leaving.
01:03:13I have to wear a bra.
01:03:18Oh, Christ, I hate the things we're hung with, you know?
01:03:22The chemistry we got.
01:03:24The weird myths we carry.
01:03:26And the words.
01:03:28You know what I mean?
01:03:30The really asshole words we got.
01:03:33You know, asshole words like menopause.
01:03:37Menstruation.
01:03:38Orgasm.
01:03:39I mean, orgasm.
01:03:41Orgasmic potentiality.
01:03:43Intravaginal coition.
01:03:44I mean.
01:03:46Poetry.
01:03:52So I gotta go.
01:03:54Yes, please.
01:03:56And you don't hate me?
01:03:58No, of course not.
01:03:59You sure?
01:03:59Because I couldn't stand that.
01:04:00I really couldn't.
01:04:01I mean, you don't know how much it took for me to come out.
01:04:03Hell, I'm shy.
01:04:04No, no, no.
01:04:05I can understand how you feel.
01:04:07You feel used.
01:04:08I can understand that.
01:04:10How to get out of the Genghis bag, eh?
01:04:16Well...
01:04:18Good night, Daphne.
01:04:21Now, are you sure?
01:04:22Because I promise.
01:04:23Really, I do.
01:04:24No more.
01:04:24I promise.
01:04:24Just let me stay, okay?
01:04:25No, no.
01:04:26I want to stay friends.
01:04:29Right.
01:04:30Right.
01:04:36What do you know about hormones?
01:04:38Nothing.
01:04:39I think you owe me the chance to give you some kind of explanation for my behaviour.
01:04:43You love me.
01:04:43Yeah.
01:04:44But do you understand about neurohormonal levels?
01:04:46I thought you said you love me.
01:04:47I do.
01:04:48Let me stay and explain to you the mechanics of my life.
01:04:50No, no, no, no.
01:04:51That would ruin it for me.
01:04:52I like to think of you loving me.
01:04:53Which doesn't mean that I love you, you understand.
01:04:55But I like you a lot.
01:04:56I think of you as a sister.
01:04:58Well, I would if I knew you better.
01:05:00Well, perhaps we ought to start by getting to know each other
01:05:02and then, who knows, perhaps I might learn to love you.
01:05:04I don't want you to think there isn't any hope.
01:05:05Crap.
01:05:07Yes.
01:05:11Now what?
01:05:12Listen.
01:05:13There is just this very strong correlation between breastfeeding and...
01:05:16Oh, get out and leave me alone.
01:05:18I will not be in a Daphne.
01:05:19Look, I'm sorry.
01:05:20I'm very sorry.
01:05:21I really am, honestly.
01:05:24Look, can I ring for a cab?
01:05:25Because I don't want to walk, you know what I mean?
01:05:28I mean, you're frightened.
01:05:30My God, of course I'm frightened.
01:05:31You got raped.
01:05:33Oh, thank you.
01:05:35And you don't believe it happens because some women subconsciously want it to, do you?
01:05:38No.
01:05:39No.
01:05:42Still, there isn't much point in saying anything about it.
01:05:46Everyone will think after all.
01:05:51Oh, come on.
01:05:52I'll take you home in the theater.
01:05:53Oh, Daphne, that's so kind of me.
01:05:55That really is.
01:05:56I expect you'd like me to.
01:05:57I would.
01:05:58I really would.
01:06:01Daphne, do you know what I would like to do?
01:06:03More than anything else in the world.
01:06:06I would like to find this guy's hair.
01:06:08I would like you to find him.
01:06:09And I would like to get some kind of dialogue going between the two of you.
01:06:12And I want to be there.
01:06:13You know, just stop him in the street and ask him gently why he did it.
01:06:17And I want to be there.
01:06:18Because there's so much we don't understand.
01:06:25Half past seven.
01:06:26Exactly.
01:06:27Well, from the looks of things with the sun beaming down on the bullocks of the BBC.
01:06:31Lucky old sun.
01:06:32It's got to be another scorcher today.
01:06:34So wear your lightest possible underwear.
01:06:37Gee devil.
01:06:38It's June the 18th, 1976 all day.
01:06:41And another lovely day for the second test at Lord's.
01:06:44Now let's pick up a card and see.
01:06:46Here, Mrs. Muriel Bunyan, good morning to you.
01:06:48Hope you're feeling fit and well today at 41 Marling Way, Gravesend in Canton.
01:06:53John!
01:06:54Open the door!
01:06:57What?
01:06:57You certainly don't look it from where I am sitting.
01:06:59Love to you from Carol on your birthday.
01:07:03And I hope you enjoy this too.
01:07:04It comes from James Last.
01:07:05What have you got the chain on for?
01:07:08That's what it's for.
01:07:09Come on, Daphne.
01:07:10I want to talk to you.
01:07:24Ah, coffee.
01:07:26Yes, you can have some.
01:07:29There's no reason why we shouldn't stay friends, is there?
01:07:31Every reason in the world.
01:07:32You didn't want children, Daphne.
01:07:34Ah.
01:07:35Ah.
01:07:36Perhaps I thought one was enough.
01:07:38Don't be rude.
01:07:41Did Pop tell you what I wanted?
01:07:43Yes, he said you wanted the books.
01:07:44Of course I want the books.
01:07:45Well, there are some very expensive books.
01:07:47I bought the books.
01:07:49The books are money.
01:07:50With my money.
01:07:51With our money.
01:07:52No sugar.
01:07:53I don't take sugar anymore.
01:07:55Fine.
01:07:56I'm very pleased with myself.
01:07:58You always were.
01:07:59Don't be sharp.
01:08:01It isn't like you to be sharp, Daphne.
01:08:02You're so soft and gentle.
01:08:04You would have made a wonderful mother, you know.
01:08:06You denied yourself a great deal.
01:08:08Well, we couldn't really afford.
01:08:11Though I'd rather be a little less well off.
01:08:13Have a few kids about the place.
01:08:15Still, it wasn't to be.
01:08:21Louise Barker rang me and told me you had a very nasty experience, she thought.
01:08:27Well, it's too late to do anything about it now.
01:08:31How did it affect you?
01:08:34Did you tell a lot of people, or just Louise?
01:08:38I must say, it's nice to see you again.
01:08:43As a friend.
01:08:47No hard feelings?
01:08:55You'll need to use this.
01:09:01I'm going to keep me happy with this.
01:09:03Ok.
01:09:04I'm just going to move on and leave the fund.
01:09:04Yeah.
01:09:11OK.
01:09:14Again, let's see.
01:09:14Bye.
01:09:14Thanks for this.
01:09:15Bye.
01:09:15Bye.
01:09:17Bye.
01:09:19Bye.
01:09:21Bye.
01:09:54So, let's go.
01:09:57So, let's go.
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