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"Bank manager Belinda Braithwaite (Hannah Gordon) wants to retire, but her house husband David (Peter Egan), likes things the way they are, and doesn't want to go back to work. " IMDB Also starring John Bird, Lill Roughley, Ruth Mitchell, Richard Aylen.
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00:23Good morning!
00:56Good morning!
01:06Good morning!
01:10Morning, troops?
01:12Or should that be afternoon?
01:13You're late.
01:14Ned, I know I'm late.
01:15You're smug.
01:16But I'll be early tomorrow.
01:18You're stuck with it.
01:19The manager should set an example to his staff.
01:22When I'm manager here, things will change.
01:24They will.
01:25All the customers are late for a start.
01:28Anything important been happening?
01:29Ned tried to ring head office to tell them you were late.
01:32Meek!
01:32I'll get you, race.
01:34What did they say?
01:36They were all lakers of the tube strike.
01:38Why are you late?
01:40David hadn't ironed my blouse.
01:43And you can cut that out for a start.
01:46I was just thinking.
01:47I know you were.
01:47There's a large balloon just above your head with ha-ha written inside it.
01:51Now, sir, get me yesterday's commodity prices.
01:55I want to look at metals.
01:56I'll get Ned to show you his braces.
01:59Sorry.
02:00Have you asked head office yet whether I can have a company car?
02:03You've just been trying to drop me in it.
02:05Why should I?
02:06Because, basically, you're fair-minded and I'm not.
02:09Faced with somebody like me, a manager should exercise their managerial skills to cope with it.
02:14Is it five o'clock yet? It feels as though it ought to be.
02:17Perhaps you can't cope.
02:18Maybe you should resign. Let me be the new manager.
02:20That does have its attractions, Ned.
02:22Don't think it hasn't crossed my mind.
02:24Why do you do it, then?
02:25Everybody would be much happier.
02:26Nobody likes women bank managers.
02:29Thank you. Goodbye, Ned.
02:31Belinda Braithwaite?
02:33Oh, hello, Barrington.
02:35Uh, yes.
02:37Yes, I should have something to show you quite shortly.
02:40Goodbye.
02:41Goodbye.
02:43You're using your womanly wiles on him, aren't you?
02:46It's not fair.
02:47Maybe you should be using your manly wiles on me.
02:51Why has he gone green?
02:52I merely remarked that if he wanted to get on, maybe he should be using sex as a weapon.
02:58You're disgusting, both of you.
03:01Oh, today has not begun well.
03:05It'll settle down, don't worry.
03:06At least you got David back to work.
03:08There is that.
03:09Maybe it'll all be worth it in the end.
03:22Very nice.
03:32Braithwaite?
03:33What?
03:34You Braithwaite, are you?
03:35Yes, yes, me, Braithwaite. Why?
03:36Sign here, will you?
03:42Oh.
03:47Thanks a lot, girl.
03:52Ah, there you are.
03:53I thought you'd have been here sooner.
03:55I wanted to have a word with you.
03:56My desk has gone.
03:57Has it already?
03:59Porters are in the ball for once.
04:00Well, at least your word process has arrived.
04:02Now, that reminds me, am I going to get a typist?
04:03Because I'd like to get started as soon as possible.
04:08What's going on?
04:10There are more boats in the environment than there are in business, apparently.
04:13Well, I can't have got the sack.
04:15I haven't started yet.
04:16Come and have a coffee.
04:21Type those up and have them duplicated, will you?
04:23I'll hand them out at the conference.
04:25What does David think about you and Ratface Ricketts going away for the weekend together?
04:30Barrington Ricketts looks on me as a colleague, that's all.
04:33Of course he does.
04:35You've got nothing to worry about.
04:37I'm not worried.
04:38Who said I was worried?
04:39Sexual harassment went out with the suspender belt.
04:42It says here.
04:43I've got a suspender belt.
04:45They don't work.
04:49I beg your pardon.
04:51Estelle's got one.
04:51They don't work.
04:53Well, maybe she's not fastening it up properly.
04:55Oh, no.
04:55They hold stockings up.
04:56That's not what I'm talking about.
04:58She got this magazine.
05:02Well, there are places where I draw the line.
05:05Oh, yes.
05:07Women.
05:08You're all the same.
05:09As for you, I don't know why you even bother to keep up the pretense.
05:12I really don't.
05:13I mean, everybody knows why you did it.
05:15To weaken my authority.
05:17Why? I did what, Ned?
05:20Why you got your husband this job.
05:22I mean, you were afraid that everybody would recognise that I'm too good to be number two,
05:25so you decided to diminish me.
05:28Well, it won't work.
05:29I've complained to the union.
05:33I think paranoia must be catching.
05:36I'm beginning to know how he feels.
05:38What?
05:39I'm beginning to wonder if Ricketts didn't deliberately create this job for David so that I would owe him one.
05:44That's not paranoia.
05:46Please don't say that.
05:47This is something I want to be paranoid about.
05:50On the credit side, though.
05:51On the credit side what?
05:52You do know what you have to do to keep Ricketts happy.
05:56One day I will murder you, Jessica.
05:58But remember, if the worst comes to the worst, you mustn't, on any account, enjoy it.
06:04What can I do remember?
06:06What does David think about it?
06:08He thinks Ricketts is such a toad that there's absolutely no risk.
06:12He talks about the whole weekend with a merry chuckle.
06:16The top and the bottom of it all is that you'll just have to work from home for a little
06:20while.
06:20Now, let me get this straight.
06:21The council promised to provide an office for the Business Advice Centre.
06:24That was only a week ago.
06:25So what happened?
06:26A week is a long time in politics.
06:28Is that all you can come up with?
06:30A meaningless aphorism?
06:32Yes.
06:33What, don't they like me?
06:34Have I got bad breath or something?
06:36Oh, bad breath's not a disqualification.
06:38Not in this council, anyway.
06:39Actually, it's very close to an advantage in a debate.
06:42I'll take your word for that.
06:44It went green, as in save the whale and hedgehog ladders.
06:48I think I'll go out and come back in again.
06:50I've obviously missed something.
06:52We are a hung council, which depends on the casting vote of the council chairman.
06:56And, he has decided, there is more mileage in apparently being concerned about the environment
07:01than there is in pretending to be worried about the lack of jobs in the district.
07:05So who's got my office, then?
07:06A Miss Terry Smith.
07:07Oh, Terry.
07:09I know the type.
07:10Boiler suit and a spanner in the back pocket.
07:12Better move your car.
07:14Miss Smith gets your parking space now and you might get clamped.
07:18No hard feelings?
07:20It's what you think.
07:25It was a lot to be said for quill pens.
07:28Yes, and red ink. Red ink was good.
07:30You don't remember red ink, do you?
07:32My father told me about it.
07:34I never knew your father was a banker.
07:36He wasn't.
07:37It didn't stop him knowing all about red ink on bank statements, though.
07:42One of the reasons I married Estelle, as a matter of fact.
07:46How could red ink on your father's bank statement make you fall in love with Estelle?
07:50Who said anything about falling in love?
07:52A messenger from head office brought this.
07:57I expect it will be private.
07:59We don't know till you've opened it.
08:02I've got a pretty shrewd idea.
08:05It'll be the join instructions for the weekends, how's your father?
08:08I hope it's just...
08:10I hope it's just your vocabulary that's let you down and not your filthy mind.
08:17So, put it in the back there, Lou, will you?
08:19Yeah.
08:20So the top and the bottom of it is I'm going to have to work from home until they can
08:22make some other arrangements.
08:23Well, that's alright.
08:24It'll be just like old times.
08:26I can pop in for a cup of coffee from time to time.
08:29To time to time to time.
08:31Oh, thank you and good night.
08:33Don't you want me to pop in and see you?
08:34Well, of course I do, Lou.
08:36It's just I was getting rather used to being an executive.
08:38It's rather difficult to be an executive surrounded by next door neighbours.
08:42The ecological movement's got a lot to answer for.
08:44Anyway, I got my own back on the way home.
08:47Why? What did you do?
08:48I bought an aerosol deodorant.
08:50I go buy one every day.
08:51And I'm having the car converted back to leaded petrol.
08:55That'll teach them to mess with me.
08:58What are you laughing at?
08:59You're like a little boy when you get like this.
09:02No, I'm not.
09:03Yes, you are.
09:04No, I'm not.
09:05You are.
09:06Not.
09:07See?
09:11Listen.
09:11Maybe you should practice being grown up for a bit.
09:14After all, you are going to be dealing with real people.
09:16Yes, you're right.
09:17And real problems.
09:18Things you can't just wipe up with a damp cloth.
09:21I don't even know who's responsible for my salary.
09:23Maybe Belinda could help you.
09:26Back to normal.
09:27Run to mummy.
09:27This time, I'm going to handle it for myself.
09:30What are you going to do?
09:31Do?
09:33I'll have a word with Charles.
09:34Charles?
09:35He's had more influence in this town than the bypass did.
09:37They never built the bypass.
09:40Right.
09:42Well, I suppose it is bank business.
09:45I'll get Jessica to do it.
09:47Fine.
09:48Bye.
09:49Do you want me to run home and get my suspender belt?
09:52All jokes about sex, suspender belts and dirty weekends
09:56are forbidden in this bank from now on.
09:58Fair enough.
09:59What do you want then?
10:00You.
10:00To do some typing overtime.
10:02Oh, why me?
10:03What have I done?
10:04Very little.
10:04All day.
10:05That's what I do.
10:06You need a whip and a rubber apron.
10:12Yes?
10:14Nothing.
10:16Don't look at me like that.
10:17I didn't hear you say anything.
10:19And if I had, I wouldn't have understood a word.
10:20I mean, what would I have to do with rubber aprons, hmm?
10:24Stop nodding when I'm not looking at you.
10:27Well, it seems fairly straightforward to me.
10:30But tell them you want an office.
10:31Yes.
10:32If they won't give you one, throw a wobbler.
10:35Right, Charles.
10:36Don't be sick on anyone.
10:37They're counterproductive.
10:39I don't want to be sick on anyone, Charles.
10:41Wise move.
10:42Wise move.
10:44You know, I've never been able to understand people who are sick on people.
10:50Charles, I don't even know who pays my salary.
10:53You don't.
10:56Meet me for a drink.
10:57I don't need a drink, Charles.
10:59You will when I tell you who does pay your salary.
11:06What?
11:06This is pretty potent stuff, you know.
11:09Where?
11:10Which bit?
11:12What's wrong with that?
11:13A verbal or visual assault in a certain context can be as demeaning as rape in a different context.
11:19What's wrong with that?
11:20It's true.
11:21I like it.
11:23Really?
11:23Really.
11:24Truthful.
11:25Honest.
11:26Doesn't pull any punches.
11:27And it gives an unvarnished picture of the hazards that face any woman who goes out to work.
11:32Good.
11:32I thought I'd gone too far.
11:34I should add that I'm speaking as a woman.
11:37Ah.
11:37We really ought to try it on a man.
11:40Or maybe Ned would do.
11:42Mr. Race?
11:44What?
11:44What do you want?
11:45Would you do me a favour?
11:47No.
11:48Well, let me put it differently.
11:50Read this immediately and let me have your comments.
11:52What is it?
11:53It's a report.
11:54For Mr Ricketts.
11:55You know who Mr Ricketts is, don't you?
11:57Of course I know who Mr Ricketts is.
11:58He's the man who keeps coming in here and ignoring me and staring at your legs.
12:02Do you think I don't know what's going on?
12:04He doesn't stare at my legs, does he?
12:06He stares at all of you.
12:08The bits he can see, that is.
12:09What?
12:09The bits he can't see makes up.
12:13Well maybe I should be more stern, less approachable.
12:16You're probably right.
12:18Why should I?
12:19Why should I have to be a battle axe?
12:22Because men mistake politeness for warmth, warmth for interest and interest for an overwhelming
12:29desire to leap into the nearest bed.
12:32Men are thick.
12:38What do you mean the bank pays my salary?
12:40What bank?
12:41Um, er...
12:42Belinda's bank, the mid-counties.
12:43Correct.
12:44Don't be ridiculous Charles, it can't possibly be.
12:47Well fine.
12:48I've probably got it wrong then.
12:49Well you know what I'm like with these things.
12:52Can I get you another grass?
12:53Belinda and I have no secrets, we tell each other everything.
12:56Are you sure that's wise?
12:58You have to remember your marriage, you know.
13:00With these things, disclosures can be very tricky.
13:04Well, suppose you get divorced, what about that?
13:07Belinda and I don't want to get divorced Charles.
13:09You know I've based a very successful lifestyle on a number of people with love in their hearts
13:16and flutterings in their underwear.
13:20They weren't getting divorced either.
13:22Here's your latest pay packet.
13:24Ah, you lovely Louise.
13:26Hi guys.
13:28Are you following me about?
13:29Yes.
13:30Why?
13:31I'm nosy.
13:34David, you know I'm nosy.
13:35I've always been nosy.
13:37Why are you so surprised?
13:38Have you got anybody yet to go away with you on the weekend?
13:41No.
13:42I'm beginning to think my charms are fading.
13:46Oh.
13:46Hmm.
13:48Thanks a lot boys.
13:50Oh well, never been just...
13:51Sounds like sympathy.
13:54Anyway, I'm going to meet someone now who might be able to help.
13:57I don't need you anymore.
13:58Who?
13:59Don't be nosy.
14:01I hate it when women become independent, Charles.
14:04You didn't know I was a closet chauvinist, did you?
14:06Well, of course I did.
14:08You're a man, aren't you?
14:10How could you cope otherwise?
14:12I was joking, Charles.
14:14No you weren't.
14:16Is my salary paid by Belinda's bank?
14:19Yes.
14:20I don't know how your husband got that job.
14:23I mean, all he's been doing is ironing for the last God knows how long.
14:27You can't just step into business life just like that, you know.
14:30You need to be hardened in the white heat of the marketplace
14:33before you can hold your own in today's cut and thrust world.
14:36Ned?
14:36What?
14:37You sound like a yuppie.
14:38Do I?
14:40Do I?
14:43Thanks.
14:48Jess, I'm the only woman going to this weekend conference.
14:51You're really worried about this, aren't you?
14:53I am, aren't I?
14:55I've had to cope with sexual harassment in one form or another
14:59a hundred times throughout my career.
15:02But this time I feel really threatened.
15:05Are you sure it's the same thing?
15:07I don't even like him.
15:10Scarlett O'Hara didn't like Rhett Butler.
15:13Oh, this is insane.
15:15I am a normal, healthy woman with a mind of my own.
15:18I am not a rabbit about to be transfixed by a snake.
15:21It's for you.
15:22Who is it?
15:26Hello, Barrington.
15:28Right, well, thanks a lot, Charles.
15:30Pleasure, dear boy.
15:31David?
15:32Not at the moment, Louise. I'm in a bit of a hurry.
15:34David, I want you to meet my new friend.
15:37This is Theresa.
15:39Hello.
15:40Hello.
15:41What would you like to drink?
15:42Oh, I'll have half a bitter, please.
15:44I'll have a G&T.
15:47He's married, Theresa.
15:49You're married, David.
15:52Would you mind getting Theresa half a bitter, Lou,
15:54and whatever you're having yourself?
15:56A brush-off.
15:58What?
15:58A brush-off. That's what I'm having.
16:01Good old Lou. Always in there with a merry little quip.
16:04I'll have half a pint of Old Peculiar, please, Lou.
16:06Would you like to come and sit down, Theresa?
16:07In the alcove. It's a bit more comfortable there.
16:12There.
16:13So, uh, you're new in town?
16:16I am, as a matter of fact.
16:17I only arrived this morning.
16:18I met Louise at the CAB.
16:20I went to look for some accommodation
16:21until I get my own house fitted up.
16:23Oh, you must have arrived in a bit of a rush then.
16:25Yes, I did.
16:26There was a sudden change of plan by my new employer
16:29and they asked me to come over today.
16:30Ah.
16:32Thanks, Lou.
16:34I'm going to sit with Charles
16:35and talk about you two.
16:40Maybe we should join them.
16:41No, that's all right. Lou's all right.
16:42Well, she is my potential landlady.
16:46You're going to be living with Louise.
16:47She did say she had a spare room.
16:49Well, that's splendid, isn't it?
16:51It will certainly solve the problem.
16:54Cheers.
16:54Cheers.
17:00Not working, then?
17:01Well, I was due to start a new job at the town hall this morning,
17:04but when I got there, they'd given my office to somebody else.
17:08Ah.
17:09Did they say who they'd given the office to?
17:12Well, some horny-handed daughter of the soil, I imagine.
17:16In a boiler suit with a green and common haircut
17:18and a spanner in her back pocket.
17:21And she'll probably be wearing concrete knickers and no bra.
17:26You know, they have given my office,
17:28which I hadn't even moved into yet,
17:30to their green department.
17:31And I'll tell you something else as well.
17:32Go on.
17:33Her name is Miss Terry Smith.
17:37Terry.
17:38Well, that ought to tell you something about her.
17:41I see.
17:43Where are you going?
17:44To sit with Louise.
17:46Was it something I said?
17:49I knew the men out here in the sticks
17:52would probably be a little less than sophisticated.
17:55I didn't expect them to be Neanderthal.
17:58I'm Terry Smith.
18:00I'm the new green department.
18:03Oh.
18:05And by the way, I do wear a bra and my knickers are cotton, not concrete.
18:16Doing another sex survey, are we?
18:21Or is it trivial pursuit this time?
18:25She's the one that's taken my office away.
18:27And your breath too, by the look of you.
18:30For goodness sake, have a drink of beer.
18:31You look like a pound of undressed tripe.
18:35You're not safe to be let out on your own, are you?
18:38Well, hark, who's talking?
18:39Every time I turn my back on you, your manager invites you away for the weekend.
18:42Ah.
18:43I wanted to talk to you about that.
18:44Ah.
18:45I wanted to talk to you about that too.
18:46Oh?
18:47I'm beginning to think that the honourable rat-face Ricketts fancies you.
18:50Yes, well it's beginning to look like that, yes.
18:52Yes.
18:53Which leads me on to my next point.
18:54You don't think I ought to go away on this weekend, do you?
18:57Are you mad?
18:58Of course you've got to go away.
18:59This is a prime opportunity.
19:01I know it's a prime opportunity.
19:03And I know who it's a prime opportunity for.
19:06Don't be silly.
19:07You can handle him.
19:08I've got every faith in you.
19:09Have you?
19:10Yes.
19:10Just a minute.
19:11What is this prime opportunity?
19:13And what's it got to do with me going away for the weekend?
19:17Well, I'm glad you asked me that.
19:20You see...
19:20Look, will you apologise to Teresa?
19:23Well, why should I?
19:25Because she's going to be here all weekend looking after the house
19:27while I'm away giving Desmond grounds for divorce.
19:30Are you still doing that?
19:32Yes.
19:32I've got no choice.
19:33If I don't, he loses his job and I get no maintenance.
19:36Well, I think you're mad.
19:37I wouldn't give him anything.
19:38I wouldn't give him a smell of the cat's litter.
19:42Anyway, you'll have to be friends with Teresa.
19:45Well, when is all this going to happen?
19:47This weekend.
19:48Ah.
19:49Belinda's away this weekend.
19:51Is she?
19:52Hmm.
19:53Oh.
19:54Oh.
19:55Perhaps you'd better not apologise to Teresa then.
19:58No, you change your mind like the wind, don't you, Louise?
20:00See, if you start apologising and you let that smile out of its box...
20:05Which smile?
20:06You know very well which smile.
20:08That one!
20:11Louise, don't be upset.
20:12Do you think I could possibly be unfaithful to Belinda
20:15with a woman who just pinched my office?
20:16Yes.
20:17How many times has Belinda been away for the weekend
20:20and left you all on your own without me next door to look after you?
20:24Stop that!
20:25Stop what?
20:26You're contemplating already.
20:28You are actually thinking about what might happen.
20:30Don't be ridiculous, Louise.
20:33The thought is father to the deed.
20:37Watch.
20:45Which colour do you want next?
20:47Green.
20:48Green.
20:55Good trick, isn't it?
20:57I suppose so.
20:59Shall I tell you how I do it?
21:00See, if you start apologising and things...
21:05Things what?
21:07You know...
21:09Accelerate.
21:10Use the back room, not the big bed in the front room.
21:12Louise!
21:14You'd better not.
21:15I agree.
21:18Whatever it is, don't do it.
21:20Hello, Louise.
21:21Hi.
21:21What is it you'd better not do now?
21:24Apologise to Theresa.
21:25Who's Theresa?
21:26She's the woman who pinched my office.
21:28Louise thinks I'm going to have an affair with her.
21:31With what aim in mind, may I ask?
21:34To get your office back?
21:35I thought you were going to look after office accommodation this weekend
21:38with Ratface Ricketts in Brighton.
21:41Uh, Louise?
21:43Yes?
21:43We're just going to have a couple of very personal minutes.
21:48Oh.
21:49Right.
21:53Do you want me to go, then?
21:54Please.
21:56Oh.
21:56Okay.
22:03Do you want to see me pour three different colours
22:05from a bottle that only contains white lemonade?
22:09On the whole, no.
22:12It was a stupid remark.
22:14I'm sorry.
22:15If you're going to be nice, that's not fair.
22:16I need notice of niceness when I'm going to have a row.
22:19Put that gin down.
22:24Come here.
22:25I haven't had anything to eat since one o'clock.
22:28Violent exercise is out.
22:29I want a cuddle, that's all.
22:32Ah.
22:33How much do you want to borrow?
22:36Look, Belle.
22:37I don't want you to go out of your way, you know, this weekend.
22:41I wonder if you could define out of your way a little more clearly.
22:45Well, you know, with Ratface Ricketts to get me an office.
22:49Look me in the eye.
22:51What for?
22:52It's lie detector time.
22:54I am not lying.
22:56What about?
22:57Well, anything, I think.
22:58No.
23:00All right.
23:00Look me in the eye then.
23:05This isn't another ploy, is it?
23:09To let you stay at home all day and drink coffee with Louise.
23:11Look, if all I wanted to do was stay at home all day and drink coffee with Louise, would I
23:15be actively encouraging my wife?
23:17What, me?
23:18Yes, you.
23:18Belinda Braithwaite, local bank manager of impeccable reputation.
23:22So far.
23:22Right, so far.
23:25What do you mean, so far?
23:27Nothing.
23:28Go on.
23:29I've forgotten where I was now.
23:31Oh, yes, right.
23:31Would I be actively encouraging you to have an affair with Ratface Ricketts just in order to get me an
23:36office?
23:36I mean, would I?
23:37Have an affair with?
23:38Did you say have an affair with?
23:40No, of course I didn't.
23:42Don't be ridiculous.
23:42You did.
23:43But I just can't have an affair with Barrington Ricketts to get you an office to go to work in.
23:48I said Ratface Ricketts as a matter of fact and I was speaking metaphorically.
23:51Well, I don't want you having an affair with anyone.
23:53Why didn't you tell me that your bank pays my salary?
23:57I was looking for the perfect opportunity.
24:00And when might that have been, may I ask?
24:02Preferably when you were fast asleep with your fingers in both ears.
24:07Did you get me this job?
24:09No.
24:10Look me in the eyes.
24:16At least I don't think so.
24:19Either you got me the job or you didn't.
24:21It's simple.
24:21I'm either a kept man or I'm not.
24:23I didn't set out to get you a job.
24:27I did though, didn't I?
24:29Well, that's certainly the impression I received.
24:31And I thought there was some question of you giving up work as soon as I was fixed up.
24:34I'm going to.
24:35When?
24:36You haven't even got an office yet.
24:38There you are, you see.
24:39Deep down, I'm nothing but a deadbeat.
24:41You're only a deadbeat if you think you're a deadbeat.
24:44Right, well that's it.
24:44I passed the acid test.
24:46I don't just think I'm a deadbeat, I know I'm a deadbeat.
24:48Right, that's it.
24:49We can now apply the collective intelligence of both our brains to your problem.
24:56I'll be asleep.
24:57Let me know how it turns out, will you?
25:01Oh, good gracious.
25:02Is it morning already?
25:05Well, how do things turn out?
25:07Idiot.
25:08We've already established that.
25:10I don't need any reminding.
25:13You've really backed yourself into a bit of a corner, haven't you?
25:16It all started out so simply.
25:18He just asked me for my views on sexual harassment in the banking world.
25:23Are you for it or against it, do you mean?
25:25Sorry.
25:27Then he asked me to jot down a few notes on the subject, which I did.
25:31And then he asked me to give a paper at a weekend conference.
25:34At which he will be present.
25:36And the worst thing of all is that I don't know whether I'm just being paranoid.
25:41Every word that has been exchanged on the subject has had a distinct and definite double meaning.
25:47But what if he hasn't got any intentions at all of trying anything on?
25:51Well, then everything will be all right, won't it?
25:55Won't it?
25:56No, because I will have proved that I am as big a sexist as any man I've ever met.
26:01What do you mean?
26:02Well, I will have assumed automatically that a man is going to turn out to be a ravening beast
26:07just because he's in the next bedroom to a female subordinate on a weekend conference.
26:11Yeah, and he has just promoted that said female subordinate.
26:15And was in addition responsible for getting the subordinate's husband quite a good job?
26:20Right, so I had forgotten about that.
26:21No, you hadn't.
26:22Well, I was trying to.
26:23Is he really in the next bedroom?
26:25What?
26:26Ratface Ricketts, is he in the next bedroom?
26:27It wouldn't surprise me.
26:29Right, that's it.
26:29Take a flannelette nightie and a needle and thread.
26:32The chambermaid can sew you in every night.
26:35Chambermaid?
26:35Yes.
26:36When did you last stay in a hotel?
26:38When is he really in the next bedroom?
26:41Yes.
26:43Do you want me to come down with you?
26:45I can sort of blend into the scenery.
26:47There isn't any scenery in Brighton.
26:49It's all hotels and seafront and pebbles.
26:53And heavy breathing.
26:56No, I've got to deal with this on my own.
26:58Yes, I know you have.
26:59Right, well, this is what you do.
27:01Make sure you're never alone with him.
27:03As soon as you get to the hotel, go straight to your room.
27:05Come out for the meetings, come out for the meals.
27:07Make sure you're with other people all the time.
27:09I'm serious.
27:11Then a situation will never arise, and you'll never be in an embarrassing situation on your own with him.
27:15That might be a little more difficult than you think.
27:21Managers going to the same conference are required to use the same transport where possible.
27:25I see.
27:29At least you'll have the car for the weekend.
27:31Oh, good.
27:33It's very kind of you to lend me your wife for the weekend.
27:36Don't mention it.
27:39Be good.
27:40If you're not careful, I'll be more than good.
27:42I'll be terrific.
27:45Bye.
27:46Bye.
27:47Bye, Barrington.
27:53Bye.
28:02So.
28:04Car.
28:05I think I owe you an apology.
28:10Looks as if it's just the two of us.
28:12So it does.
28:14Coffee?
28:16Why not?
28:17Your place or mine.
28:18Oh.
28:29Come on.
28:31No.
28:34No.
28:36No.
28:38No.
28:40There's no clue.
28:41No.
28:42No.
28:43No.
28:45No.
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