Age of Consent Page #2

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They just love the excuse to strip off.

Well, you'll have to find another way

to get their clothes off.

- No! I've got plans!

- I've got a train to catch.

- Where to?

- Checkabarame.

You can send me that 25

care of the post office.

Now, sugar, believe me. You'll need a bird in

Checkabarame. You'll go off your rocker.

It's a morgue. It's a dump.

It's a desert island.

All you ever think about is birds.

You're out of your mind!

Now, with me, it's entirely different.

I'm like a camel when it comes to sex.

Especially right now,

after a week in Brisbane.

You'll come to your senses

one of these days.

Oh, no, I won't! Checka-bloody-barame.

Without a bird?

You're in tune with Foreign Kay McKie,

the voice of the Great Barrier Reef.

Eastern time is 25 minutes after 3.; oo.

The shack's on the other side

of the sand bar.

Take it easy with those eggs.

It's only a couple of hundred yards.

You think you'll need a hand?

No, I can manage, thanks.

Cast her off, will you?

I'll be over most days with the mail.

I'm out fishing every morning.

I hope it doesn't get you down.

This season, the island's pretty dead.

I like it dead.

Cheerio!

Godfrey.

Come on. Let's find the shack. Godfrey!

Come on out. Come on out.

Come on. Out you come.

Hello.

Chase them out, Godfrey.

I'll hold the door.

Nicely done, boy. Nicely done.

Yeah.

I hope to God there's a scrubbing brush

in that other box from the store.

You know,

there's one thing we haven't done.

We haven't taken a look at the dunny.

I think we've found a haven.

We've got it made.

Too old.

There's people here.

I hope they leave us alone.

Get lost, you nosy bludger! Go on, go out.

Come on.

Like I said, Godfrey,

this place is crawling with people.

Hello, Godfrey.

Godfrey.

What's that?

It's the sun.

It's a saw.

Come on.

See?

I see.

Are you selling those?

Do you supply the storekeeper

on the mainland?

- How much do you want?

- Depends.

- On what?

- How many you buy.

All right, let's have a look.

They're fresh.

Fresher than if I bought them

from the store.

And cheaper.

Does he know that you undersell him?

If you buy from me regular,

I'll give you a special price.

That's fair enough.

- Cash?

- Naturally.

I'll take the big crayfish and all the oysters.

- For $3.50?

- That's too much.

- $3.

- Okay, fine.

I said the big crayfish.

What else can you supply?

Prawns, fish, chicken?

Chooks, eh?

What's the market price

for a prime-fresh chook?

$2.

Can you deliver tomorrow?

- You're sure?

- Yeah.

All right. We're in business.

Hooray.

Jasper, is that you?

Jasper, are you frightening

those fowls again?

I've been waiting for you.

One stinking little crayfish!

- Where have you been, girl?

- Nowhere.

Lying slut. Neglecting your work,

it should have been full by now!

- Do you want us to starve?

- Leave me alone.

So you can waste your time

with some fancy joker

who'll have the skirt off you

and make you sick in your own guts.

Keep away from him

or I'll have the law on him! You're underage.

Like your mother, a b*tch in heat under

the bushes with every filthy feller in town!

Shut up about my mother.

She died of it,

and you'd have gone on your own

if I hadn't taken you and raised you!

I'm an old woman, Cora. Look after me.

My friend.

What a feast you're going to be.

You have an appointment

with some herbs, garlic

and a slow, slow fire.

Chicken bones are bad for dogs, Godfrey.

You get mince.

Time for a swim, eh? Here we go.

Godfrey!

Come back here, Godfrey!

Godfrey, come back!

Godfrey!

Good dog.

Good morning! We're neighbors.

Bradley Morahan.

Ms. Marley, of Marley House,

under the woods.

Yes.

- I'll get it for you.

- Thank you.

- Here you are.

- Thanks so much.

We're just going for a walk, Jasper and I.

Settled in nicely?

- Yes, thanks.

- Good.

If you need any fresh vegetables

or eggs, do ask.

I'm sure we could come

to some arrangement.

That's very kind of you.

I might be able to let you

have a boiling fowl, too.

- Good day.

- Good day.

Sit down.

He's been a stray for so long,

he sometimes forgets himself.

You mean the dog broke into Marley's

and killed the chook, eh?

No, he'd never trespass. It was the chook

that wandered into our garden.

Godfrey let out a howl, and the chook flew

into the air, dropped down dead of fright.

- You're having me on.

- Accidental death, I would say.

Yeah?

So what could I do? I couldn't waste her.

I didn't even know who owned her.

- So you ate her?

- So I ate her.

What about Ms. Marley?

Well, there's only one thing to do with her.

Apologize, pay for the damage.

Seems fair enough.

Keep that dog under control.

Any more fowl killing

and he'll be for the high jump.

Oh, no, I really couldn't. It's too much.

$4, I insist.

Well, we'll make it $2,

and I'll say no more about it.

Now, I'm really sorry.

Don't think I'm a fool, Mr. Morahan.

I'm well aware of what really happened.

Hello, Godfrey.

$2 in advance for a stolen chook.

This thieving's got to stop!

They're a wake-up, Ms. Marley, copper.

Eggs, chooks. What else you take?

- Vegetables.

- It's bloody immoral!

- Didn't you like the chicken?

- That's beside the point.

- Who taught you to steal?

- Me grandma.

You took some of my eggs, didn't you?

That police nark can put you in a home.

Do you know what a girl's home is?

Me grandma says she'll send me there

if I don't get enough money

for food and her gin.

- Where's your mother?

- Dead.

Father?

Never had one,

not one that would own up to it.

Doesn't the seafood you sell to the store

give you enough to live on?

Only pays for the groceries and the gin.

Me grandma knows the prices.

- I can't cheat her.

- What do you want to cheat her for?

So's I can hide money and save it.

What are you saving up for?

To get away from here.

When I've got $100,

I'm going to Brisbane to be a hairdresser.

I've saved over 50.

I want you to promise not to steal anymore.

If I don't steal, then I can't save,

and I can't get away from here.

You'll get nowhere if you're behind bars!

Our deal is off if you don't give it up.

Think it over.

Okay.

If you stick to your word, I'll try to help you.

How?

$100, eh?

Buy some of your shellfish,

see if we can raise the prices

of that old skinflint at the store.

I might even...

If I had the materials to work with,

I might even...

What?

- I might even get you to pose.

- Pose?

I'm a painter. Know what a model is?

- Like that?

- No!

- Like this?

- No!

- Like this?

- No!

Godfrey!

Hold that! Just like that!

This isn't posing.

Don't tell me what's posing and what isn't.

Just don't move.

How much will you pay me?

Money, money, money.

That's all you ever think about.

Half a dollar an hour. Take it or leave it.

- Okay.

- Now lie down.

Put this arm around there, like that.

Knees up a bit.

That's the ticket.

Just stay still. Keep your mouth shut.

Me?

- How'd you know I look like that?

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