Room At The Top Page #7

I'm here allright and I can prove it.

Seriously Joe, there's something wrong, isn't there?

Don't you like the way I make love?

Ohh, I like it very much.

It reminds me of a good set of mixed tennis.

That's not a very kind thing to say...

I sometimes don't feel very kind.

- Why?

- Your mother and father,

were they kind to me the other night?

I can just see your mother now.

Saying "You mustn't see that vulgar Lampton boy again or whatever his name is,

the one with the bulging shirt and the chromium cufflinks."

And then there is you... You lead me on so far and then you stop me.

What do you think I'm made of?

It's not that I don't want to. It's just... I suppose I'm scared.

I do love you Joe! I'd do anything for you Joe, anything!

Except what any girl would do for the man she loves.

Joe how much do you love me?

Very much.

About a million pounds worth.

Joe be gentle with me.

(ELSBETH SINGING)

Oh, let's face it darling, he was a brute, a coarse brute!

Oh, I know it's hell ride this minute but the way I look at it, he's the looser.

Come on Susan, I think we'd better be going now.

I don't want to go. I don't ever want to go.

Is isn't super Joe? Now we really belong to each other.

Really and truely "till death do us part". Wasn't it wonderful?

Wasn't it absolutely the most wonderful thing that ever happened to you?

Wasn't it Joe?

Yes... Come on let's go.

Must we really go?

You know, we must.

Besides your mother...

Poor mummy if only she knew.

That's quite a thought.

Joe, do you know I don't really feel any different.

I thought I would feel terribly different but I don't.

Joe, do you feel different?

You don't really want to talk about it, do you?

You're not really sentimental, are you?

No, I'd rather not talk about it.

Joe, do you know something? I do belive you are a (...) aren't you?

I expect I am.

Do I look different Joe? Do I?

No.

Hey, come on Joe, what are you waiting for?

I think I'll hang on for a bit, I've got some work to do.

But it's Friday!

You can get along without me.

For the last few day you've been lower than (...) belly.

What's the matter with you?

Nothing.

You won't be sitting pretty. You always said that Susan was (...)

Yes, everything is going my way.

Ready chaps?

You two go ahead. I won't go tonight.

What's the matter with him? What's wrong Joe?

I tell you, nothing's the matter. I just don't happen to feel like boosing.

Come on Teddy, call me later Joe if you feel like it.

Nothing has changed. Nothing at all.

- I don't care about them.

- I don't either.

I couldn't do without you. I love you Alice.

I love you.

Remember what was it you once said, loving friends you said.

Let's be loving firends.

I didn't want to fall in love with you.

I tried to fall in love with Susan.

What are we gonna do?

I don't know.

It's been hell these last weeks.

I want you all the time.

Not just stolen meetings.

Oh, Alice listen, couldn't we, I have a fortnight starting next month on the 15th.

Charles says, he knows of a cottage belongs to a friend of his.

We could have it for a few days for next to nothing.

And there will be nobody for miles around.

Just us, together.

Oh, Alice couldn't we?

No, I've never done this before.

Next time I do it, I tell you, it's going to be legitimate.

Darling you sound like a lawyer.

I feel more like a (...) gate porter.

Hmmm, not very flattering.

Oh, it's nice here.

- There...

- Thank you.

You know something?

Hm, hmm ?

(...) If I really were a young bride.

I'm feeling rather shy myself. Oh, but it's a good feeling.

Yes...

No, no I don't want to smoke and I don't want to drink.

Because cigarettes and drink, they dull you.

I want every minute of these 4 days.

And I want them sharp and clear.

(SEA AND SEAGULL VOICES)

Alice, you and George do you still... tell me I want to know, do you?

Very well, the answer is "Yes", sometimes.

But Joe, you don't know about those things.

They are not as simple as that, it's all mixed up.

You don't love him.

No.

You and him, well it's not like us, is it ?

No, it's not.

You're such a honest person. Why the hell do you have to be so honest?

Darling I'm glad you're honest. I love you for it.

Do you have to go tomorrow?

You know I have.

You know, I used to think it was a lot of romantic nonsense,

one man, one woman,

not long ago I would have said a man could be happy with

any one of a 100 women.

Oh, I know you're my woman Alice. My rush.

All the love I get now and forever more.

And you've got all the love I ever have to give.

You've changed so much, Joe, you know that.

So have you.

Yes, I've no more defences.

How have I changed?

Oh, I don't know how to say it. You're stronger now. More sure of yourself.

I was so angry with you at first when you wanted Susan.

Seemed to want things for all the wrong reasons.

And you didn't see how you were damaging yourself as a person.

You weren't proud to be you, just to be yourself.

But you're proud now, aren't you?

Oh,yes, now I am the proudest man in the world.

You've got so much Joe... Everything. You don't ever have to pretend.

Just have to be yourself.

This above all to them ownself be true and...

and it must follow as the night, the day (...)

You're educated as an (...) Alice, I love you.

Oh, I've something for you.

Oh, no it's much too nice for me.

I want you to have it, to remind you the happiness we had.

You talk like a requiem.

This is only the beginning.

Are you sure?

I can't live without you.

I've tried and I can't. I need you.

Do you really mean it?

Do you want me to divorce George?

Yes. But would you?

Hmm,hmm...

What's so funny?

You. I'm freightened. Nobody was ever meant to be as happy as I am now.

Can't last, it's like a bubble, that's going to burst when I get on that train tomorrow.

That train.

(TRAIN WHISTLING)

Change your mind Joe, come with me.

No, it's best as we arranged.

I'll take the next train and see you when I get back from Dufton at Elsbeth's.

It's only 10 days.

It's only a lifetime.

We'll work it out so that we can spend the rest of our lives together.

Give me a cigarette, love. I have a feeling that this is all what we gonna have.

This is only the beginning.

(TRAIN CONDUCTOR WHISTLES)

Please walk away now darling. Walk away, don't look back.

Think of me.

Yes...

Mr. Aisgill, what can I...

Sit down.

What can I do for you?

Cigarette?

Nice case you have there.

You know why I am here. Alice told me she wants to divorce me.

Well I'm not agreeable.

You haven't any choice.

She's my wife and she's going to remain my wife.

I want to make it quite clear to you.

She has no grounds for divorce.

Everybody knows the way you treat her, that's about you and your women.

But nobody can prove anything.

The difference between you and me is that I haven't been indiscreet enough

to leave evidence lying around.

Meaning what?

Just this; If she brings an action of divorce I'll fight it.

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