Room At The Top Page #9

The first thing I require from you is the list of the guests.

(DOOR OPENS & CLOSES)

Darling I thought you would never come. You're so late.

Come on.

Got a suprise for you.

Come on, open it.

Oh ...

You don't like it?

Yes, I like it very much but...

If you don't like it you can change it for another color.

What's wrong, you look so serious.

No, I ... I like the color.

Oh, Alice...

Alice sit down.

You won't me be hurting my feelings.

I'm not touchy about things like that.

I'm going to marry Susan. Everthing's fixed, even the date.

I'm going to marry her.

I put her in the family way.

What did you expect me to do, run away?

No, but that doesn't mean you have to marry her...

I've got to marry her!

You'll be telling me next you love her.

Look Alice, please.

Please don't let us have a scene.

We were loving friends remember,

right from the start you said we were only loving friends.

It wasn't possible anyway you and me, you know it wasn't.

Well, George wouldn't let you go.

If you had taken him to court, he would have thrown more muck

at us than either of us could stand.

I would have lost my job.

Of what could we have lived on?

You're a timid soul, aren't you?

I suppose you're going to work for Brown.

Yes.

You've done very well for yourself Joe.

Finally, you've got everything you wanted, haven't you?

There's something you would never understand Joe,

these people are the top.

They are the same as anybody else.

but you had it inside of you, to be so much bigger than anyone of them.

You just had to be yourself, that was all.

With me you were yourself, only with me.

Try to understand what you have done.

Look Alice, I'm going to marry Susan.

Allright, maybe I do love you, but I'm going to marry her.

Now please don't make it any more difficult for us both.

Oh, to hell with you!

You think our love is just like a layer of dirt, that I can wash it off?

I believed in our love.

What else have I got?

It's all I had to believe in.

You ask me not to make it difficult.

But I'm not like you, aunt in Dufton, why should I make it difficult for you?

Because it won't do you any good, that's why. I'm going to marry Susan.

Don't say it again. Please don't say it again.

I think we need a little drink.

Look Alice, I wish you face facts.

I never loved anyone else. But there's just, isn't any future for us together.

That was a pretty speech.

I suppose you worked that out before you came, didn't you?

I'm never going to see you again, that's what I came to tell you.

I'm going now.

Noo...

Good bye Alice.

Are you allright Mrs. Aisgill?

(...)

I've never seen her like that before.

She'll be allright, she knows her way around.

(CHURCH BELLS RINGING)

- Good morning.

- Good morning Mr.Lampton.

Oh, Miss Beth I'd like to get everything outstanding settled as soon as possible.

Starting with (...) how about the P. appropriation account?

Oh, it can wait.

Oh, Mr. Lampton I would like to congratulate you. Mr. Hoylake told Gladys.

Well you know how these things get about.

I hope you'll both get really happy together.

Thank you very much.

Did you hear about the accident? (OTHER WOMEN SPEAKING IN BACKGROUND)

Have you set the date of the wedding yet?

No? What accident? (OTHER WOMEN SPEAKING IN BACKGROUND)

No, not definately.

It's Alice Aisgill. She's dead. (OTHER WOMEN SPEAKING IN BACKGROUND)

It will be the wedding of the year I'm sure.

- Who's dead? - Alice Aisgill. (OTHER WOMEN SPEAKING IN BACKGROUND)

Well, I hope so.

Miss Brown, if you don't mind my saying so, will make a lovely bride.

She ran the car off the cliff at Sparrow Hill. I heard she was drunk.

What's that?

Alice Aisgill, Mr.Lampton.

They say that the car was bent like that and blood all over the place.

What was she doing at Sparrow Hill, anyway?

Oh goodness knows, she's been drinking allright?

Probably didn't know where she was.

There he is!

Joe, congratulations laddy, couldn't have happened to a nicer chap.

He was trying to tell me about it, the other night you know, weren't you Joe?

Come on R. bring that through now, we've got a suprise for you Joe.

Come on R. quick!

Well, unwrap it! Oh, come here!

Look Joe, champaigne!

(TEDDY SINGING THE WEDDING MARCH)

It's the real stuff, you know.

Hellooo! There you are Joe.

Well, you'll be leaving us, are you? Marrying into big business.

Well, well, congratulations.

What's the matter?

We were just talking about the accident Mr. Hoylake.

What accident?

Alice Aisgill's dead. Her car crashed last night.

Noo...

Nasty business. I met Dr.Everett, he told me.

You knew her well, didn't you Joe?

Yes. I knew her.

Would have been so bad if she died out right.

Good looking woman too, it's hard on Aisgill.

Is it true that they didn't find her till this morning?

I am afraid so, she was terribly mutilated.

I heard it was a farm laborer who found her.

I heard she was crawling about the rood in her own blood.

It wasn't bad thinking about her.

Appearently she's been struck by the steering wheel.

What's the matter? (CHARLES ASKS)

You low rotten (...) You murdering little fancy man!

Are you happy now, you swine!

You got rid of her nicely, didn't you?

You don't understand.

You bastard, you bastard!

You dirty filthy bastard!

She was in your way, wasn't she?

Get out of here you filthy little blood sucker!

Oh, Joe, how could you do it to...

She loved you so, how could you do it?

I said what's you name dear?

Ehh.

What's your name?

Jack Wales.

And what do you really sell?

I told you, I specialized in ladies underwear.

Ha,ha,ha! Oh, you're a devil Jack, you really are.

Come on Mavis, let's go.

Oh, go away. We were allright till you came.

Look I couldn't help being late, you see I was working over at the factory love.

Look you bloody well stop that, you're coming along with me.

Leave her alone!

You stick to your own class!

You come walking in here, you and your money think you can buy the place,

I've seen your type before you know.

Now just keep out of this!

I told you to leave her alone!

Look I warned you, I'll slash your bloody (...)

Take your hands off her!

He's not really my boyfriend, not really Jack.

Just beacuse he has taken me out a couple of times,

he thinks he owns me, he does.

He don't know how to treat a girl proper.

He's not like you Jack.

Hey, boy! Same again.

You don't want any more to drink, really you don't.

Don't I?

What you need is some fresh air.

Come on.

Alice, Alice...

It's Mayvis, is my name.

Oh, you,'re wonderful. Oh, you're really are.

Oh, you've such lovely hands like a gentleman.

Oh, shut up!

Jack, I've always wanted to meet someone like you. I always have.

You wouldn't pass out on me, you mustn't go to sleep.

Jack, come on Jack let's go.

Are you allright now Jack?

I...

Now you turn left remember and go straight on down the canal.

Have you enough for a taxi?

Oh, god they have woken up. Good night Jack. It's been lovely, really it has.

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