The Deep Blue Sea Page #3

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But Jack doesn't love Jill

in the same way.

- Jack never asked to be loved.

- And what about Jill?

That's Jill's hard luck!

I can't be bloody Romeo

all the time!

Come on, you two.

Let's go inside and

have a drink.

Have you got a shilling?

- What?

- Have you got a shilling?

For the gas meter.

In case I'm late for supper.

Freddie, darling.

Would you come home with me,

please?

No, I will not.

You'll start talking

and pleading.

No, I won't.

I promise I won't.

I swear I won't try to

make you stay.

I won't even talk if you

don't want me to.

Trust me, Freddie, I swear.

Freddie, be reasonable.

She's given her word,

for God's sake!

Will you get my wash things

from the flat for me?

I'll collect the rest of my

stuff when I can face it.

It's all right, Jackie.

He knows me too well.

But you gave your word.

He knew perfectly well I had no

intention of keeping it.

That's why he wouldn't come.

I just wanted to be with

him for a while longer.

At least it's stopped raining.

How long have you been with him?

Since 6.

He can do a lot of talking.

Especially when he's drunk.

At least what he says

makes sense.

Does it?

Freddie - was very Frank

with me.

So I know the whole situation.

Do you?

We've all been in love.

But there are other aspects

that are just as important.

Maybe more so.

Like spiritual values?

You have exactly the same

expression on your face

as my father had when he...

...talked about the pettiness

of the physical.

Then he suggested I go to Lyme

Regis to think things over.

Look, Hester.

I'll get Freddie back to my

place and calm him down.

Give me and Liz a ring once

you've got back home.

Who knows, you may still be

able to work things out.

Thank you, Jackie.

And you'll be fine?

I'll be fine.

It looks like bits of crockery.

It's cubist.

It's like a Braque.

Bric-a-Braque.

- That was a joke.

- I gathered.

- We can't all be cultured.

- Can't all be childish, either.

Listen, it was childish people

like me that saved people

like you from invasion.

Why do you have to

bring that up?!

It's beside the point.

No one is questioning

your bravery.

Just your mind.

My mind?

There's nothing wrong

with my mind!

- Fubar!

- What do you mean by that?

You're the clever one,

you work it out.

What the hell do you

mean by that?!

Fubar.

Acronym.

F***ed up beyond

all recognition.

- Where are you going?!

- To the impressionists!

Oh, Mrs. Page, I thought you

were second delivery.

More misdeliveries?

Wagstaff and Quinn.

Undertakers.

They're at the end

of the street.

So are Hawkes and Guyler.

Bleedin' postman.

Lady Collyer, I ask you.

What would she need with

a ration book?

That's mine.

I beg your pardon!

It's for me.

- And Mr. Page?

- Is not my husband.

But I would rather you continue

to think of me as Mrs. Page.

All right.

But I run a respectable house

here and I don't

- want any kind of trouble.

- Of course not, Mrs. Elton.

What people do in private

is best left there.

I neither condone nor condemn.

Thank you, Mrs. Elton.

It's very generous of you.

Do you forgive me?

What do you think?

So why did you go to

the impressionists?

I only did it for the Monet.

# See the pyramids

along the Nile #

# watch the sunrise on

a tropic isle #

# just remember darling

all the while #

# see the marketplace

in old Algiers #

# send me photographs

and souvenirs #

# just remember when

a dream appears #

# you belong to me #

# I'll be so alone without you #

# maybe you'll be lonesome

too and blue #

# fly the ocean in a

silver plane #

# see the jungle when

it's wet with rain #

# just remember till

you're home again #

# you belong to me #

# I'll be so alone and

without you #

# maybe you'll be lonesome

too and blue #

# fly the ocean in a

silver plane #

# see the jungle when

it's wet with rain #

# but remember darling

till you're home again #

# you belong to me #

- Hello, Liz?

- Hello.

Have Freddie and Jackie

got back yet?

Yes, they're here.

- May I speak to Freddie?

- I'll just get him for you.

Darling, it's Hester.

Don't ring off.

No scene, I promise, I promise.

I only wanted to know about

the job, that's all.

Did you see the man?

Yes, he might have

something for me.

Good.

Well done.

I've gotta get weaving.

- How soon?

- Next week.

- As soon as that?

- Yes.

Oh, Freddie.

Will you stay with Liz and

Jackie until you leave?

No, you don't have to tell me

if you don't want to.

Look, Freddie, I...I want you to

do one last thing for me.

Will you come and collect

your things yourself?

Just to say goodbye.

That's all.

Surely there's no harm.

# In Dublin's fair city #

# where the girls are

so pretty #

# 'twas there that I first

met sweet Molly Malone #

# as she wheeled

her wheelbarrow #

# through streets

broad and narrow #

# crying cockles and mussels

alive, alive oh #

# alive, alive oh #

# crying cockles and mussels #

# alive, alive oh #

# now she was a fishmonger #

# and sure 'twas no wonder #

# for so were her mother

and father before #

# and they each wheeled

their barrow #

# through streets

broad and narrow #

# crying cockles and mussels

alive, alive oh #

# alive, alive oh #

# crying cockles and mussels #

# alive, alive oh #

# she died of a fever #

# and no one could save her #

# and that was the end of

sweet Molly Malone #

# now her ghost

wheels her barrow #

# through streets

broad and narrow #

# crying cockles and mussels

alive, alive oh #

# alive, alive oh #

# crying cockles and mussels #

# alive, alive oh #

This is a surprise.

No Flitton?

No, I decided to drive myself.

I thought it best.

I was worried about you.

Please.

Get in. Out of the chill.

Where is he?

Drinking - with a friend.

What's happened to you, Hester?

Love, bill - that's all.

And it's driven you to

attempt suicide?

No.

I drove myself.

Love, it would seem,

drives all sorts of things.

What is that quote about love?

"It comforted like

sunshine after rain...

...and lust's effect is

tempest after sun."

One can't go on living

on a flat plane.

Not after discovering

something more...

Primitive?

Shall we say natural?

In sober truth, Hester,

isn't it lust?

Oh, bill.

Do you honestly think I can

tell you in sober truth

what it is I feel for Freddie?

Lust isn't the whole of life but

Freddie is, you see, for me...

...the whole of life.

And death.

So...

...put a label on that

if you can.

His life stopped in 1940.

He loved 1940.

He's never been really

happy since the war.

He once told me he envied you.

A brilliant lawyer.

That sounds too spontaneous

to be sincere.

No, he meant it.

He said he envied you for other

reasons besides your career.

I knew then - in that

tiny moment,

I had no power to resist him.

No power at all.

During those months, why didn't

you talk to me about it?

It would have made

no difference.

Meaning that I would have

made no difference?

That's not what I said.

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