The Heart of Me Page #5

to get back to France this summer.

France?

Your mother told me.

She said that, erm...

She said...?

No.

No, I've just been here.

Alone?

Yes.

I cry in my sleep.

Puts people off.

But I telephoned.

It was cut off.

See, I thought that...

...thought that meant that you...

had gone away.

Well, your cab...

Dinah...

- No.

- Dinah!

No, don't let's start up again.

- Where are you going?

- No, it would be off your beat.

Dinah!

For God's sake,

let me drop you somewhere.

D'you think I'm going to leave you

in the street with these bloody bags?

I'll get out

well before the front door.

After that, it's at your service.

Dinah...

- Wherever the lady wants to go.

- Sir.

What have you lost?

Oh, I see,

you're in another one of your funks.

- Lord, what an ugly woman you are.

- Rickie!

Am I ugly too, Madeleine?

Look at me.

Do you see... anything that you want?

Because this,...

...this is what you fought so hard

to hold on to.

Madeleine!

Rickie, have you gone quite mad?

Rickie, stop this!

What are you doing?

It's just you and me now, Madeleine.

Rickie...

- Dinah's gone.

- I don't know what you mean.

- You're hurting me!

- Just the two of us,...

...at the end of this dead-end street.

Merry Christmas, Grandma.

Mrs Burkett,...

...your car is here.

No, please,...

...please, sit down.

Merry Christmas to you all.

- Merry Christmas.

- Merry Christmas.

Just say goodbye

to the mother-in-law.

Rickie, there's no-one

with the guests.

I'm sure they'd rather have you

dance attendance than me.

- I'm seeing Mother off.

- Go along, Madeleine.

Rickie and I have hardly said

two words all night.

And where are you off to?

I have an appointment.

How is she?

Dinah's well. She's taken a job.

I gather she's very good at it.

Good.

Has she forgiven you?

I did what I did to ensure

that a tragedy be prevented.

My only hope now is that Madeleine

and Dinah should forgive each other.

- Dinah.

- Ma.

- How are you?

- Pleased to see you.

- I bet!

- Don't be cynical, Dinah.

It doesn't suit you. And contrary to

what everyone seems to imagine,...

...I do not take it upon myself

to judge any of you.

- Madam?

- I leave that to God. What's that?

- Cherry brandy.

- Two, please.

- Have you seen them?

- The house looks lovely.

I saw this wonderful thing

for Anthony in the toy shop...

Dinah,...

...Madeleine's expecting a baby.

She's...?

I didn't want you to hear

from a stranger.

No...

No. I thank you.

Well...

They'll have a happy Christmas, then.

I didn't come to upset you.

I just wanted to apologise.

The dog's getting restless,...

...so I thought I'd better...

Thanks for lunch.

Come on, Gwilym, come on.

Dinah.

Thought Id, erm, get some fresh air.

"And throughout all Eternity

I forgive you, you forgive me."

You know it, of course.

Blake.

One of my favourite poems.

Rickie was having it

engraved on a bracelet.

That's what he was trying to collect

from the jeweller's the day he died.

I always assumed

the bracelet was for me.

I never understood

how he got caught like that,...

...out in the street in an air raid.

- No.

He was ill again by then, of course.

Drysdale told him

he'd be lucky to last the year.

Mother told me you'd dreamt of him

the night he died.

- She shouldn't have said that.

- Why ever not?

Well, it makes it sound as though,

I don't know, as if...

...he were thinking of me at the end.

I think a dying man might well

remember the woman he loved.

Come on. Got something to show you.

Steady, boys, steady.

Stay behind the barriers, please!

Come on, come on, come on.

The building's not safe, sir.

- There was a jeweller's...

- Till last night.

I wanted to collect

something overdue.

Missed your chance, I'm afraid, sir.

Behind the barriers!

Go on, stay back,

this is not a safe area!

The building could come down

any time. Go on, stay back.

"And throughout all Eternity...

I forgive you, you forgive me."

Look at her go!

What would you give

to be a girl again?

She's marvellous.

Oh, just a minute, dear.

Here, I've got it.

Clarissa!

You two really ought to meet.

You've a great deal in common.

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