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 : Yes. And how cross you were when they tried to tip you for pushing the boat off?

Fifteen years ago and it’s so much nearer than all this. That was the evening that I told you I loved you Oh, Margaret.



Let’s be quiet quiet  and think  not talk. I only want to be by you, that’s all just to know that you’re there, beside me.

[ sits again and he lies on the floor at her feet.

You’re all I’ve got to hold on to in life. There’s nothing wrong in it, is there? Is there?

(weakly) : I don’t know, Chris.

There can’t be anything wrong in that. She couldn’t grudge me that she couldn’t.

[He puts his head in her lap.

She strokes his hair in silence for a while.

I’ve never known you in a house like this. It doesn’t seem to fit.

Can you hear the river? This is the little parlour at the inn and we’re