So You Think You Know Who You Are by Ceilia Johnson

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• Laura Jesson : It's awfully piece of cake to lie when y'all know that you're trusted implicitly. So very easy, and then very degrading.

• Laura Jesson : [Secret thoughts] This tin't last. This misery tin't terminal. I must remember that and effort to control myself. Cipher lasts really. Neither happiness nor despair. Not fifty-fifty life lasts very long. There'll come a time in the future when I shan't mind well-nigh this anymore, when I tin can look back and say quite peacefully and cheerfully how silly I was. No, no, I don't want that time to come ever. I want to retrieve every infinitesimal, e'er, always to the end of my days.

• Fred Jesson : Yous've been a long manner away.

  Laura Jesson : Yes.

  Fred Jesson : Thanks for coming back to me.

• Laura Jesson : [thinking to herself while looking at her hubby, Fred] Fred, dear Fred. There'due south then much that I want to say to you lot. You're the only ane in the world with enough wisdom and gentleness to sympathize. If merely it was somebody else's story and non mine. As it is, you're the only one in the world that I can never tell. Never never. Because fifty-fifty if I waited until we were old, sometime people and told you then, you'd exist spring to look dorsum over the years and be hurt. And my love, I don't want yous to be injure. You see, nosotros're a happily married couple and let's never forget that. This is my home. You're my husband. And my children are upstairs in bed. I'chiliad a happily married woman - or I was, rather, until a few weeks ago. This is my whole world, and it's enough, or rather, it was until a few weeks ago. Merely, oh, Fred, I've been and then foolish. I've fallen in love. I'm an ordinary woman. I didn't think such tearing things could happen to ordinary people.

• Dr. Alec Harvey : Forgive me?

  Laura Jesson : Forgive you for what?

  Dr. Alec Harvey : For everything. For meeting y'all, in the first identify. For taking the piece of grit out of your eye. For loving you. For bringing you so much misery.

  Laura Jesson : I'll forgive you if you'll forgive me.

• Dr. Alec Harvey : I do love yous, so very much. I beloved you lot with all my heart and soul.

  Laura Jesson : I desire to die. If just I could dice...

  Dr. Alec Harvey : If you'd dice, you'd forget me. I want to be remembered.

• Laura Jesson : [Secret thoughts] I had no thoughts at all, only an overwhelming desire not to feel anything always again.

• Laura Jesson : [Secret thoughts] I imagined him property me in his arms. I imagined being with him in all sorts of glamorous circumstances. It was ane of those cool fantasies, just like ane has when ane is a daughter being wooed and married past the idea of ones dreams.

• Laura Jesson : [speaking about Dolly to herself] I wish you'd end talking. I wish you'd stop prying and trying to find things out. I wish yous were expressionless - no I don't hateful that. That was silly and unkind. But I wish you'd finish talking.

• Laura Jesson : Do y'all know, I believe nosotros should all behave quite differently if we lived in a warm, sunny climate all the time. We shouldn't be so withdrawn and shy and difficult.

• Dr. Alec Harvey : I love you. I love your wide eyes, the way y'all grin, your shyness, and the way you lot laugh at my jokes.

  Laura Jesson : [whimpers] Please don't.

  Dr. Alec Harvey : I honey y'all. I love you. Y'all love me too. Information technology's no employ pretending it hasn't happened crusade it has.

  Laura Jesson : Yes it has. I don't desire to pretend anything either to yous or to anyone else. Only from now on, I shall have to. That's what's wrong. Don't y'all meet? That's what spoils everything. That's why nosotros must stop, here and now, talking like this. We're neither of us complimentary to honey each other. There'south too much in the way. In that location's still time, if we control ourselves and acquit like sensible man beings. In that location'southward nevertheless time.

  [She is overcome with tears]

• Laura Jesson : Isn't information technology atrocious near people significant to exist kind?

• Fred Jesson : [playing the crossword puzzle] You're a verse addict. See if y'all tin help me over this. It's Keats. 'When I behold, upon the dark's starr'd face / Huge cloudy symbols of a high _______.' Something that'due south vii messages.

  Laura Jesson : Romance, I remember. I'm almost certain information technology is. 'Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance.' It volition be in the Oxford Book of English language Poesy.

  Fred Jesson : No, it'south correct I'm sure. It fits in with 'delirium' and 'Baluchistan.

• Dr. Alec Harvey : Could yous really say goodbye? Never see me over again?

  Laura Jesson : Yeah, if you'd help me.

  Dr. Alec Harvey : I dear you, Laura. I shall love you always until the finish of my life. I tin can't await at yous now cause I know something. I know that this is the outset of the cease. Not the terminate of my loving you lot but the terminate of our being together. But non quite withal, darling. Please. Not quite nevertheless.

  Laura Jesson : Very well. Not quite still.

• Laura Jesson : [Hole-and-corner thoughts] That week was misery. I went through it in a sort of trance. How odd of you lot not to take noticed that you lot were living with a stranger in the firm.

• Fred Jesson : Come and sit past the fire in the library and relax. You may assistance me with the Times crossword.

  Laura Jesson : You lot have the about peculiar ideas of relaxation.

• Laura Jesson : [Secret thoughts] I had no premonitions. But, I suppose I should have had. It all seemed and then natural and so innocent.

• Laura Jesson : [Secret thoughts] I starred out of that railway railroad vehicle window into the dark and watched the deem trees and the telegraph posts slipping by. And through them I saw Alec and me. Alec and me, mayhap a lilliputian younger than we are now, merely just as much in love and we take nil in the manner. I saw us in Paris, in a box at the opera. The orchestra was tuning up. So we were in Venice, drifting along the Grand Canal in a gondola with the sound of mandolins coming to us over the water. I saw us traveling far away together. All the places I've always longed to become. I saw usa leaning on the runway of a transport, looking at the sea and stars. Standing on a tropical beach, in the moonlight, with the palm trees sighing above united states. Then the palm trees changed into those pallided willows by the canal, just before the level crossing. And all the silly dreams disappeared. And I got out at Ketchworth and gave up my ticket and walked home as usual. Quite soberly and without wings. Without any wings at all.

• Laura Jesson : [Secret thoughts] Having committed the crime, I suddenly felt reckless and gay.

• Laura Jesson : [Hugger-mugger thoughts] We had such fun. I felt gay and happy and sort of released.

• Laura Jesson : [Hush-hush thoughts] I felt all of a sudden quite wildly happy.

• Laura Jesson : [Secret thoughts] We were very gay during luncheon and talked about quite ordinary things.

• Dr. Alec Harvey : I'm just saying you're not complicated.

  Laura Jesson : I suppose it's a skillful thing to be simple, only it does sound a little dull.

  Dr. Alec Harvey : You could never be dull.

• Laura Jesson : How can you lot be so silly?

• Laura Jesson : How tin I possibly say that? "Don't bustle, I'yard perfectly happy." If simply information technology were truthful. Non I suppose that anybody's perfectly happy, really. But, merely to be ordinarily contented. To be at peace.

• Laura Jesson : It seems an eternity since that railroad train went out of the station, taking him abroad, into the darkness. I was happy then.

• Dr. Alec Harvey : What 50 mean is this... All adept doctors must primarily exist enthusiasts. They must like writers and painters and priests, they must have a sense of vocation. A deep-rooted, unsentimental desire to benefit.

  Laura Jesson : Yes, l run into that.

  Dr. Alec Harvey : Manifestly one way of preventing disease is worth 50 ways of curing it. That'south where my ideal comes in. Preventative medicine isn't anything to practice with medicine at all, really. Information technology's concerned with atmospheric condition; living conditions, hygiene and mutual sense. For instance, my specialty is pneumoconiosis.

• Dolly Messiter : Have y'all any brandy?

  Myrtle Bagot : I'm afraid it's out of hours.

  Dolly Messiter : Oh surely, if somebody's feeling sick?

  Laura Jesson : I'1000 alright, really.

  Dolly Messiter : Just a sip of brandy will buck you up.

  [to Myrtle]

  Dolly Messiter : Please.

  Myrtle Bagot : Very well.

  Dolly Messiter : How much?

  Myrtle Bagot : X pence, please.

• Laura Jesson : Yous're both very naughty. Y'all should take been comatose hours ago!

• Dr. Alec Harvey : Would you mind, very much, if I came to the pictures with you?

  Laura Jesson : Well, eh...

  Dr. Alec Harvey : I could sit downstairs and you could sit upstairs.

  Laura Jesson : Upstairs is too expensive.

• Laura Jesson : I run across.

  Dr. Alec Harvey : I'm afraid yous don't.

  Laura Jesson : Ha-ha. I was trying to be intelligent.

• Laura Jesson : Its been then very nice. I've enjoyed my afternoon enormously.

  Dr. Alec Harvey : I'chiliad then glad. Then accept I. I apologize for boring you with long medical words.

  Laura Jesson : I full wearisome and stupid not to exist able to empathise more than.

  Dr. Alec Harvey : Shall I run across you again?

• Laura Jesson : [Secret thoughts] I looked hurriedly around the wagon to see if anyone was looking at me - equally if they could read my secret thoughts. No one was. Except a clergyman in the opposite corner. I felt myself blushing.

• Laura Jesson : [Hugger-mugger thoughts] I went into the high street and establish a tobacconist and telephoned y'all. Exercise y'all remember?

• Laura Jesson : [Hole-and-corner thoughts] I walked for a long while. Finally, I found myself at the war memorial. You know, it'due south right at the other side of town. It'd stopped raining all together and I felt stiflingly hot. So, I sat downwardly on one of the seats. There was nobody near and I lit a cigarette. I know how y'all disapprove of women smoking in the street. I do also, really, but - I wanted to at-home my nerves and I thought it might help.

• Laura Jesson : Circus or Pantomime?

  Fred Jesson : Neither. We'll thrash them both, lock them in the cranium and go to the pictures past ourselves.

So You Think You Know Who You Are by Ceilia Johnson

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