**********
ADAM
Rufus! Please, help me!
RUFUS
We were never here. We never knew each other. We never will know
each other again.
ADAM
Rufus, don't leave me! Don't leave me!
**********
RUFUS
Okay, let's just recap your history. Two children, no miscarriages,
no terminations.
MRS. STRAWSON
Terminations? Oh, that's your language for abortions. No, I
haven't, luckily.
RUFUS
Um, any discharge at all? No impertinent ditches on any
description?
MRS. STRAWSON
No. I have a slip on. Would you prefer that off, too?
RUFUS
Oh, yes. More off the better.
MRS. STRAWSON
Ready.
RUFUS
Right. And about that contraception, do you mind telling me what
you're using?
MRS. STRAWSON
That was a fifty-pound-an-hour-fee kind of question, Dr.
Fletcher. I can see why you've come this far.
**********
OPERATOR
Directory enquiry.
RUFUS
Yes, please. Uh, Colchester.
OPERATOR
Name?
RUFUS
A. Chipstead. That's CHIPS, then T for Trauma, E for Encyclopedia,
A for Adam, um, A for Architect, D for Diaphragm. I'm not sure
actually if he lives in Colchester. Probably not.
OPERATOR
Mr. Chipstead, A. listed as living at Wyvis Hall, Nunes,
Colchester. Would that be the one? The number is 554879. Sir?
Would you like me to spell that for you?
RUFUS
Uh, no, thanks. It wouldn't be necessary.
Come in.
MARIGOLD
Dr. Fletcher, I'm sorry to bother you. Have you got time for a
counsel?
RUFUS
Oh, absolutely.
**********
RUFUS
Hey, our landed hero!
ADAM
Got a new one?
RUFUS
Hmm. You're going to tell me you actually like it.
ADAM
Yeah. Well, sort of. Don't you?
RUFUS
Yeah, I like it. That's why I bought it. Just wondered what you
thought. Yeah, the parents are off on holiday. Like old primitive
forms of life, they react to stress and change by making a great
deal of noise.
ADAM
My old man wears the same clothes for days on end. My old man writes obsessive letters to the milkman.
RUFUS
Old man? Don't you wish! How old is he? Fifty? They ought to bug you for another thirty years yet.
ADAM
Pain in the arse at the moment. House feels like it's going to explode with all his nervous energy. Can't wait to get away.
Well, I go to Greece. I've my passport in my pocket and I just
think I go now. It seems, you know, just wake up and go.
RUFUS
Okay then. Let's do it. Let's go to Greece. I'm ready.
ADAM
Not today. I actually haven't got mine with me. Must be in my other
jeans.
RUFUS
J Okay then. Let's go and see the inheritance.
**********
RUFUS
It's going to be an amazing summer. I can hardly touch this steering
wheel. Come on. You are not doing much navigating.
ADAM
That would be difficult as we're not on water.
RUFUS
It must be tiring in this hit, being so bloody pedantic about words.
Jesus! You never said it was so bloody big.
ADAM
Is it?
RUFUS
Well, it beats the fifty quid worth of premium bonds my great uncle
left me.
**********
RUFUS
Are you actually going to sell this place?
ADAM
What else can I do?
RUFUS
When do you get back to Cambridge?
ADAM
October. What about you? When does med school start?
RUFUS
Same time, which gives us the whole summer to play. What's the matter? Don't you
like Cambridge?
ADAM
Yeah. Boring old farts. It's all old fashioned. Every one makes notes and underlines
in color felt tips. I wish I could be with you.
RUFUS
Yes, it's a bit difficult to read classics at med school. Don't
think you would really up to palpitating spleens. What about the women?
I thought you all sat under trees, sprouting Ovid, touching up girls in flirty dresses. Even you, Adam, must have noticed some members of
the opposite sex.
ADAM
Oh, yeah. There are loads of women.
RUFUS
Yeah?
ADAM
What about you?
RUFUS
Well, you don't get to touch the nurses because they're too
terrifying. Midwives are definitely a no-go area. Apart from that-- Yeah, I think we'd miss all this if we went to
Greece.
**********
ADAM
Dad, I'm calling from Greece.
ADAM'S FATHER
Greece?
ADAM
That's right. I'm in Greece.
ADAM'S FATHER
You what?
ADAM
Well, I'm at the airport now, just landed. Rufus and I just decided to
go so we went, I mean, came.
RUFUS
Bing bong.
ADAM'S FATHER
What about the Hall?
ADAM
Sorry, Dad, can't hear anymore. Our love to Mom. See you at three
box--
**********
RUFUS
Ah, there you are. Uh, this is Mary. That's all right, isn't it?
ADAM
Yeah, yeah. I know. Of course.
RUFUS
Adam is a marvelous host. He's even got the midgets under
control.
MARY
Are you sure this is yours?
RUFUS
No, Mary. We, uh, broke in, murdered the occupants and shoved them down
in cellar.
MARY
It's a bit of waste, isn't it? This lovely house and you.
RUFUS
And this is where we put the bodies.
ADAM
Um--
RUFUS
What's the matter?
ADAM
Nothing. It's just rather a good bottle of wine, that's all. A
good year.
RUFUS
Adam knows about these things. That will do for supper tonight
then, won't it?
And this is the master bedroom. Guided tour stops here.
Yeah, thank you Adam. Don't expect us down for dinner.
**********
RUFUS
Well, I don't think much of your Vern, Verne-Smith. Not a decent shot, he
shouldn't stay.
ADAM
Yeah. Christ, Rufus! I told you not to pull the trigger.
RUFUS
Don't be silly, Adam. What on earth can I hit? Hello, who is
this?
ADAM
Hey! Who are you?
RUFUS
Adam is playing lord of the manor. Just sacked the gardener.
MARY
Well, I don't think he should have let him go. Adam, you have to keep this
house up. Cherish it, for your great uncle's sake.
RUFUS
Oh, yes, please. I would like to become a member of the grown ups
club. Please pass me a subscription form and a prospectus for a musty after life.
MARY
You should maintain it, as your father would have done.
RUFUS
But you see, Adam's worst fear is becoming like his father. I can
see it happening day by day. You know, I think your hair is thinning a little bit already.
ADAM
I'd better clean these and put them back in their proper place.
**********
ADAM
Careful. There is a snag on the ledge. Some of these are over a hundred
years old.
RUFUS
Hello. What have we here?
**********
ADAM
He's gone.
RUFUS
Oh, seems to be your day for visitors. Locals come
to offer their services.
COYPU MAN
Morning. Pearson's the name. Coypu control. Would it be all right if
I take a look round the lake?
ADAM
What control?
COYPU MAN
Coypu. It's a sort of rat. South American in origin, I think
you'll find. I do all the big houses around here. I come
up once a year. This is the time we catch the little blighters.
RUFUS
Oh, really? How do you catch them? Do you listen for their mating
calls?
COYPU MAN
Oh, no. They won't mate when it is this hot. So if
you just let me have a little look around the lake, Sir.
ADAM
No. Go ahead.
COYPU MAN
Thank you sir.
**********
RUFUS
How could one have gone into the Suffolk pond, I mean? Escape
from a zoo?
ADAM
Do you think he charges by the hour or by how many catches?
RUFUS
You can shoot the coypu yourself, or you could wait till he's got
all the coypu, then shoot him. Oh, now, this should be fun.
COYPU MAN
Hello, Miss.
MARY
Get out of here.
COYPU MAN
What?
MARY
You revolting little man!
RUFUS
Coypu!
ADAM
I want mine while it's hot.
MARY
Get out of here! Get out of here!
RUFUS
Coypu!
ADAM
Coypu. Coypu.
MARY
Murderer! Murderer!
**********
MARIGOLD
What's the matter?
RUFUS
Sorry. I don't know why I am so jumpy. I just keep feeling that we struck
off. Still, isn't there a law against two gynaecologists being in bed together,
not even if they are of the same sex.
MARIGOLD
There is something weird about the fact that we both know more
about my innards than I do about yours. I never thought I'd go
with a gynaecologist. And somehow I got the feeling that I'm not
your usual type.
RUFUS
As a matter of fact, you are not. Can't think what I see in you.
MARIGOLD
I asked Judy. She gave me a comprehensive list of your conquest
to date. Took the best of the three days.
RUFUS
Come on. We'll be late. Now, what's funny?
MARIGOLD
You. You spend the whole time playing the casual Englishman and
yet you really mind being late for the Royal Society's Annual
Band.
RUFUS
Well, I was going to be seen.
MARIGOLD
I can see you.
RUFUS
I do believe you can. At times.
**********
MARY
We have got to start thinking about getting to Greece.
RUFUS
Greece is only a state of mind. After all: isolation, sunny days,
lots of anesthesia; that's what I was looking for, amongst other
things of course.
MARY
Ecalpemos. What's that? A Greek island?
ADAM
Sort of.
RUFUS
A volcano.
MARY
No, I know. It's one of those funny words. Like an anagram.
ADAM
I just re-christened Wyvis Hall.
MARY
What?
ADAM
I own it, so I'm allowed to. It's now called Ecalpemos. It's a Greek holiday
home.
MARY
Yeah, it's 'someplace' backwards. I said it was an anagram.
RUFUS
Oh, Adam will know some fancy words for-
ADAM
An inversion. It's called an inversion when the word is spelt backwards.
MARY
I'm still going to real Greece. I decided I would go last
November.
RUFUS
You don't want to go to Greece. You want to stay here. Rub oil into Adam.
MARY
Does Adam need rubbing?
ADAM
I don't know. I suppose so. I'm a bit burnt.
MARY
C'mon, get it off.
What are you up to, you bastard? Not everything's always there on the
plate for you. You arrogant bastards!
RUFUS
Can't get staff nowadays. I suppose I have to finish you off.
MARY
(screaming)
RUFUS
What is it?
MARY
There was a bat. Flew right at me.
ADAM
Oh, yeah? Where?
RUFUS
So where are they?
ADAM
Who?
RUFUS
The emergency services. Listen. We could be on the moon for all they care. We could murder Mary if we want.
**********
RUFUS
Let's drink to Mary's last supper.
MARY
Oh, look at you. Think of the homeless.
RUFUS
I don't give a toss to the homeless. It's a pity you can't
stay. We got all the amenities here: the sun, drugs, drink, and sex, of course. Well, I expect we'll find the replacement
for that in no time.
MARY
That's just the sort of crude remark I'd expect from someone who's
going to make a career out of putting his hand up women's arses. Oh,
by the way, there are some people coming down.
ADAM
What?
MARY
I have invited these people to come and stay and as I won't be
here, I hope you make them welcome.
ADAM
You didn't say.
MARY
They need a place to stay. This place is big enough for four.
RUFUS
Oh, dear. Oh, dear. He looks very boring. She looks all right, Adam.
Good legs. Quite promising.
ADAM
But you have to find them and tell them where you're going.
MARY
They haven't got a phone. They're less fortunate than you've
been, Adam.
ADAM
Well, I can't afford to keep--
MARY
Let them stay for a few days at least. They might even pay you
rent. Anyway you can't stop them coming. Now, my last train is at
ten. Who's going to drive me?
**********
RUFUS
Excuse me. Morning.
DR. SWIFTSON
Good God. Rufus Fletcher. You're a bit early, aren't you? Don't tell me one of these
sleek animals
you service has actually been human enough to have a baby and to risk having it an international service health hospital.
RUFUS
Well, stranger things, actually. She has a whole team of specialist
obstetricians at her beck and call, but she wants me to take a
look at her off-spring's spinal cord. Can't for the life of me see what she is
worrying about.
DR. SWIFTSON
Well, it looks okay to me, but there is of course a limit what we geniuses
can see, no matter how much we pretend. Let's see. I say, about
twenty-two inches. How old was it? Now, hang on, let me guess.
I'd say between four and twelve weeks, but this of course would
be a fat one, so I'd say only about six weeks, right?
RUFUS
Right first time. You should have been in forensics. I mean, do
you think..? Could you..? I mean, suppose you have to identify a
baby's body. Could you tell the exact age?
DR. SWIFTSON
Not exactly. They're all different sizes when they come out. Even you should know. There's the
fontanelles, of course. If
the anterior is still open, it would be under twelve weeks, and then of
course there's the teeth. Some are born with them. Little Draculas.
RUFUS
There is something I've always wondered about. You know when you are
thinking about the war and the mass graves. Well, I've always wondered
how they identified the babies' bones and the mothers'. That is,
who the mothers were. That is, if you have a mother and a baby,
can you tell if they're related, necessarily?
DR. SWIFTSON
Usually there'll be some other identification. Normally you would assume.
I don't think I know the scientific answer to that one. Do you often
find yourself thinking about the war?
RUFUS
No, of course not. Well, got to get back, you know.
DR. SWIFTSON
'Time is money'- don't I just. That will be twenty quid for the consultation. Have you lost your sense of humour, Rufus?
**********
RUFUS
Goodbye Mary and good riddance. What the hell were you doing in
the middle of the road?
ZOSIE
You wouldn't be able to see me if I stood anywhere else. And I
wanted you to stop.
RUFUS
Where do you want to go?
ZOSIE
Nunes. I want to go to Nunes.
RUFUS
That's a remarkable coincidence.
ZOSIE
You got a cigarette?
RUFUS
Yes, it's my last and I'm broke. There. That's Nunes.
Straight ahead. What's the matter?
ZOSIE
I don't want to go there.
RUFUS
Where do you want to go?
ZOSIE
Please let me stay with you.
RUFUS
Look, it's not my place, right? It's my friend's, Adam's. Have
you got any money?
ZOSIE
You are paying for it?
RUFUS
No. Of course not. Look, I just meant, have you got any family anywhere?
ZOSIE
No. It's all I've got.
RUFUS
This is-- Ah, she hasn't got a name.
ZOSIE
Zosie. My name's Zosie.
RUFUS
Zosie? What kind of name is that?
ZOSIE
My mother thought of it. Sort of a character from a novel. A
Russian one. Zosima.
ADAM
I think Dostoevsky's Zossimov was actually a man.
ZOSIE
In this book she was the heroine.
ADAM
It's a lovely name.
***********
RUFUS
Don't worry. There is plenty more from where that came from. Look, it's
worth a try. We are short of cash, now that there seems to be three of
us.
ADAM
It seems a bit, you know, selling off Uncle's things, is a bit sacrilegious.
RUFUS
Sacrilegious?
ADAM
Right. [...] Sorry.
RUFUS
What's the matter? Looks like you've been successful.
ADAM
Yeah, I know. He gave me thirty quid. I thought I had another ten on me.
Oh, I can't have lost it.
RUFUS
Here comes your ten quid now.
ADAM
I would have given you the money if you asked.
ZOSIE
I take my own clothes. There. That's my contribution.
RUFUS
Oh, I see. You whipped something from there, then took it to the
other antique shop up the road then sold it.
ZOSIE
Come on. Let's go buy something for the house.
RUFUS
She's weird, this one. Definitely weird.
**********
RUFUS
There she goes. The nymph of Nunes! What rustic beauty!
ADAM
It's the rates.
RUFUS
Time to join the grown-ups.
ADAM
I've been thinking. Maybe we should turn Ecalpemos into a
commune.
RUFUS
A commune?
ADAM
It's a bit indulgent having this house all to ourselves. Do you
think these people Mary said were coming will actually appear?
RUFUS
I don't know. Mary used to tell lies. Oh, they'll come all right.
ADAM
Or maybe they might be able to help us with the rates.
RUFUS
You keep this up and we'll make a rat out of you yet.
ZOSIE
Why do we have to hake other people here?
RUFUS
Because, my darling, despite your undoubted prowess of
shop-lifting, we cannot all live off your meagre earnings.
ZOSIE
I don't like them.
ADAM
You haven't met them yet. Listen, if this Vivien and Shiva, or
whatever his name is; if you don't like them, I'll send them
away, okay?
RUFUS
Well, you see, Adam will take care of us all.
**********
ZOSIE
Oh, no! Oh, the little babies! Oh, God! Oh, the dead babies!
RUFUS
What's wrong Zosie? Come on now. It's all right. It's all right. It's all right.
There's nothing to harm you.
ADAM
I don't remember this place. A children's cemetery. How weird. Do
you think it's some sort of strange sect?
RUFUS
I don't know. Odd names for children, don't you think? Blaze.
Pinto. I think there would be a Rover here somewhere.
ZOSIE
It's not funny! Don't laugh!
RUFUS
This is an animal grave-yard, you idiot!
**********
ADAM
We will never see each other again, will we?
RUFUS
No. It will be a mistake.
ADAM
For ever and for ever. Farewell.
***********
ADAM
Rufus, this is Adam. Adam Verne-Smith.
RUFUS
Rather thought you might call. We agreed never to speak again.
ADAM
The police's been here.
RUFUS
Oh, Jesus.
ADAM
I haven't told them anything, but I have to make a statement. That means I have to lie in writing.
RUFUS
Oh, where do you work? We might meet for a drink.
ADAM
Okay. Fine.
RUFUS
Adam, have you been in touch with the others?
ADAM
No. Of course not. You're the first.
RUFUS
Right. Can I hear a baby?
ADAM
It's my daughter.
RUFUS
You'd better go and see her then. Adam.
ADAM
Yes?
RUFUS
Panic and we'll all go down.
**********
MARIGOLD
So this is what you get up to when you can't sleep. Bad dream?
RUFUS
No, I never dream. Now, I got to get going. I've got a full day.
MARIGOLD
Are we seeing each other this evening?
RUFUS
Yeah. I've got to meet a friend after work, but later is fine.
Yeah. Let's have dinner.
MARIGOLD
Are you worried about anything?
RUFUS
Me? No. I never worry.
MARIGOLD
You know, I heard on the West Coast of America, you can hire people
to worry for you. You just call them up and say 'I was thinking
of worrying about my job or my dog or whatever' and they'd do it
for you.
RUFUS
Confess all and you will get a total absolution. Some things are just fate, that's all.
What about things you just don't see
coming.
**********
ADAM
Look at this.
RUFUS
Oh, God. What is it?
ZOSIE
It's a coypu.
RUFUS
So it is. The things she knows.
ADAM
It's repulsive.
RUFUS
Now look out for the traps. It could be an awfully lot of them down there. If your father could
see us now. Oh, sorry, I mustn't mention parents in front of
someone whose mother abandoned her.
ZOSIE
She hasn't abandoned me. She'll be looking for me now, if I let her.
RUFUS
Oh, yeah, the wicked stepfather. There's some variation at least.
ADAM
Don't tease her, Rufus.
ZOSIE
You won't joke about stepfathers if you have one.
ADAM
I found one!
RUFUS
Where?
ZOSIE
You don't know anything, you two! You don't know anything about
anything!
**********
ZOSIE
Are you trying to corrupt me?
RUFUS
I think our visitors have finally arrived.
VIVIEN
Ecalpemos. I knew it will be a beautiful house.
ADAM
We haven't exactly, as you see, maintained the highest standard
of cleanliness.
RUFUS
He means it is fantastically filthy. We'd like to think it has a
kind of majestic squalor.
VIVIEN
A clean spirit starts in the kitchen.
**********
SHIVA
This is a wonderful house. You are very lucky.
ADAM
My uncle died if you call that lucky.
SHIVA
Oh, no, sorry. I didn't mean it.
RUFUS
Bad luck, Adam. Those two haven't got 50p between them. Not much
help for the rates there.
**********
RUFUS
Why don't you go upstairs, Adam? It's much more comfortable up
there.
ADAM
I'm sorry.
RUFUS
Oh, dear. Spoiled your view, did I?
**********
ADAM
Sorry. I'm really sorry. I should have asked you.
RUFUS
Don't apologize. You've got to learn to take what you want. I do.
ADAM
Do I go with Zosie?
RUFUS
Yeah. Of course. Have her. I was just about done with her anyway. But be careful,
Adam. Falling in love can be a dangerous thing.
**********
ADAM
You're late. And stop staring. This is supposed to be a casual
meeting.
RUFUS
Not a conspiracy between plotting murderers trying to keep their
past secret? Don't be silly, Adam. You think that there is a policeman behind those
newspapers? Oh, dear. You look very old.
ADAM
What did you think I looked like? We're all older.
RUFUS
Not quite all of us. So, we're here to decide what you are going to tell the police in your statement.
ADAM
And you're here to find out if I mentioned your name.
RUFUS
And did you?
ADAM
No. Of course not.
RUFUS
Nor any of the other survivors? Well then, all we have to do is
to get our story straight.
ADAM
I have to get our story straight.
RUFUS
That's appropriate, wouldn't you say? What have you told the
police?
ADAM
I said I was at Wyvis Hall for about a week. I haven't said if
there's anyone with me yet.
RUFUS
Anyone else trying to contact you?
ADAM
No. Why?
RUFUS
I'm just checking. It is simple, isn't it? Of the five
people living there, there's you, there's me, there's Vivien, and
Zosie, and, um, you know, what's-his-name, do we have to mention it?
ADAM
Shiva, I think. His name is Shiva Manresa.
RUFUS
Manresa? That's a road in Chelsea.
ADAM
I thought I saw him about a year ago at the airport.
RUFUS
Why the hell haven't we got any drinks?
ADAM
You don't think they have said anything, do you? I mean, to the
police?
RUFUS
I doubt it. Zosie wouldn't be saying anything and Shiva was so
frightened of everything. Anyway it probably won't matter where
he came from, Pakistan or India. Just like Vivien.
**********
RUFUS
You are you and I am I and if by chance we find each other, it's
beautiful, and if not it can't be helped. What's this?
VIVIEN
It's called Gestalt prayer. We should read it every morning before
meditation.
RUFUS
Meditation? Just one problem with that. We sleep in the morning.
Honestly Vivien, what is a sensible girl with terrific legs believe in
this mambo-jambo? What is it supposed to do with this map?
VIVIEN
Oh, I study Hindi.
RUFUS
If you get rid of these hippy clothes, you'll look all right.
VIVIEN
I'll work and save, and then I'll go to India.
RUFUS
Amen to that.
**********
ADAM
We should try to get through all the people that might have seen
us down there.
RUFUS
Ah, yes. The prosecution witnesses.
ADAM
I've made a list.
RUFUS
So-- Mary Gage. She's left the country, married to a Brazilian.
Antiques man from Hadbury; ah-- He's probably dead. The coypu man.
ADAM
If we are characters in one of my wife's detective novels, we would be plotting
to bump off all these witnesses.
RUFUS
Yup. The gardener. He's probably dead, too. The post girl. No, she
won't be. Are you still terrified to get a rates bill or whatever it is now? God. Weren't we stupid?
ADAM
We were young and stupid.
RUFUS
Not young enough, unfortunately, to be unaccountable.
ADAM
Who's that?
RUFUS
That's my girlfriend. I told her to meet me here. That's all right.
Calm down. She'll wait. And I said you were a friend. So try to
look as if you might be.
ADAM
She looks nice. You always were good with women.
RUFUS
Well, you have a family. A daughter. It's funny.
ADAM
What's funny?
RUFUS
I just never imagined you with a family, but then I never
imagined you anywhere at all. Your wife, is she beautiful?
ADAM
Yes. She is pretty. She is, uh, attractive. It's not the same as when
you were young, was it?
RUFUS
I should hope not. Well, good luck with the police. You know, you
don't look very well. You should see a doctor.
ADAM
It's been a long twelve years, for me anyway.
RUFUS
Don't carry that guilty look around the whole time. In South
America, you would have been incarcerated for that already.
ADAM
I am guilty. We should search more about Zosie.
RUFUS
Listen, Zosie was certifiable before we ever met her.
**********
RUFUS
That was very clever of you. You should study electronics.
SHIVA
No. I'm here to go to medical school. I was wondering if
you..
RUFUS
I know. You don't really understand, do you? The point is to
pretend we are not really here. We are on some Greek island somewhere.
Anywhere but England.
**********
RUFUS
That was delicious, Vivien. What was it? Coypu. Did you bag this today, Adam? Oh no, of course you wouldn't touch meat,
would you? Poor Vivien. She thought she was joining a community
of vegetable believers.
VIVIEN
I know how you hope that Shiva and I might help with the house
finances. This is my way of making up for us not having any money.
RUFUS
While we're giving thanks to Adam for sharing his house with us--
ADAM
Don't be silly.
RUFUS
His lovely big house which, despite himself, he grows fonder of day
by day. So now what? At school, we used to play a game, didn't we
Adam? Where would we all be in ten years' time. I dream of playing it
now, of course.
VIVIEN
How can we all know how we will be in ten years' time?
RUFUS
Well, I would, of course, be a very rich and successful gynaecologist. And Shiva
has some very grand plans. What about
Vivien?
VIVIEN
I'll be in India, leading the life chosen for me. What about you, Zosie? What do you want to be?
ZOSIE
I don't want to be anything. I'm just a person.
SHIVA
What about Adam?
ADAM
I don't know. I haven't decided. I don't know what day came. Nobody knows what we really know, what we
will be doing the day after tomorrow,
do we?
VIVIEN
I'll be going to London. I've got a job interview. We won't be
able to live here on Adam's charity for long, Shiva. I'm hoping
Rufus might drive me.
RUFUS
Hmm?
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MARIGOLD
Careful! Why are we going this way? I'm sure if we have turned left
up here, it would be much quicker. It will, you know. Left here!
RUFUS
Oh! I never go up this road. But you know, how some people can't bear driving past their old schools.
I-- So maybe I came to a dentist up here.
MARIGOLD
Okay. No major traumas?
RUFUS
Well, maybe that's one for the West Coast worriers.
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