"'Interior.'" "'A room.'" "'The furnishings are a mixture of modern and antique.'" "'Tall shuttered windows at one end of the room...' '..." "let in the afternoon light.'" "'Two women are in the room.'" "'Their names are Angela...'" "'...and Gill.'" "'Julia.'" "'Janice?" "'" "'Vivien.'" "'Take your coat off.'" "'Take your coat off.'" "Take your coat off." "That is, if you have anything on underneath." "Fuck!" "'Two women are in the room.'" "'They hold each other's glance.'" "'Then, with a quiet smile, Angela...'" "Take your coat off." "If you've got anything on underneath, that is." "'There is a submerged tension in the atmosphere,' '...all the more exciting for not being expressed.'" "You've got lovely hair." "It's dyed." "1968." ""God."" ""I have to pinch myself."" "We were electric, Viv." "Electric!" "Remember that?" "Do you remember it?" "1968." "God!" "I have to pinch myself sometimes to convince myself that it really happened." "Paris riots." "Vietnam." "Students." "We were alive then." "How is it possible to be so alive?" "Remember the last day of the sit-in?" "Do you?" "That was solidarity." "Where did that go?" "Bullshit!" "All they had to do was turn the central heating up and the solidarity soon collapsed." "We're just two middle-class women getting too close to middle age." "We're vain and frightened." "We hate ourselves and each other." "We hate our husbands and friends." "All because they remind us that we are growing old." "That's why I don't relish past deeds or actions." ""You've got lovely hair."" ""It's dyed."" ""That's all right."" "That's all right." "As long as it's yours." "Whose else would it be?" "That's rather the question I'm interested in." "'Long pause.'" "Meaning?" "Exactly?" "Why don't you take your coat off?" "Vivien removes her coat to reveal..." "Or is it all you're wearing?" "That's better." "I want you to think of this as your home, you know." "I want you to think of this as your home." "I want you to think of this as your home." "Over Angela's face flicker many things." "'Her love for Jonathan.'" "'And grief at losing him to Vivien.'" "'But also, and foremost, her sense of sisterhood...' '...with the now outcast Vivien.'" "'At the same time...' '...it can't be denied that she feels a certain triumph too.'" "If you stay here..." "If you stay here." "That's it, the answer." "He won't know where you are, ...won't know where to start looking." "Certainly won't look here." "But this is your home." "I want you to think of it as your home." "As your home." " If he comes here..." " He won't." "We'll both be here." "There's always going to be someone here to help." "All women need support." "You have to believe there's something we can do." "Because there is." "Believe me." "Take your coat off." "Shit!" "My God, no!" "Jonathan!" "No!" "No, you're alive." "My God, Jonathan." "Angie, please help me." "My head hurts." "Vivien!" "Jonathan's just shot himself." " Where?" " In the head." "No, darling." "Where is he?" "He's still alive." "Vivien, help me." "Vivien!" "The poor bastard!" "I had to put him out of his misery."