"(PEOPLE ARGUING)" "GREG:" "Who the hell do you think you're talking to?" "Stop it!" "Please, stop it!" "I do just about everything that makes this place tick, and don't any of you forget that." "Please, please." "Come to order, please." "(JENNY LAUGHING)" "And what's so funny?" "Don't tempt me." "Since when have you been appointed chairman of the board?" "Since you started to make a fool of yourself." "Now, look..." "Oh, stop it, do." "Yeah." "Put a sock in it." "Like hell!" "I'm accused of making some sort of duff deal..." "You haven't been accused of anything just because you're feeling rather..." "Insinuations, then, but you just expect me to sit here listening to your..." "Oh, don't be so touchy!" "GREG:" "Well, that's bloody marvellous coming from you." "You've done nothing but sulk for the past six weeks." "Now, stop this." "Stop it." "Come on, pull yourselves together." "You're behaving like a lot of children." "Look, I accepted what they gave me in good faith." "Well, of course you did." "While they grabbed our petrol, you might at least have looked at what they gave you." "Now, listen, Greg." "I don't believe Greg's to blame." "Look, I'll go back." "I'll take everything back to Little Barton and see if they'll just swap it for once." "Shut up!" "Right." "Now, we traded 200 gallons of petrol for things that we needed, including some seed, which turned out to be sour." "That doesn't make Greg a fool." "Neither does it make the people at Little Barton cheats." "The fact remains, we got their no-good seed and they got our petrol." "Well, then we go back to them." "Well, I just wish I shared your faith in human nature." "I wish you did to." "Why should we assume they want to do us down?" "Why shouldn't we talk to them?" "It's been tried, Arthur." "And that's a good reason for not trying again?" "We have mutual needs." "Look, we all have mutual needs to protect ourselves." "It's the same for the people at Little Barton." "It's the same for every other settlement." "It's the same for us." "We're all out for whatever is best for ourselves." "Now, you don't barter unless you've got more of something than you need." "A surplus." "And we just haven't got one." "Not yet." "(SIGHS) Not for a long, long time, Arthur." "I'm going to bed." "Hang about." "What about our spuds?" "They've got spuds at Barton." "Everyone's got spuds." "Our wheat crop, then." "What wheat crop?" "We haven't got it in yet." "And what about the weather?" "We just need another summer like last year and we've got nothing at all." "We can't go bartering on just..." "(DOOR CLOSING)" "(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)" "(SIGHING)" "(LOCK CLICKING)" "(DOOR CLOSING)" "Abby, listen." "Did you decide on what you want to do about those sheep?" "I rather think they could do with some new grass." "Oh, then shift them." "Yes." "But it's not as quite as straightforward as that." "If we use the bottom meadow, it's a bit far from the house, there are still those dogs about." "Oh, for heaven's sake, Arthur." "Just do what you want." "The pigswill wasn't taken out last night." "It stinks." "Think somebody could have thought of it." "Well, I can't do everything." "I mean, just put it out last thing at night." "(BLOWING)" "(COUGHS)" "(EXCLAIMS SOFTLY)" "(GROANING)" "(CLICKS TONGUE)" "(SIGHS)" "(GREG SIGHING)" "One doesn't say "hello" in this house?" "(EMMA SNIFFLING)" "Really." "The children could light the stove." "I have enough to do as it is." "Plus the baby and her poor sick mother upstairs." "And trying to feed all of you, as well." "The children should light it." "I shouldn't have to do it." "(EMMA SIGHS)" "Look, in the village, where we went for holidays when I was small girl, it was always the job of the children..." "Children are too young to be playing with fires." "What's on the agenda for this morning?" "I don't know." "Whatever you want." "I thought I might do the greenhouse, if that's all right." "If that's what you want, then do it." "Well, couldn't you both do that outside?" "Sure." "I told him." "I said," ""Do you have to clean rabbits in the kitchen?" "Outside is the place for it."" "Could we do something about keeping the pigswill another place?" "Wasn't put out last night." "(DOOR THUDS)" "Abby." "Something wrong with one of the cows." "It's hobbling rather badly." "Then ask Arthur to have a look at it." "I couldn't find him." "Oh, I'll see to it." "Ah, there you are." "You got a new job from now on." "I was just saying to Greg." "that children..." "Abby, Vic said to come quick." "Oh, all right." "(ABBY SIGHS)" "Oh, no!" "All of them?" "VIC:" "Yes." "Fox?" "Oh, I suppose so." "Say a fox will do that." "Kill everything and then just take off what it needs." "(VIC SIGHS)" "And how'd it get in?" "Main gate was open." "John, weren't you supposed to be in charge of the chickens this week?" "But I didn't leave it open." "It wasn't me." "(ABBY SIGHS)" "JOHN:" "I didn't leave it open." "Honest." "It wasn't my fault." "Come on." "Anything I can do?" "Is it one thing in particular, or you're just generally feeling fed up?" "Oh, I don't know, Jen." "It's all sorts of things." "Why can't they do things on their own?" "Why do they have to keep running to me all the time?" "I don't think any of us mean to burden you." "But right from the start, it was you who organised things." "If it hadn't been for you, we wouldn't have stayed together." "So, it's natural that we come to you for help." "Yes, but who do I go to?" "Who listens to my worries?" "Or aren't I allowed to have any?" "I'm listening." "(ABBY CHUCKLES SOFTLY)" "Yes, I know." "I suppose, I just want a good chance to moan, really." "Well, go ahead, then." "Have a good shout at me, if it will make you feel any better." "(CHUCKLES) It wouldn't." "JENNY:" "It's Peter, isn't it?" "Partly." "Why don't you have another go at looking for him?" "We've got the petrol." "And rob you all for what Greg calls "a compulsion"?" "Oh, we can do without it." "It's thanks to you that we've got something here that's working." "Why don't you?" "No." "Give me one good reason why not?" "You think we can't do without you?" "That's rubbish, Jenny." "No, it isn't." "Or you wouldn't get into such a tizz." "Go on." "Be a devil." "Try us." "(LAUGHS) Thanks, Jen, but..." "But, what?" "You don't run this place, you know." "You may be the queen of the castle, but it's Greg who actually runs it." "Yes, I know." "Well, there you are, then." "I'll think about it." "Hard." "It's all right for you, Jen, you..." "What?" "Well, you've got Greg." "Yes." "And you're pregnant, aren't you?" "How did you know?" "Well, it's not something you can hide." "However hard you try." "Thanks anyway for trying." "There was someone, wasn't there?" "What?" "Someone you could have taken your troubles to." "(BELL TOLLING)" "(SIGHS) What now?" "What is it?" "Look over there." "Why are you ringing the bell?" "What's going on?" "Look." "Strange people." "Right." "Wait here, everybody." "GREG:" "Do you have sickness amongst you?" "MAN:" "We have a girl who's ill." "We don't know what it is." "GREG:" "I'm sorry, but we can't take risks." "You ask your people not to come any closer to the house." "Understood." "See to it, Richard." "May I come forward?" "Yes." "All right." "Well, what's happening?" "I don't know." "They just suddenly appeared." "I better go and see." "Abby, let Greg deal with it." "Where you from?" "Garston." "Where's that?" "It's about 50 miles north of here." "And where you all going to?" "Oh, nowhere special." "We're looking for a place." "What were you doing in Garston?" "We had a farm." "We were managing quite nicely." "GREG:" "Then why did you bother to leave it?" "We had no option." "We were driven off." "By whom?" "Oh, a group near us." "Maybe 30 or 40 of them." "It was all right at first." "And then they banded themselves up into what they call themselves militia." "Said they were establishing local government." "They'd give us protection, they said." "God knows what against." "Anyway, in return, we were to supply them with a percentage of our stores and crops." "But I turned them down and said no." "We didn't have enough to spare." "None of us have." "And so they drove you off." "MAN:" "Simple as that." "Oh, they clothed it in legal sounding phrases, but we'd no means of defending ourselves against them." "So, we left." "(SIGHS) Hope to God they don't come this way." "Well, they're not far from here." "And once they start running short, they'll widen their range, and I can tell you, they're a rough lot." "Yes." "Well, we've dealt with people like that before." "Aye." "Well, we might have stood a better chance if we'd kept in with other people." "Well, is there anything that we can do to help you?" "We might be able to spare you a little food or something." "No, thanks." "No, we can manage." "We'll get by." "No, it's the girl." "She's very sick." "She was ill when we found her, and the journey's made her worse." "She needs rest and far more attention than we can give her." "Yes, but... (CHUCKLES) But if she's got something that's infectious or contagious, well, that's asking a lot." "I know." "But if she stays with us on the road, she might die." "Well, you stay here for a while." "Now you understand, this involves other people, so I can't give you an answer about it straight away." "Of course." "We can wait." "Right." "Right, everybody." "We're waiting." "We might as well eat." "Abby?" "(KNOCKING ON DOOR)" "Abby, you there?" "(DOOR OPENING)" "(FOOTSTEPS PATTERING)" "EMMA:" "Abby?" "Are you upstairs?" "MAN:" "Abby?" "No." "She wasn't there." "I don't know where she could be." "Uh, did you try outside?" "I've been all around." "(GREG SIGHS)" "She's not in her room." "Well, she can't just have vanished." "Where the hell is Abby?" "I don't know." "Oh, this can't wait." "Look, it's pretty straightforward." "Those people out there want to leave a sick girl with us." "Now the question is, if she's got something that's infectious or contagious, well, can we afford the risk of letting her stay here?" "Well?" "So, we're agreed?" "ARTHUR:" "Mmm-hmm." "Yes." "Yes." "That's it, then." "All right." "You don't need to say it." "GREG:" "But, please understand." "It's not that we don't sympathise with you." "But we have children here with us." "MAN:" "We're going on." "I'm sorry but it was a decision we all made." "PAUL:" "That's not the point though, is it?" "I agree with Greg." "We've talked about defence, but we've never done anything about it." "Yeah." "But what do you mean?" "Barbed wire?" "Lookouts?" "Armed guards?" "Well, I think it would be stupid if we didn't learn a lesson from those people today." "Well, like our chickens this morning." "Going along quite nicely." "Till someone forgets to close the gate." "Then..." "The fox gets the lot of them." "You going in for parables now, Paul?" "(CHUCKLING) Well, I thought he made rather a neat point." "Only how do we stop being chickens?" "Well, look, it's obvious that we can put up no more than a token defence against any sort of sizeable force against us." "And I think that goes for any other group that's setup in this area." "Yeah." "Well, as far as I can see, there's only one answer to that." "And that is that we all join forces, every little group, into some sort of alliance or federation." "And in that way, we'll know that if, if one of us in trouble, then at least some of the others will come to our help." "Hmm." "That makes sense to me." "Then why don't we go and meet the other groups?" "Why don't we ask them all to send a representative here?" "Then we can thrash the whole thing out." "(ALL AGREEING)" "Let's stop talking about it and do it." "Let's send out messages first thing tomorrow." "Right." "If we get an agreement, and there's no reason why we shouldn't, then any of your foxes thinking of looking us over," "(CHUCKLES) well, they'll think twice before they make a move." "What do you think, Abby?" "Yes." "Yes, I think you're right." "Splendid." "Well, let's draft a letter and get copies delivered." "We'll set the date of the meeting at, what, two days from now?" "Right." "There's no point delaying." "I'll get some paper." "Maps." "Abby, are you feeling any better?" "(PEOPLE CHATTERING)" "I'll get over it." "It's a step in the right direction, isn't it?" "Yes." "No one can live in isolation." "Though I'd like to think it would go beyond forming an army." "Well, it doesn't have to stop there." "It can lead to almost anything." "At least, it's good to know that if we're in trouble, someone's going to come and help us." "Yes." "Abby?" "You better come." "I think all of you better come." "Please." "GREG:" "I might have guessed he'd do this." "ABBY:" "She's burning." "EMMA:" "Poor child." "ABBY:" "That's all right." "It's all right." "GREG:" "It's not all right." "She can't stay!" "Oh, can't she?" "Two minutes ago, you were talking about helping one another." "So we can have people to call on when we were in trouble." "(SCOFFS) Get out of my way!" "Come on." "Let's get her inside." "I'll prepare the bed." "Okay." "(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)" "ABBY:" "Steady." "Abby." "Abby !" "ABBY:" "Not now!" "Yes, now!" "You talk to me like that again and I'll..." "You'll what?" "Are you out of your mind?" "Probably." "Well, what happens when she infects us?" "We'll have to find out, won't we?" "Does the same go for the children?" "Do we have to watch them suffering, or watch them die?" "You sanctimonious pig!" "You think you're the only one with feelings." "What would I do?" "Leave her out here to die?" "That's exactly what we do." "You got to think of everyone." "All of us." "Not just one person." "I'm not saying it's easy, but at least it's survival." "If you can even think of leaving her out here, you're not fit to survive." "Well, that's all talk, just..." "I mean it!" "Well, I mean it to." "Be realistic!" "Just put her in an outhouse, make her comfortable and leave her." "All right!" "I'll be realistic." "It's too bloody late!" "I've already been in contact with her." "So has Emma and so has Charmian." "And now, so have you!" "(MOANING SOFTLY)" "Morning." "Morning." "She's still sleeping?" "Yes." "Brought you some hot milk." "JENNY:" "Oh, thank you." "I'll take over for a bit." "You get some rest." "How's she been?" "Well, she's still very feverish." "Wish we had somebody who knew a bit about medicine." "It's not enough just to know it's not the plague." "I spent half the night going through the Home Doctor." "But it's hard to isolate the symptoms." "I mean, she could have any one of fifty things wrong with her." "Anyway, that's what scares me the most." "Being sick." "I can cope with almost anything else." "But to be ill without any kind of medical help," "that scares me." "Hmm." "You look all in." "Go on, you get to bed." "Take your milk with you." "Is Abby down yet?" "No, but the others are." "Oh." "I'll go and tell her everything's all right." "CHARMIAN:" "Okay." "Abby?" "GREG:" "I think the best thing would be to start with these two and then you can circle back here and take in all the other settlements on the way." "Hmm." "Good idea." "You'll never do it all in a day." "Not on a bike." "Not even if it is the longest day of the year." "Oh, well, if I can't, then," "I'll bed down for the night here and do the other two on the way back first thing in the morning." "It depends on how much sales chat you're in for." "Selling was my business." "I shan't have any trouble." "GREG:" "Well, you might with the lot at Waterhouse." "They were having their own little private war when we were last there." "Look, try and find a chap called Garland, Jimmy Garland." "Garland." "Mmm-hmm." "Don't worry." "I'll convince him." "I made up enough food to see you through." "And try to have something hot if you can, please." "There's some decent soup in this jar." "ARTHUR:" "Thanks, Emma." "Well, that will do me nicely." "Abby' s gone." "What do you mean?" "Just that." "She wants to be on her own for a bit." "(SIGHS)" "(BREATHES DEEPLY)" "Come on." "Why are you always so slow, you two?" "I'm not slow." "I've finished already." "John hasn't." "I haven't got such a big mouth." "No, no, no, no." "Don't be rude." "I wasn't being rude." "I haven't got such a big mouth." "And in any case, I sometimes use it for talking." "(LAUGHS) Sometimes?" "I like talking." "I like talking more than I like eating." "Then you know what will happen to you, don't you?" "You will never grow bigger than you are now." "But your tongue will grow." "It will grow and grow till it's as long as this." "I don't believe you, 'cause Abby says talking is good for you while you're eating." "It's good for grownups, but not for you." "Where is Abby?" "(SIGHING) She's gone for some peace and quiet." "Aunt Emma, we don't make a lot of noise." "(LAUGHING)" "Come on, finish your lunch." "(EMMA SIGHS)" "GARLAND:" "Abby?" "Abby?" "Abby?" "Abby?" "Abby Grant?" "Abby?" "Here!" "Here I am!" "GARLAND:" "Abby." "Hello." "You don't look very surprised to see me." "I was looking for you." "You were easier to find than I thought." "Hey!" "What's the matter?" "Nothing." "I'm just a bit tired, that's all." "Well, I'm not surprised." "One of my men saw you couple of miles back, fast asleep." "Yes, I've been walking since 6:00 this morning." "And I am taking you home." "Get up on Jasper." "(GARLAND LAUGHING)" "(DOOR OPENING)" "Any better?" "EMMA:" "She's a lot calmer." "I think the fever's passing." "You know, a bit later, we ought to try and get her to eat something." "That poor child is nothing but skin and bone." "She's a much better colour now, though." "Hmm." "(EMMA EXCLAIMS)" "Would you be so kind and sit with her for a bit?" "CHARMIAN:" "Hmm." "I have to get the meal started." "CHARMIAN:" "Of course." "I got everything ready." "Oh, I should keep out of Greg's way, if I were you." "Why?" "Well, he's like a bear with a sore head." "Where is he?" "He's cutting logs." "There was no wood for the stove." "So, there's a big row about it and he went off in a huff, muttering, "If you want something done," etcetera, etcetera." "Oh, it's such a pity all this should happen now." "Just when things were getting a bit easier." "(EMMA CLICKS TONGUE)" "Here we are." "Thanks." "GARLAND:" "Welcome." "Right." "I'll see to Jasper." "You go on in." "(ABBY SIGHS)" "I'll rub him down later." "Is this yours?" "Yes, belonged to my assistant." "(CHUCKLES) Remember this?" "(LAUGHS) Your cave." "Well, the circumstances may be different but the brandy's the same, guaranteed not to upset even the emptier stomach." "How long since you've had something to eat?" "Last night." "(CHUCKLES) You need looking after." "I'll fix us something." "What'd you fancy?" "There's rabbit." "I expect you're rather fed up with that." "Venison, but it's a bit high." "What I can offer you is my speciality, oxtail with haricot beans." "(CHUKLES) Oh, that sounds delicious." "What chance is there's some hot water?" "Pretty good." "A bit limited though if you're thinking of a bath." "No, just a bowlful." "Easy." "Easier than the cave?" "Much." "You know, you're not being really fair." "How do you mean?" "Well, I've told you about everything that's happened to me but you've told me nothing about yourself." "Want to know the reason?" "Of course." "I'm more interested in you." "(CHUCKLES)" "Well, what about the cave?" "What brought you here?" "My little war came to an end." "Oh, you sound disappointed." "Oh, no." "No, there's more for me to do now that Knox is gone." "Well, what happened?" "He died." "Oh." "No, I didn't kill him." "He was out on one of his hunting trips after me and he broke his neck, and it wasn't long after that before the rest of them came to me for help." "So you've got what you've always wanted?" "Yes, most of it." "Well, why are you here and not at the house?" "There are times when I need to be alone." "Yes." "I come here to think, read a bit," "(SIGHS) just to be alone." "I'll get you that water." "(GRUNTS)" "(EXCLAIMS IN PAIN)" "You all right?" "Sarah used this room." "There's a change of clothes over there if you feel like." "Don't worry." "They'll manage without you." "Don't go." "Please." "EMMA:" "Oh!" "Oh, it's no good." "Wound this size should have some stitches." "Would you know how to do it?" "No." "Well, does anybody?" "Paul?" "No, but I'll have a go." "No." "I can do without that." "If you don't know what they're doing, there's a risk of infection." "Look, if you can just stop the bleeding and if you can just keep it clean, it will be all right." "JENNY:" "Oh, it's no good." "I think the vein inside the wrist is cut." "We'll have to do a tourniquet." "EMMA:" "Yeah." "Emma, can you keep your thumb pressed here?" "EMMA:" "Yes." "Oh, dear." "What's happened?" "Gashed his wrist with a saw." "CHARMIAN:" "Oh." "CHARMIAN:" "Is it bad?" "Yes." "CHARMIAN:" "Well, you're not putting on a tourniquet?" "We must stop the bleeding." "Yes, but gangrene will set in." "Yes, only if it's kept on." "If we can just slow the bleeding down, it might clot." "It may do but it ought to have stitches." "Yeah, well, do you know what to use or how to clean it?" "No." "GREG:" "Well, shut up!" "JENNY:" "Greg!" "I'm sorry, Charmian." "No, it's my fault, I'm sorry." "How's the other patient?" "Well, she awake." "She seems much better." "She's been sitting up and talking." "In fact, that's the reason that I came down here, to see if there was something for her to eat." "Yes." "There's some soup in the kitchen but you'll have to heat it up." "All right." "Now, look, take some of these." "There." "Now, how does that feel?" "Tight." "Good." "Thanks." "I'll change this dressing later." "Well, that's that." "With you out of action," "Arthur off playing postman, and Abby gone," "I'll have to do some work." "Where's Vic?" "With the children." "Yeah, we'll have to work something out." "Children are gonna have to do more work." "(BOTH LAUGHING)" "What was he like?" "My husband?" "Yes." "You've got me at a slight disadvantage, haven't you?" "I'm sorry." "I loved him." "Yes." "I just wish I could forget him but I can't, or the life that we had together." "I miss it like mad." "I'm sure you do." "I think that's the trouble really," "I suddenly realised that whatever we do," "however hard we work, there's no going back." "What we've got now is what we're gonna have for the rest of our lifetimes." "Well, you won't hear me complaining?" "Now, the world's a marvellous place, it always was." "It was the people that turned it sour." "We could help to sweeten it." "(CHUCKLES) I thought I was." "Stay with me." "I want to." "Which means you won't?" "(SIGHS) I don't know." "What about your son?" "What about Peter?" "I'd given up." "Why?" "The others seem more important." "They..." "They took you over?" "No." "It's just that I don't know if Peter's alive and my people are." "But you don't know that he's dead." "And there are the children." "Stay with me and we'll look for Peter together." "If he's alive, we'll find him." "Do you mean that?" "I know how to face facts." "We must be what we are, do what we must do." "Otherwise, we don't contribute." "Contribute?" "To life." "To being alive." "(SOFTLY) Stay." "Well, what about what you've got here, your settlement?" "(CHUCKLES) They can do without me just as your people can do without you." "All that's indispensable is what we've got." "You and me." "(ABBY LAUGHS)" "Do you know what I'd like most of all in the whole wide world?" "Try me." "A dirty great helping of oxtail and beans." "(BOTH LAUGHING)" "(JOHN EXCLAIMS)" "Hey, look, it's Mr Russell." "He's back." "We saw him coming on his bicycle." "(JOHN LAUGHS)" "Oh, I'm so glad he's all right." "Done it." "It really worked?" "Yes." "What was the reaction?" "Good, very good." "They're all sending someone." "Garland wasn't there but they're getting a message to him." "Arthur, that's wonderful." "(CHATTERING OBSCURED BY DOOR CLOSING)" "You see, just to meet other people, not to be on our own anymore, that would be a big step." "ARTHUR:" "They are all as keen as we are." "They were all worried about what would happen if they were attacked." "You'll never believe this, John, there's one group that's got a tank, a ruddy great tank." "Does it work?" "Do all the guns fire?" "EMMA:" "Oh, John!" "ARTHUR:" "Yes, they fire, and they've got plenty of ammunition." "I tell you, I'd rather have them on our side if we ran into any trouble." "Not the other way around if they use it to make trouble." "Oh, they won't." "There's only eight of them." "My arriving on my own scared 'em half to death." "(EMMA GIGGLES)" "Emma, I'm starving." "Is there anything to eat?" "Of course, there is." "For you, always." "(ARTHUR CHUCKLES)" "(ABBY CHUCKLES)" "GARLAND:" "Noisy idiot." "He woke you?" "(CHUCKLES)" "(HUMMING)" "(BOTH LAUGHING)" "Morning." "(GARLAND MOANS)" "Letter from your place." "Yes." "You knew about it?" "I would have delivered it myself but I didn't want them to know I was here." "(CHUCKLES)" "Are you going?" "Yes." "Yes, I think it's a good idea." "A federation." "It would work." "Aren't you going to help me find Peter?" "Now, don't play games, Abby." "We can form defences and find Peter." "Are you going to come with me to the meeting?" "If you want me to." "I'd rather you stayed here." "It's for lunchtime today, isn't it?" "Mmm." "In that case, let's not waste any time." "(GARLAND CHUCKLES)" "Hello, Greg." "How's your wrist?" "(SIGHS) Uh, numb." "What about the girl?" "Her name's Ruth and she's much, much better." "Come and meet her." "Ruth, this is Greg Preston." "Hi, Ruth." "How're you feeling?" "RUTH:" "Much better." "Thank you for taking me in." "Well, don't thank me." "I was all for throwing you out." "JENNY:" "Greg!" "But you were quite right." "You've got children here, haven't you?" "I might have been infectious, contagious." "I still could be." "But you took me in and I'm very grateful." "Oh, it's the least we could do." "RUTH:" "Have you any soap?" "Yes." "Then keep me isolated for, say, about a week, and then wash your hands thoroughly every time you come in here." "(CHUCKLES) You sound just like a doctor." "(CHUCKLES) Oh, dear, sorry." "JENNY:" "Would you like something to eat?" "Oh, I'd prefer something to drink." "Okay." "I'll get you something." "Greg will sit with you for a while." "RUTH:" "Thank you." "GREG:" "Where you from?" "What's wrong with your arm?" "Oh, well, it's my wrist." "I gashed it with a saw." "When?" "Yesterday." "Is that a tourniquet?" "Uh-huh." "Is the cut that bad?" "GREG:" "No, I'll show you." "RUTH:" "No, don't uncover it." "Call Jenny back." "(CHUCKLES) Yeah, but I'll look silly..." "Please call Jenny back." "Jenny?" "JENNY:" "Yes." "Would you come back a second?" "JENNY:" "I'm coming." "Can you feel your fingers?" "What?" "(CHUCKLES) Sorry." "I mean, have you any feeling in them at all?" "Yeah, like hell, but when I loosen this..." "Oh, good, you do loosen it." "And when you do, do you get any bleeding?" "GREG:" "Yes, but, I don't..." "Yes?" "That arm's got to be attended to." "You are a doctor?" "No." "Well, I'm not qualified, I finished my third year." "JENNY:" "Ah!" "RUTH:" "I can't do anything, it's too risky." "You'll have to do it for me." "Oh!" "But I'll tell you what to do, all right?" "Yes, I suppose so." "Now, have you a needle and thread?" "Yes." "(SIGHS) I felt sure they'd come, one of them at least." "Give 'em time." "Well, if they were coming they'd be here by now." "Oh, well." "I suppose I'd better get on with something." "I was in Reading when it all happened, at the training hospital." "I left with a doctor and a nurse and we went up the river in a cruiser." "On the second day, the doctor got ill." "We couldn't save him." "After that, we just went up and down the river looking for people." "And is that what you were doing when they found you?" "No, I was on my way to Cirencester looking for some sulphonamide drugs." "I don't really remember much about it." "(CHUCKLES) One moment, I was on a bike and then I was here." "There." "That's all right, isn't it?" "RUTH:" "Yes, that's fine." "What happened to the nurse?" "Peggy?" "Oh, she's still there." "Where?" "Oh, I'm sorry, I'm still a bit muzzy." "Um, Kempsford." "You see, we found some people living on a barge." "We stayed with them three months until some of them got food poisoning." "That's when I went for the drugs." "How long have I been ill?" "Well, I'd say, it's been about a week since you were found." "Oh!" "Well, we'll be too late, now." "How many were on the barge?" "Seven of us." "Two women, three men and two young boys." "What were their names?" "Ted Glover, George Bronson, I think it was, he was a school master, deaf, Peggy Marshall..." "Just a minute." "What were the boys names?" "Oh, Christian names." "Stuart..." "Stuart Kirby," "Peter..." "Peter..." "Peter Clark..." "Grant?" "Sorry." "Clark, I think it was." "GREG:" "You sure?" "You sure it's not Grant?" "Peter Grant?" "Yes, that's it." "Do you know him?" "No." "But we know somebody who does, his mother." "RUTH:" "Really?" "GREG:" "Oh, God!" "JENNY:" "What is it?" "Was he well when you left?" "Peter?" "Yes, he was very well." "(SIGHS) Why did she have to run away now?" "Arthur!" "The first people are on their way!" "Oh, marvellous." "I'll go tell the rest." "Yeah." "I want you to say goodbye now." "You're staying?" "Yes." "There never was really much doubt, was there?" "I'm sorry." "Well, I haven't the slightest intention of saying goodbye." "You know where to come to now." "She can bring you." "(LAUGHING)" "JOHN:" "Abby!" "Abby!" "Abby!" "LIZZIE:" "Abby!" "Abby!" "Abby !" "JOHN:" "Abby!" "ABBY:" "You go on in." "I'll take the horses." "LIZZIE:" "Abby!" "ABBY:" "Hello, hello." "LIZZIE:" "Hello." "ABBY:" "Hello." "PAUL:" "Hello." "ABBY:" "Hi, Paul." "PAUL:" "Can I take these?" "ABBY:" "Yes, please." "ABBY:" "You've got them?" "(URGING HORSES) Come on." "(LAUGHING) Oh, Jenny, how lovely to see you." "Greg, what have you done to your..." "Nothing, nothing at all." "You sure?" "GREG:" "Mmm." "Promise." "We've got some news for you." "What?" "What would you like to hear most?" "Come inside." "ABBY:" "What?" "Come on."