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One wiII do for you two.

Ah, here we are. Some more ofrhose rhere.

- HeIIo, Max. SriII ar ir? - Yeah, sriII ar ir.

This paper, whar does ir mean?

It's a campaign for nucIear disarmament. It's a "ban the bomb" march.

-I see, that's nice. -Nice?

-Yeah, you must be foreign, eh? -Yes, I am from Austria.

Oh. Now, Iet me see.

In Deutsch that's...

Der Marsch gegen der atomisch Bomber.

Ach, natürlich. You speak German weII.

I wish I did. I'm studying it at night schooI.

I take Iessons aIso.

Look, we got peopIe from aII countries going on this march.

Why don't you come with us?

It's a protest to stop them making the bomb.

-It is difficuIt for me. -Look, you don't have to decide now.

I wouId have to ask. I'm with a famiIy, an au pair.

WeII, Iook, think about it. I've got to be going.

Must... You must Ieave?

WeII, I've got to get rid ofthis Iot and I'm Iate aIready.

You know, I've got an idea. We couId heIp each other.

With the Ianguages, I mean. You know, we couId teach one another.

Yes, but my EngIish is so bad.

Oh, that don't matter.

-Are you doing anything tonight? -I was going to a cIub in Bayswater.

It's very nice. You can dance and aII the foreign students go there.

-Yeah, I'II bet it's for members onIy. -Not ifyou're invited.

-I'II be there at 9:00. -Oh, I don't know about dancing.

I ain't much good at this twisting Iark.

Oh, you have to be a contortionist.

Oh, Iook, come on.

Look.

Max, Iisten to the music.

Listen to it? It's deafening me.

Look, pretend you're drying your back with a toweI.

-That's it, swing the hips. -Yes.

That's it.

Oh, that's aII right, innit?

-Ta. -Thank you.

-I toId you I don't dance. -Max, now you're angry.

You're so serious, but I Iike it.

WeII, I'm not a pIayboy ifthat's what you mean.

WeII, what with working at the Iibrary aII day

and evening cIass at night, it don't Ieave much time for dancing.

TeII me about yourjob.

Oh, I toId you I work at the pubIic Iibrary, don't I?

-You work so hard. -I Iike books.

I do a Iot of reading on the side.

TechnicaI writer, that's what I want to be.

Yeah, we got a foreign Ianguages section, too.

Goethe, SchiIIer, Thomas Mann.

We had them at schooI in Austria. My father reads SchiIIer.

You're Iucky. My oId man don't read anything but the newspapers.

And then that's just to see what's on teIevision.

You Iive at home?

What? It's Iike bIoody Coronation Street down there.

No, I got out as soon as I got me firstjob.

You quarreIIed with your parents?

Oh, no, we didn't quarreI. No, I just had to get out ofthat pIace.

You see, we didn't taIk the same Ianguage.

Here, teII me. What do the Austrians think of HitIer?

-Oh... -May I?

-PIease. -PIease yourseIf.

Thank you.

-You're German, aren't you? -No, from Austria.

Oh, it's near enough. They aII IittIe darIings Iike you?

Oh.

-Who is the boyfriend? -Oh, that's Max.

Oh, is he "the" boyfriend?

WeII, he's very nice.

Oh, I don't think he's exactIy mad about me, somehow.

-What's your name? -Eva.

-A very pretty name. -Thank you.

Mine's EIIiot.

-Max taking you to supper? -No, he didn't say so.

WeII, he's missed his chance then, hasn't he?

-You know the Maroc? -What's that?

WeII, it's a nightcIub.

-I've never been to a reaI nightcIub. -Oh.

Where I come from there are no nightcIubs.

What are we waiting for?

I wouId Iike to. No I can't, not tonight, I invited Max.

Tomorrow then?

Um...

-I'II have to ask. -What? Max?

-No, the famiIy I am with. -Oh.

Ring me up, FIaxman, 83-22.

FIaxman, 83-22.

Right, I'II phone you.

TeII me, what do the Austrians think about HitIer?

-Thank you. -That's aII right.

Thank you.

-Enjoy it? -Yes.

You have to go to bed now.

Eva, there's a teIephone caII for you.

Oh!

It's aII right. I'II Iook after him.

Thank you, Mrs MiIIar.

Come on. It's time you're in bed, isn't it?

Yes, pIease. EIIiot.

Tonight? I don't know. One moment, pIease.

-Mr MiIIar. -Yes, Eva?

It's EIIiot. He has tickets for the theatre.

Do you think Mrs MiIIar wouId mind if I went out tonight?

WeII, that's the third time you've been out with him this week.

-I suppose it's aII right. -Thank you.

EIIiot, it's aII right. Yes, I'II be ready.

See you soon. Bye.

-Eva and her boyfriends. -Oh, it's naturaI, I suppose.

WouIdn't mind dating her myseIf.

I wonder what you'd find to taIk about. I wonder what any ofthem do.

This EIIiot she's been going out with sounds quite inteIIigent.

And Max works in a Iibrary.

Didn't she have a date with Max tonight?

Yes, she did.

Going to be a bit of a mix-up ifthey arrive at the same time.

That's just Iike Eva. AbsoIuteIy nothing up here.

-WouId you Iike a drink, darIing? -No, notjust now.

StiII, one can't heIp Iiking her. And NichoIas adores her.

Yes, but she's a bit of a responsibiIity.

I'm damn sure she couIdn't go out Iike that at home.

At home? She has to be in by 10 o'cIock. She said so.

Anyway, I've toId her. AII these young men

she's going out with are onIy after one thing.

Enjoying yourseIf?

-Like anything eIse? -I'm compIeteIy fed up.

Oh, I hope not.

Waiter.

-Liqueur, sir? -Yes.

What wouId you Iike, darIing? Cognac, Tia Maria, something Iike that?

EIIiot, you know I don't drink.

You aIready had some wine.

A IittIe, and onIy because you ordered LiebfraumiIch.

Oh, come on, have something. This is a ceIebration.

PIease, no.

-I'II have a Iarge brandy and coffee. -For two, sir?

-Yes, for two. -Thank you.

It's cabarettime atthe LAtin Quarter.

To open our showtonight we have pleasure in presenting

the fabulous Margo.

EIIiot, why is it a ceIebration?

Oh. For us.

For you and me.

You know, Eva, in my business, advertising,

there's so much insincerity.

Everybody's aIways trying to seII, seII, seII.

That's why it means so much to meet a girI Iike you.

-Why me? -Because you're so direct.

Because you aIways say exactIy what you mean.

You Iike that? I'm not cIever enough to say anything eIse.

You're very, very sweet.

Why you are not married, a handsome man Iike you?

There you go.

-TeII me, why? -Big question.

You are divorced?

No, I suppose I never met the right girI.

There was a girI once. We were engaged.

-Or as good as. -And?

She met a man she Iiked better.

WeII, after that, it rather finished me for that sort ofthing.

But that's terribIe.

You ought to have a house and chiIdren and someone to Iook after you.

Oh, feeI Iike taking me on?

WeII, I'm too much of an oId bacheIor for the patter oftiny feet,

nappies hanging on the Iine.

-You Iike chiIdren, don't you? -I Iove them.

When I marry I'm going to have six.

Are you, indeed? That's a warning.

I teII you what. Let's finish here and go back to my pIace for coffee.

EIIiot, I can't.

It's Iate and I promised Mrs MiIIar.

Oh, what's it to do with her?

They treat you as though you were stiII in pigtaiIs.

It isn't that. EIIiot, no.

What is it then, Eva?

Because you have been so kind to me,

taking me out, and it's wonderfuI being with you.

And I don't know what I shaII do.

Now you Iookjust Iike a IittIe boy.

I've never been with a man.

Oh, now Iook, just don't worry.

Waiter! BiII.

-Oh, Ieave those for the morning. -AII right.

-WiII you Iock up? -Yes.

I say, Eva's a bit Iate, isn't she?

I expect she'II Iook Iike death warmed up again tomorrow.

Eva!

- Can we do it again? - Yeah, ofcourse.

Eva!

Offyou go.

Hey. It's me afternoon off. I thought I'd find you here.

I've been ringing you for the past fortnight.

They said you'd ring me at the Iibrary.

Um, Mrs MiIIar must have forgotten.

Like you forgot our date, remember?

Eva!

Okay, but be carefuI.

Look, ifyou don't want to go out with me

you've onIy got to say so, I can take the hint.

But, Max, I do.

Oh, it's starting to rain again. I must get NichoIas home.

-Look, I onIy came to remind you. -Remind me?

WeII, it's next weekend.

You said you was coming on the march, from AIdermaston.

"Ban the bomb" that's right.

So, what, are you coming? It'II do you good

to get out in the country.

-NichoIas, come aIong! -Look, there's a crowd of us going.

The speciaI Ieaves Paddington, 7:30, Friday night.

I can meet you at the station ifyou Iike.

Max, I'II see. I promise.

Ring me tonight and cheer up. NichoIas.

Ban the bomb, join the march! Ban the bomb, join the march!

Ban the bomb, join the march! Ban the bomb, join the march!

I toId you, you shouIdn't have worn daft shoes Iike that.

You toId me we were taking a train.

OnIy to Didcot.

This is a demonstration, not a picnic.

Look, we're stopping for Iunch in three-quarters of an hour.

Three-quarters of an hour.

Come on. Come on.

The march is now 10,000 strong.

The march is now 10,000 strong.

AII right, I'II go aIong with you on that.

Greece at the time of PericIes was more civiIised than we are now.

PeopIe wiII confuse materiaI progress with civiIisation.

Yeah, but you see, the Greek civiIisation

was based on sIavery, and you can't caII that democracy.

PIato didn't beIieve in democracy.

Oh, you can't bIame him when you Iook around today.

-HeIIo, Ted. -HeIIo, Max.

Eh, this is Eva, she comes from Austria.

-HeIIo. -Hi.

These are friends of mine.

-Ted works at the Iibrary. -I'm so thirsty.

-Hi. -Hi.

Oh.

I beIieve they are starting up in Austria.

PIease?

He means the campaign against H weapons.

Oh, it's time, isn't it?

Nothing personaI, but it was HitIer that started it aII.

It was no more HitIer than you or me.

The bomb was a historicaI necessity.

Given the scientific know-how, the productive capacity...

But HitIer was the cataIyst.

Oh, I'm not bIaming him any more

than the Americans or the Russians or ourseIves, come to that.

-Do you taIk about these things at home? -PIease?

Like giving the Wehrmacht nucIear weapons?

What the Wehrmacht do I don't know. We don't Iike the Germans in Austria.

Max, do you have a shiIIing? I wouId Iike to have another coke.

Yeah, I'II go.

No, you stay here with your friends. We waIked so much.

How'd you Iike to go to war with that?

Ifshe's representative of the post-war generation, God heIp us.

She's onIy 18, onIy been here a coupIe of months.

Have you made the grade yet?

Going steady with her, aren't I?

When? Haven't missed you in night schooI.

What's aII this taIk ofgoing out steady, anyway? Where wiII that get you?

You get married, you settIe down. Then kids come aIong.

Some bIoody brass hat presses a button and boom!

That's the sort of mess we're trying to cIear up, innit?

Look, we aII know that sex is a physioIogicaI need,

but why be so sanctimonious about it?

UnIess someone had, you wouIdn't be here to taIk about it, wouId you?

Anyway, who said anything about marrying?

Oh, no. Max is a reguIar Don Juan.

You know what I found him doing the other day in the Iibrary?

Lay off it, Ted.

Mugging up a book on the technique ofsex.

Time we turned in, ain't it?

-Here? -WeII, where do you think?

I keep teIIing you, this ain't a Iuxury tour.

WeII, Iook, we can take a Iook around ifyou Iike.

What about this? It's aII right, innit?

Put your bed out and we're away.

-Make yourseIfcomfortabIe now. -But how about you?

I'II be aII right. I'II kip over there.

That is, unIess you'd Iike me to sIeep outside?

-Max. -Make yourseIfcomfortabIe, okay?

-Max. -Look, we've got to get some sIeep

we've got a Iong way to go tomorrow.

You're so uncomfortabIe. Max, come here.

-It isn't that I don't Iike you. -Then what is it?

I don't exactIy sIeep around myseIf.

-No, Max. -Why not?

Because it isn't possibIe. PIease, try to understand.

Oh, I get it. Never been with a man before, that's it, innit?

Max, pIease. There's a dictionary in my bag.

Dictionary?

Oh, I get it. I know about women.

That's aII right.

Good night, Eva.

The march is now assembling.

The march is now assembling,

and we'll be moving on at 9:30 precisely.

These are your positions and will you please followthem carefully.

-Atthe front... -HeIIo, Max, where did you disappear to?

-HeIIo feIIas. -Have a good night?

-Oh, you know. -Where's the gIamour girI this morning?

She's about.

Max, Max, I just heard. We're not even haIfway to London.

But I toId you, Iove,

tonight we stop at SIough, Sunday we move on to Acton...

-No, Max. -You mean you're packing it in?

I can't, not another three days.

What's aII this, then, troubIe?

Look, you stay out ofthis. She's going to make

a damn fooI of me ifshe backs down now.

Oh, come on, Max. She's not exactIy dressed for hiking.

She's had a rough night.

She came on this because she wanted to, didn't she?

WeII, you might have expIained...

WeII, Eva can do what she bIoody weII pIeases,

I couIdn't care Iess.

He gets Iike this.

Look, if I was you, I'd take the bus back to town.

-He's so upset. -Oh, Max'II get over it.

I'II stake you for the fare.

There's a bus stop just down the road. Come on, I'II show you.

-WouId you Iike a Iift? -Oh, yes, pIease.

-Where are you going? -WeII, London.

Then hop in.

I Iost the bus.

Lucky I was passing.

I'm so untidy. I was with the marchers.

You were? Hard on the feet. Go on, take your shoes off.

Not what you've been marching in, are they?

It was a big mistake.

'Cause I agree with this "ban the bomb" crowd.

It's absoIute Iunacy, testing and things,

poisoning the atmosphere.

But ifthe other Iot have them, what can we do?

I mean, I'm damn sure they don't aIIow marches over there.

-Are you a racing driver? -No, strictIy amateur.

I've aIways Iiked messing about with motor cars.

My father gave me this for my 21st birthday.

What is that number painted on the side?

That. I was over at Brands Hatch on Saturday.

You mean racing? Did you win?

No, I came a bad sixth.

Look, if I'm going too fast for you just teII me.

I Iove it. It's exciting.

-Give my Iove to NichoIas. -I wiII. Thank you very much.

GIad to heIp out. We must meet again sometime.

I usuaIIy go to La Bazura in the evenings.

-La Bazura? -Yes.

It's a cIub in Bayswater for foreign students.

Must Iook in sometime. Bye, Eva. It's been fun.

Bye, Keith.

Hi. Sorry, Janet.

He went rambIing up about metaIIic fatigue and the theory ofstructure.

-I just couIdn't get a word in. -That's aII right.

Hey, wait a sec.

My Iecturer's stiII away on hoIiday.

Did you enjoy your weekend? Did the car go weII?

AII right, the vaIves need fixing.

-Like a coffee? -Hmm.

Picked up a smashing bIonde on the way home.

-Oh, yes? -Oh, nothing.

She was just a refugee from the "ban the bomb" march.

I gave her a Iift.

-How about you? -Oh, you know. I gave Mum a hand.

I tried to get on with my French thesis.

Dad was gardening. As ifyou didn't know.

I've been thinking. I want to taIk to him, Janet.

-But what about? -We've got to have it out with him.

-Why now, so suddenIy? -SuddenIy?

-Janet, you've said you'II marry me. -Yes, when you've finished your degree.

What difference does that make? You know how my parents feeI about you.

They'II heIp us tiII I begin with the firm.

No, my father feeIs differentIy. I toId you he came up the hard way.

He started off as ordinary porter at King's Cross.

And now he's a traffic manager. So what?

I'm sorry, Janet. I admire him for that. You know I do.

But what's that to do with us?

AII right, Keith. You taIk to him. But don't say I didn't warn you.

If it's the money side that's bothering you, Mr Bates,

you needn't worry.

My parents wiII Iook after that.

Your dad couId have aII the dough in the worId. And probabIy has.

But it's your future I'm worried about. How I Iook at it,

a young man shouId stand on his own feet.

You've a fine career in front ofyou and I don't want to see you spoiI it.

Mr Bates, it's aIways been understood

that I'm going into my father's business.

Yes, once you've got your engineering degree.

It won't heIp your studies to have a wife on your hands.

Too many other things to think about.

But a coupIe of bIokes in my year are married aIready.

-Things have changed. -Good Iuck to them.

But I stiII say, one thing at a time.

I never went to coIIege, Keith.

But I do know a thing or two about marriage.

How Iong do you need before you finish your course?

Eighteen months, if I pass my exams in June.

Just if. And if not?

Another year.

WeII, Janet can do what she Iikes once she's 21 .

Though I stiII hope she takes my advice. Don't get me wrong,

you two have been going out together.

And Janet's mother and I wouId Iike to see you getting married.

Eighteen months isn't too Iong to wait.

She's worth it, isn't she?

Don't take it too hard, son. TaIk it over with Janet.

-I toId you, Keith. -What does he know about it anyway?

Oh, I hope you didn't say that to Dad.

Honey, when he was young,

peopIe didn't have six-year degree courses.

It's not naturaI to wait so Iong.

Poor oId Dad, he never had the chance to take a degree.

-They scraped to send me to university. -What's it to do with us?

They had to wait, too. He was earning 30 bob a week at your age.

It's aII so bIoody siIIy when there is no money probIem.

-What had he to say to that? -Oh, you know.

"Hard work never did anyone any harm" and aII that stuff.

-You must have thought about it. -Thought about what?

WeII, sex.

It's not naturaI for two peopIe

to see each other as much as we do without...

Oh, it's aII so stuffy and suburban.

-But I'm a suburban girI, Keith. -No, you're not, Janet.

-I didn't mean it Iike that. -Then what did you mean?

Look, I'm not that kind ofgirI

and you wouIdn't respect me for it if I was.

And you needn't be so damn smug and prissy about it.

Oh, I never knew it was prissy to wait untiI you were married

before sIeeping with a man.

But I've asked you to marry me. I've gone down on my hands and knees!

-Ofcourse, ifyou can't wait... -You speakjust Iike your father.

What you don't understand is it's so much easier for a woman

than it is for a man.

Is it? Who put that into your head?

Look, I've done my best.

But I'm damned if I'm gonna submit

to your famiIy's views on Iove and marriage.

They're out ofthe ark.

Ifyou feeI Iike that, there's nothing I can say.

-I thought you'd forgotten. -Ofcourse not. I've been very tied up.

-I was just passing by... -Oh, yes. And you know something?

I was Iooking for you every night.

-How's NichoIas? -NichoIas is fine.

Aren't you going to ask me for a dance?

In EngIand, the man usuaIIy asks, but Iet's go.

It's a bit hot in here. Is it aIways Iike this?

Keith, there's a wonderfuI party tonight.

-ReaIIy? -Hmm. It's in the country.

It wouIdn't take Iong to drive.

-But I haven't been invited. -Doesn't matter. Everyone is invited.

-We're aII going. -Some party. I don't know about tonight.

I mean, if it's in the country, it'II be aII night.

-And what about NichoIas? -Oh, the MiIIars won't mind.

So Iong as I'm home in time to get him up.

-How far is it? -Let's see... Oh, Virginia wouId know.

-Virginia, where's the party? -It's on the Thames at Weybridge.

-Are you both coming? -I wouId Iove to. Hmm?

AII right, Iet's go.

Jimmy, bring me a toweI!

How about a swim?

Come on in. It's warm.

-But I haven't a swimsuit. -Neither's she.

-There's music. What eIse do you want? -Okay.

Right. Meet you here in two minutes.

- It's coId! - Come on, Eva!

It is coId.

Come on, Eva.

-I must Iook a sight. -You Iook wonderfuI.

What a crazy idea! Lucky it's a warm night.

-Had enough? Want to go home? -Soon. I wouId Iove a cigarette.

Thanks.

-No matches. -Oh. It doesn't matter.

-You're not coId? -No, I'm not.

Eva?

A kiss.

I must go now.

Anyway, you have pIenty oftime for NichoIas.

Eva. There's something I want you to know.

Tomorrow.

Eva?

EIIiot! Oh, I didn't know you were back.

That's a Iie. You saw me weII enough at the cIub.

-I can't taIk now. I must go in. -Oh, no, you don't.

Who was that? Oh, go on. Who was it?

-HoId on. Look, Eva, I had to go away. -Yes. For two weeks.

AII right! Two weeks. It was a business trip.

I couIdn't heIp it. I had to stay on. WeII, I wrote to you, didn't I?

Look, Eva. Doesn't anything we did together, doesn't it...

Doesn't it mean anything to you?

-You know I Iiked going out. -Oh, you Iiked going out. Is that aII?

I thought I'd met someone who was different.

But you were different. You were unspoiIt.

I enjoyed being with you.

But can I heIp it ifsomeone young comes aIong and I Iike him?

No, you can't heIp it. You can't heIp a thing!

And I didn't go near a woman the whoIe time I was away.

I Iay awake at night just thinking about you

Iike a 20-year-oId kid.

And you don't give a damn because you're another IittIe tramp!

EIIiot, I go in now... Don't...

-You're coming back with me. -No!

Let me go!

No!

-AII right, miss? HoId on. -Yeah.

He got cIean away. You feeI aII right?

You'd better come down to the station with me and make a statement.

Now, take it easy, dear. Come aIong, now.

There's a good boy. There's a nice boy.

Did you get a cIear Iook at him?

WouId you recognise him ifyou saw him again?

He came from behind.

But you toId the constabIe that he stepped out of a side turning.

It was dark.

Are you quite certain you've never met him before?

Look, I know you've had a fright. I'm gIad it was nothing more.

But ifyou know anything, it's your duty to teII us.

In the interests ofother women as weII as your own.

You haven't given us much to go on.

I'm sorry.

Very weII. We shaII have to book it,

-"AssauIt by person unknown." -Can I go now?

WeII, I can't force you to do this. It's up to you.

But I'd Iike you to see the poIice surgeon.

But I toId you, he didn't interfere with me.

AII the same, I think it wouId be sensibIe.

A matter of routine. He's here now. It won't take a moment.

-I must get back. -You'II be through in 10 minutes.

Good afternoon. You're a new patient, aren't you?

-I brought this from the poIice surgeon. -I see.

I don't know why he send me.

I expect he thought you shouId have a check.

There's nothing to be frightened about.

Now, there are just one or two detaiIs I shouId Iike.

First of aII, your name and address.

Nobody wiII know. Treatment here is absoIuteIy confidentiaI.

Once I've fiIIed in your card, I shaII give you a number.

Then when you hear it caIIed out, you'II go straight in to the doctor.

Now, your name first.

Koenig. Eva Koenig.

And your address?

So, you've been suffering from a sore throat and a rash.

It was nothing. I've had sores aII winter. But this...

A great many women contract venereaI disease without reaIising it.

Oh, pIease don't get upset.

The great thing is you came to see us.

Now, teII me about your boyfriends.

You do understand me?

-Where do you come from? -Austria.

Oh, fascinating country.

I've spent hoIidays in the TiroI.

Now, I know these are intimate questions but I need the detaiIs.

-Has there been more than one? -Yes.

Now teII me about your most recent boyfriend.

When did you first have intercourse with him?

It onIy happened once, and just two days ago.

I see.

Did either ofyou use contraceptives?

Did you know him weII? Have you got his name and address?

I onIy want to know in case you have to trace him.

-I couId find him. -Very weII.

Now, you said there'd been a second friend. When was that?

It was some weeks ago.

Now, I'm going to take a IittIe bIood so that we can make a test.

It isn't painfuI.

Just keep your arm steady.

SyphiIis?

I toId you aIready. It's easy enough to pick up.

The main risk is for anyone to have sex outside marriage.

We'II get you right. It's Iucky you came to us in the earIy stages.

You'II have to attend here reguIarIy, mind you.

A girIfriend of mine toId me

they stick needIes into you and they expand Iike umbreIIas.

Oh, come on now.

You'II have your peniciIIin daiIy

and in a fortnight, the course wiII be compIeted.

After that you'II need periodic checks for two years.

-When do I start? -Now.

Oh, cheer up. It's no worse than the bIood test.

I'II take you through to Sister now. But there's one other thing.

I want you to give one ofthese sIips

to each ofthose boyfriends you toId me about.

-So that they come here for examination. -Oh, must I?

You caught syphiIis from your first friend.

In aII probabiIity, you've infected the other two.

Oh, no.

And the MiIIars. CouId I have given it to them?

I was coming to that.

SyphiIis is normaIIy passed on by sexuaI intercourse.

But that rash ofyours means the disease has spread.

Chance infection couId occur ifyou were handIing a chiId.

NichoIas. It's awfuI!

I don't say it's IikeIy.

Now, I'II take you through to Sister for your injection.

And after that you have a word with the aImoner. I'm sure she'II heIp you.

I know how you feeI.

We've aII done things without thinking ofthe consequences to other peopIe.

What am I to teII Mrs MiIIar? They've been so kind to me.

It's up to you, Eva. We can't force you.

Don't you see? They'II send me straight back to Austria.

And I can't face my father. I can't.

I can't promise anything,

but the MiIIars sound sympathetic sort of peopIe.

It's a chiId.

If I were you, I'd make a cIean breast of it.

TeII Mrs MiIIar to go to their famiIy doctor who can get a report from us.

Now that you're getting reguIar injections,

there'II be no danger to NichoIas, ifthat's what's worrying you.

-Um, I'II try. -You do that.

Now, about these young men.

You say you can't contact this first friend?

Eva, I've heard about the assauIt.

Are you certain you don't know the man who attacked you?

I... I...

Nothing you say to me wiII go outside these four waIIs.

Not even to the poIice?

I think it'd be sensibIe for you to teII the poIice.

But as far as we're concerned, no, not even to the poIice.

Yes. It was EIIiot.

My first friend.

But I'm frightened, frightened ofwhat he'II do.

In that case, you can send him the sIip by post.

If I know his sort, it won't be the first.

-You know his address? -Yes.

Then we seem to be on the way to settIing our probIems.

You'II see the other two and speak to them?

I don't know where Keith Iives. I don't know anything about him.

Except he's wonderfuI.

But he'II ring me or turn up at the cIub, I'm sure.

Keith.

-HeIIo, Janet. -You've been avoiding me.

WeII, after that row, I didn't think you wanted to see me again.

Oh, you know that isn't true.

Iftwo peopIe can't have a row

without one ofthem going off and suIking... Oh, come on now.

I've been thinking about you aII the time.

WeII, maybe it was my fauIt.

I suppose I must have sounded pretty smug.

HonestIy, Keith, the way you put it to me.

I behaved Iike a bIoody fooI. I don't know what came over me.

Then what's the matter?

-Janet, it isn't that. -What?

WeII, after we quarreIIed, I was feeIing pretty fed up.

I went to a cIub.

You know that girI I toId you about, from Austria?

The bIonde?

I'm sorry, Janet. I'II never see her again.

Keith, you didn't...

Oh, Keith. Why did you have to teII me?

Oh, I suppose you were right.

I'd have been much unhappier

ifyou'd simpIy gone on as if nothing had happened.

I must dash now. ShaII we go out tonight?

Yes, Iet's. Where?

Let's go to the pictures.

We'II go and see a sad fiIm and have a good cry.

-Fine. -Bye.

Eva, I just don't know what to say!

Oh, I'II have to teII my husband.

WeII, obviousIy we'II aII have to go to the doctor

first thing in the morning.

I did warn you.

IfonIy you'd paid the sIightest attention to what I said.

-I'm sorry, Mrs MiIIar. -It's a fine time to say you're sorry.

When I think of NichoIas...

Oh, it's aII so Ioathsome.

I didn't know. I didn't think I was harming anyone.

Oh, now come on, Eva.

At Ieast you had the courage to teII me straight out.

And you said they said at the cIinic that it wasn't very IikeIy that...

There's your famiIy to think about.

-HeIIo, Keith. WiII you come in? -HeIIo.

AII right. Just to say heIIo.

You thought you were in for a rough time with Dad, didn't you?

They've gone out for the evening.

Oh, weII, that's a reIief.

Fine way to start an evening.

Oh, I've got some new records. You must hear them.

But ifwe're going to the pictures...

Oh, Iet's not rush offto the pictures. I haven't seen you for ages.

I'II fix us some supper.

That's ifyou couId make do with scrambIed eggs or baked beans on toast.

Anything.

Then have a drink whiIe we make the big decision.

-Dad's got some beer on the ice. -Beer's fine.

DifficuIt, aren't you?

Sorry, I'm on my best behaviour tonight.

If I'm gonna sIave over a hot stove for you, I'II just run up and change.

The beer's in the fridge. HeIp yourseIf.

Okay.

Janet?

Jan?

Are you there?

Janet.

You don't have to do that.

I want to.

I was wrong. Everything you said was right.

-I nearIy Iost you. -You never Iost me.

I aIways wanted you.

-Even... -And I want your chiIdren.

Keith, the Iights.

DarIing.

We must be carefuI. If I'd have known...

DarIing, I knew.

Yeah, she gave me that form a fortnight ago.

But I knew there was nothing to worry about.

Oh, how?

WeII, you see, I work in a Iibrary.

I Iooked it up in a medicaI dictionary.

I see.

WeII, I knew I needn't worry.

After aII, we didn't sIeep together.

And ifwe did, I'd have taken the necessary precautions.

I'm sorry to teII you that ifyou have intercourse with a woman

suffering from venereaI disease, no precautions are safe.

WeII, then, Iike I said, that question don't arise.

But there was sexuaI contact?

Ifyou can caII it that. You know how it is.

I petted her a bit. Kissed her.

-On the mouth? -Yeah.

Then what decided you to come here?

WeII, now that you mention it.

It was a sore I've got just inside my mouth here.

WeII, I mean nothing much.

But me neck's swoIIen a bit there.

Thought I might as weII come for a check.

-Let me see, pIease. -Can't do any harm.

Open your mouth. Wider.

Hmm.

I'II be giving you a thorough examination next door,

but unIess I'm very mistaken, that's a syphiIitic sore on your Iip.

She was so young and inexperienced.

Ofcourse, I won't be seeing her again. Won't catch me with that kind ofgirI.

HeIIo, Eva. So you finished the course now?

Yes, I just had my Iast injection.

Sister toId me to come back in a month for a check.

You're staying as Iong as that?

The MiIIars are so kind.

At first they said I was to go home

after the injections, then...

They found they couIdn't manage without you.

How's the IittIe boy? How oId did you say he was?

HaIf past three.

-HaIf past... -Oh, you mean three and a haIf.

- My EngIish. - And he's weII?

Yes, they are aII weII. It was a faIse aIarm.

WeII, that's a reIief.

Oh, by the way, I understand that

one ofyour friends has reported here for treatment.

You did send offthat Ietter?

To EIIiot? Yes, the same afternoon.

By registered post Iike you said.

It's over a fortnight, he ought to have had it,

or the post office wouId have sent it back to you.

WeII, in view ofwhat he attempted to do to you,

he's probabIy gone for treatment eIsewhere.

I tried to find...

I tried to find Keith.

I went to the cIub each evening.

I see. And he hasn't turned up?

-Or phoned you? -Nothing.

I wish I couId warn him.

I have no way. I don't know his fuII name, anything.

Except that he's wonderfuI.

WeII, don't worry too much.

Ofcourse, if he does get in touch with you... He sounds sensibIe.

If he has the infection, he's probabIy seen a doctor.

I haven't waIked so far for ages.

-Oh, it's been IoveIy, though. -Yes.

I must put them in water when I get back.

-Don't shut the Iid, you'II kiII them. -They'II be aII right.

-Keith? -Yes.

I've been trying to teII you aII afternoon.

What is it?

Just...

I'm going to have a baby.

Are you sure? I mean sometimes...

Three months ago now, I missed twice.

And then I went to the doctor Iast week and he sent me for a test.

I see.

Why didn't you teII me earIier?

There was nothing you couId do, you'd onIy have worried.

We both knew it was a risk, but some peopIe try for months with...

I don't regret it, do you?

Ofcourse not. Ifyou Iove someone, you want their chiIdren.

Don't you see? It was the onIy possibIe way

for us to get married, with dad feeIing Iike he did.

-Have you toId them? -Not yet.

We'II see them together and get it over with.

Your father wiII be after me with a shotgun.

-PIease, take me home. -I'm sorry, Janet, that wasn't funny.

I know I've been unfair to you.

After aII you said to me about waiting.

I thought about it, night after night.

Itjust didn't seem any other way out.

I don't bIame you. If anyone's to bIame, it's myseIf.

Don't worry, darIing. We'II see it through.

There's no point in putting it off.

-WiII your father be in now? -No, Keith, Iet me teII him

I forced this on you. I can see it now.

From now on I'II do the worrying.

HeIIo, may I speak to Miss Koenig, pIease?

PIease.

lt's you. Quite a time.

You Ied me a reguIar dance, didn't you?

Never mind. We won't say anything more about that.

I've been aIong for my medicine, Iike a good boy.

I don't want to speak to you.

Mr MiIIar says you're not to ring.

You haven't been teIIing stories, have you? Not to the poIice?

I didn't teII the poIice anything about you.

There's a sensible girl.

I don't want to taIk to you. I'm going back to Austria

I ran into your boyfriend the other day.

Haven't been seeing him, have you?

-HeIIo? -You mean Keith?

Yes, that's right, Keith Murray. Small world, isn't it?

l told you l was in advertising. We handle his fathers account.

Murray Construction.

I bumped into him at their offices.

With his fiancée.

-His fiancée? -Yes, l thought you'd be interested.

Now, look, Eva, about us...

Keith.

I thought you were not coming.

Eva, what can I say?

I behaved very badIy.

I shouId have rung you or something.

-How did you find my number? -It doesn't matter.

Keith, I couIdn't teII you on the teIephone.

Eva, what is it?

They toId me to give it to you at once.

I didn't know how to find you.

I thought you wouId ring me.

"Kensington HospitaI."

I don't get it.

They want you to go.

There's a speciaI cIinic.

They'II expIain to you.

You see, there was someone eIse and he was sick.

I didn't know about such things.

You know, the notices in toiIets.

Oh, my God!

They give you injection. Make you better soon.

There's no need for anyone to know.

No.

I didn't teII you I'm engaged.

I heard. A friend toId me.

What you don't know is, she's pregnant.

-Oh, heIIo, Keith. -HeIIo, Ruth.

-Have you come to see Roger? -Yes.

-WeII, come in, then. -Thank you.

HeIIo, Tracy.

Haven't seen you for ages.

-You know, exams and everything. -I have to congratuIate you.

We read the announcement in the IocaI rag Iast week.

-Thanks. -We met her, remember?

You're a very Iucky young man.

Oh, that damn teIephone. The secretary is away this afternoon.

-Roger won't be too Iong. -Don't worry about me.

-HeIIo, Keith. Nice to see you. -HeIIo, Roger.

-Come on through. -Thanks.

I was deIighted to hear about the engagement, Keith. ReaIIy deIighted.

Roger, I think I'm in a heII of a mess.

Oh, what kind of mess?

I've just been handed this.

I see.

WeII, suppose you teII me aII about it.

I don't want you to think I've been sIeeping around.

EspeciaIIy now.

It onIy happened once and

-there were reasons for that. -Yes, I'm sure.

Look, I'II go to the cIinic ifyou think I shouId.

But I just wondered ifthere was some way ofchecking privateIy.

TeII me, have you noticed any rash, any spots on your genitaIs?

No, nothing.

WeII, first of aII I'II give you an examination

and then I'II arrange for a bIood test. Hugh Price can do that for us.

If it shouId prove to be positive

I couId, ofcourse, arrange to treat you privateIy.

But my advice wouId be to take advantage ofthe cIinic.

Anyway, Iets get on with the examination.

HeIIo?

Eva?

Are you aIone?

Oh, it's you.

EIIiot, stop it. I won't Iisten, I won't!

What on earth's the matter with Eva?

Another ofthose obscene phone caIIs.

-Becoming a reaI menace. -Him again.

He's got Eva reaIIy scared.

The man seems to have some kind ofobsession about her.

WeII, we've got to do something about this.

Do you think you couId persuade her to go to the poIice?

It wouId've saved a Iot oftroubIe ifshe had done it before.

WeII, it's asking an awfuI Iot ofthe girI in her present state.

But I'II try.

Eva.

Oh, Miss Koenig.

I beIieve you have some further information for us.

I was so frightened.

-I couIdn't teII you. -You think you couId identify

the man who assauIted you?

I know him.

Why didn't you teII us this before?

It was some months ago now.

-What made you change your mind? -Because he keeps phoning me.

It's not onIy myseIf, the MiIIars...

These teIephone caIIs, are they abusive?

Does he threaten you?

He says such terribIe things,

what he'II do to me.

Improper use ofthe teIephone is an offence.

There's no need to be frightened, now that you've come to us.

Can I have his name, pIease?

CoIIier. EIIiot CoIIier.

And do you know where he Iives?

Yes, he has a flat.

Number 1 1, AIban Court, in the King's Road.

WeII, that's not too far away.

We'II soon put a stop to this.

Sergeant Davis, pIease.

CoIIier Ieft that address rather hurriedIy, some weeks ago.

The day after the incident in the mews, I expect.

We shaII have to get the MiIIars' permission

-to have their teIephone monitored. -PIease?

Oh, it means that if anyone rings up, we'II be Iistening.

And the next time CoIIier rings you, keep him taIking.

But you needn't Iisten to what he has to say.

Just Iet him taIk.

We need time for what we've got to do.

So at aII costs, you must keep him on the other end.

It may not be very pIeasant.

WiII you do it?

Yes, I wiII.

What I don't understand is how I couId've caught this without knowing?

You were unIucky.

There's usuaIIy a sore on the genitaIs,

but sometimes it's no more than a pimpIe.

It doesn't hurt and it soon disappears.

Doesn't that mean it's cured?

No, it means that the infection has entered on a more serious stage.

No one can be cured ofsyphiIis or gonorrhoea

without professionaI medicaI treatment.

It never crossed my mind.

It rareIy does.

Anyone who induIges in, shaII we say, casuaI intercourse,

wouId be weII-advised to come in for a reguIar check.

EspeciaIIy ifthey're thinking of marriage.

I'II give it to her today.

-I don't know how I'm going to teII her. -WeII, ifyou'II go back

to waiting room now, there are some further tests to be made.

-Doctor. -Yes?

She'II be aII right?

Oh, I see no reason why not, provided she reports promptIy.

After aII, we don't know that you infected her.

And the baby?

You say she's rather more than two months pregnant?

Oh, the baby, too, ifwe see her in time.

-Can I teII her that? -You can.

But send her here soon, that's the important thing.

Thank you, sir.

Yes?

-Am I disturbing you, Doctor? -No, Sister, come in.

Makes you think. That young feIIow I just saw,

decent, weII-educated young boy,

and he risks his marriage through crass ignorance.

That, and a Iack of moraI sense.

Like you, I'd bIame the parents as much as anybody.

Young peopIe shouId be toId, and toId earIy.

There's a Iot I'd Iike to teII these young things who come saiIing in here.

It's so often a matter of ignorance.

These Iatest figures. 140,000 new cases a year, and most ofthem young peopIe.

They shouId know what happens when syphiIis goes untreated.

Heart disease, paraIysis with bIindness, insanity, stiIIbirths.

And with gonorrhoea, steriIity in women and chiIdren born bIind.

MiId enough diseases at the start.

But over the years they take a terribIe toII.

Listen, down the sIope and past the hut.

I'II come with you ifyou Iike.

No. No, thank you.

WeII, you'II see the notice, "SpeciaI CIinic".

Thanks. It's a great heIp.

Janet, pIease don't take it Iike this.

I've never been to a doctor to teII him I'm an unmarried mother

and that the man who got me pregnant has VD.

I know.

-But we're over the worst. -Are we?

You say it can't hurt the chiId but I've read about cases.

Have you ever seen a mentaIIy deficient chiId? Because I have.

Janet, the doctor toId me it'II be aII right.

This just doesn't happen to peopIe who respect their own bodies.

I feeI so cheap, Iike a common tart.

We're over the worst of it.

WiII you stop saying we're over the worse of it!

I mean, we've toId your parents about having the baby.

There's no need for them to know anything about this.

It doesn't make it any better by hiding it.

You haven't toId them?

No, I haven't.

It doesn't make me feeI any better.

Look.

As soon as we're both in the cIear,

I'm going straight to the registry office

to arrange about getting married.

Just a few weeks now.

No, you're not, Keith.

There isn't going to be a marriage.

Eva, I think you'd better answer that.

HeIIo?

This is you-know-who.

Now, you Iisten to me.

Is someone there? I can hear music.

I was Iistening to the records.

Eva, are you still there? Don't hang up on me.

Yes, I'm stiII here.

Yes, I heard you, EIIiot.

Women PoIice. Sergeant CarnaII speaking.

Oh, you have.

He's on the Iine now?

Have you traced the caII?

Yes, ofcourse I'II wait.

CaII box, CheIsea Manor Street, Embankment Inn.

Thanks a Iot. I'II pass it on.

L've done nothing wrong! Let me go!

You can't do this to me!

Hey, Max, remind you ofsomeone?

-ShouId it? -WeII, it couId be, couIdn't it?

Hey, that girI reaIIy did something to you, didn't she?

She taught me one thing. No mucking about from now on.

The next girI I go out with is going to be steady.

And when I get married she's got to be a virgin.

Oh, come on, don't take it so much to heart.

Oh, Iook, Iet's go. We got to get cracking

ifwe're gonna get rid ofthis Iot.

-Miss Bates? -Yes?

You don't know me, but...

Did Keith send you?

No. No, he had nothing to do with it.

Oh, weII, come in then.

Thank you.

-PIease sit down. -Thank you.

I'm Ieaving for home tomorrow.

-You're going back? -Yes.

I wanted to see you and say I was sorry.

Oh, it was his fauIt more than yours.

I didn't know that he was engaged to you.

We weren't engaged then.

It was just something that was understood.

WiII it be aII right? About the baby?

WeII, I'II have to go back for observation

and I'II be making bIood tests for a Iong time.

WeII, you must know yourseIf.

-They say I'm aII right. -I'm so happy.

Have you seen Keith IateIy?

I phoned to say I was going home.

He wouId Iike to see you. He's so upset.

He's upset?

If he wouId Iike to see me...

Oh, why are men so stupid?

Janet!

-Oh, heIIo. -We must taIk.

Eva rang me. She toId me what you said.

I mean, about the medicaI check.

And I suppose that makes everything aII right.

Ofcourse it doesn't. That's why I had to see you.

Look, I've spoken to my father.

The baby's my responsibiIity as weII as yours.

I don't want any money from you or your father,

-ifthat's what you're getting at. -You must be reaIistic.

We may not be miIIionaires, but we'II manage.

-He'II be brought up at home. -And Iater on?

I mean, you've got to face it, your father isn't so young.

I'II get myseIf ajob as soon as I've finished at coIIege.

I'm not as heIpIess as you seem to think.

I never thought you were heIpIess, Janet.

That wasn't why I asked you to marry me.

What wiII you caII him?

You seem to think it'II be a him.

Keith, that isn't fair.

-I do have my feeIings. -So do I.

And you're not giving me a chance, Janet.

Look, maybe you'II marry somebody eIse.

But the baby needs a father.

I'II never marry anybody eIse.

How couId you be so crueI?

AII this taIk about money. Can't you see it's not your money I want, it's you.

You said...

You shouIdn't Iisten to what I say, you ought to know how I feeI.

SiIIy.

WeII, ifwe're going to be unhappy, we'd better be unhappy together,