9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Don't be

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
offended,

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
but lately we've been on my mind.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
And one day we might wake and find

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
a hopeless situation.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
No hurt intended,

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
but I have to make a move before

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
we find were running out of more

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
than time and conversation.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Mind the bend, Darling.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I've driven you to the station

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
for the last fifteen years.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
You don't have to tell me.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Careful, there is another one coming up.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Darling!

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I know this road like the back of my hand.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Caroline, keep your eyes on the road.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Good Lord!

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
What?

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I don't believe it.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
What?

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
It's unbelievable.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
What is?

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
You are so irritating this morning.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
There's been a big shake up at Belmont.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Tony Lloyd has been made MD.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Do you know him?

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Tony Lloyd previously spent three years

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
at Ginsberg Publishing,

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
where he worked under

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
the Sales and Marketing Director, Donald Fairchild.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
He was my Home Sales Director.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I told him he was out of his mind

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
to leave Ginsberg for Belmont,

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
because he was in line for my job.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Now he's a Managing Director

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
and I'm still there.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
It's not your fault, Darling.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
You know, Herman Ginsburg

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
should have stepped down years ago.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I know, you know,

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Herman knows.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
He said he'd retire

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
when he was sixty five.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Well,

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
he can't go on for ever, can he?

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
He's seventy four next week.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I must be mad

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
to have stayed with Herman.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Tony Lloyd, MD of Belmont.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
You just hang in there, Darling.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
It's only a matter of time.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I know,

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I've got another fifteen years

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
before I retire.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Here we are.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Ohhh, roll on Friday.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Darling, its only Monday.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Oh, don't forget.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
We've promised to take

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Jonathon for lunch today,

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
before he gets his train for Oxford.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Are you sure you've kept it free?

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Don't worry, it's in the diary.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
it's not everyday

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
a member of our family

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
goes to University.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I'm looking forward to it.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
So is Jonathon.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
So am I.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
It's yonks since you took me

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
out to lunch during the week.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I know.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Herman is so mean these days

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
it's hard enough to claim

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
the genuine business lunches.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Ah, Donald.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I thought I might look for a job.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I'm going to have

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
a lot of time on my hands.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Well you've still got me

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
to look after.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Yes of course, but

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I thought I'd like something

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
more challenging.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
More fulfilling.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I've spent the last

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
twenty odd years

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
looking after you

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
and the children.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I want a job.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
But, that is your job.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I want something more, Donald.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I want to go back to work.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Well, a good idea.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
What about that new flower shop

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
in Amersham?

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
They're always looking

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
for part time staff.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
No, that's not quite

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
what I had in mind.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Why not?

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
You're a jolly good

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
flower arranger.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I bet you could get a job there.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Donald!

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I want to pick up my career.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I want to go back

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
into publishing.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Darling, you are quaint.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I must go

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
or I'll miss it.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Don't forget

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
to pick up my suit

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
from the cleaners.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Oh and some shaving cream.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Lather.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
You got foam last time.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Donald!

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Donald, may I remind you.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I had a very successful

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
career in publishing

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
before I bore your children.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Our children.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
And it was a promising career.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Alright. Promising.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I was earning

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
more than you.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
And it would have been successful

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
if you hadn't got me pregnant

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
every two minutes.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Caroline, I have to travel

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
with these people.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Well, just you remember Donald Fairchild,

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
that I'm the one

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
who had to give up my career.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I'm the one who had to

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
compromise.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I'm the one who had to

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
deal with all the dirty nappies.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
And I'm the one

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
who wants to pick up

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
my career.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
You haven't done any

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
dirty nappies for years.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I'm talking metaphorically.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
What was the alternative?

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
That I should have

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
given up my career?

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Well, I was a good editor.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I found the Dartington Trilogy.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Which still sells very nicely,

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
thank you very much.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
So don't patronise me.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Darling, I wasn't patronising you.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Yes, you were.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
You called me quaint.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Nobody likes being called quaint.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
It's patronising.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Sorry, I shouldn't have said that.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
It was wrong.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Naive, would have been a better word.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Ugh!

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
What?

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
You are being naive,

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
if you think you can

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
go back into publishing,

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
just like that.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
You've had no contact

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
for over twenty years.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I shouldn't think

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
you'd even get as far

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
as an interview.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Really?

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
No.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
These days, they want young people.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Not middle aged Mums.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Why do you think

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I'm having such a struggle

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
at Ginsberg?

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Why do you think

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
we haven't had

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
a title in the best seller list

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
for five years?

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Because, I've got

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
a geriatric chairman,

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
who won't spend any money.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
And a puritanical

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
editorial director,

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
who won't allow

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
so much as a bare bosom

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
on a cover.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
And a patronising

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
and a pompous

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Marketing Director,

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
who is a male chauvinist pig.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Morning. Post.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Ginsberg Publishing.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I'll see if Mr Ginsberg

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
is free.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I should have

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
been consulted.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
My sales force

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
are going to have

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
a hell of a job

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
selling a book with this cover.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I don' know how

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
you can say that, Donald.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
That is a beautiful

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
still life, by Van Gogh.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
it's beautiful, but

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
it's a waste of money.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
It won't help

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Gordon Campion's book.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Ya?

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Beatrice, ask him to call

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
me later.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I'm in a meeting

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
with Mr Fairchild

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
and Mr Montgomery.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
The book is about an artist.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I think its a most

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
apposite cover.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
It's about a randy

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
young art student.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
It's a very funny book.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Herman.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
No thank you, Herman.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
Look.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
With the right marketing.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
I can get you into

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
the best seller list.