Harold Pinter Plays 3 by Harold Pinter

Author:Harold Pinter [Harold Pinter]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780571300792
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2012-05-26T16:00:00+00:00

DUFF

Do you like me to talk to you?

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Do you like me to tell you about all the things I’ve been doing?

Pause

About all the things I’ve been thinking?

Pause

Mmmnn?

Pause

I think you do.

BETH

And cuddled me.

Silence

DUFF

Of course it was in his own interests to see that you were attractively dressed about the house, to give a good impression to his guests.

BETH

I caught a bus to the crossroads and then walked down the lane by the old church. It was very quiet, except for birds. There was an old man fiddling about on the cricket pitch, bending. I stood out of the sun, under a tree.

Pause

I heard the car. He saw me and stopped me. I stayed still. Then the car moved again, came towards me slowly. I moved round the front of it, in the dust. I couldn’t see him for the sun, but he was watching me. When I got to the door it was locked. I looked through at him. He leaned over and opened the door. I got in and sat beside him. He smiled at me. Then he reversed, all in one movement, very quickly, quite straight, up the lane to the crossroads, and we drove to the sea.

Pause

DUFF

We’re the envy of a lot of people, you know, living in this house, having this house all to ourselves. It’s too big for two people.

BETH

He said he knew a very desolate beach, that no-one else in the world knew, and that’s where we are going.

DUFF

I was very gentle to you. I was kind to you, that day. I knew you’d had a shock, so I was gentle with you. I held your arm on the way bade from the pond. You put your hands on my face and kissed me.

BETH

All the food I had in my bag I had cooked myself, or prepared myself. I had baked the bread myself.

DUFF

The girl herself I considered unimportant. I didn’t think it necessary to go into details. I decided against it.

BETH

The windows were open but we kept the hood up.

Pause

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