Transcript for Keeping in Touch #6 - It’s Time

Tom: Well, let’s look at you. Don’t you look gorgeous? (suggestively) Are you that colour all over? (laughs)

Rachel: (laughs) Almost, decency permitting. We spent loads of time on the beach.

Tom: It’s…wonderful to see you.

Rachel: I’m sort of glad to be back. Venice was wonderful, of course.

Tom: Did you get my letters? Oh wow, of course you did, I got your reply.

Rachel: (laughs) Sorry it was only a postcard, I didn’t have time for more!

Tom: Altocello looks wonderful.

Rachel: Yes, it was. (pause) It really was. It made a lot of difference.

Tom: Did the system work okay? American Express, no hitches?

Rachel: No. Nothing serious. Nothing that hasn’t been, um, sorted.

(pause)

Tom: Enigmatic.

Rachel: Oh, you don’t want to hear. (pause) It involved this rather lovely handbag, though. Look.

Tom: Oh, very handsome Italian handbag. It suits you. It suits your Italian man.

Rachel: (laughs) So tell me, how have you managed without me, without our meetings?

Tom: I’ve been…desolate.

Rachel: Ooh!

Tom: Like missing a limb.

Rachel: (laughs)

Tom: Did you know that you’ve become part of me?

Rachel: Yes, I think I know that. And now you’re part of me too.

Tom: And…I have a surprise for you.

Rachel: Oh, I hope it’s a nice surprise.

Tom: Oh, that’s for you to judge. (pause) I’ve found us a place…a place where we can be alone.

Rachel: How?

Tom: I have a friend who’s going abroad for a year who wants to keep up his flat, have someone else in while he’s away.

Rachel: And you mean us?

Tom: Yes darling, I do. Where we can visit instead of pubs and parks. (pause) I hope you do too. I think…it’s - time.

(long pause)

Rachel: I-I don’t want anything that threatens my family. You know that, don’t you?

Tom: No, no, of course not. Nor I mine.

Rachel: You know, while I was away in Venice, I had time to think. (pause) I had things to sort out. And yes, I agree with you. It’s time. It really is time.

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