:08:01
Mr. Miles is upstairs.
:08:10
Sherry, sir?
:08:11
Thank you.
:08:13
She seemed restless.
:08:16
In thesummerof1939...
:08:19
the whole of London was restless
in the face of the coming storm.
:08:36
How nice of you to come.
:08:40
Sarah, this is our neighbor,
the novelist chap.
:08:43
What on earth
is a novelist doing here?
:08:45
- Research.
- On what?
:08:47
On your husband.
:08:48
I'm trying to write a character
who works for the Ministry of Pensions.
:08:52
I need to find out his habits,
what he drinks before bedtime.
:08:55
- Cocoa.
- And when.
:08:56
11:00, isn't it, Sarah?
Unless we're entertaining.
:09:00
Would you be so kind
as to excuse your character?
:09:03
- The ministry needs him.
- Unfortunately it does.
:09:07
- So tell me.
- What?
:09:09
- His secrets.
- Henry's a good man.
:09:11
- Good men have no secrets.
- I was afraid you'd say that.
:09:14
You see, goodness
has so little fictional value.
:09:17
What does have fictional value?
:09:18
- A minister of Home Security.
- Are you saying my husband is fiction?
:09:22
I'm saying he could be,
in the right hands.
:09:25
Oh, dear. This is alarming.
Can we get away from the service?
:09:27
- You mean change the subject?
- I meant fresh air actually.
:09:31
Of course.
:09:34
- So how long have you been married?
- Is your character married?
:09:37
Yes, he's been married happily
for ten years.
:09:40
Henry's the perfect model then.
We've been married ten years.
:09:43
You know that...
:09:44
happiness is even harder to write
than goodness.
:09:47
Henry prefers habit to happiness.
:09:53
- I'll give them to you to sign.
- We were discussing the house, darling.
:09:58
Let me fill that for you.