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:44:02
Is your schedule. Quite simple.
:44:04
7:15 am, wake the children.
7:25 am clean sink, pantry and ice-box.

:44:09
7:45 am, prepare breakfast.
Whas wrong about that?

:44:13
Is no use.
I'm leaving in the morning.

:44:15
Will you explain to the children, please?
:44:18
Explain?
There's no way I can explain.

:44:22
They will be certain
I've thrown you out.

:44:26
I cannot stay.
I simply cannot stay here.

:44:32
I'm sorry.
Would you like some, too?

:44:34
Yes, I would like some.
Especially if it will help break down

:44:37
the social barriers
between capital and labour.

:44:41
In this case,
I'm not sure who is who.

:44:46
You're hardly my idea
of the faithful family retainer,

:44:50
but you've got to stay. They want you.
:44:54
I've lost touch.
:44:58
Is too bad.
We used to be such friends.

:45:02
Never mind.
:45:04
It will probably take an act of Congress
:45:06
to get me back into this family.
:45:08
They do like you. You will see.
:45:12
I was never cut out for it.
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I'm one of the undomesticated animals.
:45:20
But when they lost their mother,
:45:22
I thought it might be best to come home
and try to make it up to them.

:45:26
It never occurred to me
they wouldn't want to have me around.

:45:30
Isn't that curious?
:45:32
Every other place I go,
grown-ups seem to want me.

:45:36
In certain circles I'm considered
quite charming and debonair.

:45:40
But children can look through me
as if there were nothing there.

:45:45
Well, maybe there isn't.
:45:48
Maybe their mother found that out
a long time ago.

:45:56
They say the fishing is good
after a thunderstorm.


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