:52:01
Ernest Hemingway, I presume.
:52:04
May I say
how much I've enjoyed reading your work?
:52:07
As a matter of fact,
I think you'll find most serious critics...
:52:10
feel that Hemingway is a little passé.
:52:14
Really? How rotten for him.
:52:17
They're very touchy, you know,
these literary gents.
:52:19
All right, children,
let's settle down now, shall we?
:52:22
George, I think you'll find
the first part of this is all you and Ginger.
:52:26
So I gather.
:52:27
The old double act again, eh, George?
:52:31
This episode opens in the saloon bar
of the Rose and Crown.
:52:33
It's just on opening time,
and Ginger is polishing some glasses.
:52:37
- Just read this through.
- Yes.
:52:47
You're not going to do it that way, are you?
:52:54
"What'll it be, then?
A bottle of the old malt stout?"
:52:58
"No, not today. I think I'll have a whiskey.
:53:02
"A large one."
:53:04
"Going on the hard stuff, eh?
Been one of those days, has it?"
:53:10
"It's always one of those days for me.
:53:12
"Never get a minute to myself, I don't.
:53:16
"The fact is, my dear,
I think I'm getting a bit of a cold."
:53:21
"Whiskey, is it, then?"
:53:22
"Have a drop of honey in it,
that's what I always do.
:53:25
"Can't beat it for stopping a cold.
:53:27
"Take some more when you get home
with a drop of hot water and some sugar...
:53:30
"and you'll be as right as rain
in the morning."
:53:33
"I don't know about that.
:53:36
"It could be the flu.
Last time I had a bout of the flu...
:53:38
"I was off for a fortnight."
:53:46
Am I to understand
I'm being written out of this episode?
:53:55
Well?
:53:58
Really, George...
:53:59
just because you appear
to have a nasty cold coming on...