:17:00
Oh, Bill?
Bill's a writer.
:17:03
Oh. And you too,
Jack tells me.
:17:07
- You call him Jack?
- I never liked the name Clive.
:17:12
Oh, well, if you're a Jack...
:17:15
- What?
- No, you look fine for a Jack.
:17:18
Thank you.
:17:20
Well, Jewish, but not Jewish-Jewish,
if you can follow that.
:17:23
I mean, I'm a Christian, but I was
brought up to be a good atheist.
:17:28
- An atheist?
- Don't sound so shocked.
:17:31
I'm not.
I was an atheist once.
:17:34
You? So we're both
lapsed atheists?
:17:37
Yes, but I was never
a Communist.
:17:40
- Why not?
- What do you mean, "why not"?
:17:43
Well, I mean, back in '38 it seemed
to me there was only two choices...
:17:48
either you were a fascist
and you conquered the world...
:17:50
or you were a Communist
and you saved it.
:17:53
Is that so?
:17:58
I must have been otherwise engaged
at the time.
:18:04
Oh, there's a world
worth saving.
:18:09
At dawn on the first of May...
:18:10
the choristers from the choir school
stand here and sing to the rising sun.
:18:16
They said they draw
quite a crowd.
:18:17
Hmm. What do they sing?
:18:19
Can't say I've ever risen
early enough to hear them.
:18:21
Oh, why not?
I mean, it sounds wonderful.
:18:24
Well, I don't really go in
for seeing the sights.
:18:27
Oh. So what do you do,
just walk around with your eyes shut?
:18:33
You know, Mrs. Gresham...
:18:35
I almost don't know
what to say to you.
:18:38
Good Lord.
:18:40
How long do you plan
to stay in England?
:18:42
Till the end of December.
:18:44
- Are you expected to be in Oxford again?
- I hadn't planned on it.
:18:47
What do you say? Do you think we could
rise to a pot of homebrewed tea?
:18:51
- I can manage that.
- Given early warning, of course.
:18:54
Do you think
I could bring my son?
:18:56
Douglas is such a big fan of your
Narnia books, he'd love to meet you.