:39:00
What Maurice means
is that most of my real...
:39:02
my "other" friends
are older than me.
:39:05
Much older.
:39:07
Yes, and there's
a very good reason for that,
:39:09
isn't there?
:39:10
Is there? What?
:39:12
She likes people
with a bit of a past.
:39:15
She uses them...
don't you?
:39:17
No, I don't.
:39:18
For your novel.
Don't you, Iris?
:39:20
- I-I haven't read it.
- Haven't you?
:39:23
Neither have you, Maurice,
so don't play games.
:39:26
Nobody has read it.
:39:28
The gentle lady hasn't yet
bestowed her favour on anyone.
:39:32
I-Iris doesn't like
to talk about it.
:39:34
I know that, too, Iris.
:39:35
That's because it's full
of people she knows...
:39:38
All these masters of thought
you're so chummy with.
:39:41
Bound to be.
We all know.
:39:44
Isn't it, Iris?
:39:46
No, it isn't, but you can
think what you like.
:39:49
You know nothing about it.
Nobody knows but me.
:39:51
And... I'm not telling.
:39:53
I thought
it was a secret.
:39:55
I mean, I know Iris
doesn't want it talked about.
:39:57
Come on, Iris.
:39:59
I'm sure we'll all
recognise ourselves.
:40:01
I don't see how you...
anyone... can.
:40:03
They won't.
T-T-They won't.
:40:05
I hate that sort of thing.
I won't ever do it.
:40:07
I don't see the point of
writing a novel that's
autobiography.
:40:09
There's no fun in that.
:40:11
T-They won't see
themselves, you know?
:40:13
D-Don't people
w-written about in novels
:40:14
always s-see themselves
differently?
:40:16
I'm sure they do.
:40:17
W-Who was it who said,
:40:19
"You can use anyone
you like in a novel
:40:21
as long as you
drop it in somewhere
that they're good in bed
:40:23
e-even though...
...they might not be?"
:40:26
Evelyn Waugh.
:40:28
"And so to bed"...
Samuel Pepys.
:40:32
So, have you granted
your favour to John?
:40:34
Told him
who's in the novel?
:40:37
We h-have other things
to talk about.
:40:44
No one has read
my novel...
:40:46
no one but the publisher.
:40:48
It doesn't matter.
:40:49
Well, it does matter.
I-I f-feel let down.
:40:51
Am I not a part,
:40:52
s-some s-small p-part
of your life?