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Excuse me. I'm sorry. I'm just gonna...
Okay.
- Wow. -
Now I can't even hold your hand in public.
This just keeps getting better.
- Tim... - No, I understand.
We're out in public,
you might see someone you know, blah, blah, blah.
I know the drill.
- Yes, there's that. - I get it.
It's been that way for a few weeks now, so...
- I'm just being careful. - Yeah, very careful.
Wouldn't you be?
I mean, if you had as much to lose as I do?
What is that again? Go on. Remind me.
Really? You want a list?
Sure! Yeah.
While we're waiting for our crab dip.
Your crab dip.
You're not having any, then?
No, actually, I'm not really feeling that well.
Oh,
I'm sorry. D... do you want to go?
No, I don't want to go.
I'm happy just being here with you.
- Okay. -
Don't worry about the, uh, the other thing. I mean,
listing all of the... the...
- Stuff I'm risking, you mean? - Yes. Yes, I was... I was only kidding.
No, you weren't.
I'm risking my whole everything, my life.
Your life?
The life I'm leading, my marriage, my kids.
Stepkids. Come on.
You used to be their nanny, so you're not exactly their mum.
Call them whatever you want.
They're still kids, and I love them and raise them, so...
You know how close we live to here,
- so I'm just being smart. - I get it.
You don't have to explain.
You know I wanna be here.
You know that.
Tim.
Yeah.
Yeah, I do.
So do I.
Yeah, I mean...
That's pretty obvious, right?
Yeah.
It is.
Good.
- Excuse me. Excuse me. -
Everything look all right?
Yes. Thanks. Can I get a...
No?
Americans.
They're a pretty rude bunch, aren't they?
Yeah, well, that's kind of a generalization, right?
Yeah. Kind of.
Kind of just happens to be true.
And if you had to generalize about the English,
- what would you say? - Oh-ho, the English.
Ahh.
Stupid, I guess.
- Really? - Yeah.
At least I am.
I'm stupid.
Stupid for ever believing that we had a chance.
No, you're not.
This is just...
This is just impossible.
That's not true!
This is a lot of things, but it's not impossible.
Hard,
difficult, yes. It's... it's definitely that, but it's not impossible.
Try telling your mother that.
Wow! Straight for the jugular.
- - Very good.
Very good.
Ooh.
Mmm.
- It's pretty good, actually. - Really?
- Here. Try some. - No.
I'm not feeling that great, actually.
Do you... do you feel sick?
A little bit.
Well, I didn't realize that. I'm sorry.
It's okay.
Makes sense, then,
I mean, not having the...
the crab dip. Seafood on a bad stomach and all that.
Yeah.
You should have said something.
- I would have ordered something completely different. - Tim, I'm fine.
Really.
Let's just talk about something else.
Go for it.
Fine.
You excited to get back home?
Seriously?
I just... I just meant for the holidays.
I want to be here...
with you.
I want you to
leave your husband and run away with me.
So... so, no.
I'm not that excited about hot toddies
- back in London with my mum. - All right. Fine.
Bad topic.
Let's try another one.
- Let's try another one. - Yeah. Great.
- I'll pick it. - All right.
Us.
How about that one?
What are the chances I can get you
to make me and you
an "us"?
You don't love this guy. You can't.
You don't. I know you don't.
That's very ungrateful of you to say, you know?
I mean,
he took you in and let you stay with us for the whole semester.
- He didn't have to do that. - He was my mom's boyfriend in college,
okay? He's just doing it as a favor to her. That's all.
It's got nothing to do with me or you.
Listen.
- Listen. -
I didn't expect to meet you.
I didn't expect to meet anyone here.
Not anyone that I was...
- Forget it. - That you were what?
- You can say it. - Why?
What's the point now?
It's nice to hear it once in a while.
Well,
you've got him to say it to you now, right?
That's the choice you've made.
Your husband, Stanley.
It wasn't easy.
Fine.
But that's who you picked, isn't it?
I decided to stay in my marriage, yes.
Got it.
What number is this for him again?
Because I forget. His second or his third?
That's not funny.
- Second. - Really?
'Cause that's not what I heard.
Yes, he was briefly, but
- he had an annulment. - Ah.
Ever the lawyer.
Why do you hate him so much?
- 'Cause he's got you! - And if he didn't?
I mean, seriously, Tim.
If I said, "okay, let's do it,"
what's... what's the actual plan here?
What do you mean? We...
we just run away together.
Us, we could...
I'd like us to go back to England.
Back there, we could...
We could what? Stay with your mom?
No. I don't live with her.
I was kidding.
But where would we live?
In Canterbury?
You have a dorm or what?
No, I... I have a flat.
With roommates. It's... it's a room in a flat.
I see.
"I see"?
Would that not be enough?
- I was just asking. - No, but now I'm asking you.
Would that not be enough?
Living with me like that?
Look, I know he
gets you lots of stuff,
all right, lots of things.
But, you know, those... those are just...
- those are just... - Very nice things.
Is that what you want?
"Things"?
I thought I did.
Until now.
- You mean... - Yes.
Since I met you, since...
since we started to talk and laugh and...
everything.
Everything, indeed.
- In his house. -
I'm just saying. That's all.
Bridgette, this isn't some small,
little decision,
you know. This is going to impact us for the rest of our lives.
I know.
- What? And you're choosing him? - Him, them, all of it. Yes.
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