Transcript for Keeping in Touch #1 - St. James’s Park
Rachel: Are they…promiscuous?
Tom: Depends on the time of year. This lot seem pretty excited.
Rachel: It’s spring.
Tom: The law of the jungle.
Rachel: (laughs) In St. James’s Park?
Tom: Tougher that. The urban jungle. There, they don’t even keep the rules of promiscuity.
Rachel: I didn’t know there were rules.
Tom: So my promiscuous friends tell me. No promises, no pregnancies, no comeback.
Rachel: No feelings, no love…
Tom: No guilt, no remorse.
Rachel: Hmm, it’s tricky. (pause) I must be getting old.
Tom: You look younger every time I see you.
Rachel: You’ve only seen me twice!
Tom: Well at Jane’s party, you looked older. Perhaps it was the eye makeup and the candlelight…
Rachel: It’s funny. Women over thirty are supposed to look better in candlelight and dread daylight.
Tom: Better? I didn’t say better.
Rachel: Ah.
Tom: You look lovely then, you look lovely now.
Rachel: I wish you wouldn’t say that.
Tom: I like saying it.
Rachel: Anyway, all that candlelight rubbish is magazine stuff, really. It’s not my style.
Tom: What is your style?
Rachel: I don’t have time to style, at home with two children.
Tom: You’ve made time to meet me.
Rachel: That’s different.
Tom: Is it? I’m glad.
(They laugh)
Tom: Do you always meet people when they’ve chatted you up at a dinner party?
Rachel: Do you?
Tom: Never done it before, seriously.
Rachel: Seriously?
Tom: Like this…you didn’t answer my question.
Rachel: Of course I don’t meet people who chat me up!
Tom: Until now.
Rachel: I had to be in town anyway, that’s different, surely. (pause) Isn’t it?
Tom: I think so, but…perhaps it was something else.
Rachel: Something else?
Tom: (suggestive) Our meeting isn’t quite…casual, as it is. You and me.
Rachel: I’m not sure what you mean.
Tom: I think you do, Rachel.
Rachel: I had to be at an interview. I’m looking for a job!
Tom: Of course, but I think there’s something else going on.
Rachel: Tom, I wish you wouldn’t -
Tom: Ah, why don’t we spend the day out -
Rachel: No, don’t…I’d better be getting back…children…
Tom: I’ll see you to the Tube.
Rachel: Don’t you have to be somewhere?
Tom: I told them I’m at a psych meeting. New building going up.
Rachel: That’s a lie.
Tom: So what? You’re lying too.
Rachel: (laughs) No I’m not. No one asked me where I’d be.
Tom: Then, perhaps we meet up again. Like this.
Rachel: How, like this?
Tom: Casually, but intentionally. Unharmonied.
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