Blue Remembered Hills Scene 5 Flashcards
Scene 5
Now, now, now. Go to sleep, Dinah. You naughty naughty naughty little babby.
No, no. You can’t do that. No smacking. Not in my house.
There, there, there. Mummy is with oo den.
I be supposed to be the daddy here, byunt I? And-and-don’t call me Donald Duck
No. Don’t call him that, Aud. You are the daddy, Donald. Coming home from work, aren’t you?
That’s right. I be tired out and all, working on them sawmills. I cut me thumbs off and all. Zzzzzzzzz-chop! Ow! Ow! Bang goes me thumb.
Oh, dear. Poor, poor Donald. My poor husband.
Ow! Ow! Ow! It don’t half hurt. Blood all over the saw. Blood all over me. Blood everywhere. Blood. Blood!
Never mind. I’ll put the kettle on. We’ll have us a nice cup of tea.
Are you Mummy, then! Why should you be Mummy all the time?
Course I be. I got the babby, ant I? It chunt your doll, Audrey.
Where’s my bloody tea, Missis? Where’s my tea, then? I want my cup of tea!
The kettle’s just coming up to the boil sweetie pie.
Who be I then? Eh? Tell me that!
Oh, Aud-rey!
I bent just going to do nothing and be nobody. It’s not fair
You can be my other daughter, Audrey. My naughty daughter.
Yes you are. You always do. Don’t her, Angela?
Who’d you want to be, Aud?
Cut the bugger off, ant I? Zzzzzzz. Aaaaaagh!
You want to stop swearing, Donald Duck.
Let me see this thumb. I got some special stuff in my bag in my car. I’ll stick’n back on.
Quack! Quack! Quack!
Oh, dear. Oh, dear. I’ll have to put some stingy stuff on that. It’ll make you jump, mind.
He’ll have to have his tea first, Nurse. He needs his hot cup of tea.
I can’t wait around all day. You want to clean this place up, too. I can’t wait.
No, and I’m not letting his tea get cold neither. I’m not slaving away here all day for him to come in at all hours and think his bit of tea have got to be ready and waiting. I’m sick to death of it, I can tell you.
Hurry up. I be off up to the bloody pub in half a tick. To get bloody drunk.
I shall wash thy mouth out with soap!
