A Town Like Alice Page #2

- You're in luck then, hop in.

You'll have to move up inside. Hurry,

please, there's five more to come in.

Look, there's my teacher,

Miss Horsefall.

Hello, Freddie. Here,

Mrs Holland.

- Oh, take the baby.

- Hello, Freddie, you'll find Timothy in there.

[BABY CRIES]

Sorry, sir, but the Japs mustn't

get your car. I'll have to burn it.

Driver, pull up fifty yards.

I've got thirty-five for you, sir. Sixteen

women, twelve men, seven children.

- Thirty-five?

- Yeah.

Shove them in the

accounts office, please.

Right, sir.

Driver, take 'em round

the accounts office.

And tell 'em not to wander about.

I can get them away in

fishing boats.

What about the launch, sir? The Osprey,

she's due back this evening.

She won't be back here

again, not now.

- Mmm.

- It's fishing boats or nothing.

[CROWD MURMURS]

[BABY CRIES]

That's the accounts office,

in there.

Dad, can we go in the

garden, please?

You can play with the other children

but don't make too much noise.

Hmm.

- Oh, Jean.

- Yes?

Can I have something

to wipe his face?

- Oh, yes, could you pass me---

- This one?

[CROWD MURMURS]

I, er, suppose you haven't got such

a thing as a cigarette, have you?

[BABY CRIES]

Oh, come on, Arthur, don't let

everyone push you around.

I beg your pardon.

That is not a camp stool.

Old bag.

- I wish I hadn't brought so many things.

- Oh, you're lucky.

I had to leave everything behind.

- Oh, did you?

- Hm.

[KISSING SOUNDS]

Who da babba, den?

[BABY LAUGHS]

Miss Horsefall, excuse me.

But, you see, I'm a sick woman---

I'm sorry, Mrs Frith.

I'll come back later.

Oh.

- Yow! Yow!

- [MAKES MACHINE GUN NOISES]

Bang, bang, bang,

bang, bang, bang!

Well, that's that.

Fishing boats put to sea.

No boats.

[TELEPHONE RINGS]

DO's office. Who?

The lighthouse keeper?

Yes, he's here.

For you, sir.

- Hello?

- Johnson here, sir.

- The Osprey's just passed the lighthouse.

Thank you, Johnson, that's fine.

They've sent the Osprey back,

it's just past the lighthouse.

- Get your party ready.

- Right, sir.

- Yooww! Yooww!

- [MAKES MACHINE GUN NOISE]

- Bang! Bang, bang, bang, bang!

- Yooww!

All right, get ready, please.

The launch is coming back, and

we can get you down to Singapore.

Now, be as quick as you

can, please.

[BOAT ENGINE NOISE AND

CHILDREN'S VOICES]

[CHILDREN CHATTER]

[BABY GIGGLES AND CRIES]

- I'll take these for you.

-Thank you.

[MACHINE GUN FIRE]

[MACHINE GUN FIRE]

[FIRING CONTINUES]

Bang, bang, bang, bang.

[MACHINE GUN FIRE]

Sergeant, save your truss.

Save your truss---

[GUNFIRE]

GET BACK, MAN! GE BACK, GET BACK.

[MACHINE GUN FIRE]

[MACHINE GUN FIRE]

[MACHINE GUN FIRE]

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