Hope Springs Page #3

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the floor, back-to-back with locked arms,

and they'd pull against each other

and chant things.

Chanting? Oh, boy.

And I was just thinking maybe that was it.

They were all paired off,

and that was the moment,

when maybe I lost her.

Cos maybe the guy that she was

paired off with was this Roger Pelham.

- Colin, would you like a cup of tea?

- No, I'm fine, thanks.

Fisher?

I can't turn my head.

I'll have to talk to you later.

Should that shadow be coming down

over Fisher's mouth like that?

It's dramatic, Joanie.

Fisher has such fine lips.

I hope they'll show.

They'll be shown to full effect, Mrs Fisher.

Just as soon as we lose that mayonnaise.

I think it's OK to call me Joanie now.

Joanie, let the man work.

So, Roger Pelham?

I was just thinking

of all those times when I picked her up

and I'd sit in the car waiting for her to come

out of the club, watching them come out...

Just trying to remember

what they all looked like, because...

Well, one of the men I used to see

would've been...

Did they have

a kind of glazed expression?

Could they be described as "transfixed"?

See, from what you're sayin' - delirium

and swamis, chants, glazed expressions -

I hate to say it, my friend, but I think

you have lost your good woman to a cult.

Colin?

Joanie!

Colin, all you have any business

thinkin' about at this point is movin' on.

Maybe folks in England

sit around chewin' on the past,

but over here that ain't done much.

Before you get out,

can I just say something?

Of course.

Excuse me, I just need a little...

- Do you want some?

- Not this morning, thanks.

You're gonna have to drive us back.

You can drive, right?

On the left I can, but I'm not very...

Over at the Shining Shores

I really feel I'm helping people.

A lot of people never get that feeling...

- Shining Shores?

- The rest home where I work. And live.

God, when I was in high school,

the things we used to do in there.

Non-botanical things?

Non-botanical things!

What-ho, Jeeves!

I'm just wondering if this is the best time

for us to be trying to take this in.

You know, if I was back in high school,

I'da just thrown this out in the street!

I wouldn'ta cared. Somebody walking

over broken glass - like, who gives a sh*t?

But I'm not like that now. Now

I'm responsible and mature and boring.

I'm sorry. It's you that's supposed

to be getting the therapy from this.

Listen, Mandy,

I think if I drive very, very slowly

we stand a small chance

of getting back to the motel alive.

- I'm really sorry about this.

- That's OK.

I was just nervous.

- Are we going back to your room?

- Sorry?

- I mean I need some coffee.

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