Off Piste Page #6

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I would love you

to stay for dinner.

Will you stay?

- If ifs not too much trouble.

- Not at all.

That's that then.

(muffled chattering)

- STANLEY:
It doesn't

matter, it doesn't matter.

(Well breathing heavily)

- Well.

- You frightened

the life out of me.

- I have that effect on people.

Sorry.

Could you come with

me for a second?

Would you be a treat and help

me pick a dress for dinner?

- Sorry?

- We must dress for dinner.

Like I said, we don't

have visitors very often.

This as a special occasion.

- NIAMH:
This is

a gorgeous color.

- Bring it to me.

Ah, the red silk.

The red silk dress.

- How do you know?

- I couldn't forget

this dress if I tried.

1985, the last time I wore it.

Oh, how we danced.

My husband and I.

Our wedding anniversary.

But it wouldn't fit me now.

Why don't you try it on?

- I couldn't.

- But it would look

wonderful on you.

- It's beautiful but what

would I wear on my feet?

- Shoes.

Have a look in the

bottom of the wardrobe.

There are some shoe

boxes in there.

There should be a little

black pair somewhere.

- Cool camera.

My dad had one years ago.

- Oh, that old thing.

That hasn't seen

the light in years.

- Polaroid.

Does it still work?

- I don't know, I

should think so.

You're into photography.

Why don't you have it?

It's no use to me

collecting dust here.

- Thank you.

- It's nice to have

another woman to talk to.

- It's very kind of

you to let me stay.

- It's me who should thank you.

Having you here is

good for Stanley too.

Stanley.

(soft piano music)

- You look beautiful, mother.

- Look to the stairs.

- NIAMH:
You got my things.

- And the other one is,

what is green, green, green,

red, green, red,

red, red, red, red?

- Um, I don't know.

- A frog in a blender.

- (laughs) That's horrible.

- MARY:
It's not

very nice, is it?

But those are the kind

of jokes George used

to tell me and I

said, "Please stop",

and he'd do it in

company all the time.

- So how long have

you lived here?

- Almost five years

now since the accident.

How quickly time goes by.

- I mean, it is beautiful but

there's not a lotto do here.

- It's where we came

when Stanley was a boy.

It was our second home.

His father loved to ski.

It just seemed the right

place to come back to.

- It's also quiet.

There's not many people around.

- Stanley isn't one for

crowds, as you can tell.

- Yeah, but it's very isolated.

Doesn't it worry you

being up here all alone?

Like what if something happened?

- She's not alone.

We can look after ourselves.

- I didn't mean it like that.

- Well was telling

me she's from Belfast.

You were stationed there,

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