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Like yesterday... with the fellows...

the whole town...

I expect you'll come

to Warsaw, like every year,

on 1 st August to visit the boys' grave.

Yes, yes, I'm planning to,

like every year.

Forgive me, Marta.

You have nothing to reproach

yourself with.

None of that was your fault.

Nor mine, nor anybody else's.

Nobody could have predicted

the uprising would break out.

Nobody could have predicted that.

But I couldn't stop them.

Nobody would've been able to.

Not even I. This is how we raised them.

I still see them

like it was yesterday...

I'm sorry.

How was your day? Was it all right?

It was fine.

I postponed that patient's

appointment to Monday.

Thank you.

He called three times.

Asked if it was for certain.

- Here, have some.

- No, thank you.

- Maybe you'll have some jam?

- No, thank you.

You know what,

I think I'll go to bed, all right?

I'm so tired. Excuse me.

- Good night.

- Good night.

- What time are you leaving?

- Early.

All right them. Have a good night.

Why, are you alone today?

No, no, please, sit down.

I'll sit down too.

Thank you.

It's such a lovely place, isn't it?

Why are you alone today?

Halinka has left.

And who is Halinka?

It doesn't matter.

She's a student and she

always knows better.

And I'm just a simple boy, after all...

- Are your parents alive?

- No, they aren't.

They died during the war.

My grandmother raised me.

She raised a splendid boy.

I'm sorry, I don't know

why I get such silly ideas.

- Where did you go to school?

- In Elblag.

I trained as a raftsman.

But wouldn't you like

to do something else?

Now you start talking like Halina.

I'm not meant to be anything else,

don't you see?

I'm a born raftsman - water inspector

and that's that.

And what does she want from you?

She wants me to read books

and walk with her in the moonlight,

along the river.

- And you would rather play bridge?

- Sure I would.

I saw you two at the stage

the other day.

Exactly.

I'd also prefer you to learn

and read books.

I do read sometimes but there's

nowhere I could get books.

I can't buy them. And, what's worse,

I have to send cash to my grandmother.

Why don't you take books from me?

We have some books.

My husband buys and has them delivered,

but he doesn't have time to read.

They just lie there uncut.

Thank you.

So when are you going to come over?

She just thinks she's

so high and mighty.

She'll be a university lecturer and

tells me that she's ashamed to be

with a blockhead like me. I don't mind

being a blockhead.

I don't need any science to live.

I feel good the way I am.

If she wants to marry me, that's fine.

And if she doesn't, that's fine too.

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