Tom and Viv Page #6

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You will.

You do. You're in every line.

I can't do it without you.

I know.

Can I help you with anything?

Perhaps.

Perhaps you can.

Woo!

Woo!

Viv?

Have you seen my shoes?

Uh, there's no tea left.

- Shall we make out a shopping list?

- And my trousers, I seem to have mislaid them.

I need a cheque.

You should still be convalescing.

3 pounds should just about do it.

- I'll buy you some chocolate as a treat.

- Viv, it's time I went.

- Well goodbye, then!

- Well...

I can't very well go to work

without my trousers now, can I?

Viv, where have you put my clothes?

And my briefcase, where is it?

I'm afraid they've gone.

Vivienne...

A great poet shouldn't have to work

in a squalid little bank

he should be here, writing poems,

where I can help him.

You know we can't afford to live that way.

Now Viv, please, I must go.

KNOCK AT DOOR:

Is Mr Eliot going to work today?

Tom?

What if it reads...

"What'd you get married for,

if you don't want children?"

I think it's better.

Yes. Yes it is.

KNOCK AT DOOR:

- Good morning, Bishop.

- Good to see you.

- So good of you to come.

- Not at all.

Please, right this way.

Viv? - I suppose you just

happened to be in the area?

I've asked the Bishop to call, Viv.

Vivvie, I'm sure you have

a million things to do.

Oh I see, you want to be alone.

Well if you like, I could go up to the roof

and see how long I could dangle in the air.

- If I'm intruding in any way...

- Not at all.

I believe the sale is

still on at Selfridges.

I thought we were working on

your poems today, Tom.

It's very good of you to devote

so much time to an unbeliever, Bishop.

I hope you don't think

my husband's looking for religion.

No, what Tom wants is boredom.

A boring and conventional life.

He mistakenly thinks he

needs it for his work.

Oh and if you can arrange it

the egotistical little sh*t

would like to be a saint.

And I don't normally use words like that.

Here, at the base of the brain,

there is the pituitary gland.

Now we know it is linked to

instances of dementia.

Here, in the lower stomach

there is unceasing colic.

We're certain that there is a link

between the gland and the colic.

She feels heights of enthusiasm

- and then sudden great falls of emotion.

- Indeed.

Well unfortunately...

...she has what I call...

...intestinal catarrh.

She cannot control her menstrual life.

Apart from the drugs

that I am already prescribing her

there's little we can do

to control the symptoms.

May I ask about the marriage?

We love each other.

I see.

And there are no problems?

Beyond what I imagine must...

No.

None.

Do you intend to have children?

Well...

Uh...

We have never discussed it.

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