Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day2008

[Watching air-raid spotlights being tested; regarding the oncoming war and the previous one]

Guinevere Pettigrew:
I don't think I can bear it again.

Joe Blumfield:
Did you lose many?

Guinevere Pettigrew:
Just one. You?

Joe Blumfield:
Almost every school friend I had. One tries to forget.

Guinevere Pettigrew:
If only one could.

Joe Blumfield:
You know, I've distracted myself with ridiculous things; youth, parties, lingerie. I mean, I trained in socks for goodness sake.

Guinevere Pettigrew:
[Amused] Socks?

Joe Blumfield:
[Mock affront] There's a great deal of engineering in a gentlemen's sock, I'll have you know. In the stitching of the heel. By comparison, designing a brassiere is a piece of cake. Not that there aren't compensations.

Guinevere Pettigrew:
None of them over 20, I imagine.

Joe Blumfield:
And all very easy on the eyes. But you know what? I'm done with it. I'm going back to gentlemen's hosiery. You know where you are with an honest pair of socks.

Guinevere Pettigrew:
You certainly do.