Old Bill and Son (1941)

Mary Clare: Maggie

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• Maggie : Me, leave mi 'ome? Now look 'ere you, you get this clear. I hate mi sister, 'ate mi sister's 'usband and I 'ate mi sister's husband's mother worst than the lot. I 'ate the nasty little farmhouse. I 'ate the country and everything concerned with it; pigs, cows, chickens, all the smelly lot. I been through three wars, three general strikes, four main water bursts, umpteen crises in my time, not to mention all this A.R.P. and I've never left 'ome yet. And it's going to take more than a lot of ruddy Germans with 'wastikas all over them to make me now, see? And me do war work

  [scoffs] 

  Maggie : I'm not going to make a vulgar spectacle of myself, stamping about in uniform. I've worn skirts for fifty years, sometimes they was long, sometimes they was short but never once made mi behind look like a balloon. And if you think I'm going to refugee orf somewhere at my time of life, you're much mistaken. I'm a decent, respectable Londoner, that's what I am. And as far as I'm concerned, 'itler can 'is war out with "gobbels" and if it's goodbye tomorrow, it's goodbye now cos I'm going to give myself a treat tomorrow morning and have a good lie-in for the first time in fifteen years. So goodbye!