- [first lines]
- Yvonne: Don't tell me; you're auditioning for a part in 'House of Eliott'.
- Gary: No. No, just popped into Wally's World of Wallpaper on the way home. I'm drawn to this one. Comes in a washable ready-pasted vinyl with a contrast frieze but you also get a matching duvet cover, pillow case and curtains.
- Yvonne: Mmm, and do they do a full range of lampshades and knick-knack boxes in the same design?
- Gary: Uh, yeah, I think so.
- Yvonne: Ah, at last, my life has a meaning.
- Gary: There's far too much emphasis placed on the physical side of marriage these days.
- Yvonne: Oh yes, of course, yeah. Wasn't like that in the war, was it?
- Gary: Well, since you raised the subject, no. People had more important things to worry about then. I mean, if the earth moved in 1940 it was usually a land mine.