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| "The children have gone to Elinor" |
Mathew comes into the deli and informs Eileen that the children have gone to Elinor this morning.
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| "We were going to collect them" |
She is disappointed, as she was going to collect them from Penrhewl later; “Well, there’s no need now – Elinor had space, so they’re going there.”
“That’s a shame – Siôn and I were going to take them to the park,” sighs Eileen and she asks how Sioned is this morning.
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| "She's much better now" |
Mathew replies that she is much better and their fingers are crossed that everything will be back to normal before they know it.
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| "I'll bring her some cawl later" |
“Mathew, tell Sioned I’ll bring her some cawl later,” she adds;
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| Mathew greets Ieuan and Anita |
as he is leaving the deli, he acknowledges Anita and Ieuan, who are sitting nearby.
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| "Colin – this is a surprise" |
Colin, who has been waiting by the counter, is given his coffee and is about to leave when Anita seems very pleased to see him. “Colin! This is a surprise – how are you?”
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| "I'm good – how about you?" |
He replies that he is good and in turn asks how she is.
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| "Where have you been?" |
“Where have you been?” she demands, so he says that he has been in the shop – like yesterday and the day before.
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| "And I shall be there tomorrow" |
Indeed, if he is still here, he will be there tomorrow as well.
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| "Come and sit with me" |
She invites him to come and sit with her, but Ieuan points out that Colin is busy.
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| "You're welcome to pop in" |
“You know where I am – you’re welcome to pop in whenever you want, Colin assures her.
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| She is about to follow him |
As he leaves, Anita gets up to follow him,
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| "You haven't had your tea yet" |
but Ieuan informs her that they have not had their tea yet.
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| "I don't want tea!" |
“I don’t want tea,” she insists and when he argues with that, she again shouts, “I don’t want tea!” and goes out, with him following her and apologising to Eileen on his way.
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| Garry is doing some online research |
Garry is doing some online research, at present looking at a newspaper article, about an Oxford graduate mourning his twin brother who was killed in a road crèche. The accompanying picture looks very much like a young Brynmor.
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| "I've got a lot of loose ends" |
Eleri comes into the room, on her way to work, and he tells her that he has a lot of loose ends, so she wonders if it is anything to do with Brynawelon.
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| "When will you start acting like the owner?" |
“When will you start acting like the owner?” she demands and he realises that is what is worrying her.
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| "I'm keeping my distance" |
He insists that he is keeping his distance, but she reminds him, “People will have to find out that you’re the owner.” When he says that he is working on that, she assumes that he means,
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| "I don't think Brynawelon is on your radar" |
“Improving your good name? You haven’t even asked me about my ideas yet – I don’t think Brynawelon is on your radar.”
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| "A chance to put a smile on your face" |
Garry maintains that she is wrong and proposes that they should talk about it tonight over a glass of wine. “It will be a chance to try to put a smile on your face.”
She informs him, “Huw isn’t the first person I’ve finished with!”
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| "It doesn't get any easier" |
He comments that it does not get any easier, but she is not willing to talk about it.
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| "What are you doing, Sioned?" |
When Mathew comes into the farmhouse, he finds Sioned taking down the Christmas decorations, and complains that she should be resting.
“These need to come down,” she tells him, “It won’t kill me.” Mathew pleads with her not to do too much
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| "Are you looking for this?" |
and she hands him the file which he is looking for.
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| "Were Jac and Lili happy?" |
“Were Jac and Lili happy to see Elinor?” she asks and he says that they were over the moon. “It’s not cheap to send them to her all the time,” Sioned remarks, but he argues that they do not have much choice until Sioned gets stronger.
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| "Mam and Siôn have offered to have them" |
“Mam and Siôn have offered to have them,” she continues,
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| "We don't want them to do too much" |
but Matthew answers that they do not want them to do too much either. “Were Mam and Siôn all right today after we changed the plans?
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| "I don't want to upset them or anything" |
“I don’t want to upset them or anything.” He makes the excuse that her mother was ‘flat out’ at Tamed; he thinks it was quite a relief.
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| "If you want anything, just phone" |
Now he has to go to work, but reminds her that if he wants anything, she should phone him.
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| Anita hunts for something |
At number 7, Anita is looking for something in various cupboards;
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| "What are you looking for?" |
Kelly wonders what it is and is told, “Flour.” Ieuan says that she wants to make a cake, “But there’s no flour here!” Anita complains,
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| "I want to make a sponge . . ." |
“I want to make a sponge and I have everything else apart from flour –
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| ". . . `I'll have to go to the shop" |
“I’ll have to go to the shop.”
Kelly, regards this is a good idea, remarking that Anita is amazing at making cakes. Then she asks Anita where she is going, to make sure that she knows.
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| "To the shop – I told you!" |
“To the shop,” Anita curtly repeats, but objects to Kelly going with her, adamant that she can go on her own.
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| "You'll need someone to carry the flour" |
“You’ll need someone to carry the flour, won’t you?” Anita angrily asserts that she can carry a packet of flour herself.
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| "I want a walk, so I'll come . . ." |
Ieuan tells Kelly to sit down and eat her breakfast; “I want a walk, so I’ll come –
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| ". . . let me finish my tea first" |
“let me finish my cup of tea first.”
Eileen arrives at Penrhewl and also reprimands Sioned for what she is doing;
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| "I'm pulling these down before next Christmas" |
“I’m pulling these down before next Christmas,” is the reply, but her mother points out that she should be lying down.
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| "There's only so much lying down I can do" |
“There’s only so much lying down I can do, Mam. Wrapping me in cotton wool won’t help.”
Eileen instructs her that she has a duty to the children to look after herself; “They’ve only got one parent.”
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| "You wouldn't say that if you saw Mathew with the twins" |
Sioned answers that she would not say that if she saw Mathew with the twins.
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| "Oh, about that . . ." |
“Oh, about that . . .” Eileen begins, “Siôn, Mathew and the children – we are worried that he doesn’t like Siôn babysitting them.
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| ". . . has Mathew got a problem with Siôn?" |
“Has Mathew got a problem with Siôn?” Sioned finds this puzzling.
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| "Self-raising, please, Colin" |
Ieuan and Anita arrive at the shop and ask if Colin has some self raising, as Anita wants to make a cake. He directs them to the shelf, adding, “Keep a piece for me.”
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| "A big, tasty piece!" |
Anita looks in awe at Colin; “Colin, I’m seeing you again! Of course I'll keep a piece for you – a big, tasty piece!”
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| Ieuan pays £1.29 |
Ieuan pays £1.29 with his card, as Anita decides that she wants a word with Eileen;
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| "Eileen puts something special in that cake" |
She is reminded that Eileen does not work there, but Colin predicts that she is bound to make an appearance, as he is not alone for long.
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| "You go and I'll stay here" |
Anita tells Ieuan to go and she will stay in the shop.
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| "I could do with another pair of hands" |
Colin agrees that will be all right, maintaining that he could do with another pair of hands,
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| Ieuan goes home |
so Ieuan takes the flour and leaves.
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| "He's like a blinking shadow!" |
As soon as he is out of the door, Anita snarls, “He’s like a blinking shadow – but there we are, we’ll have some peace now.”
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| "We'll sort out the magazines" |
Colin says that their first job is to sort the magazines out.
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| Garry is deep in thought |
Garry is sitting on the bench by the end of the alley, apparently thinking,
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| "I just want a little chat, that's all" |
when Kath, having been summoned, approaches and sits down beside him. “I just want a little chat, that’s all,” Garry tells her.
She assures him that she was sorry about little Seren and that no-one deserves that, then adds, “But you’re to blame for every bad thing that’s happened in your life.
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| "I'm saying that to your face" |
“I’m saying that to your face because you know I’m straight.”
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| "I'll be straight with you as well" |
In that case, he will be straight with her as well;
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| "I'm back to try and make up for things" |
I’m back to try to make up for things – and I think you can help me.”
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| "Stopping them flooding Maes-y-Deri?" |
Kath laughs, “You’re going to stop them flooding Maes-y-Deri, are you? Well, I’ve signed the petition and I wish you the best with the appeal – but you’re wasting your time and your money.
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| "You've got no chance against people like Brynmor" |
“You’ve got no chance against people like Brynmor.”
Garry would like to know a few things about him; “Like what? We’re having a divorce,” she says and Garry is pleased to hear that. “Everyone else said how sorry they are, Garry.”
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| "Have you any of his belongings?" |
He enquires if she has any of his old belongings – letters, papers, that kind of thing; “The sort of things he would not want to keep in the office.”
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| "I got rid of half of that" |
Kath tells him that she got rid of half of Brynmor’s stuff,
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| "How about the other half?" |
but Garry is keen to hear what happened to the other half.
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| "There's nothing of value" |
“Well, there are old files and photographs – nothing of value – it’s all rubbish – Why? Do you want it?”
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| "What would I do without you?" |
Anita has arranged the magazines on the shelf and Colin comments, “What would I do without you?” She asks if he is glad she stayed and he replies that he is very glad.
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| "That place is like a prison" |
“It’s nice to escape, because that place is a prison. Do you want me to put more cereal out because they’re running low?”
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| "Lleucu will be out of work at this rate" |
He remarks that Lleucu will be out of work at this rate; “Yeah, Lleucu works here.”
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| "There's one woman in your life already" |
Anita reminds him that there is one woman in his life already
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| "Quite right, Anita" |
and he agrees that she is quite right.
“Do you remember how we used to take every opportunity to be together?
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| "The cellar in the Deri was our favourite place" |
“The cellar in the Deri was our favourite place.” He reminds her that many years have passed since then, but she maintains that it feels like yesterday.
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| "But we were young and foolish" |
“But we were foolish, weren’t we? Young, dumb and foolish,” she stresses. Anita remembers that they had fun together; he has to agree with that.
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| "Imagine what things would be like" |
“Imagine what things would be like if we’d carried on,” she continues.
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| "Perhaps we could have run away to the Bahamas!" |
He thinks that perhaps they could have run away to the Bahamas together by now; she tells him that would have been nice, living with him.
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| "No, it wasn't meant to be, Anita" |
Now he is getting rather worried and comments that it was not meant to be.
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| "It would be easy to run away" |
“But it would be easy enough, you know – run away, pack a bag and leave just like that!” she enthuses.
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| Colin escapes, thanks to . . . |
Fortunately for Colin, at this point the shop door opens and Ieuan returns; Anita grumbles, “What does he want now?”
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| . . . the arrival of Ieuan |
He asks if she has found out from Eileen what she wanted to know, but Anita has forgotten about that. He proposes that they could phone her later to find out,
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| "Don't forget your handbag" |
telling Anita not to forget her handbag,
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| "I don't want to leave" |
but she is adamant that she does not want to leave.
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| "You don't want to disappoint Kelly, do you?" |
“Look, Kelly is looking forward to having you home – you don’t want to disappoint her, do you?”
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| "Oh – all right, then" |
Now she agrees that she will leave and Colin says that they have had a nice morning.
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| "We would have had a nice afternoon as well" |
“We would have had a nice afternoon as well – if he hadn’t come to get me!” she growls.
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| Sioned cannot understand it |
Sioned cannot understand why Mathew would have a problem with Siôn;
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| "It doesn't make sense" |
“Neither can I – it doesn’t make sense,” agrees her mother.
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| "He wasn't quite right this morning" |
Sioned recalls that Matthew was not quite right this morning when they were discussing the arrangements for the children and she will have a word with him.
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| "Siôn considers himself a grandfather to the twins" |
“Siôn considers himself as much of a grandfather to the twins as he does to Greta and Arwen,” says Eileen.
Sioned suddenly realises; “Grandfather?” and her mother does not believe there is anything wrong with that.
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| "Did Siôn call himself 'Tad-cu'?" |
“Does Siôn call himself ‘Tad-cu’?”
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| "What exactly is the problem here?" |
Eileen wants to know exactly what is the problem here.
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| "You should have checked with me first" |
“Don’t you think you should have checked with me first to make sure I was happy with that?” Sioned demands, but her mother assumed she would be fine with it. “You can’t take these things for granted – I’m their mother!”
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| "Sorry – I didn't think" |
Eileen apologises that she did not think.
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| Sioned believes she has solved the mystery |
“Listen, if Siôn really wants to call himself ‘Tad-cu’, then that’s fine with me.” However, she is then thinking about Matthew.
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| Pictures of Brynmor |
Garry is going through a box of papers and photos to see what he can find; there are various pictures of Brynmor,
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| Then there is a significant find . . . |
but then he comes across a small piece of paper
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| . . . an address in Swansea |
on which is written, ‘Unit 17, Stryd y Groes, Swansea’ with the number, ‘C27890X’, which is of particular interest.
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| "I had to sing it twenty times" |
Later, Mathew has put the twins to bed, reporting to Sioned that he had to sing ‘Heno, heno’ twenty times.
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| "Mam has offered to babysit" |
She tells him that her mother came over earlier and has offered to babysit for them next week so that they can have a break.
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| "We don't need a break" |
As predicted, he insists that he does not need a break,
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| "You have to admit that would be nice" |
but Sioned continues, “She also offered to have them one night a week for a while – you have to admit, that would be nice – and nice forJac and Lili to spend time with Mam and Siôn, of course – don’t you think?”
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| No comment |
He does not say anything,
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| "Math, what are you afraid of?" |
so she reminds him, “Math, you said you’d talk to me – what are you afraid of?”
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| Still he says nothing |
Again he remains silent.
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| Anita is exhausted |
Anita is asleep in the chair at number 7 after her busy day in the shop. As he prepares jacket potatoes in the kitchen,
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| "I was worried she was getting worse" |
Ieuan remarks to Kelly, “I was worried she was getting worse this morning.
Kelly confirms that she is getting worse,
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| "Colin said she was fine" |
but he insists, “Colin said she was fine.”
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| "I hear you were sorting the shop with Colin" |
Anita calls to Kelly, so she goes into the other room and comments, “I hear you were sorting the shop with Colin,”
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| Anita beckons to her |
but it appears that Anita wants to tell her something in confidence and beckons to her.
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| "Wwe're going away – Colin and me . . ." |
“We’re going away – Colin and me –
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| ". . . but not a word to him, OK?" |
“but not a word to him, OK? Do you promise not to say anything?” Kelly simply smiles and enquires whether Colin knows about this.
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| "It was his idea" |
“Well, of course Colin knows – it was his idea!” Anita exclaims.
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| "Perhaps he was having a bit of banter" |
Kelly suggests that perhaps Colin was just having a bit of banter. “No, no – because he said . . .”
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| "But we love each other" |
Then she appears to forget what she was about to say, but adds, “We love each other.”
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| "You and Ieuan love each other, yeah?" |
She is corrected, “You and Ieuan love each other, yeah?
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| "And this your home" |
“And this is your home, here, with Ieuan and me.”
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| "Jac isn't in any danger" |
Mathew has been talking to Sioned, so she assures him, “Jac isn't in any danger.” He already knows that, but says it is really hard to explain. He knows that he has to work through this, but he cannot silence the voices at the back of his mind.
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| "What if there is reason to question Siôn?" |
“What if there is a reason to question Siôn and we haven’t noticed? I’d never forgive myself!” he frets.
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| "Have you discussed this with your counsellor?" |
Sioned stops him there; “Listen, we have no reason to doubt Siôn, do we? Have you discussed this with your counsellor?”
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| "No, not yet" |
He replies that he has not done that yet, but . . .
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| Garry continues his investigation |
Garry rolls up his sleeves and looks into another small box,
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| The twins, Berwyn and Brynmor . . . |
finding a photo of two babies;
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| . . . with their names on the back |
the names on the back are Berwyn and Brynmor.
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| Then also a photo of one of them . . . |
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| . . . an enlargement of which shows a prominent birthmark . . . |
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| . . . and is clearly marked 'Berwyn' |
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| He compare this with a more recent adult photo |
In the other box he finds a later photograph of Brynmor.
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| Eleri returns in a bad mood |
Just then, Eleri returns, so he closes the box; she asks whether he fancies a glass of wine and remarks, “Don’t worry about discussing Brynawelon – I’m not in the mood!”
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| "What – after all the complaints this morning?" |
He is surprised after all the complaints he had about it this morning.
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| "The wrinklies all afternoon!" |
“Well, I deserve to switch off after being with the wrinklies all afternoon,” she groans.
She wonders what he has there on the table, so he describes them as business papers;
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| "Just old photographs and things" |
“I got this from Kath, for you to pass on to your father – it’s just old photographs and things. I had a look at them – I hope you don’t mind.
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| "He's got a pretty big birthmark, hasn't he?" |
“He’s got a pretty big birthmark, hasn’t he?”
Eleri agrees, commenting that she had a fright the first time she saw it, “In that horrible flat we had in New York – he came out of the shower in just a towel!
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| "I had to set serious boundaries after that!" |
“I had to set serious boundaries after that!”
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| Neatly confirming what Garry has discovered |
Garry laughs, having found that information very useful.
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