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| Indeg has got hold of it, somehow |
It appears that somehow Indeg has managed to acquire the ring, by some means; she is looking quite pleased with herself.
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| "You got it, then?" |
Ows tries to encourage her, “You got it, then? Sometimes we have to do things that are difficult to get what we want.” He wishes her good luck
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| "See you tonight" |
and she says that she will see him tonight, as she leaves the house.
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| Mark is home |
Mark is just arriving at Maes-y-Deri, where Dani suspects him of ‘mitching’ [skiving] halfway through his shift,
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| "I've finished my shift" |
but he assures her that the shift is finished.
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| He hands her a letter |
He has a letter for her and she looks worried as she opens the envelope;
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| "I wasn't expecting it to arrive so quickly" |
“I wasn’t expecting it to arrive so quickly,” she groans, but he maintains there is no point wasting time, enquiring whether she is going to open the other envelope inside it.
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| "There's something I need to do first" |
“There’s something I need to do first,” she replies.
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| Indeg is waiting for a bus (to Swansea?) |
Indeg is waiting at the bus stop, which now appears to have lost its timetable;
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| "Where are you going?" |
Siwsi comes round the corner by the surgery and is surprised to see her there. “Where are you going?” she asks and is told that Indeg has a makeover job.
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| "Where's your make-up kit, then?" |
Siwsi naturally asks where is her make-up kit, in that case, so Indeg has to improvise;
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| "The client wants to use their own stuff" |
“The client wants to use their own stuff,”
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| Siwsi does not believe a word of it |
which causes Siwsi immediate suspicion as she continues on her way.
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| "I finished the milk in my protein shake" |
Ows presents Cassie with 4 pints of milk, apologising, “I finished the milk in my protein shake.”
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| "Be grateful he has the sense to buy one" |
Kath comments that Cassie should be grateful he has the sense to buy one to replace it.
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| Ows has been thinking about Em |
He has been thinking about Em; “How do you think we shall get on? It will be nice to meet ‘them’.”
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| "I only sent the message last week" |
Cassie protests that she only sent the message last week and that Em has not been to Cwmderi for a while.
“More reason to invite ‘them’ down – please?” Cassie concludes that she could phone,
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| "Go om, Cassandra!" |
with Ows adding, “Go on, Cassandra!”
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| Ieuan has been thinking |
hurries in, heading straight to Ieuan, who is sitting at a table; he says, “Siwsi, I’ve been thinking about Indeg and Melanie . . .”
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| "There's no time for that!" |
She tells him that there is no time for that; “We have to go – now! I just saw Indeg get on a bus – I think she’s going to Swansea. Babs is outside – we should go after her!”
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| "How are we going to find her?" |
Ieuan wonders how they are going to find her
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| "We start with where I saw her last time" |
and is told, “We could start where I saw her last time – come on!”
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| They are in a hurry to go |
They both rush out of the Deri.
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| Garry is doing some measuring up |
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| "I need to discuss something" |
“I need to discuss something with you in private,” she tells him, but he insists that he is busy. “OK – I had a call from the hospital the other day.
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| "A family that received a transplant" |
“a family that received a transplant from Seren has written a letter.”
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| "What transplant?" |
Garry stops her there, wanting to know what transplant she is talking about; “Seren was a donor, Garry,” she replies,
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| "No-one asked my permission!" |
but he denies all knowledge of this, snarling that no one asked for his permission.
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| "You must have forgotten" |
Dani explains that they needed permission, from both of them as parents, but still he insists that he would not have agreed. She says that he must have forgotten,
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| "You don't forget something like that!" |
but he shouts, “You don’t forget something like that!”
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| "Things happened so quickly" |
Dani reminds him that things happened quickly; “You were on your way back to prison, my head was a mess – so perhaps we haven’t wanted to remember until now. We had to make a decision straightaway and we thought it was the right thing to do. It’s what Seren would have wanted.”
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| "You had no right, Dani" |
Garry demands how Dani would know that, raging that Dani had no right.
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| "Can we go somewhere else?" |
She snaps, “You must have thought the same, because you agreed – and now this family wants to thank us – can we go somewhere else?”
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| They adjourn to Cysgod y Glyn |
Garry takes her back to Cysgod y Glyn.
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| Indeg is back to see her contact |
Indeg is back at the park bench overlooking the football pitch near the block of flats, where her contact is waiting.
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| "Have you brought the ring?" |
“You’re late – have you brought it?” Indeg hands over the ring,
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| "At last! Good job" |
with the woman commenting, “At last! Good job.”
Indeg smiles, “Thanks, Mam – perhaps we can go for that coffee now.”
However, her mother is chuckling gleefully, “Look at it – stunning.”
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| "There's a coffee shop by the bus stop" |
Indeg points out that there is a coffee shop by the bus stop, but is completely ignored, with her mother complaining that the ring is too big, “But Mam-gu always had chubby fingers – anyway, it’s not the size that’s important, it’s the value.”
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| Suddenly, Ieuan materialises |
As she looks at the ring, Ieuan arrives; “Melanie,” he says
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| "Dad!" |
and she looks up in surprise to see her father.
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| "What the hell are you doing with Mami's ring?" |
He demands, “What the hell are you doing with Mami’s ring?”
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| "What have you told him?" |
Melanie suspects that this has been engineered by Indeg: “What have you told him?”
 " |
| "I haven't told him anything" |
Indeg promises that she has not told her grandfather anything. “You led him here, you idiot!”
Ieuan reprimands Melanie for speaking to Indeg like that;
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| "I'll speak to her how I like" |
“I’ll speak to her how I like – I’m her mother,” is the angry reply.
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| "This is the way you treat your daughter?" |
He is surprised that is the way she treats her daughter; “Forcing her into a care home to steal on your behalf!”
Melanie argues that she was supposed to inherit Mam-gu’s jewellery and had been told that lots of times.
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| "You passed them on to your latest girlfriend!" |
“But you passed them on to your latest girlfriend!”
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| "Wanted revenge, did you?" |
Ieuan imagines that she wanted revenge against Anita, in the condition she is in.
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| "It's not my fault she's got dementia" |
“It’s not my fault she's got dementia – but when Indeg said she was confused, between her and her own daughter, Eira, well . . .”
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| "You could have asked for anything" |
Ieuan replies that she could have asked for anything and he would have given it to her; “I’ve never refused to give you and your sister anything.”
“Oh, no, we got everything we wanted – toys, clothes, trips away.” When he suggests that they had a happy upbringing,
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| "Privileged, not happy" |
she describes it as, “Privileged, not happy – we wanted a father, not things.”
Ieuan appreciate that the divorce was not easy for her, but Melanie insists that they were brushed aside,
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| "You and Mam weer at each other's throats" |
“While you and Mam were at each other’s throats all the time.”
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| "I make one mistake in my teens" |
She turns to speak to Indeg; “Tycs isn’t a very nice man when he’s angry – he hit me once – I will never forget it. You cut me out of of your life because I made one mistake in my teens.”
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| "Are you saying I'm a mistake?" |
Indeg cannot believe she is being described as a ‘mistake’; “Is that all I was to you?
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| Indeg walks away |
She gets up and walks away.
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| "Happy now?" |
“Happy now?” demands Ieuan.
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| "I want to remember her as she was" |
At Cysgod y Glyn, Garry insists, “I want to remember her as she was – pretty, perfect – not lying there on an operating table with doctors . . .”
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| "She loved to give us little gifts . . ." |
“Do you remember how she loved to give us little gifts?” asks Dani, “What better gift than giving life? I saw you in the hospital the other day and you said this could be an opportunity.
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| ". . . what of the opportunity is of someone else?" |
“So what if the opportunity isn’t for us, but for someone we don't know? I understand why someone would want to thank us.”
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| "Our daughter died for their child to live?" |
Garry snarls, “What? To thank us that our daughter died for their child to live? I don’t want a letter, Dani! Please just phone the hospital and tell them not to send it!”
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| "I was hoping we could open it together" |
Dani reaches into her bag and produces the letter; “I was hoping we could open it together – for Seren.”
Garry is in tears by this time;
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| Garry takes the letter . . . |
he takes the letter from her
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| . . . and tears it into pieces |
and tears it into pieces.
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| "I don't want to hear another word about this!" |
“I don’t want to hear another word about this – do you understand? Just go, please.”
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| Dani leaves |
She looks down at the torn-up letter in his hand and leaves the flat.
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| "Go and talk to her, please" |
Ieuan pleads with Melanie to go and talk to Indeg.
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| "She was a mistake – and that's the truth" |
“She was a mistake, that’s the truth – and you never let me forget that,” Melanie reminds him.
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| "I didn't realise how much I hurt you" |
He is sorry that he did that, explaining that he was so angry, he did not realise how much he had hurt her, but now he can see that.
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| "I was never the best husband to your mother . . ." |
“I was never the best husband to your mother,
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| ". . . but I tried to be he best father" |
“but I tried to be the best father I could be to you and Lauren.”
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| "You failed!" |
Her verdict is that he failed, so he acknowledges that she has every right to hate him,
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| "Please go and talk to her" |
but begs her not to give Indeg a reason to hate her as well. “Please, Melanie, for her sake – well, for both your sakes – go and talk to her – please.”
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| Ows has carried Prosecco from the cellar |
Ows has brought a case of Prosecco up from the cellar for Cassie;
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| "You're up and down the stairs in no time" |
“You’re up and down the stairs in half the time I take with those long legs.” He is anxious to know whether Em has replied. “Well, I sent a message, so we shall see.”
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| "Message, Cassie" |
that moment, Kath brings over her phone, as she has a message,
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| "I'd love to come down and see you" |
which she reads; “Hiya, Mam, thanks for the invite – I’d love to come down to see you for a few days. How about next week? Looking forward to seeing everyone and meeting Ows.”
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| "The spare room will have to be cleared out" |
She is very pleased with that news and Ows is really looking forward to it; the spare room will have to be cleared out and the bed changed, but Ows is quite willing to help with that.
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| "Carpe Diem, Cassandra" |
He tells her, “Carpe Diem, Cassandra.”
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| "You've trained him well" |
Kath remarks that Cassie has trained him well
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| "I was only 16 when I found out I was pregnant" |
As they stand by one of the blocks of flats, Melanie says, “I was only 16 when I found out I was pregnant –
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| "They wanted me to go to college . . ." |
“they wanted me to go to college and get a tidy job, a husband who was a doctor or a solicitor and a nice big house.
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| ". . . but instead of that, I had you" |
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| "That's what men do" |
“That’s what men do you see, when the going gets tough.”
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| "It's tough, struggling on benefits . . ." |
Ieuan is approaching as she continues, “It’s tough, yeah, struggling by on benefits, moving from one damp flat to the next,
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| ". . . going to bed in out coats to keep warm" |
“going to bed in our coats just to keep warm.”
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| "I remember cwtching up to you in bed" |
Indeg can remember that; “Cwtching up to you in bed – you warmed my feet up sometimes.”
Melanie goes on complaining, “I was home with you every night for years, I never had any money to go out – and, even if I did, I had no-one to babysit anyway.”
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| "I did look after Indeg sometimes" |
Ieuan protests that he did look after Indeg sometimes and came over now and again.
“As a last resort,” sneers Melanie, “And you told me that.”
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| "You could have come over for a meal" |
He insists that he did not know things were so tight for her, adding that she could have come over more often, for a meal.
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| "I'd rather starve!" |
Melanie growls that she would rather starve; “And I did sometimes – so that she had something in her stomach. We never had a spare penny to treat ourselves to anything nice –
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| "No wonder this girl is obsessed" |
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| "Is that how you see me?" |
Indeg objects to this, “Is that how you see me? As some shallow airhead who’s only out to make money?”
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| "You were happy to steal from your grandmother" |
She is told, “You were only too happy to steal from your grandmother!”
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| "I would have done anything to please you" |
“I would have done anything to please you, that’s why,” is Indeg’s retort, “And, unlike you, I do care about people – I think the world of Anita.”
“The woman you’ve been grooming for weeks?”
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| "Stop this!" |
Ieuan intervenes to protest,
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| "Why should your fancy woman get the jewels?" |
but is told in no uncertain terms, “Why should your fancy woman get her hands on the jewels Mam-gu promised me? She doesn’t deserve them.”
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| Indeg slides the ring from her mother's finger . . . |
Indeg angrily rages, “You don’t deserve them either,” as she deftly removes the ring from her mother’s finger,
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| . . . hurries across the road . . . |
runs across the road
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| . . .and drops it into a drain |
and deposits it down a roadside drain,
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| A drain's-eye-view of the ring hitting the water |
much to Melanie’s chagrin.
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| Mark offers to share his meal |
Dani returns to Maes-y-Deri, where Mark is eating a takeaway, but she says she is not hungry.
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| "How did it go with Garry?" |
He enquires how it went with Garry and whether they read the letter together.
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| "I don't think we'll ever agree on anything" |
“I don’t think Garry and I will ever agree on anything – not the important things, anyway. Today has reminded me how selfish and hard-hearted he is.
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| "I never want to go near him again!" |
“I never want to go near him again!”
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| "You had no right to do that!" |
As they stand by the drain, Melanie shouts, “You had no right to do that!”
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| "That ring means more than your own daughter!" |
Ieuan is absolutely disgusted that the ring means more than her own daughter.
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| "More than your daughters ever meant to you! |
“It means more than your daughters ever meant to you!” she snarls, “Do you really think this idiot cares about you?”
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| "Don't talk about Indeg like that!" |
He tells her not to talk about Indeg like that, but is asked, “How can you trust her?” He points out that Indeg is remorseful about what happened with Anita,
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| "You and your big words" |
but Melanie simply sneers at his use of big words.
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| "Unlike me, is it?" |
He emphasises, “Indeg is part of our family now and I’m not going to turn my back on her – because I love her.”
“Unlike me, is it?” demands Melanie, but he does not reply.
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| "I never want to see you again . . ." |
“Well, at least I know where I stand now – I never want to see you again!”
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| ". . . or you, either!" |
Then she turns to Indeg; “Or you, either!” and she walks away. Ieuan stops Indeg from following.
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| "That's what Melanie always does" |
“Let her go, Indeg – that’s what Melanie always does – when things get difficult, she runs away.”
Indeg protests that she had just started to get back into her mother’s life;
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| "You don't want that sort of influence" |
“Yes, by forcing you to steal for her – trust me, Indeg, you don’t want that sort of influence in your life.”
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| "Now you've spoiled everything!" |
“But she’s my mother and now you’ve spoiled everything between us!” says Indeg and also walks away,
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| Ieuan is left alone |
leaving Ieuan standing alone by the drain.
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| Gary is deep in thought . . . |
Garry sits in the darkness at Cysgod y Glyn, thinking
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| . . . with the help of some whisky |
and taking a sip of his whisky.
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| He gets Sellotape from the drawer . . . |
He goes to a drawer and takes out a roll of Sellotape,
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| . . . retrieves the letter from the bin . . . |
then retrieves the torn-up letter from the bin,
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| . . . and proceeds to reassemble it |
doing his best to stick it together again.
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| Mark is watching television |
At Maes-y-Deri, Mark is watching television and Dani announces she is going to bed;
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| "Sorry for being rubbish company" |
she apologises for being rubbish company tonight. He replies that he will not be long before he goes to bed.
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| Something comes through the letterbox . . . |
Suddenly, a letter arrives through the letterbox and Dani goes to see what it is,
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| . . . which Dani recognises |
recognising it at once.
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| "Are you going to open it this time?" |
She shows it to Mark, who wonders if she is going to open it this time; he is sure that she will be able to read it, even if it is ripped.
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| "No, not now" |
She decides, “No, not now – it’s obvious that Garry isn’t ready to do it and perhaps I’m not, either.”
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| It is put away in a drawer |
She puts it away into a drawer and wishes him good night.
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| "She just walked away and left me!" |
Back at number 10, Indeg is in tears; “She just walked away and left me – she said she never wanted to see me again! My own mother, turning her back on me.”
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| "That's what families do" |
Ows stresses that is what families do; “They hurt and disappoint each other – don’t waste your tears.”
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| "Your Nan hasn't turned her back on you" |
Indeg protests, “Your Nan hasn’t turned her back on you,”
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| "Cassandra's no saint" |
but he maintains that Cassandra is no saint, either, not by a long way. Things are good between them for now,
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| "Karma has a way of catching up with people" |
but he predicts that karma has a way of catching up with people sooner than they expect.
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| He gives Indeg a hug |
He hugs Indeg.
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