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Jean has recently returned from London to visit her family. She is estranged from her father and the pair have rarely spent time alone together. After another evening of drinking heavily, Archie reveals that Jean’s mother caught him in bed with Phoebe (his present wife) when Jean was just a baby. She left him immediately and died a few months later. Archie is now particularly drunk and he starts to tell her about the time he went to Canada during the war. Whilst there, he saw a woman of African
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START: ARCHIE: I went to Canada during the war.
JEAN: I remember.
ARCHIE: Couldn't get any draught Bass, not even in Toronto, and they seemed to reckon that was pretty English.
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END: ARCHIE: You wouldn't think I was sexy to look at me, would you? You wouldn't think I was sexy to look at me, would you? Well, I 'ave a go, lady. I 'ave a go, don't I? I do. I 'ave a go. That barmaid in the Cambridge. That barmaid who upset poor old Billy in the Cambridge—I had her! When he wasn't looking ...
Osborne, John. Plays Two: the Entertainer, the Hotel in Amsterdam, West Of Suez and Time Present. London: Faber & Faber, 1998. pp.63-66.
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