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FORTY YEARS What's that? What did you say?
ALICE Oh nothing, nothing. It was Rosemary.
ROSEMARY I agree – nothing! Nothing at all. I was just interested in your debate. Do go on.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS I have forgotten what I was saying. These women butted – I mean – ‘said’ something.
ROSEMARY Ah – these women! Always our fault!
ALICE I see your ‘gallantry’ remains unimpaired.
TWENTY YEARS Where would you have been if we had not fought?
MAN And won. Don't forget you won too!
ROLAND We did our best, you sneering lout.
MAN A girlfriend of mine taught me how to sneer. She said she had learned it from an English soldier who threw his cigarette butts on the ground to see smoke-crazed German women fight for them in the dust.