The Captive Heart1946

Cpl. Ted Horsfall:
[watches as Evans begins planting his vegetable garden in the spring of 1944] Trying leeks again this year?

Pvt. Don Evans:
I was thinking of trying some asparagus.

Cpl. Ted Horsfall:
Asparagus? That takes seven years, Don.

Pvt. Don Evans:
[sadly] Aye.

Cpl. Ted Horsfall:
[referring to the war] I don't give it more than another year, meself.

Pvt. Don Evans:
Another year? Meredith will be four.

Cpl. Ted Horsfall:
Flo's hair's gone all white, she says.

Pvt. Don Evans:
Everything's changing. Do you think we'll be able to pick it up? The business, and everything?

Cpl. Ted Horsfall:
Search me. We're not as young as we were.

Pvt. Don Evans:
No. We're not as young as we were.