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[on the train to Hull]

Reynolds:
Are you travelling to Hull?

Sally Brown:
Yes.

Reynolds:
Going back home?

Sally Brown:
Just for the weekend. How did you guess?

Reynolds:
Experience... plus instinct. People from Hull, they all have this mysterious northern mist behind their eyes.

Sally Brown:
You must be clever.

Reynolds:
Not really.

Sally Brown:
It takes a clever feller to talk rubbish like that.

Reynolds:
No, what it is, it's envy.

Sally Brown:
Fancy.

Reynolds:
I've lived in about a dozen places. You get to envy people who know where home is.

Sally Brown:
"Promised Land", they call it.