10.  INT.  THE HORSEFIELD’S LIVING ROOM.  DAY.
ROSE IS SAT READING A MAGAZINE. GEOFF COMES IN.
GEOFF:
I’ve put it back in the garage. (ROSE LOOKS UP) The car. I’ve put it in the garage.
ROSE:
I thought we were going for a drive out?
GEOFF:
Well I’m not going to risk them kids hitting it again with their football am I?
GEOFF PICKS UP THE NEWSPAPER FROM THE SEAT OF AN EASY CHAIR, SITS DOWN AND STARTS TO IT.
ROSE
I was thinking we might go to Knowsley Safari Park.
GEOFF:
(LOOKS UP) What?
ROSE:
Knowsley Safari Park. For our drive out.
GEOFF:
Knowsley Safari Park?
ROSE:
It’s near Liverpool. I believe it’s ever so good.
GEOFF:
A bit far isn’t it?
ROSE:
Liverpool? It’s only an hour. It will be a nice run out. We could take a picnic.
GEOFF STARTS READING THE PAPER AGAIN.
ROSE:
Well?
GEOFF:
(LOOKS UP) Well what?
ROSE:
Knowsley Safari Park? Are we going or aren’t we?
GEOFF:
Well we shall have to see, shan’t we. (RETURNS TO THE NEWSPAPER).
ROSE:
Only Janet was saying how good it was. As you drive through looking at all the animals monkeys tap on your window.
GEOFF:
(LOOKS UP SHARPLY) Monkeys?
ROSE:
Yes they climb up onto your bonnet and tap on your window.
GEOFF:
Onto the bonnet? Yes well you can forget that for a game of soldiers.
ROSE:
What? Why?
GEOFF:
Monkeys on the bonnet of the Zephyr Zodiac?
ROSE:
They won’t do it any harm.
GEOFF:
I know they won’t, they won’t be getting the chance.
ROSE:
Them and me both.
GEOFF:
What?
ROSE:
Monkeys can’t sit on it and I can’t sit in it.
GEOFF:
What do you mean you can’t sit in it?
ROSE:
Well I haven’t managed it yet.
GEOFF:
We’ve only had it for a couple of weeks, Rose. I’ve hardly been in it myself.
ROSE:
Well now’s your chance. This afternoon. You’ve nothing else to do.
GEOFF
I was thinking of doing a bit in the back garden.
ROSE:
(FIRMLY) Geoff, I would like to go for a drive out.
GEOFF:
I’m not going to that Knowsley Safari Park place.
 ROSE:
We don’t have to go to Knowsley Safari Park. We can go anywhere you like.
FADE