Barbara Covett: Do you know much about wine?
Richard Hart: I know I like drinking it!
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Barbara Covett: I couldn't possibly speak for Mrs. Hart but, instinct tells me she may not be your type.
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Barbara Covett: When I was young I had such a vision of myself. I dreamt I'd be someone to be reckoned with, you know, in the world. But one learns one's scale. I've such a dread of ending my days alone. Recently, I've allowed myself to think that I may not be. Am I wrong?
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Barbara Covett: People anguish for years with partners who are clearly from another planet. We want so much to believe that we've found our other. It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient.
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Barbara Covett: And Fatty Hodge pounced on her. A dubious double-act. The blonde... and the pig in knickers.
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Barbara Covett: And then I realized my fury had blinded me. There was a magnificent opportunity here. With stealth, I might secure the prize long-term, forever in my debt. I could gain everything by doing nothing.
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Barbara Covett: When we met - had it already begun?
Sheba Hart: [pause] Yes.
Barbara Covett: Had you had any further elations that day?
Sheba Hart: We - we went to the art room.
Barbara Covett: Well I'm glad I was such an aphrodisiac, I was trying to help you
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Sheba Hart: I hadn't been pursued like this for years... I knew it was wrong, and immoral, and completely ridiculous, but, I don't know. I just allowed it to happen.
Barbara Covett: The boy is fifteen!
Sheba Hart: But he's quite mature for his age!
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Barbara Covett: [about the relationship between Steven and Sheba] Well, that's when you should've stopped it.
Sheba Hart: I did! I told him I wouldn't teach him anymore. But he - refused to accept it, he just kept coming back. It began to feel like a - um, a secret, and well, secrets can be... seductive.
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Barbara Covett: Here come the local pubescent prowls. The future plumbers, shop assistants, and probably terrorists too. In the old days, we confiscated cigarettes and whack mags. Now it's knives and crack cocaine. And they call it progress.
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