Say it with us [antikvár]

CIIEHKA 1 CARPENTRYJim and Maggie Brown are a young married couple. They are now at their house just outside London. Maggie is in the sitting--room listening to the radio. A sound of hamrrieTing is heard.Maggie (calls out loudly): Jim, what are you doing in there?1 You're making a terrible noise.Jim: I'm mending. the larcje^ shelf. You asked me to do it this morning. You know it's always falling down.Maggie: Can't you leave it till later?2 I'm trying to listen to the radio.Jim: I won't be a moment now.3 I'm just hammering in the last nail. Are you listening to the Elgar4 concert?Maggie: No, that's later. It's "Viewpoint"5 now. Carol Reed is talking about the Polish Cinema7 (telephone rings). Hallo, Maggie Brown speaking.8 Oh, hallo Jane! Can you speak a little louder? Jim is hammering away9 in the larder and I can't hear you (short pause). I'm glad you rang, Jane. Are you doing anything this evening? Good. Then come and keep me company.10Jim: Who are you talking to, Maggie?Maggie: It's Jane. She's coming round11 this evening. Yes, I'll be aloneT Jim is going to his evening class13 tonight. He's taking a course in carpejitr^. He's always taking bits of furniture to pieces13 nowadays, and trying to put them together14 again. Well, see you at seven15 then. 'Bye,18 Jane.Jim: There,17 that's the shelf seen to.18 You see, this carpentry course is proving very useful after all,19 I say30 Maggie, are we having supper soon? I must leave about seven.13