Lizzie: I didn’t know you smoked, Robin.
Robin: Aye, well, there’s a lot you don’t know about me, Lizzie.
Robin: I suppose you don’t approve, do you?
Lizzie: Well – no. But it’s your business, isn’t it?
Lizzie: And I know there’s a lot I don’t know about you, but you don’t really tell me anything about yourself.
Robin: You could always look me up on the internet.
Lizzie: That would hardly be the same as getting to know you properly. Besides, I wouldn’t know what to believe, would I?
Robin: I don’t smoke that often. The other boys in the band smoked – I felt like the odd one out if I didn’t join in sometimes. Me mam never knew, she’d’ve killed me.
Robin: There – it’s out now. An’ I’m goin’ to throw the rest of the packet away an’ not do it ever again.
Lizzie: Well, it’s up to you, isn’t it?
Robin: Ah, Lizzie, I’m sorry I got cross at you.
Lizzie: It’s okay.
Robin: No it isn’t. You’re helpin’ me out an’ I got arsey with you. I just feel sometimes…
Robin: …I feel like I can’t get anythin’ right. Not even the stupid washin’ machine.
Lizzie: Let’s go and have another look at that manual – we’ll just highlight the bits you need to refer to, so you can find them quickly.
Robin: I’d still rather you just told me what buttons to press…
Lizzie: Robin – are you –
Robin: Am I what, Lizzie?
Lizzie: Are you –
Lizzie: – Are you sure you don’t just want to pay someone to do your washing…?
Robin: Ah, Lizzie! I want to learn to look after meself! I can’t do that if I’m payin’ someone else to look after me!
Robin: You must think I’m such a hopeless case…
Lizzie: Of course I don’t. If it’s any comfort, I don’t think Tom knows his way round the washing machine either!
Robin: Well, I’ve had enough of all that today anyway –
Robin: An’ you’re right that I don’t say much about meself, but – I don’t like talkin’ about the band all that much, an’ that’s been me whole life for the last five years, an’ I want to forget it all –
Lizzie: You don’t have to tell me anything that you don’t want to, Robin.
Robin: But I should tell you stuff, Lizzie – I made you tell me all about you an’ your family, didn’t I? Let’s go back in –
Robin: – I have some things you might like to look at.
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