A scene from Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day 2008
Delysia

[During an air-raid drill]

Guinevere, I'm scared!

Guinevere

It's just a drill, I'm sure it's just a drill.

Delysia

But it won't always be, will it? We're going to war, aren't we?

Guinevere

Yes we are. And that is why you must not waste a second of this precious life. Listen to me. Once I too had ambitions. Not your grand ones, simple ambitions. Marriage, children and a house of our own. He died, in the mud in France. A good, solid man. You would call him dull, no doubt, but he smiled whenever he saw me and we could've built a life on that. Your heart knows the truth, Delysia. Trust it.

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