YOU WANT TO LOSE YOUR ONLY FRIEND?

 

FLORENCE

You want to lose your only friend?

Well, keep it up you're doing fine

Why this humiliation?

Why treat me like a fool?

I've taken shit for seven years

And I won't take it anymore

 

FREDDIE

I'm only teasing Soviets

With gentle bonhomie

And you've a better reason to be anti-them

Than me

 

FLORENCE

There's a time and there's a place

 

FREDDIE

Well how about here and now?  Are you for me or for them?

 

FLORENCE

There's a time and there's a place

 

FREDDIE

1956 - Budapest is rising

1956 - Budapest is fighting

1956 - Budapest is falling

 

I'd have thought you'd support

Any attack on these people

On the people who ran

Mindlessly over your childhood

Don't let them fool you for

Thirty years on they're the same

 

FLORENCE

1956 - Budapest is fighting

1956 - Budapest is dying

 

FREDDIE

They see chess as a war

Playing with pawns just like Poland

If you walk out on me

You're really betraying your father

Were he alive now

He'd surely be dying of shame

 

FLORENCE

You know that there's nothing I've done

That he'd be ashamed of in my whole life!

Why'd you have to do this to me?