Laurahas a simple and happy life: she has a husband who loves her, and a pair of lovely children. Every Thursday she used to take the train to a place nearby to buy things. On this day, in a small restaurant next to the train station, her eyes were blown into the sand and she got help from the doctor Eric. A few days later, she met the doctor again in the dining room. As there were not enough tables, the two sat together for a meal and had a good chat. It turns out that the doctor is also married and comes to the local hospital here to help every Tuesday. The two agreed to meet again next week. Frequent meeting and companionship made two married people more and more eager to see each other. They knew that they were in love, but this kind of love was destined to not last in that era, even if they loved each other deeply, in the end, Had to be separated. Eric told Laura that he was about to go to faraway South Africa, leaving Laura in despair
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Brief Encounter movie plot
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Extended Reading
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Dr. Alec Harvey: I love you. I love your wide eyes, the way you smile, your shyness, and the way you laugh at my jokes.
Laura Jesson: [whimpers] Please don't.
Dr. Alec Harvey: I love you. I love you. You love me too. It's no use pretending it hasn't happened cause it has.
Laura Jesson: Yes it has. I don't want to pretend anything either to you or to anyone else. But from now on, I shall have to. That's what's wrong. Don't you see? That's what spoils everything. That's why we must stop, here and now, talking like this. We're neither of us free to love each other. There's too much in the way. There's still time, if we control ourselves and behave like sensible human beings. There's still time.
[She is overcome with tears]
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Fred Jesson: [playing the crossword puzzle] You're a poetry addict. See if you can help me over this. It's Keats. 'When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face / Huge cloudy symbols of a high _______.' Something that's seven letters.
Laura Jesson: Romance, I think. I'm almost sure it is. 'Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance.' It will be in the Oxford Book of English Verse.
Fred Jesson: No, it's right I'm sure. It fits in with 'delirium' and 'Baluchistan.