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Dinah, The Heart of Me Played by Helena Bonham Carter

“Let us agree to give up love

And root in the infernal grove

Then shall we return and see

The world’s of happy eternity.

And throughout all eternity

I forgive you, you forgive me

As our dear redeemer said

This is the wine and this the bread.”

• Madeleine: And throughout all eternity I forgive you, you forgive me. You know it of course.
• Dinah: Blake. One of my favourite poems.
• Madeleine: Rickie was having it engraved on a bracelet. It seems that’s what he was trying to collect from the jewellers the day he died. I’ve always assumed the bracelet was for me; never understood how he got caught like that, out in the street in an air raid. He was ill again by then of course, told him he’d be lucky to last the year. Mother told me you’d dreamt of him the night he died.
• Dinah: She shouldn’t have said that.
• Madeleine: Why ever not?
• Dinah: Well it makes it sound as if, I don’t know, as if he were thinking of me at the end or something.
• Madeleine: I think a dying man might well remember the woman he loved.