For some time now she has had the conviction that life is about to change if only because it must. . . .

When you're reading a book, you're always looking for the natural place to stop. With a movie, you can't really have that sense of it coming momentarily to a halt; there's pressure to keep the momentum up.

Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles on top of her contact lenses so that other traffic loomed menacingly out of nowhere like alien space cruisers.

Dont run before you can walk

She realises that if she is to save the show she is going to have to improvise a rousing speech, one of the many Henry V moments that make up her working life.

…and you smile back and try not to think about the fact that you have nothing, absolutely nothing, to say to each other.

If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place