Drabble challenge: maturity
Spooks doesn't belong to me.
Spoiler for 9.1 from which the dialogue is taken.
"A turn around the grounds?"
Lieben und arbeiten - that's how Freud described maturity.
He loved Ruth. So while he waited the agonisingly long seconds for her to turn him down, why did he feel like a teenager asking a girl to dance at the school disco?
"We move on from this."
Back to work. Blake, the 'honest politician', was a traitor. And now he just felt old, too tired to carry on.
"Can't go on: must go on."
The mature thing would be to let the wheels of justice take their course, but Ros deserved more.
Maturity was overrated.
Spoiler for 9.1 from which the dialogue is taken.
"A turn around the grounds?"
Lieben und arbeiten - that's how Freud described maturity.
He loved Ruth. So while he waited the agonisingly long seconds for her to turn him down, why did he feel like a teenager asking a girl to dance at the school disco?
"We move on from this."
Back to work. Blake, the 'honest politician', was a traitor. And now he just felt old, too tired to carry on.
"Can't go on: must go on."
The mature thing would be to let the wheels of justice take their course, but Ros deserved more.
Maturity was overrated.