- Valerie Marshall: You're educated aren't you?
- Mahdav: How could you tell?
- Valerie Marshall: Oh, I think you can always tell. Our teacher at school said you can always tell an educated man.
- Mahdav: How? Do let me know. How does it show?
- Valerie Marshall: I dunno... it's ehm... it's a sort of gentle.
- Mahdav: A man of the Orient is naturally gentle, yet passionate too. He is both a tranquil stream and a raging torrent.
- Valerie Marshall: That's good. I like that.
- [pause]
- Valerie Marshall: Well, I think I better be going now.
- Mahdav: Valerie, we have so much in common, you and I. We're both in need.
- Valerie Marshall: In need?
- Mahdav: May I tell you that... I find you beautiful?
- Valerie Marshall: Not really.
- Mahdav: Then let my eyes speak for me. Aren't they eloquent? Look into my eyes. Go on - look. What do you see?
- Valerie Marshall: Well, your pupils... they're eh, a bit big.
- Mahdav: They are dark pools. They reflect your beauty.
- Valerie Marshall: [she laughs]
- Mahdav: Please don't laugh. Is something funny?
- Valerie Marshall: I'm sorry.
- Mahdav: European women don't know how to accept compliments.
- Valerie Marshall: Oh, I didn't mean to be rude.
- Mahdav: It's alright. I understand.
- Valerie Marshall: I haven't offended you, have I? Oh, go on...
- Mahdav: You've made it difficult for me. May I hold your hand? I'm so happy we met. I feel I've made a friend at last.
- Valerie Marshall: Yeah, well, I think I...
- Mahdav: May I kiss you?
- Valerie Marshall: No!
- Mahdav: Please, please
- [they fall onto the bed and he kisses her]
- Mahdav: Friend! Friend!
- Valerie Marshall: Get your bloody hands off me!
- Mahdav: My friend! My friend!
- Valerie Marshall: [she screams] Friend? Well get off me then
- [they fall onto the floor]
- Mahdav: Wait a minute. Oh, my God! Valerie! Valerie, I can explain.
- [she frees herself and gets up]
- Valerie Marshall: You've done enough explaining you dirty sod!
- [she grabs her bag and slams the door]
- Mahdav: Buggeration!
- Interviewer: Mike, now you're a singer with an increasingly large following. Your ideas are projected through the mass media and, therefore, get to be known by an enormous number of people. What is it, exactly, that you're trying to say?
- Mike Preston: Well, I don't think my ideas carry very far as such. I don't believe that. I think you'd be over-estimating both the audience and me if you thought they did. You know sometimes the audience are much faster than I am to get the joke. I mean, neither of us are faster than each other. It's a... there's a complete interchange. You know, they feel things, I feel things and we do it together. It's not a process of... it's life
- Interviewer: So there's a very strong relationship?
- Mike Preston: Yeah, it's better... it's a different relationship than it used to be within the music
- Interviewer: Yeah. What practical changes would you like to help to bring about?
- Mike Preston: Well, I'll have to change my underpants some time next month. Yeah, but apart from that... and the weather... I think actually the way we live with each other could change, can change, can't change... actually it can't, no. I'd like to see it change a lot faster than it can.
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