Tanglewoods' Secret (1980)

Mark Eadie: Philip

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  [Ruth is lying in bed as Philip comes into her room, sits on her bed and reaches inside a sock] 

  Philip : [as Ruth excitedly tries to feel the contents of the sock]  Careful!

  [Philip takes out a bun covered with white icing and gives it to Ruth] 

  Ruth : [excitedly taking the bun]  Philip!

  [Ruth starts eating the bun] 

  Ruth : [happily]  What else did you have for supper?

  Philip : I'm afraid we had meatballs, but they weren't very nice so you didn't miss much.

• Philip : [looking at the cameras in a shop window]  That one there on the left.

  Ruth : What would we use it for?

  Philip : To take bird pictures with it of course!

  Ruth : [excited]  You mean like the pheasants hatching out?

  Philip : [downcast]  No. They'd be hatched out within a few days. It'll take *ages* to buy a camera.

  Ruth : Well how much have we got now?

  Philip : I don't know. Just over a pound I think.

  Ruth : [encouraging]  Oh Philip! It won't take long to save! I'm *sure* it won't!

• Terry : [climbing a tree with Ruth and Philip]  Can you see 'em?

  [Ruth notices a bird's nest] 

  Ruth : [excited]  Yes!

  Philip : [excited]  Gosh look at that!

  Ruth : How does it not fall off?

  Philip : I don't know. Wood pigeon's nests are always like that.

  Terry : [climbing higher up]  I've got a better place to watch the eggs from!

  Philip : It'll never hold you!

  Ruth : Terry be careful!

  [Terry edges along a thin branch whilst holding onto an even thinner one] 

  Terry : [swinging out]  Wahoo!

  [Ruth screams and Terry laughs as he steadies himself on another thin branch] 

  Ruth : Terry don't do that!

  [Terry laughs and edges along another thin branch, which snaps] 

  Ruth : [screams]  TERRY!

  [Terry falls out of the tree and lands on the grass] 

  Philip : [quickly climbs down and runs over to Terry]  Ruth, I'm not quite sure but I think he's alive.

• Philip : [as he, Ruth and Terry are running down a hill in the woods]  What's your name?

  Terry : Terry.

  Ruth : Where do you live?

  Terry : At the cottage in the euro, down Tanglewoods way.

  Philip : Have you got any brothers and sisters?

  Terry : No, it's only me and my Mum.

  Ruth : Where's your father?

  Terry : Ain't got none.

  Ruth : What are you collecting flowers for?

  Terry : Mum sells them in the town. She's a flower seller.

  [Terry points to a nest] 

  Terry : There you are. There's one of your pheasant's nests.