Liverpool, January 1942. Freda has a crush on Michael Armstrong. She cannot reveal her feelings for him, but communicates them in a cryptic way by reciting some poetry. Freda tells Sheila that David has a leave and is coming home today or on Monday. With bitterness Sheila remarks that she probably has to share his leave with another woman as usual. She decides to give tit for tat, and joins Freda and Doris on a pleasure-trip to Southport. They go to a dance-hall with some soldiers, but Sheila doesn't enjoy herself, and leaves after a while. At the railway station she meets a man and they go for a drink. When they return the last train has already left, so they spend the night in the waiting room, talking with each other. When David doesn't find Sheila at home he gets furious. Sheila arrives in the morning, but she doesn't give him a clear picture of where she spent the night. Original Broadcast Date 13th January 1971.