Honeymoon Suite

"You love someone, you can feel it, like a lump, summat you carry around with yer. Bloody hell, it''s either there or it int, like a hat."

If Romeo and Juliet had lived, would their marriage have survived? How long? Ten years? Twenty? Fifty? How would the union have coped with poverty, corruption, his ignorance, her aspiration, an ungrateful daughter, no sons, infidelity with an attractive bloke ...