Brief Encounter 
2/2, (AABB)5, A major five-couple longways
Marj Hendy, 1996.
English Dance and Song, winter 2001.
Marj Hendy, Brief Encounter, 2005.

Music:
Judi Morningstar, \March of St. Timothy", October 2, 1984.
Keith Murphy, \On the Danforth", 2001.
Barnes 3 (p33)

A1 1-2 Right diagonals right-hand pull-by.
   3-4 Opposites left-hand pull-by.
   5-6 Right diagonals right-hand pull-by.
   7-8 Opposites left-hand pull-by.

A2 1-8 Same-sex ends (top four women, bottom four men) star right and star left
       while middles (first man and fifth woman) gypsy and swing.

B1 1-8 First woman (in second place on the men's side) and
       fifth man (in fourth place on the women's side) (partners of the middles)
       cast left to lead others out of their stars in a single file
       around the ends into lines on the sides of the set.

       Middles wait and join on the ends of the single-file lines.
       End proper in inverted order.


B2 1-4 Ones (bottoms) lead up to the top.
   5-8 Ones cast to the bottom, others follow to invert the set.
   End in the order 2, 3, 4, 5, 1.


Simplified alternate progression:
B1 1-8 First woman (in second place on the men's side) continue down and
       fifth man (in fourth place on the women's side) continue up
       to lead their stars in a single-file along the side and
       around the other side to original places.

B2 1-4 Tops lead to the bottom while others move up one place.
   5-8 Long lines lead forward and fall back.

-  The second long diagonals, who are not involved in the first right-hand pull-by, are the leaders
of the single-file lines. This ending represents a train leaving the station.

-  Written during a folk camp at Appleby-in-Westmorland located near the Carnforth railway
station, one of the filming locations for the 1945 movie Brief Encounter.

Dances from Barnes Three
Assembled by Robert Messer, April 26, 2019