If you ever find yourself enjoying the likes of Brief Encounter and The French Lieutenant’s Woman then you just might like this passage from Henry Longfellow:

“Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,
Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.”

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Theologian’s Tale; Elizabeth. Tales of a Wayside Inn. 1863.

The Cobb is the name for the ancient harbour at Lyme Regis which features in the film The French Lieutenant’s Woman. It is here that Charles first encounters Sarah.