 Waters especially appreciated the way Davies interpreted Kitty 's ambivalence about being in love with Nan . He wrote the line for her , " I hate the way you make me feel " , which according to Waters crystallises Kitty 's complicated emotions well . The music in the adaptation was written for the film . Waters wrote song titles but not lyrics in the music references in the novel . For one song , during Kitty and Nan 's first performance in the adaptation , Davies wrote a composition that had Kitty show Nan — dressed and performing as brothers — how to pick up girls in the park . It involved Kitty teaching Nan how to kiss , which they do onstage in front of audiences who are watching women , dressed as men , who are in reality having an affair with each other beyond the view of the audience . Waters wrote a similar description as Nan compares their act to their relationship ; their sexual encounters to their performance onstage , noting the irony that Kitty insisted on absolute secrecy yet there they performed in front of thousands : " You are too slow — you go too fast — not there , but here — that 's good — that 's better ! It was as if we walked before the crimson curtain , lay down upon the boards and kissed and fondled — and were clapped , and cheered , and paid for it ! " 
