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What's that?

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Only some book.

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Let me do it. Never waste a drink.

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Thing I learned from my old nanny.

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Three things you should always carry in
your pocket, she told me.

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A penknife, a shilling, and a piece of
string. What for?

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Well, emergencies, of course.

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In Cyprus, my sergeant major got his leg
blown off, leading to death.

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With my bit of string, I put a
tourniquet on him. His mother said it

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life.

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When pyramids decay.

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They pretty decayed when I last saw
them. That was, good Lord, 30 years ago.

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I was a young Saddleton on leave from
Aidan.

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They're all the same.

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What on earth do you want six copies of
the same book for?

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When pyramids decay by E .K. Hamilton.

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But that... Me?

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Yes.

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Have you written a book?

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You are a dark author. Why didn't you
tell me?

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I didn't think you'd be interested.

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Why do you use your maiden name?

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Oh, the publisher thought Eve Peregrine
was a bit of a mouthful for people when

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they're asking for it.

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You mean it's for sale? People get to
buy it?

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Just a few, perhaps.

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Good Lord.

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Did you pay to get it published?

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They paid me.

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I say, how much?

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£500.

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Well, it's a bit thin.

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Not much work in it, I suppose.

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Ah, poetry.

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I don't expect you to read it.

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Well, not much in my line, poetry.

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It doesn't look like poetry.

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Not in verse.

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It's all chopped up.

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It doesn't seem to rhyme, either.

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Would you like me to read it?

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You don't have to.

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My dear poetry, something with a good
beat to it.

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like marching behind a band.

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The boy stood on the burning deck whence
all but he had fled.

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And when the flames there burnt his
feet, he stood upon his head.

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It was a good morning's work.

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It was bullets for a good buy.

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Hope they do well.

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Not going from corn to horn, are you?

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My small contribution to the beef
mountain.

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These subsidies can't last. They're
crazy.

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Oh, we to complain.

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How's your wife?

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Oh, not too good at the moment.

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Up and down, up and down. More down than
up just now.

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I'm sorry.

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Funny thing as women tell them.

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Indeed they are, sir.

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Talking of subsidies, did I tell you
what I'm going to do with my hundred

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this year?

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Oh, no, tell me.

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You're not going to give up barley.

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Sorry to take so long. I read your book
last night.

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You don't have to.

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Look, I wouldn't have asked, only you
offered.

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I let you off the hook, George.

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Don't bother.

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You didn't really read it, did you?

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Well, first few pages. I got a bit wet
looking at some heifers, thought I had a

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cold coming on.

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So I took a couple of aspirin and a
whiskey and, um, just dropped off, to be

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honest.

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I'll take it off to town with me
tomorrow.

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Will you be gone long?

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Well, three or four days this time. I've
got a meeting of the Landowners

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Association. I'm kicking up a stink at
the minister about common market

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bureaucracy.

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Will you be staying at the club?

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Yes, unless somebody offers to put me
up.

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Porter will know where I am.

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Porter's a gentleman's establishment.

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Notorious for never telling ladies where
their gentlemen are.

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Yours is rightfully well -trained.

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Anybody bought your book yet?

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It's only been in the shops a week.

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In the shops?

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That's where you buy books.

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You mean it might be in the windows?

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Why shouldn't they? Is that important?

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It does as well.

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The things that you see in windows
nowadays.

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I'm rather proud of these. They're a new
hybrid.

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Very nice. Smell.

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Yes, very nice.

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How splendidly old -fashioned.

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I should be wearing a transparent
negligee, have champagne in a bucket by

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bed. But we have got to go, my darling,
because I've managed to book a couple of

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seats for that musical about the French
Revolution, which you'll absolutely

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hate, so you need to stoke yourself up
on gin first.

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There's something for you on the table.

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It goes with that barbarian part of you
you're always trying to hide.

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A bit more cheery than that Robbie Dole
thing you wear.

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But it's the old school tie.

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It's not a folky tie, George.

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It's time you were redecorated.

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Now, bag, please.

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Oh, George, isn't it your wife, is it,
who's written this book for such a

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bell? What do you mean?

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The pyramids collapse or something.

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I went to an audition and three people
were reading it. I went to my agent's,

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was reading it.

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Who's it by?

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A woman called Hamilton.

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You'd think my agent were making
commission the way he went on about her.

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He said her real name was Peregrine. I
said, oh, I know somebody called

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Peregrine. He said her husband was a
colonel in the army.

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And sooner you didn't talk about me to
your friends.

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Oh, of course not. I said it can't be
the same one.

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Right, um, ready, laugh.

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Gas off.

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He said they say this colonel's a
regular old stuffed shirt.

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Oh, you know better than that.

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And if my wife had written the book, I'd
have finished to know about it,

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wouldn't I?

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Nice to see you.

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That's not your usual sort of rag.

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Country life, farm is weak, no more your
line.

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Something caught my eye.

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Don't be modest, old chap. You were
swatting up on a bit of culture.

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What's it like being the husband of a
celebrity?

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I don't know what you're talking about.
Come off it. Everybody knows E .K.

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Hamilton's your wife.

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It's not often that even I get to know
about a book of poetry.

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And there's a photograph offer in the
shop round the corner, looking smashing.

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By the way, I'm lunching with Basil
Dashwood.

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He's not really my sort of person, but
he's helping my son get into publishing.

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He'd love to meet you.

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Who's Basil Dashwood?

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Don't you have a telly in your neck of
the woods?

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Dashwood. The critic.

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He runs that, um, that arts program.

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He wrote a rave review of Evie's book in
one of the Sundays.

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Didn't she show it to you?

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Basil. Um... This is George Peregrine.

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Do you remember last week I told you...
Oh, not her husband.

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How are you?

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Is she in town by any chance? I'd very
much like to meet her.

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My wife doesn't like London. She prefers
the country.

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Simply not sideways by her book. I'd
like to have her on my programme.

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I can't go to a movie nowadays without
full frontal nudity, open a paper

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sexual details that used to be
unmentionable, go to a play without

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four -letter words, and hear someone
actually daring to write about love

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She evades nothing, obscures nothing,
and still manages to make what I can

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call, have to call, magic.

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Magic somehow undiminished by the plain
earthy facts of what really goes on

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between a man and a woman in bed.

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Very good of you to say such nice things
about my wife's little book. I'm sure

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she'll be delighted.

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But I have a train to catch and I want
to get a bite of lunch.

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Excuse me.

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Do you have... Do you have a copy of The
Pyramids Decay? When Pyramids Decay,

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sir?

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I'm sorry, we've completely filled out.

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I've just seen it in the window.

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That's our display copy, sir. It's
reprinting. We should have a large order

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couple of weeks. People are buying it,
then.

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It might be novel, the way it's selling.

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I thought nobody read poetry nowadays.

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Well, actually, it's the story they
like.

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It has a story.

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My wife couldn't put it down.

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Tragic. And very sexy, he said.

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Obviously autobiographical.

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Um... Is there another bookshop nearby?

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I doubt if you'll find a copy in London,
sir.

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I really had no idea.

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Here we have been nodding at each other
for ages and ages.

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I think they didn't know who you were.

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And I didn't know I was someone
different until last week, but it seems

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The penalties of pain, eh?

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Now, I picked up the last copy in
Harrods, and I have been totally

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I just finished when I was waiting for
Cleo at the pony club.

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Here you are, darling. You must ruin
your teeth.

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Oh, dear.

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I am sure even the author wouldn't think
it quite required reading at your age.

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Here are your dreadful horsey magazines.
They're much more suitable.

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It's less of last.

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Do you like the book?

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Would you autograph it, please?

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Oh, um...

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What shall I do?

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To Cleo, with the author's compliment.

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Cleo's with an I. Yes.

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That's the Greek news of poetry and
history.

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What did you like best?

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Poetry.

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I've put with love, too.

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My dear, collecting science editions
already.

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She get it from her father. He collect
things.

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I collect people.

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I was wondering, Mrs. Peregrino.

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Should I call you Miss Hamilton?

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Oh, I haven't thought.

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I suppose I'd better be Mrs. in the
country and Miss in town.

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It feels rather disreputable.

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No, just Evie will do fine.

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Hi, Marina.

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Oh, hello.

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Have you seen a book I left here before
I went to town? Some sort of porridge

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-coloured cover.

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No, sir.

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Well, there was more than one copy. Six
copies, to be precise. They can't all

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have vanished.

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Perhaps in Mrs.

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Peregrine's room, sir.

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No, I've looked there. I've looked
everywhere.

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What size was the book, sir?

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What sort of, um... Mrs.

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Peregrine did give me some parcels to
post, sir.

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Who were they addressed to?

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Just people who come to their house,
sir. Local people?

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I think so, sir.

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Oh, God.

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Anyway, they asked us to dinner next
week. I made an excuse.

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Why?

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They've never asked us before.

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It's the best shooting in the county.

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The only people who get it are Greeks
and Arabs.

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Oh, I didn't think of that. I thought it
would bore you.

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Did they ask us or just you?

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In point of fact, they didn't ask you.
Well, I call it damn rude of them. I

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suppose they thought it wouldn't be your
sort of evening.

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Irina likes writers and people like
that. She's invited Basil Dashwood, the

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critic. some sort of coven, and he wants
to meet me for some reason.

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It was nice of you to refuse, Evie.

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I don't suppose I'd have much in common
with the sort of people who'd be there.

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George, I've got an awful chore to do.

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They've sold my book to America.

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America?

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Well, I suppose they speak the same
language.

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They've sold it to Holland and
Scandinavia too, but never mind.

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Anyway, the American publisher's coming
over next week and my publisher's giving

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a party for him.

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I'd love you to come.

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Moral support?

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Well, it's not the crashing ball, but if
you really want me to, I'll put in an

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appearance. It would be sweet of you.

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Black tie, I suppose.

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Evie?

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Eve?

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Fraud's in the furnace.

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I was enjoying myself.

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Stop the car.

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I want to get out.

256
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I'm sorry, Evie. I'm going to spend the
night at the club.

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Taxi!

258
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I hit somebody.

259
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Why?

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Oh, patronising clot.

261
00:18:06,180 --> 00:18:08,460
There's something absolutely foul about
my wife.

262
00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:11,980
Oh, how chivalrous.

263
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Do you want to stay the night? Because I
won't be back until the crack of dawn.

264
00:18:18,860 --> 00:18:19,980
I've got a bit in a commercial.

265
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Night location on Tower Bridge.

266
00:18:22,820 --> 00:18:24,400
Oh, no, I've just passed.

267
00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:28,520
Or get me a gin, for God's sake, a large
one.

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Are you sure?

269
00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:31,480
You sound to me as though you've had a
few already.

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Where did you get this?

271
00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:44,500
Oh, that's that book I was telling you
about. Have you read it?

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I couldn't get it anywhere.

273
00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:48,320
It's sold out.

274
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Oh, I'm not surprised. It's marvellous.

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True and funny and sad.

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At the beginning, she meets this man.

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No, no, I won't spoil it. You must read
it properly.

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And not just the sexy parts.

279
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There in the middle, that's what
everybody talks about. I don't like it

280
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It's all breasts and chest and flanks
and thighs and his flat belly, his

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beautiful legs.

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But then, well, he must have died
because the last part's called a

283
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And it's all over. And he's alone and
just remembering.

284
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And he cries.

285
00:19:42,090 --> 00:19:43,830
Is that the cops referred to here?

286
00:19:45,330 --> 00:19:47,890
Yes. It's always easier when you see it
on the ground.

287
00:19:49,310 --> 00:19:50,310
Well, Evie's looking well.

288
00:19:51,110 --> 00:19:53,070
You hardly need gardeners with all her
energy.

289
00:19:55,450 --> 00:19:56,930
Well, I don't see any problems with
this.

290
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Good thing to get it all down in
writing.

291
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Perverting these old footpaths can be a
problem. I'll bring it up with the

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council.

293
00:20:08,350 --> 00:20:10,330
You mustn't let Evie overdo it, you
know.

294
00:20:10,860 --> 00:20:12,940
I slipped that disc, pushing a barrow.

295
00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:15,480
Have you read her book?

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Yes.

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00:20:17,860 --> 00:20:18,860
Yes, I have.

298
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Fancy Evie breaking out into poetry.

299
00:20:21,540 --> 00:20:22,560
Wonders will never cease.

300
00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:24,180
She's made me look an absolute idiot.

301
00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:26,240
Rubbish, George.

302
00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:28,900
There's no harm in her writing a book.
You ought to be proud of her.

303
00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:30,740
Well, think of the lolly.

304
00:20:31,120 --> 00:20:33,880
You'll have to start thinking of getting
her a Swiss bank account.

305
00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:37,000
It's her own story. You know that, and
so does everyone else.

306
00:20:37,540 --> 00:20:38,600
George, you're getting paranoid.

307
00:20:39,470 --> 00:20:43,770
If she'd written a romantic novel about
pirates, highwaymen, you wouldn't think

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she'd had an affair with one.

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00:20:45,010 --> 00:20:46,330
This is not a romantic novel.

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It's words.

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Things I never thought that she... I
suppose I'm the only one who doesn't

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00:20:57,330 --> 00:20:58,330
know who her lover was.

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00:20:59,050 --> 00:21:02,110
George, you're talking to me as an old
friend or as your solicitor.

314
00:21:02,450 --> 00:21:04,730
There's no reason to think the whole
thing wasn't made up.

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Pure imagination.

316
00:21:07,930 --> 00:21:08,930
Do you believe that?

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Who was the man?

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I don't know.

319
00:21:14,630 --> 00:21:15,930
And I wouldn't tell you if I did.

320
00:21:17,330 --> 00:21:19,590
I want you to get a private detective
and find out.

321
00:21:20,230 --> 00:21:23,590
I suppose you did have an affair. As I
read it, the fellow's dead.

322
00:21:24,270 --> 00:21:27,070
It was all years ago. Far too late to
get any evidence.

323
00:21:27,310 --> 00:21:29,310
I don't want evidence. I want the man's
name.

324
00:21:30,770 --> 00:21:31,970
Get me a detective, Harry.

325
00:21:32,470 --> 00:21:35,410
I won't. And if you want to do that,
you'd better consult someone else.

326
00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:41,420
Have you always been faithful to her?

327
00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:45,160
More or less.

328
00:21:47,220 --> 00:21:49,240
After all, we've been married for 24
years.

329
00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:53,200
She's been a damn good wife.

330
00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:55,760
I thought she was fond of me.

331
00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:58,740
She couldn't have written that book
unless she hated me.

332
00:21:59,060 --> 00:22:01,060
I don't think Evie's capable of hatred.

333
00:22:02,660 --> 00:22:04,220
You're not going to pretend that she
loves me?

334
00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:06,520
No.

335
00:22:08,330 --> 00:22:09,630
What does she feel for me, indifference?

336
00:22:09,950 --> 00:22:12,250
It's not uncommon in lasting marriages.

337
00:22:14,810 --> 00:22:15,810
I'm late.

338
00:22:16,610 --> 00:22:17,850
I must know who you are.

339
00:22:19,730 --> 00:22:21,130
Why don't you ask her yourself?

340
00:22:23,490 --> 00:22:24,730
I'm afraid to find out.

341
00:22:26,730 --> 00:22:27,730
Perhaps you have to.

342
00:22:32,010 --> 00:22:34,910
One thing I'll never understand until my
dying day.

343
00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:40,280
What in the name of heaven did that
fellow ever see in her?

344
00:22:49,340 --> 00:22:50,580
Why didn't Harry say goodbye?

345
00:22:50,820 --> 00:22:51,820
I had been cutting school.

346
00:22:53,780 --> 00:22:55,520
Evie. You know what I regret?

347
00:22:56,880 --> 00:23:00,400
When I married you, I should have
grubbed out all those old ramblers and

348
00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:01,400
thornless roses.

349
00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:04,600
Rose without a thorn.

350
00:23:06,500 --> 00:23:08,520
Isn't that what Henry VIII called one of
his wives?

351
00:23:10,060 --> 00:23:11,920
Didn't stop him having her head chopped
off, though.

352
00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:13,200
You passed me the rake.

353
00:23:20,820 --> 00:23:21,860
I've read your book now.

354
00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:25,380
Right through. Yes.

355
00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:31,000
Look, it's all right, old thing. You
don't have to say anything.

356
00:23:32,750 --> 00:23:36,370
I've had about 15 stunning reviews and
now the bad ones are beginning to come

357
00:23:36,370 --> 00:23:37,370
in.

358
00:23:37,730 --> 00:23:38,970
I just want to forget it.

359
00:23:39,890 --> 00:23:40,890
You think I can?

360
00:23:44,970 --> 00:23:51,390
Someone at that frightful party, she was
a novelist. She said, people read the

361
00:23:51,390 --> 00:23:53,250
most extraordinary things into what
you've written.

362
00:23:55,090 --> 00:23:58,310
If you put them in a book, they never
recognize themselves.

363
00:24:00,030 --> 00:24:03,070
And if you put a bit of yourself in,
they think the whole character's based

364
00:24:03,070 --> 00:24:04,070
you.

365
00:24:06,750 --> 00:24:08,730
I don't think I'm cut out for the
literary life.

366
00:24:10,750 --> 00:24:11,750
Do you know what I was thinking?

367
00:24:12,010 --> 00:24:15,770
Next winter, I'm going to pull out all
those dreary evergreens and plant a

368
00:24:15,770 --> 00:24:16,830
border of white peonies.

369
00:24:17,070 --> 00:24:18,070
What do you think?

370
00:24:18,250 --> 00:24:19,250
Who was it?

371
00:24:22,630 --> 00:24:23,630
Oh, that?

372
00:24:26,590 --> 00:24:27,590
No one now.

373
00:24:30,830 --> 00:24:31,830
There was.

374
00:24:33,410 --> 00:24:34,410
But you didn't.

375
00:24:35,950 --> 00:24:36,950
For me, yes.

376
00:24:39,130 --> 00:24:40,570
For a long, long time.

377
00:24:44,430 --> 00:24:45,430
What was his name?

378
00:24:47,410 --> 00:24:48,510
You sure you want to know?

379
00:24:48,710 --> 00:24:49,710
Yes.

380
00:24:50,090 --> 00:24:51,090
Even if it hurts?

381
00:24:51,130 --> 00:24:52,130
Yes.

382
00:24:52,890 --> 00:24:54,050
It was you, George.

383
00:24:55,870 --> 00:24:56,870
You were what you were.

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00:25:00,270 --> 00:25:01,270
In the beginning.