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Why did I ever start this... ...loudy
competition?

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Because firm needed publicity, you said.

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Why?

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Aren't we getting enough entries?

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Too many.

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And soon.

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Awful.

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Who does the preliminary report?

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Ivy. Yes.

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You can usually tell after the first
page.

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Now, how did you get that one through,
Edna?

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It seems impossible.

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What about the...

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The entrance fees. Will they... Will
they cover the £5 ,000 prize?

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Oh, yes, and more.

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Enough to keep me in silk underwear for
a while. You look sensational in or out

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of silk underwear.

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That's what my Graham used to say.

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Poor Graham.

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What a way to go.

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Yes, well, he was accident -prone.

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These are possible.

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Read on, Macduff.

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Oh, hell.

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Mr. Oates' office.

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It's Mrs. Oates. Is he there?

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Yes, he is. Just one moment, please.

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Your wife, sir.

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Hello. Darling, are you very busy? Yes,
very. What is it? Dinner tonight.

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Dinner?

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Oh, darling, don't say you've forgotten.

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Dr. Mellish is coming.

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Well, I'll be home, I suppose.

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Yes, but Sandra isn't well.

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Who the hell is Sandra?

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His wife, darling.

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So his wife's ill. Does that mean you
have to bother me at the office?

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Well, couldn't you think of someone
else? A woman to make up the foursome.

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I mean, after all the trouble I'm
taking... What trouble?

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The meal I'm going to cook.

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Filet mignon en croute.

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Oh, what?

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Croute. Pastry.

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I've tried the family, but no luck.

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Well, that's because they know you're
cooking.

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That's quite funny, but I hope it isn't
true.

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Oh, can't you think of someone, Walter?

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Not offhand. I don't know any other
women.

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What about that new secretary of yours?

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What's her name? Mrs.

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Choose -something.

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Mrs. Tewsland.

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Yes, what about her?

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I mean, at a pinch.

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Walter?

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Yes, Jane?

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What about her?

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I mean, if she's presentable.

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Oh, yes.

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She's presentable, all right.

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Well, then couldn't you ask her?

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It's not unimportant.

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After all, you did think Dr Mellish
might invest in your company.

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Hold on, I'll see what she says.

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Mrs Tewsland!

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Oh, Mrs Tewsland!

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Ah, there you are, Mrs Tewsland. I know
it's short notice, but my wife is, uh...

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Well, she needs a fourth for dinner
tonight. Our doctor's coming and his

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can't. I wonder, could you possibly,
uh...

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Are you free?

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Well, sir, actually, my mother was
expecting me, but... Ah, you can't put

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off.

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Well, sir... Jane, I'm sure I can.

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If it would help your wife out.

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Oh, that's great.

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Walker?

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Jane?

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She says yes, she can.

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Oh, good.

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Thank her very much, will you?

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So when are you going to tell her?

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Tell her what?

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Your wife.

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About her.

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Well, not tonight, goodness me.

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What's up, huh?

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A doctor, then?

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No, of course not.

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But you promised... Just give me a
little time.

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I'll get rid of her.

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Get rid of her?

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What on earth do you mean?

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You're sending shivers down my spine.

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I'll do more than that.

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What do you mean, Walter?

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I meant I'd divorce her.

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What else would I mean?

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Well, since I am acknowledged, am I not,
as being an expert on murder thrillers,

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it surely isn't strange that I should be
a member of the jury. Of course not,

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Walter. It's just that Jane says you're
rather overdoing it lately.

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Working half the night. And not always
answering the phone.

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Well, even after Mrs. Toothland sips the
wheat from the chat, that leaves a hell

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of a lot of entries to read.

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That takes concentration.

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And I still have the publishing side to
run. It's a full -time job, I can tell

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you.

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Especially if Jane is to be kept in the
manner to which she's accustomed.

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Let me give you a hand, Miss Bates. Oh,
very kind.

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Oh, it's a competition.

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Oh, it'll never end.

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Not until the deadline.

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No. A friend of mine, Reggie Parrott,
the barrister, I was asking him the

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day, why so many wife murderers were
small, insignificant chaps?

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What did he say?

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Black or white, Mrs. Bridgerton?

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Just the tinge of milk, please.

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Well, he said that as a breed, they
tended to be husbands who bottled up

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emotions and frustrations over the years
and then flew off the handle. Sugar?

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Yes, please. Brown or white?

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Brown, please.

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But I expect chaps who write for your
competition aren't really interested in

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reality, eh?

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It's more James Bond stuff, right?

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Sorry to disappoint you, Herr Doctor.

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Coffee, Doctor Maynard. Thank you, yes.

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But their creators are just like their
characters.

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Insurance men, bank clerks, civil
servants, doctors.

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They suffer in silence for years.

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And then suddenly something snapped.

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Now, hang on a minute. Is this fact or
fiction?

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Fiction. No, thank you.

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Thank you, my dear.

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Yes.

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Fiction or... Or rather what they dream
of.

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Burial. in the middle of the night in
the cabbage patch.

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But they don't fool anybody.

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That's why I call them midnight gardens.

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Midnight gardens?

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Hmm.

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How to get rid of your wife?

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Bop her on the head and bury her in the
vegetable patch on the stroke of

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midnight.

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Bong.

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Now, that wouldn't even fool Jane.

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Well, I know the rules of our
competition, and I must say I find it

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difficult to think of anything.

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Yes.

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No psychopaths allowed.

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No crimes of passion, no killing in self
-defence. And what does that leave?

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Murder premeditated.

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That's the only murder one's likely to
get away with.

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Coffee, Walter? And to win the
competition, it must be foolproof.

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No, thank you. But what if the police
suspect in the story? Oh, yeah, yeah,

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suspect, all right, but they must be
unable to prove anything.

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That's the whole point of the
competition.

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Otherwise, no 5 ,000 pounds.

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Of course, it could be happening now.

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What do you mean, Jane?

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Poison in the coffee, that sort of
thing.

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Well, that's as original as using a
blade of ice as a dagger or electrical

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in the bath.

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And there'd have to be a motive.

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What? Might that have been a bloody
tough beef that Jane cooked tonight?

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Yes, well, I'm sorry about that.

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Hardly a motive for murder.

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Or else there'll be a lot of dead
housewives.

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Or a lot of dead butchers.

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Besides, premeditated can't mean in half
an hour.

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I think Mr Oates was joking.

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Walter, joking?

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Isn't he what, don't you?

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Why didn't you write a story?

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What?

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Why don't you enter the competition?

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What are you talking about?

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You are the expert.

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Well, thank you for the compliment, but
I do happen to be on the jury.

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Well, couldn't you stand down?

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Who'd replace me?

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Do they need to replace you?

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Three judges are surely enough.

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I think it's a very good idea.

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Yes.

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Why not have a go?

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Hmm? Oh, yes, darling, you know all the
plots.

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I'm sure you could come up with
something really original.

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I could help you, Pat.

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Well, I do know all about

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South American poison, but no antidote.

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And embolism by injection.

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Sounds painful.

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Yeah.

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Yes, I'll have a go. I'll resign from
the jury and have a go

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at winning my own competition.

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Of course, if you did win, it could
smell of malpractice. No, no, no. I'll

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sputum and then... And then the jury
won't know which is my entry.

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Fair enough.

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And I must be thinking of going home.

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It looks like I'll be extra busy in the
office tomorrow.

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Perhaps.

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I can give you a lift, Mrs. Chisholm.
Oh, thanks, but I wouldn't dream of

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breaking up for tonight. I'll get you a
taxi.

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We have a number.

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Do we have nothing serious with your
wife, Doctor? No, no, just a bad back.

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gives out from time to time.

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We weren't really built to walk upright.

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Hello, yes, my code number is W03635.

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I'd like a taxi, please, to 23 Upper
Sheen Avenue.

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Yes, the account is in the name of
Stanley Strange Limited.

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Yes, to go to 14A Fairhaysville
Mansions.

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North West 1, yes.

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As soon as you can.

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Thank you.

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Hello.

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Oh, no.

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No, no, no. I've had to give up the
jewellery, Lark.

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Yes, too busy sifting the wheat from the
chaff.

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Yes. Yes, of course.

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Uh, Edna.

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Uh, Edna.

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Yes. Yes, I have.

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Yes, I've got it. Thank you.

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What'll I do with the cash?

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Same as with the wheat. Pick one out of
fifty and bung it to the jury, of which

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I am no longer one.

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Then chuck the rest in the bin.

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Clever, dear.

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Now, if I can have a bit of peace round
here, I can get on with that five

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thousand pounds.

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And then?

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And then what?

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You and me.

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We're on 5 ,000 pounds. You must be
joking.

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They'll be lapped up like a cat with a
saucer of milk.

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Oh, you know that wasn't what I meant.

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I want you to keep your promise. Edna.

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Don't get heavy. Listen.

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I fell in love with you. You fell in
love with me. What's wrong with going on

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the way we are? We?

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Fine for you.

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You know that Jane holds the money bag.

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to be played with finesse.

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Well, you'll have to hurry the finesse.

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Because I'm pregnant.

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I see.

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You're going to ask me how do I know it
was you?

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Well, how do you know it was me?

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Now you're that sort of bastard.

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Darling? You scared me. I heard you come
in. Do you know it's after two?

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Yes, I had a bit of trouble with my
story.

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I was reading something very interesting
in the paper that... Yawn, yawn.

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No, seriously, it was very intriguing.
Well, I can see nothing is going to stop

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you. It was to do with anthrax spores.
Yes, well, the public health people know

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all about those.

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Yes, but if a chap cultivated, well,
say, orchids in his greenhouse and

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contaminated the soil with anthrax
spores... Hang on, hang on. Where's he

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to get them from?

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He... works at Porton.

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Porton. Portondale Research Station.

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Chemical warfare. You're asking our jury
to believe that this chap who just

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happens to work at Porton just happens
to grow orchids and he just happens to

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bring home a sample of poisoned soil.

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Why?

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To kill his wife.

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No. Not very likely.

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I see now.

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Oh, look.

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Go back to bed, will you?

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Let me get on with it.

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Yes, of course.

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Sorry.

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Good night.

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Nice and gently.

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And out.

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If I can just have you around this way.

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Nothing to worry about.

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Overwork. A touch of indigestion.

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A bit too much of the hard stuff,
perhaps?

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Just try to take it easy.

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Stick to water and you'll be as right as
rain. Of course, Jane will look after

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you. You know, I've never understood
what is particularly right about rain.

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for God's sake, stop trying to be so
bloody clever.

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I'm sorry, darling. I was only trying to
cheer you up. Thank you.

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You will be all right. Oh, yes,

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if he takes care of himself, yes. Get
into bed now and don't worry.

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I'll look in again later.

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I nearly didn't come in today.

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I'm fed up with you and your promises.

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And how

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long

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have you and your husband been patients
of Dr. Malish?

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Since we moved here.

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Five years.

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But the doctor said nothing to you of
any serious illness in your husband.

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Nothing, no.

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Oh, the usual. He drank a bit too much.

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He's working too hard, you know. Yes,
yes, of course.

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Do you know if your husband took any
drugs, Mrs Oates?

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Drugs?

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Water?

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He thought I...

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He thought aspirin should be on
prescription.

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You really will have to ask Dr Menish
for that sort of thing. Yes. Yes, of

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course.

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Mrs Oates tells me that Mr Oates was in
the habit of staying late in the office

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almost every night.

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Well, I was left sharp at 5 .30.

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What would keep him late, would you say?

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Almost every night, I mean.

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Work, I suppose.

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Oh?

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It's hardly a hive of industry.

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Was it?

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He was writing a story.

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Well... It takes long, does it?

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Writing stories?

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Depends.

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Yes, I suppose it does.

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The only story we found here was one on
anthrax spores.

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It's not bad.

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You could say a lot of coincidences, but
I like the general style.

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Would you say that Mr Oates was,
generally speaking, in physically good

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You'd better ask his doctor about that,
hadn't you?

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Oh, I shall.

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I shall.

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Bring me some champagne, Vincenzo. Si,
senora, subito.

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Oh, and, uh... Bring two glasses, why
not?

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Si, senora.

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It's from Edna.

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You seemed in such a hurry to get away
after the inquest and the open verdict

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poor Walter.

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Everybody fussing round you with their
sympathy.

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It made me quite sick.

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He loved me and wanted to marry me.

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I suppose you guessed about her even
before that night at the dinner party.

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When he ordered me a taxi and knew my
address by heart.

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He only stayed with you for your money.

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I know that wasn't Walter's story they
found on his desk.

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The one about the anthrax balls.

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Walter's idea involved injections of a
drug that induces a heart attack and

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can't be detected.

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They'd have jumped on me if I'd said I
knew.

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And I'm not such a fool as people think.

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I know that's how Walter died.

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And I know who was responsible.

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What I'd like from you, after you
substituted your story for Walter's,

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so ingenious, the perfect murder, he
would have won the prize for it.

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How you got your hands on the drug and
injected it into him.

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Darling, I thought you were never going
to get here.

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Discretion, my love, if I had followed
you too soon.