Act 1 (Scene 2) Flashcards
(Mollie) Giles
Yes
(Mollie) Can you shovel the snow away again from the back door?
Coming
(Mollie) Hullo Hullo
Mollie, do you know where there’s another spade?
(Mollie) They’re sending our an inspector or a sergeant or something
But he’ll never get here
(Mollie) That’s what I told them. But they seemed quite confident that he would
Nonsense. Even a jeep couldn’t get through today. Anyway, what’s it all about
(Mollie) That’s what I asked. But he wouldn’t say. Just said I was to impress on my husband to listen very carefully to what Sergeant Trotter, I think it was, had to say, and to follow his instructions implicitly. Isn’t it extraordinary
What on earth do you think we’ve done?
(Mollie) Do you think it’s those nylons from Gibraltar
I had a rather near shave with the car the other day but it was entirely the other fellow’s fault.
(Mollie) We must have done something
Probably something to do with running this place. I expect we’ve ignored some tinpot regulation of some Ministry or other.
(Mollie) Oh, dear. I wish we’d never started this place. We’re going to be snowed up for days and everyone is cross, and we shall go through all our reserve of tins
Cheer up, darling. Everything’s going all right at the moment. I’ve filled up all the coalscuttles and brought in the wood. You know, Mollie, come to think of it, it must be something pretty serious to send a police sergeant trekking out in all this.
(Boyle) I am paying seven guineas a week here - seven guineas and I do not want to freeze
I’ll go and check the furnace
(Mollie) They rang up. Just now. To say they’re sending a sergeant out here. But I don’t think he’ll ever get here
Hullo, is anything the matter
(Metcalf) I hear the police are on their way here. Why
Oh, that’s all right. No-one can get through in this. Why the drifts must be five feet deep. The roads are all banked up. Nobody will get here today. Excuse me, Mr. Paravicini. May I put these down?
(Trotter) Are you Mr. Ralston?
Yes
(Mollie) But I didn’t
Er- this is Detective Sergeant Trotter
(Trotter) Now can we get down to business, Mr. Ralston. Mrs. Ralston?
Do you want to see us alone? If so, we can go into the library