Act 2, Scene 1

Question 1

studies Milly in costume

Answer 1

Put me down for a tenner on the two-thirty

Question 2

M: I know, I look ridiculous

Answer 2

No you don’t

Question 3

M: It’s something I do rather well. Always had a knack for it.

Answer 3

You look very Cheltenham Gold Cup. Our Rose is going to be all over you

Question 4

M: I must say Rose really helps when you’re shy

Answer 4

It has been said. I feel like a dog on a lead with this collar and tie

Question 5

M: You’ll get the hang of it

Answer 5

Hanging sounds about right. And what about the hat? I’m going to look a right noodle in the hat.

Question 6

M: You’ll get used to that too. Feeling like a noodle. It sort of grows on you

Answer 6

Hats were everywhere in those days. Fancy arresting someone in the shade of one of these

Question 7

D: Thank you Milly, and what do you think?

Answer 7

I think it’s amazing what technology can do these days

Question 8

D: You don’t like it

Answer 8

I like it. But I’m thinking if that’s been there all the time why have I been living with this….

Question 9

D: Watch it!

Answer 9

I am watching it. Can you keep it for afters. For leisure purposes.

Question 10

D: No, it has to go back

Answer 10

Could we keep it over the weekend?

Question 11

D: I’ll get Chinese on it. You know how it splashes

Answer 11

We’ll go ethnic. Fish and Chips but no mushy peas.

Question 12

D: What do you have in mind Big Boy

Answer 12

I told you. No mushy peas. But when playtime’s over just remember there’s that sink full of mucky pots

Question 13

D: Oh let yourself go, it’s fantasy time

Answer 13

I thought we’d done that

Question 14

D: not since Brenda’s wedding

Answer 14

Liverpool were playing…I wasn’t at Brenda’s wedding!

Question 15

D: You should have been, it was fun

Answer 15

Who with?

Question 16

D (to M): And look at this handsome creature

Answer 16

How much fun?

Question 17

D: It got better after half time

Answer 17

Best we could do was a draw

Question 18

D: oh we did better than that. You see how easily you could lose me?

Answer 18

Not til you’ve cleared that sink!

Question 19

D: Some of the dishes are yours

Answer 19

I can’t be washing up when I’m busy

Question 20

D: I can’t remember seeing you busy

Answer 20

It doesn’t show. That’s the thing about intellectual activity

Question 21

D: It certainly doesn’t show the way you do it

Answer 21

You can be wrestling with the deepest problems of the universe and people think you’re just lolling about. Ask Milly, he’ll tell you.

Question 22

I’m just a computer geek. Get me off that and I’m lost

Answer 22

You’ve no view then on will the expanding universe result in total, dark, emptiness?

Question 23

M (to R): I’d say that’s definitely not a what

Answer 23

That’s the first time I’ve seen you with more skirt than legs.

Question 24

R: he looks so dashing. As if he’s about to ride off with somebody flung across his saddle

Answer 24

Why not? You’ve been everywhere else.

Question 25

E: our corpse. The butler, recently deceased. I think he should die just about….here.

Answer 25

At least they’ll know the butler didn’t do it.

Question 26

D: I think you look really edible in a bowler

Answer 26

It’s thoughts like that could get you arrested

Question 27

R: I’ll stand with Mr Milson. He needs some human warmth

Answer 27

He doesn’t need blisters!

Question 28

M: I don’t mind supporting Miss Rose if she’s about to faint.
R: Isn’t he a sweety?

Answer 28

Faint? Our Rose? She frightens Australians!

Question 29

E: She’s the cook not a ballerina

Answer 29

I’ll go with that. I’ve never seen our Hyacinth as a ballerina

Question 30

D: You once said you’d like to see me in a tutu

Answer 30

I could have been drunk, or lying.

Question 31

H: Who’s that?

Answer 31

It’s Onslow

Question 32

H: Are you dressed appropriately

Answer 32

Depends what you’ve got in mind

Question 33

E: He’s in a suit and tie

Answer 33

And bowler hat

Question 34

H: who’s that lying on the floor

Answer 34

It’s the corpse

Question 35

H: (long phone monologue ends….” Have you tried removing his trousers? Not Bruce’s dear, Daddy’s. Daisy sometimes finds its the only way

Answer 35

Sounds like Daze

Question 36

H: ….Ready when you are Emmet. Oh! Has he gone?

Answer 36

To take a pill

Question 37

E: PLaces people. Nice, tight half circle around the corpse. Tighter, closer.
D: you heard the man

Answer 37

Tonight, Daze. I promised me a beer and a quiet hour catching up with developments in quantum theory

Question 38

R: I don’t know but I keep trying

Answer 38

Get off his neck! Can you breath Milly?