ACT ONE Flashcards
Ben: ….no further note-taking will be necessary at the moment, Alma.
Whatever you say, sir.
Clive: …Could be quite misconstrued if not sufficiently explained.
Shall I take his statement, Inspector Braddock?
Ben: Lady Wickenham.
How do you do.
Ben: A small glass of tonic water would be most appreciated, Lady Wickenham.
Especially on a scorcher of a day like today.
Lady Wickenham: …. So fascinatingly analytical and sure of yourself.
Oh, Mum, please don’t get him started!
Ben: Now really, Alma-
Mind you now, he’s a perfectly darling inspector. But when he thinks there’s a high-faulting “mystery” to be solved, I swear, he’s itching to put on a deerstalker cap and start smoking a calabash pipe!
Ben: I see nothing wrong with employing deductive reasoning when the occasion warrants.
Or even if it doesn’t, more’s the pity.
Nancy: … I have been licking stamps for the past fifteen minutes and can’t seem to get the glue off my tongue!
See, now! What did I tell you?
Nancy: … I was hastening to get the invitations readied for the morning post.
Oh, I just adore weddings! Who are the lucky couple?
Ben: … that’s none of our business.
Can you be absolutely certain?
Monica: … to Miss Bibi Cavendish.
Not the famous fashion designer?! Oh, how I’d adore to be able to afford one of her designer frocks! Elegant, that’s what they are! Your son is a lucky man.
Nancy: … I really must get back to my stamps!
I say, don’t you have a sponge-pad or some such? Tongue-licking is so unpleasant.
Clive: Except when it rains.
So all the buildings have whitewashed roofs with special rain gutters.
Jasmine: Did you folks all rehearse this, or what?
Bermuda gets a lot of tourists.
Clive: … that surely points to Jamaican origin!
Unless that’s what someone wanted us to assume…?
Clive: Don’t you have it?
You still had it in your hand when you went to fetch the maid, sir.
Ben: Excuse me, but- do you think that is quite- wise, milord?
After all, if that is her handiwork, what a splendid opportunity to get rid of it!
Clive: I’d have seen her take it!
Going to be a big disappointment for the handwriting expert.
Monica: … send Miss Cavendish a carbon copy of the police report?
If you like, Lady Wickenham.
Ben: … she’d hardly give us such a definite clue!
I wonder now- could someone be trying to point the guilty finger at her? And if so- why? Does Mimosa have any enemies anyone knows of?
Pierre: I admire a man who is careful with his money.
Excuse me, but did you say “doctor”-?
Clive: What’s a storm got to do with it?
He might have removed the lightning rods…!
Monica: I mean, coral islands seem it weather hurricanes nicely…
But the buildings and people almost never survive!
Ben: I wish you wouldn’t have said that!
But it’s true!
Ben: She has a job interview, of all things!
Well, I certainly hope she glamour up a bit for it! A librarian- and looks it, more’s the pity!- Hair up in a bun, thick eyeglasses, shapeless sweaters, sensible shoes-
Ben: Dead.
Dead of what?
