Pilkings family

Question 1

Simon is mean to Joseph

Answer 1

“What do you mean you don’t know? It’s only two years since your conversion. Don’t tell me all that holy water nonsense also wiped out your tribal memory.”

Question 2

Simon not caring about custom

Answer 2

“I don’t have to stop anything. If they want to throw themselves off the top of a cliff or poison themselves for the sake of some barbaric custom what is that to me?

Question 3

Simon mean to amusa

Answer 3

And let’s have no more superstitious nonsense from you Amusa or I’ll throw you in the guardroom for a month and feed you pork!

Question 4

Jane to Olunde trying to understand custom

Answer 4

“Nonsense. Life should never be thrown deliberately away”

Question 5

Jane to Olunde about the ritual of suicide

Answer 5

“It is still a barbaric custom”

Question 6

Jane to Olunde why don’t u care about father!!!

Answer 6

How can you be so callous! So unfeeling! You announce your father’s own death like a surgeon looking down on some strange… stranger’s body! You’re just a savage like all the rest.

Question 7

Jane to Olunde about British sanity in chaos

Answer 7

“Therapy, British style”

Question 8

Jane to Olunde when meeting

Answer 8

What a fine young man you’ve become. Grand but solemn