BRAMSON: Hark at the walking dictionary!
BELSIZE: We found her bag in her room; and maniacs can't get far
without cash ... however dipso or nympho they may be....
HUBERT: Oh.
BELSIZE: She was a very flashy type of wo--she _is_ a flashy type,
I should say. At least I hope I should say ...
MRS. BRAMSON: What d'you mean? Why d'you hope?
BELSIZE: Well ...
OLIVIA: You don't mean she may be ... she mayn't be alive?
BELSIZE: It's possible.
MRS. BRAMSON: You'll be saying she's been murdered next!
BELSIZE: That's been known.
MRS. BRAMSON: Lot of stuff and nonsense. From a policeman too.
Anybody'd think you'd been brought up on penny dreadfuls.
OLIVIA _turns and goes to the window._
BELSIZE (_to_ MRS. BRAMSON): Did you see about the fellow being
hanged for the Ipswich murder? In last night's papers?
MRS. BRAMSON: I've lived long enough not to believe the papers.
BELSIZE: They occasionally print facts. And murder's occasionally a
fact.
HUBERT: Everybody likes a good murder, as the saying goes! Remember
those trials in the _Evening Standard_ last year? Jolly interesting.
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