Chalfont staying at
the Tallboys who went off one day?
DAN: Yes.
HUBERT: And nobody's seen her since?
DAN: I know.
MRS. BRAMSON: What's she like?
DAN (_to_ MRS. BRAMSON): But I thought you said--or somebody
said--something about--a murder?
HUBERT: Oh, we don't_know_, of course, but there _might_ have
been, mightn't there?
DAN (_suddenly effusive_): Yes, there might have been, yes!
HUBERT: Ever seen her?
DAN: Oh, yes. I used to take cigarettes an' drinks for her.
MRS. BRAMSON (_impatiently_): What's she _like_?
DAN: What's she like?... (_To_ MRS. BRAMSON)--She's ... on the
tall side. Thin ankles, with one o' them bracelets on one of 'em.
(_Looking at_ OLIVIA) Fair hair--
_A sudden thought seems to arrest him. He goes on looking at_
OLIVIA.
MRS. BRAMSON: Well? Go on!
DAN (_after a pause, in a level voice_): Thin eyebrows, with white
marks, where they was pulled out ... to be in the fashion, you know....
Her mouth ... a bit thin as well, with red stuff painted round it, to
make it look more; you can rub it off .
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