:20:10
- Jessica.
- Hi.
:20:13
- What are you doing in here?
- Just browsing.
:20:16
This is my place of work,
not W. H. Smith & Son.
:20:19
Here we go.
:20:21
"Treatise on the Black Mass"?
:20:24
What do you want with this?
:20:25
Just a quiet bit of mind blowing.
:20:28
Jessica, this is not a subject
to mess around with.
:20:31
These are scientific works.
:20:34
You can buy that sort of stuff
in almost any shady bookshop in Soho.
:20:38
- I think it's all kinky.
- What's that?
:20:40
Weird, man. Way out.
:20:42
I mean, spooks, hobgoblins,
black magic. All that jazz.
:20:45
It seems to me
that you delight in deriding anything...
:20:47
that is not on your particular wavelength.
:20:49
Our family, Jessica,
has a tradition of research into the occult.
:20:53
To us, it has been a serious, lifelong study.
:20:56
Okay, but it's not one of my hang-ups.
:21:00
Jessica, wait.
I've a lecture to prepare for tomorrow...
:21:03
but it shouldn't take me
more than a couple of hours.
:21:05
I'll be finished by dinnertime.
:21:07
As it's Mrs. Donnelly's day off,
we might eat out together somewhere.
:21:11
- Maybe go to the Pontevecchio?
- I'm sorry.
:21:14
Are you going out again tonight?
:21:16
With that gang of yours?
:21:18
We like to call ourselves a group,
Grandfather.
:21:20
Just a group of friends, you know?
Same age, same interests, same language.
:21:25
Can't you bring them here,
let me meet them?
:21:27
You really missed your vocation, you did.
:21:30
You could have made
the big time as a comic.
:21:32
Bring them here to this mausoleum?
:21:36
Grandfather, look,
if it makes you feel any better...
:21:39
I'll admit something to you.
:21:40
I've never dropped acid,
I'm not shooting up...
:21:43
and I'm not sleeping
with anybody just yet.
:21:46
The full extent of my wild ways...
:21:47
stretches to half a pint of lager
now and again.