:07:02
- I'm Andrew Wyke. Welcome to Cloak Manor.
- Thank you.
:07:06
I found your note when I came down
from London this afternoon.
:07:08
Oh, good. Yes.
I hoped you'd be here this weekend,
:07:10
so I pushed it through your letter
box a little earlier today.
:07:13
Well, now, what will
you have to drink ?
:07:16
- Uh, vodka and tonic, please.
- Ah. Of course.
:07:18
- How are you settling in here
at laundry cottage ?
- Very well, thank you.
:07:23
Using it for weekends,
that sort of thing ?
:07:25
Yes, that sort of thing.
:07:27
Vodka-- I don't seem to
have any out here. Is--
:07:31
- Gin will do.
- Good.
:07:33
Charming little place,
Laundry cottage--
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Ideal for relaxations of all kinds.
:07:38
Unfortunately, I don't
have time for them myself.
:07:41
As a matter of fact, I've just
dictated the denouement...
:07:44
of my new book,
Death by double fault.
:07:47
I must say, it's gone extremely well.
Ah, then.
:07:50
Soda, soda, soda, soda--
:07:54
Oh, dear. Doesn't seem to be
any tonic here either.
:07:56
It's awful.
Here, shall we go indoors ?
:07:58
- Whatever you like.
- Good.
:08:01
Tell me, do you agree that
the detective story is...
:08:05
the normal recreation of noble minds ?
:08:08
I'm afraid I don't know
very much about noble minds.
:08:11
- Is it supposed to be ?
- I'm quoting from Philip Guedalla,
:08:14
a biographer of the '30s,
:08:16
the golden age when every Cabinet Minister
had a thriller by his bedside,
:08:20
and all detectives were titled.
:08:22
- Before your time, I expect.
- Somewhat. Let me carry that.
:08:26
Oh, thank you so much. Very good of you.
:08:28
Yet, you know, even today, I still
set my works among the gentry,
:08:32
and a great many ordinary people
seem to enjoy them in spite of
our classless society.
:08:38
I imagine they do a great deal
of your stuff on television.
:08:40
Oh, God forbid. I'd never permit it.
:08:43
And, uh, incidentally,
it's not "stuff." No.
:08:46
Television's not my line
of country at all.
:08:49
That's detective fact,
not detective fiction.
:08:53
And, therefore,
no recreation for noble minds ?
:08:56
You have it in a nutshell, my dear Milo,
if I may so address you.
:08:59
Oh, you might as well. We're all on
first-name terms these days, Andrew.