“Forgive me, but I know all about it.”
“Perhaps I should go and hang myself?”
“I have to admit, your behaviour has saddened me.”
“Go preach to your baby spiders!”
“Well, actually, bringing up my children I have delegated to their mothers. I cannot reproach myself: I chose lovely women.”
“Is that a statement for the press?”
“Lovely women! I love, respect, value them.”
“Don’t forget mine while you’re at it.”
“That is unworthy, and foolish. And incidentally, I have not forgotten her. Do you want to know the truth? You are killing your mother, your own mother.”
“Then we can stop worrying. Everybody is alive at this end.”
“I was expecting that, but I want to have a serious talk with you.”
“In that case, you’ve left it too late.”
“Let’s face the truth.”
“I do that every day. I can p
