[...] I have a sudden panic when I'm in there. The other coats on the bed are expensive, and for a moment I entertain the idea of going through the pockets and then doing a runner.
I'm not making any of this up. This is how she talks, as if nobody has ever had a conversation about this in the history of the world.
HIM: Good. So how shall we leave it then?
ME: We won't leave it, Ian. Or at least, I won't. I'd change your phone number, if I were you. I'd change your address. One day soon you'll look back on one visit to the house and ten phone calls a night as a golden age. Watch your step, boy. [_Slams recei…
'How did you know Alison?'
'I was her first boyfriend.'
There's a silence, and for a moment I worry that for the last twenty years I have been held responsible in the Ashworth house for some sort of sexual crime I did not commit.
'She married her first boyfriend. Kevin. She's Alison Bannis…
'Yeah, yeah, I know. But say I hadn't seen it and I said to you, "I haven't seen Reservoir Dogs yet" , what would you think?'
'I'd think, you're a sick man. And I'd feel sorry for you.'
'No, but would you think, from that one sentence, that I was going to see it?'
'I'd hope you were, yea…
