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thoroughly I inspected them and the window shutters downstairs at bedtime, I
never failed to discover next morning something unlocked, unlatched, a little
loose, a little ajar, something sly and suspicious-looking.’ A little vague if you ask
me, maybe just poor air resistance.”
Commentator 1: “Yeah, could be. Weird how stuff like that happened to both
of them though. Goldsworth house was it?”
Commentator 2: “Yeah, he describes it pretty in-depth as well. This part where
he talks about taking the little girls’ pictures off of the walls always sort of weird-
ed me out, ‘I must confess that their pert pictures irritated me to such an extent
that I finally gathered then one by one and dumped them all in a closet’ (p.
83).”
Commentator 1: “Oh yeah, I remember finding that odd too. What could both-
er him so much about pictures of “horribly cute little schoolgirls?” I always won-
dered too what Mr. and Mrs. Goldsworth thought of him describing their pic-
ture “with sexes reversed” (p.83).
Commentator 2: “You know, doesn’t he talk about ‘a group of drama students
portraying him as a pompous woman hater’ (p. 25) at one point? Maybe there
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