The Beiderbecke Affair1985

[over school dinner, discussing the attempts to frighten them]

Trevor Chaplin:
I still think it's a lot of fuss about a dead cat.

Jill Swinburne:
*You* wouldn't have liked it.

Trevor Chaplin:
I had a noose and I didn't scream.

Jill Swinburne:
You big brave macho incredible hulk, you.

Trevor Chaplin:
I just got up on the desk and took it down. [Trevor chuckles] As my mother used to say, "no noose is good noose".

Jill Swinburne:
Gordon Bennett!

Trevor Chaplin:
You don't even like cats.

Jill Swinburne:
It's not the cat. It's the death aspect.

Trevor Chaplin:
I wonder if they killed it specially, or just found it somewhere.

Jill Swinburne:
Ooh, that's awful.

Trevor Chaplin:
I'm just making a rational analysis of the situation.

Jill Swinburne:
I think it's the same sort of dead cat as they use in that.

[Jill looks at Trevor's dinner; Trevor pushes his plate away in revulsion]

Jill Swinburne:
I think somebody is trying to frighten us. Successfully.

Trevor Chaplin:
Mmm-hmm!

Jill Swinburne:
You're frightened?

Trevor Chaplin:
Oh yes. I only *pretend* to be brave.

Jill Swinburne:
I think I might need somebody to give me cuddle tonight.

Trevor Chaplin:
Me too.

Jill Swinburne:
See Mrs Swinburne in her classroom after school.

Trevor Chaplin:
You what? I'm not going in *her* classroom - it's full of dead cats!

Jill Swinburne:
I don't find that funny, Trevor.

Trevor Chaplin:
No. I don't suppose it was a barrel of laughs for the cat, either.