OLIVIA: You don't mean she may be … she mayn't be alive?
BELSIZE: It's possible.
MRS. BRAMSON: You'll be saying she's been murdered next!
BELSIZE: That's been known.
MRS. BRAMSON: Lot of stuff and nonsense. From a policeman too.
Anybody'd think you'd been brought up on penny dreadfuls.
OLIVIA turns and goes to the window.
BELSIZE (to MRS. BRAMSON): Did you see about the fellow being hanged for the Ipswich murder? In last night's papers?
MRS. BRAMSON: I've lived long enough not to believe the papers.
BELSIZE: They occasionally print facts. And murder's occasionally a fact.
HUBERT: Everybody likes a good murder, as the saying goes! Remember those trials in the Evening Standard last year? Jolly interesting. I followed—