DAN: It's a pretty bad thing to have, you know. D'you know that nine women out of ten in your position'd be just sittin' down givin' way?
MRS. BRAMSON: Would they?
DAN: Yes, they would! I do know, as a matter of fact. I've known people with palpitations. Somebody very close to me … (After a pause, soberly) They're dead now …
MRS. BRAMSON (startled): Oh!
DAN: My mother, as a matter of fact …
With finely controlled emotion, practically indistinguishable from the real thing.
I can just remember her.
MRS. BRAMSON: Oh?
DAN: She died when I was six. I know that, because my dad died two years before that.
MRS. BRAMSON (vaguely): Oh.