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Part one
'My aunt wi[[ be here soon, Mr Nutte[,' said a self-confident young lady of 15.
'Until then, I'm afraid, you have me.'
Frampton Nuttel tried to say something polite. Privatety, he was wondering
whether this visit to total strangers would really help to cure his bad nerves,
as his sister had hoped.
'l know what wi[[ happen,' his sister had said, as he was leaving for his rest
cure in the country,'you wi[[ never meet or speak to anyone, and your nerves
wit[ be worse than ever. So, l'm going to give you letters of introduction to a[[
the peopte I know there.'
'Do you know many people round here?' asked the niece after a silence.
'Hardly anyone,' said Frampton.
'Then you know nothing about my aunt and her great tragedy ...' continued
the se[f-confident young [ady.
'Her tragedy?' asked Frampton.
'Yes, you may wonder why we keep the windows open in Octobel'she said,
pointing towards the large French windows that opened onto the garden.
'lt's quite warm for the time of year, but has the window got anything to do
with the tragedy?'asked Frampron.
'Out through that window, exactly three years ago today, my aunt's husband
and her two younger brothers went off for a day's shooting. They never came
back.All three sank in a terrible bog.We never found their bodies - that was
the worst thing.'Here the girl's voice lost its confidence.'Poor aunt thinks
that they will come back someday. She believes they witt watk in through
that door with their little brown dog, just as they used to. That's why we
have the door open every evening. Poor dear aunt, she has often totd me how
they went out: her husband was carrying his white coat over his arm, and her
brother Ronnie was singing. Do you know sometimes on a quiet evening like
this, I have the strangest feeling that they will walk in through that window...'
Frampton felt relieved when at last her aunt came into the room.'l hooe Vera
has been amusing you?'she said.
'She's been very interesting,'said Frampton.
'l hope you don't mind the open window'said Mrs Sappleton.'My husband
and brothers will be home soon from shooting, and they always come in
this way.'
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Part two
She continued to chat happily about shooting.To Frampton it was a[[
absolute[y horrib[e.
Attempting to change the subject, he told them about his i[[ness.'The doctors
have told me to have complete rest, with no excitement at a[[,'explained
FramDton.
'Really?'said Mrs Sappleton, but she was not paying attention. Her eyes were
staring past him to the open window and garden beyond.
Suddenty, she jumped up.'Here they are at last,'she said.'Just in time for teal'
Frampton shivered, and looked at the niece with sympathy. The young girl
was staring out through the window with a look of pure horror in her
eyes. In a cold shock of fear, Frampton turned round, and looked in the
same direction.
In the twilight, three figures were walking across the garden towards the
window. They were a[[ carrying guns under their arms, and one of them also
had a white coat over his shoulders. A tired brown dog was walking close to
them. As the figures came nearer to the house, a young voice began to sing.
Frampton grabbed his hat witdty and ran out through the hall ooor, across
the front garden and through the front gate. Outside in the road, he almost
knocked a man off his bicycle in his terrible panic.
'Here we are, my deal' said the man carrying the white coat, as he came in
through the window.'Who was that who ran out as we came in?'
'A very strange man
- a Mr Nuttel,'said Mrs Sappleton.'He coutd only talk
about his illnesses, and then he ran off without saying goodbye wnen you
arrived. lt was as if he had seen a phost!'
fear of dogs. A pack of wild dogs once chased him on the banks of the River
Canges in India, and he hid alt night with the dogs snarling just above him.
It's enough to make anyone suffer with their nerves.'
Telting stories at short notice was her speciality.
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on the book written byTolkien. Classic, um, trilogy and fantastic read.
I read the book, um, and, wel[, it was recommended, um, by a friend and
I absolutely loved the book - it was absolutely amazing,
Um, and then when the films came out, um, I thought that they would
probabty be a little bit disappointing because the book was just so good
- | mean, there's no way you can put that, um, you know, into a film -
but the fitms were actually, you know, they did the book justice, um,
and the cinematography was amazing. The performances were great -
I mean, the casting was great because the characters really did justice to
the characters in the book. Um, and I loved the fact that it was a[[ filmed
in New Zeatand. l've never seen a better movie, I don't think.
2 ATV show that I realy like at the moment is Modern Family. lt's about
four different families, um, that are quite modern.Whereas in the past
people used to think that you'd have a mum, a dad and two children,
um,in Modern Family you've got one family, for instance, where the dad
is about 50 or 60 maybe, and his wife is in her earty 30s, and she's got a
son as we[[ from a previous marriage. Um, so that's quite modern.
Um, the other family is a typicat famity, but they're a[[ a bit crazy.
You've got mum, dad, two girls and a boy, and obviously the siblings, er,
go mad a[[ the time.
The series is really funny because they say and do things that you normally
think about doing or saying but in real life obviously you can't do it. l, I
remember one episode, for instance, where the dad cancetted Christmas
because one of his children [ied, and l've always wanted to do that. I
would recommend everyone to watch it, cos it's A realty good show.
1 Oh, I saw a television programme last week, um, Saturday night, reafly
main peak-time television programme, and, er, it was called The X Factor
and ljust hated it - | really don't [ike singing competitions on television.
Um, the people on the programme were just not very good singers.
The judges weren't judging them for singing: they were judging the way
they looked and they were judging their image. Um, I think really the
judges were thinking about who would setl the most records. So it was
very much about image and not about singing. I think if we're going to
have a singing competition, then the contestants should just be judged
on singing and not the way they took or how their image wi[[ se[[ lots
of records.
4 | want to te[[ you about, er, the first time I went to a ba[[et. Um, it was
called AliceinWonderland, and it's based on the book by Lewis Carro[[.
Um, I went with my friend who, er, it was her birthday, er, so we went
to see it in the, the, um, in Covent Carden in the RoyaI Opera House in
London. Um, absolutely adored it. lt was, er, I thought it was just rea[[y,
reatly amazing. The, the set and the, er, the design of the stage were just
terrific. Um, particularly liked, er, the, the Queen of Hearts - she was,
um, an absolutety brittiant charactel er, really, really funny, um, which l,
I thought, I think maybe that was the best part about it, was that, e1 |
was at a ballet, which was at[ about the dance, but the whole audience
was, um, was laughing - it was a real comedy show as we[[. Er, l'd
recommend it to anybody.
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B: Oh, alright. l'll give it a go. But I can't believe l'm doing this.
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