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Tod asks her about PD because he wants more scoop on Pym’s. Does that mean the VD’s killer has nothing to do with him? Dian asks him why he asked her to chuck VD and reel him back in. He says that VD was trying to double-cross him. If Tod does not have an insider, was an outsider there that DB has not taken into account? Dian tells Tod that a little bird told her VD was bumped off and he guess that it was Harlequin.
— 11 hours, 8 min ago
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Tammy
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Tod acts like it’s terrible but he does the same thing! LOL LPW wants to live a quiet life so his cousin is a pain. Dian says LPW is moribund and his cousin sounds like her type. Tod offers to go and Dian gives her address in case the others need it. She invites him for a drink. He says no, out of duty to the duchess. They leave and LPW wonders if the fly is too big and gaudy.
— 9 hours, 3 min ago
Tammy
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He explains the DB refuses to take off his mask because the police are after him. He gives a quick sketch of all the times he’s had to help his cousin out of trouble. DB goes out of his way to copy LPW to help him avoid getting caught. He reveals the ugly truth that he thinks DB is running drugs, which, to Tod, would explain why he’s at Pym’s. He objects to DB taking advantage of addicted people when he is not one.
— 9 hours, 7 min ago
Tammy
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He asks if he’s the Milligan who lives down the road. He adds that his bil Inspector Parker has brought up his name. Tod says he entertained DB one night. LPW warns him about his cousin. He eyes Dian coldy and warns her about DB’s intentions. Because the cousins are dopplegangers, DB likes to impersonate LPW which is why he has to keep tabs on him. He asks Dian what she knows. She narrates the dive and the woods.
— 9 hours, 15 min ago
Tammy
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He invites Dian and Tod in. He orders whiskey and brandy and, since the butler complies, it’s proof that he belongs. He takes him to the library. He explains that the house belongs to his brother. Tod asks why he’s never heard of his cousin and LPW implies he was born on the wrong side of the tracks. He offers them smokes, too. He acts like he doesn’t know Tod’s last name.
— 9 hours, 24 min ago
Tammy
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He whistles “Tom, Tom” and I’m wondering why! He speaks to her formally and she calls him Harlequin. Wimsey tells her it’s a mistake and Tod steps in to accuse him of taking her of wild rides. Wimsey tells him they are not invited. She calls LPW an ass and he starts telling her about his unfortunate cousin DB. Tod says she should apologize but LPW wants to learn about his cousin’s latest antics. Nice stroke!
— 9 hours, 53 min ago
Tammy
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The Duchess’s first mistake is being satisfied with her party. LOL She perseverates on some cutting remark the Dowager Duchess made. Meanwhile, her party goes to hell. She doesn’t spot her dh, so she snags LPW and asks him about the strangers. Yikes! She’s horrified when he tells her who they are. He makes a quick calculation and improvises on the spot. It is so delicious how he strings them along.
— 10 hours, 7 min ago
Tammy
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Tod asks to meet him but Dian doesn’t know his name, much less how to find him. She thinks he’s dangerous to them. She tells him she wants to get off drugs because her looks are going. They decide to gate crash and the most hilarious thing is that they crash LPW’s mother’s party. The front gate is a no-go so they make it through the back gate, coming behind Freddy Abruthnot, to his surprise.
— 11 hours, 3 min ago
Tammy
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Dian’s shadow-frontier ministers drink and drugs and it’s minister is death. She has the key but neither DB nor Dian know that. She does know that the Harlequin is a good luck charm. She won money by picking Acrobat and Harlequin as horse race winners the day after seeing him. She can’t tell him because ti might break her lucky streak. She and Tod (saturnine, large, black morals but sober habits) are chatting.
— 11 hours, 58 min ago
Tammy
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DB believes she lives in a shadow frontier and she has the key to uncovering VD’s murderer, even if she does not realize it. VD stepped out of the land of daylight into her land of bright flares and dark abysses. Her questions told DB that there is a connections between Pym’s and the drug running. Whoever killed BD was the cold killer who covers tracks, not the mad passion of Dian’s crowd.
— 12 hours, 17 min ago
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He sees the poor as pitiful ghosts living in a cloud cuckoo land, a utopia where people believe the impossible may happen. LPW experiences what actors and spies feel or anyone trying to hide a double life. He wonders if Dian hates him, is tired or him, or thinks it’s the product of a hashish-addled mind. He fears she might commit suicide. She asked once if they have souls when they were talking about judgment.
— 12 hours, 28 min ago
