Quotes
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Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : The tiger had cached its kill in a wallow, to keep away the hornets and blowflies. So we staked it out from a machan.
Geoff Craven : Tree-hide, huh?
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : Yes, that's right. Mackendrick took first watch. He must have fallen asleep. First thing I knew was this fearful blow to my left arm. Mackendrick was being hauled down the tree - with his neck in the tiger's jaws.
WPC Shirley Trewlove : Did you get it, sir?
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : Oh... yes. I must have blacked out from loss of blood, because I woke up in hospital. Anyway, that was the end of the man-eater of Kot Kindri.
WPC Shirley Trewlove : Sounds frightfully heroic.
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : No, I fear not. A hero would have saved Mackendrick.
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DC Endeavour Morse : Police - seems an unexpected choice for someone like yourself.
WPC Shirley Trewlove : What is someone like myself?
DC Endeavour Morse : I don't know. Bright, I suppose.
WPC Shirley Trewlove : What are bright girls supposed to do - marry well?
DC Endeavour Morse : Oh, I just meant it can be a pretty grim kind of calling.
WPC Shirley Trewlove : Maybe I like grim.