:44:01
Yes, I did, but that was a matter of principle.
:44:03
Not because I was going
to hunt down nuns.
:44:06
No, I trust not.
:44:07
Nevertheless, this memo is quite specific.
:44:10
Childie, was I drunk on Wednesday?
:44:14
Wednesday? No, I don't think so.
:44:17
No, not on Wednesday.
:44:19
There you are. Of course I wasn't drunk.
:44:21
I can remember everything that happened.
Everything I did.
:44:24
Miss Buckridge, I'm sure your memory
of subsequent events is excellent.
:44:28
But the fact remains that...
:44:29
according to the Mother Superior of
the Convent of the Sacred Heart of Jesus...
:44:34
you boarded a taxi...
:44:35
I thought it was empty.
:44:38
...a taxi bearing as passengers
two novitiate nuns from Ireland...
:44:43
who had just arrived
at King's Cross Station.
:44:46
How was I to know they were novitiates?
:44:49
Their status in the hierarchy of the church
is totally irrelevant.
:44:55
You boarded this taxi
in a state of advanced inebriation...
:44:58
and proceeded to assault the two nuns...
:45:01
subjecting them to actual physical violence.
:45:06
Shut up. It wasn't a bit like that.
:45:09
In the first place, I certainly wasn't drunk.
:45:12
I saw this taxi draw up at a traffic light.
So, naturally, I got in.
:45:16
And there were these two black things
screaming blue murder.
:45:20
Why didn't you immediately get out again?
:45:23
I would have, but the taxi started off.
:45:25
Anyway, I'd had a very nasty shock myself...
:45:28
what with their screaming
and flapping about.
:45:31
I thought they were bats. Vampire bats.
:45:35
It was they who attacked me.
I can remember now...
:45:37
getting all entangled in their skirts
and petticoats and things.
:45:41
If the taxi driver hadn't pulled me free...
:45:44
they might have done me a serious injury.
:45:47
A deplorable anecdote.
:45:49
According to the Mother Superior...
:45:51
one of the nuns required medical treatment
for shock.
:45:55
She appears to have thought it
some kind of diabolical visitation.
:45:59
George, how could you?