The Murder Party (1934)

Jane Millican: Anna Chiddiatt

Quotes 

• Chiddiatt : Anna, Anna!

  Anna Chiddiatt : Yes darling.

  Chiddiatt : Your pad and pencil quickly! Quickly before I lose the inspiration.

  [Dictating his latest oeuvre] 

  Chiddiatt : The scent of the room drifted slowly upwards as she gave him a pear-shaped look.Significant vital almond-blossom falling on guitar strings in small Italian towns came to his mind as he bent. What was that? Sordid, time-shattering, comes tap, tap, tap, a knocking on the door.