Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life

- Let's hope he slips up soon. - In one way I rather hope he doesn't. We haven't had a good juicy series of sex murders since Christie. And they're so good for the tourist trade. Foreigners somehow expect the squares of London to be fog-wreathed, full of hansom cabs and littered with ripped whores, don't you think?

- If there were anything wrong, you'd tell me, wouldn't you? - Wrong? What could be wrong with our child, Robert? We're beautiful people, aren't we?

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.