'BORED
GAMES'
Scene
– the lobby of the Mayfair Hotel
(The telephone rings. Mrs White enters and answers it)
Mrs White: The Mayfair Hotel, Mrs White speaking. How
may I help you? Certainly Professor Plum. The rates? £2000 per
evening. Yes, £2000. I'm sorry if you find that excessive but
‘The Mayfair’ is the finest hotel in London. Fine. We'll
be expecting you then. Goodbye. I wonder what he meant by I'll stay
there even if I have to kill to do it?
(Dramatic Sting – Dum, dum, dum, dum!)
Milton: (Entering) Just look at all these
bills. ‘You are assessed for street repairs – £40
per house, £115 per hotel.’ ‘Pay hospital £100.’
And what's this one? ‘Pay school fees - £150.’ I don't
even have any children.
Mrs White: None that you know of Mr Bradley.
Milton: What did you say Mrs White?
Mrs White: I said "Um… You know, I've missed
her badly" – Ira Iron… the maid you dismissed last
month. It's doubled my workload…
Milton: Don't you think that I know what it is to work
hard? (Mrs White has heard it all before so she can almost mouth
the speech with him) I haven't always been rich you know. I began
with just a few pieces of land. A stretch on Pentonville Road, Euston
Road and the Angel Islington. I built houses, collected rent, bought
more land. Northumberland…
