- [first lines]
- Truly: I used to know the length of the Mississippi.
- Clegg: Well, that's very useful. I'll bet you're sorry you've forgotten that.
- Truly: That's true if you're keenly interested, but I was just using it as an example of how you forget things. Don't you forget things?
- Clegg: I can't remember.
- Truly: You're in a pissy mood this morning. Reminds me strongly of being married. Although a sense of fairness obliges me to admit you're prettier.
- Clegg: When you realize... people die so suddenly, you wonder if it's worth buying new underwear.
- Truly: Would it not be tempting fate?
- Clegg: I think we haven't got the hang of it yet.
- Truly: Underwear? Oh, I think I've got the hang of mine. Course, you miss the weight of your truncheon.
- Clegg: I was thinking about *him*. Being without *him*. Walking... up here with - without *him*.
- Truly: We often used to walk without him. Oh, and he was always hanging behind or scrambling on a wall somewhere.
- Clegg: [chuckles] Yeah, yes, it's sort of comforting, somebody twenty yards behind you walking on walls or twenty yards in front of you trying to walk across a five-bar gate.
- [chuckles]
- Clegg: Yeah, he never could resist a five-bar gate.
- Truly: He never could resist Nora Batty. I expect that had a tendency to make you climb gates.