TELL IT LIKE IT IS
This character says “We remember our dead”.
Who is Fr. Crompton?
Smythe informs Bendrix of Sarah’s miracle using this form of communication.
What is the telephone?
Mrs. Bertram tells a priest these kinds of lies.
What are white lies?
Parkis’ boy suffers from this malady.
What are very violent stomach aches?
These two characters are cured by miracles.
Who are Parkis’ boy and Smythe?
This character wrote “Please ask permission to borrow. And if you steal it will be to your sorrows”.
Who is Sarah?
Sarah’s funeral announcement is published in this paper of record.
What is The Times?
This is the tube stop for Sarah’s funeral.
What is Golders Green?
When Bendrix learns this fact, he goes cold with fear.
What is Sarah was a Catholic?
Mrs. Bertram is so twisted she misunderstands the concept of the “Great All” from Fr. Crompton’s service and calls it this.
What is the Great Auk?
This character scoffs “I suppose it doesn’t really matter missing the opening lines”.
Who is Bendrix?
Mrs. Bertram is conveniently lacking this when she decides to pay Henry back.
What is a cheque (check)?
Henry’s hat is this shade.
What is black?
Mrs. Bertram had Sarah baptized in order to achieve this against her husband.
What is revenge?
This character rants “If you are a saint, it’s not so difficult to be a saint. It’s something he can demand of any of us, leap. But I won’t leap”.
Who is Bendrix?
This character confesses “I wish we’d let that priest have his way”.
Who is Henry?
Sarah’s mother compares the cremation to this mechanical device.
What is a conveyor belt?
This person, whose name means “spirit of the wood” in Latin, accompanies Bendrix to Sarah’s funeral.
Who is Sylvia?
Sylvia uses this excuse to get out of her dinner with Waterbury.
What is “my mother was ill”?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
This great theologian said time “came out of the future, which didn’t exist yet, into the present that had no duration, and went into the past which had ceased to exist”.
Who is St. Augustine?
This character admits “You sound awfully truthful if you don’t know the right words”.
Who is Mrs. Bertram?
Bendrix prefers to believe that this “modern method” cured Smythe’s facial marks.
What is electricity?
Outside the crematorium, this vaporous matter is “blowing over the suburban gardens.”
What is smoke?
According to Bendrix, the confessional teaches a man to recognize these two emotions.
What is love and hate?
Baptism is the first of this ordered list of holy sacraments.
What is Baptism, Eucharist, Confirmation, Reconciliation, Anointing the Sick, Marriage, and Ordination?