Life X3 Lines

Question 1

Evening. The street.

Answer 1

I’ve laddered my stocking

Question 2

It doesn’t show

Answer 2

Because it just started it can only get worse

Question 3

It doesn’t really matter

Answer 3

Hubert, I am not going to visit people I’ve never met before with a ladder in my stocking.

Question 4

We’re already half an hour late, we can’t go back home, and we can’t go shopping for stockings in the middle of the night. Let’s just rise above it.

Answer 4

You rushed me and this is what happens. Is it far? Why did you park so far away? There’s dozens of spaces, look, who’d want to live out here?

Question 5

Haven’t you got any nail-varnish?

Answer 5

Nail-varnish?

Question 6

To stop the ladder

Answer 6

And look like some tramp

Question 8

Who’s going to notice?

Answer 8

Who’s going to notice? Everyone, except for you. If someone turns up at my house with a ladder in her stocking, the ladder’s the first thing I notice.

Question 9

So you’re very strict on teeth.

Answer 9

Oh yes. Yes, very strict on teeth. Basically, it’s not so much teeth as discipline. Although I’m obviously very much on top of the hygienic aspect of course, but teeth is discipline. You go to bed, you clean your teeth.

Question 10

And then afterwards you peel him an apple.

Answer 10

Oh no. No! If you peel him an apple after his teeth, the whole system collapses.

Question 11

You’d rather he ruined the evening? At least we’ll have a bit of peace.

Answer 11

That’s what he’s banking on.

Question 12

Sorry?

Answer 12

He’s making himself obnoxious so that you’ll give in.

Question 13

And we are giving in.

Answer 13

And you’re wrong.

Question 14

Look, Ines, don’t interfere…

Answer 14

I’ll interfere in any way I like, will you stop trying to muzzle me!

Question 15

Crying. I closed all the doors so we wouldn’t hear him.

Answer 15

Poor little poppet.

Question 16

Henri, stop looking so lugubrious. Even if your approaches are similar, which is by no means established, you’ll undoubtedly have reached different conclusions.

Answer 16

Of course you will!

Question 17

See, and she knows what she’s talking about!

Answer 17

No one’s laughing. Least of all poor Henri.

Question 18

It’s not normal for him to stop crying suddenly just like that.

Answer 18

You mollycoddle him, Henri.

Question 19

She’s terrible! (To Ines) You are terrible!

Answer 19

What possible reason could you have for telling him about this paper?

Question 20

They’re insane.

Answer 20

Especially him.

Question 21

And that child is horrendous.

Answer 21

He has no guidelines, they give him cheese at ten o’clock at night.

Question 22

And we’ve been fed crap.

Answer 22

Why do you put me down in front of other people? I wish I could understand this pathological need you have to continually put me down in front of other people.

Question 23

I don’t put you down, I was joking.

Answer 23

Did you have to tell him about that paper?

Question 24

Now you’re shouting.

Answer 24

That man’s a depressive.

Question 25

I’m not surprised.

Answer 25

What do you mean?

Question 26

One more word, one more squeak and I’ll carry out my threat!

Answer 26

How can you be so cold?

Question 27

Henri?! Doomed? Are you joking? He’s the only one who thinks he’s doomed!

Answer 27

We were talking about Henri.

Question 28

There’s a real wind of madness blowing through this place tonight! She hates me because I’ve just pointed out she has a ladder in her stocking!

Answer 28

You have not just pointed it out, this stocking was laddered in the street and I didn’t want to appear in front of your friends looking like a tinker. I’m very particular as a rule, and my husband, instead of supporting me in the course of action, instead of protecting my dignity, can find nothing better to do than attack me in the middle of a conversation by saying the ladder in my stocking is impossible and that I’ve ruined his evening…

Question 29

I’m afraid Ines may have somewhat overdone it with the Sancerre!

Answer 29

Don’t humiliate yourself by pretending I’m a drunk, Hubert, your usual snide remarks will be quite sufficient…

Question 30

I only have black stockings, I don’t have any flesh-coloured, I don’t know if they would do…

Answer 30

Everything’s fine. Don’t worry about me, in any case I’m quite happy to go on wearing something which is ruining my husband’s evening…

Question 31

Certainly! Perhaps not in the A.P.J. but in A. & A. Or in M.N.R.A.S., I don’t see why not.

Answer 31

You couldn’t care less whether halos are flat or not, you just want to get published.

Question 32

Brilliant!

Answer 32

Why do you resent my husband?

Question 33

I absolutely am not a crawler? Am I a crawler, Hubert?

Answer 33

Let’s go, Hubert, this is ghastly.

Question 34

Don’t try to smooth things over, he crawls in front of you, and you take a malicious pleasure in it, which I can understand…

Answer 34

How can you humiliate your husband like this?!

Question 35

Ines, stop meddling!

Answer 35

I’ll meddle as much as I like. Shit!

Question 36

He says we’re keeping him awake.

Answer 36

He’s right, we are keeping him awake, let’s go, Hubert.

Question 37

A bit!

Answer 37

You asked for it! And it’s true, you’re a crawler! Hubert I can’t take any more!