Charles Hayward : Now, your grandfather has just died.Eustace : A good thing, really. It's one less capitalist.
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Chief Inspector Taverner : Charles, you have to understand, I'm under a lot of pressure here. There's politics involved here. It's sensitive. And with your past...Charles Hayward : I'm sorry? My past? In Cairo. I was a diplomat.Chief Inspector Taverner : Of course. And I am a duchess.
They do share one or two traits. Vanity. A distorted morality. A lack of empathy. And murderers tend to feel that they are above the rules and laws that govern ordinary mortals.