Programme 20
Text Three
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Intermediate English Course Programme 20 Text Three |
| Mr. Fielding | Hello, Charles. I hear you had a bit of a fire after the party last week. Was there much damage? |
| Mr. Williams | Well, fortunately we managed to confine all the damage to the one room, so it wasn't too bad really The carpets and curtains were ruined, and the walls and ceiling were blackened by smoke, so we had to redecorate the room completely. |
| Mr. Fielding | It must have been a cigarette-end, I suppose. |
| Mr. Williams | Yes, that's for sure. Someone must have dropped a cigarette on the carpet near the big window, and after we'd gone the curtains caught fire. We ought to have checked everything before going to bed, t know, but we were so tired we decided to clear up in the morning. We shouldn't have left the windows open either. |
| Mr. Fielding | Have you any idea who the culprit was? It was very careless of someone. |
| Mr. Williams | It might have been Ted Redman. He's a chain- smoker and he'd had one or two too many. |
| Mr. Fielding | It can't have been me anyway; I'm a non-smoker. But it may well have been old Bill Coleman. The more I think about it, the more I feel sure that he was standing by that window most of the time towards the end of the party. |
| Mr. Williams | So he was! And he's a careless sort of chap - he 25 flicks his cigarette ash all over the place. And the more he drinks the worse he gets. |
| Mr. Fielding | Still, you can't very well accuse him of it - it could have been anyone. |
| Mr. Williams | True. Besides, I can't complain, our room was repainted at the insurance company's expense. |
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