chpt#01

• Word


  Meaning
• Audible


  Easy to hear
• Soaked


  Very wet
• Repelled


  Keep away
• Strolls


  Leisurely walk
• Confronting


  Face up to
• Ram

  Crash into
• Gloating


  Taking pride
• Composure


  Self possession
• Hysterical


  Out of control
• These lines have been taken from the melo drama, "TWENTY MINUTES WITH MRS.OAKENTUBB", written by " Frank Arthur ".
• This is a melo drama based upon three important characters.
• She (Mrs. Judy Oakentubb), is an important character of the play, her husband is a prosperous salesman. She has bad character and attends cocktail parties. She drives car very fast to win a bet of five pounds and kills two innocent pedestrians and goes behind the bar for eighteen months. He is also an important character meets her in a railway station and in this meeting he knows that She is the murderer of her wife and child. So, he kills her. Porter is a minor character comes in the play to entertain and release the tension of the play.
• And I'll get soaked to the skin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . fit for a shaggy dog.: 'Porter is saying to He that his job is very hard even he has to work in cold and stormy season. He says that in rain he has to go to the luggage office to the end of the platform. This is a difficult job and suits for the shaggy dogs only.'
• Her dress and speech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . professional or businessman.: 'The writer is telling us about her appearance that she seems from an aristocrat family. She is wearing a wedding ring and she is clad a good and expensive dress. Her attitude of speaking tells that she belongs to a good family and her husband is probably a businessman.'
• I saw a photograph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . she was a banana-blonde.: 'He is telling to her that he has not seen Mrs. Judy Oakentubb, but he has seen a photograph of her once in a newspaper and through newspaper photograph no one can guess weather she is dark or fair. He further says that he was told that she has fair color and seems pretty.'
• Your life touches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I go mine.: 'She is talking with He saying that these accidental meetings have no importance in our life. We meet daily thousands of people in different stages (places). For a short time they meet us and then they forget to each other. They come in our life for a short time and after that they go their ways. In the same way we meet here in this railway station. We will also forget to each other.'
• I wanted to die . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . guess I fainted.: 'He tells her about an event which happened with him in Korea, June 1953. He says that some people strapped him. He was wounded and the pain was too much and he was unable to bear the pain so, he wanted to die, he thought that he had become unconscious but a Korean girl saved his life.'
• She didn't say . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and I smiled back.: 'He says her that I was wounded in Korea. No body was there who could save me except a Korean girl who saved my life. She was about fourteen with friendly eyes, she didn't say anything, she bandage over me, I smiled and she smiled back. She was like my daughter who was killed in an accident.'
• Vengeance is not . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . punish the evil-doer.: 'He tells her about his plan that he is going to take revenge with the murderer of his wife and daughter and she says that forgiveness is better than revenge. But he says that he will not forgive the murderer of his wife and daughter. This is not wicked ness. Criminal should be punished.'
• There are several . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . kinds of women.: 'The character He is telling to her that there are many sorts of man in this world so, we cannot analyze every body that which type of behavior he/she has but there are only two kinds of women, those who has good and moral character and other those who don't.'
• They called it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . cruel murder.: 'Here He says that his wife and child were murdered in an accident. Police and people call it an accident but he doesn't believe in. He knows that this was a preplanned murder, a heartless and cruel murder and Mrs. Judy Oakentubb intentionally did it.'
• She could ram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . innocent pedestrians.: 'In these lines he is telling the story of the accident to her saying that she (Mrs.Oakentubb) was driving the car very fast and she took a wrong overtake, she saw a lorry on the other way. She could collide with the lorry and could kill herself or she could kill the two innocent pedestrians who were on the pavement. And she killed them.'
• You know the road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . on the road.: 'In these lines He is telling to She that Mrs. Judy Oakentubb was driving the car fifty miles an hour and she wanted to cross the coast within fifteen minutes. It was a busy road the distance could not be covered never the less she was driving very fast because she wanted to win the bet of five pounds and so she killed two innocent pedestrians. He says that this was an intentional murder.'
• She had her punishment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . drive as she did.: 'In these lines She is arguing to He that Mrs. Judy Oakentubb has got punishment of her crime. She was driving folly so she had to go behind the bars. She had been in jail for eighteen months. She says that she was not right so she had her punishment. She is trying here to change the mind of He who has already decided to kill Judy Oakentubb.'