"Spooks and Spirits" "Ofeig had an artistic nature, though he was not one to show off about the fact." "He was a great family man" "Didn't sit on any committees?" "No." "Didn't belong to any clubs?" "Not even the local football club." "But he was popular." "Yes." "With the ladies, at any rate." "I'm well aware he was a terrible womanizer." "I'm not writing that." "I'll say he had a wide circle of friends." "Yes, he did." "Everyone knew him." "At least in the old town." "Most of them must be dead by now." "They were a terrible bunch of alkies." "But he was good to me and Mani." "The best dad in the world." "At least we thought so." "It's dirty." "Blithe Spirit" "Just one condition: you must work for us for at least two years." "It's not as if I want to work anywhere else." "That's the way I'd like to keep it!" "Why do you think I'm making you this offer?" "It's an absurdly good price, isn't it?" "Insane!" "Anyone for a warm dip?" "Where do I sign, is all I ask." "I thought you'd never leave the centre." "Any more than Dad." "The centre is not what it used to be." "There are no children." "Anyway, it's no place for children." " We grew up there." "We survived." "Didn't do me any harm." "He's mad." "It hasn't got a garden." "It's become important for the street to be child friendly." "If you want to hang on to the house, you can buy me out." "You can sell the dump for all I care." "Look." "The dream on paper." "A double garage." "A spacious bedroom." "It'll be terrific!" "Hello, Anna." "Hello." "You asked about attending a séance?" " Yes." "This might be a good time." "I'm holding a meeting tonight at nine." "At home." "Is that Iceland's most famous medium?" "Iceland's?" "Alfrun's world famous!" "You're not taking part in that mumbo-jumbo." "It's for the play." "Research." "Research?" "There's a séance in the play." "I offered to go because she lives next door." "It's all a con." "No one can make contact with the dead." "How do you know?" "If anyone can do it, Alfrun can." "But what's it for?" "The mysterious thing about séances is how pointless the information is." "The lock is in, out, out, out, in." "In, out, in, in, out." "No real answers." "Nothing that matters." "Nothing about God!" "Good evening!" "Welcome." "I often go with the angels and they fly me wherever I like." "It's such fun." "So you can stop crying, Mummy." "Because I'm happy." "Remember that!" "I'm happy!" "Yes, Didda darling, I'll remember." "And stop crying!" "Yes, I'll stop crying." "This is a strange telephone box." "Bit of a squeeze." "It's the only way to phone home!" "No mobile phones here, no internet connection !" "If only one could send an e-mail !" "Hello, Anna dear." "Dad, is that you?" "Who else?" "It's hardly surprising you don't recognise me." "You're not used to hearing me talk through an old bag like this." "I'm often with you." "There's nowhere else I'd rather be." "Are you often at the house?" "To make sure you don't do anything silly." "Like what?" "Like Ingi's idea of moving house." "Aren't you comfortable in the house?" "Yes." "But in terms of the future" "There's enough room, now I've gone." "Yes..." "There's some curse on the place Ingi wants to move to, some terrible omen of doom I just don't understand." "There's a pack of goddamn crazy demons from the old cemetery, some goddamn crazy devils..." "The connection's been cut off." "Did he have rather a foul mouth?" "Yes." "A bit." "Goodbye!" "God be with you!" "Hi !" "How was it?" "Fine." "Fine?" "How was it?" "I'm going to bed." "Good night." "I was wondering if it would be such a crazy idea to buy Mani out." "What for?" "We could live here, have the whole house to ourselves." "What about the other house?" "It's just so big." "Exactly, plenty of room for kids!" "Which there isn't here!" "Yes." "There were four of us and we had enough room." "What happened last night?" "Nothing." "Did anyone make contact?" "Lots of people made contact." "Did your dad drop by?" "As a matter of fact he did." "What did he say?" "He doesn't want us to move." "He doesn't want us to move." "He says there's some curse over that place." "The other house?" "Yes, some omen of doom !" "And you believe him?" "It's just a bit difficult to do exactly what he says I shouldn't." "What a load of cobblers!" "What do you know about that house?" "Why is it so cheap?" "I know it's with a large garden, well built, beautiful." "Yes, but Dad says..." " Dad says?" "You didn't pay much attention to him when he was alive." "He's warning us!" "Is there any more sense in him now he's dead?" "Love you!" "Wait, I'm coming with you." "Are you afraid to be left alone in the house?" "No." "Not afraid any dead relatives might show up?" "Would you rather I walked?" "No." "I'm kidding." "Where is she now?" "Here, close to me." "Are you happy, my dear?" "Tell the silly old bitch to go to Hell." "Was the journey difficult?" "Are you weary?" "She's dotty." "Madame Arcati." "Just a moment." "I almost have a contact." "Tell her to go into the other room." "We need to talk." "I can sense the vibrations." "This is magnificent." "Don't be a spoilsport." "Give her a bit of encouragement." "If you'll promise to get her into the other room." "All right." "Yes, again." "This is first rate." "Absolutely stunning." "Overwhelming!" "Was this too much?" "Just a touch." "If you could tone it down" "I thought it was great." "I thought it was fine." "Or, I don't know." "Ingi!" "Gullveig is searching for a house in the centre." "Gullveig is searching for a house in the centre." "Hello!" "Perhaps you could show her your house?" "By all means." "I take it you're buying something else?" "It's not quite settled, as yet." "I've been looking at some places." "Nothing exciting, though." "This is the house for you." "Honestly." "Have a look!" "Yes, please, do." "Whenever" "Snow on the mountains." " It's beautiful." "Ingi!" "Wasn't it just an earthquake?" "Nothing else was shaking, only the bottle." "Remember when Mum locked Dad in to keep him from the booze?" "I was outside playing, a little boy a taxi arrived, then Dad let down a piece of string and fished the bottle up through the window!" "Did they last long, his binges?" "Several days." "They got longer after Mum died." "You're telling me!" "When he went on a bender his wino friends came round." "He lay in bed and they poured booze down his neck." "Then they took the paintings off the walls and flogged them for spirits and stewing steak." "Otherwise we would have paintings by the masters." "Why try to open a brandy bottle?" "Can he drink?" "Anna will have to go to another séance and ask him." "Can you ask him how long he intends to stay in the house?" "He'll never leave." "He's always lived there." "Was born in the house." "Granddad built it for him, that's what Dad used to say when he'd had a few:" "'He built it for his boy." "Me!" "'" "Did he follow us here?" "Don't they always stick to one place?" "Boys, stop it!" "That's Dad you're talking about!" "Trying to sneak a nip of brandy." "Like in the old days!" "Stop it!" "How can you be sure he's telling the truth about this 'omen of doom'?" "He's my father." "He wouldn't lie to me." "I'm just saying we need to treat this with caution, even if there is something in it." "I don't want anyone else telling me what to do especially some dead relative." "How do you know it's him?" "It could be someone else pretending to be him!" "Someone playing Errol Garner?" "When did Errol Garner ever play a tune by Jon Muli Arnason?" "'Know who she is !" "'" "I know of only one man who used to play the tune that way." "It's him." "He's playing right on the piano downstairs." "I'm not kidding." "Anna." " It's him!" "How did you do it?" "I didn't do anything." "Is Mani hiding back here somewhere?" "Ingi, I swear, I didn't do a thing." "Fine." "It was your dad." "Well played, Ofeig." "I didn't know you were that good." "I could have put it in the obituary!" "He wasn't that good." "Death has improved him!" "Come!" "Dad." "I told you." "He has returned." "Oh my God!" "I'll close it." "How do you know he's outside?" "What do you mean?" "He could have come in before you shut the door." "Or after you shut it!" "We'll just have to live with it." "He may be in here." "On the chest of drawers or in the wardrobe." "Maybe on the bed foot." "Good night." "I've never performed a ceremony over a ghost." "Generally speaking I'm rather against getting involved in quarrels of people from different planes of existence." "Do you know of any other priest who could do it?" "No, and it's questionable whether this is comes within the remit of the Church." "There's not a word about it in our job description." "As for the very fundaments of our faith," "Luther never said a word about ghosts or how to deal with them." "He didn't have his dead father-in-law in his bed." "Shouldn't we show him friendship and compassion rather than hostility and persecution?" "Is it consistent with the message of love to drive a lost soul from the house where he was born?" "Bloody Hell !" "Is there nothing I can do?" "If the situation is intolerable, if it's clear the spirit in question is malevolent," "I'd say so." " I advise you to recite prayers in all the rooms of the house." "It's extraordinarily effective." "It needn't be more than the Lord's Prayer." "Or a few hymns by Hallgrim." "Hallgrim?" "Petusson, my friend." "Goodbye!" "Thanks." "A lifeless corpse, useless in all deprived of sight, hearing and tongue." "Such is a soul without a prayer blind, cold, deaf and stone-dead." "What's that gobbledy-gook, Ingi?" "I'm trying to get rid of you!" "What amateur told you to read the 'Hymns of Passion'?" "I'll counter with Einar Ben:" "'Haunting in the night." "Men dream in fright of some devilry on the roof.'" "How about a quick snifter?" "Would you like one?" "Let me think." "Yes." "How do you intend to drink it?" "You don't have a head, do you?" "Pour one and you'll find out." "Will you disappear if I put the cork back in?" "You've got good taste in brandy." "Have a drop!" "Have a drop yourself!" "There's no need to be quite so abstemious." "Ofeig, I want to make a deal with you." "Oh yes?" "What do you feel about living somewhere else?" "I've always lived here." "What about letting us live somewhere else?" "You expect me to hang around with a bunch of strangers?" "We can discuss it." "Have another one!" "Why haven't you proposed to her long ago." "We happen to prefer living in sin." "You should get married, anything else is inappropriate." "From what I hear, you have plans to start a family." "Where did you hear that?" "I don't want my daughter to have some little bastard." "People should marry before they have children." "I can't see it's any of your business." "Oh no?" "I'm closely related enough to my daughter to make it my business." "Ofeig, you're dead!" "And you're boring, but I don't go on about it." "Can't you poke your nose into affairs on the other side?" "We need another bottle!" "We?" "Not me." "I've had enough." "Anna won't be home for hours?" "It's late." "Ofeig?" "Let go!" "What are you doing?" "Stop pushing me!" "The keys!" "And the wallet!" "I know my daughter." "She wants you to propose." "And I know exactly how you should do it." "Romantic and unforgettable." "We're not interested in marriage." "We've discussed it." "Which is exactly why it'll have such an impact." "You've discussed it and agreed marriage is quite unnecessary," "Yet, there he is getting down on his knees to propose!" "I know women." "And I know my daughter." "All women want to be proposed to." "She's no exception." "So what's this perfect proposal?" "You climb some mountain and hide a bottle of champagne and an engagement ring." "Then you go back, invite Anna to a mountain hike, and when you get to the top she finds the glasses, then the champagne and finally the engagement ring." "That's when you get down on your knee and humbly ask her to marry you." "She'd get a fit of the giggles." "No." "She'd have tears in her eyes." "Ofeig!" "I don't want to go to a bar." "I'm not the thirsty one." "An orange juice, please." "You really know how to get people's attention." "It's the bad company I keep!" "Who are you with?" "My guardian angel !" "He's the one out on the razzle, not me." "So someone's drinking through you?" "That's exactly what's happening." "I'm no drinker myself." "Does this happen often?" "I sincerely hope not." "Your guardian angel likes it strong?" "How did he manage that?" "When will you show me your house?" "That's a woman I like!" "Look at that body, man alive!" "Shame she's alive, then!" "Hit on her for me!" "Are you out of your mind?" "Do you know how long it is since I got my end away?" "First you want me to marry your daughter, then you want me to cheat on her." "She needn't know anything." "How long is it till she gets home?" "First you drink through me, now you want to screw through me!" "What are you saying to yourself?" "When would you like to see my house?" "Any time." "I have an opening in about five minutes." "Now?" "The way the market is, you wouldn't want to miss this opportunity." "Did your guardian angel feed you that line?" "We could go to your place." "This isn't really the best time." "My place then." "It's two minutes' walk!" "The girls are waiting." "I'll play for you on my piano." "I'll make a song, just for you." "Do you like jazz?" "Well, yes." "OK, my place it is." "Some other time." "When you're a bit more yourself." "A bit more myself?" "At least give me your phone number." "To make it up to you." "My mother would tell me not to do it." "I've wanted to get in touch with you for a long time." "Do the boys ever leave you alone?" "Just drop by and see me at Grettisgata 29!" "Are you all right?" "Sorry, I have to pop to the gents." "You don't bloody need to pop to the gents." "How would you know!" "I'm about to piss myself!" "Then I think you should probably go." "Are you going to let me do this by myself?" "Don't you dare possess me again." "If you try to take over my body, I'll..." "What?" "Kill me?" "Don't you dare!" "Why give up when everything was going so well?" "I'd chatted the girl up." "I have no intention of cheating on Anna." "You wouldn't be." "Do you think I'd want that?" "I'd be getting my leg over the girl, not you." "Neither of us is getting our leg over any woman, least of all here, ten minutes before Anna is due home!" "I'm home." "Hi, darling." "Who are you talking to?" "No-one." "Are you drunk?" "No." "Yes." "So is he!" "Who?" " Who else but your father's ghost?" "How can he be drunk?" "He drank through me!" "What rubbish is this?" "Why are you getting sloshed in the middle of the week?" "Haven't I had enough of that from my father?" "Do I have to clean up the shit after you too?" "What was that?" "Just another of your father's jokes." "The evening's been like this." "One bloody long joke!" "Darling, he could be here." "I've turned off the light." "Ghosts see in the dark." "What do you mean?" "Of course they see in the dark." "They do their haunting at night!" "I see you in the night." "You stink of liquor." "Hi." "What's up?" "What do you say to going for a drive?" "No, I'm not kidding." "What's going on?" "Just..." " Just what?" "Picnic." "But you hate picnics." "You love them." "Is this because of last night?" "What, am I not allowed to be romantic?" "I suppose so." "Good afternoon!" "Come." "Just drop me off at the theatre." "Really?" "This doesn't work." "Come." "I need to exorcise a ghost." "Those souls find it hard to cut their ties with our existence." "Some are so dependent on the pleasures of the flesh that they can't adjust to the afterlife." "Their thoughts are bound to the delights of this world." "Still they don't have a body to enjoy those delights?" "The conflict these souls suffer is extraordinary." "He'll gradually realise his predicament find the will to continue his spiritual development." "Did he slip through during your séance?" "Maybe." "Though I didn't do anything to cause it." "What can be done?" "Wait, give this lost soul time to mend his ways." "I don't have time." "One shouldn't interfere with the afterlife unless it's an emergency." "This is an emergency!" "Leave me alone!" "Was that him?" " No." "It's your fault he slipped through!" "You've got to help me get rid of him." "I'm just a switchboard operator, putting through calls from the afterlife." "This is your mess." "Am I to wait until he leaves?" "In 10, 20, maybe 30 years?" "I came across a book in an antiquarian bookstore." "It's an old manual of black magic, and includes instructions on how to exorcise ghosts." "There are weird things in that book, but it works." "Why were books of black magic burnt in the old days?" "Because they worked!" "I'm looking for a book on magic!" "The more dust, the more it costs!" "I'll take it." "I won't take the book home." "I don't want your dad suspecting anything." "But it's for laying ghosts!" " Yes." "Ingi, he's my dad!" "I know." "That's why I'm asking you." "You have to be in this with me." "I can't do it." "You'll have to support me." "I can't send him away if you want him in the house." "I don't want him in the house!" "He's not going anywhere of his own accord." "He might do." "Given a bit of time." "Anna." "He doesn't seem to be going anywhere." "I still love my father, even if he is a ghost." "I realize it's difficult for you to decide this." "To have him sent away somewhere we don't even know where?" "We've got to do something!" " I just can't." "I just missed you earlier, so I decided to drop by." "Come in!" "Just sign this and the house will be yours!" "And then pay this trifling little sum." "We'll have to sell this place first!" "It'll be snapped up the moment you put it up for sale." "This was when people wanted high ceilings." "Tiny rooms, but enormous height." "And the mouldings on the cornicing." "Fantastic!" "A room wasn't complete without mouldings back then." "And sliding doors built in." "Why don't they build like this any more?" "You'll make good money on this house." "Actually, it belongs to Anna and her brother." "A bit of paint" "Great light." "The bookcase is a bit wobbly." "I know the estate agent you need." "She'll sell it without even advertising!" "Her name is Freyja." "She'll sell it promptly." "Great." "I'll get in touch." "This is magnificent." "I'll hear from you." "So, you've learnt to move the furniture and chuck vases?" "So, you've learnt to move the furniture and chuck vases?" "This is more than I can accept." "You'll move out of here." "If not of your own accord, then I'll throw you out!" "Ofeig, let me see you." "A protective symbol against evil phantoms and to lay down ghosts." "Thighbone Wool" "Consecrated communion wine" "The National Museum" "Christ's blood, chalice of life" "Let my incantation sound necromancy to confound:" "wine of God and bone of man, sign of fire and wool of lamb, destroy, dissolve, dispel, scatter, unmake, o'erturn, derange, shatter," "revoke the runes, strike out the signs release death from its dark confines, release from its dark confines:" "Life?" "Goodbye." "The pages got stuck together." "I meant to exorcise him and here's how to do it." "But here it tells you how to raise a ghost." "It's a woman." "What are they talking about?" "I can't hear." "It's as if they know each other." "Like a domestic tiff." "It's not your mother?" "No, it's not Mum's voice." "At least we know where he is." "And he's not spying on us right now." "Not with that woman in the house." "But she's downstairs." "I just can't." "Stop it." "Good night." "Good night, my love." "I still love him, though he certainly doesn't deserve it." "I just can't stop loving him." "He never wanted to leave his wife." "I tried to tear myself away from him, tried to fall for someone else, but it didn't work." "I belonged to him!" "And he treated me that way." "As if I were HIS DOG!" "I've seen her before." "So have you, Mani." " Me?" "It's that weird woman who used to come round, on some ludicrous errand." "First she pretended to be trying to find her cousin." "Next she said she was from the City Council investigating children's school attendance." "She was so distracted she couldn't even kid me at ten." "It's her?" "She was very busy nosing round the flat." "She opened the top drawer of the chest." "She wasn't prepared, didn't know what to say." "I'll look at the bedroom, and then I'm off." "She was only there to snoop." "Some dried fish?" "Then she was selling dried fish." "I can't remember Dad being with her." "Exactly." "He had lots of women, after Mum died." "I don't remember this one." "Perhaps that's why she's so upset." "Something was clearly going on." "Quite." "Dad was quite capable of cheating on Mum." "There are no payments." "Boys!" "I'd like a word." "Where are you?" "Open the wardrobe!" "What are you doing here?" "Hello, Mani." "How are you, my boy?" "Fine, and you?" "Ingi !" "You have to get that bloody woman off my back!" "How?" "I don't know!" "You brought her here." "Send her back!" "If I knew how, you'd be gone." "Can't you do anything?" "ME?" "I've never messed around with sorcery!" "Why did she come?" "She's taking her revenge on me." "She was bad enough alive, she's twice as bad dead." "She sneaked through the crack that formed when Ingi recited his damned incantations!" "But I didn't call her up." "A crack formed in the fabric between life and death." "The stupid old cow nipped through!" "You have to do something." "It's your fault!" "Ofeig." "The only thing we can do is sell the house." "You won't sell anything until you get rid of that harpy!" "Are you mixed up in this as well, Mani?" "You're doing us a big disservice." "Bringing down the value of the property." "Who will want to buy a house with a spook like?" "Spook?" "Not to mention the revenant, your girlfriend." "She's not my girlfriend." "Mistress, then." "Why are you talking to the wardrobe?" "That's just like him." "Forever running away." "Never there when you want him." "He was never in love with me, not really." "He was good at pretending." "He strung me along for years, always pretending!" "It's a great location." "We need to get it on the market." "We're buying a terrace house." "Any problems?" "It's an old house, and so on." "You wouldn't want it coming back to haunt you." "Well." "It has a ghost." "A ghost?" "Two ghosts." "I see." "It's haunted." "That's brilliant!" "It'll raise the value!" "Does it?" "Who wouldn't want to live in an old house with a history, especially one that's haunted?" "To boast about a ghost in the attic." "We'll include it in the particulars!" "When would you like to see it?" "Now?" "This is the study." "Has anyone famous lived here, a writer, an artist?" "The one who lived here was a musician." "His father built the house, a stone mason." "He cut tombstones downstairs, and lived upstairs." "This ghost is no one people would have heard of." "He played in dance bands years ago." "Not famous." "Here he is." "I don't think I've seen him." "Shall we look downstairs?" "Tombstones?" "That fits in with the ghost idea!" "Yes, doesn't it?" "Those were ghosts!" "Real ghosts!" "I can't sell that house!" "No one can sell that house!" "No one can sell that house!" "Yesss!" "Ingi." "Time's running out." "For the house." "Of course." "If you're not interested, it would be good to know." "We're definitely interested" "Has Gullveig seen the place yet?" "Not yet." "You'd better get onto it then." "Mani." "Hello, brother-in-law." "We have a problem." "You'll have to talk some sense into your dad." "You have to." "Hello!" "Hello, my boy." "Good to see you." "You could have set fire to the house!" "I keep learning new tricks!" "I had to show you." "Do you have time for a little chat?" "Chat?" "We haven't spoken together, not since" "Not since long before your funeral !" "Yes." "Shall we go to a bar?" "What for?" "What do people do in bars?" "Have a drink, meet girls." "Do you have a girlfriend?" "No." "It's high time to try and meet one!" "Dad, I don't drink." "You'll do it for your old Dad." "I don't drink, I don't want to become an alcoholic." "Like me?" "It's in the blood, Dad, as you know only too well." "Couldn't you have just one?" "No!" "Anyway, you'll come to a bar with me." "I can't get there on my own." "We have things to discuss." "Dad, it's a bit early in the day, and I'm not going out chasing women." "For me, Mani." "This is for me!" "For you?" "If I go out on the pull, I do it on my own behalf!" "There, there, my boy, easy now." "We'll go to the bar, have a drop to calm our nerves." "We've got money, haven't we?" "You remember me?" "You've grown, my little Mani." "But you, Alfrun, you never change." "As gorgeous as ever." "Will you give a drink?" "You're not going the same way as your father?" "No, I've just finished the exams." "As chef." "Really?" "How did it go?" "Extremely well." "Why haven't you ever married?" "Yes, I wonder why." "I think men are frightened of you." "Really?" "All these dealings with dead people keeps them away." "It has never been appealing to communicate with the dead." "It appeals to me." "I even find it sexy." "I'm not afraid." "The dead can't do anything to me." "That's right." "It's limited what the deceased can do." "To begin with, they're dead." "I mean, communicating with those who're still alive." "So few of them can exert themselves, who learn it before moving on to another dimension to have some influence on the world they've left." "Trying the old crucifix trick, eh?" "How could I let him trick me?" "Why didn't I see him?" "He took possession of me!" "He has learnt too many tricks, become too powerful." "We have to get rid of him." "You have to help us." "Thou shalt carve this letter in the wood of an oak and fill the cut with blood from the big toe of the right foot and the thumb of the left hand." "Is the blood in your toe different from that in your thumb?" "We do what it says." "It works." "According to Alfrun." "Here's a spell to help a man get over a woman." "Yesterday you almost got all the way with Alfrun." "Boys!" "I'm not at all sure we're doing the right thing." "What if Dad wants it this way?" "Can we say anything positive about his present state?" "He's not just dead." "He's deranged!" "Boys, what are we doing?" "I'll be along in a minute!" "Come into the warmth." "Be my guest!" "Hello!" "Is anyone home?" "Good evening." "I was just passing." "Thought I'd drop in." "Yes, by all means." "I'm sorry if I disturb." "It's not actually a very good moment." "You said, when we met at the bar the other day" "That wasn't me..." " Wasn't you?" "No, it was my father-in-law." "What, you're married?" "No, but we live together." "Why did you invite me round then?" "Yes, why did you invite her round?" "It wasn't me." "It was your father." "How could he have done that?" "He took possession of me." "Pretended to be me." "You were drunk, saw a pretty girl and got horny." "He actually wanted me to sleep with her." " How?" "I was supposed to... you know..." "then he meant to..." "That's the most pathetic excuse for unfaithfulness." "But it's true." "Trying to blame your own cheating on a man who's dead!" "I said no." "He took possession of me at the bar." "He chatted her up using my body." "He tried it on with me as well." "Then he tried to get his leg over the medium!" "I was supposed to have it off with her - for him!" "I just came to look at the house." "This house is not for sale." "It isn't?" " No." "I want you to leave, all of you!" "You in particular!" "Now!" "Where should I go?" "Well, to your mother." "Anna, this is my home!" " OUT!" "Get out!" " I'm just getting my shoe." "Anna!" " Out!" "And you shut up!" "I have a formula here that will get rid of her without hurting her feeling." "It requires nothing more than concentration from you and minor trance from me." "Honestly I'd rather" "You should be there before he's finished." "Shall we go on?" "Charles." " What now?" "What's she doing here?" "Offering me her condolences." "Should have been congratulations." "Elvira!" "Mme Arcati." "Allow me to introduce my first wife." "Send her away." "Where is she at the moment?" "She's moving about." "I'll tell you when she settles." "There won't be a premiere this way." "We've just got a new telly." "The screen must be massive." "Fifty inches." "Fifty?" "No small thing." "I've never done you any harm." "What nonsense!" "You only came to me for one thing." "Weeks could pass before you bothered to come again." "Weeks!" "Months, even!" "I just want you to go away!" "I would if I could!" "It was because of him that I never had any children." "I waited for him all those years." "I'm still waiting." "Aren't you a bit past childbearing age?" "What fools love makes of us all!" "I'm no expert on eternal matters, but is there any future in this?" "Future?" "Hasn't the man said no?" "I have no one else." "He was the love of my life that heartless, drunken lout!" "There's no need to make such a big deal of it." "Big deal?" "I knew you, but there wasn't much more to it than that." "Is that so?" "We had the odd drink together." "I can't understand this bloody obsession." "This bloody obsession is called love, something you know nothing about!" "There's a coward for you!" "He came to my bed week in, week out..." "You said it was weeks between my visits, even months?" "You used me when you felt like it, were drunk enough!" "So much for your love." "But my love reaches beyond the grave!" "Anna." "Don't believe her." "This is one disturbed ghost." "Front." "Cold front." "Weather front." "Warm front." "Correct." "Precipitation." "Cold." "Frost." "Snowing." "Correct." "Dad, stop this!" " Sorry, dear." "I don't want that crazy old witch to destroy everything between us with her lies." "to destroy everything between us with her lies." "She's telling the truth." "There may be a grain of truth in it but it's been blown out of all proportion." "How could you do that to Mum?" "I was always good to your mother." "I never left her the way Ingi has left you." "He hasn't left me." "Why's he staying at his mother's?" "Because of you!" "You're driving him away from me." "Things are fine between me and Ingi." "We even went out for a drink together." "No, it's his own fault." "He lumbered us with that bloody woman." "She came because of you!" "Why on earth?" "I hardly know her." "I may have slept with her once or twice." "Once or twice?" "Still denying the truth!" "And running away from your responsibilities!" "Care about u, not house." "Meet me!" "How were you planning to get the 'menstrual blood of a virgin'?" "Do you have anyone in mind?" "I didn't sleep well at Mum's house." "Coffee?" "Cake?" "I should avoid coffee for a while." "Too wired as it is?" "No." "Actually there are a few things I'm avoiding." "Coffee, alcohol, sushi." "And me?" "I couldn't stop thinking about you." "Alone in the house." "With the spooks." "Talking of menstrual blood, there won't be much of it for me for a while." "Because of the haunting?" "I don't think it's because of that." "You mean...?" "Are you sure?" "I peed on the stick." "Good girl!" "Two clear lines." "Wow!" "I can't sleep alone at home." "At least we've got your dad to baby-sit!" "Or that girlfriend of his." "Hello Mum!" "Hello Dad." "Is it true?" "You're pregnant?" "I'm going to be a grandfather!" "Dad!" "I knew he was spying on us in bed!" "It would be most unfair to send me away now." "The boy has a right to know his grandfather!" "The boy?" "Is it a boy?" "Well, or girl !" "Ofeig, do you never sleep?" "This is my home too." "Long before you moved in." "Ofeig." "You're dead!" "I invited you into this house, not the other way round." "Sometimes Ingi and I need to be alone together." "Sorry, darling." "Now you take care of yourself." "And the little chap." "Are you talking about me?" "You know what you have to do!" "You remember what I said on the way to the bar!" "What was that all about?" "Just some nonsense." "Hello Mum." "Stop it." "I'm not in the mood." "Not any more." "We need to get rid of him." "We need to get rid of both of them." "Do you remember the time we went to the country you met the dog and watched the lambs being born?" "Don't send me back to that horrible empty place." "Ingi !" "Stop!" "I can't do this!" " But we've started." "It's like killing my own father!" " He's already dead." "We're doing him a favour." "A favour?" "If that's a favour, how do you do someone a bad turn?" "What's the point of wandering between worlds like this?" "He needs to move on." "Imagine you're sending him to rehab!" "At least he could come back from there." "Do you want to bring up a child in a haunted house?" "Children can get used to anything." "They'd get to know their grandfather." "I don't want my child to get to know its dead grandfather." "Would it really be such a bad thing?" "Anna, I'm not going to put up with this." "You'll have to choose between us." "I shouldn't have to choose." "You can't have both of us." "Who would you rather live with:" "your father or the father of your child?" "I want her out of my house, this damned witch." "Let her be!" "Anna, help me!" "What am I supposed to say?" " Nothing." "Just put it on the fire!" "NO!" "Don't do it!" "Johanna, help me!" "Forgive me, Dad, I have to!" "I'm so sorry, darling Dad, I have to!" "What's this?" "Glasses." "Champagne glasses!" "If you would drink, just look around:" "the bottle lies buried in the mound!" "It's some kind of a game." "Shall we have a look?" "Something there!" "Champagne." "Dig deeper still if you would be happy for all eternity!" "Anna." "Will you marry me?" "Yes." "Really?" "No." "Since I passed away" "I've had to endure too much tranquillity endless boredom and peace." "This is no life" "I've had more than enough of it since I passed away." "I want fun" "I want wine and women." "With a smile on my lips" "I crave a kiss from the girls." "Here there's no bliss in every way there's a shortage of fixes" "no release since I passed away." "He wants to inhabit his old body not suspecting what awaits:" "reunions, happy times behind the heaven." "I ask for one thing only." "Why is that a problem?" "I desire strongly a body around this soul 'cause it's so bare where it flits through the empty universe" "lighter than dust since I passed away."