21st birthdays are hardly rare. If the caller had mentioned a 94th birthday after Parry had been invited to a 94th birthday party i’d call it a big coincidence. The caller had to have a reason for the call and a reason why he couldn’t go to Williams house.
This raises the question about why the caller asked for Williams address? Only William knew that no one at the club would have known his address. The only one that knew his address was Caird who only Wallace would have known wouldn’t be at the club at that time because he went there as soon as he closed his shop.
On the time of the call. Yes Lily’s timing allows Parry to have made the call but her mothers doesnt. We can take our pick.
On dialects. One of the phone operatives specifically mentions the callers pronunciation of cafe as CAFAY rather that CAFF or CAFFEE. What do we deduce from this? Anyone familiar with local accents will tell you that CAFFAY would be considered the posh pronunciation. So who would have been more likely to have used it? Local wide boy Parry or the middle aged man of sophisticated habits?
On the call box. I remember talking about the old boxes with my grandad and I recall him telling me that they were temperamental. Errors could occur without the box being considered out of order.
You mention the plan being a bad one for Wallace? I can think of 8 very simple ways for this plan to have fallen apart for Parry. Everyone of these vanished with William as the planner.
This raises the question about why the caller asked for Williams address? Only William knew that no one at the club would have known his address. The only one that knew his address was Caird who only Wallace would have known wouldn’t be at the club at that time because he went there as soon as he closed his shop.
On the time of the call. Yes Lily’s timing allows Parry to have made the call but her mothers doesnt. We can take our pick.
On dialects. One of the phone operatives specifically mentions the callers pronunciation of cafe as CAFAY rather that CAFF or CAFFEE. What do we deduce from this? Anyone familiar with local accents will tell you that CAFFAY would be considered the posh pronunciation. So who would have been more likely to have used it? Local wide boy Parry or the middle aged man of sophisticated habits?
On the call box. I remember talking about the old boxes with my grandad and I recall him telling me that they were temperamental. Errors could occur without the box being considered out of order.
You mention the plan being a bad one for Wallace? I can think of 8 very simple ways for this plan to have fallen apart for Parry. Everyone of these vanished with William as the planner.
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