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The girl is a naive, but her mixture of optimism and spooky prescience gives her perceptions weight, and Hiditch has a subterranean existence that's constantly at odds with his pleasantries: He might well be a psychopath who has preyed on--and dispatched--other young women.
Eventually he does locate Nachtigel and, after some false pleasantries, he shoots him.
) After other introductory pleasantries Shaw confessed, “I had an axe of my own to grind; and I thought that Professor Wilson's book might help me to grind it.”
For much of the first hour, Redgrave's Clarissa Dalloway drifts around a sunny, post-World War I London, talking excitedly of a party to take place at her home that evening, exchanging formal pleasantries with various aristocrats, and moving in and out of her memories.
Such pleasantries are clearly intended to be both polite and friendly, and responding to proffered congeniality with disdain, reproof, or sarcasm is nothing short of boorish.