Ben Hansen
"Sleep gives you cancer, didn't you know?" Ben replied.
"You just made that up," Mrs Marple said.
"Oh, were you asleep when they said that on the news?" Hugh responded with demonic glee.
"Why are you two still here?"
"We need you to prove you've been asleep all this time."
"Ok, well what if I do... THIS!" Mrs Marple pushed a discreet button on her bedside cabinet, causing Jeeves to apper, slightly out of breath, at the door.
"Show these two out will you Jeeves?" Mrs Marple said.
"Okay sirs, we can do this the easy way or the hard way," Jeeves told Ben and Hugh.
Looking at the arthritic seventy-something-year-old, Ben turned to Hugh. "Let's take the easy way," he said.
"Yeah, I don't think we could take him either," Hugh agreed.
"No, I meant... ah stuff it, let's go."
In the hallway, they set off for the room of the next person on the guest list.
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