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Christopher Mulholland
Mr. Temple is the other of the landlady’s previous guests and victims. She describes how Gregory was a little older than Christopher when he arrived at her Bed and Breakfast, but how his skin was still very youthful: “there wasn’t a blemish on his body.” It is clear that the landlady targets and grooms a certain kind of victim; she likes tall, innocent, and handsome young men, and their appearance is very important to her, as it’s implied that she kills and stuffs them like her pets.
Gregory W. Temple Quotes in The Landlady
The The Landlady quotes below are all either spoken by Gregory W. Temple or refer to Gregory W. Temple. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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But the air was deadly cold and the wind was like a flat blade of ice on his cheeks.
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“Well, you see, both of these names—Mulholland and Temple—I not only seem to remember each one of them separately, so to speak, but somehow or other, in some peculiar way, they both appear to be sort of connected together as well.”
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“Left?” she said, arching her brows. “But my dear boy, he never left. He's still here. Mr. Temple is also here. They're on the fourth floor, both of them together.”
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“I stuff all my little pets myself when they pass away. Will you have another cup of tea?”
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Gregory W. Temple Character Timeline in The Landlady
The timeline below shows where the character Gregory W. Temple appears in The Landlady. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
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...it occurs to Billy that he is also familiar with the other name written there: Gregory W. Temple.
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...appears with “a large silver tea-tray in her hands.” Billy asks her if Christopher and Gregory were famous athletes, which would explain why their names sound familiar. She says no, but...
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Billy begins asking the landlady questions about her Christopher Mulholland and Gregory Temple in order to try and work out why he recognizes their names. He realizes...
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...recently. Confused, the landlady answers that Mr. Mulholland never left. In fact, both he and Mr. Temple are “on the fourth floor, both of them together.”
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...age!” She explains that Christopher was the same age when she met him, and that Gregory was a little older. She also comments that Billy has lovely teeth, though he says...
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...Mr. … Mr. …” She trails off, and Billy reminds her that the guest was Gregory Temple. When Billy asks her if there have “been any other guests here except them...
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