Paul Frees: John Beresford Tipton

Quotes 

• Michael Anthony : [Anthony enters the Tipton estate garden to find Tipton seated in a high backed rattan wicker chair, holding a sea shell]  You sent for me, sir?

  John Beresford Tipton : Know what this is, Mike?

  [Tipton offers the shell to Anthony] 

  Michael Anthony : It's a sea shell, of course.

  [Anthony inspects the shell closer] 

  Michael Anthony : Chambered nautilus, isn't it, sir?

  John Beresford Tipton : Well, it was. Now it's only the empty shell - the house in which the nautilus once lived. Here's how the house of nautilus looks inside.

  [Tipton offers the house to Anthony] 

  Michael Anthony : [Anthony examines the house]  A long corridor of separate chambers.

  John Beresford Tipton : No one quite knows why, as the nautilus grows, it moves forward into a new chamber and seals off the past room in which it lived - locks the door and moves into the future. Some people live like that, Mike: keep their past in an airtight compartment, locked away.

  [Tipton hands over envelope to Anthony] 

  John Beresford Tipton : Our next millionaire.

  [Anthony bows and departs]