Huntley: Well the gi..I don't know the girls erm.. I were stood on the front doorstep grooming my dog down, she’d run away and come back a bit of a mess. They just came across and asked how Miss Carr was, she used to teach them at St. Andrews, I just said she weren’t very good as she hasn’t got the job, and they just says please tell her that we're very sorry. And off they walked in the direction of the erm.. the library over there.
My thinking is - he inserted himself into the investigation as the last person to see them to satisfy a need for attention, superiority, or a power-play. But he didn't think it through and slips up a number of times. First - denying he knew the girls. That is not plausible. He would have known them at least by sight, and referenced that. If he didn't "know" them, he would have been puzzled that they knew his girlfriend was their former teacher, unless that was common knowledge in the school.
I were stood - he stumbles. He changes from were to stood - referencing body posture indicates tension. Plus: it should have been: I was, as personal pronouns are instinctive and come natural without thinking. Was his mind saying: (We) were? This is a significant slip-up.
The dog reference is classic unsolicited explanation - he needs a reason to put himself there. And off they walked - this is similar to: and off you go! Making someone go away when the person is a nuisance, he is distancing himself.
Great analysis as always!
Huntley: Well the gi..I don't know the girls erm.. I were stood on the front doorstep grooming my dog down, she’d run away and come back a bit of a mess. They just came across and asked how Miss Carr was, she used to teach them at St. Andrews, I just said she weren’t very good as she hasn’t got the job, and they just says please tell her that we're very sorry. And off they walked in the direction of the erm.. the library over there.
My thinking is - he inserted himself into the investigation as the last person to see them to satisfy a need for attention, superiority, or a power-play. But he didn't think it through and slips up a number of times. First - denying he knew the girls. That is not plausible. He would have known them at least by sight, and referenced that. If he didn't "know" them, he would have been puzzled that they knew his girlfriend was their former teacher, unless that was common knowledge in the school.
I were stood - he stumbles. He changes from were to stood - referencing body posture indicates tension. Plus: it should have been: I was, as personal pronouns are instinctive and come natural without thinking. Was his mind saying: (We) were? This is a significant slip-up.
The dog reference is classic unsolicited explanation - he needs a reason to put himself there. And off they walked - this is similar to: and off you go! Making someone go away when the person is a nuisance, he is distancing himself.