But I can't see how anyone could believe that you killed the bear with a pitchfork,' I said. 'I didn't. I only wounded it - badly, I think, but not enough to put it out of action. It came blundering towards me, I stepped aside and it crashed head-first into the river - I could hear it threshing about in the darkness. I picked up a big stone - poor brute, I hated to do it but I had to finish it off. It gave just one groan as the stone hit it and then went down. I held the lantern high; I could see the bubbles coming up. And then I saw the dark bulk of it under the water, being carried along by the current.' 'But you didn't have a lantern,' I said. 'He didn't have a bear,' said Topaz.

Barnes writes of the complicated task in his essay "Literary Executions" revealing among other things how he secured the return of the film rights to I Capture the Castle which had been held by Disney since 1949 Smith's personal papers are housed in Boston University's Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center and include manuscripts photographs artwork and correspondence (including letters from Christopher IDodie Smithrwood and John Gielgud). Its success and the discovery of her identity by journalists inspired the newspaper headline "Shopgirl Writes Play". She and Beesley also spent time in Beverly Hills Malibu and Wilton Connecticut.

Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith (3 May 1896 – 24 November 1990) was an English novelist and playwright. Her other works include I Capture the Castle and The Starlight Barking. Smith is best known for her novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians.