Page "Harold and Maude" Paragraph 24

Harold tells Maude when they are talking candidly at her house that he has " died a few times.

" He describes how, when he was at boarding school, he set his chemistry lab on fire and, escaping through a hole in the floor, went home, believing his school career to be at an end.

When the police came to his house, Harold watched as they told his mother that he had died in the fire, and saw her collapse into the policemen's arms.

As he reaches this part of the story, Harold bursts into tears and declares, " I decided then I enjoyed being dead.