1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,000 Now the Roma wine company of Fresno California presents... 2 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:14,000 Suspense! 3 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:26,000 Tonight, Roma wines bring you the story of Ivy by that high priestess of the art of suspense, Mary Bellaclounds. 4 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:32,000 And starring the young actress whose performance you admired in the picture, An American Romance, Miss Ann Richards. 5 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:44,000 Suspense is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. That's R-O-M-A. Roma Wines. 6 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:48,000 Those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live. 7 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:53,000 To your happiness and entertaining guests. To your enjoyment of everyday meals. 8 00:00:53,000 --> 00:01:01,000 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant. As Roma wines bring you a remarkable tale of suspense. 9 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:09,000 And with the story of Ivy and with the performance of Ann Richards, as its extraordinary heroine, Roma wines hope indeed to keep you in... 10 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:11,000 Suspense! 11 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:13,000 Suspense! 12 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:27,000 The story of Ivy. Ivy Lexton's own story is told to Victoria Matthews. 13 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:30,000 An exclusive feature of the Morning Herald. 14 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,000 I wrote it in the first person, Mrs. Lexton. I hope you don't mind. 15 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:38,000 Oh, it doesn't matter so long as the story is accurate. You can understand my anxiety, Miss Matthews. 16 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:45,000 After all, I owe it to my public. Yes, of course. Perhaps you'd like to read it through and make suggestions before signing the release? 17 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:50,000 Oh, if it's not too much bother. On the contrary, hearing it in your own words would be a decided help to me. 18 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:55,000 Very well, Miss Matthews. I'll read it out then. Are you comfortable? Would you like anything? A cigarette perhaps? 19 00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:02,000 It's unfortunate that I have no maid here with me at present. Thank you. I'm quite comfortable. Please go ahead, Mrs. Lexton. 20 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,000 Very well. Chapter One. 21 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:12,000 I was born in Hobbs Court, Soho, and I was christened Ivy Gudge. 22 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:17,000 I hated my name, and I hated the sordid surroundings into which I had been born. 23 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:22,000 And while yet a child, I made up my mind that wealth and position should be mine at whatever cost. 24 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:30,000 As a child, my favorite book was the story of Nell Gwyn, the commoner who became the favorite of a king. 25 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:37,000 And one sentence of Nell's, in the face of all her success, made an indelible impression on me. 26 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:39,000 It was this. 27 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:46,000 In life, I have never sought anything that did not seem to have been placed in my hands by Providence itself. 28 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:52,000 At the close of my first season as an actress, our show was bankrupted by an embezzling manager, 29 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,000 and I was left stranded in the provinces and stone broke. 30 00:02:55,000 --> 00:03:03,000 Many great gentlemen had shown me attentions and showered me with presents, but I sought assistance from none of them. 31 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:10,000 And it was Jarvis Lexton, a young man whom I had scarcely noticed, who came to me in my hour of need. 32 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:16,000 Ivy, I know there are hundreds of men who adore you, men with titles, wealth, social position, much more than I can offer. 33 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:21,000 But there's not one who loves you more than I do. Will you marry me, Ivy? 34 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:27,000 And I said yes, because it was offered. We were frightfully happy that first year of our marriage, 35 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:33,000 and Jarvis was so generous, humoring all my little whims, spending much more money on me than he could afford. 36 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:38,000 It always gave him a thrill of boyish pleasure to see my portraits in the newspapers and magazines, 37 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:44,000 with captions such as, The Beautiful Mrs. Ivy Lexton, Wearing Vionette's Latest Creation, 38 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:49,000 or Mrs. Jarvis Lexton at Ascot, with Lady Hampton and Lord Rushworth. 39 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:55,000 He kept a scrapbook of them, and really seemed quite pleased about everything, until one day. 40 00:03:55,000 --> 00:04:00,000 I say, Ivy, don't you think you're being seen and photographed a bit too much with this fellow Rushworth? 41 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:04,000 Oh, but, darling, I thought you liked having me hobnob with the peers of the realm. 42 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:09,000 What about this other chap, Roger Gresham? You know, it does seem a bit thick for me to work my head off 43 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:14,000 twelve hours a day, figuring out ways to finance your clothes and jewels so you can be photographed with other men. 44 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:17,000 It's got to stop in any case, Ivy. We're broke. 45 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:20,000 Oh, you mean our money is all spent up? 46 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:25,000 We're wiped out. The bailiffs attached my office furniture. They can't even pay the rental on this flat. 47 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:27,000 What are we going to do, Jarvis? 48 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:32,000 I'll let you figure that one out. You're so good at spending money, perhaps you can think of a way to make some. 49 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:42,000 So, you see, Jarvis rarely made the suggestion to me himself. 50 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:49,000 I don't know what we'd have done during the next few months if it hadn't been for the generosity of Roger Gresham and Lord Rushworth. 51 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:54,000 Roger was only a young doctor starting out in practice and couldn't help a great deal, of course, 52 00:04:54,000 --> 00:05:00,000 though he was even fonder of me than Miles Rushworth, now that I look back on it. 53 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:04,000 It was in July that things took such a distressing turn. 54 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:11,000 I'd been out to dinner with Roger Gresham, and I asked him up to the flat afterwards to say hello to Jarvis and cheer him up. 55 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,000 Poor Jarvis hadn't been feeling well lately. 56 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:20,000 Well, Abby, this is a fine hour to come home to your loving husband. Where have you been? 57 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:23,000 Out, darling. Aren't you going to say hello to Roger? 58 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,000 I suppose I should thank him for keeping my wife amused. 59 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:27,000 I say, old fellow... 60 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:33,000 Roger has just been telling me the most fascinating things. He was called as an expert, you know, for the Crown and the Bronson Kiss. 61 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:37,000 I asked him to come up and tell you about it, darling, since you're such a detective fan. 62 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:41,000 Well, that's nice of you, Roger. Do tell me all about the Bronson Kiss. 63 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:47,000 Well, there was nothing so interesting about the murder itself. It was just a simple case of arsenic poisoning. 64 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:49,000 You don't say. 65 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:56,000 As a medical man, what interested me about it was what a doctor ought to do in a case where he suspects a patient's being secretly poisoned. 66 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:58,000 What would you do, Roger? 67 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:05,000 Well, I... It's hard to say. If you called in the police and your suspicions turned out to be unfounded, 68 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:09,000 I suppose I... I suppose I'd just about finish your career. 69 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:14,000 I suppose that's why so many poisoners get away with it. 70 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:18,000 Well, I... I guess I'd better be getting along. 71 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:21,000 Drop in again sometime, Roger, and bring your own arsenic. 72 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:22,000 Jarvis! 73 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:25,000 Well, cheerio. 74 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,000 Ivy, see you later. 75 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:30,000 Really, Jarvis? I've never been so humiliated. 76 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,000 You know I don't like him. Why do you persist in bringing him here? 77 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:36,000 Oh, my darling! I do believe you're jealous. 78 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,000 Well, why shouldn't I be? 79 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,000 I like it when you're jealous. It's like old times, isn't it? 80 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:45,000 Do you deny that he's in love with you? And that you've encouraged him? Him and I don't know how many others? 81 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:48,000 Oh, now, darling, don't be like that. There's only one other. 82 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:49,000 You admit it. 83 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:55,000 Well, darling, we may as well be realistic. We're still stony broke, and you don't seem to have any prospects. 84 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,000 What are you driving at? 85 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,000 Well, Miles got back in town today, and I'm seeing him tomorrow night. 86 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:00,000 Who's Miles? 87 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,000 Lord Rushworth, darling. 88 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:04,000 Well, that titled idiot. 89 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:08,000 That titled idiot has been paying the rent on this flat for the past six months, if you want to know the truth. 90 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,000 Why, you little... 91 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:16,000 Well, now, darling, can I help it if Miles Rushworth is awfully, awfully fond of me? 92 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,000 And if it helps us, what's the difference? 93 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:22,000 Go on. I'm listening. 94 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:25,000 Darling, look, I'm just a burden to you at this stage, aren't I? 95 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:28,000 So you want me to give you a divorce. Is that it? 96 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:33,000 You needn't make any difference between us, darling. As soon as I'm Lady Rushworth, I'll settle a nice allowance on you. 97 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:35,000 Are you serious? 98 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,000 Of course I'm serious, darling. 99 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,000 Well, I don't play your rotten filthy game. 100 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:40,000 Jarvis! 101 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:43,000 You married me for richer or poorer, and you're going to stick to your bargain. 102 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:49,000 And if you try to divorce me, I'll make such a scandal your precious Lord Rushworth will wish he'd never met you. 103 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,000 In fact, I have a notion to do it anyway. 104 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,000 Oh, Jarvis, you wouldn't. That would spoil everything. 105 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:57,000 You're frightened, aren't you? Well, I'll give you your choice. 106 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:01,000 Either you give up your boyfriends and keep me, or you'll lose all three of us. 107 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:02,000 Which will it be? 108 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:04,000 Well... 109 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,000 Well, all right, Jarvis. 110 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:11,000 I'll tell Roger and Miles both. I can't see them again ever. 111 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,000 Why didn't you just ask me to kill myself? 112 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,000 I might have obliged if you'd been more honest. 113 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,000 Jarvis, you mustn't say such things. 114 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:19,000 You're poisoned to me. 115 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,000 I ought to let you go. 116 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:23,000 I won't. 117 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:27,000 If it's any satisfaction to you, I'd be better off dead than with things the way they are. 118 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:46,000 So you see, Miles, I simply can't go on seeing you. It isn't fair to Jarvis. 119 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,000 Is he being fair to you? 120 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:51,000 You don't understand. I'm all he has left now. 121 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,000 You're so good, so innocent. 122 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:56,000 Can't you see he's just holding on to you out of spite? 123 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:00,000 Has he done one thing? Has he even tried to get a job so that he could support you? 124 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:04,000 I married him for richer or poorer until death do us part. 125 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:07,000 Then I pray death be merciful to us both, Ivy. 126 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:10,000 Oh, you mustn't say such things. It's wicked. 127 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:12,000 I'm sorry, my dear. 128 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:15,000 Ivy, I wanted to give you this little remembrance. 129 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:20,000 I had hoped to give it to you under happier circumstances, but please accept it now. 130 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,000 As a farewell present. 131 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:25,000 Oh, Lord Rushford, you shouldn't have. 132 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:28,000 It's only a little thing, the little handbag you admired so much. 133 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,000 We saw it in Cartier's window. 134 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:34,000 Oh, the one with the emerald clasp. Oh, you shouldn't have. 135 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:36,000 Oh, it must have cost a fortune. 136 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:40,000 Look in the mirror. The emerald matches your eyes. 137 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:42,000 You will accept it, won't you? 138 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:57,000 Oh, Miles, I'll carry it with me always. 139 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:00,000 Ivy, darling, come in, come in. 140 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:03,000 I was just in the neighborhood, Roger, and I thought that I... 141 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:07,000 Yeah, yeah, let me take your things. I say. 142 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,000 Oh, what a smart handbag. 143 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:13,000 Oh, emerald, emerald, isn't it? Yes, Miles gave it to me. Isn't it lovely? 144 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:16,000 You know what it means, accepting a present like that from him. 145 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:19,000 Oh, don't be silly, Roger. It was a farewell present. 146 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:24,000 Farewell? Darling, do you really mean that? 147 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:28,000 Roger, Roger, please, please. What if your housekeeper walked in? 148 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:31,000 Oh, I'm sorry. 149 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:38,000 Oh, come along, darling, come in here. I was just putting up a prescription. 150 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:43,000 What a queer sort of room. I never knew a doctor's surgery looked like this. 151 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:46,000 Weren't you ever in here before? No. 152 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:50,000 What's in that bottle? Oh, arsenic. 153 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:53,000 I thought it was a poison. Well, it is. 154 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:56,000 It's also a fine tonic, taken in the right amounts. 155 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:59,000 How much would it take to kill someone? 156 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:05,000 Oh, about the same amount as the amount of sugar it would take to sweeten your coffee. 157 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:09,000 Oh, doesn't it give you an eerie feeling? What? 158 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:15,000 That little glass jar. There's death in it. Prison, waiting to escape. 159 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:18,000 Aren't you being rather morbid? 160 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:22,000 Will you have one or two spoonfuls of death in your coffee, darling? 161 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:26,000 I say, you are a little borgia, darling. 162 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:30,000 Ah, it's my patient. Now, wait here, darling. Shant be a moment. 163 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:37,000 As soon as he'd left the room, I picked up the glass jar on the end of the table, 164 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:42,000 unscrewed the top of it, almost without being aware of what I was doing. 165 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:48,000 How strange and exciting to know that death was in that jar, in those little white crystals. 166 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:52,000 Then, as if some power outside myself had suddenly taken possession of me, 167 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:58,000 I pressed the catch of that lovely jeweled handbag and commenced spooning out the white crystals. 168 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:02,000 One, two, three. 169 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:10,000 Sorry to be so long, darling. I had to listen to a recital of the Colonel's symptoms. 170 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:15,000 Oh, that's all right. I was just fixing my makeup. I can't seem to find my lipstick. 171 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:20,000 I see, old girl. You're looking rather pale. Perhaps I had better prescribe a tonic for you. 172 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:23,000 Oh, no. I'm just a little tired. That's all. 173 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,000 Hello. What is it, Roger? 174 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:30,000 Oh, nothing. I could have sworn I put the cap back on the spot. Oh, well. 175 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:42,000 On the bus, all the way back to Kensington, I kept wondering why I had done that funny thing. 176 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:47,000 It seemed as if everyone was staring at me under the little handbag with the emerald clasp. 177 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:51,000 In a momentary surge of panic, I wondered if they'd guessed my secret. 178 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:54,000 The little white crystals of death I had carried away with me. 179 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:57,000 For what? For whom? 180 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:59,000 Then, of a sudden, it came to me. 181 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:05,000 Providence had placed in my hands the means of helping my poor, unhappy husband. 182 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:19,000 For more suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you as star Miss Anne Richards, 183 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:24,000 whom you have heard in the first act of The Story of Ivy by Mrs. Vellock Lowndes, 184 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:28,000 which is Roma Wines' presentation tonight of Suspense. 185 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:41,000 Between the acts of suspense, this is Truman Bradley for Roma Wines. 186 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:46,000 Gracious hostess Elsa Maxwell makes this timely suggestion. 187 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:52,000 During the warm weather, I'd suggest you try America's smartest, coolest drink, 188 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:54,000 refreshing Roma wine and soda. 189 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:57,000 So simple, and yet so charming. 190 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:03,000 When the temperature soars, enjoy iced, thirst-quenching Roma wine and soda. 191 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:07,000 Simply half-fill tall glasses with good Roma California Burgundy, 192 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:12,000 or Roma California Sauternes, and ice cubes and sparkling water. 193 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:14,000 A little sugar if you wish. 194 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:19,000 And for a decorative touch, garnish with cherries and slices of fruit. 195 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:23,000 The secret of the flavorful goodness of Roma wine and soda 196 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:27,000 is the distinguished Roma wine, unvaryingly good, 197 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:31,000 always high in quality of bouquet, brilliance, and taste. 198 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:37,000 The result of selected grapes, slowly brought to perfection in California's choicest vineyards, 199 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:45,000 carefully, unhurriedly, guided to flavorfulness by the ancient skill of Roma's famed wineries. 200 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:49,000 Yet all this goodness is yours for only pennies a glass. 201 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:55,000 Remember, because of uniformly fine quality at reasonable cost, 202 00:14:55,000 --> 00:15:00,000 more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. 203 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:04,000 R-O-M-A, Roma Wines. 204 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:09,000 And now Roma Wines bring back to our Hollywood soundstage, Anne Richards, 205 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:15,000 who continues the story of Ivy, a play well calculated to keep you in suspense. 206 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:30,000 My husband's illness lasted only a little more than a week, 207 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:34,000 but to me it seemed an intolerably long time. 208 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:39,000 Thanks to the generosity of Lord Rushworth, I was able to have a nursing to look after him, 209 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:43,000 but I couldn't help wishing there was something more I could do for him. 210 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:48,000 I'd used up nearly all of the poison I'd carried away that night from Roger's dispensary, 211 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:51,000 but instead of the merciful death I had hoped it would bring, 212 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:55,000 it seemed only to cause poor Jarvis to suffer more pain. 213 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:58,000 There were only a few grains of the white crystals left 214 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:01,000 in the bottom of the little handbag with the emerald clasp, 215 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:04,000 and I hadn't the heart to go on with it. 216 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:09,000 Besides, Jarvis' doctor was commencing to ask too many questions. 217 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:13,000 I decided to consult another physician, and under the circumstances, 218 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:18,000 Roger Gresham seemed the wisest choice. 219 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:20,000 Ivy, I came the moment I received your message. 220 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:25,000 It's offering so dreadfully, Roger. I hadn't any idea it would be so painful. 221 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:26,000 You hadn't any idea what? 222 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:30,000 Well, I mean, he complained of a stomach ache, and suddenly, and the night... 223 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:33,000 Where is he? I'd have a look at him. 224 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:37,000 In here. This is Dr. Gresham, nurse. 225 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:38,000 How do you do, doctor? 226 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:43,000 Jarvis, I've asked Roger to look at you. You don't mind, do you, dear? 227 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:46,000 Get him out of here. I've been poisoned. 228 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:49,000 He's the one who poisoned me. Get him out of here. 229 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,000 Oh, boy, he's been that distracted, he has. 230 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:55,000 I'll just prescribe a little sedative for him, nurse. 231 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:58,000 I'll go and order up some tea, Roger. You will stay, won't you? 232 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:00,000 Yes, yes, thanks. 233 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:03,000 Oh, Mrs. Lexton, I was just looking for you. 234 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:06,000 Dr. Berwick is waiting in the drawing room with another gentleman, ma'am. 235 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:09,000 I'll see what they want. Order up some tea, will you, dear? 236 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:16,000 Oh, well, there you are, Mrs. Lexton. This is Inspector Orpington. 237 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,000 Inspector? Scotland Yard, ma'am. 238 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:21,000 Dr. Berwick tells me he has reason to suspect that your husband is suffering 239 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:23,000 from arsenic poisoning, Miss Lexton. 240 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,000 I don't understand. 241 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:28,000 Your husband keeps speaking of someone named Roger Gresham. 242 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:30,000 Is that the name, Dr. Berwick? Yes, yes. 243 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:33,000 Why, that's Dr. Gresham. He's in there now with my husband. 244 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:35,000 Good Lord, well, come along, Inspector. 245 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:37,000 You'd better wait here, Mrs. Lexton. 246 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:43,000 Never until that moment had I realised how foolish my actions had been. 247 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:47,000 Surely now they would suspect poor Roger. 248 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:53,000 If there had only been someone to confide in, I felt so alone. 249 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:56,000 I'll have your licence for this, Gresham. Do you hear me? 250 00:17:56,000 --> 00:18:00,000 Look here, Berwick, Mrs. Lexton never told me there was another doctor on the case. 251 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:02,000 Oh, is that true, Mrs. Lexton? 252 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:06,000 Why, yes. Dr. Gresham is an old friend of mine, and I saw no harm in his looking in. 253 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:10,000 Well, nevertheless, I shall sign the death certificate, not till there's a post-mortem. 254 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:12,000 Death certificate? I'm sorry, Mrs. Lexton. 255 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:16,000 It's our painful duty to inform you that your husband has just passed away. 256 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:19,000 Oh, poor John Fierce. 257 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:34,000 Dr. Gresham speaking. 258 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:36,000 Roger, it's Ivy. 259 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:40,000 Ivy? Why haven't you called me before? What's been happening? 260 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:43,000 Oh, Roger, it's been such an ordeal, you don't know. 261 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:48,000 And that dreadful man, that inspector from Scotland Yard, has been here again asking questions. 262 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:49,000 What kind of questions? 263 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:52,000 Well, darling, I can't tell you everything over the telephone, 264 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:55,000 but he said it was his duty to find out the truth. 265 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:56,000 The truth about what? 266 00:18:56,000 --> 00:19:00,000 They found out that poor Jarvis died of arsenic poisoning. 267 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:01,000 Suicide? 268 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:04,000 The inspector says they know it was murder. 269 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:06,000 What possible motive could I have? 270 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:08,000 None, of course, darling. 271 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:11,000 But I was silly enough to let out to the inspector that you had been, 272 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:15,000 well, fond of me in a sort of way. 273 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:17,000 Are you there, Roger? 274 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:20,000 Yes. 275 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:22,000 Here's gone, Ivy. 276 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:26,000 Well, the moment I said it, I saw what a mistake I'd made, 277 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:29,000 but he spoke as if he already knew such a lot, 278 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,000 or at any rate, some part of it. 279 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:33,000 What part of it? 280 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:39,000 Well, that even if I didn't care for you, you had been very, very fond of me. 281 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:41,000 Are you there, Roger? 282 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:44,000 Yes. 283 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:46,000 Here's Ivy. 284 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:49,000 Come on. 285 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:50,000 What else? 286 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:55,000 Well, he's certain to ask if I've ever been to see you at your house, I mean. 287 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:59,000 Well, of course, I said no. 288 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:01,000 Are you still on the line, Roger? 289 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,000 Yes, Ivy. 290 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:08,000 Well, you won't give me away, will you, Roger, darling? 291 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:10,000 No. 292 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:13,000 No, Ivy, don't worry. 293 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:16,000 I won't give you away. 294 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:28,000 Roger Gresham, the jury, after a careful and patient hearing, 295 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:33,000 have found you guilty of the willful murder of Jarvis Lexden. 296 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:39,000 The sentence of the court upon you is that you be taken from here to a lawful place of execution 297 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:44,000 and that you be there hanged by the neck until you be dead. 298 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:53,000 There, there, my dear. You mustn't give away like this. 299 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:57,000 I can't help it, Miles. It's been such a shock. 300 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:59,000 First poor Jarvis, and now... 301 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:00,000 Well, it's all over now. 302 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:04,000 Look here, Ivy, why not take a long voyage somewhere far away from here? 303 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:09,000 The CM is marvellous for getting one's troubles and make a fresh start somewhere. 304 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:10,000 Rio, for instance. 305 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:13,000 Oh, I've always wanted to see Rio. 306 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,000 Perhaps we can go there for our honeymoon. 307 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:18,000 Honeymoon? Are you thinking of remarrying? 308 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:21,000 Why, Miles, darling, of course. 309 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:26,000 Don't you remember what you said? If I were only free? 310 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,000 Well, I'm free now. 311 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:32,000 Ivy, I don't quite know what to say. 312 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:37,000 I'm very fond of you, of course, and I'll badly lend you any financial assistance, 313 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:42,000 but as for marriage, particularly under the circumstances, 314 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:46,000 you must know there's been a great deal of talk about you and Gresham. 315 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:49,000 Oh, surely you don't believe those stories. 316 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:51,000 There's never been anyone but you, Miles. 317 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:54,000 If I'd met you before I met Jarvis... 318 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:58,000 There would never have been in any case, Ivy. Surely you realise that. 319 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:02,000 I'm not good enough to be Lady Rushworth. Is that what you're trying to say? 320 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:05,000 Too good, if you like. It's not my choice in any case. 321 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:09,000 I was born with this name and I have certain responsibilities. 322 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,000 You stop, Easton! 323 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:13,000 Well, I wish I could make you understand. 324 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:17,000 There's my mother, for instance. She's an invalid, a heart, you know. 325 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:22,000 And if I were to marry, well, you, I believe the shock would kill her. 326 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:25,000 The things you said, the present you gave me, what was I to think? 327 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:29,000 I'm sorry if you thought I was leading you on the night that I gave you the bag... 328 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:32,000 The emerald bag. You were saving it for the kiss-off, was that it? 329 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,000 That's rather a crude way of putting it. 330 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:39,000 It matches the colour of your eyes, you said, and I said I'll carry it with me always. 331 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:40,000 Funny, isn't it? 332 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,000 Oh, Ivy, please, the servants... 333 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,000 Don't you, Ivy, please, me. I want them to hear. 334 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,000 Perhaps the whole world will hear one day 335 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,000 that Ivy Lexton poisoned her husband for Lord Rushworth. 336 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:49,000 Ivy, what are you saying? 337 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,000 Two lives weren't too much for Ivy to sacrifice 338 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,000 and the risk of her own life meant nothing. 339 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:55,000 She wasn't good enough for the Lord. 340 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:59,000 You, dear, sweet little Ivy Lexton. Why, I can't believe it. 341 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,000 Well, let me tell you something you can believe. 342 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,000 I never loved you. I loved your money and the title. 343 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:06,000 I wanted to be a lady. Oh, what a joke. 344 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:10,000 Well, I'm not sorry. I've always hated your kind deep down inside of me. 345 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:13,000 Cowards, cowards, all of you. Anything to save face, anything. 346 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:17,000 Roger Gresham going to the gallows because he's too much of a gentleman to tell the truth 347 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:20,000 that I was in his flat the night Jarvis was poisoned. 348 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,000 What, an innocent man behind? 349 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,000 If he'd loved me as he pretended to, he would have killed Jarvis. 350 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,000 If he'd been a man instead of a gentleman, 351 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,000 if any of your kind were real men. 352 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:31,000 Well, I've had enough of it. Take your foul present. 353 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:35,000 Pretty little thing, isn't it? A little handbag and so expensive, too. 354 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:38,000 The emerald matches my eyes, does it? 355 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,000 Get out of here and take it with you. 356 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:43,000 No, thank you. I'm not in the market for emeralds this season, my lord. 357 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:50,000 They cost too dear. 358 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:58,000 We've analyzed the residue in that handbag, Inspector. 359 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:00,000 Oh, good, good. What did you find? 360 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,000 Well, quite a lot of face powder, some tobacco crumbs 361 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,000 and about three grains of chemically pure arsenic. 362 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:08,000 Leave it here. Sergeant, bring in Mrs. Nexton. 363 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:11,000 Yes, sir. Bring in the prisoner. 364 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,000 What's the meaning of this, Inspector? 365 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:16,000 Please, please instruct your officers to treat me with respect. 366 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,000 I'm not a common criminal. Let her go, Officer. 367 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,000 Thank you, Inspector. 368 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:24,000 Mrs. Nexton, have you, have you ever seen this handbag before? 369 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:27,000 Where did you get that? I'll ask you a question. 370 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,000 Where did you get the arsenic that we found in it? 371 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:32,000 I'm sure I don't know. Why don't you ask Lord Rushworth? 372 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:35,000 My dear Mrs. Nexton, surely you know that Lord Rushworth 373 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,000 is in no condition to answer questions. What do you mean? 374 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:42,000 Lord Rushworth died last night of the effects of arsenic poisoning. 375 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:01,000 And so my story draws to a close. 376 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:04,000 It's a comfort to me as I sit here in the condemned cell 377 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:08,000 to know that so many loyal friends still believe in my innocence 378 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:14,000 in spite of all the ungentlemanly things the Crown Prosecutor said about me during my trial. 379 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:19,000 I was especially gratified at the tribute paid to the costumes I wore in the witness box. 380 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:22,000 One admirer has written to compliment me on my delivery 381 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:25,000 and the poise I exhibited under cross-examination. 382 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:30,000 I'm told that my remarks were clearly audible in the very back row of the spectator seats 383 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,000 in spite of the overcrowding. 384 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:38,000 And on the final day of testimony, I received that greatest of all the tributes an actress can command. 385 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,000 My audience was moved to tears. 386 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:46,000 And so in spite of all the misfortunes that have befallen me and my loved ones, 387 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:50,000 I have at last realised my life's ambition. 388 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,000 The end. 389 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:56,000 Well, Mrs. Nexton, does it meet with your approval? 390 00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:01,000 Well, I think you might point out that I killed Lord Rushworth too. 391 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,000 Of course, between you and me, my dear, I didn't. 392 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:08,000 It must have been suicide. 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