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Lewis as her husband Gerald in Philomel Cottage, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 23 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:56,000 Philomel Cottage. 24 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:57,000 What that Alex? 25 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:01,000 Oh, I was just reading the sign over the gate. What does Philomel mean? 26 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:04,000 Why you little foreigner, we've been here for three weeks and you still don't know. 27 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:09,000 Philomel is another name for the bird that's supposed to sing only for lovers. We've been hearing it every twilight. 28 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:10,000 Nightingale. 29 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:10,000 Of course. 30 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:15,000 That sign Philomel Cottage is the main reason I wanted this place for us. Glad you bought it. 31 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:18,000 Oh Gerald, this was a 50-50 investment and you know it. 32 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:22,000 50-50, a thousand pounds from me and two from you. 33 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:24,000 But we did have to have the place, didn't we? 34 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,000 Oh, what an utterly hopeless romantic I'm at. 35 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:33,000 Well, you can't get out of it now. Oh Gerald, do you know what day today is? 36 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:35,000 Today it's the 13th. 37 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:38,000 It's our anniversary, darling. We've known each other exactly a month. 38 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,000 No, exactly 30 days. 39 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,000 Oh, Gerald, really now. 40 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:47,000 What is it dear? Do you have that pain again? 41 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,000 No, no. It's just a little indigestion, I think. 42 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:53,000 Oh, Gerald, let me help. Do you want me to get you? 43 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:58,000 No, no. Well dear, it's 11.35. I'd better get out of the village. 44 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,000 I want to get that camera equipment. 45 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:06,000 And the human timetable walks through the garden gate. 46 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:08,000 But dear, there's nothing wrong with system, even on a honeymoon. 47 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:10,000 The sooner I go, the sooner I get back. 48 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:12,000 Come on Gerald, forget your old photography. 49 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:14,000 Why don't you stay and do some gardening? Be good for you. 50 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:16,000 It's better for old George. He gets paid for it. 51 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:20,000 He's not you again until Saturday. The place will go to wreck and ruin. 52 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,000 Oh, well my dead body. Goodbye dear. 53 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:25,000 Now don't walk too fast, dear. Remember last time? 54 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,000 And be careful, darling. 55 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,000 Be careful? 56 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,000 Oh, it had just slipped out. Be careful. 57 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:41,000 I was swinging there on the garden gate, smiling out my happiness across a part of England that was as remote and plaited as any you'd care to find. 58 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:44,000 I wonder why I sense such a ridiculous thing. 59 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:48,000 If this were London, say, that would have... 60 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:52,000 London? And slowly my smile fell away. 61 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:58,000 I knew then that the memory of that last week in London had never really been far from my mind. 62 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:03,000 That and that last talk with Dick on the top deck of the bus crossing Trafalgar Square. 63 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,000 I'd never seen him like that before. 64 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:10,000 So old Marcel, I tell you Alex, the man's a perfect stranger to you. You know nothing about him. 65 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:12,000 I know that I love him. 66 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:14,000 How can you know in a week? You've only met him. 67 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,000 Well, it doesn't take everyone seven years to find out they're in love. 68 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:22,000 That's meant for me, isn't it, Alex? 69 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:24,000 It's no use, Dick. 70 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:27,000 Alex, don't you know what it's been for me not being able to tell you? 71 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:29,000 I couldn't, not with the income I had. 72 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,000 Never decided I couldn't wait any more. 73 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,000 I was going to tell you anyway. 74 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:35,000 And you know what happened. 75 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:36,000 I'm afraid I don't. 76 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:37,000 Yes, you do. 77 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:38,000 That money you inherited. 78 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,000 That money from your cousin or aunt or whoever it was. 79 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:41,000 Well, I don't see what... 80 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:44,000 You didn't think that I could ask you to marry me then, do you? 81 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:47,000 You don't think I could live off your money. 82 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:48,000 I'm sorry, Dick. 83 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:50,000 Believe me, I am, but I... 84 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:53,000 It really doesn't matter now, one way or the other. 85 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:55,000 Doesn't matter, does it? 86 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:57,000 You can bet it matters to that mutton chap. 87 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:58,000 That's what he's after. 88 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:00,000 You mark my words, he's after your money. 89 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:04,000 Dick, it might interest you to know that Gerald has money of his own. 90 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:05,000 Far more than I have. 91 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:06,000 Than more than I have? 92 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:08,000 Maybe that's the difference. 93 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:09,000 I've had enough of this. 94 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:11,000 I'm getting off at the next stop. 95 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:12,000 Alex, please. 96 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:14,000 All right, but let me tell you something. 97 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:17,000 If you think I'm going to let Gerald cut me out and not do anything about it, 98 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:18,000 you're very much mistaken. 99 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:20,000 I'll catch up with him, do you hear? 100 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:23,000 I'll catch up with him if it's the last thing I do. 101 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:34,000 I'll catch up with him if it's the last thing I do. 102 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:39,000 Oh, it was just a heat of the moment outburst of hurt pride. 103 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:42,000 I shook my head and shook it away. 104 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:45,000 And then the telephone rang inside the cottage. 105 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:46,000 Now who could be calling? 106 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:48,000 Couldn't be Gerald. 107 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:51,000 Gerald had hardly had time to get beyond the turn of the road. 108 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:54,000 Except if something had happened to him. 109 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:58,000 If he'd had another attack, maybe one of the villagers was calling to say that he'd... 110 00:06:58,000 --> 00:06:59,000 Hello? 111 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,000 Alex, this is Dick. 112 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:02,000 What? 113 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:05,000 Who did you say? 114 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:06,000 Dick? 115 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:09,000 Alex, what's the matter with your voice? 116 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:10,000 I wouldn't have known it. 117 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:11,000 It's Dick, Dick Windeford. 118 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:13,000 Oh, where are you? 119 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,000 Travelers Arms, that's the right name, isn't it? 120 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,000 Rant you were created with your village pub. 121 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:19,000 You mean you're here? 122 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,000 Yes, I'm on holiday doing a bit of fishing. 123 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,000 Any objection to my looking up you two good people this afternoon? 124 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:24,000 Oh, no, no. 125 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:25,000 No, you mustn't. 126 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:27,000 My Alex? 127 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,000 I beg your pardon. 128 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,000 Of course I won't bother you. 129 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:35,000 I'm sorry, Dick, but I only meant that we'd be away this afternoon. 130 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,000 Won't you come this evening? 131 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,000 Thanks very much, but I'll probably be away by then. 132 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:42,000 Depends upon whether a pal of mine turns up or not. 133 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:46,000 Goodbye, Alex, and best of luck. 134 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:53,000 For a long moment I stood quite still. 135 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:57,000 Then I walked across the living room, and by the time I reached the side porch, 136 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,000 I'd made up my mind. 137 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,000 I would say nothing to Gerald about it. 138 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:06,000 I stepped out into the garden and... Oh, why, George, 139 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:09,000 I thought you'd agreed that Saturday was your day here. 140 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:12,000 Oh, well, there'll be a fair over to Squires on Saturday, 141 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,000 and I said to myself, I said, 142 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:17,000 Mr. and Mrs. Martin, they won't mind if I come for one front of Wednesday 143 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:19,000 instead of a Saturday. 144 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:20,000 Oh, of course not, George. 145 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:24,000 And then I thought, too, I might as well see you before you go away, 146 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:27,000 so as to learn your wishes about the box of redeggles. 147 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:28,000 Before I go away? 148 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:30,000 Ah, to London tomorrow. 149 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:32,000 Me? Going to London tomorrow? 150 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:34,000 Why did you hear that? 151 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,000 I met Mr. Martin down at Village yesterday. 152 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:39,000 He told me you were both going away to London tomorrow, 153 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:42,000 and it was uncertain when you'd be back again. 154 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:46,000 Oh, well, now, just don't tell me that you and the 155 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,000 are disagreeing already. 156 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:51,000 Hm? Oh, naturally not, no. 157 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,000 This trip just slipped my mind, George. 158 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:58,000 Mm, never could understand why anybody wanted to go up to London, though. 159 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:03,000 But Mr. Ainz, what soldier, this house, he went up there, and to live, mind you. 160 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:08,000 And after fixing up this place like he did, with cats all over everywhere, 161 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:12,000 you're going to take a loss, I says to him, when I've seen he put the place up for sale. 162 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:18,000 It's not everyone that'll have your fad for washing themselves in every room in the house like. 163 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:24,000 But George, he says to me, I'll get every penny at 2,000 pounds for this house, 164 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:26,000 and by gummy-dick. 165 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:53,000 3,000? 2,000? 166 00:09:53,000 --> 00:10:21,000 Ja! 167 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:25,000 Once again reminded of Jarrod's enslavement, the time insistence. 168 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:29,000 You see, on page 21 there was an entry. 169 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:34,000 April 14th, Mary Alex at St. Peter's Church, 2.30. 170 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:37,000 And then I looked at today's date. 171 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:39,000 Wednesday, May 13th. 172 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:45,000 Only one thing was written there in red pencil, it said, 6 p.m. 173 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,000 Now what did it mean? 174 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:52,000 What was to happen at 6 p.m.? 175 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:55,000 And I... something just... 176 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:59,000 Oh, no. But this is ridiculous. 177 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:01,000 What am I afraid of? 178 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:05,000 Jarrod is my husband, I love him, I trust him, I... 179 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:09,000 Then I looked again at that cryptic entry. 180 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:20,000 6 p.m. 181 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:22,000 Oh, Alex? 182 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,000 Yes? Yes? 183 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,000 There you are. Miss me, darling? 184 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,000 Oh, why wouldn't I? It's three o'clock. 185 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:30,000 You've had time to buy out the whole village. 186 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:32,000 Only the camera shop. 187 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:35,000 Now if I don't have the best equipped darkroom, this side of London won't be my fault. 188 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:39,000 If you're not careful, that darkroom of yours is going to overfill the whole cellar. 189 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:43,000 Oh, incidentally, here's something you've been watering the flowers with. 190 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:45,000 Catch. 191 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:49,000 Oh, my diary. 192 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,000 Dropped it in the garden, did I? 193 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,000 I know all your secrets. 194 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:54,000 Oh, not guilty. 195 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:56,000 Well, I'm not so sure. 196 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:59,000 What about your assignation at 6 p.m. today? 197 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:01,000 Oh, that? 198 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:03,000 Well, you've caught me at last. 199 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:06,000 I was rendezvoused with a very handsome young woman, quite remarkably like you, in fact. 200 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:08,000 You're evading the issue. 201 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:11,000 Not at all. I simply reminded that I want you to help me develop some negatives this evening. 202 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,000 At 6 o'clock? Well, I'll be getting dinner. 203 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,000 We'll eat a light supper tonight. 204 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,000 We might have just a sandwich or two and some coffee out on the porch. 205 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:19,000 Before we work on the negatives, you mean? 206 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,000 Yes, that'll be pleasant, won't it? 207 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:24,000 You know something, Alex? I've never found anybody yet who could touch your coffee. 208 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:27,000 No, really. And that covers Australia and Canada, too. 209 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:30,000 You and your mysterious past. 210 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,000 Why do you say that? 211 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,000 No reason, I... 212 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:38,000 Jared, I do wish I knew more about you. 213 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,000 Alex, you're serious. 214 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:41,000 Well, I know it's silly. 215 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:45,000 Well, darling, I've told you all about me, my boyhood in Sydney, my life in Canada. 216 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:48,000 Oh, I see. 217 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:50,000 You mean love affairs. You women are all alike. 218 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:53,000 Well, but there must have been other women. 219 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:55,000 I don't mean that you're a... you're a blue beard or something, but surely... 220 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:58,000 What? Blue beard? 221 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:01,000 What put you mind on such a subject, anyway? You never mentioned it before. 222 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:04,000 Oh, I don't know, Jared. I... I... 223 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:06,000 I've been rather upset all day. 224 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:09,000 I imagine I can thank old George for that. 225 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:10,000 The gardener, you mean? 226 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:12,000 Yes. He had some ridiculous idea. 227 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:15,000 We were going away to London. He said you told him so. 228 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:16,000 Where did you see him? 229 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:19,000 Well, he came to work today instead of Saturday. 230 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:20,000 The old fool. 231 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:21,000 Why, Jared... 232 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:24,000 Well, he is an old fool. I want... 233 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:25,000 Get your mouth off. 234 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:26,000 Jared. Oh, Jared. 235 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:31,000 Lie down. Lie down here, darling. I bring you some water. Some... your medicine. 236 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:32,000 Some what? 237 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:35,000 Are you all right? 238 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:39,000 Oh, I'm sorry, darling, getting you all upset about... 239 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:41,000 Oh, just because of the stupid old gardener. 240 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:43,000 Oh, I... I... 241 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:46,000 I made some weak joke to him about being off to London in the morning. 242 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:50,000 He must have taken it seriously or else he didn't hear properly. 243 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:52,000 You straightened him out, I suppose. 244 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:54,000 Oh, Harvey, you know what a gossip he is. 245 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:58,000 I didn't want the whole village to think my husband was leaving me in the dark about his plan. 246 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:00,000 Are you all right, dear? Really? 247 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:02,000 You told him we were going there? 248 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:03,000 Naturally. 249 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:05,000 You have to go. 250 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:09,000 Sorry you were placed in that kind of a situation, darling. 251 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:12,000 Don't suppose you're running into anybody else today? 252 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:16,000 This far from the world, Jared? 253 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:17,000 It isn't very likely, is it? 254 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:18,000 Well, Jared... 255 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:20,000 Now not another word. You aren't yourself now. That's quite plain. 256 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,000 And I want you to have a little rest, a little nap. 257 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:24,000 It'll be right as rain by six o'clock. 258 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:26,000 Must you do those photographs tonight? You don't see... 259 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:29,000 My dear, when one sets the time to do something, one should stick to it. 260 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:31,000 That's the only way to get through one's work. 261 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:34,000 All right, up with you. Upstairs to your bed now. 262 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:35,000 Very well, dear. 263 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,000 I'll be getting things arranged in the dark. 264 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:48,000 I went upstairs to my room. 265 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:53,000 I told myself there was no basis, no basis whatever for my state of mind. 266 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:59,000 And still the turmoil, the doubt, the odd unaccountable sense of dread persisted... 267 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:04,000 and grew... and grew... until... 268 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:07,000 quite clearly I knew what I must do. 269 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:12,000 Knew I must find some testimony to my husband's past, something to reassure me and... 270 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:18,000 then strangely I remembered that single locked drawer in Gerald's bureau. 271 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:25,000 I took two to the door at the head of the stairs, opened it and entered my husband's room. 272 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:31,000 The key. If only I could find the key to that locked drawer, but there was none in sight. 273 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:35,000 The closet and then his coat pockets and then... 274 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:42,000 there at my feet. There on the floor. I saw it. 275 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:54,000 I opened the drawer, looked down, a small packet of letters tied with a light blue ribbon. 276 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:59,000 And when I saw the uppermost envelope, my face flushed with shame. 277 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:05,000 They were my own letters, love letters written to Gerald before we were married. 278 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:09,000 There was nothing else in the drawer, just a roll of ancient faded newspaper clippings. 279 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:16,000 My glance to the top clipping, it was from an American paper, featured the trial of one Charles LaMaitre. 280 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:21,000 Notorious, windler, and bigamist. A skeleton had been found beneath the floor of his house... 281 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:25,000 and most of the women he'd married had never been heard of again. 282 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:29,000 Another of the clippings described LaMaitre's behavior in court. 283 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:35,000 His interest in the cameras of the news photographers, his sensational escape from prison... 284 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:41,000 and another displayed his picture. Long-bearded, scholarly-looking fellow. 285 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:47,000 Reminded me of someone. I glanced at the caption beneath the picture. 286 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:52,000 Modern blue beard. Modern blue beard! 287 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:57,000 My eyes went back to the picture. And in a flash, I saw the resemblance. 288 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:01,000 I went through the other clippings. Dates had been found in the man's pocket diary. 289 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:04,000 Dates, it was contended when he'd done away with his victims. 290 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:08,000 He was an amateur photographer. He was from Sydney, from Canada. 291 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:13,000 He was subject to heart attacks. He was...he was...Gerald! 292 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:25,000 The room whirled about me. Dick had tried to warn me. 293 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:29,000 Dick had been near me that morning and I turned him away. I... 294 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:33,000 It was then that I noticed a sound. 295 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:37,000 There was a pipe in the corner running up through the room from below near its base. 296 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:41,000 Something was striking at that pipe as though someone were... 297 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:46,000 As though someone were digging. Yes. 298 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:53,000 I knew then that Charles Lemaître was preparing the dark room for the latest one of his victims. 299 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:59,000 Six o'clock. Six o'clock. 300 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:03,000 Less than an hour from now, all the jigsaw pieces shot into place. 301 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:06,000 The money paid for the house. My money! My money only. 302 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:10,000 The bond side entrusted to his keeping the... 303 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:14,000 And then suddenly I heard the quiet. 304 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:17,000 The digging had stopped. 305 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:20,000 Escape from that house at once before he came out. 306 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:23,000 The clippings back in the drawer. Don't look. Don't look. Don't bother. 307 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:26,000 Just...just get away. I rushed to the door. Out in the hall and... 308 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:31,000 Yes, my dear? 309 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:39,000 Oh, you...you startled me. I...I...I was just...I was just trying to find your nail file. 310 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:44,000 Were you, dear? Well, there's nothing to look so guilty about now, is there? 311 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,000 Better come on down. I'm getting late, you know. 312 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:47,000 Gerald, I... 313 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:50,000 Just have time to make the coffee and sandwiches before we do the pictures, Barry. 314 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:53,000 Well, I'll be right down, darling. As soon as... 315 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:56,000 Oh, but we really mustn't be late, must we? 316 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:57,000 Coming, Alex? 317 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:59,000 Very well. 318 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:01,000 Now, that's better. 319 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:03,000 Never mind, Gerald. It's... 320 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:06,000 Why, Alex, how cold you are. 321 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:10,000 Cold? Oh, yes. Yes, I am, rather. 322 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:12,000 Well, that will soon pass away, I'm sure. 323 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:13,000 Hurry along, dear. 324 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:15,000 Hurry along? 325 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:17,000 Yes. Into the kitchen. 326 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:19,000 Alex, what is the matter? 327 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:23,000 Oh, nothing. Nothing. I'll be all right. The kitchen. Here. 328 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,000 Yes, yes. I'll fix it something in a second. 329 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:28,000 You just sit here in the living room and...oh, no. No. Not the porch. 330 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:31,000 That'll be more comfortable, won't it? And I'll be right with you. 331 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:33,000 Blended, Alex. I'll just... 332 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:35,000 Why, no, of course not. 333 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:36,000 What, Gerald? 334 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:38,000 How rotten of me not to have suggested it. 335 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:41,000 Since you're feeling a bit under par, you can probably do with some help. 336 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:43,000 I'll come with you. 337 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:53,000 I knew then that some way, somehow, I must get word to Dick. 338 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:57,000 The possibility that he might be gone by now, I just put out of my mind. 339 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:00,000 No more panic. No more panic. 340 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:04,000 When I carried the coffee out on the porch, I glanced at the clock on the mantel. 341 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:06,000 It was ten minutes till six. 342 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:08,000 A pity you're so abstracted, my dear. 343 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:11,000 Huh? Oh. Why do you say that? 344 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:15,000 Because you're missing the loveliest sight you are likely to see again. 345 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:19,000 Look out beyond the garden, the first soft shades of twilight. 346 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:23,000 Twilight of a Philomel cottage. 347 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:26,000 I say, Alex, you are below par. 348 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:27,000 What do you mean? 349 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:30,000 First time you've ever slipped on the coffee, you must have tossed it in the entire canister. 350 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:33,000 Oh, oh, I'll be more careful after this. 351 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:35,000 Oh dear! That reminds me. 352 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:36,000 Alex, where are you going? 353 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:40,000 Nothing to get excited about, Gerald. I forgot to order things for tomorrow. 354 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:41,000 I'm just going to phone the grocer. 355 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,000 Grocer? This time of evening? 356 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:46,000 Oh, he generally stays late on Wednesdays. I'll be right back, darling. 357 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:47,000 Well, don't shut the door, Alex. 358 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:49,000 Oh, it keeps the insect out of the living room. 359 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:53,000 You're not afraid I'm going to make love to the grocer, are you? 360 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:57,000 Operator. 361 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:58,000 Exchange? 362 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:03,000 Operator, get me the Traveler's Arms, please, hurry. 363 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,000 Hello. 364 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,000 Traveler's Arms. 365 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:10,000 Hello. Mr. Winterford, please. Will you? 366 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:12,000 Oh, no, no. He's not here. 367 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,000 What? You don't know if he's still there? 368 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,000 Oh, well, see, won't you? 369 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,000 It's most important. 370 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:23,000 Don't let me disturb you. 371 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:27,000 Oh, darling, you do. I hate anyone listening when I telephone. 372 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,000 But I do, Gerald, truly. 373 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:33,000 You're quite sure you're really calling the grocer. 374 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:38,000 Why, as a matter of fact, I'm not sure. 375 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:39,000 What? 376 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:45,000 What I mean is, I'm afraid I've got the wrong person, a perfect stranger. 377 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:46,000 I don't understand. 378 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:48,000 Someone I know nothing about. 379 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,000 Know nothing about? Then why don't you hang up? 380 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,000 Here, who's at the end of that wire? 381 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:53,000 Let me see. 382 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:56,000 Hello. Hello. 383 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:59,000 It's dead. 384 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:02,000 All right, my dear, might as well get started. 385 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:03,000 Oh, we're late now. 386 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,000 Late? For the pictures? 387 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:07,000 Precisely. Three minutes after six. 388 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:09,000 Why, Gerald, it won't be six o'clock for eight minutes. 389 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,000 Look at the clock there on the menu. 390 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:13,000 Oh, I don't go by that relic. I go by my own wristwatch. 391 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:16,000 Gerald, listen. Stop pacing and listen to me. 392 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:19,000 I don't feel up to it tonight. 393 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,000 I'm upset and I'm tired. 394 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:24,000 Alex, I promise you, you won't be a bit tired after it's over. 395 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,000 Now, I'm not going to wait one minute longer. 396 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,000 No, I won't do it. I'm not coming with you. 397 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,000 Come along, Alex, or I'll carry you there. 398 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:31,000 No, no! 399 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:32,000 You will, you will. 400 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,000 Gerald, stop! Stop! 401 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:37,000 I've got something to tell you. 402 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:39,000 I've got something to confess. 403 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:40,000 Confess? 404 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:41,000 Yes, yes, to confess. 405 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:44,000 Something I ought to have told you before. 406 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:49,000 I've... I've had my secret path, too. 407 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,000 A former lover, I suppose. 408 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,000 Well, in a way, but something else. 409 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:58,000 You'd call it... yes, I expect you'd call it a crime. 410 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:01,000 A crime? You? I don't believe it. 411 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,000 You'd better sit down now, Gerald. 412 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:07,000 There, I told you, I told you, I'd never been married before. 413 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,000 And that was not entirely true. 414 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,000 There was a marriage when I was 22 in Vienna. 415 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:17,000 He... he... he... he was an elderly man with a little property. 416 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:21,000 I... I induced him to ensure his life in my favor. 417 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:26,000 And at one time I was a nurse with access to a number of poisons. 418 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:30,000 And there's one poison, a white powder. 419 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,000 You know something about poisons, perhaps? 420 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,000 No, I know very little about them. 421 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:39,000 How? Well, this one is absolutely untraceable. 422 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:45,000 Any doctor would give a certificate of heart failure, and... and that... and... and that... 423 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:50,000 Oh, no! No, I can't. 424 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,000 Go on, I want to hear. 425 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:58,000 Well, all right, I... I always made this... this... his coffee for him, 426 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:03,000 and one evening I put a pinch of this poison in his cup. 427 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:06,000 I remember that evening how very much like... 428 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:10,000 how very much like this it was, how... how peaceful he... 429 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:15,000 he gasped a little and tried to move from his chair, but couldn't. 430 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,000 Presently he died. 431 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,000 How much was the insurance money? 432 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:23,000 Oh, about... about 2,000 pounds. 433 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:26,000 I... I... I speculated, though I lost it. 434 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:29,000 And it was over two years before I married again. 435 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:32,000 And... and... and he was a much younger man. 436 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,000 Cooked quite well off. 437 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,000 There was a will in my favor. 438 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:41,000 He liked me to... to make his coffee too, just as my first husband had done. 439 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,000 I make very good coffee. 440 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,000 Alex. 441 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,000 It was the same along about twilight. 442 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,000 The coffee. 443 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,000 It was the same as the other. 444 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,000 He just sat there in his chair. 445 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:53,000 The coffee. 446 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:56,000 And died. Our village doctor pronounced it heart failure. 447 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:59,000 My husband did have a weak heart, you see. 448 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:02,000 And that helped. It helped a great deal. 449 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:03,000 Alex, listen. 450 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,000 That mattered me over 4,000 pounds. 451 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:06,000 I didn't speculate with... 452 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,000 The coffee. 453 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:11,000 That's why I taste it that way. You devil, you poisoned me. 454 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,000 You poisoned me. I'll kill you. 455 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,000 Yes, I poisoned you. 456 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,000 And already the poison is working, you see. 457 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,000 You can't move from your chair. 458 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,000 You're lying. I'll kill you. 459 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,000 I'll kill... 460 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:31,000 Alex. 461 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,000 Alex Moroil. 462 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,000 Dirk. 463 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,000 What have they done to Alex? 464 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:39,000 Constable, go see what's happening in that room. 465 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,000 Right, sir. 466 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,000 Darling. 467 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,000 I had to tell him. 468 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:48,000 The most horrible story. 469 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,000 Oh, I couldn't have kept it up any longer. 470 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,000 You came just in time, Dirk. 471 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,000 You understood on the phone, didn't you? 472 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:59,000 Darling, when I heard you say you'd got the wrong person, someone you knew nothing about. 473 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,000 Excuse me, sir. 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