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Lewis as her husband Gerald in Philomel Cottage, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 02:54.000 --> 02:56.000 Philomel Cottage. 02:56.000 --> 02:57.000 What that Alex? 02:57.000 --> 03:01.000 Oh, I was just reading the sign over the gate. What does Philomel mean? 03:01.000 --> 03:04.000 Why you little foreigner, we've been here for three weeks and you still don't know. 03:04.000 --> 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. 03:09.000 --> 03:10.000 Nightingale. 03:09.000 --> 03:10.000 Of course. 03:10.000 --> 03:15.000 That sign Philomel Cottage is the main reason I wanted this place for us. Glad you bought it. 03:15.000 --> 03:18.000 Oh Gerald, this was a 50-50 investment and you know it. 03:18.000 --> 03:22.000 50-50, a thousand pounds from me and two from you. 03:22.000 --> 03:24.000 But we did have to have the place, didn't we? 03:24.000 --> 03:27.000 Oh, what an utterly hopeless romantic I'm at. 03:27.000 --> 03:33.000 Well, you can't get out of it now. Oh Gerald, do you know what day today is? 03:33.000 --> 03:35.000 Today it's the 13th. 03:35.000 --> 03:38.000 It's our anniversary, darling. We've known each other exactly a month. 03:38.000 --> 03:40.000 No, exactly 30 days. 03:40.000 --> 03:43.000 Oh, Gerald, really now. 03:43.000 --> 03:47.000 What is it dear? Do you have that pain again? 03:47.000 --> 03:49.000 No, no. It's just a little indigestion, I think. 03:49.000 --> 03:53.000 Oh, Gerald, let me help. Do you want me to get you? 03:53.000 --> 03:58.000 No, no. Well dear, it's 11.35. I'd better get out of the village. 03:58.000 --> 04:01.000 I want to get that camera equipment. 04:01.000 --> 04:06.000 And the human timetable walks through the garden gate. 04:06.000 --> 04:08.000 But dear, there's nothing wrong with system, even on a honeymoon. 04:08.000 --> 04:10.000 The sooner I go, the sooner I get back. 04:10.000 --> 04:12.000 Come on Gerald, forget your old photography. 04:12.000 --> 04:14.000 Why don't you stay and do some gardening? Be good for you. 04:14.000 --> 04:16.000 It's better for old George. He gets paid for it. 04:16.000 --> 04:20.000 He's not you again until Saturday. The place will go to wreck and ruin. 04:20.000 --> 04:22.000 Oh, well my dead body. Goodbye dear. 04:22.000 --> 04:25.000 Now don't walk too fast, dear. Remember last time? 04:25.000 --> 04:28.000 And be careful, darling. 04:28.000 --> 04:30.000 Be careful? 04:30.000 --> 04:32.000 Oh, it had just slipped out. Be careful. 04:32.000 --> 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. 04:41.000 --> 04:44.000 I wonder why I sense such a ridiculous thing. 04:44.000 --> 04:48.000 If this were London, say, that would have... 04:48.000 --> 04:52.000 London? And slowly my smile fell away. 04:52.000 --> 04:58.000 I knew then that the memory of that last week in London had never really been far from my mind. 04:58.000 --> 05:03.000 That and that last talk with Dick on the top deck of the bus crossing Trafalgar Square. 05:03.000 --> 05:05.000 I'd never seen him like that before. 05:05.000 --> 05:10.000 So old Marcel, I tell you Alex, the man's a perfect stranger to you. You know nothing about him. 05:10.000 --> 05:12.000 I know that I love him. 05:12.000 --> 05:14.000 How can you know in a week? You've only met him. 05:14.000 --> 05:17.000 Well, it doesn't take everyone seven years to find out they're in love. 05:17.000 --> 05:22.000 That's meant for me, isn't it, Alex? 05:22.000 --> 05:24.000 It's no use, Dick. 05:24.000 --> 05:27.000 Alex, don't you know what it's been for me not being able to tell you? 05:27.000 --> 05:29.000 I couldn't, not with the income I had. 05:29.000 --> 05:31.000 Never decided I couldn't wait any more. 05:31.000 --> 05:33.000 I was going to tell you anyway. 05:33.000 --> 05:35.000 And you know what happened. 05:35.000 --> 05:36.000 I'm afraid I don't. 05:36.000 --> 05:37.000 Yes, you do. 05:37.000 --> 05:38.000 That money you inherited. 05:38.000 --> 05:40.000 That money from your cousin or aunt or whoever it was. 05:40.000 --> 05:41.000 Well, I don't see what... 05:41.000 --> 05:44.000 You didn't think that I could ask you to marry me then, do you? 05:44.000 --> 05:47.000 You don't think I could live off your money. 05:47.000 --> 05:48.000 I'm sorry, Dick. 05:48.000 --> 05:50.000 Believe me, I am, but I... 05:50.000 --> 05:53.000 It really doesn't matter now, one way or the other. 05:53.000 --> 05:55.000 Doesn't matter, does it? 05:55.000 --> 05:57.000 You can bet it matters to that mutton chap. 05:57.000 --> 05:58.000 That's what he's after. 05:58.000 --> 06:00.000 You mark my words, he's after your money. 06:00.000 --> 06:04.000 Dick, it might interest you to know that Gerald has money of his own. 06:04.000 --> 06:05.000 Far more than I have. 06:05.000 --> 06:06.000 Than more than I have? 06:06.000 --> 06:08.000 Maybe that's the difference. 06:08.000 --> 06:09.000 I've had enough of this. 06:09.000 --> 06:11.000 I'm getting off at the next stop. 06:11.000 --> 06:12.000 Alex, please. 06:12.000 --> 06:14.000 All right, but let me tell you something. 06:14.000 --> 06:17.000 If you think I'm going to let Gerald cut me out and not do anything about it, 06:17.000 --> 06:18.000 you're very much mistaken. 06:18.000 --> 06:20.000 I'll catch up with him, do you hear? 06:20.000 --> 06:23.000 I'll catch up with him if it's the last thing I do. 06:30.000 --> 06:34.000 I'll catch up with him if it's the last thing I do. 06:34.000 --> 06:39.000 Oh, it was just a heat of the moment outburst of hurt pride. 06:39.000 --> 06:42.000 I shook my head and shook it away. 06:42.000 --> 06:45.000 And then the telephone rang inside the cottage. 06:45.000 --> 06:46.000 Now who could be calling? 06:46.000 --> 06:48.000 Couldn't be Gerald. 06:48.000 --> 06:51.000 Gerald had hardly had time to get beyond the turn of the road. 06:51.000 --> 06:54.000 Except if something had happened to him. 06:54.000 --> 06:58.000 If he'd had another attack, maybe one of the villagers was calling to say that he'd... 06:58.000 --> 06:59.000 Hello? 06:59.000 --> 07:01.000 Alex, this is Dick. 07:01.000 --> 07:02.000 What? 07:02.000 --> 07:05.000 Who did you say? 07:05.000 --> 07:06.000 Dick? 07:06.000 --> 07:09.000 Alex, what's the matter with your voice? 07:09.000 --> 07:10.000 I wouldn't have known it. 07:10.000 --> 07:11.000 It's Dick, Dick Windeford. 07:11.000 --> 07:13.000 Oh, where are you? 07:13.000 --> 07:15.000 Travelers Arms, that's the right name, isn't it? 07:15.000 --> 07:17.000 Rant you were created with your village pub. 07:17.000 --> 07:19.000 You mean you're here? 07:19.000 --> 07:21.000 Yes, I'm on holiday doing a bit of fishing. 07:21.000 --> 07:23.000 Any objection to my looking up you two good people this afternoon? 07:23.000 --> 07:24.000 Oh, no, no. 07:24.000 --> 07:25.000 No, you mustn't. 07:25.000 --> 07:27.000 My Alex? 07:27.000 --> 07:29.000 I beg your pardon. 07:29.000 --> 07:31.000 Of course I won't bother you. 07:31.000 --> 07:35.000 I'm sorry, Dick, but I only meant that we'd be away this afternoon. 07:35.000 --> 07:37.000 Won't you come this evening? 07:37.000 --> 07:39.000 Thanks very much, but I'll probably be away by then. 07:39.000 --> 07:42.000 Depends upon whether a pal of mine turns up or not. 07:42.000 --> 07:46.000 Goodbye, Alex, and best of luck. 07:49.000 --> 07:53.000 For a long moment I stood quite still. 07:53.000 --> 07:57.000 Then I walked across the living room, and by the time I reached the side porch, 07:57.000 --> 07:59.000 I'd made up my mind. 07:59.000 --> 08:01.000 I would say nothing to Gerald about it. 08:01.000 --> 08:06.000 I stepped out into the garden and... Oh, why, George, 08:06.000 --> 08:09.000 I thought you'd agreed that Saturday was your day here. 08:09.000 --> 08:12.000 Oh, well, there'll be a fair over to Squires on Saturday, 08:12.000 --> 08:14.000 and I said to myself, I said, 08:14.000 --> 08:17.000 Mr. and Mrs. Martin, they won't mind if I come for one front of Wednesday 08:17.000 --> 08:19.000 instead of a Saturday. 08:19.000 --> 08:20.000 Oh, of course not, George. 08:20.000 --> 08:24.000 And then I thought, too, I might as well see you before you go away, 08:24.000 --> 08:27.000 so as to learn your wishes about the box of redeggles. 08:27.000 --> 08:28.000 Before I go away? 08:28.000 --> 08:30.000 Ah, to London tomorrow. 08:30.000 --> 08:32.000 Me? Going to London tomorrow? 08:32.000 --> 08:34.000 Why did you hear that? 08:34.000 --> 08:36.000 I met Mr. Martin down at Village yesterday. 08:36.000 --> 08:39.000 He told me you were both going away to London tomorrow, 08:39.000 --> 08:42.000 and it was uncertain when you'd be back again. 08:42.000 --> 08:46.000 Oh, well, now, just don't tell me that you and the 08:46.000 --> 08:48.000 are disagreeing already. 08:48.000 --> 08:51.000 Hm? Oh, naturally not, no. 08:51.000 --> 08:53.000 This trip just slipped my mind, George. 08:53.000 --> 08:58.000 Mm, never could understand why anybody wanted to go up to London, though. 08:58.000 --> 09:03.000 But Mr. Ainz, what soldier, this house, he went up there, and to live, mind you. 09:03.000 --> 09:08.000 And after fixing up this place like he did, with cats all over everywhere, 09:08.000 --> 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. 09:12.000 --> 09:18.000 It's not everyone that'll have your fad for washing themselves in every room in the house like. 09:18.000 --> 09:24.000 But George, he says to me, I'll get every penny at 2,000 pounds for this house, 09:24.000 --> 09:26.000 and by gummy-dick. 09:26.000 --> 09:53.000 3,000? 2,000? 09:53.000 --> 10:21.000 Ja! 10:21.000 --> 10:25.000 Once again reminded of Jarrod's enslavement, the time insistence. 10:25.000 --> 10:29.000 You see, on page 21 there was an entry. 10:29.000 --> 10:34.000 April 14th, Mary Alex at St. Peter's Church, 2.30. 10:35.000 --> 10:37.000 And then I looked at today's date. 10:37.000 --> 10:39.000 Wednesday, May 13th. 10:39.000 --> 10:45.000 Only one thing was written there in red pencil, it said, 6 p.m. 10:47.000 --> 10:49.000 Now what did it mean? 10:49.000 --> 10:52.000 What was to happen at 6 p.m.? 10:52.000 --> 10:55.000 And I... something just... 10:55.000 --> 10:59.000 Oh, no. But this is ridiculous. 10:59.000 --> 11:01.000 What am I afraid of? 11:01.000 --> 11:05.000 Jarrod is my husband, I love him, I trust him, I... 11:05.000 --> 11:09.000 Then I looked again at that cryptic entry. 11:09.000 --> 11:20.000 6 p.m. 11:20.000 --> 11:22.000 Oh, Alex? 11:22.000 --> 11:24.000 Yes? Yes? 11:24.000 --> 11:26.000 There you are. Miss me, darling? 11:26.000 --> 11:28.000 Oh, why wouldn't I? It's three o'clock. 11:28.000 --> 11:30.000 You've had time to buy out the whole village. 11:30.000 --> 11:32.000 Only the camera shop. 11:32.000 --> 11:35.000 Now if I don't have the best equipped darkroom, this side of London won't be my fault. 11:35.000 --> 11:39.000 If you're not careful, that darkroom of yours is going to overfill the whole cellar. 11:39.000 --> 11:43.000 Oh, incidentally, here's something you've been watering the flowers with. 11:43.000 --> 11:45.000 Catch. 11:45.000 --> 11:49.000 Oh, my diary. 11:49.000 --> 11:51.000 Dropped it in the garden, did I? 11:51.000 --> 11:53.000 I know all your secrets. 11:53.000 --> 11:54.000 Oh, not guilty. 11:54.000 --> 11:56.000 Well, I'm not so sure. 11:56.000 --> 11:59.000 What about your assignation at 6 p.m. today? 11:59.000 --> 12:01.000 Oh, that? 12:01.000 --> 12:03.000 Well, you've caught me at last. 12:03.000 --> 12:06.000 I was rendezvoused with a very handsome young woman, quite remarkably like you, in fact. 12:06.000 --> 12:08.000 You're evading the issue. 12:08.000 --> 12:11.000 Not at all. I simply reminded that I want you to help me develop some negatives this evening. 12:11.000 --> 12:13.000 At 6 o'clock? Well, I'll be getting dinner. 12:13.000 --> 12:15.000 We'll eat a light supper tonight. 12:15.000 --> 12:17.000 We might have just a sandwich or two and some coffee out on the porch. 12:17.000 --> 12:19.000 Before we work on the negatives, you mean? 12:19.000 --> 12:21.000 Yes, that'll be pleasant, won't it? 12:21.000 --> 12:24.000 You know something, Alex? I've never found anybody yet who could touch your coffee. 12:24.000 --> 12:27.000 No, really. And that covers Australia and Canada, too. 12:27.000 --> 12:30.000 You and your mysterious past. 12:30.000 --> 12:32.000 Why do you say that? 12:32.000 --> 12:34.000 No reason, I... 12:34.000 --> 12:38.000 Jared, I do wish I knew more about you. 12:38.000 --> 12:40.000 Alex, you're serious. 12:40.000 --> 12:41.000 Well, I know it's silly. 12:41.000 --> 12:45.000 Well, darling, I've told you all about me, my boyhood in Sydney, my life in Canada. 12:45.000 --> 12:48.000 Oh, I see. 12:48.000 --> 12:50.000 You mean love affairs. You women are all alike. 12:50.000 --> 12:53.000 Well, but there must have been other women. 12:53.000 --> 12:55.000 I don't mean that you're a... you're a blue beard or something, but surely... 12:55.000 --> 12:58.000 What? Blue beard? 12:58.000 --> 13:01.000 What put you mind on such a subject, anyway? You never mentioned it before. 13:01.000 --> 13:04.000 Oh, I don't know, Jared. I... I... 13:04.000 --> 13:06.000 I've been rather upset all day. 13:06.000 --> 13:09.000 I imagine I can thank old George for that. 13:09.000 --> 13:10.000 The gardener, you mean? 13:10.000 --> 13:12.000 Yes. He had some ridiculous idea. 13:12.000 --> 13:15.000 We were going away to London. He said you told him so. 13:15.000 --> 13:16.000 Where did you see him? 13:16.000 --> 13:19.000 Well, he came to work today instead of Saturday. 13:19.000 --> 13:20.000 The old fool. 13:20.000 --> 13:21.000 Why, Jared... 13:21.000 --> 13:24.000 Well, he is an old fool. I want... 13:24.000 --> 13:25.000 Get your mouth off. 13:25.000 --> 13:26.000 Jared. Oh, Jared. 13:26.000 --> 13:31.000 Lie down. Lie down here, darling. I bring you some water. Some... your medicine. 13:31.000 --> 13:32.000 Some what? 13:32.000 --> 13:35.000 Are you all right? 13:35.000 --> 13:39.000 Oh, I'm sorry, darling, getting you all upset about... 13:39.000 --> 13:41.000 Oh, just because of the stupid old gardener. 13:41.000 --> 13:43.000 Oh, I... I... 13:43.000 --> 13:46.000 I made some weak joke to him about being off to London in the morning. 13:46.000 --> 13:50.000 He must have taken it seriously or else he didn't hear properly. 13:50.000 --> 13:52.000 You straightened him out, I suppose. 13:52.000 --> 13:54.000 Oh, Harvey, you know what a gossip he is. 13:54.000 --> 13:58.000 I didn't want the whole village to think my husband was leaving me in the dark about his plan. 13:58.000 --> 14:00.000 Are you all right, dear? Really? 14:00.000 --> 14:02.000 You told him we were going there? 14:02.000 --> 14:03.000 Naturally. 14:03.000 --> 14:05.000 You have to go. 14:05.000 --> 14:09.000 Sorry you were placed in that kind of a situation, darling. 14:09.000 --> 14:12.000 Don't suppose you're running into anybody else today? 14:12.000 --> 14:16.000 This far from the world, Jared? 14:16.000 --> 14:17.000 It isn't very likely, is it? 14:17.000 --> 14:18.000 Well, Jared... 14:18.000 --> 14:20.000 Now not another word. You aren't yourself now. That's quite plain. 14:20.000 --> 14:22.000 And I want you to have a little rest, a little nap. 14:22.000 --> 14:24.000 It'll be right as rain by six o'clock. 14:24.000 --> 14:26.000 Must you do those photographs tonight? You don't see... 14:26.000 --> 14:29.000 My dear, when one sets the time to do something, one should stick to it. 14:29.000 --> 14:31.000 That's the only way to get through one's work. 14:31.000 --> 14:34.000 All right, up with you. Upstairs to your bed now. 14:34.000 --> 14:35.000 Very well, dear. 14:35.000 --> 14:37.000 I'll be getting things arranged in the dark. 14:46.000 --> 14:48.000 I went upstairs to my room. 14:48.000 --> 14:53.000 I told myself there was no basis, no basis whatever for my state of mind. 14:53.000 --> 14:59.000 And still the turmoil, the doubt, the odd unaccountable sense of dread persisted... 14:59.000 --> 15:04.000 and grew... and grew... until... 15:04.000 --> 15:07.000 quite clearly I knew what I must do. 15:07.000 --> 15:12.000 Knew I must find some testimony to my husband's past, something to reassure me and... 15:12.000 --> 15:18.000 then strangely I remembered that single locked drawer in Gerald's bureau. 15:18.000 --> 15:25.000 I took two to the door at the head of the stairs, opened it and entered my husband's room. 15:25.000 --> 15:31.000 The key. If only I could find the key to that locked drawer, but there was none in sight. 15:31.000 --> 15:35.000 The closet and then his coat pockets and then... 15:35.000 --> 15:42.000 there at my feet. There on the floor. I saw it. 15:47.000 --> 15:54.000 I opened the drawer, looked down, a small packet of letters tied with a light blue ribbon. 15:54.000 --> 15:59.000 And when I saw the uppermost envelope, my face flushed with shame. 15:59.000 --> 16:05.000 They were my own letters, love letters written to Gerald before we were married. 16:05.000 --> 16:09.000 There was nothing else in the drawer, just a roll of ancient faded newspaper clippings. 16:09.000 --> 16:16.000 My glance to the top clipping, it was from an American paper, featured the trial of one Charles LaMaitre. 16:16.000 --> 16:21.000 Notorious, windler, and bigamist. A skeleton had been found beneath the floor of his house... 16:21.000 --> 16:25.000 and most of the women he'd married had never been heard of again. 16:25.000 --> 16:29.000 Another of the clippings described LaMaitre's behavior in court. 16:29.000 --> 16:35.000 His interest in the cameras of the news photographers, his sensational escape from prison... 16:35.000 --> 16:41.000 and another displayed his picture. Long-bearded, scholarly-looking fellow. 16:41.000 --> 16:47.000 Reminded me of someone. I glanced at the caption beneath the picture. 16:47.000 --> 16:52.000 Modern blue beard. Modern blue beard! 16:52.000 --> 16:57.000 My eyes went back to the picture. And in a flash, I saw the resemblance. 16:57.000 --> 17:01.000 I went through the other clippings. Dates had been found in the man's pocket diary. 17:01.000 --> 17:04.000 Dates, it was contended when he'd done away with his victims. 17:04.000 --> 17:08.000 He was an amateur photographer. He was from Sydney, from Canada. 17:08.000 --> 17:13.000 He was subject to heart attacks. He was...he was...Gerald! 17:13.000 --> 17:25.000 The room whirled about me. Dick had tried to warn me. 17:25.000 --> 17:29.000 Dick had been near me that morning and I turned him away. I... 17:29.000 --> 17:33.000 It was then that I noticed a sound. 17:33.000 --> 17:37.000 There was a pipe in the corner running up through the room from below near its base. 17:37.000 --> 17:41.000 Something was striking at that pipe as though someone were... 17:41.000 --> 17:46.000 As though someone were digging. Yes. 17:46.000 --> 17:53.000 I knew then that Charles Lemaître was preparing the dark room for the latest one of his victims. 17:53.000 --> 17:59.000 Six o'clock. Six o'clock. 17:59.000 --> 18:03.000 Less than an hour from now, all the jigsaw pieces shot into place. 18:03.000 --> 18:06.000 The money paid for the house. My money! My money only. 18:06.000 --> 18:10.000 The bond side entrusted to his keeping the... 18:10.000 --> 18:14.000 And then suddenly I heard the quiet. 18:14.000 --> 18:17.000 The digging had stopped. 18:17.000 --> 18:20.000 Escape from that house at once before he came out. 18:20.000 --> 18:23.000 The clippings back in the drawer. Don't look. Don't look. Don't bother. 18:23.000 --> 18:26.000 Just...just get away. I rushed to the door. Out in the hall and... 18:29.000 --> 18:31.000 Yes, my dear? 18:31.000 --> 18:39.000 Oh, you...you startled me. I...I...I was just...I was just trying to find your nail file. 18:39.000 --> 18:44.000 Were you, dear? Well, there's nothing to look so guilty about now, is there? 18:44.000 --> 18:46.000 Better come on down. I'm getting late, you know. 18:46.000 --> 18:47.000 Gerald, I... 18:47.000 --> 18:50.000 Just have time to make the coffee and sandwiches before we do the pictures, Barry. 18:50.000 --> 18:53.000 Well, I'll be right down, darling. As soon as... 18:53.000 --> 18:56.000 Oh, but we really mustn't be late, must we? 18:56.000 --> 18:57.000 Coming, Alex? 18:57.000 --> 18:59.000 Very well. 18:59.000 --> 19:01.000 Now, that's better. 19:01.000 --> 19:03.000 Never mind, Gerald. It's... 19:03.000 --> 19:06.000 Why, Alex, how cold you are. 19:06.000 --> 19:10.000 Cold? Oh, yes. Yes, I am, rather. 19:10.000 --> 19:12.000 Well, that will soon pass away, I'm sure. 19:12.000 --> 19:13.000 Hurry along, dear. 19:13.000 --> 19:15.000 Hurry along? 19:15.000 --> 19:17.000 Yes. Into the kitchen. 19:17.000 --> 19:19.000 Alex, what is the matter? 19:19.000 --> 19:23.000 Oh, nothing. Nothing. I'll be all right. The kitchen. Here. 19:23.000 --> 19:25.000 Yes, yes. I'll fix it something in a second. 19:25.000 --> 19:28.000 You just sit here in the living room and...oh, no. No. Not the porch. 19:28.000 --> 19:31.000 That'll be more comfortable, won't it? And I'll be right with you. 19:31.000 --> 19:33.000 Blended, Alex. I'll just... 19:33.000 --> 19:35.000 Why, no, of course not. 19:35.000 --> 19:36.000 What, Gerald? 19:36.000 --> 19:38.000 How rotten of me not to have suggested it. 19:38.000 --> 19:41.000 Since you're feeling a bit under par, you can probably do with some help. 19:41.000 --> 19:43.000 I'll come with you. 19:49.000 --> 19:53.000 I knew then that some way, somehow, I must get word to Dick. 19:53.000 --> 19:57.000 The possibility that he might be gone by now, I just put out of my mind. 19:57.000 --> 20:00.000 No more panic. No more panic. 20:00.000 --> 20:04.000 When I carried the coffee out on the porch, I glanced at the clock on the mantel. 20:04.000 --> 20:06.000 It was ten minutes till six. 20:06.000 --> 20:08.000 A pity you're so abstracted, my dear. 20:08.000 --> 20:11.000 Huh? Oh. Why do you say that? 20:11.000 --> 20:15.000 Because you're missing the loveliest sight you are likely to see again. 20:15.000 --> 20:19.000 Look out beyond the garden, the first soft shades of twilight. 20:19.000 --> 20:23.000 Twilight of a Philomel cottage. 20:23.000 --> 20:26.000 I say, Alex, you are below par. 20:26.000 --> 20:27.000 What do you mean? 20:27.000 --> 20:30.000 First time you've ever slipped on the coffee, you must have tossed it in the entire canister. 20:30.000 --> 20:33.000 Oh, oh, I'll be more careful after this. 20:33.000 --> 20:35.000 Oh dear! That reminds me. 20:35.000 --> 20:36.000 Alex, where are you going? 20:36.000 --> 20:40.000 Nothing to get excited about, Gerald. I forgot to order things for tomorrow. 20:40.000 --> 20:41.000 I'm just going to phone the grocer. 20:41.000 --> 20:43.000 Grocer? This time of evening? 20:43.000 --> 20:46.000 Oh, he generally stays late on Wednesdays. I'll be right back, darling. 20:46.000 --> 20:47.000 Well, don't shut the door, Alex. 20:47.000 --> 20:49.000 Oh, it keeps the insect out of the living room. 20:49.000 --> 20:53.000 You're not afraid I'm going to make love to the grocer, are you? 20:53.000 --> 20:57.000 Operator. 20:57.000 --> 20:58.000 Exchange? 20:58.000 --> 21:03.000 Operator, get me the Traveler's Arms, please, hurry. 21:03.000 --> 21:05.000 Hello. 21:05.000 --> 21:07.000 Traveler's Arms. 21:07.000 --> 21:10.000 Hello. Mr. Winterford, please. Will you? 21:10.000 --> 21:12.000 Oh, no, no. He's not here. 21:12.000 --> 21:15.000 What? You don't know if he's still there? 21:15.000 --> 21:17.000 Oh, well, see, won't you? 21:17.000 --> 21:19.000 It's most important. 21:19.000 --> 21:23.000 Don't let me disturb you. 21:23.000 --> 21:27.000 Oh, darling, you do. I hate anyone listening when I telephone. 21:27.000 --> 21:30.000 But I do, Gerald, truly. 21:30.000 --> 21:33.000 You're quite sure you're really calling the grocer. 21:33.000 --> 21:38.000 Why, as a matter of fact, I'm not sure. 21:38.000 --> 21:39.000 What? 21:39.000 --> 21:45.000 What I mean is, I'm afraid I've got the wrong person, a perfect stranger. 21:45.000 --> 21:46.000 I don't understand. 21:46.000 --> 21:48.000 Someone I know nothing about. 21:48.000 --> 21:50.000 Know nothing about? Then why don't you hang up? 21:50.000 --> 21:52.000 Here, who's at the end of that wire? 21:52.000 --> 21:53.000 Let me see. 21:53.000 --> 21:56.000 Hello. Hello. 21:56.000 --> 21:59.000 It's dead. 21:59.000 --> 22:02.000 All right, my dear, might as well get started. 22:02.000 --> 22:03.000 Oh, we're late now. 22:03.000 --> 22:05.000 Late? For the pictures? 22:05.000 --> 22:07.000 Precisely. Three minutes after six. 22:07.000 --> 22:09.000 Why, Gerald, it won't be six o'clock for eight minutes. 22:09.000 --> 22:11.000 Look at the clock there on the menu. 22:11.000 --> 22:13.000 Oh, I don't go by that relic. I go by my own wristwatch. 22:13.000 --> 22:16.000 Gerald, listen. Stop pacing and listen to me. 22:16.000 --> 22:19.000 I don't feel up to it tonight. 22:19.000 --> 22:21.000 I'm upset and I'm tired. 22:21.000 --> 22:24.000 Alex, I promise you, you won't be a bit tired after it's over. 22:24.000 --> 22:26.000 Now, I'm not going to wait one minute longer. 22:26.000 --> 22:28.000 No, I won't do it. I'm not coming with you. 22:28.000 --> 22:30.000 Come along, Alex, or I'll carry you there. 22:30.000 --> 22:31.000 No, no! 22:31.000 --> 22:32.000 You will, you will. 22:32.000 --> 22:34.000 Gerald, stop! Stop! 22:34.000 --> 22:37.000 I've got something to tell you. 22:37.000 --> 22:39.000 I've got something to confess. 22:39.000 --> 22:40.000 Confess? 22:40.000 --> 22:41.000 Yes, yes, to confess. 22:41.000 --> 22:44.000 Something I ought to have told you before. 22:44.000 --> 22:49.000 I've... I've had my secret path, too. 22:49.000 --> 22:51.000 A former lover, I suppose. 22:51.000 --> 22:53.000 Well, in a way, but something else. 22:53.000 --> 22:58.000 You'd call it... yes, I expect you'd call it a crime. 22:58.000 --> 23:01.000 A crime? You? I don't believe it. 23:01.000 --> 23:03.000 You'd better sit down now, Gerald. 23:03.000 --> 23:07.000 There, I told you, I told you, I'd never been married before. 23:07.000 --> 23:09.000 And that was not entirely true. 23:09.000 --> 23:11.000 There was a marriage when I was 22 in Vienna. 23:11.000 --> 23:17.000 He... he... he... he was an elderly man with a little property. 23:17.000 --> 23:21.000 I... I induced him to ensure his life in my favor. 23:21.000 --> 23:26.000 And at one time I was a nurse with access to a number of poisons. 23:26.000 --> 23:30.000 And there's one poison, a white powder. 23:30.000 --> 23:33.000 You know something about poisons, perhaps? 23:33.000 --> 23:35.000 No, I know very little about them. 23:35.000 --> 23:39.000 How? Well, this one is absolutely untraceable. 23:39.000 --> 23:45.000 Any doctor would give a certificate of heart failure, and... and that... and... and that... 23:45.000 --> 23:50.000 Oh, no! No, I can't. 23:50.000 --> 23:52.000 Go on, I want to hear. 23:52.000 --> 23:58.000 Well, all right, I... I always made this... this... his coffee for him, 23:58.000 --> 24:03.000 and one evening I put a pinch of this poison in his cup. 24:03.000 --> 24:06.000 I remember that evening how very much like... 24:06.000 --> 24:10.000 how very much like this it was, how... how peaceful he... 24:10.000 --> 24:15.000 he gasped a little and tried to move from his chair, but couldn't. 24:15.000 --> 24:18.000 Presently he died. 24:18.000 --> 24:20.000 How much was the insurance money? 24:20.000 --> 24:23.000 Oh, about... about 2,000 pounds. 24:23.000 --> 24:26.000 I... I... I speculated, though I lost it. 24:26.000 --> 24:29.000 And it was over two years before I married again. 24:29.000 --> 24:32.000 And... and... and he was a much younger man. 24:32.000 --> 24:34.000 Cooked quite well off. 24:34.000 --> 24:36.000 There was a will in my favor. 24:36.000 --> 24:41.000 He liked me to... to make his coffee too, just as my first husband had done. 24:41.000 --> 24:43.000 I make very good coffee. 24:43.000 --> 24:45.000 Alex. 24:45.000 --> 24:47.000 It was the same along about twilight. 24:47.000 --> 24:48.000 The coffee. 24:48.000 --> 24:50.000 It was the same as the other. 24:50.000 --> 24:52.000 He just sat there in his chair. 24:52.000 --> 24:53.000 The coffee. 24:53.000 --> 24:56.000 And died. Our village doctor pronounced it heart failure. 24:56.000 --> 24:59.000 My husband did have a weak heart, you see. 24:59.000 --> 25:02.000 And that helped. It helped a great deal. 25:02.000 --> 25:03.000 Alex, listen. 25:03.000 --> 25:05.000 That mattered me over 4,000 pounds. 25:05.000 --> 25:06.000 I didn't speculate with... 25:06.000 --> 25:08.000 The coffee. 25:08.000 --> 25:11.000 That's why I taste it that way. You devil, you poisoned me. 25:11.000 --> 25:13.000 You poisoned me. I'll kill you. 25:13.000 --> 25:15.000 Yes, I poisoned you. 25:15.000 --> 25:17.000 And already the poison is working, you see. 25:17.000 --> 25:19.000 You can't move from your chair. 25:19.000 --> 25:21.000 You're lying. I'll kill you. 25:21.000 --> 25:23.000 I'll kill... 25:30.000 --> 25:31.000 Alex. 25:31.000 --> 25:33.000 Alex Moroil. 25:33.000 --> 25:35.000 Dirk. 25:35.000 --> 25:37.000 What have they done to Alex? 25:37.000 --> 25:39.000 Constable, go see what's happening in that room. 25:39.000 --> 25:41.000 Right, sir. 25:41.000 --> 25:43.000 Darling. 25:43.000 --> 25:45.000 I had to tell him. 25:45.000 --> 25:48.000 The most horrible story. 25:48.000 --> 25:51.000 Oh, I couldn't have kept it up any longer. 25:51.000 --> 25:53.000 You came just in time, Dirk. 25:53.000 --> 25:55.000 You understood on the phone, didn't you? 25:55.000 --> 25:59.000 Darling, when I heard you say you'd got the wrong person, someone you knew nothing about. 25:59.000 --> 26:01.000 Excuse me, sir. What did you find, Constable? 26:01.000 --> 26:03.000 A man sitting in a chair, sir. 26:03.000 --> 26:06.000 Art trouble, it looks like, and, uh, yes. 26:06.000 --> 26:09.000 Well, sir, he's dead. 26:09.000 --> 26:11.000 Your husband, man? 26:11.000 --> 26:13.000 Well, you might say... 26:13.000 --> 26:16.000 A perfect stranger. 26:16.000 --> 26:18.000 He was just sitting... 26:18.000 --> 26:20.000 In his chair. 26:20.000 --> 26:23.000 And presently... 26:23.000 --> 26:39.000 He died. 26:39.000 --> 26:41.000 Suspense. 26:41.000 --> 26:43.000 Presented by Roma Wines. 26:43.000 --> 26:45.000 R-O-M-A. 26:45.000 --> 26:48.000 Roma, America's favorite wines. 26:48.000 --> 26:51.000 And now this is Ken Niles bringing back to our suspense microphone 26:51.000 --> 26:55.000 the star of tonight's play, a lovely newcomer whose great acting talent 26:55.000 --> 27:00.000 has carried her to overnight Hollywood stardom, Miss Lily Pump. 27:00.000 --> 27:03.000 Lily, your performance tonight certainly qualifies you 27:03.000 --> 27:06.000 as one of Hollywood's reigning queens of suspense. 27:06.000 --> 27:09.000 Well, thank you, Ken. 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