House by the River (1950)
House by the River (1950)
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00:02:13I hate this river.
00:02:16What's the trouble, Mrs. Ambrose?
00:02:18That thing's floated by again, Stephen.
00:02:20In with one tide, out with the other.
00:02:22I'm sick of it.
00:02:24Don't get upset, Mrs. Ambrose.
00:02:25It's due to sink any day now.
00:02:27Why don't the authorities do something about it?
00:02:29They know that the tides cause the same filth
00:02:31to wash back and forth, back and forth.
00:02:34Oh, I tell you, I hate this river.
00:02:37It's people who should be blamed for the filth,
00:02:39not the river.
00:02:42The mail just arrived, Mr. Burns.
00:02:44Oh, put it on the table, please.
00:02:51Hmm, looks like a manuscript.
00:02:54My manuscripts are like the tide out there.
00:02:57They always come back.
00:02:59Maybe they wouldn't if you took my advice.
00:03:01Spice them up.
00:03:02Make them racy.
00:03:03That's what the public wants.
00:03:10What is it, Emily?
00:03:11Well, it's just that it's getting awfully late, Mr. Burns,
00:03:14and the plumber hasn't arrived to fix the downstairs tub.
00:03:16Well, if he hasn't come by now, he probably
00:03:18isn't coming at all today.
00:03:19Use the upstairs one, if you like.
00:03:21Thank you, sir.
00:03:31How does your wife like the new maid, Stephen?
00:03:34Uh, what?
00:03:35Oh, uh, very well, I think.
00:03:37Good.
00:03:38Oh, where is Marjorie, by the way?
00:03:39I haven't seen her all day.
00:03:40She's spending the day with the Lawlers in the country.
00:03:42Oh, that's nice.
00:03:43Did she say when she'd be back?
00:03:44Only in time to dress for Miss Whitaker's party.
00:03:46Oh, good heavens.
00:03:47Well, I'd better go and finish my gardening
00:03:49so that I can start to get ready.
00:03:50I've still millions of things to do out here.
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00:08:42Oh, Mr. Burne, it's you.
00:08:48Why, you're, you're frightening me.
00:08:54Did I?
00:08:58I thought you were still in the garden.
00:09:01Did you?
00:09:02I, I left everything nice and tidy for Mrs. Burne.
00:09:10Did you?
00:09:12Mr. Byrne, please let me by.
00:09:29Of course.
00:09:33This perfume you use, Emily.
00:09:39Don't, Mr. Byrne, you're hurting me.
00:09:49Emily.
00:09:50You've been drinking.
00:09:51Let me go.
00:09:52Would you like me to tell my wife that you've been dipping into her perfume?
00:09:55I don't care.
00:09:56Let me go.
00:09:57Let me go.
00:09:58Emily.
00:09:59Let me go.
00:10:00Let me go.
00:10:01Let me go.
00:10:03Stop it.
00:10:04Do you want the whole neighborhood to hear you?
00:10:05Pull yourself together and I'll let you go.
00:10:14Emily.
00:10:17Let me go.
00:10:32That's better.
00:10:33All we needed was to have that old gossip hear us.
00:10:39Emily.
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00:10:52Merciful God.
00:10:53Merciful God.
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00:15:04Merciful God.
00:15:11I can't go through with this.
00:15:13You promised to stay up there.
00:15:15Listen to me.
00:15:16The only thing to do is to go to the police.
00:15:18Tell them exactly how it happened.
00:15:20It was an accident.
00:15:21But they'll never believe me.
00:15:22Even you don't believe me.
00:15:25Do you?
00:15:27I don't know what to do.
00:15:29I only know that I'm not going to help you.
00:15:31For once, you're going to get out of this thing by yourself.
00:15:33John, if you won't do this for me, do it for Marjorie.
00:15:35For her sake.
00:15:37Did you know that Marjorie went into town today?
00:15:39To see the doctor.
00:15:41Is she ill?
00:15:44She's going to have a baby.
00:15:48How can you understand why I must get out of this?
00:15:50Why you must help me?
00:15:52Yes.
00:15:54I suppose I must.
00:15:57Good.
00:15:58Now go back and warn me if anyone comes.
00:16:07John.
00:16:30Wait a minute.
00:17:01It'll soon be over, John.
00:17:03She'll soon be in the river, and it'll all be forgotten.
00:17:05Forgotten?
00:17:06Yes, yes.
00:17:07I mean, for the time being.
00:17:08We'll wait it, and take it way out.
00:17:10It'll stay sunk.
00:17:12Steve.
00:17:14Marjorie.
00:17:15Marjorie, is that you out there?
00:17:17No, it's me, Mrs. Ambrose.
00:17:19Oh, it's you, Steve.
00:17:21Stay down.
00:17:22I'll get rid of them.
00:17:23Is Marjorie back yet?
00:17:24No, not yet, Mrs. Ambrose.
00:17:26I want to see her.
00:17:27I thought of my best plan.
00:17:29But still and all, it's never very dressy at the Whitacres.
00:17:31Well, she'll be home before long, Mrs. Ambrose.
00:17:33My, she stayed late, didn't she?
00:17:35Well, of course, the Lawless are always hard to get away from.
00:17:38Maybe she missed her train.
00:17:39I'm not worried.
00:17:40She'll be here soon.
00:17:41Well, ask her to drop in for a moment if she has time.
00:17:43Will you, Steve?
00:17:44Yes, I'll do that.
00:17:45I must go in now.
00:17:46I have to get ready myself.
00:17:47Well, I'll see you at the party then.
00:17:48Until later.
00:17:50I thought the old hag would never leave.
00:17:52I thought she sent Marjorie on to the doctors to get jailed.
00:17:55Marjorie is going to get jailed.
00:17:57She's not going anywhere, is she?
00:17:59She's not going anywhere.
00:18:00She'll never get out of jail.
00:18:01She'll never be free.
00:18:02Oh, I'm sorry.
00:18:03We'll take care of it.
00:18:04We'll take care of it.
00:18:05We'll take care of it.
00:18:06I thought you said Marjorie went to the doctor's today.
00:18:08She did.
00:18:09Mrs. Ambrose said she went to the Lawless.
00:18:12She went both places.
00:18:13The Lawless live in the country.
00:18:14If she went there, it means she spent the day there.
00:18:16Maybe she went to the doctor's.
00:18:17Now stop quibbling and help.
00:18:18A scandal would ruin all of us.
00:18:19Are there more people to be considered
00:18:20than this dead servant girl?
00:18:22You used to refer to her as Emily.
00:18:24She'll be fine.
00:18:25She'll be fine.
00:18:26She'll be fine.
00:18:27She'll be fine.
00:18:28She'll be fine.
00:18:29She'll be fine.
00:18:30She'll be fine.
00:18:31She'll be fine.
00:18:32She'll be fine.
00:18:33She'll be fine.
00:18:34She'll be fine.
00:18:36John, don't be like that.
00:18:37Can't you understand how I feel?
00:18:38If I could undo what's happened,
00:18:39if I could go back, but I can't.
00:18:42I've got to think of Marjorie and my child.
00:18:45This has been a lesson to me.
00:18:46I know I've been foolish, but I'll change.
00:18:47I swear I will.
00:18:51John, Marjorie will be back any minute.
00:18:55All right, Stephen.
00:18:57All right.
00:18:59Talk me into this, too, since you have 1,000 times before.
00:19:05That filthy moon.
00:19:15Don't you think we should tie the anchor to the sack?
00:19:33Yes.
00:19:36This should do it.
00:19:38First the anchor.
00:19:45All right, lift up.
00:19:56Did you see that?
00:19:58What?
00:19:59It's bright.
00:20:00Something flashed out there in the water.
00:20:05Let's get away from here.
00:20:07I'll drop you off at Weed's Point so Marjorie doesn't see you.
00:20:29All right, let's get out of here.
00:20:57Stephen?
00:20:58Marjorie?
00:20:59Is that you, Stephen?
00:21:00Yes, Marjorie.
00:21:01You frighten me.
00:21:02Stephen?
00:21:03Stephen?
00:21:04Stephen?
00:21:05Stephen?
00:21:06Stephen?
00:21:07Stephen?
00:21:08Stephen?
00:21:09Stephen?
00:21:10Stephen?
00:21:11Stephen!
00:21:16Stephen?
00:21:19Stephen?
00:21:22Stephen?
00:21:25Stephen?
00:21:26Stephen?
00:21:30Stephen?
00:21:33Stephen?
00:21:35Stephen?
00:21:37Marjorie.
00:21:39I can't see.
00:21:40Oh, she said something about going for a walk.
00:21:42Oh, not like her.
00:21:43She knows it cooks her off, and I'm alone.
00:21:45She probably went off with a young man someplace
00:21:47and forgot the time.
00:21:49I can help you if you like.
00:21:52Yes, I could say that you're all thumbs today, but I won't.
00:21:56I'm not only doing my best, but I'm enjoying it.
00:21:58Oh, you're very sweet.
00:22:00Did you do much writing today?
00:22:01No.
00:22:03Why not?
00:22:04Oh, another script came back.
00:22:06I'm sorry, darling.
00:22:10Is that why you weren't boating?
00:22:13Yes, I suppose so.
00:22:18I should have been with you.
00:22:21Did you miss me?
00:22:24Very much.
00:22:25I wish you hadn't gone out today.
00:22:46Come on.
00:22:55Darling, what is it?
00:22:55What's happened?
00:22:56Oh, what is it?
00:22:57What is it?
00:22:58It's nothing.
00:23:02I have a terrible headache, that's all.
00:23:04Oh, then we'd better stay home tonight.
00:23:05No, no.
00:23:06I'll be all right.
00:23:07Don't worry.
00:23:08Oh, darling.
00:23:16Grab the lady by the hair.
00:23:18Round the lady over there.
00:23:20And to the center with a one, two, three.
00:23:22And round that gem from Tennessee.
00:23:24Oh, I can't anymore, Stephen.
00:23:25I'm exhausted.
00:23:26Go on.
00:23:27You're the liveliest of the bunch.
00:23:28Wonderful party, Mr. Whittaker.
00:23:29Thank you, dear boy.
00:23:32Circulate.
00:23:33Eight hands around.
00:23:34Rub your toe and you'll fall down.
00:23:36At last, my favorite part.
00:23:37How many times have you said that this evening?
00:23:39Four.
00:23:40First time I've made it.
00:23:41Circulate.
00:23:42Eight hands around.
00:23:43Stephen, you're wonderful.
00:23:44You inspire me.
00:23:45Stephen, you write a very nice thing.
00:23:48Alamad laughs.
00:23:49Grab on and laugh.
00:23:51First you'll whine, and then you'll laugh.
00:23:54To meet your partner, give her a swing
00:23:56and throw her down around the ring.
00:24:13Oh, that brother of yours is a real devil.
00:24:15A real devil.
00:24:16Oh, Stephen, do you know what will happen to me
00:24:18if I drink that?
00:24:19Why do you think I'm giving it to you?
00:24:21Stephen, you're the limit.
00:24:26Hey.
00:24:29Oh, John, aren't you going to try the punch?
00:24:31No.
00:24:32I don't feel like drinking tonight.
00:24:37What's the matter with him?
00:24:39What?
00:24:40He seems depressed.
00:24:41Have you ever seen him when he wasn't?
00:24:43Oh, that's not nice.
00:24:44It must be very hard to love music very much
00:24:46and not to be able to dance and to be a part of things.
00:24:48He could have been part of things tonight.
00:24:50Why didn't he call the dancers, as I suggested?
00:24:52He's just naturally a wet blanket, that's all.
00:24:54That's very cruel, Stephen.
00:24:55You wouldn't have said such a thing if you hadn't had,
00:24:58if you hadn't had, say, about four too many.
00:25:01Don't start anything, Marjorie.
00:25:04I'm sorry.
00:25:06I've got to see what's wrong with him.
00:25:09John.
00:25:11Why are you leaving?
00:25:13Just what is the purpose of all this dancing, this drinking?
00:25:16Don't you understand?
00:25:17Can't you see what I'm trying to do?
00:25:19No.
00:25:20Well, if anything should ever come out,
00:25:21everyone will remember that we were here at the party,
00:25:23acting in a normal manner.
00:25:24Well, I think it's repulsive.
00:25:25Do you think I'm enjoying myself?
00:25:27Frankly, I do.
00:25:28But if it weren't for the fact that I'm protecting both of us,
00:25:30I wouldn't be here.
00:25:31I'm sorry.
00:25:32I'm sorry.
00:25:33I'm sorry.
00:25:34I'm sorry.
00:25:35I'm sorry.
00:25:36I'm sorry.
00:25:37I'm sorry.
00:25:38It's all right.
00:25:39It's all right.
00:25:40You're not protecting both of us.
00:25:41Us?
00:25:42Yes, us.
00:25:43You helped me get rid of it, didn't you?
00:25:44Whatever I've done, you're in it with me.
00:25:46So I advise you to keep your mouth shut.
00:25:50Sorry I had to remind you of that.
00:25:53Come.
00:25:54I'm going to join the party.
00:26:07Oh, you shouldn't have bothered to stay up for us.
00:26:09Oh, Mrs. Burns.
00:26:11What is it?
00:26:13It's Emily.
00:26:15She's not home yet.
00:26:16She's not?
00:26:17No.
00:26:18When I first got here, I thought maybe you'd send her
00:26:21on an errand or something.
00:26:22She still isn't home.
00:26:23I'm afraid something's happened.
00:26:25What's happened?
00:26:26I don't know.
00:26:27I don't know.
00:26:28I don't know.
00:26:29I don't know.
00:26:30I don't know.
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00:26:33I don't know.
00:26:34I don't know.
00:26:35I don't know.
00:26:36I don't know.
00:26:36I know nothing's happened.
00:26:37She's probably with her parents.
00:26:39No, Mr. Burns, don't get on with them.
00:26:40But she would have told us if she was
00:26:41going to spent the night with them.
00:26:43The thing that puzzles me is that none
00:26:44of her dresses are missing.
00:26:48How do you know that, Mrs. Beech?
00:26:51She showed me her things when she first came to us,
00:26:53Mr. Burns.
00:26:54She didn't have very much.
00:26:55Well if none of her dresses are missing,
00:26:57she can't have gone far naked.
00:26:59Steve.
00:27:00I'm not gonna sit up and worry about a promiscuous servant
00:27:02going to want to make a night of it someplace.
00:27:03I'm going to bed.
00:27:06I wouldn't waste my time reading such trash if I were you, Mr. Byrne.
00:27:10Since when is the disappearance of a human being considered trash,
00:27:13in your estimation, Miss Bantam?
00:27:15Since I found out with a bad name that Emily Goss
00:27:18has given young women like myself in service.
00:27:21Bad name?
00:27:22Yes.
00:27:23That Emily was a proper hussy,
00:27:25gadding about night after night.
00:27:27Young men's followers and heaven knows what else.
00:27:30I'm sure she had a good time.
00:27:32There's no doubt that she was out with one of her many sweethearts
00:27:34the night she disappeared,
00:27:36and she went further than she meant.
00:27:39But, you make your own bed,
00:27:42you must lie on it.
00:27:44Would you like your eggs now?
00:27:47No, I don't care for any this morning.
00:27:49Now, Mr. Byrne, you haven't eaten proper all week.
00:27:52Miss Bantam, did you know Emily Goss?
00:27:55No.
00:27:57But I know that she's a good person.
00:27:59Did you know Emily Goss?
00:28:00No.
00:28:02But I know them that did.
00:28:04Seems to me you speak with great authority about a person you never knew.
00:28:07Well, Miss Beach knew her, didn't she?
00:28:10I happened to be present the day after Emily disappeared
00:28:12when the cook was questioned.
00:28:14She didn't give the impression she believed Emily wasn't a decent girl.
00:28:17Yes, but Miss Beach just happened to overhear Mr. Stephen
00:28:20when Emily's parents came worrying around the other day.
00:28:24Wouldn't you like just one egg?
00:28:27Did you know Mr. Stephen's parents came to see my brother?
00:28:29Yes, and he let him have it, he did.
00:28:31Said he never should have let her work in an honest house in the first place.
00:28:34That she was a thief and a good-for-nothing trot.
00:28:37That's a lie!
00:28:38Good gracious, Mr. Byrne.
00:28:40Don't shout at me.
00:28:43It wasn't me that said it.
00:28:45It was your brother.
00:28:48It's the truth, John.
00:28:50At first, I didn't believe it either.
00:28:52But Stephen kept after me to go through my things.
00:28:54Oh, it was Stephen, then, who was first suspicious.
00:28:57Yes.
00:28:58Our whole outfit was missing.
00:29:00Hat, dress, shoes, everything.
00:29:03And only yesterday I discovered that the opal earrings
00:29:05that Stephen had given me for my birthday were missing, too.
00:29:11Oh, but let's not talk about Emily anymore.
00:29:17It's Stephen that I'm concerned about.
00:29:21I don't know exactly how to say it.
00:29:23There's such a...
00:29:26such a peculiar look that comes over his face
00:29:28when he's talking about Emily.
00:29:31It almost seems as though he were actually enjoying it.
00:29:34As though he...
00:29:36He goes on and on about her.
00:29:38Well, Marjorie, I...
00:29:40I wouldn't worry about him if I were you.
00:29:42After all, he's a...
00:29:44he's a writer.
00:29:46The...
00:29:47the mystery of her disappearance probably intrigued him.
00:29:50Oh, probably you're right.
00:29:52And he fancies the whole thing as a great big melodrama
00:29:55with himself in the leading role.
00:29:57He'd like that.
00:29:58He'd like that.
00:30:00He'd like that.
00:30:03Like the article in this morning's paper?
00:30:05I didn't see it.
00:30:06Stephen took it with him.
00:30:07He left early this morning.
00:30:11Haven't they promised to keep our name out of it?
00:30:14Well, you can't blame them.
00:30:15Makes a better story.
00:30:18I don't understand why they kept their promise
00:30:20for a whole week and...
00:30:22and suddenly today, even a picture of Stephen.
00:30:26I wonder how they got hold of it.
00:30:30I wonder how they got hold of it.
00:30:32I don't know.
00:30:34It...
00:30:36Why...
00:30:38There's only one print of that picture that I know of.
00:30:51Now, isn't he like a child?
00:30:53He wanted his picture in the paper.
00:30:59He wanted his picture in the paper.
00:31:01He wanted his picture in the paper.
00:31:03He wanted his picture in the paper.
00:31:05He wanted his picture in the paper.
00:31:07He wanted his picture in the paper.
00:31:09He wanted his picture in the paper.
00:31:11He wanted his picture in the paper.
00:31:13He wanted his picture in the paper.
00:31:15He wanted his picture in the paper.
00:31:17He wanted his picture in the paper.
00:31:19He wanted his picture in the paper.
00:31:21He wanted his picture in the paper.
00:31:23He wanted his picture in the paper.
00:31:25He wanted his picture in the paper.
00:31:27How do you do, Mr. Byrne?
00:31:29Mr. Miller.
00:31:30What do you think of the display?
00:31:32Very attractive.
00:31:34But, uh, it wasn't up when I passed yesterday.
00:31:36No, your brother called me last night
00:31:38and told me of the publicity he was expecting in the papers,
00:31:41and he wanted me to cash in on it.
00:31:45Thank you, dear boy.
00:31:47Oh, gee, I'd love to be a writer, too.
00:31:50Well, why don't you try a thing?
00:31:52Your mother says you're very good at making things up,
00:31:54but some of your excuses are masterpieces of imagination.
00:31:59Don't you listen to this scoundrel.
00:32:01Imagination's not enough.
00:32:03Just the other day, I read in a magazine
00:32:05that a writer must write only about things he knows.
00:32:08If he puts down truthfully the things he's actually experienced,
00:32:11if they're exciting enough,
00:32:13he's bound to be very successful.
00:32:16That's very interesting, Mrs. Hampton.
00:32:25Come on.
00:32:27Come on.
00:32:53Don't touch that!
00:32:58Did you read it?
00:33:00No, I... I only picked it up.
00:33:02What's the matter, Stephen?
00:33:04Nothing. It's not ready to be read, that's all.
00:33:07You never minded my reading your things before.
00:33:09I change my ideas about a lot of things.
00:33:11I know.
00:33:13Just the other night, when you went out by yourself...
00:33:15Don't nag.
00:33:17A writer needs to be alone to gather experiences.
00:33:19Can't you understand that?
00:33:21I wasn't nagging, Stephen.
00:33:23What I started out to say was simply that when I was alone the other night
00:33:25and John dropped in...
00:33:27What did he want?
00:33:28Nothing special.
00:33:30You seem so forlorn lately.
00:33:32We reminisced about those evenings
00:33:34when you used to read your stuff aloud to us.
00:33:37I wish you and John wouldn't discuss me behind my back.
00:33:43I'm not interested in what my brother has to say.
00:33:45He's a bookkeeper and will always be one.
00:33:47He'll never understand the problems of an artist.
00:33:49I was a fool to let you pick on me and criticize my writing.
00:33:51No one picked on you, Stephen.
00:33:53You asked us for our honest opinion and we gave it to you.
00:33:55Never mind. I didn't need anyone then and I don't need anyone now.
00:33:58I'm doing very well on my own.
00:34:00You mean since Emily...
00:34:06Go on.
00:34:11Go on. You can say it.
00:34:13I didn't mean it that way, Stephen.
00:34:15The success of my book since this Emily thing
00:34:17proves that they were good in the first place.
00:34:19All I needed was a little publicity.
00:34:21In the future, they'll not only be good, but they'll be great.
00:34:23Because they'll be about things I know.
00:34:25Like what you're writing now? Yes.
00:34:27Well, what's it about?
00:34:29Will you stop crying?
00:34:35Let's have our tea.
00:34:37I wasn't crying, Stephen.
00:34:39I was only interested.
00:34:41I don't care for any tea. Thank you.
00:34:51John Burns, accounting office.
00:34:53Walter Herbert, office boy speaking.
00:34:57One moment, please.
00:34:59It's your housekeeper.
00:35:01She'd like a word with you, Mr. Burns.
00:35:03Thank you, Walter.
00:35:09Check this out.
00:35:11I've got a letter for you.
00:35:13I've got a letter for you.
00:35:15I've got a letter for you.
00:35:17I've got a letter for you.
00:35:19Check these over, Elmer.
00:35:25What is it, Miss Badham?
00:35:27Mr. Burns, with the cold weather coming on,
00:35:29I told the neighborhood boys to gather some driftwood.
00:35:31Save you catching cold like last year.
00:35:33But when I went to get the wood sack,
00:35:35I found that your brother hadn't returned it.
00:35:37I wonder, would you mind stopping there
00:35:39on your way home this evening?
00:35:41When did my brother borrow it, Miss Badham?
00:35:43Several weeks ago when he was doing the gardening.
00:35:45He sent Emily for it.
00:35:47All right, I'll...
00:35:49When did you say he borrowed it?
00:35:51Several weeks ago.
00:35:53And even though that Emily isn't with him anymore,
00:35:55you'd think they've returned the sack.
00:35:57After all, your name's on it.
00:35:59My...
00:36:05My name is on it?
00:36:07Yes.
00:36:09I've stenciled everything you own with India ink.
00:36:11I'll go for it if you're busy.
00:36:13No, no.
00:36:15I'll buy for it, Miss Badham.
00:36:25I hate this river.
00:36:31We neighbors really should get a petition to see them.
00:36:35What's the trouble today, Mrs. Ambrose?
00:36:37That horrible thing floating by again.
00:36:39That dead animal.
00:36:41Couldn't be. Must have sunk long ago.
00:36:45No.
00:36:47No, it isn't.
00:36:49It's a sack.
00:36:51Yes, that's what it is, a sack of some kind.
00:36:53Probably filled with rubbish.
00:36:57You see?
00:37:05Well, I've other things to do besides standing out here.
00:37:07But I tell you, Stephen,
00:37:09you should write up a petition for it.
00:37:11Yes. Yes, Mrs. Ambrose.
00:37:17The way some people use this river is a disgrace.
00:37:39The way some people use this river is a disgrace.
00:38:09The way some people use this river is a disgrace.
00:38:27Plenty for your thoughts.
00:38:29Hello, John.
00:38:31Hello, Marjorie.
00:38:33Is Stephen in?
00:38:35No, he's on the river somewhere.
00:38:37I've found an unusual interest there lately.
00:38:40But won't you come in?
00:38:51I'm glad you've come, John.
00:38:53I need someone to talk to very badly.
00:38:55When I feel like this, there doesn't seem to be
00:38:57anyone else in the world like you.
00:38:59Do you mind?
00:38:59You know that I don't.
00:39:00You're nice, John.
00:39:02Very, very nice.
00:39:03Yes, like mint tea when you have a cold.
00:39:05I know John like a...
00:39:10Like a friend.
00:39:12More than that.
00:39:17Stephen?
00:39:23I think you know, John, that I've tried
00:39:25to make a success of my marriage.
00:39:27It hasn't always been, well, exactly perfect.
00:39:32Maybe it was my fault.
00:39:34Girls have foolish ideas, and when they marry,
00:39:37they think they've snared Prince Charming himself.
00:39:41And he is charming, John, very charming.
00:39:45But a woman sees deeper.
00:39:47I see things now in Stephen
00:39:48that I never let myself see before.
00:39:51Don't get bitter, Marjorie.
00:39:53Oh, I know the countless things you've done for him.
00:39:55We couldn't live like this if you hadn't given up
00:39:57most of your share of the inheritance
00:39:59so that he could continue writing.
00:40:00You wanted a career for him, didn't you?
00:40:02Yes, but I didn't want a freak success
00:40:04like this Emily's disappearance has brought on.
00:40:08At first, I thought it was simply childish
00:40:09the way he capitalized on it.
00:40:12There's a limit, and he's become ghoulish.
00:40:16You should have heard him today.
00:40:18Did you quarrel?
00:40:21Yes, I hadn't wanted to tell you that.
00:40:25I'm beginning to wonder why he ever married me at all.
00:40:30Perhaps it was because he needed you.
00:40:33He told me today that he's never needed anyone.
00:40:37Well, let's just talk.
00:40:39Everybody needs someone, believe me.
00:40:41♪♪♪
00:40:54Are you lonely, John?
00:40:56♪♪♪
00:41:05Pardon me, Mrs. Verne, but I thought it was getting dark here.
00:41:08Thank you, Miss Beach.
00:41:09Sorry I said so much, John.
00:41:11It's unfair to talk about Steven behind his back.
00:41:15But when you're worried, darkness does something to you.
00:41:18I understand, Marjorie.
00:41:22Perhaps you're not prepared to tell me
00:41:23the truth right now, are you?
00:41:26I'm afraid not.
00:41:27I don't think that's a very good idea.
00:41:28I'm afraid I'll have to.
00:41:29I'm afraid I'll have to.
00:41:30I'm afraid I'll have to.
00:41:32I'm afraid I'll have to.
00:41:33I'm afraid I'll have to.
00:41:34I'm afraid I'll have to.
00:41:35I'm afraid I'll have to.
00:41:36I'm afraid I'll have to.
00:41:37I'm afraid I'll have to.
00:41:37Perhaps you're not prepared to tell me yet, but since you are troubled, I'd like to tell you that I honestly think things are going to be better for you.
00:41:43Stephen's bound to change when the baby comes.
00:41:47The baby?
00:41:49Stephen told me.
00:41:51Stephen told you that I was going to have a baby?
00:41:56Yes.
00:41:58But it's not true.
00:42:00I wish that it were.
00:42:03Now what on earth would make him want to tell you a thing like that?
00:42:07Maybe I misunderstood.
00:42:09Oh, don't go protecting him again, John. You must know why he lied to you.
00:42:23I can't discuss it now, Marjorie. Tell him to come to my place when he gets home.
00:42:27I'll talk to him.
00:42:33Come on.
00:43:03Come on.
00:43:33Come on.
00:44:03You didn't eat a bite.
00:44:32You didn't eat a bite.
00:44:34You didn't touch the roast.
00:44:40Of course, it's all dried out now.
00:44:43That's what comes from warming it over and over when you don't serve dinner on time.
00:44:48I'm sorry, Miss Madden.
00:44:51Sorry.
00:44:54Being sorry won't help us spoil dinner.
00:45:02You'll be sorry when you get stomach ulcers.
00:45:13I know it's none of my business, Mr. Byrne, but you've been drinking a good deal lately.
00:45:17I appreciate your interest in me, Miss Madden,
00:45:19but I must remind you that I'm quite old enough to determine my own drinking capacity.
00:45:23When a man's alone as you are, he should be grateful to have somebody look after him.
00:45:26I'd be grateful to you if you'd stop nagging at me.
00:45:29Why, I never heard of such a thing, just because I take an interest in you.
00:45:34Well, I don't want you to take an interest in me. I'm quite capable of running my own life.
00:45:38Oh, right. Seems like I can't do anything right anymore.
00:45:44You didn't bring the wood sack.
00:45:46No.
00:45:49But I told you the boys will be here in the morning to gather driftwood.
00:45:52What shall I tell them?
00:45:54I don't care what you tell them. Now, please leave me alone.
00:46:14I know I'm only a servant girl, Mr. Byrne, but I come from a very genteel family,
00:46:20and I don't have to take this sort of treatment from anyone.
00:46:23If you want to be left alone, perhaps I can leave you alone, permanently.
00:46:27Just as you wish, Miss Madden.
00:46:29You mean you want me to go?
00:46:32That's entirely up to you.
00:46:34Well, I can certainly take a hint.
00:46:40Now, look what you made me do!
00:46:45Well, I'm leaving you, Mr. Byrne. I'm leaving tonight.
00:46:48And you can get somebody else to take your insults.
00:46:51And I hope you get a thieving hussy like that, Emily Gaunt.
00:46:54Not a decent girl like myself!
00:47:54Shhh!
00:48:08Shhh!
00:48:38Shhh!
00:49:08Shhh!
00:49:34Shhh!
00:49:49It's come up, John.
00:49:50It's come up!
00:49:51What are you talking about?
00:49:52Emily's come back!
00:49:53What?
00:49:54The wood sack! It's come up out of the river!
00:49:58I've been up all night.
00:50:00I chased it for six miles, but the tide was too fast and I couldn't find it.
00:50:04I almost had her once, but she got away.
00:50:07It's your fault! Why didn't you tie it securely?
00:50:09I was a fool to trust you!
00:50:11Quiet!
00:50:14It'll be passing up and down the river until they find it.
00:50:16Up and down the river? It'll go on for weeks!
00:50:20The police will find it soon enough.
00:50:23Yes, but they won't know we did it.
00:50:24I mean, there are hundreds of sacks like it.
00:50:28They won't trace it to us, will they?
00:50:30No.
00:50:32Not to us.
00:50:35They'll trace it to me.
00:50:37To you.
00:50:39My name is on it.
00:50:57There's a gentleman to see you, Mr. Byrd.
00:50:59You know I don't wish to be disturbed.
00:51:01He's from the police, sir.
00:51:07Send him in.
00:51:08Yes, sir.
00:51:23Just a moment, please.
00:51:38Sorry, I wanted to get my thoughts down before they went away.
00:51:41I'm Lieutenant Sarkin, sir.
00:51:42How do you do? What can I do for you?
00:51:44Well, it's, um...
00:51:50It's about, um...
00:51:53This sack.
00:51:55Ever seen it before?
00:51:58I don't know.
00:52:00Sacks look pretty much alike.
00:52:05Looks like the wood sack that was stolen from here.
00:52:07Stolen?
00:52:08Yes, it belonged to my brother.
00:52:09Oh, yes, his name is stenciled in there.
00:52:11He said I didn't know that.
00:52:13You say that it was stolen from here?
00:52:15Yes, we borrowed it from him,
00:52:17and when we tried to return it, it was gone.
00:52:20How long ago was that?
00:52:22About three or four weeks ago.
00:52:24But if you know it belongs to him, why'd you return it to me?
00:52:27Well, we tried to contact him all day, but to no success.
00:52:31You see, this sack contained the body of Emily Gaunt.
00:52:37Clad only in this inexpensive dressing gown.
00:52:42According to the medical expert who testified at this inquest,
00:52:47strangled and afterwards thrown into the river.
00:52:53Now, when did you first discover that this dressing gown was missing?
00:52:58It was, um, when we were getting her things together
00:53:01to send back to her parents.
00:53:03And, um, when and how did you discover
00:53:06that your own things were missing, Mrs. Burns?
00:53:08The morning after Emily failed to return.
00:53:11It was my husband who suggested that I go through my wardrobe.
00:53:14He insisted that inasmuch as none of Emily's dresses were missing,
00:53:18she might have gone out in some of my own things.
00:53:20And then we discovered that not only was my lace dress gone,
00:53:24but some of my best lingerie,
00:53:26an evening wrap, and a pair of silver slippers.
00:53:29Was there any other thing of value gone?
00:53:34Yes.
00:53:36Several days later, I found that,
00:53:39but a pair of opal earrings that my husband had given me for my birthday
00:53:43were missing too.
00:53:49Then you're under the impression that it was Emily Gaunt
00:53:52who took these things.
00:53:54It was hard for me to believe,
00:53:56for in the short time that Emily worked for us,
00:53:58I found her most dependable.
00:54:00But I, I was forced to this conclusion.
00:54:04What is your occupation, Miss Bantam?
00:54:07I was a housekeeper in the home of Mr. John Burns, sir.
00:54:11But I'm unemployed at present.
00:54:13How long were you employed there?
00:54:15It would have been five years. It's coming Christmas.
00:54:18Uh, why are you no longer employed by Mr. Burns?
00:54:22Because he became too impossible to get along with
00:54:25from the time that Emily Gaunt disappeared.
00:54:29Please explain yourself, Miss Bantam.
00:54:31Well, Mr. Burns became so irritable,
00:54:33I could scarcely speak to him and get a civil answer.
00:54:36In what manner would you say that he had changed?
00:54:39Well, Mr. Coroner,
00:54:41he was in the habit of eating a very hearty breakfast
00:54:44after all the years I worked for him.
00:54:46But after that, Emily Gaunt disappeared.
00:54:49In fact, the very next day,
00:54:52she came to my office and said,
00:54:55In fact, the very morning
00:54:57the story appeared in the newspapers,
00:54:59he scarcely touched a thing.
00:55:01And several times, when I even indicated
00:55:04that the hussy-matty got what she deserved,
00:55:06he practically snapped my head off.
00:55:08You be quiet, Susan.
00:55:32Miss Bantam, tell us what you know about this sack.
00:55:36Tell us what you know about this sack.
00:55:41It's Mr. John Byrne's, all right.
00:55:43I stenciled his name in it.
00:55:45The one that was borrowed by Mr. Stephen Byrne?
00:55:48Yes. Mr. Stephen was doing some gardening and needed an extra sack.
00:55:52Emily came for it.
00:55:53And to your knowledge, the sack was never returned?
00:55:58No, sir.
00:56:00But of course, it might have been returned without my knowledge.
00:56:07John Byrne.
00:56:10What do you mean by that, Miss Bantam?
00:56:12I mean simply that it's peculiar to me
00:56:15that Mr. John Byrne would have allowed the sack to remain at his brother's for any length of time at all.
00:56:19Please clarify that statement.
00:56:21Well, it was his habit to go out and collect firewood off the river.
00:56:25I should say it's what might be called a hobby.
00:56:29The only sort of hobby possible for a man with his affliction.
00:56:32Oh, I'm so sorry. I shouldn't have said that.
00:56:35Please continue, Miss Bantam.
00:56:37Well, recently, I called in some of the neighborhood boys to gather firewood.
00:56:43But when I went for the sack, I found that Mr. Stephen hadn't returned it yet.
00:56:47So I phoned Mr. John and he agreed to pick it up.
00:56:50But when he got home, I reminded him that he hadn't.
00:56:53He was quite rude to me.
00:56:55Said he was perfectly capable of running his own household.
00:56:59He raised his voice to such an extent that I was quite nervous and upset.
00:57:04Then he dismissed me.
00:57:06And when did this scene occur between you, Miss Bantam?
00:57:11It was the night before Emily's body was found in the river.
00:57:18You've heard testimony that you borrowed the sack some time ago from your brother.
00:57:22Is that correct?
00:57:23It is.
00:57:24And to your knowledge, it was never returned to your brother.
00:57:26That is correct. Before I could return it, I found that someone had stolen it.
00:57:29And has your brother access to your home?
00:57:34Yes.
00:57:35You mean he has a key to your home?
00:57:38No, Mr. Coroner.
00:57:40The back door's always open.
00:57:42Then there was nothing to prevent his coming to your home at a time when you were not there
00:57:45and taking what was rightfully his.
00:57:48No, nothing to prevent it. But in this case, I don't think it's probable.
00:57:54By the way, Mr. Byrne, it may have helped this case
00:57:56if you'd reported that the sack had been stolen from your home.
00:57:59I didn't think the loss of an old sack worth troubling the police about.
00:58:02But why didn't you report the theft of the more valuable things either?
00:58:06The opal earrings, for example.
00:58:11Because I didn't wish to cause Emily's parents further concern.
00:58:18Besides, my wife and I felt that eventually poor Emily would return
00:58:21and the articles would be recovered.
00:58:26Now tell me, Mr. Byrne,
00:58:28when was the last time you used this sack for gathering wood?
00:58:33Some weeks ago. It's hard to say.
00:58:36Oh, could it have been about three weeks ago?
00:58:44What you mean is about the time that Emily Gaunt disappeared?
00:58:47I must ask you not to mind what I mean, Mr. Byrne.
00:58:51Would you say it was four, perhaps?
00:58:54I couldn't be sure.
00:58:56Then would you say it was near the time that Emily Gaunt disappeared?
00:59:00I couldn't be sure.
00:59:04The collection of firewood, unlike a marriage or a birthday,
00:59:08is not a festive moment in my life.
00:59:12I don't remember.
00:59:14But you do remember the testimony that the sack was stolen from your brother?
00:59:19Will you kindly give an oral answer to the questions asked at this inquest?
00:59:26I do.
00:59:28Does it not strike you as being rather odd
00:59:32that a thief would bother to take an object of such little value?
00:59:38I wouldn't know.
00:59:40Or that a girl, if we concede for a moment
00:59:44that Emily Gaunt took it,
00:59:46do you think she would have taken such a sack with her
00:59:49to some mysterious rendezvous?
00:59:54I'm not here to answer riddles.
00:59:57No, I shouldn't think you were.
01:00:01Mr. Byrne, I will be more direct then.
01:00:04Did you know the deceased Emily Gaunt intimately?
01:00:11Mr. Byrne, I ask that...
01:00:13She was employed by my brother.
01:00:15I knew Emily Gaunt by sight.
01:00:17Is it usual for you to zealously defend persons whom you know by sight
01:00:21to the extent that you snap off the head of a woman
01:00:24who has served you faithfully for five years?
01:00:26I would defend anyone who was being maliciously slandered.
01:00:29Very admirable indeed.
01:00:30Especially when they were being slandered by people
01:00:32whose birthrights were not mine.
01:00:34I would defend anyone who was being maliciously slandered.
01:00:37Very admirable indeed.
01:00:38Especially when they were being slandered by people whose bitterness...
01:00:40That is all, Mr. Byrne.
01:00:46For one who was not here to answer riddles,
01:00:48I must say you've done very well.
01:00:55Mr. Coroner, Mr. John Byrne
01:00:57was the last of the witnesses for this inquest.
01:01:02I have a few things I'd like to say if anyone will let me.
01:01:05If they pertain to this inquest by all means, Mrs. Ambrose.
01:01:08I can't sit here any longer
01:01:10listening to all these insinuations against a boy
01:01:12who couldn't possibly harm a fly.
01:01:14It's ridiculous. Preposterous.
01:01:16It's downright silly, that's what it is.
01:01:19Mrs. Ambrose, will you kindly control your temper
01:01:23and give us a more coherent reason
01:01:25for your impatience with this inquest?
01:01:27Now, Harry, I'm not trying to take advantage of our friendship,
01:01:31but I've known these Byrne boys since they were lads,
01:01:33and John's only fault is that he works too hard
01:01:35and never thinks evil of anyone.
01:01:37And as for this silly old maid,
01:01:39it's plain as the nose on your face she's in love with him,
01:01:41and imagine heaven knows what about him.
01:01:43And when an old maid's in love,
01:01:45heaven protect the object of her affections
01:01:47if that love goes unrequited.
01:01:49All the devils and all the purest.
01:01:51Oh!
01:01:58And if there's anyone else who wants to know anything about himself,
01:02:01just let me know.
01:02:07Was there anything else you wished to know, Harry?
01:02:11That will be all, Mrs. Ambrose.
01:02:15And so, in all probability,
01:02:17Emily Gaunt, dressed in her mistress's finery,
01:02:21went off to some secret tryst.
01:02:24Therefore, the conclusion of this inquest is
01:02:27that the girl was murdered
01:02:29by person or persons unknown.
01:02:35Inquest dismissed!
01:02:41It started with Emily, but it might end with me.
01:02:46Here he comes now.
01:02:59Oh, Mr. Byrne!
01:03:02Mr. Byrne!
01:03:06Yes?
01:03:07No, not you. Mr. Stephen Byrne.
01:03:09Me?
01:03:10Yes. They'd like to see you inside a moment.
01:03:13Certainly.
01:03:15You go on. I won't be long.
01:03:30Sorry to trouble you again, Mr. Byrne,
01:03:32but you probably realize the case is far from being closed.
01:03:35So?
01:03:37Are you certain you have nothing more you'd like to say to us?
01:03:40Nothing.
01:03:41I can understand your feeling, Mr. Byrne.
01:03:43After all, the man is your brother.
01:03:45But if there's any further light you can throw on this...
01:03:48There's nothing more I can say.
01:03:50Except that I'm sorry.
01:03:52I'm sorry, Mr. Byrne.
01:03:54If there's any further light you can throw on this...
01:03:57There's nothing more I can say.
01:03:59Except that I'm fully convinced that my brother is innocent.
01:04:03Is that all?
01:04:05That was all.
01:04:16It's foolish to call him back.
01:04:25Yes?
01:04:28Stephen.
01:04:29What is it? You know I'm working.
01:04:31Stephen, why are you so irritable?
01:04:33What is it?
01:04:35I'm rather worried.
01:04:36Can't you wait and tell me about it later?
01:04:39All right. I'll be in my room.
01:04:41Mr. Byrne, I'm sorry.
01:04:43I'm sorry.
01:04:45I'm sorry.
01:04:47I'm sorry.
01:04:49I'm sorry.
01:04:51I'm sorry.
01:04:53It's about Lieutenant Sarton.
01:05:24I'm sorry I snapped at you.
01:05:26I was trying to finish a chapter.
01:05:28What did you want to tell me?
01:05:33Well...
01:05:35It's...
01:05:36It's that in these last weeks...
01:05:38Since the inquest...
01:05:40I seem to run into that detective all the time.
01:05:43And just a little while ago at the market, too.
01:05:46And he always looks at me as though...
01:05:49As though he thinks I know something I haven't told about Emily.
01:05:53Has he...
01:05:55Has he ever asked you any questions?
01:05:57No, but last night after you'd gone out,
01:06:00I decided to go over to Mrs. Ambrose's.
01:06:02And I saw someone across the street.
01:06:05It looked like him.
01:06:07And I...
01:06:08I almost had the feeling that...
01:06:10That he'd been watching the house.
01:06:13How long was he there?
01:06:14I don't know.
01:06:15When I got back, he was gone.
01:06:20Well, if he has any snooping to do,
01:06:23I should think he'd do it in John's direction.
01:06:25What do you mean, Stephen?
01:06:27You were at the inquest.
01:06:29You know what I mean.
01:06:30No, I don't.
01:06:31Well, if you ask me,
01:06:33he acted so stupidly that he forced everyone to believe that he had something to do with it.
01:06:36Stephen!
01:06:38On top of everything else, he hasn't acted normal since the inquest.
01:06:41He shuns everybody.
01:06:43He won't even talk to me.
01:06:45Well, let's face it.
01:06:46John's a cripple.
01:06:48He knows he hasn't a chance with a girl of our class.
01:06:50It's not hard to believe that he carried on with a servant girl.
01:06:53Stop it.
01:06:54Aside from everything he's done for you,
01:06:56he's your brother.
01:06:59There's a limit to this business of being brothers, Marjorie.
01:07:02Stephen, you're insane.
01:07:06You're very fond of him, aren't you?
01:07:09You know that.
01:07:11Are you in love with him?
01:07:15How long has this been going on?
01:07:18I don't think I haven't been aware of it.
01:07:23You have a filthy mind.
01:07:42This isn't going to be very flattering, my dear.
01:07:45I haven't the slightest pang of jealousy.
01:07:47No, I shouldn't think you would.
01:07:49The husband who comes home drunk night after night and reeking of cheap perfume
01:07:53isn't exactly in a position to be jealous.
01:07:58Sometimes cheap perfume can be very exciting.
01:08:03You are a swine, Stephen.
01:08:11You are a swine.
01:08:42Marjorie!
01:08:43Hello, John.
01:08:46John?
01:08:48Hello, Marjorie.
01:08:58I met your office boy on his way over here.
01:09:01I told him I'd bring these up for him.
01:09:05I've been here so many times, John.
01:09:07And to the office, too.
01:09:08But you were never in.
01:09:09I know.
01:09:16Why have you refused to see me or to answer my calls?
01:09:27Haven't you found a housekeeper yet?
01:09:34There seems to be an extreme shortage of domestic help at present.
01:09:37Why, that's not true.
01:09:39Only yesterday, Mrs. Beach was telling me...
01:09:41It's true in the case of Mr. John Byrne.
01:09:44Even the children know that I killed Emily Gaunt.
01:09:49I know, John.
01:09:51I've learned a lot about people myself lately.
01:09:55They can be very vicious.
01:09:59You think that because you've lived with them for years, they're fond of you.
01:10:03But it's not true.
01:10:07I'm going away, Marjorie.
01:10:10Oh, no, John.
01:10:12Oh, don't run away from them.
01:10:15I'm not running away from them.
01:10:17Is it that you think it'll be better for...
01:10:20For all of us if you go away?
01:10:27I've got to be sensible.
01:10:33Ever since the inquest, my mail consists chiefly of anonymous letters.
01:10:38Not too flattering suggestions.
01:10:40Most of my clients are closing out their accounts.
01:10:44John, maybe it wasn't wise, refusing to see people and not going anyplace.
01:10:48But you still have friends in this town.
01:10:51Let me give a party.
01:10:53We'll have everyone you like.
01:10:55Our real friends.
01:10:57We'll show this town.
01:10:59It wouldn't do any good.
01:11:01This town likes its nasty little backstairs gossip.
01:11:04If I stay and you keep on seeing me, defending me,
01:11:09they'll think that we...
01:11:13I wouldn't put anything...
01:11:15I don't care what they say or think about me.
01:11:21Marjorie, my darling.
01:11:25I'd rather die than cause you any suffering.
01:11:27Oh, John, don't talk like that.
01:11:30There must be something I can do.
01:11:38No.
01:11:40The only thing to do is to go away.
01:11:42I've thought it out very clearly.
01:11:44John, then promise me one thing.
01:11:47Before you do anything, before you make any decisions,
01:11:52let me know.
01:11:56I promise.
01:12:13Won't you come in, John?
01:12:16I'd rather not, Marjorie.
01:12:18Good night, Ben.
01:12:19And thanks for seeing me home.
01:12:21Good night.
01:12:38Stephen.
01:12:39Stephen, it's about John.
01:12:41I'm not interested.
01:12:43Stephen, please, he's desperate.
01:12:45I'm afraid he's going to harm himself in some way.
01:12:48Don't be dramatic.
01:12:49He's much as told me so tonight.
01:12:51He said he'd rather be dead than go on the way things have been going.
01:12:59You mean suicide?
01:13:02Yes, Stephen.
01:13:03Please, Stephen, try to stay with him as much as you can.
01:13:07If you hurry, you can catch up with him now.
01:13:11All right, Marjorie.
01:13:13If you insist.
01:13:15Thank you, Stephen.
01:13:24Oh, I almost forgot.
01:13:26Mrs. Ambrose was over.
01:13:27She said as long as this cook's day off,
01:13:29you should let her know if you want to have supper with her.
01:13:32I'm in no mood for her tonight.
01:13:34I'll have something here.
01:13:37Well, you better tell her now before she goes to any trouble.
01:13:40You know how sensitive she is.
01:13:42Yes, I guess you're right.
01:14:06I'll be right back.
01:14:36I'll be right back.
01:15:06I'll be right back.
01:15:36I'll be right back.
01:16:06I'll be right back.
01:16:36I'll be right back.
01:16:51Stephen.
01:16:52Yes, John?
01:16:54What are you doing here?
01:16:55Marjorie was very worried.
01:16:58She sent me to look for you.
01:17:00Lucky I found you, isn't it?
01:17:02What do you mean?
01:17:05Did you kill her?
01:17:13No.
01:17:14Suicide would only convince everyone that they'd been right.
01:17:18I'm glad you realize that.
01:17:21What were you thinking of as you stood there?
01:17:24Of another night on this river.
01:17:30You know, John,
01:17:33and everything that's going to happen,
01:17:35I want you to know that I gained something.
01:17:39Gained something?
01:17:40Yes, I was always afraid as a child.
01:17:42I didn't have the courage to do things.
01:17:44I was afraid of people, what they might say or think.
01:17:47Maybe that's why my writing wasn't good.
01:17:49You were right in that.
01:17:51But I'm not afraid anymore, and I've written something good.
01:17:54Because it's real.
01:17:56It took a murder to do that.
01:18:00Doesn't the end justify the mean?
01:18:04You must be very, very ill, Stephen.
01:18:06Ill?
01:18:07Yes, sick.
01:18:09Otherwise you couldn't think as you do.
01:18:11What's happened to you?
01:18:13You know, John, I wish I could really trust you again.
01:18:17But I can't.
01:18:19Am I right?
01:18:25Suppose a policeman were to come up to us here right now.
01:18:28And he were to ask, which of us killed Emily?
01:18:31What would you do?
01:18:33I know what you would do.
01:18:34You would point at me.
01:18:39Would I?
01:18:41You stepped right out of Emily's murder
01:18:43as though you were shedding your skin.
01:18:45You shifted the blame to me.
01:18:47Did I?
01:18:48Yes.
01:18:50John, which one of us would the world miss the most?
01:18:55I mean, if there were a choice of one of us.
01:18:58Blast the world.
01:18:59I'm going to start thinking about myself.
01:19:01You're very much in love with Marjorie.
01:19:03I know that.
01:19:04You've always been.
01:19:05You had the opportunity that night of getting rid of me
01:19:07by going to the police.
01:19:09Why didn't you take her?
01:19:11There are things you would never understand, Stephen.
01:19:14You're right, John.
01:19:15I can't understand my own brother expecting
01:19:17to go on sharing my wife with me.
01:19:20I'm going to the police, Stephen.
01:19:22I'm going to tell them the whole story, including my part.
01:19:25I should have a long time ago.
01:19:49I'm going to tell them the whole story.
01:20:20I'm going to tell them the whole story.
01:20:22I'm going to tell them the whole story.
01:20:24I'm going to tell them the whole story.
01:20:26I'm going to tell them the whole story.
01:20:28I'm going to tell them the whole story.
01:20:30I'm going to tell them the whole story.
01:20:32I'm going to tell them the whole story.
01:20:34I'm going to tell them the whole story.
01:20:36I'm going to tell them the whole story.
01:20:38I'm going to tell them the whole story.
01:20:40I'm going to tell them the whole story.
01:20:42I'm going to tell them the whole story.
01:20:44I'm going to tell them the whole story.
01:20:47How many times have I told you to keep away from my desk?
01:20:53I hadn't expected to have it read for some time.
01:20:55But since you have read it, tell me what you think about it.
01:20:57How can you ask me that?
01:21:01Well, don't you think it's good?
01:21:03Can't you appreciate its quality, quite apart from its content?
01:21:05Not when it says that my husband is a murderer.
01:21:08I thought I disguised it completely.
01:21:10But you read between the lines, didn't you?
01:21:12John must love you very much, letting everyone think
01:21:15he did it.
01:21:16Oh, no.
01:21:17He loved you very much.
01:21:18He was old-fashioned.
01:21:19He believed in chivalry.
01:21:21That's why he kept silent about it.
01:21:24But you, I don't think I can expect you to keep silent
01:21:28about it.
01:21:30Can I?
01:21:31You intend to go on forever, letting
01:21:33people think he did it?
01:21:40If John disappeared tonight, if something
01:21:42should have happened to him, let's say he
01:21:44drowned himself in the river.
01:21:46That would solve everything, wouldn't it?
01:21:48Stephen.
01:21:49Everyone would know that he was driven to commit
01:21:51suicide by his guilt, wouldn't they?
01:21:53You're forgetting about me.
01:21:56Oh, no.
01:21:57I'm not forgetting about you.
01:22:00John committed suicide tonight.
01:22:02What?
01:22:03I saw to it.
01:22:04Before I'm through with you, they'll know that what
01:22:06John did once, he did again.
01:22:12Stephen, you're insane.
01:22:13Am I?
01:22:27And don't you realize, Marjorie, you're reading
01:22:29the manuscript to solve everything.
01:22:33You know, I met Emily on the stairs.
01:22:36She was coming down from her bath.
01:22:38She'd used your perfume.
01:22:42She looked rather pretty, and I wanted to kiss her.
01:22:44But she got frightened and screamed.
01:22:45I had to stop her screaming.
01:22:46I didn't mean to kill her.
01:22:47I hardly touched her.
01:22:48But I didn't realize how easy it would be.
01:22:52So very easy.
01:23:12John.
01:23:23Oh.
01:23:24Oh.
01:23:37Emily.
01:23:38Oh.
01:23:41Emily.
01:23:42Emily.
01:23:43No.
01:23:44Let me go.
01:23:45Emily.
01:23:46Let me go.
01:23:48Let me go.
01:23:50Let me go.
01:24:11Let me go.
01:24:12Let me go.
01:24:13Let me go.
01:24:14Let me go.
01:24:15Let me go.
01:24:16Let me go.
01:24:17Let me go.
01:24:18Let me go.
01:24:19Let me go.
01:24:20Let me go.
01:24:21Let me go.
01:24:22Let me go.
01:24:23Let me go.
01:24:24Let me go.
01:24:25Let me go.
01:24:26Let me go.
01:24:27Let me go.
01:24:28Let me go.
01:24:29Let me go.
01:24:30Let me go.
01:24:31Let me go.
01:24:32Let me go.
01:24:33Let me go.
01:24:34Let me go.
01:24:35Let me go.
01:24:36Let me go.
01:24:37Let me go.
01:24:38Let me go.
01:24:39Let me go.