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00:03:40to come alone so that i could talk to you i wanted to see what sort of a girl he'd
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00:03:46suddenly decided to marry do you think i'll do i think you should be just what he needs
00:03:56poor robert i love him a great deal my dear why do you say poor robert did i say that
00:04:07he's been very much alone he's an orphan you know so am i oh my dear it hasn't hurt you
00:04:16i can see that
00:04:18you've had someone to love you and take care of you that's true daddy only died two years ago
00:04:26poor robert he's been alone ever since he was a child there was his grandfather and
00:04:34and then the three aunts to look after him yes yes three of them and that old house
00:04:43don't let him take you to crow hollow it's no good to either of you
00:04:53there's something important she has to tell me please go
00:05:02doctor will you come please
00:05:09i'm sorry darling i shouldn't have brought you
00:05:13oh she said yes
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00:05:36welcome home darling oh bob it's lovely
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00:05:51hi aunt judith
00:05:56she's a bit short-sighted
00:05:58back again robert hello aunt judith what a surprise you gave us all how'd you do
00:06:04how'd you do my dear i hope you'll be very happy at crow hollow now you must excuse me but
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00:06:10excited you see i'm a naturalist i've just received a rare specimen from australia a spider
00:06:17such a beautiful creature a body like brown velvet and fully three inches long oh how very interesting
00:06:24you must see my laboratory come anytime i'll show you my specimens
00:06:31you made a good impression what nonsense she was much more interested in her spider
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00:07:02Aunt Hester.
00:07:08Aunt Opal.
00:07:09Hello.
00:07:11Robert, you're here and I never heard you.
00:07:14There was no one to welcome you.
00:07:18Aunt Opal, this is Anne.
00:07:21Robert, she's lovely.
00:07:23Of course we expected Robert to have good taste.
00:07:25But he's shown so full interest in women,
00:07:28we weren't quite sure what his taste would be.
00:07:30Must have been quite a shock for you to hear he was married.
00:07:32Not a shock, dear, just a rather large surprise, knowing Robert.
00:07:37Well, now you'd like to see your room.
00:07:39Come this way.
00:07:41Hester's gone visiting with some of her soup.
00:07:43She should be back at any time.
00:07:44She's quite famous for her soup, Anne.
00:07:47She works out all the ingredients and the flavours herself.
00:07:50It's quite wonderful, really.
00:07:52But you'll be sampling it yourself.
00:07:53But Anne isn't going to be ill, Aunt Opal.
00:07:55No, dear, of course not.
00:07:57He means that Hester only makes her soup for sick people.
00:08:00But I'm sure she'll be delighted to make some for you.
00:08:04Aunt Judith seems very taken up with her new spider.
00:08:06Oh, those horrid spiders, how I hate them.
00:08:09And now a poisonous one.
00:08:10To escape and bite us all in our beds.
00:08:13That's what I tell Judith.
00:08:14But I believe she'd like us to be bitten.
00:08:16Honestly, Robert, she's my own sister, but I don't understand her.
00:08:20Sometimes I think she must be a changin'.
00:08:22Do you like spiders?
00:08:23Oh, they're not my favourite insect.
00:08:25Oh, well, there it is.
00:08:26We all have our own peculiarities.
00:08:28But I can understand Hester's soup better than Judith's horrible specimens.
00:08:32I've shifted you into the Chinese room, Robert.
00:08:34There's more space in it than in your old room.
00:08:38Anyway, the Chinese room is the best bedroom.
00:08:42It's where our dear mother died.
00:08:44Quite 40 years ago.
00:08:46Do you like it, darling?
00:08:48The room?
00:08:48Yes, of course.
00:08:50Oh, I'm so glad.
00:08:51We were up till all hours getting it ready for you.
00:08:53Well, now I'll leave you to freshen up.
00:08:55Tea will be ready in a few minutes.
00:08:58Oh, yes.
00:08:59A message from Dr. Herbert.
00:09:01Something about Abel Jackson's peculiar symptoms.
00:09:04Oh.
00:09:05Well, I'd better go down.
00:09:06Oh, well, if you must be so conscientious.
00:09:08Well, we'll look after Anne and I'll show her the house.
00:09:11There's so much to tell her.
00:09:13Such an old place.
00:09:14Such a lot of things happening under its roof.
00:09:18Must you go?
00:09:20Well, I ought to.
00:09:22Why, you a very conscientious doctor.
00:09:25Well, I try to be.
00:09:27More than you're a conscientious husband.
00:09:33Saved by the bell.
00:09:38I believe the crows are coming back.
00:09:40I saw two of them in the elms yesterday and there's another there now.
00:09:44Nonsense, Hester.
00:09:45The crows haven't nested there for 20 years.
00:09:47That's still no reason why they shouldn't come back.
00:09:49I'll tell Dexter to set a trap.
00:09:51Maybe we could catch one of them.
00:09:52They'd be too quick for you.
00:09:54Why do you always have to kill everything, Judith?
00:09:56I don't have to kill anything.
00:09:58But it's just that it makes some things easier to study.
00:10:01Ah, the new bride.
00:10:03I'm Hester, as I expect you guessed.
00:10:05How do you do, Aunt Hester?
00:10:06My word, you don't carry much flesh on your bones.
00:10:09We must feed you up here.
00:10:10Now, how do you like your tea?
00:10:11Milk.
00:10:12No sugar, please.
00:10:13And how shall I find my patients, Aunt Hester?
00:10:15How many of them have you killed up by persuading them not to stick to their diets?
00:10:19Diets.
00:10:20If instead of dieting them you'd give them a course of good meals,
00:10:23you'd have no patients left.
00:10:24They'd all be cured.
00:10:25I don't hold with diet, starvation, nonsense.
00:10:28Feed them, I say.
00:10:29Don't you agree with me, Anne?
00:10:31Well, it would depend on the illness.
00:10:33Exactly.
00:10:33That's what I say.
00:10:35You can do some parish work with me.
00:10:36I go in the pony cart, you know.
00:10:38Room for two.
00:10:39It does a great deal more good than fussing over dirty-minded insects or a house.
00:10:43Insects are not dirty-minded.
00:10:45That's the last thing one could say of them.
00:10:46What about the female spider that consumes her husband if she gets half a chance?
00:10:50Oh, not spiders, please.
00:10:52We've had quite enough of them today with Judith's new specimen.
00:10:55Anne, dear, your teeth.
00:10:57Hester talks so much about the benefit of food but she's not giving Anne a chance to eat any.
00:11:01It doesn't matter.
00:11:02I'm really not hungry.
00:11:04Robert, pass Anne the tomato sandwiches.
00:11:06I hope you'll like it here, Anne.
00:11:08Oh, I'm sure I shall.
00:11:09I hope you'll remember to bring Willow a present.
00:11:12Who?
00:11:12Of course.
00:11:13Where is she, by the way?
00:11:14She's gone to the cinema.
00:11:15Opal spoils that child disgracefully.
00:11:17We all do come to that.
00:11:18Who's Willow?
00:11:20She's the aunt's little ray of sunshine.
00:11:22Now, Robert, drink your tea and get a call.
00:11:24The moment we finish, I'm going to show Anne the house.
00:11:29This was Robert's room, ever since he was quite tiny.
00:11:32Couldn't we be in here?
00:11:33I'd love it.
00:11:34Oh, no, dear.
00:11:35You and Robert must have the best bedroom.
00:11:37Now...
00:11:38Who is that?
00:11:38It's Marguerite.
00:11:40Marguerite?
00:11:41Robert's mother.
00:11:43Oh, yes, I can see now.
00:11:44She was lovely.
00:11:46I think if I may, I'll hang it in our room.
00:11:48But it wouldn't look anything against the Chinese wallpaper.
00:11:52No, I suppose not.
00:11:54We thought of keeping this room just as it is for Robert's child,
00:11:57when he has one.
00:11:59Now, come with me, dear.
00:12:00There's something else I want to show you.
00:12:04This room is different.
00:12:06I wonder if you'll like it.
00:12:10Oh, it's lovely.
00:12:11Whose is it?
00:12:12Willow's.
00:12:13Willow?
00:12:14But who is Willow?
00:12:15Willow is our sort of companion.
00:12:17But we always treat her more like one of the family.
00:12:19Yes.
00:12:23It was an awfully short honeymoon, wasn't it?
00:12:26Solomon Grundy.
00:12:30Try to be happy here.
00:12:32I'll always be happy where you are, Bob.
00:12:35I know that.
00:12:38What's the matter, darling?
00:12:40You seem almost as if you were afraid of happiness.
00:12:43I just can't believe it.
00:12:46You know the story of the children who found the gold.
00:12:50And it all turned to leaves.
00:12:53But I won't, Bob.
00:12:56I hope I won't.
00:13:14I hope I won't.
00:13:40Come in.
00:13:46Good morning.
00:13:47You must be Willow.
00:13:49Yes.
00:13:54Do you take sugar in your coffee?
00:13:56No, thank you.
00:13:58I'm so glad to meet you, Willow.
00:14:00Mr. Robert told me all about you.
00:14:02Well, I do believe he's brought you a present.
00:14:04I wonder where he put it.
00:14:06He's already given it to me.
00:14:08Pretty, isn't it?
00:14:10Oh, yes.
00:14:11That looks very nice on you.
00:14:12Thank you, miss.
00:14:14Did you enjoy the picture you saw last night?
00:14:16Yes, miss.
00:14:19What is it?
00:14:20You like my night dress?
00:14:22It's beautiful.
00:14:24You like clothes, do you?
00:14:25I love them.
00:14:26Well, you can have a look in my wardrobe, if you like.
00:14:29I didn't have time to buy much.
00:14:31But the suit I got married in is there, and one or two other things.
00:14:38Is that considered smart in London, miss?
00:14:41Well, it was made by a very good dressmaker.
00:14:44It was expensive.
00:14:45Oh, I see.
00:14:48Next time I go shopping, I'll buy something you really approve of.
00:14:51Yes, miss.
00:14:54Will that be all, miss?
00:14:55Yes, thank you, Willow.
00:15:18Good morning.
00:15:19You've come to see my specimens?
00:15:21Just take a look round.
00:15:23Esther and Opal think they should be destroyed.
00:15:26But I find them full of interest.
00:15:29This one is an elephant hawk moth.
00:15:32Dexter caught it for me.
00:15:34He catches a great many of my specimens.
00:15:36I give him a penny, or tuppence, or threepence,
00:15:39if the specimen's a particularly good one.
00:15:41How much was that one worth?
00:15:43Threepence.
00:15:44It's not seen much in these parts.
00:15:46Are you going to like Crow Hollow?
00:15:48I'm sure I shall.
00:15:50I think the house is charming.
00:15:52And the inhabitants?
00:15:54I could ask you if you like me.
00:15:57Before you came,
00:15:58we had a discussion as to whether you would be better looking than Willow.
00:16:02Tell me, Aunt Judith.
00:16:04Why does she call me Miss and wear a cap and apron if she's here as a companion?
00:16:08Companion?
00:16:09Siddlesticks.
00:16:09It's Opal.
00:16:10She's positively silly about the girl.
00:16:13Oh, and what about the famous spider?
00:16:15Aren't I going to be allowed to look at it?
00:16:18Of course.
00:16:19Of course.
00:16:20I didn't know you'd be interested.
00:16:22A naturalist correspondent of Vine in Australia sent her to me.
00:16:26He didn't know whether she would survive the trip.
00:16:29Oh, but spiders are amazing creatures.
00:16:31Practically indestructible.
00:16:34You don't like her.
00:16:36I'm afraid I just don't like any spiders.
00:16:39Thank you for showing me.
00:16:41I must come back if you want to.
00:17:11Oh, good morning, Mr. Dexter.
00:17:13Good morning, ma'am.
00:17:14Good to see you here.
00:17:15Thank you. It's good to be here.
00:17:17I ought to send the young master a pick a good'un.
00:17:19And pick for himself, too.
00:17:21And there we are. I'm real pleased.
00:17:23That's very nice of you.
00:17:25But don't you let they three bully you.
00:17:27What?
00:17:28They will if they can.
00:17:29Why should they?
00:17:30That says maybe.
00:17:31But you stand up to them, dearie.
00:17:34There's nothing like stricken in them.
00:17:36I've just been baiting the kitchen garden.
00:17:38Carrots. They can't resist them in the ground all right.
00:17:41Rabbits. Terrible plague they are.
00:17:43You want to be careful with that stuff, Miss Esther.
00:17:45It's the rabbits that want to be careful.
00:17:47I always mark my carrots with a white tape.
00:17:50I suppose it ought to be black.
00:17:52Doesn't do to interfere with nature.
00:17:54Well, what are you doing with yourself this morning, my dear?
00:17:56Oh, I don't know.
00:17:57I suppose I'm waiting for Robert to come home.
00:18:00Don't do that.
00:18:01Might not be back till the evening.
00:18:03It's a day and night job and you have to get used to it.
00:18:05You better come with me.
00:18:07I'm going down to the village to deliver some soup.
00:18:09Run up and get a coat of a bit chilly in the trap.
00:18:11I'll get you a harness.
00:18:12Thank you, I will.
00:18:31Take it off.
00:18:35Aren't you going to apologize?
00:18:37I'm sorry, but you said I could look at your things.
00:18:39I didn't say you could try them on and you know that perfectly well.
00:18:43Are you telling me the truth, Miss, when you say that thing's considered smart?
00:18:47Seems kind of plain to me.
00:18:50I shall have to tell Miss Opal about this. Do you understand?
00:18:53Anne!
00:18:54Are you ready?
00:18:58Oh, do go away.
00:19:00Yes, Miss.
00:19:02Yes, Miss.
00:19:48You shouldn't come straight in here.
00:19:50I'm Mrs. Arm.
00:19:51Oh, I'm so sorry.
00:19:53Oh, hello, darling.
00:19:54Why didn't you let me know you were coming?
00:19:55Because I didn't know.
00:19:56Aunt Hester never gives one more than half a minute.
00:19:59How long is she staying in?
00:20:00Oh, I don't know.
00:20:02I've come to have lunch with you.
00:20:03You'll have to let me finish examining my patient first.
00:20:06Oh, Nurse Baxter.
00:20:07This is my wife.
00:20:08Anne, Nurse Baxter.
00:20:10I'll be with you in a minute.
00:20:23You don't eat like that at home.
00:20:25There are too many people watching.
00:20:27How do you mean people?
00:20:29Well, there's Opal wondering if I'm despising her good food.
00:20:33And then there's Hester thinking I ought to be fattened up on her soup.
00:20:36Then there's Judith inspecting me from time to time as if I were one of her specimens.
00:20:41Not a particularly valuable one at that.
00:20:43Anne, what utter nonsense.
00:20:44It isn't nonsense, Bob.
00:20:46It's absolutely true.
00:20:47Just as it's true that I've hardly seen you alone since we came here.
00:20:50Do you mean you're not happy at Crowhorne?
00:20:52Sorry, but it's such a useless existence for me.
00:20:55I'm not allowed to do anything.
00:20:57I'm still being treated as a guest.
00:20:59As if they didn't expect me to stay very long.
00:21:02As if they wanted to show me that I didn't belong there.
00:21:05But darling, it's just your imagination.
00:21:07I don't care if it is.
00:21:08After all, I am your wife.
00:21:10I want to make a home for you.
00:21:12I want to get you your meals.
00:21:14Wait for you at nights.
00:21:17Bob, couldn't we get a house in the village?
00:21:20Couldn't we leave Crowhollow?
00:21:22I've been neglecting you.
00:21:24I want to introduce you to people.
00:21:25Diana Wilson or Mrs. Wilson's daughter.
00:21:27You ought to meet her.
00:21:28And then perhaps you could do some horse riding.
00:21:30You mean we're not to leave Crowhollow?
00:21:31But you're not really unhappy there.
00:21:34I tell you what.
00:21:36Next week is the golf club dance.
00:21:38You'll meet everybody there.
00:21:40And we'll buy you a new dress.
00:21:42I don't want a new dress.
00:21:44Oh darling.
00:21:46I'm sorry.
00:21:47I mean if we are going to our first dance together.
00:21:50I'd rather go in the one I wore the night we got engaged.
00:21:53Remember?
00:21:54I hope you don't catch cold with that bare top.
00:21:59Oh, just like butterfly wings.
00:22:03I've a new butterfly Dexter called for me.
00:22:05A black and yellow swallowtail.
00:22:06I think you'd like it, Anne.
00:22:08It's for Anne.
00:22:09Gardenias.
00:22:10The flowers.
00:22:10Isn't that romantic?
00:22:12Dear Robert.
00:22:13So thoughtful of him.
00:22:14The garden is full of flowers.
00:22:15Robert could have saved his money.
00:22:17Shall I put them in water?
00:22:18No, thank you.
00:22:19I'll leave them in the box.
00:22:20Very well.
00:22:21Then Willow shall take them up to your room.
00:22:23Oh, yes.
00:22:23Willow wondered whether she might arrange your hair.
00:22:26She's too shy to ask you herself, the silly child.
00:22:28But she's very clever at hairdressing.
00:22:30Why, of course she can do my hair.
00:22:32That's splendid then.
00:22:33Well, now you must go and rest.
00:22:35It'll never do for you to be tired tonight, would it?
00:22:38You might try Mr. Robert's gardenias in your hair.
00:22:41Yes, perhaps I will.
00:22:43So long as I don't look too Spanish.
00:22:44Oh, no, I don't think so, Miss.
00:22:47Do you go to dances, Willow?
00:22:48Sometimes, Miss.
00:22:49Where, in the village?
00:22:51Yes.
00:22:52But you'd like to go to London?
00:22:54Maybe I would.
00:22:56Why don't you then?
00:22:57You could get a job there.
00:22:59I don't mean we want you to go, but you have to think of your future.
00:23:02I do think of it, Miss.
00:23:04And yet you're content to stay at Crow Hollow.
00:23:07Then all I can think is that you must have an interest here.
00:23:10Someone in the village.
00:23:13That's wonderful, Willow.
00:23:14Now I'll try the gardenias.
00:23:19Ah!
00:23:21Spider, it's on me!
00:23:22Mr. Robert!
00:23:23Miss Opal!
00:23:24Mr. Robert!
00:23:25Miss Anne!
00:23:26Quickly!
00:23:27Willow, get it off quickly before it bites!
00:23:29What's the matter, darling?
00:23:29What's wrong?
00:23:30The spider.
00:23:30The poisonous spider.
00:23:31It came out of the box and ran down her back.
00:23:33She thinks it's still on her dress.
00:23:34Quickly!
00:23:35Stay still!
00:23:37Don't move!
00:23:44Look out!
00:23:47Why, Spider?
00:23:48It can't be!
00:23:50It's safely in its box!
00:23:51Poor Anne!
00:23:52She's had such a fright!
00:23:53Ah, Judith!
00:23:54Come here!
00:23:56How can it be?
00:23:58That's what I'd like to know.
00:24:00Where was it?
00:24:01In the flowers?
00:24:02The box had a lid!
00:24:04Yes, the box had a lid.
00:24:05Then...
00:24:06Oh, Judith!
00:24:07Stop fussing over the horrible thing!
00:24:09Thank heaven it's dead!
00:24:11It was my most valuable specimen!
00:24:13How could it have got here?
00:24:15Obviously the boot escaped and found its way up here!
00:24:18Mercifully, nobody's been bitten!
00:24:20Anne might have been bitten!
00:24:22She's had a terrible fright!
00:24:24But how did the spider get out?
00:24:26That box can't open by itself!
00:24:29Someone must have let it out!
00:24:31Now, who would let it out?
00:24:32Who'd go near it except you?
00:24:35I didn't let it out!
00:24:36I didn't plan to kill anybody!
00:24:38Kill anybody?
00:24:40Oh, Judith, what a shocking thing to suggest!
00:24:42That's what could have happened!
00:24:44Anne needs a good brandy!
00:24:45Go down and get the bottle from the sideboard, Willow!
00:24:47I think Willow needs one too!
00:24:49She looks quite white!
00:24:51Dash it all!
00:24:51I think we could all do with a nip!
00:24:53Let's go downstairs!
00:24:54Anne, get on your dress and come down!
00:24:57Don't touch me!
00:24:58Oh, Anne, Willow isn't going to hurt you!
00:25:00Pull yourself together!
00:25:01It wasn't an accident!
00:25:02It couldn't have been!
00:25:03I might have pinned the flowers on me and it would have been crushed!
00:25:06Would you all go, please?
00:25:08We'll be down presently!
00:25:10Anne will be all right in a moment!
00:25:15It wasn't an accident!
00:25:18Darling, what else could it have been?
00:25:20Someone put the spider there!
00:25:22It may have been meant just to frighten me!
00:25:23It may have been!
00:25:24Darling, what possible reason can you have for thinking that?
00:25:27Oh, no reason!
00:25:28Just intuition!
00:25:30They don't want me here!
00:25:32I've always known it!
00:25:33Darling, you're hysterical now!
00:25:35You don't know what you're saying!
00:25:37You think it was an accident too, don't you?
00:25:39Because it couldn't conceivably have been anything else!
00:25:42Honestly, Anne, you must believe that!
00:25:44Who would be fooling around with a deadly poisonous spider for a joke?
00:25:48All right, Bob!
00:25:49The joke's on the spider!
00:25:51Well, put your dress on, there's it, dear!
00:25:53Do we have to go to the dance?
00:25:54Well, after you've had some dinner, you'll be all right!
00:25:56Well, I...
00:25:58But not that dress, Bob!
00:26:00I couldn't wear it now!
00:26:01Give me my black one out of the wardrobe!
00:26:03I don't...
00:26:04I don't feel like dancing!
00:26:07You'll be all right in a couple of hours!
00:26:13Thanks!
00:26:37Robert.
00:26:38Oh, Diana.
00:26:39Anne, this is Diana Wilson.
00:26:41You met her mother at the hospital.
00:26:45How do you do?
00:26:46You stay here, Robert.
00:26:47I want to have a private chat with your wife.
00:26:49Come on.
00:26:50You women.
00:26:51All right, for ten minutes.
00:26:53No more.
00:27:00Well, it was pretty sudden for both of us.
00:27:02We just knew how lucky you were.
00:27:09Miss Wilson.
00:27:10Oh, please.
00:27:10Call me Diana.
00:27:13Can you tell me why your mother warned me not to come to Crow Hollow?
00:27:16Did she?
00:27:17Well, mother loved to be melodramatic.
00:27:19Poor darling.
00:27:20Now, I can't think why she should say that.
00:27:21Did she scare you?
00:27:23Well, I was pretty nervous anyway.
00:27:25Robert has so many aunts.
00:27:26There is only one reason I can think of.
00:27:29That's a pretty feeble one for a person of my mother's intellect.
00:27:32Robert says she was wandering that night.
00:27:34That might explain it.
00:27:36You see, she wasn't too pleased with Robert's aunt said.
00:27:38They'd more or less stolen her maid.
00:27:41Not Willow.
00:27:42Yes.
00:27:43The beautiful Willow.
00:27:45Not that I had much affection for her myself.
00:27:48But mother had trained her from a little scrap of a thing.
00:27:51She wasn't a bit pleased when the aunts bribed her to go to Crow Hollow.
00:27:54Bribed her?
00:27:55Mother said they did.
00:27:56That Willow was to get all sorts of wonderful things.
00:27:59Tell me, did she?
00:28:00Well, she certainly isn't treated like an ordinary maid.
00:28:02She's more like the daughter of the house.
00:28:05Incidentally, who are her parents?
00:28:07Is she a local?
00:28:08Well, she's got her family over in Dolchester.
00:28:10But it's a bit of a mystery about her.
00:28:12I believe she was adopted.
00:28:14Her mother came from a good family and managed to conceal her arrival.
00:28:18Do you like her?
00:28:19I really can't tell whether she's very simple or very deep.
00:28:23Either way, it's too much.
00:28:25That's exactly how I feel about her.
00:28:28Although she's decorative, all right.
00:28:30Mother used to say the aunts had better watch out.
00:28:32Or the next thing, Robert would...
00:28:36But he wasn't that sort.
00:28:38Let's go back.
00:28:45I'm sorry you didn't enjoy your evening.
00:28:48I'm sorry I was such a bore.
00:28:51Oh, darling, Anne, you couldn't be a bore if you tried.
00:28:53I seem to have bored someone at Crow Hollow enough for them to want to kill me.
00:28:58Darling, it was an accident.
00:29:00You must let your imagination run away with you.
00:29:03Why won't you understand?
00:29:05But I do understand.
00:29:06You've had a dreadful experience, I know that.
00:29:09No, not about the spider.
00:29:11All right, it was an accident, if you like, and no one is trying to get rid of me.
00:29:14But I still don't want to go on living at Crow Hollow.
00:29:18Darling, we've had all this before.
00:29:20I don't want to be unreasonable.
00:29:22I'm not asking you to send your aunts away, although I think as your wife I should have the right
00:29:26to.
00:29:26All I'm asking for is a home of my own.
00:29:29But Crow Hollow is my home.
00:29:31It's right that I should bring you here as mistress of it.
00:29:34Mistress?
00:29:35When I can't plan a menu, change a picture, or even darn one of your socks.
00:29:39I think Aunt Opal might let you darn a sock occasionally.
00:29:42It's not a joke, Bob.
00:29:43I know it's not.
00:29:45But you see, I can't leave Crow Hollow.
00:29:48Grandfather left it to me on condition that I should provide a home for his three daughters.
00:29:52He was devoted to them and very worried about their futures.
00:29:55Before he died, I promised that as long as they lived, I would make a home for them here.
00:30:00I must do as he wanted.
00:30:03Can't you see that?
00:30:05And won't you help me?
00:30:08If it means so much to you, of course, my darling.
00:30:12I'll try to be happy here.
00:30:14I'll really try.
00:30:36I love you.
00:30:48Dr.
00:30:48I love you.
00:30:48wasn't me?
00:30:52I love you.
00:31:27Tea's ready, miss.
00:31:29It was really too bad of Marguerite.
00:31:32She knew how much it meant to him, and then to throw it away deliberately.
00:31:35I never liked her. She had a shifty look from the first.
00:31:38I'm surprised he'd recovered at all.
00:31:39They've all got the constitution of water rats.
00:31:42It would take more than Marguerite to finish him.
00:31:44What did Marguerite do that was so terrible?
00:31:46Threw away the soup that I'd made her old father when he was too weak to stop her.
00:31:49You know the potters. I didn't think you'd met them.
00:31:52No, I don't think I have. I thought...
00:31:54Good thing, too. I shouldn't go out of your way to meet them if I were you.
00:31:56What did you think? I thought you were talking about Marguerite.
00:31:59We were. Robert's mother.
00:32:03Whatever made you think of her?
00:32:05We don't talk about Marguerite anymore.
00:32:07No, of course not.
00:32:08Silly of me, but I've been thinking about her lately.
00:32:11How do you think about someone you've never known?
00:32:14It's a kind of fellow feeling.
00:32:16She was a stranger here, too.
00:32:17You mustn't think of yourself as a stranger here, Anne.
00:32:21Did she like Crow Hollow?
00:32:22No, she didn't.
00:32:24She wasn't one of us, you see.
00:32:26But, Aunt Opal, I'm not one of you either.
00:32:29My dear, you're Robert's wife.
00:32:31But she was your brother's wife.
00:32:33Half-brother, Anne.
00:32:34A very different thing.
00:32:35We had nothing in common at all.
00:32:38I'm sorry to say that Robert's father was not at all of a satisfactory character.
00:32:42So, of course, we didn't feel bound to take to his wife.
00:32:46Poor Marguerite.
00:32:47Tomorrow's my night to go to D'Archester.
00:32:49Is that all right?
00:32:49Yes.
00:32:50You know, Anne, once a month, Willow goes to spend the night with her parents.
00:32:54She returns the following night.
00:32:56Robert has always driven her to the station and met her again.
00:32:58Do you think he'll be able to tomorrow?
00:33:00Well, of course, unless someone's having a baby or something awkward like that.
00:33:04Then that's all right, then, Willow.
00:33:44Is Miss Judith in there?
00:33:46It's you, D'Archester.
00:33:47Yes, she's just finished tea.
00:33:50It's a beauty, isn't it?
00:33:52Amanita phalloides.
00:33:54Yes, it's very beautiful.
00:33:56It's for Miss Judith, is it?
00:33:57Deadly poisonous.
00:33:58Animals won't go near her.
00:34:00Nor insects.
00:34:01Only forficula auricula.
00:34:04Hmm?
00:34:05Earwigs, Miss.
00:34:06They don't mind.
00:34:07Oh, I see.
00:34:11They've been at you.
00:34:12I told you, you've got to stand up to them.
00:34:14But so far, they've been very nice to me.
00:34:17I don't see why they should want to bully me.
00:34:18Excuse me, Miss.
00:34:25Come into the kitchen.
00:34:30Well, they weren't none too pleased in his going and marrying a stranger.
00:34:33Who would they have liked him to marry?
00:34:35Someone from these parts, I reckon.
00:34:37But you don't want to take no notice on them.
00:34:39They weren't none too pleased when his father married neither.
00:34:42And she were as pretty a young maid as you could wish.
00:34:45Did you know her?
00:34:46Of course I did.
00:34:48I lived here, man and boy, 57 years.
00:34:50And she lived in the same house with the three of them, just like me?
00:34:54Aye, she lived here.
00:34:56And she died here.
00:34:57Her grave's just yonder in the old graveyard.
00:35:00That used to be part of the farm that they sold in.
00:35:031840, I think it were.
00:35:05Surely you don't remember that.
00:35:06No.
00:35:07My father told me.
00:35:09What did she die of, Dexter?
00:35:12Ah, that's a mystery, Miss.
00:35:15Nobody seemed to know.
00:35:16Not even old Dr. Armour.
00:35:18They said it was some kind of low fever she'd picked up in foreign parts.
00:35:43Marguerite, widow of Douglas Armour, who departed this life on June 23rd, 1925,
00:35:52in the 26th year of her life, to her rightful home.
00:35:56Her rightful home.
00:36:06Hello, darling.
00:36:11What happened to you?
00:36:12I got wet.
00:36:13Were you out in all that rain?
00:36:15You've taken shelter.
00:36:17Can't have you laid up.
00:36:19Bob?
00:36:20Hmm?
00:36:21What did your mother die of?
00:36:24Darling, that was 25 years ago.
00:36:26Why do you ask?
00:36:27You want to know.
00:36:28Well, it was a fever of some kind.
00:36:30Nothing hereditary, if that's what you're worried about.
00:36:33Was she very unhappy?
00:36:36Darling, I don't know.
00:36:37But why this subtle interest are you going to write a story of...
00:36:42In just a minute, let me look at you.
00:36:43You're shivering.
00:36:44Oh, it's nothing.
00:36:46Is she a headache?
00:36:47Not badly.
00:36:48You sit down for a minute.
00:36:49But I'm perfectly all right.
00:36:50I just got wet.
00:36:52Open your mouth.
00:36:54I'll tell you in half a second whether you're all right or not.
00:36:56But by the look of you, I'd say you had a chill.
00:36:58Have you been out walking?
00:36:59No.
00:36:59Now, don't try and speak.
00:37:00Just nod your head.
00:37:02Where did you go?
00:37:03The river?
00:37:05Friars Woods.
00:37:06Shopping.
00:37:10What do you want, Willow?
00:37:11Miss Opal asked me to see if Mr. Robert had come in.
00:37:14Well, you can see that he has, can't you?
00:37:16Now, just a minute, Willow.
00:37:17Get me some hot water bottles ready and light a fire in our bedroom.
00:37:19Are you ill?
00:37:20Quickly.
00:37:21Off you go.
00:37:23Well, of course I'm not ill.
00:37:24I just got wet.
00:37:25You've got a temperature and I'm packing you right off to bed.
00:37:27To bed, oh God.
00:37:28Doctor's orders.
00:37:29But I...
00:37:29And if you resist, I'll carry you.
00:37:31Then it's a show that I shouldn't carry you anyway.
00:38:08What is it, dear?
00:38:09Do you want something?
00:38:11It's nothing, Aunt Opal.
00:38:13I wondered if Robert were here.
00:38:14He had to go out.
00:38:16He was dreadfully sorry, but he got word that that pneumonia case was worse.
00:38:20He said he might be some time, but you were not to worry.
00:38:23You feeling a little better, dear?
00:38:24I thought I was, but...
00:38:26Oh, I know what the trouble is, exactly.
00:38:28You need something to eat.
00:38:30You must be quite starved.
00:38:32Hester was making you some soup.
00:38:33I'll just pop down and see if it's ready.
00:38:40Just on my way up.
00:38:41It must have been telepathy.
00:38:44Invalide feeling a little better, eh?
00:38:47Now, just sit up a little.
00:38:50There.
00:38:51That's it.
00:38:53Now, I shall put the cup there.
00:38:56And mind you, eat up the soup every drop.
00:38:59Thank you, Aunt Hester.
00:39:01Looks delicious.
00:39:02It is delicious.
00:39:03There are eight different vegetables in it.
00:39:05I experimented a great deal with different blends to get just the right flavor.
00:39:10Isn't it a little bitter?
00:39:11Bitter?
00:39:12Nonsense.
00:39:13Bitter, very bland soup.
00:39:15I expect your palate's a bit off.
00:39:17I expect, sir.
00:39:19Well, I'll leave you to eat it at your leisure.
00:39:21I'll come back later.
00:39:40I'll come back later.
00:40:21The toadstool pump.
00:40:25The soup.
00:40:29They've poisoned it.
00:40:32They want to kill me.
00:40:37I didn't know them, Bob.
00:41:22We shall live at Crow Hollow.
00:41:23There used to be hundreds of crows there.
00:41:26They were supposed to bring ill luck to the house.
00:41:32Don't let him take you to Crow Hollow.
00:41:34It's no good to either of you.
00:41:41Why do you always have to kill things, Judith?
00:41:47It's Marguerite.
00:41:49Robert's mother.
00:41:57It's Marguerite.
00:41:58Spider is on me.
00:41:58Mr. Robert!
00:42:01Her rightful home.
00:42:03Her rightful home.
00:42:08Mind you eat that soup up every drop.
00:42:14Bitter.
00:42:16Nonsense.
00:42:17It's a very bland soup.
00:42:37Bob.
00:42:38Bob.
00:42:47Am I better?
00:42:50Much better, thank goodness.
00:42:53Do you feel any pain?
00:42:54Not exactly. A little tender.
00:42:58I feel so weak.
00:42:59And you will for a few days.
00:43:01A few days?
00:43:03It was my fault.
00:43:04I should have realized that that chill might upset your stomach.
00:43:07But you couldn't know, Bob.
00:43:10Why not?
00:43:11You couldn't know I was going to be poisoned.
00:43:14Now, darling.
00:43:15It was the soup immediately after I'd eaten it.
00:43:17Darling.
00:43:19You mustn't talk anymore.
00:43:21I'm going to warm you up some luck.
00:43:23And after you've had that, you might sleep again.
00:43:26It was the soup.
00:43:27All right, darling. It was the soup.
00:43:29But you mustn't worry about it now.
00:43:32We'll talk about that when you're stronger.
00:43:47We'll talk about it.
00:43:47Who is it?
00:43:48Willow?
00:43:49Yes, Miss.
00:43:50You slink about like a snake.
00:43:52A very pretty snake.
00:43:54Have you lost something, Miss?
00:43:56No, not lost.
00:43:57Miss Laid.
00:43:58My new toadstool.
00:43:59I remember I had it in the drawing room and then I came in here.
00:44:03I can't remember if I brought it with me.
00:44:05Was it a spotted one?
00:44:06Yes.
00:44:07Have you seen it?
00:44:07I thought I noticed it on the dresser yesterday.
00:44:10But it's not there now.
00:44:11Perhaps it's fallen down.
00:44:14No, it's not here.
00:44:16This is one of Hester's, isn't it?
00:44:18That's right, Miss.
00:44:21Dangerous thing to leave lying about, isn't it?
00:44:24You never know what it might get into.
00:44:37Feeling better after that nice long sleep?
00:44:39Oh, you'll be coming on nicely now.
00:44:41Did my husband find out about the soup, Nurse?
00:44:43Well, you see, the trouble was, it was made in a little dish.
00:44:46Only just enough for one.
00:44:48The bowl had been washed when Doctor came home.
00:44:50Well, then there's no proof.
00:44:51Doctor says not.
00:44:52Your aunt is pretty indignant too at aspersions being cast on her soup.
00:44:56Do you think I was poisoned, Nurse?
00:44:58Well, now, if you were.
00:44:59Being sick like that so quickly would save you from any serious consequences.
00:45:03No, Doctor says it was most likely the result of your chill.
00:45:07I keep hearing a noise outside.
00:45:09Harsh sort of noise.
00:45:11Oh, that's those crows.
00:45:12But a lot of them are back today since the rain.
00:45:15This place used to be infested with crows.
00:45:17It was before my time, though.
00:45:20And it almost looks as if they were coming back.
00:45:24Good evening.
00:45:25Good evening, Nurse.
00:45:26And how's our patient?
00:45:27She's coming along splendidly.
00:45:29I expect you'd like a rest.
00:45:30Thank you, Doctor.
00:45:31I'll be in the kitchen if you need them.
00:45:34Had a busy day, darling.
00:45:35Pretty hectic.
00:45:36How's the pneumonia case?
00:45:38Oh, he'll pull through.
00:45:39I'm glad.
00:45:41Thank you for sending Nurse Baxter.
00:45:43Well, you needed a nurse.
00:45:44I thought it better to have somebody you knew.
00:45:46You're feeling more comfortable now.
00:45:48Oh, I'm feeling fine.
00:45:49How long can Nurse Baxter stay?
00:45:51Oh, a few days.
00:45:53We'll be up and about by then.
00:45:55Bob, that soup.
00:45:57Darling, there's absolutely no proof about the soup.
00:46:00I know there's no proof.
00:46:01That's all part of the cleverness.
00:46:03Only you refuse to see it.
00:46:05Someday you'll know I was right.
00:46:07It's not too late.
00:46:08You stop worrying.
00:46:09It's bad for you.
00:46:10Don't worry.
00:46:11As long as Nurse Baxter cooks my meals.
00:46:13That's all right.
00:46:15How many crows are there in the elms now?
00:46:18Oh, I don't know.
00:46:19Quite a lot.
00:46:19It's extraordinary the way they've come back.
00:46:22Lying here listening to them, I think I'll go mad.
00:46:24Darling, it's not as bad as that.
00:46:26It's not the noise they make.
00:46:28It's what they mean.
00:46:29Now you're just being plain superstitious.
00:46:32I keep thinking about your mother.
00:46:34What made her die?
00:46:37Nothing remotely connected with what's wrong with you.
00:46:39Bob, I promised not to worry you anymore,
00:46:41but couldn't we go away from here?
00:46:43There's something about this house,
00:46:45and now the crows have come back.
00:46:48You concentrate on getting well.
00:46:50We'll talk about it then.
00:46:52But we won't.
00:46:53You'll always evade it.
00:46:56You'll never leave Crow Hollow, will you?
00:47:21Come in.
00:47:25I'm going away, Willow.
00:47:27For long, Miss.
00:47:28Quite a time, I think.
00:47:30I've decided to tell you
00:47:31because I want you to do one small favor for me.
00:47:33Yes, Miss.
00:47:35When there's no one about,
00:47:36telephone Joe Higgins
00:47:37to wait at the main gates at half past five.
00:47:40The train goes at six,
00:47:41so that should be plenty of time.
00:47:42So you're not telling them you're going?
00:47:44Not at the moment.
00:47:45I don't want to fuss.
00:47:46They do fuss, don't they?
00:47:48They've all been very kind to me.
00:47:50I feel I want to get away for a bit.
00:47:52I like the other dress best.
00:47:54The one you wore the night you got the spider on you.
00:47:57Do you, Willow?
00:47:58If it's any use to you, you can have it.
00:48:01Can I really?
00:48:02Oh, thank you.
00:48:04What's that?
00:48:06It's a cocktail hat.
00:48:07Quite useless, really.
00:48:09It's pretty.
00:48:11I think you're very wise, Miss.
00:48:13Wise?
00:48:14Go away.
00:48:16Do you?
00:48:17Funny things happen in this house, don't they?
00:48:19What kind of things do you mean?
00:48:21You ought to know, Miss.
00:48:23Do you know anything about them, Willow?
00:48:25Oh, no.
00:48:26But I think you're very wise.
00:48:29Well, I'll telephone now.
00:48:31Wouldn't do to miss your train, would it?
00:48:32I'll phone you.
00:48:37I'll be back.
00:48:38I'll turn you on to the door.
00:48:38That's my little shits.
00:48:38How's that?
00:48:45Hello, Miss, Miss.
00:48:45And then you're locked.
00:48:45They are all locked on you.
00:48:49Until I'm locked on you.
00:48:50I'm locked on you.
00:48:54They're all locked on you.
00:48:57I'm locked on you.
00:49:02I'll have to let you know something.
00:49:02Two, three, please.
00:49:04Yes, that's right.
00:49:19All ready, Miss.
00:49:20The coast's clear now if you want to slip out.
00:49:22Miss Opal's lying down.
00:49:23Miss Hester's in the greenhouse,
00:49:24and Miss Judith's in her laboratory.
00:49:26Thank you, Willow.
00:49:28You've done very well.
00:49:32Let's go.
00:50:10Let's go.
00:50:34Anna, are you all right?
00:50:37Here, come and sit down for a while.
00:50:45You're in no fit state to travel.
00:50:49I think you'd better come back with me.
00:50:52No, I must go. I've got to catch the train.
00:50:54Nonsense. You can get the next one if it's so important.
00:50:57Come on back to my place for a rest.
00:51:00Look, I'll tell you all I know, which isn't very much and which I think is fantastic.
00:51:05You see, Mother had the fixed idea that ever since Robert's aunts were so insistent about getting Willow,
00:51:09that they hoped Robert would marry her.
00:51:12I wonder why.
00:51:14She's very lovely, I know, but hardly a good match for him.
00:51:17Or even a particularly suitable wife for that matter.
00:51:20Maybe they weren't thinking so much of Robert.
00:51:22Perhaps it had something to do with Willow's parentage.
00:51:25Her mother might have been a great friend of theirs.
00:51:28Or one of them.
00:51:30One of the aunts Willow's mother? Surely not.
00:51:33Well, I'm only supposing.
00:51:34Surely a mother couldn't live in the same house and not treat her as a daughter.
00:51:38Well, you once said they did.
00:51:39But I mean openly.
00:51:41I'm sure I couldn't.
00:51:42This isn't London.
00:51:43You've no idea how strong prejudices are in the country against affairs of that kind.
00:51:48Well, anyway, whether they had any matrimonial plans or not,
00:51:51the important thing is that Robert obviously wasn't having any.
00:51:54I suppose not.
00:51:56You're the only woman he's ever really cared for.
00:51:59You can take that from me.
00:52:02Yes, I think that's true.
00:52:05I'll just slip in quietly if I can and thank you for everything.
00:52:08Take care of yourself.
00:52:11Oh, don't these crows give you the willies.
00:52:13They did at first, but I'm getting used to them now.
00:52:16Good luck.
00:52:46Good luck.
00:52:59Good luck.
00:53:03Good luck.
00:53:06Good luck.
00:53:07Good luck.
00:53:09Good luck.
00:53:09Good luck.
00:53:10Good luck.
00:53:11Good luck.
00:53:12Good luck.
00:53:12Good luck.
00:53:12Good luck.
00:53:25It was meant to be me.
00:53:28When did you find her?
00:53:30Just now, when I came in.
00:53:33I would say that death took place during the last half an hour.
00:53:37She had face cream on her hands as though she was making up.
00:53:41To the aunts, no.
00:53:43One of the aunts must make.
00:53:47Am I going to be late for dinner?
00:53:48I was so anxious to finish taking the chrysanthemums.
00:53:51I got a rabbit this evening.
00:53:53Fine big buck.
00:53:54There he lay, stretched out stiff,
00:53:57with his nose still on the nibbled carousel.
00:53:58Aunt Hester!
00:53:59Willow!
00:54:00Willow!
00:54:01Willow!
00:54:01Oh, Robert, have you seen Willow?
00:54:04What's the matter?
00:54:07I've got something to tell you.
00:54:11Willow is in our bedroom.
00:54:15Dead.
00:54:17With a knife in her back.
00:54:19Not Willow!
00:54:22And had you observed anything significant between your husband and deceased?
00:54:26But I tell you, it wasn't Willow who was meant to be killed.
00:54:29It was me.
00:54:30Whoever did it mistook her for me.
00:54:32She was in my room, sitting at my dressing table, wearing my dress.
00:54:35With fair hair.
00:54:36Whereas yours is dark.
00:54:39They'd need to be extremely short-sighted to mistake her hair for yours, whatever she was wearing.
00:54:42Why should anyone want to kill Willow?
00:54:44She was valued a great deal here, and I wasn't.
00:54:47That could be a reason, too.
00:54:48I don't understand what you mean.
00:54:53Do you recognize this?
00:54:55The deceased was wearing it.
00:54:58Do you know where she got it?
00:54:59Yes, my husband gave it to her.
00:55:03Was your husband in the habit of giving her presents?
00:55:05From time to time.
00:55:07They all were.
00:55:08She was always treated as a member of the family.
00:55:10Do you know why?
00:55:12It's hardly usual for a maid, is it?
00:55:15She wasn't a usual kind of maid.
00:55:18I believe it was something to do with her parentage.
00:55:20She was adopted, wasn't she?
00:55:22By a couple in Dolchester.
00:55:25Do you know anything about them, Sergeant?
00:55:27Well, there was a rumor that the father used to be a gardener up here in the old doctor's time.
00:55:31Jed Dawson.
00:55:32I don't suppose you remember him, sir?
00:55:34A gardener?
00:55:35And the mother?
00:55:36I don't know, sir.
00:55:37That was kept very dark.
00:55:39Miss Wilson said that the mother came from a good family.
00:55:42That she might have been a friend of the Armors.
00:55:44No, we'll go into that.
00:55:45I used to think Miss Wilson might know about it, sir.
00:55:47Dawson went to Mrs. Wilson's after he left Crow Hollow.
00:55:52That'll be all for now, Mrs. Armour.
00:56:04That's funny.
00:56:07What a terrible thing.
00:56:08I heard from Jenkins.
00:56:09I called over to see whether there was anything I could do to help.
00:56:12Well, that's very nice of you.
00:56:13What did he say?
00:56:14He wouldn't believe that Willow was killed and mistake for me.
00:56:18Is that what you think?
00:56:19Well, she was in our room, wearing Anne's dress, and with her back to the door.
00:56:24He said no one could mistake Willow's hair for mine, but in a bad light.
00:56:28No, the sun was shining.
00:56:29There must be an explanation.
00:56:31I know I might.
00:56:33Darling, Diana thought that you might like to spend a few days with her until...
00:56:37Yes, weren't you?
00:56:38You look so terribly tired and you might sleep better away from here.
00:56:41That's very kind of you, but they said no one was to leave the house.
00:56:44But that doesn't apply to you, darling.
00:56:46Of course it does.
00:56:47I'm their principal suspect.
00:56:49Oh, no.
00:56:50Nonsense, darling.
00:56:51What did he say?
00:56:52They know who Willow's father is.
00:56:54Who is it?
00:56:56Jed Dawson, I think they said.
00:56:58Never heard of him.
00:56:59Do they think he did it?
00:57:00I told you.
00:57:01They think I did it.
00:57:03Of course they don't.
00:57:05Who is he?
00:57:06Dawson.
00:57:07He was a gardener who worked here who left to go to your mother.
00:57:10My mother?
00:57:11I don't remember anyone of that name.
00:57:14That might have given her an entirely different reason for warning me not to come to Crow Hollow.
00:57:18Oh, Anne, no, that's not possible.
00:57:20Would you come in a moment, please, Doctor?
00:57:22Oh, yes, of course.
00:57:23Oh, by the way, Sergeant, would it be all right for my wife to spend a couple of days with
00:57:25Miss Wilson?
00:57:25She could come over again whenever you wanted her.
00:57:27Not yet, sir.
00:57:28Sorry, but no one must leave until we get this matter cleared up.
00:57:31Except, of course, for any professional calls for yourself.
00:57:33Yes, but look, yes.
00:57:34I'm sorry, sir.
00:57:34You can ask the inspector, but I know what he'll say.
00:57:40Did you say Jed Dawson was Willow's father?
00:57:42So Sergeant Jenkins says.
00:57:44Oh, well, you remember that gardener father sacked.
00:57:46He was a bad lot, right enough.
00:57:48Fancy that.
00:57:49I suppose father found out and then trumped up that excuse about the plants being stolen.
00:57:53So that's where Willow got her looks.
00:57:55He was a handsome devil.
00:57:57Oh, he was a fine looking chap.
00:57:59Masses of fair curly hair.
00:58:01But he was vain of it.
00:58:03Wouldn't wear a cap, rain or shine for fear of hiding his pretty hair.
00:58:07A cap.
00:58:09So that's how Willow was mistaken for me.
00:58:14I left a hat on my bed today.
00:58:16A silly extravagant thing.
00:58:17All flowers.
00:58:18Just the sort of thing that Willow would want to try on.
00:58:20And with her hair up, it would have been completely hidden by the hat.
00:58:23Don't you see?
00:58:35Now are you convinced, Inspector?
00:58:37It's a possibility, certainly.
00:58:38It's more than that.
00:58:39It's obvious.
00:58:39Can't you see that?
00:58:41Doctor, do you ever make a diagnosis without considering all the symptoms?
00:58:45No.
00:58:46But neither do I allow myself to be convinced without taking into consideration all the facts.
00:58:50But you've got all the facts.
00:58:51Some of them.
00:58:53The rest is a supposition.
00:58:55And meanwhile, my wife's life is in danger.
00:58:57Do you think they'll try again?
00:58:59Well, how on earth should I know?
00:59:02But the danger's there.
00:59:04This is the third attempt.
00:59:05I shall be leaving a man here.
00:59:07And if you've got another spare room,
00:59:10I should suggest Miss Wilson stayed here.
00:59:12So that you could keep an eye on Mrs. Armour if you were called out on a case.
00:59:16Well, there's only Willow's room.
00:59:19Would you mind, Diana?
00:59:20No, of course not.
00:59:22I should feel a lot happier.
00:59:24All right.
01:00:07Who is it?
01:00:09It's for Robert, dear.
01:00:10The telephone, Robert's wanted.
01:00:13Who is it?
01:00:14Mrs. Matthews, dear.
01:00:15The baby you delivered yesterday.
01:00:18What's wrong with it?
01:00:19Not the baby.
01:00:20The mother.
01:00:21She's running a high temperature.
01:00:23Come into the kitchen before you go and have a cup of coffee.
01:00:26It's already made.
01:00:28I'm just going down and I'll have it ready for you.
01:00:37Bob, must you go?
01:00:38I'll be as quick as I can.
01:00:40You go into Diana's room.
01:00:41Wake her and stay with her all the time I'm away.
01:00:44Promise?
01:00:44I promise, but...
01:00:46But what?
01:00:48I don't know.
01:00:49It's just...
01:00:50I can't explain it, Bob.
01:00:52It's this ungodly hour, darling.
01:00:54You've had a disturbed night.
01:00:55Yes, I suppose that's it.
01:00:57Come on.
01:00:58I'll take you to Diana's room.
01:01:01I'll be back just as soon as I possibly can.
01:01:03Before you and Diana have woken up again.
01:01:05I'm sorry, Bob, but I've got the jitters.
01:01:07I guess it's the early morning.
01:01:10What is it?
01:01:14I've had a telephone message to go out to a case.
01:01:16May I leave Anne with you?
01:01:17Yes, of course.
01:01:18Come on in, won't you?
01:01:19I was awake anyway.
01:01:20Those crows are enough to wake the dead.
01:01:22I shan't be long.
01:01:23Bye-bye, darling.
01:01:24And don't worry.
01:01:24Bye-bye.
01:01:28Did you sleep?
01:01:29On and off.
01:01:31You?
01:01:31Like a log.
01:01:32Till those damn birds started catawalling.
01:01:35The telephone.
01:01:36What about it?
01:01:37What's the matter?
01:01:37Did you hear it?
01:01:39No.
01:01:40Now that you mention it, I didn't.
01:01:43Who brought him the message?
01:01:47Bob!
01:01:49Bob!
01:01:58It's a trick.
01:01:59The telephone didn't ring.
01:02:00You mustn't go.
01:02:01A trick?
01:02:02They want to get you out of the way so they can kill me.
01:02:03Anne, what an extraordinary thing to say.
01:02:06Is it true?
01:02:07I'll find out, Robert.
01:02:09It was Judith who answered the telephone.
01:02:11She called out to me that you were wanted urgently.
01:02:13Perhaps I misunderstood.
01:02:15I'll go and ask her.
01:02:16First, let me pour Anne a cup of coffee.
01:02:18She looks frozen.
01:02:19You drink yours, Robert, before it gets cold.
01:02:21Bob, don't believe it.
01:02:22They want to kill me.
01:02:23Now sit down, Anne, and have some coffee, as Aunt Opal says.
01:02:26We'll get to the bottom of this in a moment.
01:02:28Silly child.
01:02:30Who wants to kill you now?
01:02:31Bob, don't drink it!
01:02:33Are you going to listen to a hysterical girl?
01:02:38Certainly I am.
01:02:41Anne's intuitions are pretty sound.
01:02:43I should have listened to her a long time ago.
01:02:46Don't be such a fool, Robert.
01:02:48What do you think's in the coffee?
01:02:50Toadstool poisoning?
01:02:51Judith?
01:02:51You can't put this on Judith, Aunt Opal.
01:02:54It was Judith's spider and Hester's soup.
01:02:57But it's your coffee.
01:02:59Entirely yours.
01:03:01Except that it has some of Aunt Hester's strychnine in it.
01:03:05Why should you want to kill me, Aunt Opal?
01:03:07Why shouldn't I?
01:03:08Why should either of you live now that Willow's dead?
01:03:11I always intended you to marry Willow so that she should be mistress of Crow Hollow, not her.
01:03:17Yes, I tried to kill her too so that you should be free again, free to marry Willow.
01:03:24But instead I killed my own daughter.
01:03:28My daughter Willow.
01:03:33I think I shall have to call the police, Aunt Opal.
01:03:58It's better like this.
01:04:00Don't go back, darling.
01:04:19What are you writing, darling?
01:04:21Oh, Diana's coming to dinner tomorrow.
01:04:23And planning a menu.
01:04:31What are you writing?
01:04:33Oh, this, it's an application for a post at the Middlesex.
01:04:37Junior house surgeon.
01:04:40You'd be glad to get away, wouldn't you?
01:04:42Let me see.
01:04:51Aham!
01:04:52I don't think Grandfather would have approved, do you?
01:04:55Are you sure?
01:04:57Quite sure?
01:04:59Quite sure, darling.
01:05:22No.
01:05:26Yeah.
01:05:31No.
01:05:36No.
01:05:36No.
01:05:37No.
01:05:37No.
01:05:38No.
01:05:39No.
01:05:39Amen.
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