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00:01:21Cass! Cass!
00:01:23Hey, Cass!
00:01:25What is it?
00:01:27Anne, what on earth's the matter?
00:01:29He has, Cass, he has.
00:01:31Has he indeed?
00:01:32Well, it's no more than you deserve going out with strange men.
00:01:35Oh, don't be so low. He's asked me to marry him.
00:01:38Marry him? But you don't know a thing about him.
00:01:40You've only met him for five minutes.
00:01:42I know all about him.
00:01:43He's a doctor, and he comes from a place called Fincham,
00:01:46and he's got three aunts, and...
00:01:47And?
00:01:48And I know he's the only man in the world for me.
00:01:50When's the wedding?
00:01:51Thursday.
00:01:52Are you mad?
00:01:53Delirious.
00:01:54We couldn't make it Wednesday because they have to have 24 hours' notice.
00:01:57Well, thank goodness for that.
00:01:59How many aunts did you say?
00:02:00Three.
00:02:01But they never come up to London,
00:02:02so I wondered if we could have the reception here.
00:02:05There's no one I want except you and Alec.
00:02:07I'd feel happier here.
00:02:09Here it is, then.
00:02:11Bless you, darling.
00:02:12Be happy, and congratulations.
00:02:14Congratulations!
00:02:15Speech! Speech!
00:02:16Come on, have a speech.
00:02:18Well, uh, thank you, Anne.
00:02:20Uh, thank you very much.
00:02:22Having only known Anne for a week,
00:02:24I really haven't had time to prepare a speech,
00:02:27but, uh, well, thank you very much.
00:02:30Oh, well done.
00:02:31Have you got to find a house,
00:02:33or are you moving in on a family mansion?
00:02:36No, we're going to live at Crow Hollow.
00:02:38There's plenty of room,
00:02:39and the aunts would never forgive us if we didn't.
00:02:41Queer name, Crow Hollow.
00:02:42It sounds like a quotation.
00:02:43Crow Hollow and unleash the dogs of war.
00:02:45No, it's not so queer.
00:02:46It's built in a hollow,
00:02:47and there used to be hundreds of crows.
00:02:49Not anymore?
00:02:50No, they suddenly disappeared about 50 years ago.
00:02:52Everybody was very pleased.
00:02:53They were supposed to bring ill luck to the house.
00:02:55Well, you country doctors certainly move fast.
00:02:57I suppose you're emulating Solomon Grundy.
00:02:59Born on Monday, christened on Tuesday.
00:03:01Met Anne on Wednesday.
00:03:02Married on Thursday.
00:03:03Honeymoon on Friday.
00:03:04Bussman's honeymoon at that.
00:03:05He's got to go and have a look at a patient.
00:03:07So have you, incidentally.
00:03:08She's a very old friend of the family's,
00:03:10and she insists on meeting the new bride.
00:03:12Couldn't she wait?
00:03:13Well, she may not have another opportunity.
00:03:15Only a 10% chance.
00:03:17There's a pronounced aorta murmur,
00:03:19and the surgical shock is bound to be considerable.
00:03:21Blood count?
00:03:2291,000.
00:03:24Would it be all right for my wife to see him?
00:03:26Don't let her talk too much.
00:03:33How do you do, my dear?
00:03:35I'm sorry you're so ill.
00:03:37I asked Robert to tell you to come alone
00:03:39so that I could talk to you.
00:03:41I wanted to see what sort of a girl
00:03:44he'd so suddenly decided to marry.
00:03:46Do you think I'll do?
00:03:48I think you should be just what he needs.
00:03:54Poor Robert.
00:03:57I love him a great deal, my dear.
00:04:00Why do you say poor Robert?
00:04:02Did I say that?
00:04:04He's been very much alone.
00:04:07He's an orphan, you know.
00:04:09So am I.
00:04:10Are you, my dear?
00:04:12It hasn't hurt you.
00:04:14I can see that.
00:04:16You've had someone to love you and take care of you.
00:04:19That's true.
00:04:21Daddy only died two years ago.
00:04:23Poor Robert.
00:04:25He's been alone ever since he was a child.
00:04:29There was his grandfather,
00:04:31and then the three aunts to look after him.
00:04:34Yes.
00:04:35Yes.
00:04:36Three of them in that old house.
00:04:40Don't let him take you to go on alone.
00:04:44It's no good to either of you.
00:04:46It... it...
00:04:48It's good.
00:04:50There's something important she has to tell me.
00:04:53Please go.
00:04:57Doctor.
00:04:59Will you come, please?
00:05:06I am sorry, darling.
00:05:08I shouldn't have brought you.
00:05:10I am sorry, darling.
00:05:12I shouldn't have brought you.
00:05:14Bob, she said...
00:05:16Yes?
00:05:18Nothing.
00:05:36Welcome home, darling.
00:05:38Bob, it's lovely.
00:05:50Hi, Aunt Judith.
00:05:56She's a bit short-sighted.
00:05:58Back again, Robert?
00:06:00Hello, Aunt Judith.
00:06:01What a surprise you gave us all.
00:06:03How do you do, Aunt Judith?
00:06:04How do you do, my dear?
00:06:06I'm very happy at Crow Hollow.
00:06:08Now, you must excuse me, but I'm very excited.
00:06:11You see, I'm a naturalist.
00:06:13I've just received a rare specimen from Australia, a spider.
00:06:16Such a beautiful creature.
00:06:19A body like brown velvet and fully three inches long.
00:06:22How very interesting.
00:06:24You must see my laboratory.
00:06:26Come any time.
00:06:27I'll show you my specimens.
00:06:31You made a good impression.
00:06:33What nonsense.
00:06:34She was much more interested in her spider.
00:06:54Hello?
00:07:01Aunt Hester?
00:07:04Aunt Hester?
00:07:11Aunt Opal?
00:07:13Hello?
00:07:14Robert, you're here and I never heard you.
00:07:17There was no one to welcome you.
00:07:21Aunt Opal, this is Ann.
00:07:24Robert, she's lovely.
00:07:26Of course, we expected Robert to have good taste,
00:07:29but he's shown so little interest in women
00:07:31we weren't quite sure what his taste would be.
00:07:33Oh, dear, just a rather large surprise, knowing Robert.
00:07:36Well, now you'd like to see your room.
00:07:38Come this way.
00:07:40Hester's gone visiting with some of her soup.
00:07:42She should be back at any time.
00:07:44She's quite famous for her soup, Ann.
00:07:46She works out all the ingredients and the flavors herself.
00:07:49It's quite wonderful, really.
00:07:51But you'll be sampling it yourself.
00:07:53But Ann 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.
00:08:03Aunt Judith seems very taken up with her new spider.
00:08:06Oh, those horrid spiders, how I hate them.
00:08:08And now a poisonous one.
00:08:10They'll escape and bite us all in our beds.
00:08:12That'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,
00:08:18but I don't understand her.
00:08:20Sometimes I think she must be a changer.
00:08:22Do you like spiders?
00:08:24They're not my favorite insect.
00:08:26Oh, well, there it is.
00:08:28I understand Hester's soup better than Judith's horrible specimens.
00:08:31I've shifted you into the Chinese room, Robert.
00:08:34There's more space in it than in your old room.
00:08:37Anyway, the Chinese room is the best bedroom.
00:08:40It's where our dear mother died.
00:08:43Quite 40 years ago.
00:08:45Do you like it, darling?
00:08:47The room? Oh, yes, of course.
00:08:49Oh, 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.
00:08:57Oh, yes, a message from Dr. Herbert.
00:09:01Something about Abel Jackson's peculiar symptoms.
00:09:04Oh, well, I'd better go down.
00:09:06Oh, well, if you must be so conscientious.
00:09:08Well, we'll look after Ann and I'll show her the house.
00:09:11There's so much to tell her.
00:09:13Such an old place.
00:09:15Such a lot of things happening under its roof.
00:09:18Must you go?
00:09:20Well, I ought to.
00:09:22Why, you were very conscientious, Doctor.
00:09:24Well, I try to be.
00:09:27More than you're a conscientious husband.
00:09:32Saved by the bell.
00:09:38I believe the crows are coming back.
00:09:40I saw two of them in the elms yesterday
00:09:42and there's another there now.
00:09:44Nonsense, Hester. The crows haven't nested there for 20 years.
00:09:47There'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.
00:09:53They'd be too quick for you.
00:09:55You don't have to kill everything, Judith.
00:09:57I don't have to kill anything,
00:09:59but it's just that it makes something 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?
00:10:07My word, you don't carry much flesh on your bones.
00:10:09We must feed you uphill. Now, how do you like your tea?
00:10:11Oh, milk. No sugar, please.
00:10:13And how shall I find my patients, Aunt Hester?
00:10:15How many of them have you killed off
00:10:17by persuading them not to stick to their diets?
00:10:19Diets? If instead of dieting them,
00:10:21you'd give them a course of good meals,
00:10:23they'd have no patients left. They'd all be cured.
00:10:25I don't hold with diet.
00:10:27Stubbish. Nonsense. Feed them, I say.
00:10:29Don't you agree with me, Anne?
00:10:31Well, it would depend on the illness.
00:10:33Exactly. That's what I say.
00:10:35You can do some parish work with me.
00:10:37I go in the pony cart, you know. Room for two.
00:10:39It does a great deal more good
00:10:41than 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.
00:10:47What about the female spiders
00:10:49that consumes our husband if she gets half a chance?
00:10:51Spiders, please.
00:10:53We'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,
00:10:59but she's not giving Anne a chance to eat any.
00:11:01It doesn't matter. I'm really not hungry.
00:11:03Robert, pass Anne the tomato sandwiches.
00:11:05I hope you'll like it here, Anne.
00:11:07Oh, I'm sure I shall.
00:11:09I hope you remember to bring Willow a present.
00:11:11Who? Oh, of course.
00:11:13Where is she, by the way? Oh, she's gone to the cinema.
00:11:15Opal spoils that child disgracefully.
00:11:17We all do come to that. Who's Willow?
00:11:19She's the iron's little ray of sunshine.
00:11:21Now, Robert, drink your tea and get a call.
00:11:23The moment we finish, I'm going to show Anne the house.
00:11:28This was Robert's room ever since he was quite tiny.
00:11:31Couldn't we be in here? I'd love it.
00:11:33Oh, no, dear. You and Robert must have the best bedroom.
00:11:36Now... Who is that?
00:11:38It's Marguerite. Marguerite?
00:11:40Robert's mother.
00:11:42Oh, 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. There'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. Whose is it?
00:12:12Willow's. Willow?
00:12:14But who is Willow? Willow is our sort of companion.
00:12:17But we always treat her more like one of the family.
00:12:24It 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.
00:12:45You know the story of the children who found the gold.
00:12:49And it all turned to leaves.
00:12:52But I won't, Bob.
00:12:55I hope I won't.
00:13:15Come in.
00:13:41Come in.
00:13:45Good 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.
00:14:02I 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?
00:14:10Yes, that 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? Do you like my nightdress?
00:14:22It's beautiful.
00:14:24You like clothes, do you?
00:14:26I love them.
00:14:28Well, you can have a look in my wardrobe, if you like.
00:14:31I didn't have time to buy much,
00:14:33but the suit I got married in is there,
00:14:35and one or two other things.
00:14:38Is that considered smart in London, miss?
00:14:41It was made by a very good dressmaker.
00:14:43It was expensive.
00:14:45Oh, I see.
00:14:47Next time I go shopping,
00:14:49I'll buy something you really approve of.
00:14:51Yes, miss.
00:14:53Will that be all, miss?
00:14:55Yes, thank you, Willow.
00:15:11Good morning.
00:15:13You've come to see my specimens?
00:15:15Just take a look round.
00:15:17Hester and Opal think they should be destroyed,
00:15:20but I find them full of interest.
00:15:22This one is an elephant hawk moth.
00:15:25Dexter caught it for me.
00:15:27He catches a great many of my specimens.
00:15:29I give him a penny, or toppence, or thrippence,
00:15:32if the specimen's a particularly good one,
00:15:35and he says,
00:15:37or toppence, or thrippence,
00:15:39if the specimen's a particularly good one.
00:15:41How much was that one worth?
00:15:43Thrippence. It'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.
00:15:56Before you came,
00:15:58we had a discussion as to whether you would be better looking than Willow.
00:16:02Tell me, Aunt Judith,
00:16:04would you inform me, Miss, and wear a cap and apron
00:16:06if she's here as a companion?
00:16:08Companion? Siddlesticks, it's Opal.
00:16:10She's positively silly about the girl.
00:16:12And what about the famous spider?
00:16:14Aren't I going to be allowed to look at it?
00:16:17Of course.
00:16:19I didn't know you'd be interested.
00:16:21A naturalist correspondent of mine in Australia sent her to me.
00:16:25He didn't know whether she would survive the trip.
00:16:28But 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. I must...
00:16:41Come back if you want to.
00:17:04Oh, good morning, Mr. Dexter.
00:17:06Good morning, ma'am. Good to see you here.
00:17:08Thank you. It's good to be here.
00:17:10I ought to send the young master a pick of goodin'
00:17:12and pick for himself, too.
00:17:14And there he is. I'm rare pleased.
00:17:16That's very nice of you.
00:17:18But don't you let they three bully you.
00:17:20What?
00:17:22They will if they can.
00:17:24Why should they?
00:17:26Such as may be.
00:17:28But you stand up to them, dearie.
00:17:30Carrots. They can't resist them in the ground, all right.
00:17:33Rabbits. Terrible plague they are.
00:17:35You ought to be careful with that stuff.
00:17:37It's the rabbits that ought to be careful.
00:17:39I always mark my carrots with a white tape.
00:17:42I suppose it ought to be black.
00:17:44Doesn't do to interfere with nature.
00:17:46What are you doing with yourself this morning, my dear?
00:17:49I don't know. I suppose I'm waiting for Robert to come home.
00:17:52Oh, dear.
00:17:54Oh, dear.
00:17:56Oh, dear.
00:17:58I suppose I'm waiting for Robert to come home.
00:18:00Don't do that. Might not be back till the evening.
00:18:03It's a day and night job, and you'll have to get used to it.
00:18:06You better come with me. I'm going down to the village to deliver some soup.
00:18:09Run up and get a coat. It'll be chilly in the trap.
00:18:12I'll get you a harness.
00:18:14Thank you. I will.
00:18:28Take it off.
00:18:33Aren't you going to apologise?
00:18:35I'm sorry, but you said I could look at your things.
00:18:38I didn't say you could try them on, and you know that perfectly well.
00:18:41Are you telling me the truth, miss, when you say that thing's considered smart?
00:18:45Seems kind of plain to me.
00:18:47We shall have to tell Miss Opal about this. Do you understand?
00:18:50Ann! Are you ready?
00:18:52Oh, do go away.
00:18:54Yes, miss.
00:19:22Oh, I'm sorry.
00:19:49You shouldn't come straight in here.
00:19:51Oh, I'm so sorry.
00:19:53Why didn't you let me know you were coming?
00:19:55Because I didn't know. Aunt Hester never gives one more than half a minute.
00:19:59How long is she staying in?
00:20:01I've come to have lunch with you.
00:20:03You'll have to let me finish examining my patient first.
00:20:06Nurse Baxter, this is my wife.
00:20:08Ann, Nurse Baxter. I'll be with you in a minute.
00:20:21You don't eat like that at home.
00:20:23There are too many people watching.
00:20:25How do you mean, people?
00:20:27Well, there's Opal, wondering if I'm despising her good food.
00:20:31Then there's Hester, thinking I ought to be fattened up on her soup.
00:20:34Then there's Judith, inspecting me from time to time as if I were one of her specimens.
00:20:39Not a particularly valuable one at that.
00:20:41Ann, what utter nonsense.
00:20:43It isn't nonsense, Bob. It's absolutely true.
00:20:45Just as it's true that I've hardly seen you alone since we came here.
00:20:48Do you mean you're not happy at Crow Hollow?
00:20:50Sorry, but it's such a useless existence for me.
00:20:53I'm not allowed to do anything.
00:20:55I'm still being treated as a guest.
00:20:57As if they didn't expect me to stay very long.
00:21:00As if they wanted to show me that I didn't belong there.
00:21:03But, darling, it's just your imagination.
00:21:05I don't care if it is. After all, I am your wife.
00:21:08I want to make a home for you.
00:21:10I want to get you your meals, wait for you at nights.
00:21:14Bob...
00:21:15Bob, couldn't we get a house in the village?
00:21:18Couldn't we leave Crow Hollow?
00:21:20I've been neglecting you.
00:21:22I want to introduce you to people.
00:21:24Diana Wilson, old Mrs Wilson's daughter, you ought to meet her.
00:21:27And then perhaps you could do some horse riding.
00:21:29You mean we're not to leave Crow Hollow?
00:21:31But you're not really unhappy there.
00:21:33I tell you what.
00:21:35Next week is the golf club dance.
00:21:37You'll meet everybody there.
00:21:39And we'll buy you a new dress.
00:21:41I don't want a new dress.
00:21:43Oh, darling.
00:21:44I'm sorry.
00:21:45But I mean, if we are going to our first dance together,
00:21:48I'd rather go in the one I wore the night we got engaged.
00:21:51Remember?
00:21:52I hope you don't catch cold with that bare top.
00:21:57Oh, just like butterfly wings.
00:22:00I have a new butterfly Dexter called for me.
00:22:03A black and yellow swallowtail.
00:22:05I think you'd like it, Ann.
00:22:07It's for Ann. Gardenias.
00:22:09Isn't that romantic?
00:22:11Dear Robert. So thoughtful of him.
00:22:13The garden's full of flowers. Robert could have saved his money.
00:22:16Shall I put them in water?
00:22:18No, thank you. I'll leave them in the box.
00:22:20Very well. Then Willow shall take them up to your room.
00:22:22Oh, yes. Willow wondered whether she might arrange your hair.
00:22:25She'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. So long as I don't look too Spanish.
00:22:44Oh, no, I don't think so, miss.
00:22:46Do you go to dances, Willow?
00:22:48Sometimes, miss.
00:22:49Where? In the village?
00:22:50Yes.
00:22:51But you'd like to go to London.
00:22:53Maybe I would.
00:22:55Why 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.
00:23:12That's wonderful, Willow.
00:23:14Now I'll try the gardenias.
00:23:19Ah!
00:23:20Spider! It's on me!
00:23:22Mr. Robert!
00:23:23Miss Opal!
00:23:24Mr. Robert!
00:23:25Miss Anne, quickly!
00:23:26Willow, get it off quickly before it bites!
00:23:28What's the matter, darling? What's wrong?
00:23:30The spider!
00:23:31The poisonous spider. It came out of the box and ran down her back.
00:23:34She thinks it's still on her dress.
00:23:36Don't move.
00:23:44Look out!
00:23:47A spider?
00:23:48It can't be. It's safely in its box.
00:23:50Poor Anne. She's had such a fright.
00:23:52Aunt 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.
00:24:03Yes, the box had a lid.
00:24:05Then...
00:24:07Oh, Judith, stop 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 root 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?
00:24:33Who'd go near it except you?
00:24:35I didn't let it out.
00:24:37I didn't plan to kill anybody.
00:24:39Kill 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.
00:24:46Go down and get a bottle from the sideboard, Willow.
00:24:48I think Willow needs one, too.
00:24:50She looks quite white.
00:24:51Dash it all. I think we could all do with a nip.
00:24:53Let's go downstairs.
00:24:55Anne, 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. It couldn't have been.
00:25:04I might have pinned the flowers on me
00:25:05and it would have been crushed and bitten me.
00:25:07Now, would you all go, please?
00:25:09We'll be down presently.
00:25:10Anne will be all right in a moment.
00:25:16It 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.
00:25:24It may have been.
00:25:25Darling, what possible reason can you have for thinking that?
00:25:27Oh, no reason.
00:25:28Just intuition.
00:25:31They don't want me here.
00:25:32I've always known it.
00:25:33Darling, you're hysterical now.
00:25:34You don't know what you're saying.
00:25:36You think it was an accident too, don't you?
00:25:38Because it couldn't conceivably have been anything else.
00:25:41Honestly, Anne, you must believe that.
00:25:43Who would be fooling around with a deadly poisonous spider
00:25:46for a joke?
00:25:47All right, Bob.
00:25:48The joke's on the spider.
00:25:50Well, put your dress on. There's a deal.
00:25:52Do we have to go to the dance?
00:25:54After you've had some dinner, you'll be all right.
00:25:56Will I?
00:25:57Not that dress, Bob.
00:25:59I couldn't wear it now.
00:26:00Give me my black one out of the wardrobe.
00:26:02I don't feel like dancing.
00:26:05You'll be all right in a couple of hours.
00:26:07You'll be all right in a couple of hours.
00:26:37Robert.
00:26:38Oh, Diana.
00:26:39Anne, this is Diana Wilson.
00:26:41You met her mother before...
00:26:43at the hospital.
00:26:44How do you do?
00:26:45You 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, but ten minutes.
00:26:53No more.
00:27:00Well, it was pretty sudden for both of us.
00:27:02We just knew.
00:27:04How lucky you are.
00:27:07Miss Wilson.
00:27:08Please, call me Diana.
00:27:11Can you tell me why your mother warned me not to come to Crow Hollow?
00:27:15Did she?
00:27:16Mother loved to be melodramatic, poor darling.
00:27:18I can't think why she should say that.
00:27:20Did she scare you?
00:27:21I was pretty nervous anyway.
00:27:23Robert has so many aunts.
00:27:25There is only one reason I can think of.
00:27:27That's a pretty feeble one for a person of my mother's intellect.
00:27:30Robert says she was wandering that night.
00:27:32That might explain it.
00:27:34You see, she wasn't too pleased with Robert's aunt, said.
00:27:37They'd more or less stolen her maid.
00:27:39Not Willow.
00:27:40Yes.
00:27:41The beautiful Willow.
00:27:43Not that I had much affection for her myself.
00:27:46But Mother had trained her from a little scrap of a thing.
00:27:49She wasn't a bit pleased when the aunts bribed her to go to Crow Hollow.
00:27:53Bribed her?
00:27:54Mother said they did.
00:27:55That Willow was to get all sorts of wonderful things.
00:27:58Tell me, did she?
00:27:59Well, she certainly isn't treated like an ordinary maid.
00:28:02She's more like the daughter of the house.
00:28:04Incidentally, who are her parents?
00:28:06Is she a local?
00:28:07Well, she's got a family over in Dolchester.
00:28:09But it's a bit of a mystery about her.
00:28:11I believe she was adopted.
00:28:13Her mother came from a good family and managed to conceal her arrival.
00:28:17Do you like her?
00:28:18I really can't tell whether she's very simple or very deep.
00:28:22Either way, it's too much.
00:28:24That's exactly how I feel about her.
00:28:26Although she's decorative, all right.
00:28:28Mother used to say the aunts had better watch out.
00:28:31Or the next thing, Robert would...
00:28:34But he wasn't that sort.
00:28:37Let's go back.
00:28:44I'm sorry you didn't enjoy your evening.
00:28:47I'm sorry I was such a bore.
00:28:49Oh, darling, Anne, you couldn't be a bore if you tried.
00:28:52I seem to have bored someone at Crow Hollow enough of them to want to kill me.
00:28:57Darling, it was an accident.
00:28:59You mustn't let your imagination run away with you.
00:29:02Why won't you understand?
00:29:04But I do understand.
00:29:05You've had a dreadful experience. I know that.
00:29:08No, not about the spider.
00:29:10All 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.
00:29:17Darling, we've had all this before.
00:29:19I don't want to be unreasonable.
00:29:21I'm not asking you to send your aunts away,
00:29:23although I think as your wife I should have the right to.
00:29:26All I'm asking for is a home of my own.
00:29:28But Crow Hollow is my home.
00:29:30It's right that I should bring you here as mistress of it.
00:29:33Mistress?
00:29:34Well, I can't plan a menu, change a picture or even don one of your socks.
00:29:38I think Aunt Opal might let you don a sock occasionally.
00:29:41It's not a joke, Bob.
00:29:42I know it's not.
00:29:44But you see, I can't leave Crow Hollow.
00:29:47Grandfather left it to me on condition that I should provide a home for his three daughters.
00:29:51He was devoted to them and very worried about their futures.
00:29:54Before he died, I promised that as long as they lived,
00:29:57I would make a home for them here.
00:30:00I must do as he wanted.
00:30:02Can'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.
00:30:11I'll try to be happy here.
00:30:13I'll really try.
00:30:58Tea's ready, miss.
00:31:30It 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.
00:31:36She had a shifty look from the first.
00:31:38I'm surprised he recovered at all.
00:31:40They've all got the constitution of water rats.
00:31:42It would take more than Marguerite to finish him.
00:31:45What did Marguerite do that was so terrible?
00:31:47Threw away the soup that I'd made her old father when he was too weak to stop her.
00:31:50You know the Potters.
00:31:51I didn't think you'd met them.
00:31:52No, I don't think I have.
00:31:53I thought...
00:31:54Good thing too.
00:31:55I shouldn't go out of your way to meet them if I were you.
00:31:57What did you think?
00:31:58I thought you were talking about Marguerite.
00:32:00Me where?
00:32:01Robert'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.
00:32:09It's silly of me, but I've been thinking about her lately.
00:32:12How 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.
00:32:18You mustn't think of yourself as a stranger here, Anne.
00:32:21Did she like Crow Hollow?
00:32:23No, 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.
00:32:36We 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 Dorchester.
00:32:49Is that all right?
00:32:50Yes.
00:32:51You 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.
00:32:59Do you think he'll be able to tomorrow?
00:33:01Well, of course, unless someone's having a baby or something awkward like that.
00:33:04Then that's all right then, Willow.
00:33:13Robert's always been so good to Willow.
00:33:15He looks upon her more as a friend.
00:33:17Such a nice attitude.
00:33:18Robert never was a snob.
00:33:20And then Willow is no ordinary servant.
00:33:22She walks like a cat.
00:33:23Have you ever noticed that rhythmic grace?
00:33:26She's a very sensuous creature.
00:33:28Don't use those queer adjectives, Judith.
00:33:30She's a very good-looking girl.
00:33:32I'm sure I don't know what we should do without her.
00:33:44Is Miss Judith in there?
00:33:46It's you, Dexter.
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 it.
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.
00:34:16I don't see why they should want to bully me.
00:34:18Excuse me, Miss.
00:34:22Come into the kitchen.
00:34:27Well, they weren't none too pleased
00:34:29in his going and marrying a stranger.
00:34:31Who would they have liked him to marry?
00:34:33Someone from these parts, I reckon.
00:34:35But you don't want to take no notice on him.
00:34:37They weren't none too pleased when his father married neither.
00:34:40And she was as pretty a young maid as you could wish.
00:34:43Did you know her?
00:34:44Of course I did.
00:34:45I lived here, man and boy, 57 years.
00:34:48And she lived in the same house with you?
00:34:50She lived in the same house with the three of them,
00:34:52just like me.
00:34:53Aye, she lived here.
00:34:55And she died here.
00:34:57Her grave's just yonder in the old graveyard.
00:35:00That used to be part of the farm, but they sold it.
00:35:031840, I think it were.
00:35:04Surely 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.
00:35:14Nobody seemed to know.
00:35:16Not even old Dr. Armour.
00:35:18She said it was some kind of low fever
00:35:20she'd picked up in foreign parts.
00:35:42Marguerite, widow of Douglas Armour,
00:35:46departed this life on June 23, 1925,
00:35:51in the 26th year of her life,
00:35:54to 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?
00:36:15I was taking shelter.
00:36:16Can't have you laid up.
00:36:18Bob.
00:36:21What did your mother die of?
00:36:23Darling, that was 25 years ago.
00:36:25Why do you ask?
00:36:26You 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?
00:36:35Darling, I don't know.
00:36:37But why this sudden interest?
00:36:38Are you going to write a story?
00:36:41Just a minute.
00:36:42Let me look at you.
00:36:43You're shivering.
00:36:44Oh, it's nothing.
00:36:45Is it a headache?
00:36:46Not badly.
00:36:47You sit down for a minute.
00:36:49But I'm perfectly all right.
00:36:50I just got wet.
00:36:51Open your mouth.
00:36:53I'll tell you in half a second whether you're all right or not.
00:36:55But by the look of you, I'd say you had a chill.
00:36:57Have you been out walking?
00:36:58No, I...
00:36:59Don't try and speak.
00:37:00Just nod your head.
00:37:01Where did you go?
00:37:03The river?
00:37:04Fry's Woods?
00:37:06Shopping?
00:37:10What do you want, Willa?
00:37:11Miss Opal asked me to see if Mr. Robert had come in.
00:37:13Well, you can see that he has, can't you?
00:37:15Now, just a minute, Willow.
00:37:16Get me some hot water bottles ready and light a fire in our bedroom.
00:37:19I will.
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, Bob.
00:37:28Doctor's orders.
00:37:29But I...
00:37:30And if you resist, I'll carry you.
00:37:31It's a show that I shouldn't carry you anyway.
00:37:43What is it, dear?
00:38:09Do you want something?
00:38:10It's nothing, Aunt Opal.
00:38:12I wondered if Robert were here.
00:38:14He had to go out.
00:38:15He was dreadfully sorry, but he got word that that pneumonia case was worse.
00:38:19He said he might be some time, but you were not to worry.
00:38:22You feeling a little better, dear?
00:38:24I thought I was, but...
00:38:25Oh, I know what the trouble is exactly.
00:38:27You need something to eat.
00:38:29You must be quite starved.
00:38:31Hester was making you some soup.
00:38:33I'll just pop down and see if it's ready.
00:38:39Just on my way up.
00:38:42Must have been telepathy.
00:38:44Invalid feeling a little better, eh?
00:38:47Now, just sit up a little.
00:38:50There, that's better.
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.
00:39:06I experimented a great deal with different blends to get just the right flavour.
00:39:10Isn't it a little bitter?
00:39:11Bitter?
00:39:12Nonsense.
00:39:13It's a very bland soup.
00:39:15I expect your palate's a bit off.
00:39:17I expect so.
00:39:18Well, I'll leave you to eat it at your leisure.
00:39:21I'll come back later.
00:39:41Paul.
00:39:56Paul.
00:40:11Paul.
00:40:22The tent stool, Bob.
00:40:26The soup.
00:40:30They've poisoned it.
00:40:33They want to kill me.
00:40:37Don't let them, Bob.
00:40:41Don't let them, Bob.
00:41:11We shall live at Crow Hollow.
00:41:13There used to be hundreds of crows there.
00:41:16They were supposed to bring ill luck to the house.
00:41:22Don't let him take you to Crow Hollow.
00:41:25It's no good to either of you.
00:41:33It's no good to either of you.
00:41:36It's no good to either of you.
00:41:39Why do you always have to kill things, Judith?
00:41:45It's Marguerite.
00:41:47Robert's mother.
00:41:54Ah!
00:41:55Margaret's on me!
00:41:56Mr. Robert!
00:42:00Her rightful help.
00:42:02Her rightful help.
00:42:03Her rightful help.
00:42:08Mind you eat that soup up, every drop.
00:42:15Bitter.
00:42:16Nonsense.
00:42:17It's a very bland soup.
00:42:33Bob.
00:42:34Bob.
00:42:43Am I better?
00:42:47Much better, thank goodness.
00:42:50Do you feel any pain?
00:42:51Not exactly.
00:42:53A little tender.
00:42:55I feel so weak.
00:42:56And you will for a few days.
00:42:58A few days?
00:42:59It was my fault.
00:43:00I should have realized that that chill might upset your stomach.
00:43:03You couldn't know, Bob.
00:43:05Why not?
00:43:06You couldn't know I was going to be poisoned.
00:43:09Now, darling.
00:43:10It was the soup immediately after I'd eaten it.
00:43:13Darling.
00:43:14You mustn't talk anymore.
00:43:16I'm going to warm you up some milk.
00:43:18And after you've had that, you might sleep again.
00:43:20It was the soup.
00:43:21All right, darling.
00:43:22It was the soup.
00:43:23It was the soup.
00:43:24It was the soup.
00:43:25It was the soup.
00:43:26It was the soup.
00:43:27All right, darling.
00:43:28It was the soup.
00:43:30But you mustn't worry about it now.
00:43:33We'll talk about that when you're stronger.
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.
00:43:55Have you lost something, miss?
00:43:56No, not lost.
00:43:57Mislaid.
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?
00:44:08I 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 said 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.
00:45:10Oh, that's those crows.
00:45:12Been a lot of them about today since the rain.
00:45:15This place used to be infested with crows.
00:45:17It was before my time there.
00:45:19It 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 me.
00:45:33Had 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, eh?
00:45:47I'm feeling fine.
00:45:49How long can nurse Baxter stay?
00:45:51A few days.
00:45:52He'll be up and about by then.
00:45:54Bob, that soup.
00:45:57Darling, there's absolutely no proof about the soup.
00:45:59I know there's no proof.
00:46:01That's all part of the cleverness.
00:46:02Only you refuse to see it.
00:46:04Someday you'll know I was right.
00:46:06It's not too late.
00:46:07You stop worrying.
00:46:08It's bad for you.
00:46:09Don't worry.
00:46:10As long as nurse Baxter cooks my meals.
00:46:13That's all right.
00:46:14How many crows are there in the elms now?
00:46:17Oh, I don't know.
00:46:18Quite a lot.
00:46:19It's extraordinary the way they've come back.
00:46:21Lying here listening to them, I think I'll go mad.
00:46:23Oh, darling, it's not as bad as that.
00:46:25It's not the noise they make.
00:46:27It's what they mean.
00:46:28You're just being plain superstitious.
00:46:30I keep thinking about your mother.
00:46:33What made her die?
00:46:35Nothing remotely connected with what's wrong with you.
00:46:38Bob, I promised not to worry you anymore,
00:46:40but 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.
00:46:55You'll never leave Crow Hollow, will you?
00:46:58Come in.
00:47:26I'm going away with her.
00:47:27For long, Miss. Quite a time, I think.
00:47:30I've decided to tell you because I want you to do one small favor for me.
00:47:34Yes, Miss.
00:47:35When there's no one about, telephone Joe Higgins to wait at the main gates at half past five.
00:47:40The train goes at six, so that should be plenty of time.
00:47:42So you're not telling them you're going?
00:47:44Not at the moment. I 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.
00:48:08Quite useless, really.
00:48:09It's pretty.
00:48:12I think you're very wise, Miss.
00:48:14Wise?
00:48:15To go 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?
00:48:54Fincham, 2-3, please.
00:48:56Yes, that's right.
00:49:12All ready, Miss.
00:49:13The coast's clear now if you want to slip out.
00:49:15Miss Opal's lying down.
00:49:16Miss Hester's in bed.
00:49:17I'll go and get her.
00:49:18I'll go and get her.
00:49:19I'll go and get her.
00:49:20I'll go and get her.
00:49:21I'll go and get her.
00:49:23Miss Opal's lying down.
00:49:24Miss Hester's in the greenhouse.
00:49:25Miss Judith's in the laboratory.
00:49:26Thank you, Willow.
00:49:29You've done very well.
00:49:52All right.
00:50:23There.
00:50:24Are you all right?
00:50:26Here, come and sit down for a while.
00:50:33You know, you're in no fit state to travel.
00:50:38I think you'd better come back with me.
00:50:40No, I know.
00:50:41I know.
00:50:42I know.
00:50:43I know.
00:50:44I know.
00:50:45I know.
00:50:46I know.
00:50:47I know.
00:50:48I know.
00:50:49I know.
00:50:50I know.
00:50:51I know.
00:50:53But I must go.
00:50:54I've got to catch the train.
00:50:55Nonsense.
00:50:56You can get the next one if it's so important.
00:50:58Come 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,
00:51:10that they hoped Robert would marry her.
00:51:13I 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.
00:51:21Maybe they weren't thinking so much of Robert.
00:51:23Perhaps it had something to do with Willow's parentage.
00:51:26Her mother might have been a great friend of theirs.
00:51:29Or one of them.
00:51:31One of the aunts Willow's mother?
00:51:33Surely not.
00:51:34Well, I'm only supposing.
00:51:35But surely a mother couldn't live in the same house and not treat her as a daughter.
00:51:39Well, you once said they did.
00:51:40But I mean openly.
00:51:42I'm sure I couldn't.
00:51:43This isn't London.
00:51:44You've no idea how strong prejudices are in the country against affairs of that kind.
00:51:49Anyway, 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.
00:52:01Yes, I think that's true.
00:52:05I'll just slip in quietly if I can.
00:52:07Thank you for everything.
00:52:08Take care of yourself.
00:52:11Don'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.
00:52:19Good luck.
00:52:49Good luck.
00:53:19It was meant to be me.
00:53:23When did you find her?
00:53:24Just now, when I came in.
00:53:27I would say that death took place during the last half an hour.
00:53:31She had face cream on her hands as though she was making up.
00:53:35Do the aunts know?
00:53:37One of the aunts must know.
00:53:41Am I going to be late for dinner?
00:53:43I'm going to be late for dinner.
00:53:46Am I going to be late for dinner?
00:53:48I was so anxious to finish taking chrysanthemums.
00:53:51I got a rabbit this evening.
00:53:53Fine big buck.
00:53:54There he lay, stretched out stiff,
00:53:56with his nose still on the nibbled carrot.
00:53:58Aunt Hester!
00:53:59Willow! Willow! Willow!
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's in our bedroom.
00:54:14Dead.
00:54:17With a knife in her back.
00:54:19Not Willow!
00:54:22And had you observed anything significant
00:54:24between your husband and deceased?
00:54:26I tell you, it wasn't Willow who was meant to be killed.
00:54:28It was me.
00:54:29Whoever did it mistook her for me.
00:54:31She was in my room, sitting at my dressing table,
00:54:33wearing my dress.
00:54:34With fair hair.
00:54:36Whereas yours is dark.
00:54:38They'd need to be extremely short-sighted
00:54:40to mistake her hair for yours, whatever she was wearing.
00:54:43Why should anyone want to kill Willow?
00:54:45She was valued a great deal here, and I wasn't.
00:54:47That could be a reason too.
00:54:49I don't understand what you mean.
00:54:54Do you recognise this?
00:54:56The deceased was wearing it.
00:54:58Do you know where she got it?
00:55:00Yes, my husband gave it to her.
00:55:03Was your husband in the habit of giving her presents?
00:55:06From time to time.
00:55:07They all were.
00:55:08She was always treated as a member of the family.
00:55:12I don't know why.
00:55:14It's hardly usual for a maid, is it?
00:55:16She wasn't a usual kind of maid.
00:55:18I believe it was something to do with her parentage.
00:55:21She was adopted, wasn't she?
00:55:23A couple indulged her.
00:55:25Do you know anything about them, Sergeant?
00:55:27Well, there was a rumour that the father
00:55:29used to be a gardener up here in the old doctor's time.
00:55:32Jed Dawson.
00:55:33I don't suppose you remember him, sir.
00:55:35A gardener?
00:55:36And the mother?
00:55:37I don't know, sir.
00:55:38That was kept very dark.
00:55:40I heard that the mother came from a good family.
00:55:42That she might have been a friend of the Armour's.
00:55:44No, we'll go into that.
00:55:45I 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.
00:56:06What a terrible thing.
00:56:09I heard from Jenkins.
00:56:10I called over to see whether there was anything
00:56:12I could do to help.
00:56:13It's very nice of you.
00:56:14What did he say?
00:56:15He wouldn't believe that Willow was killed
00:56:17and mistake for me.
00:56:18Is that what you think?
00:56:20She was in our room, wearing Ann's dress
00:56:22and with her back to the door.
00:56:24He said no one could mistake Willow's hair
00:56:26for mine, but in a bad light.
00:56:28No, the sun was shining.
00:56:30There must be an explanation.
00:56:32I know I'm right.
00:56:34Darling, Diana thought that you might like
00:56:36to spend a few days with her until...
00:56:39You look so terribly tired.
00:56:40You might sleep better away from here.
00:56:42It's very kind of you,
00:56:43but they said no one was to leave the house.
00:56:45But that doesn't apply to you, darling.
00:56:47Of course it does.
00:56:48I'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?
00:57:01I told you.
00:57:02They think I did it.
00:57:04Of course they don't.
00:57:06Who is he, Dawson?
00:57:08He was a gardener who worked here
00:57:09who left to go to your mother.
00:57:10My mother?
00:57:12I don't remember anyone of that name.
00:57:14That might have given her an entirely different reason
00:57:16for warning me not to come to Crow Hollow.
00:57:18Oh, Ann, 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,
00:57:24would it be all right for my wife
00:57:25to spend a couple of days with Miss Wilson?
00:57:26She could come over again whenever you wanted her.
00:57:27Not yet, sir.
00:57:28Sorry, but no one must leave
00:57:29until we get this matter cleared up.
00:57:31Except, of course,
00:57:32for any professional calls herself.
00:57:33Yes, but look here...
00:57:34I'm sorry, sir.
00:57:35You can ask the inspector,
00:57:37but 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,
00:57:45that gardener father sacked.
00:57:46He was a bad lot, right enough.
00:57:48Fancy that.
00:57:49I suppose father found out
00:57:50and then trumped up that excuse
00:57:51about the plants being stolen.
00:57:53So that's where Willow got her looks.
00:57:55He was a handsome devil.
00:57:57Ah, he was a fine-looking chap.
00:57:59Masses of fair, curly hair.
00:58:01But he was vain of it.
00:58:02Wouldn't wear a cap, rain or shine
00:58:04for fear of hiding his face.
00:58:06In his pretty hair.
00:58:08A cap!
00:58:09So that's how Willow was mistaken for me.
00:58:14I left a hat on my bed today,
00:58:15a silly extravagant thing, all flowers.
00:58:17Just the sort of thing
00:58:18that Willow would want to try on.
00:58:20And with her hair up,
00:58:21it would have been completely hidden by the hat.
00:58:23Don't you see?
00:58:25Now are you convinced, Inspector?
00:58:27It's a possibility, certainly.
00:58:28It's more than that.
00:58:29It's obvious.
00:58:30Can't you see that?
00:58:31Doctor,
00:58:32do you ever make a diagnosis
00:58:33without considering all the symptoms?
00:58:35No.
00:58:36Well, neither do I allow myself
00:58:37to be convinced
00:58:38without taking into consideration
00:58:39all the facts.
00:58:40But you've got all the facts.
00:58:41Some of them.
00:58:42The rest are supposition.
00:58:44I'm not a doctor.
00:58:45I'm a doctor.
00:58:46I'm a doctor.
00:58:47I'm a doctor.
00:58:48I'm a doctor.
00:58:49I'm a doctor.
00:58:50I'm a doctor.
00:58:51I'm a doctor.
00:58:52I'm a doctor.
00:58:53I'm a doctor.
00:58:55And meanwhile,
00:58:56my wife's life is in danger.
00:58:57You 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.
00:59:08And if you have another spare room,
00:59:10I should suggest Miss Wilson stayed here
00:59:12so that she could keep an eye on Mrs. Armour
00:59:14if 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.
00:59:23All right.
00:59:54Who is it?
00:59:55It's for Robert, dear.
00:59:56The telephone.
00:59:57Robert's wanted.
00:59:59Who is it?
01:00:00Mrs. Matthew's, dear.
01:00:01The baby you delivered yesterday.
01:00:04What's wrong with it?
01:00:05Not the baby, the mother.
01:00:06She's running a high temperature.
01:00:09Is she?
01:00:11No.
01:00:12We've got to warn the doctor.
01:00:13I'll go.
01:00:18I'll go.
01:00:21Mary?
01:00:22Come into the kitchen before you go out and have a cup of coffee.
01:00:26It's already made. I'm just going down and I'll have it ready for you.
01:00:36Oh, Bob, must you go?
01:00:38I'll be as quick as I can.
01:00:40You go into Diana's room, wake her and stay with her all the time I'm away.
01:00:43Promise?
01:00:44I promise, but...
01:00:46But what?
01:00:48I don't know, it'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?
01:00:56Yes, I suppose that's it.
01:00:58Come on. I'll take you to Diana's room.
01:01:00I'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 about your case.
01:01:16May I leave Anne with you?
01:01:17Yes, of course. Come on in, won't you?
01:01:19I was awake anyway. Those crows are enough to wake the dead.
01:01:22I shan't be long. Bye-bye, darling.
01:01:24And don't worry.
01:01:29Did you sleep?
01:01:30On and off.
01:01:31You?
01:01:32Like a log, until those damn birds started catawalling.
01:01:35The telephone!
01:01:36What about it? What's the matter?
01:01:38Did 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!
01:01:55Bob!
01:01:57Bob!
01:01:58It's a trick. The telephone didn't ring. You mustn't go.
01:02:01A trick?
01:02:02They want to get you out of the way so they can kill me.
01:02:04Anne, 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. I'll go and ask her.
01:02:16First let me pour Anne a cup of coffee. She looks frozen.
01:02:19You drink yours, Robert, before it gets cold.
01:02:21Bob, don't believe it. They 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. Who 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.
01:02:45Don't be such a fool, Robert.
01:02:47What do you think's in the coffee? Toadstool poisoning? Judith?
01:02:51You can't put this on Judith, Aunt Opal.
01:02:53It was Judith's spider and Hester's soup.
01:02:57But it's your coffee. Entirely yours.
01:03:00Except that it has some of Aunt Hester's strychnine in it.
01:03:04Why should you want to kill me, Aunt Opal?
01:03:06Why shouldn't I?
01:03:07Why should either of you live now that Willow's dead?
01:03:10I always intended you to marry Willow
01:03:13so that she should be mistress of Crow Hollow, not her.
01:03:17Yes, I tried to kill her, too,
01:03:19so that you should be free again, free to marry Willow.
01:03:23But instead I killed my own daughter,
01:03:27my daughter Willow.
01:03:32I think I shall have to call the police, Aunt Opal.
01:03:44It's better like this.
01:03:46Don't go back, darling.
01:04:14What are you writing, darling?
01:04:16Oh, Diana's coming to dinner tomorrow.
01:04:18I'm planning a menu.
01:04:26What are you writing?
01:04:28Oh, this. It's an application for a post at the Middlesex.
01:04:32Junior house search.
01:04:35You'd be glad to get away, wouldn't you?
01:04:38Let me see.
01:04:41Ahem.
01:04:43I don't think Grandfather would have approved, do you?
01:04:46Are you sure?
01:04:48Quite sure?
01:04:50Quite sure, darling.
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