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00:01:35Good afternoon, Mrs. Simmons.
00:01:37Good afternoon, Mr. Marshall.
00:01:39Isn't it a fine spring day?
00:01:40Oh, it's lovely.
00:01:42You've done wonders with your garden.
00:01:44I'm a green thumb, as they say in Devon.
00:01:46Would you like some plants?
00:01:48Oh, thank you very much, but I'm afraid my wife hasn't got much time to look after the garden, and
00:01:52I...
00:01:54Oh, you want?
00:01:56Order was to be here at six o'clock sharp, Governor.
00:01:59Twenty-six?
00:02:00Twenty-six is right, sir.
00:02:01Oh.
00:02:08Well, Mr. Philip Marshall, what a privilege it is to see you home at last.
00:02:12What's the cab for, Cora?
00:02:13What did you think?
00:02:15Penny Bus is good enough for me whenever I get a minute off from slaving and digging in this house.
00:02:19Did John send for that cab?
00:02:20Right as a button, aren't you?
00:02:21That's just what young Hopeful did.
00:02:23He's clearing out bag and baggage of selfish, ungrateful, good-for-nothing.
00:02:26What did you do to him?
00:02:28What did I do to him?
00:02:30That's right.
00:02:31Put the blame on me.
00:02:33All I did was to bring him into the world, nurse him, make myself a doormat for him to walk
00:02:37on.
00:02:38Go on.
00:02:39Go to him.
00:02:40And tell him from me that when he leaves his house, he'd even think he could come crawling back, deserting
00:02:44his own mother.
00:02:46Well, son?
00:02:47I'm sorry, Dad.
00:02:49Leaving when it was bound to come.
00:02:50I'd stick it out here on your account.
00:02:52What happened?
00:02:53She was at me all day to mend the kitchen sink.
00:02:57I just couldn't take the time.
00:02:59It's been a race at the office, you know, that there's not a chap there wouldn't give his right arm
00:03:03for that Canadian job.
00:03:04I know.
00:03:05Well, I've been doing some extra work on my own time.
00:03:08Cost estimates.
00:03:09I thought it might give me a leg up.
00:03:12She got into one of her rages, and before I could stop her.
00:03:16Twenty pages.
00:03:18A whole week's work.
00:03:20Should she be a place to stay?
00:03:22I'll stay at Jimmy Esterbrook's.
00:03:25I'm sorry, boy.
00:03:26Can't be helped.
00:03:28Allow me.
00:03:28No, no, thank you.
00:03:31Let me have your address at Jimmy's.
00:03:33I'll keep in touch with you, Dad.
00:03:34First bank holiday, maybe, if you're not too busy.
00:03:37Find that step-by.
00:03:38Right.
00:03:40Spend the day at market, perhaps, or go on the river?
00:03:42I'd like that, Dad.
00:03:43Pity this house isn't good enough for you.
00:03:46Goodbye, Mother.
00:03:47Goodbye, Mother, you mean-y-mouthed hypocrite.
00:03:50What?
00:03:52Two of a kind, that's what you are.
00:03:55Right, dear, sir.
00:04:01Well, I'll see you soon, Dad.
00:04:02I shall miss you, Sam.
00:04:19Philip, come here.
00:04:21Don't you go sneaking up upstairs, climbing up while I'm talking to you.
00:04:25Just as though I'm a common servant.
00:04:28I know what's my due, even if you don't.
00:04:30And what do you think you're doing now?
00:04:32I'm moving into John's room.
00:04:34Aborably, indecent.
00:04:35We're married, aren't we?
00:04:37Yes, we're married, all right.
00:04:38Then how dare you.
00:04:39I forbid it, you hear me?
00:04:41I forbid you to treat me like this.
00:04:42Now, Cora, that's all over now that John's gone.
00:04:45All over and downwards.
00:04:46Do you understand me?
00:04:47I'm moving out of here, and there's nothing you can do about it.
00:04:50Oh, yes, there is.
00:04:51There's plenty I can do.
00:04:54What's got into you?
00:04:55I'd like to know what's going on in your head.
00:04:57It's much better that you shouldn't, Cora.
00:05:01Might frighten you.
00:05:28A very interesting piece, sir.
00:05:30Ah, yes, indeed.
00:05:34Can I be of any service, madam?
00:05:36It isn't closing time, is it?
00:05:38Ah, very nearly, madam.
00:05:39I should like...
00:05:40You don't sell cigarettes to ladies, madam.
00:05:42Oh, no, of course not.
00:05:44I should like to see the manager, please.
00:05:46Mr. Marshall.
00:05:48If you kindly step this way, miss, and take a seat,
00:05:51he'll be with you in a moment.
00:06:00Married you.
00:06:02Yes, Mr. Marshall?
00:06:03I have to bring a very serious matter to your attention.
00:06:07Yes, sir.
00:06:08I regret to say there's a shortage in your accounts.
00:06:11There's a penny missing in the stamp box.
00:06:13It was for a sugar bun this morning,
00:06:15but I'd put it back on payday.
00:06:17Honest, Mr. Marshall.
00:06:18And the, uh, tuppence the day before yesterday, what was that for?
00:06:22Acid drops, sir.
00:06:23Acid drops?
00:06:26That's very serious.
00:06:28And the, uh, ha'penny the day before?
00:06:31For the monkey with the hurdy-gurdy.
00:06:33But I'd put it all back Saturday, every last farthing.
00:06:36That's what all embezzlers plan to do.
00:06:39I'm not an embezzler.
00:06:40Yes, but you started that way.
00:06:42It's the first step that counts.
00:06:45After that, it all becomes too easy.
00:06:48Sixpence tomorrow,
00:06:49half a crown the day after,
00:06:51and then a five-pound note.
00:06:53But...
00:06:53I know you always mean to pay it back,
00:06:56but I'm afraid you'll finish by paying it back in the Portland quarries.
00:07:00Don't send me to no quarries, please, Mr. Marshall.
00:07:04Oh, not this time.
00:07:07How did you stop sniffling and wipe your eyes?
00:07:13There's a young lady to see you, Mr. Marshall.
00:07:24Would you step this way, please?
00:07:30Won't you sit down?
00:07:35What can I do for you?
00:07:37It's what I like to do for you.
00:07:38I'm seeking employment.
00:07:41Here?
00:07:43Yes.
00:07:43Office work.
00:07:45I know how to take dictation.
00:07:47But we're very satisfied with our young men.
00:07:51Our young men have been in our employ for 30 or 40 years.
00:07:55Well, I wouldn't think of taking anyone else's place.
00:07:58I only thought that...
00:08:00Well, you see, I know how to use a new typewriting machine.
00:08:04We have never felt the need for such contraptions at Fraser and Nicholson's.
00:08:09I see.
00:08:11Well...
00:08:12I'm so sorry.
00:08:13I think you might have better luck in a Draper's establishment.
00:08:15I've tried.
00:08:20Lovely spring weather we're having, isn't it?
00:08:29Good night.
00:08:30Good night.
00:08:39Good night, Mr. Moyer.
00:08:40Good night, sir.
00:08:41Good night, sir.
00:08:41Good night, Jarvis.
00:08:42Good night.
00:08:50Well, not gone yet, Marshal.
00:08:51No, is there anything further I can do for you tonight, Mr. Fraser, sir?
00:08:54No, thank you.
00:08:55Always the last.
00:08:56Always the last.
00:08:59Good night, Mr. Marshal.
00:09:00Good night.
00:09:01Merry you.
00:09:04Yes, Mr. Marshal, sir?
00:09:05Now, mind you, put that thread and tape me back in the stamp box Saturday.
00:09:08Hmm?
00:09:09Yes, sir.
00:09:09And don't you ever let this happen again.
00:09:11It won't, Mr. Marshal.
00:09:12No, run along now.
00:09:13Married you.
00:09:14Yes, sir.
00:09:19Good night, Tuttons.
00:09:21Good night, Mr. Marshal, sir.
00:09:27Good night, Mr. Marshal, sir.
00:09:39I beg your pardon.
00:09:41Is there anything I can do?
00:09:42Go away, please.
00:09:43Leave me alone.
00:09:47Mr. Marshal.
00:09:48I thought you were trying...
00:09:49Well, I wasn't.
00:09:50I'm hardly the type.
00:09:52Please forgive me.
00:09:53I only wanted to help if I could.
00:09:57You're very kind.
00:10:00I'm afraid I'm behaving rather badly.
00:10:02Oh, now, come, come.
00:10:03It can't be that bad.
00:10:05Would, uh, talking about it make it a bit easier?
00:10:10At any rate, would you let me take you to your bus?
00:10:12I'd be glad if you would.
00:10:16I was very sorry about the work in my office, Miss, uh...
00:10:19Gray, Mary Gray.
00:10:20Miss Gray?
00:10:23Disappointment is a bit of a facer, always.
00:10:25It wasn't just that.
00:10:26I hadn't been going about all day, and I forgot to have lunch.
00:10:30I was feeling a bit dumb.
00:10:33All at once it came over me how terribly alone I was.
00:10:36You see, my father died in the winter, and there were just the two of us.
00:10:39Well, I know what it is to be lonely, and I know that that can be faced.
00:10:42Does that make you feel any better?
00:10:43Ever so much.
00:10:44Where are you going?
00:10:46Home.
00:10:47Oh, I see.
00:10:49A cup of tea, a six-penny novel, and a good long cry.
00:10:54I'm afraid you've been looking in at my window.
00:10:56That's right.
00:10:57Smile.
00:10:58I'll try.
00:11:00Shall we pool our loneliness?
00:11:02What do you mean?
00:11:03Oh, just go somewhere for a bite to eat and have a talk.
00:11:05You know, I'm sure I know someone who needs the services of a clever young lady
00:11:08that can use one of those typewriting contraptions.
00:11:10Well, I don't know...
00:11:12Why don't you try just for this evening?
00:11:13You might find you enjoy it, and it would be a great kindness to me.
00:11:16I'm sure it would be to me.
00:11:18Oh, but aren't you on your way to someone?
00:11:20Someone?
00:11:21No.
00:11:22There's no one.
00:11:24Cabby.
00:11:3022 on Compton Street, that Chinese place.
00:11:41It was very good of you to take me on trust.
00:11:44That altogether.
00:11:46I saw you with that little boy.
00:11:48Little boy?
00:11:48Oh, you mean married you?
00:11:50The one you're not going to send to the Portland Quarries.
00:11:52I'm taking a terrible risk.
00:11:54He's a desperate character, don't you think?
00:11:57So desperate, I wanted to hug him.
00:11:59That's the danger with his type they get round you.
00:12:01You were so gentle with him.
00:12:03Gentle?
00:12:04Me gentle?
00:12:06My dear, Miss Gray, you will discover in time...
00:12:08I have a heart of stone.
00:12:27Jeder!
00:12:43On an earthúr.
00:12:50bull scary, me too.
00:12:52To you also is mindful of the entire community.
00:12:56The young people on....
00:13:28Oh, Philip, I've had such a good time since we met.
00:13:31Can't thank you enough.
00:13:32Now, please don't try.
00:13:34You say the nicest things, you do the nicest things.
00:13:36What have I done now?
00:13:38Have you forgotten that you got me my job at Exeter in the Windward?
00:13:41Don't remember a thing about it.
00:13:42I only remember the things that haven't happened yet.
00:13:45Speaking about that, what about dinner tomorrow night?
00:13:47I just hate to eat it too early.
00:13:48Sweet of you.
00:13:50Oh, dear.
00:13:52I can't.
00:13:53Why not?
00:13:54Otherwise engaged.
00:13:56Mrs. Packer, I told you about her.
00:13:58She works at Exeter in the Windward.
00:14:00A real old duck, but she's been frightfully nice to me,
00:14:02so I asked her and her husband to dine with me.
00:14:04Oh, I see.
00:14:05But listen, why don't you come along?
00:14:06I'd like very much for you to meet them.
00:14:08Why, I'd like to very much, but I...
00:14:09Oh, no buts. Now, come along, Philip.
00:14:11Now, listen, Mary.
00:14:13You and I are pretty good friends.
00:14:15The best.
00:14:15We had a lot of fun together.
00:14:17Just the two of us.
00:14:19Can't we go on like this?
00:14:23What is it, Philip, that you don't ever like to meet anyone?
00:14:26Well, a chap my age has the right to a few peculiarities.
00:14:31I know there's something if you'd only tell me.
00:14:33Nothing could tell.
00:14:35As you wish.
00:14:37Of course, you're free to do as you like.
00:14:39Good night, Philip.
00:15:07I won't be dragooned, I tell you.
00:15:09It's not me that's dragooning you.
00:15:11Mr. Simmons' closing time is closing time.
00:15:13Good evening, Mr. Crummett.
00:15:14I'll take Mr. Simmons home.
00:15:15Oh, it's Marshall.
00:15:17Hello.
00:15:17Good night, Mr. Crummett.
00:15:18Come along.
00:15:19Oh, Mr. Marshall.
00:15:20Hmm?
00:15:20Your wife's been inquiring about you.
00:15:23Oh.
00:15:25Has she?
00:15:26Yes, and rather sharply on the old.
00:15:28Sharp as a knife, I know.
00:15:29Married man myself.
00:15:31It's all right, Crummett.
00:15:31Marshall, please.
00:15:32I'm sorry.
00:15:33Good night, gentlemen.
00:15:34Look here, you ruddy beggar.
00:15:36Come along, Simmons.
00:15:37You can tell me all about it on the way home.
00:15:39Shopkeeper, counting every drop.
00:15:41Horse leech.
00:15:43Shopkeepers are all horse leeches.
00:15:44Sucking the blood of their betters.
00:15:46You know, Marshall, my grandfather never put up with it.
00:15:48If Master Crummett had had the impertinence to send him a bill,
00:15:52he'd have had him horse whipped.
00:15:53Aha, the brave days of old.
00:15:55You're a decent chap, you know, Marshall, for a shopkeeper.
00:15:57That's very good of you.
00:15:58I don't hold it against you.
00:15:59Oh, thank you very much.
00:16:01Could you lend me 10 bucks for a week?
00:16:03So it's you, Gilbert.
00:16:05Who'd you think it'd be?
00:16:06Oh, good evening, Mrs. Sertensack.
00:16:07Good evening.
00:16:08Edith, say good evening to Mr. Marshall.
00:16:10Gilbert, please.
00:16:11Go on and lie down for a bit.
00:16:12It'll do you good.
00:16:13Sharp as a knife.
00:16:15I know.
00:16:18You were very kind to bring him home.
00:16:20I'm glad to be of service.
00:16:22Tell me, what's the latest news of John?
00:16:24He's doing very well.
00:16:25He's firmer thinking of sending him to Canada in the spring.
00:16:28Oh, you miss him.
00:16:29I won't see him at all then.
00:16:31Why, that's too bad.
00:16:32Edith, Edith!
00:16:34Blast the woman.
00:16:35Yes, Gilbert, I'm coming.
00:16:39Good night.
00:16:40Good night, Mrs. Simmons.
00:16:55Good night.
00:17:30Oh, it's you.
00:17:31Come in.
00:17:32Blast it, I'm sure.
00:17:34My key, please.
00:17:35I'll give it to you when I've said my say not a minute before.
00:17:38My key.
00:17:39Pretty state of affairs, isn't it,
00:17:40when a decent married woman has to do a thing like that
00:17:42to get her own husband to come into the room where he belongs
00:17:44to speak a civil word to her?
00:17:46Cora, we have nothing to say to each other.
00:17:47Oh, haven't we?
00:17:48Well, I have something to say if you haven't.
00:17:51How much longer do you think I'm going to stand
00:17:52to this coming in at all hours of the night?
00:17:54Well, the neighbors are all beginning to gossip.
00:17:56None of that business, Cora.
00:17:58Married people's lives is everybody's business.
00:18:00And I'm not going to be made an object of pity
00:18:02in front of my friends, do you hear me?
00:18:04Well, only last night the Jevnes came in.
00:18:06Where's Philip, they said, off on a holiday?
00:18:08Oh, no, I said, Philip's working.
00:18:10What on a Sabbath?
00:18:12I'd have plopped through the floor, I was so mortified.
00:18:14But how was I to know it was Sunday or any other day
00:18:17with you never at home and all the days alike?
00:18:19Well, that was awkward for you, Cora,
00:18:20and I'm sorry it happened.
00:18:21Not you, Gare.
00:18:23What have I ever done to deserve this?
00:18:25I wonder what ever possessed me to tie myself up
00:18:28to a poor stick like you.
00:18:30Walked through the forest and picked a crooked tree.
00:18:33That's what I did.
00:18:34A crooked, fat, ugly tree.
00:18:36And I don't care if I'd ever see your ugly face again.
00:18:39Here, come on, go out.
00:18:40Get out.
00:18:40Take your key.
00:18:41Go and lock yourself in.
00:18:42You dead, died there.
00:18:44Rocked there for all I can.
00:18:47Stop crying, Cora.
00:18:49Don't you know they can hear every word we say next door?
00:18:52I don't care.
00:18:53I have nothing to be ashamed of.
00:18:54But crying isn't going to help.
00:18:56We've been through all this so many times before
00:18:58and it's got us nowhere.
00:18:59If we could only talk quietly.
00:19:00What are you driving at?
00:19:02Cora, if we could come to some sort of understanding,
00:19:05it might help us.
00:19:07Now, listen.
00:19:08If we face things honestly,
00:19:10we'd admit that we've never been happy together.
00:19:11Well, have we?
00:19:12Not once all the years we've been married.
00:19:13And whose fault is that, I'd like to know.
00:19:15It isn't anybody's fault.
00:19:17We've tried to rub along together.
00:19:18Over and over again, we've tried it.
00:19:20And it isn't that I do this or that you do that.
00:19:23Don't you know that when two people are shut up together
00:19:25and they don't love each other,
00:19:26everything they do becomes hateful just because they do it.
00:19:28Oh, so that's it, is it?
00:19:30You hate me.
00:19:31You've always hated me.
00:19:32Cora, I did not say that.
00:19:34Will you please listen to me?
00:19:37All I say is that we have some good years ahead of us,
00:19:40both of us.
00:19:41Why can't we live them happily, apart from each other?
00:19:44Apart?
00:19:45What do you mean?
00:19:47Let me go, Cora.
00:19:48What are you talking about?
00:19:50Just that.
00:19:51Let me go.
00:19:53Divorce?
00:19:55Do you mean divorce?
00:19:58Never in my life have I heard of anything so immoral,
00:20:01so downright indecent.
00:20:02Divorce, indeed.
00:20:03Oh, no.
00:20:03I'm not going to be laughed at a woman who couldn't hold her husband.
00:20:06Just for that should do for both of us.
00:20:08But we're married, aren't we?
00:20:10And we'll stay married till death do us part.
00:20:12Do you hear me?
00:20:12I hear you, but it isn't going to help.
00:20:14But I have my mind made up.
00:20:15If you don't divorce me, I'm going to leave you.
00:20:17Oh, you are, are you?
00:20:18Yes.
00:20:18Would you just try?
00:20:19Just you try to leave me.
00:20:20I'll go down to your precious shop,
00:20:22and I'll tell your noble customers what sort you are.
00:20:24I knew how this adept, I knew it was no use talking to you.
00:20:26There's no way out, is there?
00:20:28Oh, yes, there is for you, Mr. Philip Marshall.
00:20:31Out of your shop, out of your job.
00:20:33Wouldn't I like to see old Fraser's face
00:20:35when I tell him that he's very proper manager,
00:20:37his elegant Mr. Marshall,
00:20:40his pillar of respectability,
00:20:41wants to divorce his old wife,
00:20:43and I will tell him so, help me!
00:20:52Oh!
00:20:53Run along, Fritzie, you'll be late.
00:20:55I told you she liked the velvet, Maud.
00:20:57Who is she?
00:20:59Mrs. Rockwood Nelson.
00:21:01That's big dray horse.
00:21:02Oh, run along, Maud.
00:21:04She's in a lather out there.
00:21:06Thanks, Packer.
00:21:07I think I'll keep it on a bit.
00:21:09Oh, no, you don't.
00:21:11I know what's on your mind, Daddy.
00:21:12You want to wear it to that precious dance of yours tonight.
00:21:15Come on, off with it.
00:21:16Sure you won't change your mind and come, Mary.
00:21:18Thanks, I'd love to, but I've got an engagement.
00:21:21I bet I know what it is.
00:21:22Her young man doesn't dance.
00:21:24Doesn't he?
00:21:24He dances divinely.
00:21:26He just doesn't like the usual places.
00:21:28No?
00:21:28Not really, Mary.
00:21:30You know, this is the first time she's ever told us a word about him.
00:21:32What's he like?
00:21:34Oh, he's tall and slender, poetic,
00:21:37and the most soulful eyes.
00:21:40Not the least touch of swank about him.
00:21:42We never dreamed he came from one of our very best families.
00:21:44What?
00:21:45You don't mean the nobility, dearie.
00:21:47Oh, for hundreds of years.
00:21:49Of course, his family won't have a thing to do with me,
00:21:51but he doesn't care a button.
00:21:52He has a vast income of his own.
00:21:55Coffee in Brazil, diamonds in South Africa, you know.
00:21:59Oh, it's most unbelievable.
00:22:01Oh, quite.
00:22:02Because it isn't true, not a word of it.
00:22:05Mary Gray.
00:22:06Teasing us like that.
00:22:08You and your dream boy.
00:22:10You should see him.
00:22:12He weighs 14 stone if he weighs an ounce.
00:22:15He doesn't dance, not a step.
00:22:16He's not the least bit romantic,
00:22:17and I don't care because I'm not either.
00:22:19I'll go along with you, you fibber.
00:22:21And he works in the shop, same as I do.
00:22:23And he has a son.
00:22:24A son?
00:22:25Yes.
00:22:25And he's kind and thoughtful and always looking after one.
00:22:28Makes you want to look after him.
00:22:30Just like my old man.
00:22:32Sounds very cozy to me,
00:22:33if you don't happen to care for him.
00:22:35Oh, but I do.
00:22:36The question is, does he care for me?
00:22:38Doesn't he?
00:22:40Has he asked you yet, did he?
00:22:42Not yet, but I'm hoping.
00:22:44Tonight, maybe.
00:22:47He spoke as if tonight was something special.
00:23:59Come on, friends.
00:24:01Come back soon.
00:24:32You aren't eating a thing, aren't you, Will?
00:24:34Oh, yes.
00:24:36Did anything happen on your way here? You were so late.
00:24:38No.
00:24:41But you're so unlike yourself tonight, Philip. What is it?
00:24:43Mary, I am troubled.
00:24:46Can't I help?
00:24:47There isn't any help anywhere.
00:24:49Oh, surely. It can't be so bad.
00:24:52It's the worst possible for both of us.
00:24:54Mary, after tonight, we can't see each other anymore.
00:24:57What did you say?
00:24:59I said we mustn't see each other ever again.
00:25:05Don't look like that.
00:25:10Philip, we've had a very pleasant friendship. It's meant a lot to me.
00:25:14I hope it's meant something to you.
00:25:16It meant everything.
00:25:18Well, then don't you think I deserve to know?
00:25:20Tell me, Philip.
00:25:23Well, it's very difficult. You see, I behave very badly.
00:25:28Do you remember the first time we met?
00:25:31I remember.
00:25:32I told you I had no attachments and no ties of any kind.
00:25:38You mean you're married?
00:25:42It wasn't very fair, was it?
00:25:45No.
00:25:48You see, I was afraid you'd never see me again.
00:25:51And I couldn't let you go once I'd met you.
00:25:54Could I?
00:25:55I could face anything but losing you, and I was sure she'd let me go.
00:26:01I begged her for a divorce.
00:26:04Won't she?
00:26:05No. This is our last time together.
00:26:08You've risked too much already.
00:26:11Please, Philip, please.
00:26:13No, she must never...
00:26:16I'm much too fond of you.
00:26:17Shall I pour it now, sir?
00:26:21Mary.
00:26:23By all means, this is an occasion.
00:26:26Thank you, miss.
00:26:44My dear.
00:26:48My very dear.
00:27:13Is that you, Cora?
00:27:15Who else?
00:27:16Come in. I've got something to show you.
00:27:19Well...
00:27:19Merry Christmas.
00:27:21Do you like it?
00:27:22It's a fair treat.
00:27:24With candles, tuppence a dozen.
00:27:27Couldn't you find a better way to waste your money?
00:27:29Christmas comes, but once a year.
00:27:31Oh, did you think that up all by yourself?
00:27:33What a mind you have.
00:27:34Think I put this in here.
00:27:36Yes, look lovely.
00:27:37And where will you hang the mistletoe?
00:27:39I didn't get me.
00:27:40What?
00:27:41No mistletoe.
00:27:43Aren't you going to kiss me under the mistletoe?
00:27:45You could shut your eyes, you know, and pretend I was somebody else.
00:27:48There's no one else, Cora.
00:27:50No.
00:27:50Just our two selves.
00:27:52Darby and Joan.
00:27:53Going down the hill of life together.
00:27:56That's quite true, Cora.
00:27:57And wouldn't it be better if we tried to make things a little pleasanter for one another
00:28:00and try to make this a little bit more like home?
00:28:02You're doing your best, aren't you, love?
00:28:04No more evenings at the pub.
00:28:06No more office work to keep you late in the city.
00:28:08A real little family man.
00:28:10You'll help a bit, won't you?
00:28:12There's no place like home, is there now?
00:28:17Since that creature threw you out.
00:28:22What are you talking about?
00:28:23The hussy you were gallivanting after, that's what.
00:28:26Don't tell me there was no such person.
00:28:31There is no such person, Cora, believe me.
00:28:34That's right, turn tail and run.
00:28:35I don't wonder you can't look me in the face with a line like that on your lips.
00:28:38No such person indeed.
00:28:41You're wrong, Cora.
00:28:43Am I?
00:28:45Then what are you staring like that for?
00:28:49Maybe you're asking yourself how much I know.
00:28:55Exton and Wynwood.
00:28:57That's where she works.
00:28:59Melbourne Crescent, that's where she lives.
00:29:02Mary Gray, that's her filthy name.
00:29:06Uh-huh.
00:29:07Why didn't you say something?
00:29:09It's true, Cora, but it's all over and done with.
00:29:11Is it?
00:29:12Not for me, it isn't.
00:29:14Do you know what I'm going to do?
00:29:15I'll go to old Fraser.
00:29:16Cora, no.
00:29:17I'll show you up for the worthless, rotten old customer you are.
00:29:21But if you think I'm through when I've got you turned out, you're mistaken.
00:29:24I'll do the same for her.
00:29:25You mustn't.
00:29:26I'll go to the house where she lives.
00:29:28I'll go to the place where she works.
00:29:30And I'll let them know what a low creature she is.
00:29:33You don't know what you're saying.
00:29:34Don't I?
00:29:35No decent shop will take either of you.
00:29:37And no respectable house will take in a loose woman.
00:29:39Cora, you're driving me.
00:29:41I'll drive you both into the gutter where you belong.
00:29:43Cora, please.
00:29:45Afraid.
00:29:46Aren't you?
00:29:48Afraid for her.
00:29:50No.
00:29:52Not for her.
00:29:53Well, you'd better be.
00:29:55Because as sure as the sun rises tomorrow,
00:29:58I'll give her a Merry Christmas she'll never forget.
00:30:01Come on.
00:30:02Pack up your silly greens.
00:30:04That's all you're fit for.
00:30:29Come on.
00:30:33Accidents will happen in the best regulated families, ma'am.
00:30:35But it was such a dreadful accident.
00:30:37Top them with the sprouts, please.
00:30:39They were such an ideal couple.
00:30:41Never a crossword between them.
00:30:43That's right.
00:30:43Mr. Marshall's the one I feel sorry for.
00:30:45Losing his wife so sudden.
00:30:48Those narrow stairs are death traps.
00:30:50I've always said.
00:30:51Top and swith of onions.
00:30:53Instantaneous death was the coroner's verdict.
00:30:55By accident and misadventure.
00:30:57And I'll take these three oranges.
00:30:59You ladies are going to the funeral, I suppose.
00:31:02Course we are.
00:31:03She was one of our best friends.
00:31:05When will it be?
00:31:06Tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock.
00:31:25This way, please.
00:31:38Doesn't she look natural?
00:31:41Like she was asleep.
00:31:44Mr. Marshall.
00:31:45Thank you so much, Miss Cravey.
00:31:47So sorry, Mr. Marshall.
00:31:49You're welcome.
00:31:51First carriage, Miss Cravey.
00:31:53Thanks very much.
00:31:55There'll be biscuits and sherry later.
00:31:58I saw the bottles.
00:31:59And sandwiches too, I think.
00:32:03She'll be waiting for you, Philip.
00:32:08I'm watching over you.
00:32:11Second carriage, Mr. and Mrs. Chadwick.
00:32:16It was so good of you to come.
00:32:18Good day.
00:32:24Mr. and Mrs. Rogers.
00:32:26Fourth carriage, please.
00:32:40Uh, Philip.
00:32:42Time, you know, heals even the deepest wounds.
00:32:46Have faith.
00:32:48Only have faith.
00:33:02Mr. Marshall, come here a minute.
00:33:05Got something for you.
00:33:06I think you better drink this.
00:33:08What is it?
00:33:10Oh, thank you.
00:33:12Tell me, have you slept much since?
00:33:14No, not very well.
00:33:16I thought so.
00:33:18I do wish you'd take some Bayard's Anadine.
00:33:21Don't want to get the habit.
00:33:22Oh, nonsense.
00:33:22I use it right along.
00:33:24Bayard's Anadine.
00:33:25Just, just five drops in a glass of water.
00:33:26But be sure and read the instructions.
00:33:28Otherwise, it might be dangerous.
00:33:29Sounds terrible, but I might try it.
00:33:31Good.
00:33:32Sleep is what you need in a little quiet.
00:33:35I'm going to send these, these merrymakers home.
00:33:43Good night.
00:33:43Good night.
00:33:44Good night.
00:33:46See you soon, I hope you're here.
00:33:47Good night.
00:33:48Good night.
00:33:49Good night.
00:33:50Good night.
00:33:50Good night, Bill.
00:33:52Oh, you've been very helpful.
00:33:55Getting rid of them?
00:33:56No, for everything.
00:33:57I can't tell you how indebted I am to you.
00:33:59Don't think of it.
00:34:00You've been so kind to Gilbert and me.
00:34:03Sleep well.
00:34:13Well, Dan?
00:34:14Oh, what?
00:34:16You don't look too fit.
00:34:17I, uh, I wish I could do something for you.
00:34:19Oh.
00:34:20Uh.
00:34:21You've taken it wonderfully so far.
00:34:23I'm proud of you.
00:34:24You run along, boy.
00:34:26You sure you don't want me to stay?
00:34:30No, you're right.
00:34:31I, uh, I just want you to know that you've nothing to reproach yourself for.
00:34:37No one ever tried harder.
00:34:40It might rain.
00:34:41You'd better take an umbrella.
00:34:42Right.
00:34:47I say, Dad, where's your stick?
00:34:52You know, the one old Fraser gave you.
00:34:54I don't know.
00:34:55I left it somewhere.
00:34:58It doesn't matter.
00:35:01Good night, Dan.
00:35:03Good night, John.
00:35:03No.
00:35:33No.
00:36:14Who is it?
00:36:16My name is Huxley.
00:36:19Who?
00:36:20Inspector Huxley, Scotland Yard.
00:36:24Oh, come in, Inspector.
00:36:30Mr. Marshal?
00:36:31Yes.
00:36:33I've been told to stop in and look around.
00:36:34It's a nuisance, really,
00:36:35but I'm afraid I'll have to ask you a few more questions.
00:36:38What about?
00:36:39About the death of your wife.
00:36:41But I, uh, answered all those questions.
00:36:43You must have seen the report.
00:36:45Yes, as a matter of fact, I read the file quite thoroughly.
00:36:48The coroner called it accident.
00:36:50That's why I say it hardly seems worthwhile bothering you
00:36:53and missing my own dinner.
00:36:55But we have to do as we're told, of course.
00:36:58Of course.
00:36:59I need hardly tell you that you don't have to answer any questions.
00:37:03I should be glad to.
00:37:05I take it this is the place where the accident occurred?
00:37:07Yes.
00:37:09Mind if I look about it?
00:37:10Not at all, but it's all been done.
00:37:13Yes, I know.
00:37:18This is what tripped her, I suppose, when she was coming downstairs that night?
00:37:22Yes.
00:37:23That's right.
00:37:25You should have a thing like that repaired, you know.
00:37:27Well, I keep on meaning to, but, uh, these days I keep forgetting.
00:37:31Is that the room she came out of there?
00:37:33No, that's my room.
00:37:34That's on the other side.
00:37:35Oh, yes, of course.
00:37:36Now I remember.
00:37:38Well, things are much clearer now.
00:37:40Nothing like being on the actual spot, you know.
00:37:43Much better than trying to visualize things from a written report.
00:37:45I imagine it must be.
00:37:48Oh.
00:37:49Hmm?
00:37:51Is that where she struck her head?
00:37:53Yes, it was broken, so I...
00:37:54You had it replaced at once.
00:37:56Yes, I couldn't bear the sight.
00:37:58Why do you make a point of that?
00:37:59Well, no particular reason,
00:38:01excepting that in a case of death by accident, we have to consider every possibility.
00:38:04Yes.
00:38:04That's why it seems so curious that we still find that broken step unrepaired.
00:38:08And this baluster replaced so promptly.
00:38:11What are you trying to suggest?
00:38:13Nothing.
00:38:14Well, if it wasn't an accident, she must be thinking.
00:38:17Precisely.
00:38:19Let us suppose, uh, purely from my point of view, that...
00:38:23On Christmas Eve, the murderer was sitting in this chair.
00:38:27He was alone.
00:38:28His wife was upstairs.
00:38:30He was alone and thinking.
00:38:33He had to do away with her.
00:38:36He had to do it for a reason that only he knew.
00:38:39But it had to be done.
00:38:42So...
00:38:44He got up and walked over to where the canes were.
00:38:49He took one of them and waited carefully.
00:38:53Was it heavy enough?
00:38:57If not, he'd have to add more strength.
00:39:04He must make a sound.
00:39:06If the stairs should creak and warn her, she mustn't hear him going up.
00:39:12He reached the broken step.
00:39:17And made sure that it looked broken.
00:39:20He had to hide somewhere in the darkness.
00:39:23There was a corner by the chest where he could hide.
00:39:27And there he waited.
00:39:30He put his hand over his mouth so that his voice would sound as if it came from a great
00:39:33distance.
00:39:35And he stood there in the darkness watching the door to the bedroom.
00:39:39Then a voice that wasn't quite his own called,
00:39:40Cora!
00:39:43He waited a lifetime.
00:39:46And then he called again.
00:39:48Cora!
00:39:49He hardly knew his own voice.
00:39:53He heard her feet shuffling.
00:39:55And then the door opened.
00:39:57For a moment she stood celerated against the door at the top of the stairs.
00:40:00Grumbling and wondering why the hall light wasn't burning.
00:40:03Maybe she cried sharply.
00:40:05What's the matter?
00:40:08He didn't answer how she stood so near.
00:40:10He waited, the blood drumming in his ears.
00:40:13Her voice came over once more.
00:40:15Philip, are you all right?
00:40:18He held his breath.
00:40:19His hand tightened on the stick.
00:40:22She passed him.
00:40:23She went down one step.
00:40:25Two.
00:40:25Three.
00:40:26It's now or never.
00:40:27Now!
00:40:29And there she was.
00:40:31She wasn't dead yet.
00:40:32He could hear the breath coming from her broken body.
00:40:34But she had to die.
00:40:36So he had to hit her again.
00:40:38And he only hoped he could hit her in the same spot.
00:40:40Slowly he raised the stick and...
00:40:42No!
00:40:44You haven't a shred of evidence.
00:40:48How dare you say I killed my wife?
00:40:51How dare you?
00:40:53Who said you did?
00:40:55I merely said, if your wife was murdered.
00:40:59Could have happened that way, couldn't it, Mr Marshall?
00:41:01It could have happened that way, but it didn't.
00:41:03But it is an interesting point of view, don't you think?
00:41:06Now, if only we could find something.
00:41:10Some little something as a motive.
00:41:12You understand what I mean, Mr Marshall?
00:41:15I don't.
00:41:16No?
00:41:20Good night.
00:41:54Good night.
00:41:55Good night.
00:41:55You think he's gotten too Aunqueymise?
00:41:55Oh, pardon me, mum.
00:41:57Did you wanna come in?
00:42:00No.
00:42:01No, thank you.
00:42:01Let's go.
00:42:48Philip.
00:42:51It's been a long time.
00:42:53Yes, it's been a long time.
00:42:56But we'd better not talk here.
00:43:08Can't you see how frightfully unfair it was to let the outrageous suspicions of those
00:43:13stupid people keep us apart?
00:43:14Please understand, Mary.
00:43:16I just didn't want you mixed up in this sort of thing.
00:43:18Why not?
00:43:19What are people for, anyway?
00:43:20People you love?
00:43:22Can't you see that if you were in trouble, I had a right to share it?
00:43:25Yes, but not that kind of trouble, Mary.
00:43:27Just to be suspected leaves a mark.
00:43:30All right, then let it leave a mark on both of us, Philip Marshall.
00:43:33Because I don't intend to let you go again.
00:43:36Mary.
00:43:37Don't you see that this sort of persecution will come to an end?
00:43:41And we'll look back and we'll wonder why we ever let it bother us.
00:43:43Believe me, we will.
00:43:45Yes?
00:43:46With the compliments of the house, sir.
00:43:49And it's very good to see you again, if I may say so.
00:43:52It's very nice to be here, Martin.
00:43:54Thank you, sir.
00:43:55Shall I pour?
00:43:56By all means.
00:43:57This is an occasion.
00:44:05You see, Philip?
00:44:06They missed us.
00:44:08Mary.
00:44:10My dear.
00:44:11My very dear.
00:44:13Tanti piaceri che ha ritornati.
00:44:15Saluti!
00:44:17Saluti!
00:44:18Saluti!
00:44:18That's a terrible one.
00:44:31Wait, I shan't be a moment.
00:44:37Did you wish to see me?
00:44:39Yes, miss.
00:44:40I'd like a few words with you, please.
00:44:41Well, I'm in rather a hurry.
00:44:44So am I.
00:44:46What is it you wish to see me about?
00:44:48Not much.
00:44:49Just a few questions.
00:44:50I'm Inspector Huxley of Scotland Yard.
00:44:53I'd like to ask you a few things about Mr. Philip Marshall.
00:44:57Oh?
00:45:00What about Mr. Philip Marshall?
00:45:02If you don't mind, miss, I'll ask the questions.
00:45:07How long have you known him?
00:45:09Since last May.
00:45:10Did you meet his wife before or after you met him?
00:45:14I never met his wife.
00:45:15But you did know that he was married?
00:45:18Naturally.
00:45:19And knowing that he was married, you still continue to meet him frequently?
00:45:23No.
00:45:25Yes, look here.
00:45:26What are you driving at?
00:45:27Why are you asking me so many questions?
00:45:30Because it's quite possible that Mrs. Marshall was murdered.
00:45:34Philip Marshall, a murderer?
00:45:37Nonsense.
00:45:38I think you're making a fool of yourself, Inspector.
00:45:41What you think isn't evidence, miss.
00:45:43But what you've been telling me about your meetings with Mr. Marshall is...
00:45:46But I haven't told you anything.
00:45:49Very valuable evidence.
00:45:50You've given us the motive that we've been looking for.
00:45:53You'll be called as a witness for the Crown, Miss Gray.
00:45:56Uh, not Miss Gray, Inspector.
00:45:59Mrs. Philip Marshall.
00:46:01We were married this morning.
00:46:04Oh, I see.
00:46:11That was a cunning move, wasn't it?
00:46:14Cunning.
00:46:14Well, it might be called that.
00:46:16Since it's an obvious fact that a wife can't be made to testify against her husband.
00:46:21Do you know, it's a very funny thing, but we never thought of that.
00:46:23Didn't you really?
00:46:25And it's just coincidence that you've silenced the only witness whose testimony I possibly hang in?
00:46:31Philip, must we listen to this?
00:46:33No, we mustn't, darling. Come along.
00:46:38Would you wait for me in the cab? I'll be there in a minute.
00:46:42Now, you're getting rather tiresome, Inspector, with your ifs and mights and maybes,
00:46:45and I don't choose to listen to them any longer.
00:46:48Is that clear?
00:46:50Don't you think that an innocent man might be more tolerant than a cause of justice?
00:46:55No, I don't.
00:46:57I think an innocent man might behave precisely as I have.
00:47:01I'm sorry, but I can't agree with you.
00:47:03Why don't you arrest me?
00:47:05Here I am.
00:47:06I'd like to, believe me, but unfortunately I can't.
00:47:09No, you've run against a blank wall.
00:47:11Will you take my advice and don't beat your head against it?
00:47:13Goodbye.
00:47:15Just a moment.
00:47:17I don't wish to antagonize you, but you must realize my situation.
00:47:21I have a job to do.
00:47:23It's quite impersonal, I assure you.
00:47:25And it's quite possible I've been wrong about the whole thing.
00:47:28If I have been, I'm very sorry.
00:47:31Very well, let's forget it.
00:47:33Let me wish you a most successful marriage.
00:47:38And a long one.
00:47:41Goodbye.
00:47:43Goodbye.
00:47:50Hello, hello, hello.
00:47:52Good morning, Mrs. Packer.
00:47:53Here we are, all of our bright morning faces.
00:47:55Morning, Packer.
00:47:56Good morning, Governor.
00:47:56You're Sybil Van from John's office.
00:47:58I'm John's father.
00:47:58I should never have recognized you.
00:48:01You care, my young friend?
00:48:02You'll do yourself an injury, you will.
00:48:04Laughter puts a terrific strain on the heart.
00:48:06Does it?
00:48:06Strain on whose heart?
00:48:08Hello, everybody.
00:48:09Mary's upstairs dressing.
00:48:10Last train for Margate.
00:48:12Come on, Sybil.
00:48:13Oh, Mr. Marshall.
00:48:13I know nonsense now.
00:48:14You can help me make the sandwiches.
00:48:16Oh, that's a lovely room.
00:48:18I can see Mary's hand all lovely.
00:48:20In fact, you've got such a nice day for the seaside.
00:48:23Yeah.
00:48:23Oh, dear.
00:48:25Sandwiches?
00:48:25Did he say sandwiches?
00:48:27I think he did.
00:48:28Why?
00:48:28Sandwiches is two-thirds bread.
00:48:30Makes an awful lump in your stomach.
00:48:32Puts a terrific strain on your heart.
00:48:34Ow!
00:48:35What's that?
00:48:36I think that's John putting a slight strain on Sybil's heart.
00:48:39Mr. Marshall, you mustn't.
00:48:41Oh, why not?
00:48:41Just one little kiss.
00:48:43You'll never miss it.
00:48:44John!
00:48:44John!
00:48:45Stop that.
00:48:46If he ever tries to do that again, just let me know.
00:48:48I'll take a stick to him.
00:48:51Would you excuse me?
00:48:53I'll just run upstairs and see what's keeping Mary.
00:48:56Don't hurry her, Mr. M.
00:48:57Better hurry now than wait till the last minute.
00:49:00More people drop dead.
00:49:02I know.
00:49:03I know.
00:49:05Darling, it's me.
00:49:06Mm-hmm.
00:49:07You need it ready?
00:49:08Mm-hmm.
00:49:09The Packers are here and they're waiting downstairs.
00:49:12And I've got to go or I should be late at the office.
00:49:14Wait a moment.
00:49:15I've got something to show you.
00:49:16What is it?
00:49:25Oh, dear.
00:49:27It's the very latest thing, you know.
00:49:29It's a bit startling at first.
00:49:33Do you think it's too revealing?
00:49:38Well...
00:49:40But if it isn't quite ladylike, I shan't wear it.
00:49:50My darling, anything you wear would become ladylike the moment you put it on.
00:49:56Oh, Philip, you're an angel.
00:49:58I did so when I wear it.
00:49:59Come on, or you're gonna be late.
00:50:01What a shame you can't come with us.
00:50:02I'll be down by the first train tomorrow morning.
00:50:04All right.
00:50:05Bye-bye.
00:50:05Bye.
00:50:08Morning, Mrs. Simmons.
00:50:10How did work?
00:50:11Oh, I enjoyed puttering around.
00:50:13Mary tells me you might join us for the weekend.
00:50:15Yes, I was thinking about it.
00:50:16I've had such good times at Margate and Brighton before.
00:50:19Why don't you come as our guest?
00:50:21Oh!
00:50:23I...
00:50:23I rather stumbled into the kitchen door.
00:50:26It was...
00:50:27...silly of me.
00:50:28I'm...
00:50:29...so sorry.
00:50:33Morning.
00:50:34Good morning.
00:50:55Margaret.
00:50:59Margaret.
00:50:59Yes, Mr. Marshall?
00:51:01Get me another of these marvellous cherry tarts.
00:51:04Another cherry tart?
00:51:05I should say not.
00:51:06And you're supposed to be on a strict diet.
00:51:08You heard what I said.
00:51:09I work very hard and I need to keep my strength up.
00:51:11Get me another cherry tart.
00:51:14Fair it well.
00:51:15But you ought to be ashamed.
00:51:17You have no character at all.
00:51:23Hello, Marshal.
00:51:25May I sit down?
00:51:27I suppose so.
00:51:29Thanks.
00:51:30And since you press me, I'll have a spot of whisky.
00:51:33Give me a double whisky instead, please, miss.
00:51:35Yes, sir.
00:51:36Margaret, forget that cherry tart.
00:51:38Yes, sir.
00:51:40Don't tell me I've spoiled your appetite.
00:51:42Since you press me, you have.
00:51:43Oh, that's too bad.
00:51:46You, um...
00:51:47You aren't irresistibly drawn to me, are you?
00:51:49No.
00:51:51I'm not.
00:51:52Good.
00:51:52You'll be a blunt honest fellow every time.
00:51:55Well, he has to laugh ground cold.
00:51:59What is it you want from me?
00:52:01If it's money, you're not going to get me,
00:52:02at least not until you've changed your ways.
00:52:05Sounds as if I was up before judge.
00:52:06What's the charge?
00:52:07I saw your wife this morning.
00:52:09Oh.
00:52:10So that's it.
00:52:11My wives get tarson at times, you know.
00:52:13I know this.
00:52:14You've got to stop knocking her about.
00:52:15No, it's easy for you to talk.
00:52:16You've got a nice new wife.
00:52:18And a very pretty one, too, if I may say so.
00:52:20All beard and skittles now, isn't it?
00:52:22I'm very happy, if that's what you mean.
00:52:24It is, and by the same token, I'm not.
00:52:25It's your own fault.
00:52:27You've had every chance, and you've made a mess of things.
00:52:29I quite agree with you.
00:52:30But it so happens that I'm a rotter by nature.
00:52:33Complete rotter.
00:52:34Why can't you get a hold of yourself?
00:52:36You're still young, and you have a charming wife.
00:52:37And no money.
00:52:38By the way, you couldn't see your way to let me have a fiver, could you?
00:52:41Just until my wife's allowance comes due.
00:52:43No, I could not.
00:52:44Not a brass farthing.
00:52:45At least not till you pull yourself together and go to work.
00:52:49Work?
00:52:49My dear marshal, work is for working men.
00:52:55Here.
00:52:57This'll pay for your drink.
00:52:59Thanks, shopkeeper.
00:53:18Hello, Mr. Stearns.
00:53:19Lovely day, isn't it?
00:53:20Filthy, and who are you?
00:53:22My name's Huxley.
00:53:23Oh, yes.
00:53:25You're the police chap who came asking questions after Mrs. Marshall's death.
00:53:29That's right.
00:53:30May I buy you a drink?
00:53:32I was just going to order one.
00:53:33I don't mind the least you're paying for it.
00:53:35Be a privilege, sir.
00:53:37And who is talking now?
00:53:39Same one as before.
00:53:40Your neighbour, Mr. Philip Marshall.
00:53:43I beg your pardon?
00:53:43What was that?
00:53:45Did it never occur to you that Mrs. Marshall's death might not have been entirely an accident?
00:53:50Do you mind saying that again?
00:53:53You interest me.
00:53:55You don't know how much you interest me.
00:54:05Hello, Mr. Marshall.
00:54:22I found you back door open.
00:54:24Thought I'd come in and continue our chat.
00:54:26Chat with you?
00:54:27There is something the most commonplace, sir.
00:54:27I can do without.
00:54:28I'm packing up to go to Margaret in the morning,
00:54:30so if you'll excuse me.
00:54:31Oh, come.
00:54:33Surely you've got a few moments to spare
00:54:34for a reformed character?
00:54:36Yes.
00:54:38I've taken your advice to heart.
00:54:40Decided to go to work.
00:54:41I'd like your opinion of an idea I got today.
00:54:45I think it's a good idea, with a bit of luck.
00:54:49Luck does play an important part in human affairs.
00:54:51Don't you think so?
00:54:52No, I don't.
00:54:52I think a man makes his own opportunities.
00:54:55You ought to know.
00:54:57What do you mean?
00:54:58Oh, nothing.
00:54:59Only your wife died most conveniently.
00:55:02At the precise moment, it did you the most good.
00:55:04Wasn't that luck?
00:55:06Pure and simple.
00:55:08What are you driving at?
00:55:09Me?
00:55:10I'm not driving at anything.
00:55:15I'm merely pointing out how fortuitously things happen.
00:55:18Sometimes.
00:55:19Well?
00:55:20Well, Mrs. Marshall has an accident.
00:55:23You come into a pot of money,
00:55:24and the coroner's jury says,
00:55:26Bravo, Marshall.
00:55:27I call that lucky.
00:55:28I call you an infernal busybody.
00:55:31Do you?
00:55:37Inspector Huxley doesn't.
00:55:40Huxley?
00:55:42What about Huxley?
00:55:43Oh, you know those police fellows.
00:55:45Suspicious love.
00:55:47Don't seem quite satisfied with the notion
00:55:48that Mrs. Marshall's death was accidental.
00:55:51It's too bad.
00:55:53Yes, isn't it?
00:55:54Have you got such a thing as a cigarette?
00:55:56No.
00:55:57Oh, you're bad.
00:55:58I have to smoke one of my own.
00:56:01Now, Huxley thinks you, shall we say,
00:56:06helped your wife to a better land.
00:56:07But he can't prove it.
00:56:09Oh.
00:56:10No.
00:56:11He needs a witness.
00:56:13Does he?
00:56:14And I need ten pounds.
00:56:18You are a swine, aren't you?
00:56:21Oh, quite.
00:56:22A filthy blackmailing swine.
00:56:25Shhh.
00:56:26Walls are very thin, you know.
00:56:29That's how I happened to hear.
00:56:31You heard nothing.
00:56:32I know.
00:56:33But suppose I were to say that I did.
00:56:37Christmas Eve, when you and your wife were at it hammer and tongs.
00:56:40Suppose I were to say I heard her cry out.
00:56:42You didn't.
00:56:43But I heard the blow.
00:56:44You're lying.
00:56:45But I heard her say, Philip, don't.
00:56:47No one would ever believe you.
00:56:50That's quite possible.
00:56:52But it might put you in a very awkward position.
00:56:54Mightn't it?
00:56:56If I were to give evidence for the crown?
00:57:00Yes, it might.
00:57:03Oh, quite right.
00:57:06It might put me in a very awkward position.
00:57:11Well...
00:57:13Here's five pounds.
00:57:14It's all I have in the house.
00:57:15Don't apologize.
00:57:16Banks will be open on Tuesday.
00:57:18You might draw 25, then.
00:57:20Another 25 next week.
00:57:22Or 50, maybe.
00:57:24A week after that, and a week after that.
00:57:26Oh, I'll let you down as lightly as I can.
00:57:28Besides, you've got plenty.
00:57:29Oh, yes, I've got plenty.
00:57:33I say...
00:57:35Haven't you got such a thing as a spot of whiskey in the house?
00:57:38Whiskey?
00:57:41Yes, I...
00:57:42I've got a bottle somewhere.
00:57:44I keep it for emergencies.
00:57:46It's always an emergency when I'm thirsty, old boy.
00:57:48You're a very funny fellow, Simmons.
00:57:51I don't believe you know half how funny you are.
00:57:54I'll get the whiskey.
00:57:55I say, don't let me make a piss to myself.
00:57:59I mean, if you'd rather I'd go.
00:58:01No, I want you to stay.
00:58:08I don't believe you.
00:58:09Hello, Puss.
00:58:10Come on.
00:58:11Come on, Pussie.
00:58:13You know.
00:58:14I wouldn't hurt them dry.
00:58:18Here, little pussy.
00:58:21That's nice.
00:58:25Oh, your sweet little...
00:58:27You're a nice little cat.
00:58:29Come here.
00:58:30I'll give you a nice little man.
00:58:45Come on, boss.
00:58:49Here you are.
00:58:51Help yourself.
00:58:52What about you? Aren't you gonna have one?
00:58:55You're a funny chap, Simmons.
00:58:57Funny?
00:58:59Didn't it ever occur to you that blackmail might be dangerous?
00:59:02Not if you know your man.
00:59:04And I know you marshal like a book.
00:59:08Only you were easier than I thought.
00:59:11I say, don't you ever show fight?
00:59:13No.
00:59:15No, I've never been a fighter.
00:59:17You're soft, aren't you?
00:59:19Or perhaps you're one of those turn-the-other-cheek fellows
00:59:23who looks for his reward in the hereafter.
00:59:27I like people and I've never wanted to hurt them.
00:59:31Oh, that's a very grave mistake.
00:59:34Hurt or be hurt in this world.
00:59:36You suppose I ever bothered my head,
00:59:38wondering if I was treading on the other fellow's toes?
00:59:42No, I don't suppose you have.
00:59:45There you are.
00:59:46And here I am.
00:59:48Sweet and cosy for life.
00:59:51Or for as long as your life lasts.
00:59:56It has any heart in it.
00:59:59It has any heart in it.
01:00:00You see,
01:00:01your lot
01:00:02were created
01:00:03to make life
01:00:05easier.
01:00:07My sort.
01:00:09The meek shall inherit the earth.
01:00:12We inherit the meek.
01:00:15Not bad.
01:00:23I...
01:00:24Your card, Marshal.
01:00:27That's how I got you.
01:00:30No more
01:00:31fight.
01:00:32Sheep.
01:00:36Couldn't
01:00:37kill
01:00:37fly.
01:00:49Whiskey.
01:00:52Whiskey.
01:00:57Yeah.
01:00:59Yeah.
01:01:17Go.
01:01:37I've got trouble.
01:01:39The tooth.
01:01:39Twitter.
01:01:39The tooth!
01:01:41The tooth!
01:01:42The tooth!
01:01:43My teeth!
01:01:43The tooth!
01:01:43The tooth!
01:01:44The tooth!
01:01:45The tooth!
01:01:47And the tooth!
01:01:51I'll help you down, Silver.
01:01:53What is filthy wet?
01:01:54Help me with the umbrella, will you, Mr. Packard?
01:01:56Certainly, almost ready to oblige your lady.
01:01:58Run along, everybody.
01:01:59I'll pay the cabbie.
01:02:01Now, Morty.
01:02:02Can I find the puddle?
01:02:04Oh, I'm drenched.
01:02:05Can I come anywhere?
01:02:08I've never heard of the two ladies.
01:02:10Stand aside.
01:02:11Stand aside, everybody.
01:02:12I'll open the door.
01:02:16I say, the door's bolted. Dad must be home.
01:02:19The lights already can't be in bed.
01:02:21Now, say, Dad, wake up.
01:02:23Hello in there, Dad. Wake up, will you?
01:02:26We're back. Let us in.
01:02:27Let's go.
01:02:54This is a surprise.
01:02:55Hello, Philip. What took you so long, Dad?
01:02:58I was upstairs. I was chilled through.
01:03:00A bit of your weekend was spoiled.
01:03:02It just doesn't always rain at market.
01:03:03Eight days a week and twice on Sundays.
01:03:05Oh, John, you're awful.
01:03:07Clarkie, we were lucky to catch that last train.
01:03:09Philip's the lucky one. He had wit enough to stay home.
01:03:11Every time I go away, I always ask myself why.
01:03:14Everybody come in here.
01:03:16I'll fix a bit of dinner.
01:03:17John?
01:03:20Are you coming, Philip?
01:03:23Come along. We've got to fix these people something to warm them up.
01:03:27Philip!
01:03:30What is it, Philip? Can't you help me find the whiskey?
01:03:32I'm sorry, darling, but there isn't any.
01:03:34Well, I'm sure there was some in the cupboard.
01:03:36There was, but it's all gone now.
01:03:37Oh, Philip.
01:03:39Is that what you do when my back is turned?
01:03:41How about the sherry?
01:03:43Won't this keep out the cold?
01:03:45Oh, it'll have to do.
01:03:48It's a shame you had such bad weather.
01:03:50We didn't see you spot a blue sky once.
01:03:52And didn't you have a chance to wear your new bathing dress?
01:03:56I'll save it for the next time when you'll be with us.
01:03:58Sybil!
01:03:59Come here, I want to show you something.
01:04:09A glass of sherry, Mr. Packer.
01:04:15Look, somebody's lost their keys.
01:04:18Don't mind. Put them in my pocket, will you?
01:04:21My word. That'll hit the spot.
01:04:24There's nothing like a good drop of sherry, is there?
01:04:27Mrs. Packer.
01:04:27Thanks.
01:04:28Look after your art, Abby.
01:04:30You look after your own art, Mrs. P.
01:04:32I look after mine.
01:04:33Mr. Wain, here's to you.
01:04:34Who drinks in this house forgets his troubles.
01:04:37Oh, John, look at this tiny baby.
01:04:39You think ducky?
01:04:40Oh, ducky, am I?
01:04:42And how do you suppose you'd look in a big coal seashell with nothing on but...
01:04:45Oh, John, you mustn't say such things, must you, Mr. Marshall?
01:04:49I expect he will.
01:04:51You're every bit as naughty as he is.
01:04:53No, thanks. I'll share Sybil's.
01:04:55No, you won't either.
01:04:58Oh!
01:04:59Something touched my ankle.
01:05:01Ridiculous.
01:05:02It's a hallucination.
01:05:03No, it isn't.
01:05:04It touched me on the ankle.
01:05:05There's something under there.
01:05:07Nonsense.
01:05:09I'll show you.
01:05:20There's your spook.
01:05:21I told you I felt something.
01:05:23Supper's ready, such as it is.
01:05:24Come along, everybody.
01:05:25And bring you drinks.
01:05:26You coming, Philip?
01:05:28We'll have to eat and run you now.
01:05:29Yes, the last past one point.
01:05:31I'd better put the cat off first.
01:05:48Thank you, thank you, Mrs. Marshall.
01:05:49Oh, these gloves are all wet.
01:05:51They're sticking in your pocket.
01:05:53Oh, we had a lovely time.
01:05:55You must come again soon.
01:05:56Hurry up now or we'll miss that blinking bus.
01:05:58I'm seeing Sibby home.
01:05:59Oh, John.
01:06:00You tell him.
01:06:01Hello.
01:06:01Good night.
01:06:02Good night.
01:06:03It was ever so nice of you to have me, Mrs. Marshall.
01:06:06Mr. Marshall.
01:06:07Come on, John.
01:06:10Good night, everybody.
01:06:11Good night.
01:06:12Good night.
01:06:19I wonder if John is really smitten with that girl.
01:06:22I dare say.
01:06:25She's a pretty little thing.
01:06:27I don't believe she ever had a thought on her head.
01:06:30She'd hate most awfully to see him throw himself away like that.
01:06:34Wouldn't you?
01:06:36Wouldn't I what?
01:06:38You weren't listening.
01:06:39I'm sorry.
01:06:40Philip, what's wrong?
01:06:43Oh...
01:06:43You look positively done in this.
01:06:44Anything happen?
01:06:45Of course not.
01:06:46Don't try to put me off.
01:06:47You've got something on your mind.
01:06:49Well, as a matter of fact...
01:06:51I knew it.
01:06:52Come on now.
01:06:52No secrets between us.
01:06:54All right.
01:06:54No secrets.
01:06:55So since you will have it...
01:06:57How would it be if we packed up and went off with John?
01:07:03You mean to Canada?
01:07:05Might be fun, rather.
01:07:07But I thought you said you wanted to stay here.
01:07:09I know.
01:07:10The more I think of the idea, the more I like it.
01:07:14You haven't been happy here, have you?
01:07:17Well...
01:07:17I'm sorry.
01:07:18I thought when we had the house done over that you'd forget.
01:07:22It's no use, is it?
01:07:23No, you mustn't blame yourself, Mary.
01:07:25I'd be happy anywhere with you.
01:07:26I feel that, too.
01:07:29Do you want to know something?
01:07:32I'll be glad and happy to leave this house.
01:07:35I'd be much better off any place else in the world.
01:07:38You'll feel that, too.
01:07:40Let's go with John.
01:07:41It's a wonderful idea.
01:07:42I'm so happy I could dance.
01:07:44Now, look here, my girl.
01:07:45You're dancing off to bed.
01:07:46You've had a long, hard day.
01:07:47Listen, I'm not half as tired as you are.
01:07:49Besides, I want to clear things up.
01:07:50I'll clear everything up.
01:07:51But there's so much rubbish.
01:07:52I'll clear up all the rubbish.
01:07:54Now, run along.
01:07:55All right.
01:07:56Pleasant dreams.
01:07:59I'll dream about Canada.
01:08:31Philip!
01:08:32Oh, Philip!
01:08:35Yes, dear?
01:08:37Don't forget to take the cat in.
01:08:39I won't forget.
01:09:07I won't forget.
01:09:11Thank you, Bill.
01:09:12We shall miss you, Mr. Marshall.
01:09:15Canada's a great country.
01:09:16Blimey!
01:09:16I wish I was going with you.
01:09:18Well, good luck and the same to your family.
01:09:20Thank you, Mr. Barker.
01:09:24Mr. Marshall's a fine gentleman.
01:09:27Good morning, Miss Plumford.
01:09:29Good morning, Mr. Marshall.
01:09:30Would you allow me?
01:09:31Oh, thank you.
01:09:32So you're off on the Bounding Main tomorrow?
01:09:34Yeah, that's the plan.
01:09:36Oh, well, with all these police nosing up and down the terrace,
01:09:39I think you're lucky.
01:09:40Oh, how do you mean lucky?
01:09:41It lures the neighborhood, Mr. Marshall.
01:09:44Mr. Simmons disappearing,
01:09:46police rapping on doors and asking questions.
01:09:49Not that I don't think it's a good riddness.
01:09:51But do you mean to say they've not been around bothering you about it?
01:09:54But Simmons?
01:09:56Oh, why should they?
01:09:57After all, it's not the first time he's been away for days on end.
01:10:00No, but being his next door neighbor and all.
01:10:03Well, what would they want to know?
01:10:04Who saw him come?
01:10:06Who saw him go?
01:10:07Who saw him last is what they're driving at.
01:10:11Such a to-do about a worthless drunkard.
01:10:14Thought himself too good for us.
01:10:16But if you ask me, we are too good for him.
01:10:19Well, this is me.
01:10:22Good morning, Miss Plumford.
01:10:23Goodbye.
01:10:34Oh, Mr. Marshall.
01:10:35Won't you come in?
01:10:38Well, I just jumped in to say goodbye and to thank you for giving our cat our home.
01:10:42Oh, I was very glad too.
01:10:43You know, I've always loved animals, but, well, Gilbert just wouldn't let me keep any pets.
01:10:49Have you, uh, had any news of him?
01:10:52No, not a word.
01:10:54I suppose this latest escapade of his is the talk of every gossip in the neighborhood.
01:10:59Well, you know, when you get the police hanging about, it does set a lot of tongues wagging.
01:11:04I've been through this so many times.
01:11:07I suppose I should be used to it.
01:11:10Well, I'm not.
01:11:13I wish there was something I could do.
01:11:15That's very kind of you.
01:11:17But I'm afraid there's nothing anybody can do.
01:11:21You know, sometimes when Gilbert goes away like this, I almost wish he wouldn't come back.
01:11:32I'd go and stay with my sister and the children in Devon.
01:11:37And that's only a dream he always does come back.
01:11:45I can't tell you how sorry I am, Mrs. Simmons.
01:11:47And I think we know each other well enough for me to be able to say that I hope that
01:11:54someday soon you'll be able to go back to Devon.
01:12:09Well, only a few more minutes to go.
01:12:12Do you know my heart's thumping? I can't believe it.
01:12:15I say you're not going to regret this, are you?
01:12:18We're going to be very happy, you and John and I.
01:12:21I feel that, too.
01:12:22Oh, he's such a baby. He needs all the help we can give him.
01:12:25Mr. Philip Marshall!
01:12:27Listen, isn't that for you?
01:12:28Mr. Philip Marshall!
01:12:31Mr. Marshall!
01:12:33I'll be back in a minute.
01:12:34Mr. Marshall!
01:12:35Mr. Philip Marshall!
01:12:38Uh, I'm Philip Marshall.
01:12:40Here's a gentleman to see you, sir.
01:12:42Ah!
01:12:43Married you!
01:12:44Thank you very much, steward.
01:12:46Mr. Marshall, I didn't want you to sail, sir, without saying goodbye.
01:12:50I missed you that last year at the office, and how is your throat?
01:12:52Uh, only a little raspy, sir.
01:12:54Ah!
01:12:54Mary!
01:12:56This is my fellow worker, married to you.
01:12:58I'm very glad to know him.
01:13:00I've brought you a present, Mr. Marshall.
01:13:02Oh!
01:13:03That is nice of you.
01:13:04Can I open it?
01:13:05Yes, sir.
01:13:10Oh!
01:13:12It's a sovereign remedy from Maldemar.
01:13:14Seasickness, Mr. Marshall.
01:13:15Uh, I brought it with my own money.
01:13:18That was very thoughtful of you, married to you, wasn't it, Mary?
01:13:20Indeed it was.
01:13:22We'll take good care of it.
01:13:23And I wish you the best of luck, and, uh, health, Mr. Marshall,
01:13:27and, uh, you, mum.
01:13:28And, uh, I'm very much beholden to you.
01:13:31And, uh, mother says how she hopes I grow to be as good a man as you are.
01:13:36I don't know about being good, Mary Jew, but if you're half as happy as I am.
01:13:40Oh, there you are.
01:13:41I say, I've been looking all over the ship for you.
01:13:44What is it?
01:13:45Don't tell me the bags have gone astray.
01:13:47Not at all.
01:13:48They're in your stateroom, dozens of them.
01:13:50I never saw so many bags.
01:13:51And my pullover isn't one of them, but I don't know which.
01:13:54In the brown bag, laddie.
01:13:56There are three brown bags, mama.
01:13:59I'll show you, Sonny.
01:14:01If you'll excuse us, Mr. Mary Jew.
01:14:04Didn't I tell you he was helpless?
01:14:09I'd best be going, sir, at once.
01:14:11I shouldn't want to be carried off to Canada.
01:14:13Just a minute.
01:14:15I'll look after that throat of yours.
01:14:17But how will I get it back to you, sir?
01:14:20You'll keep it.
01:14:20You're very good, sir.
01:14:22And you stay at home the rest of the week and tell your mother I said so?
01:14:25Yes, sir.
01:14:26You'll be a good boy, always.
01:14:28Yes, sir.
01:14:29Goodbye, sir.
01:14:31Goodbye.
01:14:32Goodbye.
01:14:36Thank you, sir.
01:15:13Hello there, Marshal.
01:15:16Hello, Inspector.
01:15:18You turn up everywhere, don't you?
01:15:20Yes, it does seem so, doesn't it?
01:15:22Are you sailing or seeing somebody off?
01:15:25Sailing. Good.
01:15:26Marvellous country, Canada.
01:15:28I came down to see an old friend off, name of Pennyfeather.
01:15:30Look him up after you sail, will you?
01:15:32Unless he looks me up.
01:15:34What do you mean? You think that...
01:15:36Of course I do.
01:15:38Oh, nonsense. Forget it.
01:15:39That's water over the dam.
01:15:42Well, goodbye.
01:15:44And good luck.
01:15:46Thank you, Inspector.
01:15:50Oh, by the way, Marshal.
01:15:53Have you seen the afternoon paper?
01:15:55No.
01:15:56That neighbour of yours, that chap Simmons, you know?
01:15:58What about Simmons?
01:15:59He's turned up at last.
01:16:01You don't say so.
01:16:02Yes, really.
01:16:03I rather thought you'd be interested.
01:16:05Let's see now, where is it?
01:16:09Well, it wouldn't be there, I suppose.
01:16:10It's not important enough.
01:16:13Ah, here we are.
01:16:16There it is, buried at the bottom of the page.
01:16:18You see?
01:16:30Dear me.
01:16:32Sure it's Simmons?
01:16:33Not quite.
01:16:34They fished him out of the canal behind the terrace.
01:16:36He was knocked about a bit, but it's him all right.
01:16:38How ghastly.
01:16:39Must have fallen in when he was tight.
01:16:41No, he was thrown in when he was dead.
01:16:44Are you going to tell me he's been murdered?
01:16:46In cold blood.
01:16:47I can hardly believe that.
01:16:49Was he shot?
01:16:50No, he was poisoned in a pint of soda whiskey.
01:16:52Oh, that's shocking.
01:16:53Hmm.
01:16:55Know who did it?
01:16:56What?
01:16:56Know who did it?
01:16:58Oh, yes, yes.
01:16:59Who?
01:17:00His wife.
01:17:02No.
01:17:04Oh, yes.
01:17:04Perfectly clear case.
01:17:06She had a motive, you know.
01:17:07He was a first-class rotter.
01:17:08You knew that.
01:17:09Used to knock her about.
01:17:10She admits it.
01:17:11And besides, there was a package of, uh,
01:17:13assurance money coming to him.
01:17:14Oh, that's not possible.
01:17:16Oh, yes.
01:17:17Besides, she had the opportunity, you know.
01:17:19He was seen going into the house,
01:17:20but nobody saw him come out.
01:17:22And the stuff they found in his stomach
01:17:23was identical with some sleeping drug
01:17:25that, uh, she had on hand.
01:17:27But that's absurd.
01:17:28That woman couldn't have dragged the body to the canal.
01:17:30Why not?
01:17:31It's only a few feet to the end of the garden.
01:17:32She wouldn't have had the strength.
01:17:34Oh, my dear chap.
01:17:35When it comes to finding strength or swinging.
01:17:38Oh, it won't come to that.
01:17:40No jury would convict that woman.
01:17:43They'll convict her without even getting out of the box.
01:17:45Do you realize she hasn't any alibi?
01:17:47Why, she was in the house the whole time.
01:17:51Oh, I say, I didn't mean to upset you.
01:17:52I... I didn't dream that...
01:17:54Oh, she's innocent.
01:17:56Oh, really?
01:17:58Do you have any proof?
01:17:59No, but one can't live next door to a person
01:18:01for eight years without knowing something about her.
01:18:04Oh, my dear Marshal.
01:18:05When it comes to knowing what's in other people's hearts...
01:18:08Oh, there's my man now.
01:18:10Well, goodbye, old chap.
01:18:11Now, don't let it worry you.
01:18:12It's no affair of yours, you know.
01:18:13Bon voyage.
01:18:18What shall it be, sir?
01:18:21Whiskey, sir?
01:18:37Three minutes to sailing.
01:18:38All ashore that's going ashore.
01:18:41All ashore that's going ashore.
01:18:43All ashore that's going ashore.
01:18:56It's beyond me.
01:18:58The chap kills a man in cold blood, and we let him sail away.
01:19:01Just like that.
01:19:03Well, what could I do?
01:19:05If he killed Simmons, it must have been because he was guilty of killing his wife,
01:19:08and I couldn't prove that.
01:19:09So he gets clean out of our hands?
01:19:11Never was in our hands.
01:19:13The other way around, if anything.
01:19:15There's only one thing that'll bring him to heel,
01:19:17and that's his own sense of decency.
01:19:19Decency?
01:19:20A murderer?
01:19:21Now, look here, my lad.
01:19:23I know Philip Marshall.
01:19:25He's not a killer, not by nature.
01:19:27He's a man, just the same as you and I are.
01:19:30That's the reason I gave him that cooked-up story about Mrs. Simmons.
01:19:34I didn't think it was possible that he'd let an innocent woman suffer for something that he'd done.
01:19:39But it looks as though I was wrong, doesn't it?
01:19:42I would have made a bet that you were wrong all the time, Inspector.
01:19:46Sergeant, do you still want a bet?
01:19:49Well...
01:19:50Look.
01:19:59My hat's off to you, Inspector.
01:20:02Thank you, Sergeant.
01:20:03Shall I grab him?
01:20:04No.
01:20:05He's getting away.
01:20:06No, he isn't.
01:20:07He thinks he's done a pretty big thing.
01:20:09Let's leave him alone.
01:20:12He'll come to us when he's ready.
01:20:14Just keep an eye on him in the meantime.
01:20:21Where to, Governor?
01:20:23Scotland Yard.
01:20:31Monty.
01:20:31Gee, you.
01:20:31Tie me again at.
01:20:43You?
01:20:51He also heard that.
01:20:51Hu, how are you.
01:21:01Our Saint has prepared to not to?
01:21:09THE END
01:21:31THE END
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