In this episode of Mystery Time, host Don Dowd presents a dramatic adaptation of "Half an Hour," a short story by James Barry. The story unfolds with Sir Ralph Richardson starring as Richard Garson, a financial magnate entangled in a tumultuous relationship with his wife, Lady Lillian. The narrative explores themes of love, wealth, and betrayal as Lady Lillian grapples with her feelings and the constraints of her marriage. As tensions rise, secrets are revealed, leading to a dramatic and unexpected conclusion that questions the nature of love and loyalty.
The episode delves into the complexities of human relationships, highlighting the emotional turmoil faced by Lady Lillian as she contemplates leaving her husband for another man. The story takes a dramatic turn when a tragic accident disrupts her plans, forcing her to confront the reality of her situation. With a stellar performance by Ralph Richardson and a gripping storyline, "Half an Hour" captivates listeners with its exploration of moral dilemmas and the consequences of choices made in the heat of passion.
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Good evening. This is your host for mystery time, Don Dowd. Tonight as on every Thursday night, Mystery Time brings you a story by a great master of literature, transcribed into, dramatic form and played by an outstanding cast. Tonight, our mystery classic comes from the pen of no James Barry. It's one of his outstanding short stories titled Half an Hour. Starring in it is sir Ralph Richardson, who not only plays the part of Richard Garson, but introduces the drama. Now, sir James Barry's Half an hour starring Ralph Richardson.
Mister Gartner, you can hardly call him the hero of the story. Mister Gartner is a financial and her young wife, lady Lillian, live in a mansion near Park Lane. Later She is being insensitive as usual. She
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Why don't you strike me, Richard? After all, I'm only a woman, and there's no one within call. A woman? You useless thing. That's just what you're not. Strong you are, aren't you? No wonder I love you. Look how you crumple my frock. Well, you certainly asked for it. Did I? You know, I can't make up my mind that the green is really my color. What do you think? What color do you best like to knock me about in? Do you mind what you're saying? Well, do you mind telling me what all this scene has been about? Well,
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I can't even remember. Anyhow, would it matter what it was that started us off? Something always does. In the end we end up by seeing exactly what we think of each other. Of course, we know what we think of each other before we start. Maybe we do. But how many times have I said to that that father of yours Oh, you pop.
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By the way, I never heard how much you paid him for me when we got married. One way or another, a good £20,000.
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I can't help feeling proud. If I could have got you for half, I wouldn't have had you. How likely to say that, that, Richard.
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Still, there are other women for whom you could have paid even more. There must have been some reason why you picked on me. Oh, you rotten old aristocratic family.
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All so poor and so well turned out. Out. But come on look in the melting eyes of you under the disdain of you. I suppose they went to my head. You were the worst so I chose you. If I won, I won. Oh, you didn't need to come to me unless you'd like to know. Admit that. It was your money that brought you. Quite so. So? I'm sorry, Richard, for both of us.
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Not. You must at least allow. I never pretended it was anything but your wealth that drew me. I never wanted it to be anything else. I'll like you again. Even some little excuse for me. I'm not very much. Stop, Todor. I dare say.
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Why don't we end it? Do you know who you're talking to with my name in the city? Of course.
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But if you won't, Richard, would it ever stop you that someday I may You never.
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You have a mighty face in you. Mighty. May I ask why? Is it obvious? You know why. In that expensive littler heart of yours, you can't afford to. You're too fond of my money. I see. Tragic your loss, isn't it? More tragic than you understand. Fought you when you were too young to know what you were doing. Not so young but that I should have known. What a rare, exquisite creature too as you know yourself to be. Because I know I'm not. Because I long to be as I think I I could be. If you think it could be, you'd married a better man, I suppose. Alright. Not me. You have the right, but it may be truer than you think. That's what they tell you. I have no doubt. Who tell me? Those young cubs who live on your father. If I was to let them tell me what they would like to say Ah, but but they they do my best. And when they've finished, you tell them they mustn't say things like that and your lip trembles and one sad tear sits in your sweet eyes, the same little tear that comes when you're overdrawn your allowance. How you really I think so. I think I know the stuff you're made of. I wouldn't try any heroics, Lillian. You can't live up to them. I haven't the courage, I suppose. Oh, he's the sort of pluck that lets the French jack of dandies go tripping to the guillotine, and perhaps my breed hasn't. When it comes to living, you gotta live on us, my girl, and make the best of it. Oh, if only I If only you were to show me that it were. I'm not nervous. In the end, you always have to shoot a number one. I've sought you out that far at least. And supposing
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supposing I did show you? If you did,
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if you try to play any game on me,
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well Is it a knife, Richard, or there's moonlit
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shame on me. I'd before I put you to the door, I'd break you. You're hurting.
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If I did it, I wouldn't be here to break. I shouldn't advise you to be, Lillian. If you wish to do the breaking now, please let go of my wrist.
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Come in.
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Excuse me, ma'am. May I blow the curtain? Yes, sir.
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Tell me how fast I suppose. I suppose so. Jane, send me a whiskey into the billiard room, will you? Yes,
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sir. Sorry. Leave leave the curtains now. Attend to the whiskey. Tell him where he had him. Listen, when you read this, you will know that I've left you forever. I've known for a long time the love of a man that I can really respect. Not rich as you are, but a man who asks nothing more of life so that I should be with him. He's asked me to go away with him, far away, to Egypt, and I've made up my mind to do so. I wish you to know his name, Unity, Sue Peyton. When is divorced, I hope, to be his wife, Lillian? I'm reading the envelope and draw at your desk with this note.
I do not wish to have anything with me which might remind you of your unkindness. Ten past eight. Just have to catch him before he goes restraint.
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Lillian.
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Oh, my dear. You'll pay just into me first. You see, I changed my mind and come after all. My god. If I'm here to go with you, you'll have me still. But, oh, you let there be no more mistakes. You don't have me, dear. You'd rather not. William. Dear. It isn't really shocked you, is it? You you don't despise me in your heart for coming up. Dear. My dear. My father was so fond of me that perhaps it would be lovely for me to go back to it alone.
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But tell me, dear, what made you change your mind so suddenly? Not suddenly.
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I longed to tell you, but I was his wife. Did you hear me say I was his wife? What a lovely way of putting it. My wife now
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and always. Things he said to me tonight. There there that all over. Did
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you did you tell him you were going? Yes. I left a letter for him. In the bar at his desk with all the jewels there, I was wearing just like he told me to do. You said in it that you're coming to me? Yes. I wanted you to do that. I wanted it to be to be all above board. I'm not afraid of him. I said I was going away with you, and I put my wedding ring inside the litter. I've burned all my boats. Oh, darling.
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Nothing, mister train. Not another word if you love me. Can you snap these catches while I sit on the trunk? That's it.
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Why, what are you smiling at? I just remembered you. There were people coming to dinner tonight.
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I just remember something far more important. Women, where is your trousseau? Oh, Trusy. I've only watched you see me in, dear. Here's all the riches I bring you. Four and six, please. Please take care of my diary for me, Lucille. Of course, dear. But what son to buy you a trousseau at Brindisi if not not before? Trussell. Are you going to send a trouser to get a trouser from me? Of course. Ah, truly. Skip across the nearest Drapers and buy me a trouser. Size five and a half by one and a quarter. Hurry up now. Fly.
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He only means he wants a taxi. Who is that? Your mother's asking no bother me, sir. But I'll get it, miss Anne. Oh, no. You don't, Shirley. Not in the rain. I'll be back in a bit, Lillian. He's just bubbling over me and all because he's showing up to me. Damn, he's been bubbling over for long, so he's been doing these days. I used to think of him as an insect in a very dirty state till I saw a picture of him all in lonely white and riding on a camel. The camel goes on its knees to him, Susie. I don't wonder at it. There was a thing about him in the paper, and it said the ball is at his feet. And it is a great career. For him. But I've just got to make ready for another largest.
That's all the great careers risk for the likes of me. I'm thinking there's a great career for you. He's no longer pleased. It's not him,
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My name is doctor Brodie. My poor lady, have they told you? Tell me. Your husband, he was knocked over by a motorbike. Oh, no. No. Missus Clayton, I'm afraid it's very serious. Very serious. Tell me. I must tell you. Mister Kaiten is dead. No. No. He died as they picked him up. Taken through. I'm a doctor. I had been in passing. I I didn't know him, of course, but one of the people people told me his name. He only spoke one word before he died.
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Am I? Yes?
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The word was. I I want to help you in any way possible. Now if you could give me the address of any male relative bring anyone here. You mustn't on any account. Just to help you, mister Foreman. I I I don't quite excuse me. You are a missus Patience. I'm sorry. I have no wish to intrude, but but someone must communicate with the relatives. And, of course, an inquiry must
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I've no right to be here.
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That's none of my business. But you must know what pardon me. I won't disturb you any longer. No. Please don't go.
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What am I to do with we were going away together. You'll think that's wrong, I know. How should I know? Well, if there were reasons, I was I was leaving my husband. We were going away together, and we were going to be married after the divorce.
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Inquest. And if you're found here, you may be called on to give evidence. Hold on. I I couldn't possibly Then my advice is leave here immediately before I call the police if he's not been called already. Yes. I I think that might be best for both of you. But I've nowhere to go. Nowhere.
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I loved him. I I risked everything for him. I
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lost What time are they coming with us? Do I have time to write a note? It's, two minutes short of the half hour, sir. The lady's ship not down yet? I believe not, sir. Well, she isn't usually late. But didn't hear her in the room come to Italy. Shall I hang up to inquire, sir? Oh, no. It should be down directly. No doubt. I've just got to write a note before the guests arrive. They they know they'll be free tonight with us. Yes, sir. Oh, they're they're here and Peter. Oh, well, I'll I'll write this later I suppose. Yeah. Give me those papers with us. You put them in here for now. What?
What's the devil? Who in heaven? William devils. What on earth are they doing in this day? She was to shove them in the door and forgotten them, I suppose. Heard all over. They're they're they're here, sir. Is that all? Yes. That's that's all. Thank you. Mister Mister Benjamin. Glad to see you both. Come in and get warm. You'll be here in a minute. You you seem to be having a little take call by yourself, cousin. Look at our son. Oh. Why? Eye. Where did they come from? They're in the desk. I put my hand in a drawer for tooth papers, and I found these instead. Well, all I can say is let's go out.
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Finnegan. Then 80,000,000 that million that million anywhere. Beautiful
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The joke is I see now why my wife's late for dinner. No. No. No. It's weird that her earlier. She must have shoved them in the drawer there. Her set are more careless than ours, you know, and then forgotten where she put them. I bet she's searching high and low for them at this moment. Oh, but poor dear.
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It's a good old servant who found them. Oh, that awful man who winds the clock.
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Well, that's safe enough now. I'll take care of them. Doctor Brodie. Ah, here you are. Very pleased to see you in my little place, Brodie. Thank you, Gaston. Lady, Dillian. I'm honored. No. No. No. This this isn't Lady Niel. What's a good word, doctor Brodie? Come. Doctor Brodie, this is Redding for her to do. You and Redding have met at the club, of course. Yes. Where's yours? Yes. I forgot you didn't know my wife, Brodie. She'll be down in a moment. I must apologize for being late. I don't fuss, mister Dowden. Doctor Brodie knows what women are. No. No. Not I, missus Williams. But, I I was afraid I would be late myself.
A very strange thing happened at night. Oh, I was there. An accident in the street. Man knocked over by a motor bus. Not far from here. Killed. Was you you have to do anything? Yes. Yes. I did. He was leaving just around here. Seems to be an engineer or something. We've done some good work out in India, they told me. Peten was the name. Did you ever knew him by any chance? Peten. Peten? Oh, the huge peten who had met Walt Disney. Egypt was his friend. Oh, I'm I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Not India. It was Egypt, Egypt, she said. That's probably the same fellow. Was he married? No. Not married exactly.
But at all, surely better the circumstances that he wasn't married. Oh, oh, much better. You said, poor devil. Did I? I I was thinking of something else. The lady, you mean? Did I say there was a lady? No. You're saying it now? Yes. Yes. There was a lady, all right. She was married, she told me. She'd just left her husband, run away from him that very hour. In fact, she and Peyton were on the point of going away together. The bags will pack everything. In fact, he was looking for a taxi when he was knocked over. So she was living with her husband, was she? That's what she told me. And the most most extraordinary thing is that the husband didn't know she'd gone. Oh, I'm terribly sorry. Everyone do forgive me.
I know. You're very late, Lillian. I know. Dear missus Redding, I'm so ashamed. Forgive me kindly, mister Redding. All I can say, lady Lillian, is that you are worth waiting for. Oh, and this Yes. How'd you do? My wife at last, Brodie, must forgot, Lillian, but I mentioned that doctor Brodie very kindly promised to take pop luck with us. No. But I'm so pleased, doctor Brodie. Any friend in my house will. Thank you, lady Lillian. You've been telling us such a shocking story, lady Lillian. It will spoil my dinner. Not quite, I hope, really. No. Not quite. A man killed in the street. Tell
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her, doctor Brodie.
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I'm I'm afraid it wouldn't interest lady little. Oh, yes. By the way, it would. You remember him, though. Was it someone I know? Peyton was the lady. Hugh Peyton, I think. Wasn't it the Rossiter as we met sir. Some sort of an engineer. He worked at Broadcomber, Egypt, only in a small way, I believe.
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Dark man, wasn't he? No.
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Fair. Evidently, if you ever knew him, lady Lillian, you have forgotten
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him. One missed so many. Just so. There was a woman in it, lady Lillian. Do get him to tell us about her. I'm sure that the Scanlan is somewhere. Ask him to tell us. Why not?
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Very well. I assure you, I pitied her when I thought she was his wife, and still more when I found out that she wasn't. She kept crying. What could she do? Runs away from her husband, gets her lover run over. She can always run out and get her some new ones, can't she? Oh, look here, Garth. What a sentimental fella you are, Brody. That kind can look after themselves alright. After all, she told you she was married, didn't you? Or by due, I suppose she just bolts back to unsuspecting number one, her husband, I mean. Oh lord. When she left the house at my request, I couldn't have thought too despicably of her as that. Is it more abject than my husband's other end for her? It has to be one of the two. Yeah. It would have to be one of the two.
But to go creeping back to her husband as though nothing had happened, that would be too much. Oh, it's quite possible. You know, Garth and such thing, sir. I say so. That'll be making a pretty jump out of the husband, wouldn't it? Yeah. It does. All the same. It has a funny side to it, you know. Don't you think so bloody? It has a humorous side, you know. Well, yes. I can see that custom. But I wasn't thinking about the husband as I walked here. I was thinking about the woman picturing her in dire desolation.
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Don't you think she may be in dire desolation too?
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Thinking it over, lady Lillian? No. I've come to the conclusion that your husband is right and that I was a sentimental seller wasting my sympathy on her. Exactly. We don't need to worry about her, I think.
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Ah, doctor Brodie, will you take lady Lillian? I should be honored. Oh, by the way, mister Garton, you were telling us about lady Lillian's emeralds, remember?
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Oh, but of course. Why, hello, little. You haven't got them on tonight. I thought you got them out of me. You said you didn't go with that dress. Well, no. I Well, where are they? I was talking about them to missus Redding before you came in. I've I took them off down here earlier on and left them for safety in one of your stores. Oh, which one?
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That one.
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Oh, it's opened up and put them on again, hadn't you? I like it and let me know. I remember them when I was upstairs dressing and, you know, I forgot them again.
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The the emeralds have gone. They're not here, but but they should be. I left them here only a little while ago. I know I did. What? You say they're gone? This is what's to be done. My my emeralds, I know they're in this drawer. Gone? The same of the police and Wallace. This is very, very serious. I know they were there. I know what cannot happen. Garfunkel, how can you keep it up? Didn't you see the poor girl nearly same thing? I'm not surprised. I know I should. Him.
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How are you, little? Car yourself. That is dear lesson to you. That's all. Everything's all right. It's just a trick I was playing on you. I found them in the drawer just before Redding came in. There never was a chap like us for playing tricks on you. A masterpiece, a real must. Well, hey, yeah. Put them on. Then let's go nurses, really. Oh, poor lady, Lillian. She looks quite pale. Oh, she'll get over this. Maybe even more careful with him next time. Maybe little. Well, come on. What are you doing over there? Burning something?
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An old letter. Just an old letter. Doctor Brody, shall we go in?
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Missus Leddy.
Good evening. This is your host for mystery time, Don Dowd. Tonight as on every Thursday night, Mystery Time brings you a story by a great master of literature, transcribed into, dramatic form and played by an outstanding cast. Tonight, our mystery classic comes from the pen of no James Barry. It's one of his outstanding short stories titled Half an Hour. Starring in it is sir Ralph Richardson, who not only plays the part of Richard Garson, but introduces the drama. Now, sir James Barry's Half an hour starring Ralph Richardson.
Mister Gartner, you can hardly call him the hero of the story. Mister Gartner is a financial and her young wife, lady Lillian, live in a mansion near Park Lane. Later She is being insensitive as usual. She
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Why don't you strike me, Richard? After all, I'm only a woman, and there's no one within call. A woman? You useless thing. That's just what you're not. Strong you are, aren't you? No wonder I love you. Look how you crumple my frock. Well, you certainly asked for it. Did I? You know, I can't make up my mind that the green is really my color. What do you think? What color do you best like to knock me about in? Do you mind what you're saying? Well, do you mind telling me what all this scene has been about? Well,
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I can't even remember. Anyhow, would it matter what it was that started us off? Something always does. In the end we end up by seeing exactly what we think of each other. Of course, we know what we think of each other before we start. Maybe we do. But how many times have I said to that that father of yours Oh, you pop.
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By the way, I never heard how much you paid him for me when we got married. One way or another, a good £20,000.
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I can't help feeling proud. If I could have got you for half, I wouldn't have had you. How likely to say that, that, Richard.
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Still, there are other women for whom you could have paid even more. There must have been some reason why you picked on me. Oh, you rotten old aristocratic family.
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All so poor and so well turned out. Out. But come on look in the melting eyes of you under the disdain of you. I suppose they went to my head. You were the worst so I chose you. If I won, I won. Oh, you didn't need to come to me unless you'd like to know. Admit that. It was your money that brought you. Quite so. So? I'm sorry, Richard, for both of us.
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Not. You must at least allow. I never pretended it was anything but your wealth that drew me. I never wanted it to be anything else. I'll like you again. Even some little excuse for me. I'm not very much. Stop, Todor. I dare say.
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Why don't we end it? Do you know who you're talking to with my name in the city? Of course.
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But if you won't, Richard, would it ever stop you that someday I may You never.
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You have a mighty face in you. Mighty. May I ask why? Is it obvious? You know why. In that expensive littler heart of yours, you can't afford to. You're too fond of my money. I see. Tragic your loss, isn't it? More tragic than you understand. Fought you when you were too young to know what you were doing. Not so young but that I should have known. What a rare, exquisite creature too as you know yourself to be. Because I know I'm not. Because I long to be as I think I I could be. If you think it could be, you'd married a better man, I suppose. Alright. Not me. You have the right, but it may be truer than you think. That's what they tell you. I have no doubt. Who tell me? Those young cubs who live on your father. If I was to let them tell me what they would like to say Ah, but but they they do my best. And when they've finished, you tell them they mustn't say things like that and your lip trembles and one sad tear sits in your sweet eyes, the same little tear that comes when you're overdrawn your allowance. How you really I think so. I think I know the stuff you're made of. I wouldn't try any heroics, Lillian. You can't live up to them. I haven't the courage, I suppose. Oh, he's the sort of pluck that lets the French jack of dandies go tripping to the guillotine, and perhaps my breed hasn't. When it comes to living, you gotta live on us, my girl, and make the best of it. Oh, if only I If only you were to show me that it were. I'm not nervous. In the end, you always have to shoot a number one. I've sought you out that far at least. And supposing
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supposing I did show you? If you did,
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if you try to play any game on me,
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well Is it a knife, Richard, or there's moonlit
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shame on me. I'd before I put you to the door, I'd break you. You're hurting.
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If I did it, I wouldn't be here to break. I shouldn't advise you to be, Lillian. If you wish to do the breaking now, please let go of my wrist.
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Come in.
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Excuse me, ma'am. May I blow the curtain? Yes, sir.
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Tell me how fast I suppose. I suppose so. Jane, send me a whiskey into the billiard room, will you? Yes,
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sir. Sorry. Leave leave the curtains now. Attend to the whiskey. Tell him where he had him. Listen, when you read this, you will know that I've left you forever. I've known for a long time the love of a man that I can really respect. Not rich as you are, but a man who asks nothing more of life so that I should be with him. He's asked me to go away with him, far away, to Egypt, and I've made up my mind to do so. I wish you to know his name, Unity, Sue Peyton. When is divorced, I hope, to be his wife, Lillian? I'm reading the envelope and draw at your desk with this note.
I do not wish to have anything with me which might remind you of your unkindness. Ten past eight. Just have to catch him before he goes restraint.
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Lillian.
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Oh, my dear. You'll pay just into me first. You see, I changed my mind and come after all. My god. If I'm here to go with you, you'll have me still. But, oh, you let there be no more mistakes. You don't have me, dear. You'd rather not. William. Dear. It isn't really shocked you, is it? You you don't despise me in your heart for coming up. Dear. My dear. My father was so fond of me that perhaps it would be lovely for me to go back to it alone.
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But tell me, dear, what made you change your mind so suddenly? Not suddenly.
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I longed to tell you, but I was his wife. Did you hear me say I was his wife? What a lovely way of putting it. My wife now
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and always. Things he said to me tonight. There there that all over. Did
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you did you tell him you were going? Yes. I left a letter for him. In the bar at his desk with all the jewels there, I was wearing just like he told me to do. You said in it that you're coming to me? Yes. I wanted you to do that. I wanted it to be to be all above board. I'm not afraid of him. I said I was going away with you, and I put my wedding ring inside the litter. I've burned all my boats. Oh, darling.
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Nothing, mister train. Not another word if you love me. Can you snap these catches while I sit on the trunk? That's it.
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Why, what are you smiling at? I just remembered you. There were people coming to dinner tonight.
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I just remember something far more important. Women, where is your trousseau? Oh, Trusy. I've only watched you see me in, dear. Here's all the riches I bring you. Four and six, please. Please take care of my diary for me, Lucille. Of course, dear. But what son to buy you a trousseau at Brindisi if not not before? Trussell. Are you going to send a trouser to get a trouser from me? Of course. Ah, truly. Skip across the nearest Drapers and buy me a trouser. Size five and a half by one and a quarter. Hurry up now. Fly.
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He only means he wants a taxi. Who is that? Your mother's asking no bother me, sir. But I'll get it, miss Anne. Oh, no. You don't, Shirley. Not in the rain. I'll be back in a bit, Lillian. He's just bubbling over me and all because he's showing up to me. Damn, he's been bubbling over for long, so he's been doing these days. I used to think of him as an insect in a very dirty state till I saw a picture of him all in lonely white and riding on a camel. The camel goes on its knees to him, Susie. I don't wonder at it. There was a thing about him in the paper, and it said the ball is at his feet. And it is a great career. For him. But I've just got to make ready for another largest.
That's all the great careers risk for the likes of me. I'm thinking there's a great career for you. He's no longer pleased. It's not him,
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My name is doctor Brodie. My poor lady, have they told you? Tell me. Your husband, he was knocked over by a motorbike. Oh, no. No. Missus Clayton, I'm afraid it's very serious. Very serious. Tell me. I must tell you. Mister Kaiten is dead. No. No. He died as they picked him up. Taken through. I'm a doctor. I had been in passing. I I didn't know him, of course, but one of the people people told me his name. He only spoke one word before he died.
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Am I? Yes?
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The word was. I I want to help you in any way possible. Now if you could give me the address of any male relative bring anyone here. You mustn't on any account. Just to help you, mister Foreman. I I I don't quite excuse me. You are a missus Patience. I'm sorry. I have no wish to intrude, but but someone must communicate with the relatives. And, of course, an inquiry must
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I've no right to be here.
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That's none of my business. But you must know what pardon me. I won't disturb you any longer. No. Please don't go.
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What am I to do with we were going away together. You'll think that's wrong, I know. How should I know? Well, if there were reasons, I was I was leaving my husband. We were going away together, and we were going to be married after the divorce.
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Inquest. And if you're found here, you may be called on to give evidence. Hold on. I I couldn't possibly Then my advice is leave here immediately before I call the police if he's not been called already. Yes. I I think that might be best for both of you. But I've nowhere to go. Nowhere.
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I loved him. I I risked everything for him. I
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lost What time are they coming with us? Do I have time to write a note? It's, two minutes short of the half hour, sir. The lady's ship not down yet? I believe not, sir. Well, she isn't usually late. But didn't hear her in the room come to Italy. Shall I hang up to inquire, sir? Oh, no. It should be down directly. No doubt. I've just got to write a note before the guests arrive. They they know they'll be free tonight with us. Yes, sir. Oh, they're they're here and Peter. Oh, well, I'll I'll write this later I suppose. Yeah. Give me those papers with us. You put them in here for now. What?
What's the devil? Who in heaven? William devils. What on earth are they doing in this day? She was to shove them in the door and forgotten them, I suppose. Heard all over. They're they're they're here, sir. Is that all? Yes. That's that's all. Thank you. Mister Mister Benjamin. Glad to see you both. Come in and get warm. You'll be here in a minute. You you seem to be having a little take call by yourself, cousin. Look at our son. Oh. Why? Eye. Where did they come from? They're in the desk. I put my hand in a drawer for tooth papers, and I found these instead. Well, all I can say is let's go out.
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Finnegan. Then 80,000,000 that million that million anywhere. Beautiful
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The joke is I see now why my wife's late for dinner. No. No. No. It's weird that her earlier. She must have shoved them in the drawer there. Her set are more careless than ours, you know, and then forgotten where she put them. I bet she's searching high and low for them at this moment. Oh, but poor dear.
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It's a good old servant who found them. Oh, that awful man who winds the clock.
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Well, that's safe enough now. I'll take care of them. Doctor Brodie. Ah, here you are. Very pleased to see you in my little place, Brodie. Thank you, Gaston. Lady, Dillian. I'm honored. No. No. No. This this isn't Lady Niel. What's a good word, doctor Brodie? Come. Doctor Brodie, this is Redding for her to do. You and Redding have met at the club, of course. Yes. Where's yours? Yes. I forgot you didn't know my wife, Brodie. She'll be down in a moment. I must apologize for being late. I don't fuss, mister Dowden. Doctor Brodie knows what women are. No. No. Not I, missus Williams. But, I I was afraid I would be late myself.
A very strange thing happened at night. Oh, I was there. An accident in the street. Man knocked over by a motor bus. Not far from here. Killed. Was you you have to do anything? Yes. Yes. I did. He was leaving just around here. Seems to be an engineer or something. We've done some good work out in India, they told me. Peten was the name. Did you ever knew him by any chance? Peten. Peten? Oh, the huge peten who had met Walt Disney. Egypt was his friend. Oh, I'm I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Not India. It was Egypt, Egypt, she said. That's probably the same fellow. Was he married? No. Not married exactly.
But at all, surely better the circumstances that he wasn't married. Oh, oh, much better. You said, poor devil. Did I? I I was thinking of something else. The lady, you mean? Did I say there was a lady? No. You're saying it now? Yes. Yes. There was a lady, all right. She was married, she told me. She'd just left her husband, run away from him that very hour. In fact, she and Peyton were on the point of going away together. The bags will pack everything. In fact, he was looking for a taxi when he was knocked over. So she was living with her husband, was she? That's what she told me. And the most most extraordinary thing is that the husband didn't know she'd gone. Oh, I'm terribly sorry. Everyone do forgive me.
I know. You're very late, Lillian. I know. Dear missus Redding, I'm so ashamed. Forgive me kindly, mister Redding. All I can say, lady Lillian, is that you are worth waiting for. Oh, and this Yes. How'd you do? My wife at last, Brodie, must forgot, Lillian, but I mentioned that doctor Brodie very kindly promised to take pop luck with us. No. But I'm so pleased, doctor Brodie. Any friend in my house will. Thank you, lady Lillian. You've been telling us such a shocking story, lady Lillian. It will spoil my dinner. Not quite, I hope, really. No. Not quite. A man killed in the street. Tell
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her, doctor Brodie.
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I'm I'm afraid it wouldn't interest lady little. Oh, yes. By the way, it would. You remember him, though. Was it someone I know? Peyton was the lady. Hugh Peyton, I think. Wasn't it the Rossiter as we met sir. Some sort of an engineer. He worked at Broadcomber, Egypt, only in a small way, I believe.
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Dark man, wasn't he? No.
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Fair. Evidently, if you ever knew him, lady Lillian, you have forgotten
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him. One missed so many. Just so. There was a woman in it, lady Lillian. Do get him to tell us about her. I'm sure that the Scanlan is somewhere. Ask him to tell us. Why not?
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Very well. I assure you, I pitied her when I thought she was his wife, and still more when I found out that she wasn't. She kept crying. What could she do? Runs away from her husband, gets her lover run over. She can always run out and get her some new ones, can't she? Oh, look here, Garth. What a sentimental fella you are, Brody. That kind can look after themselves alright. After all, she told you she was married, didn't you? Or by due, I suppose she just bolts back to unsuspecting number one, her husband, I mean. Oh lord. When she left the house at my request, I couldn't have thought too despicably of her as that. Is it more abject than my husband's other end for her? It has to be one of the two. Yeah. It would have to be one of the two.
But to go creeping back to her husband as though nothing had happened, that would be too much. Oh, it's quite possible. You know, Garth and such thing, sir. I say so. That'll be making a pretty jump out of the husband, wouldn't it? Yeah. It does. All the same. It has a funny side to it, you know. Don't you think so bloody? It has a humorous side, you know. Well, yes. I can see that custom. But I wasn't thinking about the husband as I walked here. I was thinking about the woman picturing her in dire desolation.
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Don't you think she may be in dire desolation too?
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Thinking it over, lady Lillian? No. I've come to the conclusion that your husband is right and that I was a sentimental seller wasting my sympathy on her. Exactly. We don't need to worry about her, I think.
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Ah, doctor Brodie, will you take lady Lillian? I should be honored. Oh, by the way, mister Garton, you were telling us about lady Lillian's emeralds, remember?
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Oh, but of course. Why, hello, little. You haven't got them on tonight. I thought you got them out of me. You said you didn't go with that dress. Well, no. I Well, where are they? I was talking about them to missus Redding before you came in. I've I took them off down here earlier on and left them for safety in one of your stores. Oh, which one?
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That one.
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Oh, it's opened up and put them on again, hadn't you? I like it and let me know. I remember them when I was upstairs dressing and, you know, I forgot them again.
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The the emeralds have gone. They're not here, but but they should be. I left them here only a little while ago. I know I did. What? You say they're gone? This is what's to be done. My my emeralds, I know they're in this drawer. Gone? The same of the police and Wallace. This is very, very serious. I know they were there. I know what cannot happen. Garfunkel, how can you keep it up? Didn't you see the poor girl nearly same thing? I'm not surprised. I know I should. Him.
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How are you, little? Car yourself. That is dear lesson to you. That's all. Everything's all right. It's just a trick I was playing on you. I found them in the drawer just before Redding came in. There never was a chap like us for playing tricks on you. A masterpiece, a real must. Well, hey, yeah. Put them on. Then let's go nurses, really. Oh, poor lady, Lillian. She looks quite pale. Oh, she'll get over this. Maybe even more careful with him next time. Maybe little. Well, come on. What are you doing over there? Burning something?
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An old letter. Just an old letter. Doctor Brody, shall we go in?
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Missus Leddy.
