:08:01
About an hour. One of the Crosbie
houseboys came to fetch me.
:08:04
-Was Hammond dead?
-Oh, yes. He was just riddled with bullets.
:08:08
-What?
-Here's the revolver.
:08:10
All six chambers are empty.
:08:16
Here, you two.
Better have a drink yourselves.
:08:18
Thanks, but I'm afraid I shouldn't.
:08:20
I'll have one, Bob.
:08:22
I'm on duty of a sort, you know.
:08:25
Feeling any better?
:08:27
Much better, thank you.
:08:29
Mrs. Crosbie, I know it sounds brutal,
but I'm afraid it's my duty...
:08:33
...to ask you some questions.
:08:35
I think that can wait until my wife--
:08:38
It's all right, really.
I feel perfectly well now.
:08:40
Then suppose you tell us
exactly what happened, Leslie.
:08:44
-I'll try.
-Take your time, Mrs. Crosbie.
:08:47
Remember, we're all friends here.
:08:49
You've been so patient.
:09:00
Well, as you know, Robert was
spending the night in Singapore.
:09:03
I never mind being alone.
:09:05
-Planter's wife gets used to that.
-My dear.
:09:08
I had dinner rather late
and started working on my lace.
:09:11
I don't know how long I'd been working
when suddenly I heard a footstep outside.
:09:15
Someone came up on the veranda
and said, "Good evening. Can I come in?"
:09:19
I was startled because I hadn't heard
a car drive up.
:09:22
Hammond left his car
a quarter-mile down the road.
:09:24
Your houseboy noticed it
as we were driving here.
:09:26
Probably didn't want anyone
to hear him.
:09:28
At first I couldn't tell who it was.
"Who is it?" I asked.
:09:31
"Geoff Hammond."
:09:33
"Of course," I said.
"Come in and have a drink."
:09:35
-Were you surprised to see him?
-Well, I was, rather.
:09:38
-We hadn't seen him for ages, had we?
-Three months at least.
:09:42
I told him Robert was
at the number four plantation...
:09:44
-...getting out a shipment. Was that it?
-Yes, darling.
:09:48
-What happened?
-He said, "I'm so sorry...
:09:51
...I was feeling lonely, so I came over
to see how you were getting on."
:09:54
I asked him how he'd come
as I hadn't heard a car.
:09:57
He said he'd left it on the road. We might
be in bed, and he didn't want to wake us.