:12:02
I began to wonder
if he'd been drinking before.
:12:05
"I wouldn't have another one
if I were you," I said.
:12:07
I was quite friendly,
not the least bit frightened.
:12:11
Never occurred to me
I couldn't manage him.
:12:13
But he emptied his glass
and said to me in a funny, abrupt way:
:12:17
"Do you think I'm saying this
because I'm drunk?"
:12:20
I said, "That's the most obvious
explanation, isn't it?"
:12:24
Oh, it's too awful having to tell you all this.
I'm so ashamed.
:12:30
I wish there were some way
we could spare you.
:12:33
Leslie, it's for your own good
that we know the facts.
:12:37
All you can remember of them.
:12:40
Very well, I'll tell you the rest.
:12:44
I got up from that chair there.
:12:49
And I stood in front of the table here.
:12:52
He rose and came around the table
and stood in front of me.
:12:56
I held out my hand.
:12:58
"Good night," I said.
:13:00
But he didn't move.
:13:03
He just stood there looking at me,
and his eyes were all funny.
:13:07
"I'm not going," he said.
:13:09
Then I began to lose my temper.
:13:11
"Poor fool, don't you know
I've never loved anyone but Robert?
:13:14
And even if I didn't love him,
you'd be the last man I should care for."
:13:19
"Robert's away," he said.
:13:22
Well, that was the last straw.
:13:24
I wasn't in the least bit frightened,
just angry.
:13:28
"If you don't leave immediately," I said...
:13:30
" ...I shall call the boys
and have you thrown out."
:13:33
I walked past him toward the veranda
to call the boys.
:13:36
He took hold of my arm
and swung me back.
:13:39
I tried to scream, but he flung his arms
about me and kissed me.
:13:42
I struggled to tear myself away from him.
:13:45
He seemed like a madman. He kept talking
and talking and saying he loved me and--
:13:49
It's horrible. Can't go on.
:13:52
I'm sorry, Leslie,
but we'll have to know the rest.