: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.
:14:07
He lifted me in his arms
and started carrying me.
:14:11
Somehow he stumbled on those steps.
:14:14
We fell, and I got away from him.
:14:16
Suddenly I remembered Robert's revolver
in the drawer of that chest.
:14:20
He got up and ran after me,
but I reached it before he could catch me.
:14:23
I seized the gun as he came toward me.
:14:25
I heard a report and saw him lurch
toward the door.
:14:29
It was all instinctive.
I didn't even know I'd fired.
:14:32
Then I followed him out to the veranda.
:14:35
He staggered across the porch,
grabbed the railing...
:14:39
...but it slipped through his hand,
and he fell down.
:14:42
Don't remember anything more,
just the reports, one after another...
:14:46
...till there was a funny little click,
and the revolver was empty.
:14:50
It was only then I knew what I'd done.
:14:56
My poor darling.
:14:58
-Mrs. Crosbie--
-How did the revolver happen to be there?