:16:00
I began to wonder what would happen
if she left me.
:16:03
I'd have to find some way
of earning a living, to begin with.
:16:07
I suddenly realized how much
I'd grown to depend on her.
:16:10
All these expensive tastes
I'd acquired while I was at the top.
:16:14
Now, big tennis
had finished with me...
:16:16
...and so, apparently,
had my wife.
:16:18
I can't ever remember
being so scared.
:16:21
I dropped into a pub
and had a couple of drinks.
:16:24
As I sat in the corner,
I thought of all sorts of things.
:16:29
I thought of three different
ways of killing him.
:16:32
I even thought of killing her.
:16:34
That seemed a far more sensible idea.
:16:37
And just as I was working out
how I could do it...
:16:39
...I suddenly saw something
which completely changed my mind.
:16:46
I didn't go to that tournament
after all.
:16:49
When I got back, she was sitting
exactly where you are now.
:16:53
I'd told her I decided to give up tennis
and look after her instead.
:16:58
-Well?.
-Well, as things turned out...
:17:00
...I needn't have got
so worked up after all.
:17:03
Apparently, their spaghetti evening
had been a sort of a fond farewell.
:17:06
The boyfriend had been
called back to New York.
:17:09
-An American?.
-Yes.
:17:10
There were long letters from there.
:17:12
They usually arrived on Thursdays.
:17:14
She burned them all except one.
:17:16
That one she used to transfer
from handbag to handbag.
:17:19
It was always with her.
:17:21
That letter became
an obsession with me.
:17:23
I had to find out what was in it.
:17:25
Finally, I did.
:17:27
That letter made very interesting reading.
:17:30
-Do you mean you stole it?.
-Yes.
:17:32
I even wrote her two anonymous notes
offering to sell it back.
:17:35
-Why?.
-I was hoping it would make her...
:17:38
...come and tell me all about him.
:17:40
But it didn't,
so I kept the letter.
:17:46
Why are you telling me all this?.
:17:48
Because you're the only
person I can trust.
:17:55
Anyway, that did it.
:17:57
It must have put the fear of God
into them because the letters stopped.