: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.
:18:00
And we lived happily ever after.
:18:03
You know, it's funny to think
that just a year ago...
:18:05
...I sat in that nice bridge pub
actually planning to murder her.
:18:09
And I might have done it...
:18:11
...if I hadn't seen something
that changed my mind.
:18:14
Well, what did you see?.
:18:18
I saw you.
:18:24
What was so odd about that?.
:18:26
The coincidence.
:18:27
Only a week before,
I'd been to a reunion dinner.
:18:30
And the fellows
were talking about you.
:18:32
How you had been court-martialed
during the war.
:18:34
A year in prison.
That was news.
:18:37
Mind you, at college, we'd all said
that Swan would end up in jail.
:18:41
-That cashbox, I suppose.
-Well, what about it?.
:18:44
My dear fellow, everybody knew
you took that money.
:18:48
Poor old Alfred.
:18:55
Thanks very much for the drink.
:18:57
Interesting, hearing about your
matrimonial affairs.