:21:01
- This is perfectly all right.
- Lemon or milk, please?
:21:04
- I don't really care.
- Would you prefer sherry?
:21:07
- That'd be fine.
- We've no' got any.
:21:09
Oh, but we have. There's that bottle,
the one we bought last Christmas.
:21:13
If you care for an eggnog there's a wasted
egg in the kitchen ready and separated.
:21:18
Do sit down. Don't mind Janet, Mr Vole.
It's just that she's terribly Scotch.
:21:23
Oh, is she? I thought
she came with the collection.
:21:27
You know, maybe
I'll take a glass of sherry myself.
:21:31
I feel like Christmas, somehow.
:21:35
After that I saw her once or twice a week.
She always kept a bottle of sherry for me.
:21:40
We'd talk, play canasta,
listen to gramophone records,
:21:43
Gilbert and Sullivan mostly.
:21:45
It's so weird to think of her now,
lying in that living room, murdered.
:21:49
I assure you she's been moved by now.
To leave her would be unfeeling, unlawful,
:21:54
and unsanitary.
:21:58
Tell Sir Wilfrid about
the evening of the murder.
:22:02
I went around to see her
about eight o'clock.
:22:04
She fixed a sandwich,
we talked, listened to The Mikado.
:22:07
I left about nine. I walked home.
I got there about half past.
:22:11
I can prove that. I can swear to it, in or out
of court, in the witness box, anywhere!
:22:15
How much money did you get
from Mrs French?
:22:18
- Nothing.
- The truth. How much?
:22:20
- Why should she give me any money?
- Because she was in love with you.
:22:24
That's ridiculous. She liked me.
:22:26
She pampered me like an aunt.
But that's all, I swear.
:22:29
- Why didn't you tell her you had a wife?
- I did!
:22:32
But you never took your wife along
when you went there. Why not?
:22:35
- Because...
- Because what?
:22:37
Because she was under the impression
we didn't get along too well.
:22:40
- Is that true?
- No! We love each other.
:22:43
- Then how did she get that impression?
- She just seemed to want to believe it.
:22:47
- You never corrected her. Why?
- I was afraid she'd lose interest.
:22:50
Because she was rich,
and you were after her money.
:22:54
Well, yes, in a way.
:22:56
I was hoping for a loan for my new
invention. Just a few hundred pounds.