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- And it was 25 past 9.
- Go on, please.
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I went back to my niece. Och,
she was delighted with the pattern. Si...
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Simply delighted. I stayed until 20 to 11,
then I said good night and I come home.
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I went into the sitting room to see
if the mistress wanted anything
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before she went to bed.
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And there she was, dead.
And everything tossed hither and thither.
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Did you really think
that a burglary had been committed?
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My lord, I must protest!
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I will not allow that question
to be answered, Mr Myers.
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Miss McKenzie, were you aware
that Leonard Vole was a married man?
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No, indeed.
And neither was the mistress.
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- Janet!
- My lord, I must object.
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What Mrs French knew or did not know is
pure conjecture on Janet McKenzie's part.
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Let me put it this way.
You formed the opinion
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that Mrs French thought
Leonard Vole was a single man?
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- Have you any facts to support this?
- The books that she ordered.
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A life of the Baroness Burdett-Coutts,
and the one about Disraeli and his wife.
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Both of them about women that married
men years younger than themselves. Oh!
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- I knew what she was thinking.
- I'm afraid we cannot admit that.
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Why?
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Members of the jury, it is possible
for a woman to read The Life of Disraeli
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without contemplating marriage
with a man younger than herself.
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Were you aware of the arrangements Mrs
French made to dispose of her money?
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She had her old will revoked
and a new one drawn up.
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I heard her calling Mr Stokes,
her solicitor.
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He was there at the time.
The prisoner, I mean.
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You heard Mrs French
and the prisoner discussing her new will?
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Yes. He was to have all her money,
she told him,
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as she had no near relations nor anybody
that meant to her what he did.
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- When did this take place?
- On October 8.
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One week to the day
before she was murdered.