:46:01
lve known children come for one day
and never return again.
:46:04
lts perfectly feasible, Superintendent.
:46:07
Children are at the mercy of their parents.
:46:10
And, for the most part,
parents are a very bad lot.
:46:13
ln some instances,
even undeserving of their children.
:46:16
-Wouldnt you say?
-But l wouldnt say.
:46:19
That would make me a suspect,
dont you see?
:46:22
Queer old party
saves child from undeserving parent.
:46:27
Now, coming back to Bunny Lake.
:46:29
Thats not her real name, you know.
:46:32
Not Bunny at all, but Felicia.
:46:35
lsnt it delicious?
A little affected for an American child...
:46:40
but l think it shows
a strong imagination at work.
:46:44
The brother told me quite a lot.
:46:46
Theres something unusual
about that young man.
:46:50
Something very unusual.
:46:52
What exactly did Mr. Lake say to you?
:46:55
Apparently, she had
this completely imaginary companion.
:46:59
-Who, Bunny?
-No, the mother, when she was a child.
:47:03
And she called her Bunny.
:47:05
lts terribly common among children...
:47:08
lonely children, that is.
:47:10
Why do you think Steven Lake
told you all this?
:47:14
Lets say we took a fancy to each other.
:47:17
The whole place was full of
those great men of yours in boots.
:47:20
l think we both knew
that was no way to find Bunny.
:47:24
-Why do you say that?
-Perhaps lm wrong.
:47:26
lm alone a great deal, Superintendent.
:47:30
But that young man is worried
about his sister. Desperately worried.
:47:35
-lsnt that natural?
-ls it? Natural, l mean?
:47:39
l should have thought the natural thing
was to worry about the child.
:47:56
Johnson and Bates, take a look upstairs.