:52:03
(Hetty) He always treated her like a chit!
:52:06
I think you're absolutely wrong.
:52:08
Don't you remember that
disgusting divorce petition?
:52:11
The things you did to her!
:52:13
- Divorce petition?
- Oh, didn't he tell you?
:52:17
He was divorced from his wife
on the grounds of extreme cruelty.
:52:21
Thank you very much.
:52:24
Well, is it true?
:52:27
Yes!
:52:28
Both extreme mental and physical cruelty.
:52:32
Depravity was mentioned, I think.
:52:34
It had to read that way,
but there wasn't a word of truth in it!
:52:37
The lawyers made it all up.
:52:39
We didn't want to wait three years
for a divorce based on desertion,
:52:43
so I allowed her to divorce me
on the grounds of cruelty.
:52:45
Extreme cruelty.
:52:48
I wonder if the police have read a copy of it.
:52:53
My God!
:52:56
(Hetty) Yes, l'm sure they'll be fascinated.
:52:58
- He's innocent, I know he is.
- You know it? How do you know it?
:53:02
As you say, they'd been divorced.
He had no call to do her in.
:53:05
There's no spiteful act
I'd put past old Dicko here,
:53:09
especially if he were drunk.
:53:11
Were you drunk when you did it?
Was that it?
:53:13
I didn't do it, Hetty.
:53:15
I didn't do it! I swear!
:53:17
Then why don't you go to the police
instead of involving Johnny?
:53:21
I didn't want to involve him. He insisted.
:53:23
That's right, I did.
Can't abandon a chap in trouble.
:53:26
I still say, why don't you go
to the police and inform them?
:53:29
They'd never believe him, that's why.
:53:31
He's the only suspect they've got,
and with the evidence against him,
:53:35
they'd lock him up without
so much as a by-your-leave.
:53:38
Please hide him, Mrs Porter, just for tonight,
:53:42
until we can think what's best to do.
:53:44
'Course we'll hide him.
Can't throw an old comrade to the cops.
:53:48
Well, if you want to be arrested
for harboring a wanted man,
:53:51
or subverting the course of justice
or whatever,
:53:54
on your own head be it, Johnny.
:53:56
But I wash my hands of the matter.
:53:58
Thank God we're off to Paris tomorrow.
That's all I can say.