1:17:29
You opening a dress shop?
1:17:41
No.
1:17:43
We are closing an inquiry.
Where is Shimoga?
1:17:46
- I beg your pardon?
- Shimoga, where is it?
1:17:48
Well, it's a bit off my track.
I'm a Northwest Frontier man myself.
1:17:51
But Shimoga's down south,
in Mysore. Why?
1:17:54
Does it possess a mission?
1:17:56
How the hell should I know?
India's pustular with missions.
1:17:59
You are returning on leave
from India to England?
1:18:02
- Yes.
- Why overland?
1:18:05
Why not?
1:18:06
Because the sea route
by P and O is more usual.
1:18:10
I chose to come overland
for reasons of my own.
1:18:13
Colonel Arbuthnott,
in a murder inquiry,
1:18:14
no suspect's reasons
are exclusively his own.
1:18:19
I stopped for one night
to see Ur of the Chaldees,
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and for three days in Baghdad
with the A.O.C.,
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who happens to be
a friend of mine.
1:18:27
The English Miss Debenham
also has traveled from Baghdad.
1:18:33
It is possible the murder
was committed by a woman
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or by a man and a woman
in collaboration.
1:18:40
From your acquaintanceship
with Miss Debenham,
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would you have thought
that she was
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capable physically or emotionally or...?
1:18:48
- That's a bloody irregular question.
- I know, but I ask it.
1:18:52
Miss Debenham is not a woman.
1:18:57
- She's a lady.
- Which precludes her
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from being a murderess?