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First broadcast 22nd February 1985.
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00:00Elsie!
00:12Miss Holland!
00:30The writer of that wicked letter is morally guilty of murder.
00:42This court finds that Angela Margaret Symington did take her own life,
00:46whilst the balance of her mind was disturbed.
00:50Miss Partridge!
00:53I... I...
00:55What now?
00:56Tomorrow afternoon, could I come and see you?
00:59Just for a chat.
01:01What you been up to now, then, eh?
01:03Nothing, Miss Partridge.
01:05I do have something on my mind.
01:29The robin's in her hair.
01:35Upon whose bosom snow has lain.
01:41Who intermurly lives with rain.
01:47So made by fools like me.
01:51Ah, Superintendent.
01:53Come along in, dear.
01:55Sorry to be true.
01:56Not at all.
01:57Oh, Mrs. Don't be dear. Just a moment.
01:59Would you mind?
02:01Oh, thank you so much.
02:03Oh, I don't think you know my friend, Jane Marple.
02:07Saw you at the inquest yesterday, didn't I, Miss Marple?
02:09Oh, yes, yes, sir.
02:11Is this the only typewriter you ladies have?
02:13The one and only.
02:15Errol, that's right, isn't it?
02:16Yes.
02:17Mr. Symington gave it to us.
02:19I see.
02:20When was that?
02:21Oh, Miss Ginch, you'd know.
02:23Oh, dear.
02:24Let's see.
02:25It must have been November last year.
02:28Look, I'm holding you up.
02:29I wonder if you'd mind typing out a couple of addresses on these envelopes for me.
02:34Two fingers only, I'm afraid.
02:36Two is enough.
02:37Here they are.
02:40Oh, I don't think I quite understand that...
02:43Oh, dear.
02:44Those horrid letters all had typewritten envelopes.
02:47They may have been typed on the same machine.
02:50And I dare say the superintendent is trying to track it down.
02:55Just an area check.
02:56Oh, of course.
02:58Oh, er, forgive me, superintendent.
03:03I wonder, might I have a word with you?
03:05Certainly.
03:06Yesterday's verdict.
03:07Yes, Miss Marble.
03:09Er, at the inquest, did you not find it perhaps a little too simple, too easy?
03:14Easy?
03:16Suicide, as a conclusion.
03:19No, Miss Marble.
03:20I did not.
03:22Here you are.
03:24Thank you very much.
03:25Sorry to disturb you.
03:27Gosh, what a simply perfect evening.
03:42Is there anywhere else in the world where summer days drop so slowly into night?
03:46Owen, you know you're quite an astonishing man.
03:51Astonishing?
03:52Me?
03:53Yes, you.
03:54One part cool, efficient, objective, the doctor.
03:58Another talking about summer days dropping slowly into night.
04:03Different person.
04:04Well, I'm Welsh, you see.
04:05That must be it.
04:07No, I don't see.
04:09So, tell me about Wales.
04:11Wales?
04:12I don't know if I'll be much good at that.
04:16All I know is that someday I have to go back there.
04:19Stand on the hilltop, look down across the valley.
04:23It's difficult to explain.
04:26Yes.
04:27To explain the things you love best.
04:42Hello, the first.
04:43Yes, Megan.
04:44Yes, Megan.
04:45Okay.
04:46Hold on.
04:47Partridge!
04:48She may have gone to bed.
04:49One moment, sir.
04:50She hasn't.
04:51She's on her way down.
04:52Partridge, Beatrice had tea with you.
04:53What time did she leave?
04:54She never come, Mr. Barton.
04:55But Miss Megan says...
04:56She should have.
04:57I waited tea for her because she said she was worried and wanted to talk to me.
04:59Worried?
05:00She's a fly-by-night, that one.
05:01All right, Partridge.
05:02I'm sorry to have disturbed you.
05:04Hello, Megan.
05:05She never turned up.
05:06Oh.
05:07Probably went off with that young man of hers.
05:08Yes.
05:09Look, is there anything wrong?
05:10You say I'm worried?
05:11Has anything happened?
05:12Look, is there anything I can do?
05:13I can be around in a minute.
05:14Thanks.
05:15You're welcome.
05:16Yeah.
05:17No, I'm sorry.
05:18I'm sorry.
05:19I'm scared.
05:20But I'm afraid she's not going to go in the mirror.
05:21Well, I can't be frightened.
05:22I'm afraid.
05:23I'm afraid.
05:24No, you might be about to worry.
05:25I'm afraid.
05:26You're afraid I'll tell you.
05:27I'm afraid of you.
05:28But I'm afraid of you.
05:29What?
05:30What is the most?
05:31I'm afraid of you!
05:32She said she was worried and wanted to talk to me.
05:33Worried?
05:34She's a fly-by-night, that one.
05:36Thanks.
05:55Beatrice?
06:05Oh, it's you, Miss Megan.
06:14Oh, Rose. Beatrice. I thought she might have come in.
06:18That's funny.
06:21She never put on her best dress.
06:24No.
06:25But half news off, she always do.
06:35This time, she left off with her in bed.
06:49Oh, my God.
07:19Oh, hello. Who is it?
07:26Phone, Mr. Burton. That's Miss Megan.
07:29Coming.
07:31Urgent, you say?
07:33All right, Paddridge.
07:49Hello, Megan.
07:51Oh, Jerry, thank God. Beatrice, she's dead.
07:54Oh, my God.
07:55She's been murdered. Jerry murdered.
07:57Now, listen, just try and keep calm. I'll be right over with you. All right?
08:00I'll be right over with you.
08:10Corgert, put a man on every door.
08:12No one in, no one out on further notice.
08:14Clear?
08:14All right, sir.
08:15Johnson, on the door.
08:16All right.
08:35All right. Let's take a look.
08:37I'd say between 15 and 20 hours. This is all yours.
08:51Bill?
08:52Sir?
08:56What I said?
09:01Told you about this here house, didn't I?
09:04Let's see the look.
09:05Wouldn't let me in do my work, would they?
09:07Don't suppose they would.
09:09This way, it's not yet.
09:10Just one moment, sir. You can't go in there, sir.
09:34But Miss Megan phoned me.
09:35As this may be, sir, that I got my orders.
09:40Oh, Jerry!
09:51Now then, Miss, you can't come out here.
09:53I'll take her in, Constance.
09:55Oh. Oh, if you would, sir.
09:56Right.
10:00Hold hard.
10:01She can't come out and you can't go in.
10:04I told you.
10:05Can't you see the state this girl is in?
10:07Now, either I take her in or you take the consequences.
10:10But she was off for the whole afternoon.
10:20No.
10:21That's what we all reckoned, you see.
10:23But George learnt me.
10:26She come back.
10:27She came back.
10:28Oh, my dear.
10:33Oh, come and sit down.
10:36Oh, there.
10:37Oh.
10:39A cup of tea, I think, Rose.
10:41And plenty of sugar.
10:42And some brandy, if there is any.
10:43We'll find some.
10:44Oh, and after that, a couple of hot water bottles.
10:48Let's get her to bed.
10:49Yes.
10:49Oh, that's a relief.
10:53Sent the boys off to stay with their cousin.
10:55Thank goodness.
10:57What a day.
10:59Sorry.
11:00Megan, what on earth's the matter with you?
11:03Miss Holland, just give me a moment, will you?
11:08Yeah, my dear.
11:09You'll be all right soon.
11:11I'll give you a nice cup of tea, and then put you to a nice woman's bed.
11:15She's in a state of shock.
11:18Well, we all are, aren't we?
11:20But you didn't find the body, did you?
11:24How is Mr. Symington?
11:26Shaken.
11:27Very shaken.
11:28Do something for me, will you?
11:29I'll try.
11:30Good girl.
11:32Go in there, will you?
11:33Stay with him.
11:33Try to get his mind off it.
11:35I'll do my best.
11:36That's the stuff.
11:41What the devil are you doing here?
11:43Megan, phone to me.
11:45I give Johnson strict one.
11:48How the hell did you get past him?
11:49It happens to be a bloody good thing that I did.
11:51The girl's deeply shocked, and there's no one here gives a tinker's curse.
11:55All right, all right.
11:56Oh, squadron leader.
11:58Good God.
12:00Now, don't worry.
12:01Rose is going to bring her up in a moment.
12:04She'll look after her.
12:05Tell me, has all of Limston got past Constable Johnson?
12:09Oh, I'm so very sorry.
12:10You see, I was talking to Rose the cook.
12:12Good.
12:13Good.
12:13And I've learned something which I think is rather important.
12:16Don't you?
12:17Possibly, if you'd be good enough to tell me what it is.
12:20It's Beatrice, you see.
12:22She came back to the house.
12:23She never left the house, Miss Marple.
12:25No, no, no.
12:26I'm so sorry.
12:26I'm talking about the day poor Mrs. Symington died.
12:29Now, Beatrice quarreled with her boyfriend, George, isn't it?
12:33Down at the garage.
12:34And she came back.
12:35She was here all that afternoon.
12:37Now, that does rather change things, doesn't it?
12:41Rose didn't tell me this.
12:43Oh, really, did she not?
12:45No.
12:46Well, perhaps you never asked her.
12:50Anything else, Miss Marple?
12:52No, I don't think so.
12:53No, not at the moment.
12:55And perhaps the two of you would be good enough to leave the premises.
12:58Oh, yes, yes, of course.
13:00Come along, squadron, either.
13:01Oh, forgive me, Superintendent, but I hope that you don't find, or, how shall I put it, find me irritating.
13:15Dismiss the thought, Miss Marple.
13:17Oh, good, I'm so glad.
13:20Yes.
13:22Just a moment, madam.
13:24I got my orders.
13:25No one in, no one out.
13:29Goodness, what excitement.
13:31And the Sunday newspapers.
13:33Can't you just imagine?
13:35I don't wish to.
13:36Those journalists at the Swan, drunk every night, I hear.
13:40The pause.
13:41But confess now.
13:42Don't you feel just the teeny-weeniest little bit of a thrill?
13:45You may, Mr. Pye.
13:46Don't you feel just the same thing?
13:47Don't you feel just a little bit of a thrill?
13:51Don't you feel just the same thing?
13:53Don't you feel just a little bit of a thrill?
13:55Why can't the wife have never seen
14:02I've always loved to be there
14:06Wouldn't be touching that if I were you.
14:10What?
14:11That there machine.
14:12This typewriter, why not?
14:14That's the one, wasn't it?
14:15The one what?
14:17Was used for all them envelopes.
14:19Who told you that?
14:20Constable Johnson told my Arthur,
14:23all written down at the women's, he say,
14:26on that there machine.
14:28They can tell, you see, that's science.
14:31Mr. Symington gave us his typewriter, Mrs. Cleet.
14:34Never said otherwise,
14:36but that were a long time ago, weren't it?
14:39You were setting out the chairs, weren't you?
14:41That was a long time ago, too.
14:47Do you think it's true?
14:48It's true, all right.
14:50That old bitch has an unfailing nose for the nasty.
14:54In that case, surely all of us here aren't...
14:57Yes, we're all under suspicion.
14:59Oh, no.
15:20Oh, no.
15:22Partridge?
15:37Partridge?
15:52I've done the shop, and the butcher's delivered.
15:56Fine.
15:57When's the next pass?
15:57Lemmster.
16:00Might remain outside, say.
16:01Right.
16:02Then I must dash.
16:08Hey!
16:10Hey!
16:11In my language.
16:23Hello.
16:24I'm not going to wail.
16:25Let's just limp spin.
16:26Jump in.
16:27A bit of luck.
16:36I was going to call you.
16:38That's nice.
16:39I wondered if you might care to have dinner on Saturday.
16:41Dinner?
16:42Just the two of us?
16:43Well, your brother, Nerrell, as well, of course.
16:47Why, of course?
16:48Well, because I...
16:50Do you think I might be bored?
16:51In need of a chaperone?
16:53No, not that exactly.
16:55Oh, well.
16:56I'm quite a big girl now.
16:58Hadn't you noticed?
17:00I'd noticed.
17:02So?
17:03Well, you're also a very sophisticated young lady.
17:06Used to the bright lights, too.
17:09Big city.
17:10Haven't met many, you see.
17:12And that scares you?
17:14No, I wouldn't say that.
17:16Just leaves me wondering what's behind the glitter.
17:19The polish.
17:20That's what I want to know.
17:21Owen, that's marvellous.
17:24Well, at least you're interested.
17:26In knowing where I'm supposed to be taking you.
17:29Nor, didn't I tell you.
17:31Police station.
17:35You do see my little worry, don't you, Superintendent?
17:38I think so.
17:40However, the suicide note was written by Mrs. Symington.
17:43No doubt about that.
17:45On just a scrap of paper?
17:47Yes.
17:48Perhaps.
17:50Unusual, I would have thought.
17:52Would you?
17:53But then suicide isn't exactly usual, is it?
17:57Oh, indeed not.
17:58But surely these letters are usually more formal.
18:02Perhaps in a way a justification of the act.
18:05Certainly not one sentence I can't go on
18:08written on a scrap of paper torn at the edges.
18:10I begin to feel a bit torn at the edges myself, Ms. Marple.
18:20Oh, that's you, Mr. Burton.
18:22You're back.
18:22Mm.
18:23Is Miss Joanna around?
18:24She went rushing after Lemsden.
18:27Is there nothing you'd like, sir?
18:29Oh, just a whiskey and soda, please, Partridge.
18:34Yes, of course, Ms. Marple.
18:36Well, I do take you a warning, but...
18:37Excuse me, sir.
18:39Very urgent, she says, sir.
18:41Who says, Jonathan?
18:43Well, uh, this young lady here, sir.
18:46Superintendent.
18:48Another of those awful letters.
18:49Just arrived.
18:50Second post.
18:51Miss Marple.
18:54Oh, forgive me, please.
18:56Oh, my dear child, of course.
19:21Miss Marple.
19:26Pass her.
19:29Miss Marple.
19:31Miss Marple.
19:33Miss Marple.
19:39Miss Marple.
19:39Let's go.
20:09You found this amongst Miss Barton's books, didn't you?
20:20Right.
20:21How very perceptive of you, Squadron Leader.
20:24Not really. It was an old book.
20:27And the print...
20:29Reminded you of the first letter that you received.
20:32Miss Barton, eh? Well, well, well.
20:35Very hardy.
20:37And this envelope addressed to Miss Barton.
20:40Well, do forgive me, Superintendent.
20:42But have you noticed the U in Barton has been altered from an A?
20:49Yes.
20:51But who on earth would want to describe Miss Barton as a painted trollope?
20:56Very odd. Very odd indeed.
21:07We need picking up formal.
21:10Right, shall we.
21:11And come back without that stick.
21:12OK, thanks, Jane.
21:13Good luck.
21:21Return to London, please.
21:23Yes, sir.
21:31Thank you, sir.
21:37Hello.
21:39Hello.
21:40What brings you here?
21:42Nothing.
21:43Just met Partridge.
21:44Thought I'd come and see you off.
21:46Wanted to make sure I'm going, eh?
21:48Not true.
21:49You know that.
21:51Well, in that case, you'd better come and see me off.
22:07Doing anything special in London?
22:09Monthly medical.
22:10Air Ministry want to make sure that Owen the Dock isn't killing me off.
22:13There she comes.
22:23Will you be away a very long time?
22:27No.
22:28Only as long as it takes.
22:43You will come back soon, won't you?
23:02Here.
23:03Come on.
23:06Here, watch that door.
23:09But I haven't got a ticket.
23:11We'll soon fix that.
23:12But why?
23:13What for?
23:14Because I suddenly felt like Professor Higgins.
23:16And you're going to be my Eliza Doolett.
23:19Who's she?
23:20You'll soon find out.
23:41Yeah!
23:42I won't.
23:49Yeah.
23:50I know.
23:51Even though he's a nothing man and my friend there.
23:54See whirs povoIt.
23:55Never, angry, ginger.
23:59Here you go.
24:01Hear whining that door.
24:02I'm not a single one with his head.
24:04I'll be ni funny like that.
24:06See've just met you wealthy who would owe a show.
24:08I was like, okay now, new food you're such a WHO.
24:09I don't know.
24:39when I'm old and still beautiful now don't laugh at me with you now tell me is that where I'm
24:48going to finish up organizing jumble sales coffee mornings bottling jam you're fishing girl and
24:55you're impossible who me yes good night good night who was that didn't see come along
25:09well you are thanks this lot ashes to ashes
25:34guess so well good night and thanks again and and it's just that you and joanna are so kind
25:45put up with me I just like to I have to tell you I want to kiss you
25:53good night
26:02good night
26:09good night
26:14good night
26:21good night
26:37.
27:07and whether you didn't squadron leader it's you superintendent on your way home
27:20sir yes the whole place was dark just now I was just wondering yes of course
27:25it's getting late sir and you want me on my way good night
27:31miss Holland received it this morning muck isn't it not quite so explicit as last time I mean the
27:43six details this one I thought you should have it as soon as possible sooner the better how did
27:48miss Holland take it she's got guts that girl hasn't received one before has she look Nash
27:58aren't you on to anyone yet Mary this letter could be just a break we need well let's hope so well
28:06thanks for your help I'll get the experts on this oh hold the fort miss Ginch I won't be long I've got
28:27a call to make very well mr. Symington where's the inspector inside take it for prints right away
28:42no cut-up printed words this time type written the whole lot and if it tallies up with what we've
28:48already got by God we're in business
28:50Edward hello you very busy knitting as a matter of fact Owen's on his rounds oh how stupid of me of
29:11course is anything I can do well I don't know come in please it's those knockout powders that Owen gave
29:20me I couldn't find them I hid him somewhere in case the children might anyway I didn't sleep a wink
29:25last night oh it's all right I have the prescription Owen can always write another for my records so sit
29:32down a moment thanks don't go miss laying these now Edward don't worry I've learned my lesson you
29:49know what you need now is someone to take you in hand take care of you you read all these what
29:57textbooks history of British medicine once upon a time I wanted to be a doctor too you see only there
30:07wasn't enough money and Owen was the boy girls have to learn to tag along here we are don't forget only
30:18one take two and just sleep for 24 hours and how would the law in Limston get on then Errol yes Edward bless you you've just about saved my life
30:31miss Griffith I'd like a word please of course thank you Nash again what brings you here or you sir
30:50oh I know the need to sleep nights I see I'd prefer to talk in private it's quite all right mr. Symington's
31:01no friend very well mean anything to you miss Griffith nothing no nothing at all and if I tell you that you were
31:18observed typing that letter at the Women's Institute the night before last it's ridiculous it's not what
31:25you think you think not think miss Griffith no superintendent if I may interrupt whatever miss Griffith
31:34may or may not have done she is entitled to legal representation now as a lawyer and a friend no it would
31:40go away please go away but my dear girl no I don't want you to hear I don't want to see you want you to know
31:54just go away I'll be in touch miss Griffith I have a warrant for your arrest for the matter of Beatrice
32:10Dunn down at the station you may wish to make a statement in time you have the right to remain silent
32:16with a twith cone Crawford so infatuated with Symington she certainly was I've known that
32:33for ages but to kill never couldn't not even a fly there must be something we can do
32:41there's nothing anyone can do at the moment anyway if there were he'd be doing it I know that
32:47the whole place is crawling with coppers tearing the place apart every drawer every cupboard in
32:53Errol's bedroom they've even had the carpet up now they're turning over the dispensary in the
32:58waiting room God knows what they hope to find
33:01oh the inspector say to let you know sir we're taking these away what we're from them books in
33:13the bookshelf sir and the dispensary pestle have you no idea what it's useful I can't rightly say
33:20myself sir but the inspector he do say that could be the murder weapon more than likely thank you very
33:27much sir oh dear I'm certain they've arrested the wrong person the letter to the governors they saw
33:39her typing it they saw her poor thing what if they did proves nothing and the printed pages with the
33:44letters and the words torn out just behind the desk nothing as well well nothing much I mean after all
33:50more dear if she had all those pages why did she type the letter none of the others were only the
33:56envelope oh I feel so frustrated so helpless so slow perhaps
34:04I have an idea may I use your telephone of course dear yes no not yet now first you know everyone
34:20I'm round about here I want you to tell me more about the Symington stepdaughter little miss
34:26Megan you happy Elsie of course why shouldn't I be so am I
34:50I'd like a word oh yes yes of course leave us Elsie please just a minute now Elsie very well
35:04what did you mean by that I want some money you have your allowance isn't it enough not enough
35:20well in a few months time you'll come into your grandmother's money I want it from you do you would
35:32you mind coming to the point young lady very well I saw what you did to my mother's sedative powders in
35:39the bedroom that afternoon I don't know what you mean by that and I didn't hear it but you are of an
35:52age now I suppose you need certain things clothes and all that so
36:01five hundred five thousand
36:31all right the time being
37:01oh yes yes of course I do realize squadron leader that it is a calculated risk
37:20you see my one fear is of being dismissed as a stupid old woman
37:24in that case I shall have to rely upon a man with your sort of courage
37:28well I just hope you're right Miss Marvel I'll be right over with you
37:35ah you're not finished yet Rose when I leave for breakfast sir then upstairs with Miss Megan's
37:44milk and after bed quick as a wink nothing he was looking for sir no no no no just a match
37:49there's a box over there on the stove sir good night good night Rose
37:58I don't have you any idea of the position you put me into should this go wrong I don't know what
38:15they'll do to you I know what they'll do to me I'll have my guts forgot us oh do try to forgive me
38:20my superintendent by one wish throughout has been to help help yes help you
38:50my
38:55I don't know what you're doing
38:58you
39:00you
39:02you
39:03you
39:04you
39:05you
39:06you
39:07PIANO PLAYS
39:37PIANO PLAYS
40:07PIANO PLAYS
40:17PIANO PLAYS
40:19PIANO CONFIDENT
40:19PIANO CONFIDENT
40:21PIANO CONFIDENT
40:23Gary.
40:25Mr. Stanley Totston.
40:28Yes, sir. Thank you, sir.
40:30Thank you, sir.
41:00Heart and pulse, perfectly normal. She'll soon be back with us.
41:06Thank God he didn't give her an overdose.
41:10But why he didn't?
41:12Too risky. Too obvious.
41:14I have to answer too many questions.
41:16It was his sedative, wasn't it?
41:18But a gas stove and a poor girl brooding over the loss of Mum.
41:22Just the job.
41:24Well, must be on my skates.
41:26Superintendent, may I congratulate you on having had the courage?
41:29Of your convictions, Miss Marple. Thanks.
41:33Oh, by the way, Doctor, we shall be holding your sister.
41:36We know that Symington planted those cut-up pages in your waiting room.
41:40And that last letter?
41:42Ah, yes. Well, silly that. Silly girl.
41:47People not infrequently do silly things when they're very much in love, don't they?
41:51And some very evil things, like Mr. Symington.
41:55Still makes the world go round, so they tell us.
41:58Sometimes.
41:59But why did she?
42:01Ask Miss Marple.
42:03Usually has the right answers.
42:05Well, good day.
42:07One moment, Superintendent.
42:10Well?
42:12Well, perhaps it was all the chatter.
42:16The thought that Miss Holland did intend to become the second Mrs. Symington.
42:21And perhaps the letter might scare her away.
42:25Oh.
42:27Oh.
42:28Megan.
42:32Megan, darling.
42:33I'll have to see you...
42:34Just give her some things in the morning.
42:35Yeah.
42:36It's a great night, you too.
42:39Thanks.
42:40Thank you for all you did, my dear.
42:41You were very brave.
42:43Now take great care of her.
42:44Great care of her.
42:52Is everything all right?
42:55It is now.
43:05Ah, Miss Holland.
43:07You're off.
43:09I couldn't stay in this house a moment longer.
43:12It gives me the creeps.
43:14And besides, they'll all be saying it was my fault.
43:17And I had no idea. No idea at all.
43:20When gentlemen of a certain age fall in love,
43:24they get the disease very badly.
43:27Well, goodbye. And good luck.
43:38She'll be all right.
43:42Oh, well, Doctor, as you predicted, the patient is once again with us.
43:47Good.
43:48Oh, dear, yes.
43:49Dinner tonight, please. And just with me.
43:52If that's what the doctor orders.
43:54He does.
43:57Meghan, you took a terrible risk, Jane dear.
44:00Oh, I have no idea, but I just had to.
44:03And the superintendent was rather splendid, don't you think?
44:08Ah, how is she?
44:10All right, I think Owen's just making sure.
44:13What I still don't understand is when all this started.
44:16Oh, ages ago, I imagine. Soon after Miss Holland arrived.
44:20All those anonymous letters typed on that machine of his
44:23before giving it away to the Women's Institute.
44:25It was all a smokescreen, was he?
44:27He wanted everybody to suspect a woman, and they did.
44:30Everyone watching the smoke, no one seeing the fire.
44:34And, of course, his main purpose was murder.
44:38How absolutely cold-blooded.
44:41It was. He is.
44:43My envelope, the one with the A, turned into a U.
44:46Ah, well, that was originally intended for Miss Barton.
44:49But the U wasn't typed on the same machine.
44:52Now, that was a very silly mistake of his and quite unworthy of him.
44:55Jane dear, tragic little Beatrice.
44:57However, did she get involved?
44:59Because he chose to dispose of his wife on an afternoon when he knew
45:02that she'd be quite alone in the house.
45:04A Wednesday.
45:06Directly after lunch, he put cyanide in Mrs. Symington's sedative
45:09and then went back to the office.
45:11When he returned, he went to the nursery,
45:13where he was given a cup of tea, which he took up to their room.
45:16He crumpled a poison pen letter, dropped it on the floor,
45:19together with the suicide note, and then raised the alarm.
45:22Oh, he is, of course, a consummate actor.
45:25But the suicide note, I can't go on.
45:27It was in her handwriting.
45:28Yes, but suicide notes aren't written on scraps of paper
45:31torn from telephone pads, are they?
45:34I can't go on. What?
45:36I can't go on Friday and Saturday, perhaps.
45:39He must have found it, thought it might be useful, and kept it.
45:43I know I'm somewhat slow at this kind of thing, Jane,
45:46but I still don't understand why Beatrice...
45:48Ah, Beatrice. Now, that was a quarrel, you see.
45:51What the murderer couldn't know was that Beatrice would quarrel with her boyfriend
45:55and then return to the house.
45:57Where she saw what happened?
45:59She saw absolutely nothing.
46:02Not only no penitent boyfriend, nothing.
46:06Nothing dropped through the letterbox.
46:08No postman with the anonymous letter said to have been delivered.
46:11Nothing.
46:12Later and slowly, of course, the poor child put things together
46:15and became troubled and was going to see Partridge.
46:19And that's why she bought it.
46:21How did he manage it?
46:22Well, again, it was a Wednesday, you see.
46:24He pretended to depart for the office, but he didn't.
46:27He slammed the front door, came back into the hall and hid.
46:30All the others went off, leaving poor little Beatrice, always the last, quite alone.
46:35Perhaps he rang the front doorbell and she came into the hall to answer it
46:39and was struck down from behind and thrust into a cupboard.
46:43No one noticed his late arrival back at the office
46:45and, of course, Partridge never learned what was troubling the poor unfortunate girl.
46:50Jane, you're quite marvellous, isn't she, everyone?
46:54Quite.
46:55But supposing things had gone wrong, what would have happened to Meghan then?
46:58Now, Squadron Leader, you know better than most
47:01that we are not put into this world to avoid danger.
47:05Not when an innocent person's life is at stake.
47:08All right, Miss Marple.
47:09You sold Meghan the idea.
47:11I'll have to go along with that.
47:12Yes.
47:13See you later.
47:15Oh, my dear, that brother of yours.
47:18Lots of courage.
47:19They'll make a fine pair, those two.
47:21And so will you with that nice doctor upstairs.
47:25Now, Maud, do you know what I would really like?
47:28Jane, I can't imagine.
47:30But you only have to say.
47:32Well, I wonder, dare I ask,
47:34would it be possible for all of us to have a nice cup of tea?
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