The Bridesmaid By Ruth Rendell

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The Bridesmaid Philip loved Flora, the stone statue that used to stand in the family garden. Then he meets Senta, his sister's bridesmaid, and she looks just like Flora. But how can horror lie behind such beauty? Philip .... Jamie Glover Senta .... Rachel Lewis Christine .... Frances Jeater Fee .... Rachel Atkins Darren .... Michael Onslow Clieryl .... Oona Beeson Gerard .... James Taylor Roy .... Lyndam Gregory Mrs Ripple .... Margaret John Pearl .... Tina Gray The Tramp .... John Evitts Dramatised by Betty Davies Director Tracey Neale First broadcast in April 1994 on BBC Radio 4   Do you enjoy the variety on Oldtuberadio? Like, Share and Subscribe to be notified of our new shows #radio #crime #thriller #drama To Support this channel please visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/oldtuberadio https://ko-fi.com/oldtuberadio98 https://www.patreon.com/oldtuberadio https://locals.com/Oldtuberadio

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00:00:30The Bridesmaid by Ruth Randall

00:00:39Dramatized by Betty Davis

00:00:42With Jamie Glover as Philip and Rachel Lewis as Santa

00:00:47Violent death fascinates people

00:00:59Most people, not me

00:01:01I've always had, well, I suppose you'd call it a phobia

00:01:05A phobia for all forms of killing

00:01:08Killing in war, killing in senseless accidents, killing in murder

00:01:12I didn't want to make a fuss about it

00:01:15So I watched the news with the rest of the family

00:01:18Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia, Angola and a train crash in France

00:01:22And Rebecca Neve

00:01:24The others knew what I felt

00:01:26But that didn't stop them talking about Rebecca Neve

00:01:29There is still no response to the police appeal for information

00:01:32About the missing London girl, Rebecca Neve

00:01:34Rebecca, 23, disappeared three days ago

00:01:37But they think it's murder

00:01:38When she was last seen, she was wearing a green velvet tracksuit and white trainless

00:01:42Her mother, Mrs Neve, made this appeal at a press conference this afternoon

00:01:47Rebecca met someone that night

00:01:49I'm sure she did

00:01:51She'd advertised for jobs as a babysitter

00:01:54And somebody rang up in answer

00:01:55She had an appointment the evening she disappeared

00:01:58Please, if anyone knows anything

00:02:02Oh, the poor woman, what she must be going through

00:02:04I know how I'd feel if it were any of you

00:02:06Well, it's hardly likely to be me, Mum

00:02:08Can I turn it off now?

00:02:09Oh, if you like

00:02:09You can't stand anything like that, can you, Phil?

00:02:12Oh, sorry

00:02:13I was interested because I was at school with her

00:02:15Why can't they put nice things on the news?

00:02:17There must be some nice things

00:02:19There might be an idea

00:02:20They could have a list of all the people who'd been in car crashes and didn't get killed

00:02:24What are we expected tomorrow?

00:02:26That's right, change the subject

00:02:28That's a say like you

00:02:29Gerard

00:02:30I'd said to be there about six

00:02:31I wanted to ask you

00:02:33Could you all come out into the garden for a minute?

00:02:35What for?

00:02:36I want your advice

00:02:37What about?

00:02:38Flora

00:02:39She was a statue

00:02:42A Roman statue, three feet high

00:02:44She'd stood in our garden as long as I could remember

00:02:47First in the big garden at Barnett

00:02:49Right then, after Dad died

00:02:50In our shabby little Cricklewood garden

00:02:53Mum laid her hand on Flora's head

00:02:56And gave it a little stroke

00:02:58The way she might have caressed a child

00:03:00What would you say

00:03:02If I told you I'd like to give her to Gerard?

00:03:05What?

00:03:06You can't give people statues

00:03:08Why not if they like them?

00:03:09That time he came for dinner

00:03:11When you were all out

00:03:12He said he liked her

00:03:13He said she reminded him of me

00:03:15You give people chocolates

00:03:17Or a bottle of wine

00:03:18He brought me a bottle of wine

00:03:20I don't think she really looks like me

00:03:23She's always reminded me of a bridesmaid

00:03:26I expect it's the flowers she's holding

00:03:28Her Mayblossom

00:03:29She's the goddess of spring

00:03:31And Mayblossom

00:03:31I've felt for ages she was wasted here

00:03:34She looks silly

00:03:36Silly?

00:03:37I mean, she makes the rest of it look silly

00:03:39Like putting champagne in a plastic cup

00:03:41That's it, exactly

00:03:42You can give her wherever you want to

00:03:44She's yours

00:03:45Not ours

00:03:46Dad gave her to you

00:03:47I think of everything as ours

00:03:49Gerard says he's got a lovely garden

00:03:53I'd feel better about Flora

00:03:55If she were in our proper setting

00:03:57And we'll take her with us tomorrow

00:03:58It didn't seem very important at the time

00:04:00It wasn't one of those life or death decisions

00:04:03Like whether or not to marry

00:04:04Or have a child

00:04:05Or have that vital surgery

00:04:07But in its way

00:04:09It mattered as much as any of these

00:04:10Hello, Hardy

00:04:13Good dog, then

00:04:14Oh, I'll have to lock him in the kitchen tomorrow

00:04:17Oh, can't we take him with us?

00:04:19Not really

00:04:19Gerard doesn't like dogs

00:04:21Oh, he's not cruel to them or anything

00:04:23Just doesn't care for them much

00:04:25Could tell he didn't like Hardy that evening he was here

00:04:29Seeing Flora reminded me

00:04:31Rebecca Neve once made a girl's head

00:04:34What on earth do you mean?

00:04:36In clay

00:04:36In the pottery class

00:04:37The teacher made her break it up

00:04:39Because we were only supposed to be making pots

00:04:41And just imagine

00:04:42She may be lying dead somewhere

00:04:45I'd rather not imagine to thank you

00:04:47I'm not fascinated by these things the way you are

00:04:49It's not that I'm fascinated

00:04:50We're all interested in murder and violence and crime

00:04:54They say it's because we've got elements of it in ourselves

00:04:56We're all capable of murder

00:04:59We all sometimes want to attack people

00:05:01To hurt them

00:05:02I don't

00:05:03He really doesn't fear

00:05:04You know he doesn't

00:05:05He doesn't like talking about it either

00:05:07So shut up

00:05:08So we set off the following evening

00:05:10Leaving Hardy barking wistfully in the kitchen

00:05:12He was called after Hardy Amos

00:05:15Not Thomas Hardy

00:05:15I carried Flora in a plastic bag

00:05:18She was very heavy

00:05:19I'm quite nervous

00:05:22I do hope you like him

00:05:23Stop saying that mum

00:05:24Thing is

00:05:25Will he like us?

00:05:26Of course he will

00:05:27Don't be silly dear

00:05:28Well it's a nice area isn't it?

00:05:32Lovely house

00:05:33Very nice

00:05:33Such a pity he's got to sell it

00:05:35Why has he got to sell it?

00:05:37He has to share the proceeds with his ex-wife

00:05:39I thought his wife was dead

00:05:40Oh how yucky

00:05:42Christine!

00:05:43Oh

00:05:44Gerard

00:05:45This is my family

00:05:47Fiona my eldest

00:05:49The one I told you was getting married

00:05:50Hello

00:05:50And Philip

00:05:51He's with a firm of interior designers

00:05:53Hello sir

00:05:53And this is Cheryl

00:05:54She's just left school

00:05:56Hello

00:05:57And

00:05:58Who's this?

00:06:01Don't you remember?

00:06:03She's Flora

00:06:04Who was in my garden

00:06:05You said you liked her

00:06:06So I brought her for you

00:06:07She's yours now

00:06:11Very kind

00:06:12Well you'd better come in

00:06:15We'll install Flora

00:06:16Shall we?

00:06:17The garden's at the back

00:06:19Put her down there

00:06:21Okay

00:06:22Philip isn't it?

00:06:24She must be heavy

00:06:25Oh

00:06:28She looks just right here

00:06:30I knew she would

00:06:32Seems a shame she can't stay forever

00:06:34You'll just have to take her with you when you move

00:06:37Yes

00:06:38Expect you'll have another nice garden

00:06:40Wherever it is

00:06:41I hope so

00:06:42Well

00:06:44Come inside and have a drink

00:06:46After that I suggest you let me take you all out for a meal somewhere

00:06:50Oh that would be lovely

00:06:51It wasn't particularly

00:06:53We all piled into his Jaguar and he took us to the local steakhouse

00:06:57And Fee went on about Rebecca Neve

00:07:00Again

00:07:01They said the police had got a man helping them with their inquiries

00:07:05I bet it's her boyfriend

00:07:06If a person gets murdered the police always think it's her husband or her boyfriend

00:07:11Do you think that's awful?

00:07:13Why do we have to think about it?

00:07:15Who cares about these revolting things?

00:07:17She's probably dead already

00:07:19And they've found the body and they're keeping it dark

00:07:21To trap someone

00:07:23If that's true

00:07:24It'll come out of the inquest

00:07:25In this country the police don't keep things dark

00:07:28Who are you trying to kill

00:07:30Cheryl

00:07:30Tell me about Flora, Christine

00:07:33How did you come together?

00:07:35Oh well

00:07:35We were on our honeymoon in Florence

00:07:37And I saw Flora in an antique shop window

00:07:39And I said wasn't she lovely?

00:07:42You tell him what happened Cheryl

00:07:43The way Dad told you

00:07:45Mum said

00:07:46She'd be terribly expensive

00:07:48But Dad was never one to go on about things costing a lot

00:07:52He said her face was like Mum's

00:07:54But I don't see it

00:07:55Well do you?

00:07:57Perhaps it be

00:07:57Anyway

00:07:58That's why Dad liked her

00:07:59He said

00:08:00Tell you what

00:08:02We'll have a bet on it

00:08:03I think she's Venus

00:08:04If she isn't

00:08:05I'll buy her for you

00:08:06Dad was a bit of a gambler

00:08:08He paid for the honeymoon out of his Derby winnings

00:08:10Well

00:08:11The man said she wasn't Venus

00:08:13She was the Farnese Flora

00:08:15So Dad had to buy her after that

00:08:17She cost a lot

00:08:18Hundreds of thousands of

00:08:20Or whatever their money's called

00:08:22And they had to have her sent home

00:08:25Because they couldn't carry her in the aircraft

00:08:27You make me feel I shouldn't have accepted her

00:08:30She's far too valuable a gift

00:08:32Gerard I want you to have her

00:08:34Please

00:08:34It means a lot to me

00:08:36Makes me happy to think of her there

00:08:39And that settled the matter

00:08:41And gave Gerard his cue to call for the waiter

00:08:42I thought he'd only drive us to Buckhurst Hill Station

00:08:46But he took us all the way home

00:08:48I thought we'd better leave them to have a word or two on their own

00:08:52I like the Jack

00:08:54What did you think of him?

00:08:56Well, he's all right, I suppose

00:08:57Oh, no lingering farewells

00:09:01Well?

00:09:03Well, what?

00:09:04Did you like him?

00:09:05Philip?

00:09:06He seemed very nice

00:09:07Yes

00:09:08He's okay

00:09:09Sure

00:09:09Yeah, I liked him

00:09:10He's not older than Dad, though

00:09:13I mean, he looks older

00:09:14He's 51

00:09:15I put my foot in it, didn't I?

00:09:18What do you mean?

00:09:19I realised it when we went in

00:09:20I'd said to him

00:09:21I wanted him to meet all of you

00:09:23And he sort of smiled and said he'd like to

00:09:25And the next thing he said was to come on Saturday

00:09:27I thought he meant all of us

00:09:29But he must have meant just me

00:09:30Why must he?

00:09:31There was a little table laid for two

00:09:33I saw it when we went through

00:09:35Oh, well

00:09:37It's a nice evening, anyway

00:09:39When are you seeing him again?

00:09:41Not for a while

00:09:42He's going to America on business next week

00:09:44How long for?

00:09:46About four weeks, I think

00:09:47How long did you say he'd be away?

00:09:53Four weeks

00:09:54I thought so

00:09:55It's nearly four months now

00:09:57He wouldn't be away on a business trip that long

00:09:59He did send her a card from the States

00:10:01Oh, big deal

00:10:02She's tried to phone him

00:10:04But the number's unobtainable

00:10:05She told me so herself

00:10:06She thought perhaps his phone was out of order

00:10:08Well, he was going to move

00:10:10Don't you remember?

00:10:12He's moved without telling her

00:10:13And I thought we might have a double wedding in May

00:10:16Darren and me and Mum and Gerard

00:10:18Phil

00:10:20Are you still going out with Jenny?

00:10:23Well, no

00:10:24Oh, I was going to ask her to be one of my bridesmaids

00:10:28But I shan't if you've split up

00:10:30I suppose we have

00:10:31We didn't quarrel or anything

00:10:32Just drifted

00:10:34I don't want to pick it up again

00:10:36Then I'll have to ask Senta

00:10:38Who's Senta?

00:10:39Darren's cousin

00:10:40There'll be Senta and Janice

00:10:42And Cheryl and Stephanie

00:10:44You'll like her

00:10:45Phil

00:10:48Hmm?

00:10:51Don't you think he ought to give Flora back?

00:10:54What?

00:10:55She's valuable

00:10:56She isn't a plastic garden gnome

00:10:59If he doesn't want Mum

00:11:01He ought to send Flora back

00:11:02Look at that space where she used to stand

00:11:05It's spoiled the garden

00:11:07Mum really thought he'd marry her, you know

00:11:13I suppose she hoped he would

00:11:14Oh, she was sure of it

00:11:16Well, you know Mum

00:11:18She's like a child sometimes

00:11:20It was a sort of confidence

00:11:24But she didn't say I wasn't to tell you

00:11:26Tell me what?

00:11:28Don't let on to, I told you

00:11:30That time he came here when we were all out

00:11:33They, well

00:11:35Had sex, made love

00:11:37Whatever you call it

00:11:38In a bedroom

00:11:39Suppose one of us had come in

00:11:42It would have been very embarrassing

00:11:43Why did she tell you?

00:11:48I think it was because I told her about Senta's mother

00:11:51She's always having affairs

00:11:53And she's got a new lover

00:11:54Not yet thirty

00:11:55I told Mum

00:11:56And that's when she came out with it

00:11:57I had an affair with Gerard

00:12:00Well, just the once

00:12:01You know how she gets expressions just that little bit wrong

00:12:05That's why she was so sure he'd marry her

00:12:09I know

00:12:10Any other woman would think just the reverse

00:12:13Especially someone that age

00:12:14But you know Mum

00:12:16Oh, I wish you hadn't told me

00:12:19It disturbed me very much

00:12:21I don't know why

00:12:22Somehow I seem to have become my mother's father

00:12:25And she was the child who'd been seduced and deserted

00:12:28I tried to push it out of my mind

00:12:30But I couldn't

00:12:31And then something happened that made things worse

00:12:34I've got a job for you tomorrow, Philip

00:12:38A client wants a bedroom converted to a bathroom

00:12:40Okay, Roy, where is it?

00:12:41Er, Chigwell

00:12:42A Mrs. Ripple

00:12:43Bit of a battle axe by all accounts

00:12:45But you can handle that, I'm sure, eh?

00:12:48Turn on the charm

00:12:49Chigwell

00:12:50Is that anywhere near Buckhurst Hill?

00:12:52Yes, it is

00:12:53Why?

00:12:53I...

00:12:54I used to know someone who lived out there

00:12:56Champagne bath and basin

00:12:59Vanity unit with black marble top

00:13:02And black and gold tiles

00:13:03It should look very nice, Mrs. Ripple

00:13:05I hope so, I'm sure

00:13:06You charge enough for it

00:13:08Be careful with those field glasses when you're measuring the window

00:13:11They cost a bomb

00:13:12I'll be very careful

00:13:13I'll leave you to measure up

00:13:14The window was to be double glazed

00:13:21I took the measurements meticulously and then opened it and looked outside

00:13:25I was looking at the back gardens of the houses opposite

00:13:30It was all very pretty

00:13:32The trees were in blossom and the tulips in bloom

00:13:35And in one garden a small statue

00:13:38It looked familiar, but I couldn't believe it

00:13:42It was too far away to tell for certain

00:13:45Until I remembered the field glasses

00:13:47I focused them carefully

00:13:50Oh no, it can't be

00:13:52But there was no mistake

00:13:55I was looking at Flora

00:13:57She was covered with pink petals from the May tree above her

00:14:01But I could see the green stain at the side of her neck

00:14:03And the chip out of her left ear

00:14:05I'd made that myself with my catapult when I was ten

00:14:08Dad had docked my pocket money for three weeks

00:14:10Suddenly it came to me

00:14:14That I was looking at Gerard Arnhem's new home

00:14:17Finished?

00:14:21Yes

00:14:22I'll be in touch when the layout's completed

00:14:24And you'll see me again when the work begins

00:14:25When's that going to be?

00:14:26Sometime next year?

00:14:27Oh, a few weeks at the most

00:14:29I'll believe it when I see it

00:14:31I didn't go straight home

00:14:33I drove round the block to see the front of Gerard's house

00:14:36A woman was looking out of a downstairs window

00:14:40She was a big, dark, handsome woman

00:14:42Younger than Mum

00:14:43As I watched

00:14:45She brushed her hair back from her forehead

00:14:47And I saw the wedding ring on her left hand

00:14:49Gerard Arnhem had married

00:14:52The bastard!

00:14:54The rotten bastard!

00:14:56A wave of anger swept through me

00:14:59Unlike anything I'd ever felt before

00:15:01I hated Gerard Arnhem

00:15:02My mother should have been living in that house

00:15:04Looking after that garden

00:15:06I don't know how long I sat there

00:15:11I couldn't have driven away

00:15:13I was distraught

00:15:14I was trembling with rage

00:15:16And then I heard a car start up

00:15:20It came out of Arnhem's driveway and passed me

00:15:24His wife was driving

00:15:25It was a small runabout

00:15:27Not the Jag

00:15:28Perhaps that was a company car

00:15:30Arnhem would have it at his office

00:15:31His office!

00:15:34Of course!

00:15:35I realised suddenly that the house would be empty

00:15:38Hello, Flora

00:15:41Remember me?

00:15:43It was strange

00:15:44I'd known her all my life

00:15:47But now I felt I was looking at her for the first time

00:15:49I'd never realised how beautiful she was

00:15:53She wasn't really like my mother

00:15:56Mum was still a pretty woman in her own way

00:15:59But not like that

00:16:00She hadn't got the heavy look of most old statues

00:16:03She was delicately beautiful

00:16:06Like a lovely living girl

00:16:07But her eyes

00:16:10Wide apart

00:16:12Gazing away into infinity

00:16:14It didn't belong to any living girl

00:16:17They were the eyes of a pagan goddess

00:16:20I looked at her a long time

00:16:23Too long

00:16:24And suddenly

00:16:26Madly

00:16:27I thought that if ever I saw a real woman with that face

00:16:30I'd fall in love with her at once

00:16:31Flora

00:16:34I've come to take you home

00:16:36Excuse me

00:16:37What do you think you're doing?

00:16:38Oh my god

00:16:39It's alright

00:16:48No one followed me

00:16:49Anyway

00:16:50She doesn't belong there

00:16:51She belongs to us

00:16:52Don't you?

00:16:55What am I to do with you though?

00:16:58I can't put you back in our garden

00:16:59How could I explain that to Mum?

00:17:02Well you'll just have to live up in my room

00:17:03Until I can think of a story

00:17:06The four girls grouped themselves round Fee

00:17:18They were wearing fairly hideous dresses

00:17:21Puff ball net skirts with orange spots

00:17:24And they looked grotesque

00:17:25All except one

00:17:27That's right ladies

00:17:28Now a nice smile

00:17:30Lovely

00:17:31Centre

00:17:32It must be centre

00:17:35She didn't look like Darren's cousin

00:17:37She didn't look like anybody's cousin

00:17:40She looked

00:17:42She looked extraordinary

00:17:45Thank you

00:17:46Now hold it girls

00:17:47This is positive

00:17:48The last one

00:17:48Her skin was very white

00:17:51As white as the inside of a seashell

00:17:54And her lips were almost as pale

00:17:56Her hair

00:17:57Long, straight and smooth

00:17:59Was silver

00:18:00And her face

00:18:02Her face

00:18:05Was Flora's face

00:18:07Oh I must have one shot with him

00:18:10He's so sweet

00:18:11It'd be quite alright to hold him

00:18:12He's just been shampooed

00:18:14Here boy

00:18:14Here hardy

00:18:15There

00:18:16What a peculiar dog

00:18:19He has orange spots

00:18:21He matches your dresses

00:18:22Did you do it on purpose?

00:18:24No

00:18:24Cheryl splashed him when she was colouring her hair

00:18:27It wouldn't come out when my mother washed him

00:18:28I thought he must be some rare breed

00:18:30Are you Philip?

00:18:32Fee's brother

00:18:32That's right

00:18:33Senta Pelham

00:18:35I've never met anyone called Senta before

00:18:37It's the name of the girl in the Flying Dutchman

00:18:40Philip

00:18:40Excuse me

00:18:41Yes mother

00:18:41The car's here to take me and your auntie to the church

00:18:44And the one for the bridesmaids

00:18:45That's alright

00:18:45Everyone's ready

00:18:46No you won't forget to shut Hardy up in the kitchen before you leave

00:18:48Otherwise he'll do a wee wee on the white rug

00:18:50You know he always does that when he's excited

00:18:52I won't forget

00:18:53Oh come along everyone

00:18:54Are you ready?

00:18:55Come on

00:18:56Come on

00:18:56Oh Phil

00:18:59Oh Lord of my mascara smudge

00:19:01I look awful don't I?

00:19:03No you don't

00:19:04You look fine

00:19:05Well

00:19:05If it doesn't work out

00:19:06We can always get divorced

00:19:08Most people do

00:19:09Come on

00:19:10Calm down

00:19:10You've known him for years

00:19:11He's the one for you

00:19:13The original childhood sweethearts

00:19:15Oh

00:19:15Do you know what I've been thinking?

00:19:17If only bloody Gerard Arnhem had done right by mum

00:19:20We could be having a double wedding

00:19:22It was the first wedding I've been to since I was a child

00:19:29I wasn't prepared for the feeling of anti-climax

00:19:32Once the bride and groom had gone

00:19:33And people started drifting away from the reception

00:19:35I hadn't exchanged another word with Senta

00:19:39But every time I looked up

00:19:41I found her eyes on me

00:19:42Strange eyes

00:19:44Almost colourless

00:19:46Like clear water

00:19:48With a single swirling drop of dark green dye

00:19:51Will it be all right, dear?

00:19:57You could come to Aunty Rose with me, you know, if you'd like to

00:20:00No thanks, mum

00:20:01I didn't think you'd want to

00:20:03You're driving the bridesmaids back to the house, aren't you?

00:20:06They've left their change of clothes in Fee's room

00:20:09Yes, of course

00:20:09I think they're ready to leave now, aren't they, Cheryl?

00:20:12Yeah, we're all ready

00:20:13Except Senta

00:20:14Isn't she coming?

00:20:16Not yet

00:20:16She says she'll hitch a lift later

00:20:18Hitch?

00:20:19Get a lift

00:20:19I suppose she means

00:20:20She'll need one

00:20:22It's going to rain

00:20:23I felt unreasonably disappointed

00:20:26Senta's gaze met mine as I looked across the room

00:20:30She opened her eyes wider

00:20:33Her lips parted

00:20:35And she ran her tongue slowly and deliberately over her upper lip

00:20:39And then her lower

00:20:40I decided she was mocking me

00:20:43I drove the other bridesmaids back to the house and left them to it

00:20:48I got out of my wedding gear

00:20:50Put on jeans and a sweater

00:20:51And took Hardy for a walk in spite of the rain

00:20:53When I got back

00:20:56Everyone had gone

00:20:57The house was empty

00:20:59Empty and gloomy

00:21:01A sudden impulse made me open the cupboard in my room and take out Flora

00:21:07Her white marble skin glistened in the grey, rainy light

00:21:11Just having her there seemed to improve the look of the room

00:21:15Flora, you can come out

00:21:19They've all gone now

00:21:20I wonder if they've missed you and Chigwell

00:21:23You are beautiful

00:21:26But you're not unique, you know

00:21:28I've seen your double today

00:21:30Coming!

00:21:40Senta!

00:21:40Let me in quickly, please

00:21:43Yes, of course

00:21:43Sorry

00:21:44Did you get a lift?

00:21:48No, I had to walk

00:21:49Dressed like that?

00:21:52Yes

00:21:52Is there a towel somewhere?

00:21:55Oh, in the bathroom

00:21:55In here?

00:21:57Yeah

00:21:57My hair

00:21:59I feel as if I've been swimming underwater

00:22:02There's a hair dryer somewhere

00:22:03Oh, never mind

00:22:04I'll towel it dry

00:22:06Is this your room?

00:22:07Yeah, but your clothes are in Fee's room

00:22:09Later

00:22:09I'm so cold and wet

00:22:11I must get these clothes off

00:22:13I always hated that dress

00:22:18Senta

00:22:18Before I realised what she was doing

00:22:20She kicked off her shoes

00:22:21And peeled off her mud splash tights

00:22:23She stood there naked

00:22:25Those strange eyes fixed on me

00:22:28There could be no doubt

00:22:29What she intended

00:22:30Do you mind seeing me like this, Philip?

00:22:33Mind?

00:22:34No

00:22:35No, no, you're very beautiful

00:22:37I'm cold

00:22:38Come here

00:22:40You feel warm

00:22:42No

00:22:42I'm shivering

00:22:44Make me warm, Philip

00:22:46Into bed

00:22:50I'm cold

00:22:52I'm cold

00:22:53Senta

00:22:54Oh, God

00:22:56She made love to me

00:22:59It was the most overwhelming experience of my life

00:23:03Afterwards

00:23:06She lay back on the pillow and smiled at me

00:23:09Philip

00:23:10Say my name

00:23:13Senta

00:23:14It's a beautiful name

00:23:17Listen, Philip

00:23:19When I saw you this morning

00:23:21I knew at once

00:23:22That you were the one

00:23:23The only one for me

00:23:24Always

00:23:25I've been looking for you

00:23:28A long time

00:23:29But

00:23:30You can't have been all that long

00:23:33How old are you?

00:23:35Twenty?

00:23:35Twenty-four

00:23:36See, I tell you everything

00:23:38Since I was sixteen

00:23:40I've always known

00:23:41There was just one man

00:23:42In the world for me

00:23:43And now I've found him

00:23:45I believe souls come in pairs

00:23:48But when we're born

00:23:50They split in two

00:23:51And we spend all our lives

00:23:52Trying to find our other half

00:23:54But sometimes people make mistakes

00:23:56And get the wrong one

00:23:57This isn't a mistake, is it?

00:24:00It wasn't for me

00:24:01This is forever

00:24:02Shall I stay the night here with you?

00:24:06I'd love you to

00:24:07But I really don't think it's on

00:24:08My mother

00:24:09Oh, it doesn't matter

00:24:09We can go to my place

00:24:11You're the place of your own?

00:24:13Of course

00:24:13It's yours as well now

00:24:16Oh, Santa

00:24:17Why

00:24:18What's that?

00:24:22In the corner?

00:24:24That's Flora

00:24:24She looks like me

00:24:29Yes

00:24:30She looks like you

00:24:33I'll tell you about her sometime

00:24:35You must

00:24:36I want to know all about you

00:24:38We must have no secrets from each other

00:24:41Get dressed and come with me now

00:24:43I obeyed her

00:24:45Mesmerized

00:24:46I had found the real woman with Flora's face

00:24:50She looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she wants she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like she looks like

00:25:20this is where i live philip only the trees saved it from being a slum

00:25:30the area below us is full of rubbish tin cans paper orange peel

00:25:35i'm in the basement

00:25:41it smelled of something of dirt and disintegration

00:25:48this is my flat well i only use one room actually a low table with a burnt out candle in a saucer

00:25:59and an empty wine bottle a wicker chair with clothes thrown over at a dying plant and an

00:26:06enormous bed well this is it sent her yes i want to know all about you what do you do do your work

00:26:15you do work don't you i'm an actor you mean an actress no i don't you wouldn't talk about a

00:26:21doctor s or a lawyer s no i suppose not would i have seen you anything on television not yet

00:26:29i was at rada now i'm waiting for the right part it'd be letting myself down to take just anything

00:26:35wouldn't it i don't know i don't know anything about it but you will you'll learn from me i want

00:26:42you to have opinions about me that's going to be the most important thing in the world our world

00:26:47what we think about each other a spiritual interchange but the rest of the night wasn't

00:26:53particularly spiritual and afterwards she took over my life

00:26:59for the first time i was thankful that my mother was so vague she never asked me where i'd been

00:27:05what i was doing actually she was out a lot herself she had a new friend some woman called

00:27:11audrey she'd met at fee's wedding so every night i drove over to center's grubby basement flat and we

00:27:16made love did i love her i asked myself that but i didn't know the answer i thought of her all the

00:27:25time at work at home in my own bed at night sometimes inside my head i talked to her and

00:27:34told her all my thoughts and fears for some reason i couldn't tell them to the real woman

00:27:39once i took her to an indian restaurant she wore a strange dress that belonged to her grandmother

00:27:46gray with silver threads woven into it

00:27:49you haven't told anyone about us have you philip no not yet don't i want it to be our secret

00:27:58just for a little while all right center yes tell me everything about yourself we know so little

00:28:05about each other really what do you want to know i told you everything i only know that you're an

00:28:10actress actor and that you're darren's cousin i find that hard to believe well i am his cousin

00:28:15but my mother was an islandic woman my father was in the navy then and he met her when they were in

00:28:21reiki of it what do you mean was my mother died when i was born but i thought your parents were

00:28:27separated you said you didn't like your mother's new boyfriend that's my stepmother rita my real

00:28:32mother's name was riden riden nutstatter it means can its daughter oh i see did you go to

00:28:39rather straight from school yes i was top student in my year i enjoyed my time there i traveled a lot

00:28:45on the holidays of course once i took a room in the medina at marrakesh for two months

00:28:50i wore muslim women's dress because it was difficult for western women there i've never

00:28:55been further than france i've been to india and to mexico i was in mexico city at the time of the

00:29:02earthquake it was terrible it must have been should we go back now i want to be alone with you

00:29:08to love me you mean back at her place after we'd made love i told her about gerard and flora and

00:29:17my kidnapping her from the garden in chigwell she listened but i felt she wasn't paying much

00:29:23attention so that's about the most exciting thing that's happened to me i've happened to you

00:29:29oh it's getting dark i'll light the lamp center why do you dye your hair does it look dyed then i

00:29:38don't mean the hair on your head why do you do it i don't of course you do you're a silver blonde

00:29:44not a redhead i don't how can you not believe me i don't i don't center center stop stop

00:29:52what's the matter i bleached the hair of my head you fool sorry sorry never do that again

00:30:04she had alarmed me but her outburst was soon over i didn't believe her but after all it was a very

00:30:13small lie gradually i found out more about her or did i well she told me a great deal but i was never

00:30:21sure how much of it was true i went for an audition yesterday what for quite a good part in a feature

00:30:27film i didn't get it though miranda richardson got it miranda richardson yes but the director liked me

00:30:35he said i was remarkable oh that's encouraging isn't it philip it's worth my going for all those

00:30:41workouts one day it'll pay off workouts oh of course you wouldn't know what that means

00:30:47was to keep myself fit i go to a gym in paris street lots of celebrities go there stage and

00:30:53ballet people last week i had tea with wayne sleep i felt a pang of something that i recognized as fear

00:31:01it frightened me that she might tell me lies but why should it after all girls did lie

00:31:09i remembered my last girlfriend jenny telling me her tan was natural when i knew she'd had daily

00:31:14sessions in a sunbed fee and darren were back from their honeymoon and i realized with a shock that

00:31:20i'd only known center for two weeks they came around to show mum the wedding photographs

00:31:25and i wondered again how anyone as commonplace as darren could have a cousin like center

00:31:30oh that one's good you look lovely fee and cheryl's come out nicely too

00:31:36phil come and have a look at the wedding photographs all right bride and groom oh yes

00:31:43very good oh i think i look a bit stiff in that one i prefer the one with hardy thanks very much

00:31:48i'm talking about me you look all right you always photograph well here the bridesmaids

00:31:53look at center you can see she's done acting has she yeah a bit oh she's a shelf look at the way

00:31:59she's standing what do you mean a bit well she went to this acting college when she left school

00:32:03what acting college rudder good heavens no some big house in ealing more tea anyone no no thank you

00:32:09then i'll just get these out of the way oh i'll give you a hand with the washing arm thank you dear

00:32:12keep the rest of the photos till we get back darren okay i do like that jumper did you buy it on your

00:32:17honeymoon yes it's a guernsey and your boss is in guernsey how funny mum that's why it's

00:32:23called a guernsey darren your cousin sent her i've never met her till the wedding well i know

00:32:29why oh i see fancier do you phil i don't know her i've only met her once she's your first cousin

00:32:37first second i'm not into all that all i know is my mum is her auntie and her dad is my uncle

00:32:43that makes us cousins in my book come on phil you do fancy her well i could get you in there if you

00:32:50like mind you she's a funny piece you should see the place she lives in it's a real dump

00:32:55if they wouldn't set foot there when they were fixing up the dresses and she could have a nice

00:33:00home with uncle tom in finchley she must want her head tested i had this idea she'd been to rada i

00:33:04don't know why no way rada's in bloomsbury her place was definitely in ealing

00:33:09mind you i'm sure she'd like to kid people she went to rada so now i knew what i'd already

00:33:15suspected my center was a fantasist i didn't mind i told myself i'd just have to learn to

00:33:22recognize the fantasies i think i felt protective since the indian restaurant we'd only been out

00:33:33together once i'd taken her with me to chigwell when i went to see that everything was ready for

00:33:37work on the bathroom to begin and when i'd finished at mrs ripples i'd driven around to look at gerard's

00:33:43house is that it yes that's where my mother should be living instead of look she's coming out

00:33:52the woman he's married bloody gerard arnhem she's stolen from your mother i hate women like that i

00:33:59hate him more he let mom down badly i wish to god i could make him pay for it sorry i don't want to

00:34:07go on about my troubles let's go back to your place and we went back to her basement room the room

00:34:16where we led a strange dark shattered life together half of every night spent in her bed

00:34:20it was wonderful but sometimes i felt it wasn't real we should be together for talk and companionship

00:34:27not just for sex

00:34:28have some wine thank you

00:34:32to you

00:34:36to us

00:34:37yeah

00:34:38to us

00:34:39put your hair back

00:34:44it's fallen over your eyes and they're such lovely eyes

00:34:47yeah let me

00:34:49center

00:34:51what's the matter

00:34:52it's red at the roots

00:34:55hmm

00:34:55i told you i bleached it

00:34:57it needs redoing

00:34:59you really bleach it

00:35:00of course

00:35:01i told you

00:35:02don't you remember

00:35:03yeah but i thought it was more like you to do something really way out so i didn't believe you

00:35:08what

00:35:08well i thought you died

00:35:09you don't trust me

00:35:11you don't believe me

00:35:13center

00:35:13you don't trust me

00:35:15how can we be one soul when you've no trust in me

00:35:18i've given you my soul and you

00:35:21you've destroyed me

00:35:23center

00:35:24center

00:35:25center

00:35:26stop

00:35:26please stop

00:35:27darling i'm sorry

00:35:30i'm so sorry

00:35:32hmm

00:35:33hmm

00:35:34hmm

00:35:36hmm

00:35:38hmm

00:35:40hmm

00:35:42hmm

00:35:43hmm

00:35:44is it all right her

00:35:55am i forgiven

00:35:56yes

00:35:57i'm sorry too

00:35:59dry rice

00:36:00well thank you

00:36:02thank you

00:36:04philip

00:36:05yeah

00:36:06don't go

00:36:07don't leave me

00:36:09darling i must

00:36:09i'll be back tomorrow

00:36:10you sure you want to come back

00:36:12of course i want to

00:36:14you know i want to

00:36:15i'm sorry i said that about not believing you it was tactless and stupid

00:36:20it wasn't tactless

00:36:21it showed me you don't understand me at all

00:36:24you don't feel at one with me

00:36:26i searched all my life for you

00:36:29and when i found you i knew it was my karma

00:36:31but it isn't for you

00:36:33i'm just a girlfriend to you

00:36:35you know that's not true

00:36:36philip

00:36:37philip

00:36:37what do i mean to you

00:36:39everything

00:36:41i love you

00:36:42darling

00:36:43oh i didn't want to say that till i was sure

00:36:49well i'm sure now

00:36:51i'm sorry i hurt you

00:36:53i was so unhappy

00:36:55can you understand that

00:36:57of course

00:36:58do you love me like i love you

00:37:00yes i do love you

00:37:02i wish it were enough saying it

00:37:05but it isn't

00:37:09you have to prove your love for me

00:37:11and i have to prove mine for you

00:37:13we each have to do some tremendous thing

00:37:16to prove our love for each other

00:37:18what would you like me to do

00:37:21i believe life is a great adventure

00:37:23we feel the same about things

00:37:26so i know you believe that too

00:37:27when we make love we have such an intensity of feeling

00:37:31it's as if we experience everything fresh and new and perfect

00:37:35it ought to be like that all the time

00:37:38we can learn how to make it that way

00:37:40can we

00:37:40yes

00:37:41some people say that to live fully you have to have done four things

00:37:46shall i tell you what they are

00:37:48yeah

00:37:48plant a tree

00:37:50write a poem

00:37:51make love with someone your own sex

00:37:54and

00:37:54kill someone

00:37:56the first two

00:37:59the first three really

00:38:00don't have much in common with the last

00:38:01don't laugh

00:38:02there are things that shouldn't be laughed at

00:38:05i wasn't laughing

00:38:06i don't suppose i'll ever do any of those things

00:38:09so i hope that won't mean i haven't lived

00:38:10when i'm with you i feel i'm really living

00:38:13i shall prove i love you

00:38:16by killing someone for you

00:38:18and you must kill someone for me

00:38:22oh sure

00:38:26who have you got in mind

00:38:27it doesn't have to be anyone in particular

00:38:29oh i see

00:38:30i would know what you'd done for me

00:38:32and you'd know what i'd done for you

00:38:34but no one else would

00:38:35we'd share these terrible secrets

00:38:37and would really know each of us meant more

00:38:40than all the world to the other one

00:38:42zenta

00:38:43i know you aren't serious

00:38:45i know these things are fantasies with you

00:38:47you may think you're deceiving me

00:38:48but you're not

00:38:49what things

00:38:53never mind

00:38:55you know and i know

00:38:56i don't know

00:38:57what things

00:38:59well

00:39:00if you must have it

00:39:01about your mother

00:39:02and going to all those foreign places

00:39:04and going to auditions with miranda richardson

00:39:06i know their daydreams

00:39:07you don't believe what i say

00:39:08how can i

00:39:09when you say things like that

00:39:10all right

00:39:11what don't you believe

00:39:13look

00:39:14i don't mind you're having fantasies

00:39:16lots of people do

00:39:17it's just a way of making life more interesting

00:39:19but when you

00:39:20when you talk of killing people

00:39:21it's ugly and pointless

00:39:23and a waste of time

00:39:24it's

00:39:24it's sunday

00:39:25and it's a lovely day

00:39:26and here we are sitting in this

00:39:27well

00:39:28frankly

00:39:29this disgusting hole

00:39:30why do you talk about killing people

00:39:32are you serious about loving me

00:39:34about doing anything for me

00:39:36within reason

00:39:37yes

00:39:37within reason

00:39:38oh how sick that makes me

00:39:40don't you see

00:39:42that what we have

00:39:43has to be beyond reason

00:39:44and to prove it

00:39:45we have to do the thing

00:39:46that's outside the law

00:39:48and outside reason

00:39:49you really are serious

00:39:50what do you think you are

00:39:53i am willing to kill someone

00:39:55to prove my love for you

00:39:56and you must do the same for me

00:39:58senta

00:39:59you're mad

00:40:01don't ever say that

00:40:03i don't really mean it

00:40:05oh god

00:40:06let's talk about something else please

00:40:08are you refusing to do this

00:40:10of course i am

00:40:11you may not know this

00:40:13you don't really know me yet

00:40:14but i hate the whole notion of killing

00:40:16violence

00:40:17it doesn't just make me sick

00:40:18it bores me

00:40:19and now you say you want me to kill someone

00:40:21who do you

00:40:21what do you think i am

00:40:23i thought you were the other half

00:40:25of our united souls

00:40:26oh don't talk such rubbish

00:40:28it's all a lot of crap

00:40:30all this about souls and destinies

00:40:32why don't you grow up and live in the real world

00:40:34do you talk about living

00:40:35do you think you're living

00:40:37stuck here in this filthy dump

00:40:38i thought i'd heard it all

00:40:40all about

00:40:40going to mexico

00:40:41and india

00:40:42and wherever

00:40:42and your icelandic mother

00:40:44and the flying dutchman

00:40:45but now i'm told

00:40:46i've got to kill some poor devil

00:40:47to prove i love you

00:40:48stop it

00:40:50senta stop it

00:40:51i'll get some water

00:40:55drink this

00:40:59senta

00:41:06get out of here

00:41:09i hate you

00:41:11get out of my life

00:41:14i never want to see you again

00:41:17i left her without another word

00:41:20but i didn't take her seriously

00:41:21she didn't mean it

00:41:23she couldn't mean it

00:41:24i was sure that when i went round the next day

00:41:27she'd have forgotten it all

00:41:28if she'd run into my arms

00:41:30a shield wasted

00:41:31i was wrong

00:41:33she's in there guv

00:41:42what

00:41:43girl

00:41:44what lives there

00:41:44kid with grey hair

00:41:46here

00:41:47you're not the fuzz are you

00:41:49of course not

00:41:51well

00:41:52she came home

00:41:53and went in there ten minutes back

00:41:54thank you

00:41:56oh

00:41:57oh you're a nobleman governor

00:41:59oh god bless you

00:42:01and your loved ones

00:42:02she's in all right

00:42:05but she wasn't in for me

00:42:07what shall i do

00:42:17what the hell shall i do

00:42:19mum and cheryl were away on holiday in cornwall

00:42:23i'd look forward to it

00:42:24the chance to be with center all the time

00:42:26now all it meant was greater loneliness

00:42:28i had begun to feel a little mad

00:42:33perhaps it was all an illusion

00:42:35that i had ever met her

00:42:37ever made love to her

00:42:38after all

00:42:39who knew what it was like to have schizophrenia

00:42:42till you had it yourself

00:42:43one night

00:42:45the fee came over to collect the rest of her things

00:42:47whatever happened to your eye

00:42:50you've been in a fight

00:42:52someone hit me

00:42:53a mistake

00:42:53they thought i was someone else

00:42:55looks awful

00:42:56was it in a pub

00:42:58no it wasn't

00:42:59shall i give you a hand with that stuff

00:43:00oh it's all right thanks

00:43:01oh no

00:43:04look at this

00:43:05what is it

00:43:06bridesmaids dress

00:43:07it's centers

00:43:09how do you know it's hers

00:43:10it's the smallest

00:43:11she must really have liked that dress

00:43:14wasn't she

00:43:15you can see she just took it off

00:43:16and dumped it there like rubbish

00:43:18and somehow it got soaking wet first

00:43:21i suppose she just didn't think

00:43:22oh mind you

00:43:23she's very peculiar

00:43:24darren's mother said she'd feel left out

00:43:26if she wasn't a bridesmaid

00:43:27but i'm sure she wouldn't have

00:43:29they've really split up

00:43:30from the rest of the family that lot

00:43:32we asked her mother and father

00:43:34but they didn't come

00:43:34they didn't even answer the invitation

00:43:36someone said that center had a foreign mother

00:43:38and that she was dead

00:43:39i suppose they got hold of the wrong end of the stick

00:43:41oh something like that

00:43:42her mother died when she was born

00:43:45she came from some funny place

00:43:47greenland

00:43:48no

00:43:49iceland

00:43:51so that was true

00:43:52she told me true things

00:43:54and she'd embroidered the truth

00:43:55if the truth was adequate

00:43:56she told it

00:43:57if it hadn't enough drama

00:43:58she invented

00:43:59did i do that

00:44:00did we all

00:44:02i couldn't answer that

00:44:05but every night i drove round

00:44:07and looked at her shuttered window

00:44:08every morning i telephoned

00:44:10and always her door stayed closed

00:44:13and the telephone rang unanswered

00:44:15until one morning

00:44:17it was different

00:44:18hello

00:44:21this is mike jacopo

00:44:23we are not available to speak to you right now

00:44:26but if you'd like to leave a message

00:44:28and your name and phone number

00:44:29we'll get back to you as soon as possible

00:44:32please speak

00:44:33after the bleep

00:44:34hello

00:44:37this is philip wardman

00:44:39will you

00:44:40could you please ask

00:44:41centre pelham to phone me

00:44:43centre pelham who lives in the basement

00:44:46it's urgent

00:44:47thanks bye bye

00:44:48i'd half convinced myself

00:44:52that he was sent his lover

00:44:53when i remembered that there were other people in the house

00:44:55and the telephone didn't belong to just her

00:44:57it was in the hall

00:44:58that night i drove round again

00:45:00four drunks had just come out of the pub opposite

00:45:10it was all pretty sordid

00:45:12almost sinister

00:45:13suddenly i felt frightened

00:45:15what was i doing looking for love here

00:45:18obsessed with the woman who chose to live in such an awful place

00:45:21but the thought went as quickly as it had come

00:45:24for this time the front door was open

00:45:26who's that

00:45:36what the hell do you think you're doing

00:45:41i'm sorry i was looking for centre

00:45:43the front door was open

00:45:44well she must have left it

00:45:45she's always doing that

00:45:46it's bloody careless

00:45:48well she's gone to a party

00:45:49who are you anyway

00:45:50philip wardman

00:45:51i'm a friend of hers

00:45:52oh you're the one who left a message on our answer phone

00:45:55yes i am

00:45:55do you live here

00:45:56yes in the ground floor flat

00:45:58i'm rita pelham

00:45:59her mother

00:46:00stepmother actually

00:46:01it's my house

00:46:02but we've been away a lot lately

00:46:04she lived with her mother

00:46:06somehow that changed things

00:46:08i went home feeling almost light-hearted

00:46:11ridiculously relieved

00:46:13and then the solution came to me

00:46:16that nonsense about murder

00:46:18it was no more than a game

00:46:19a private secret game

00:46:21that had no connection with real life

00:46:23centre was a fantasist

00:46:25and she would want her lover

00:46:26to have an equally fantastic dream life

00:46:28she would know she was inventing

00:46:30and she would expect him to do the same

00:46:31why hadn't i seen that before

00:46:33and save the pain of the last days

00:46:35darling centre

00:46:37i've missed you so terribly

00:46:39i'm sorry i made such a fuss

00:46:41you know i'd do anything for you

00:46:44of course i would

00:46:44i love you

00:46:47with all

00:46:50my

00:46:51love

00:46:52for

00:46:53ever

00:46:54and

00:46:55ever

00:46:56philip

00:46:59i posted the letter

00:47:03she didn't reply

00:47:05hello

00:47:08philip

00:47:09oh hello phil

00:47:10what happened to you

00:47:12oh lord

00:47:13i was supposed to be coming to have a meal with you and darren wasn't i

00:47:15yes

00:47:16i'm so sorry

00:47:17we've been run off our feet at work i was late home

00:47:19i have to work too you know

00:47:21i went shopping in my lunch hour and bought a pie

00:47:23let me come tomorrow i can eat it tomorrow

00:47:25we're going out tomorrow to see darren's mum

00:47:28phil

00:47:29what's happening to you

00:47:32you were funny the other day and that black eye and everything

00:47:35what have you been doing the moment mum goes away

00:47:37i'm sorry i really am

00:47:39you should think so

00:47:40look

00:47:41mum's back on wednesday

00:47:43do you want me to shop for anything

00:47:44no no no that's alright

00:47:46it's just as easy for me

00:47:47and i promise i won't let you down again

00:47:49i'll speak to you on wednesday okay

00:47:51bye

00:47:52okay bye

00:47:55my heart had hit my ribs when the phone rang

00:47:57it was my first experience of expecting to hear one special longed for voice and hearing another

00:48:03i was ashamed to find tears in my eyes

00:48:06the evening following mum and cheryl's return from cornwall

00:48:12mum announced she was going out with her new friend

00:48:15we're going to the cinema philip i've left something for you in the fridge

00:48:18thanks mum when will you be back

00:48:20i don't know dear

00:48:20film finishes at half past ten

00:48:22but we might have coffee or something afterwards

00:48:24we're not expecting anyone are we

00:48:27hello dear how are you

00:48:31i expect you come to see cheryl

00:48:32she's out but she's sure to be back soon

00:48:35would you like to go in and wait for her

00:48:36i've got to go out myself i'm a bit late

00:48:38but philip's in

00:48:39bye dear

00:48:40philip

00:48:43santa

00:48:44oh thank god

00:48:46am i forgiven

00:48:49there's nothing to forgive

00:48:50it was wonderful of you to come over

00:48:53it seemed the only thing to do

00:48:54rita gave me your letter

00:48:56i didn't know it was her house

00:48:57no i don't talk about them much

00:48:59they're away most of the time anyway

00:49:01they're going for ballroom dancing competitions

00:49:03i've missed you so much

00:49:04i've been so unhappy

00:49:06and so have i

00:49:08upstairs

00:49:09i love you santa

00:49:11i do love you

00:49:13i meant it now

00:49:15the last weeks had changed things

00:49:17and i knew how much

00:49:17how desperately i needed her

00:49:19it seemed to me that keeping santa

00:49:21was more important than anything else in the world

00:49:24we do need proof of each other's love philip

00:49:28it's not enough that we were unhappy when we were apart

00:49:31that happens to anyone

00:49:33to ordinary people

00:49:34you and i aren't ordinary

00:49:37we're more like gods

00:49:39what

00:49:40we are aries and aphrodite

00:49:42those old gods didn't die when christianity came

00:49:46we are aries and aphrodite

00:49:49mars and venus

00:49:50mars

00:49:51i don't want to make war today

00:49:55don't joke philip

00:49:56you joke too much

00:49:58i told you

00:49:59i want you to prove your love

00:50:02you said you'll do anything for me

00:50:07it's just a game

00:50:09hold on to that

00:50:11i'll know i'm pretending

00:50:13and she'll know i'm pretending

00:50:14and it won't matter

00:50:15the game will be over

00:50:17and we can forget it

00:50:18but i have to make up some sort of story

00:50:21more about rebecca neath

00:50:26that's no good

00:50:27someone dead on stornoway

00:50:30or too far

00:50:31what's this

00:50:33the body of a man

00:50:35found on a demolition site

00:50:37in kensal green

00:50:37northwest london

00:50:38has been identified

00:50:40as that of john sydney crucifer

00:50:42age 62

00:50:43described as a vagrant

00:50:44and of no fixed address

00:50:46police are treating the case

00:50:48as murder

00:50:49that'll do

00:50:51that'll have to do

00:50:54for a moment

00:50:56i wondered whether

00:50:57a truly sane

00:50:58and normal man

00:50:58would tell a woman

00:50:59he'd killed someone

00:51:00when he was really innocent

00:51:01then i dismissed the thought

00:51:04what's this

00:51:06read it

00:51:07it'll tell you what i did

00:51:09when did you do it

00:51:13last night

00:51:14after you left me

00:51:15yes

00:51:16what happened

00:51:17you left here

00:51:18and drove to the harrow road

00:51:19did you

00:51:20i suppose you had

00:51:21a piece of luck

00:51:22and just found him

00:51:23there hanging about

00:51:24let's just take it

00:51:25i did it

00:51:26how did you do it

00:51:28how did you kill him

00:51:30i don't want to talk

00:51:31about it

00:51:31i know

00:51:32you strangled him

00:51:33i

00:51:33yes

00:51:35it was dark

00:51:36was it

00:51:36yes

00:51:36yes it was one in the morning

00:51:37don't ask me anymore

00:51:38about it

00:51:39oh

00:51:40you did it for me

00:51:42of course

00:51:43that's what we agreed

00:51:45i hadn't enjoyed

00:51:48this inquisition

00:51:48but now i felt relief

00:51:49this particular game

00:51:51was over

00:51:52and we could forget it

00:51:53play acting

00:51:54was natural to her

00:51:55and i'd have to make up

00:51:55my mind to live with it

00:51:57all my life

00:51:59i'd been taught

00:52:00to be a law-abiding person

00:52:02to respect authority

00:52:04man-made government

00:52:05loving center

00:52:07as i did

00:52:07i had to change

00:52:09we don't see the world

00:52:12in quite the same way

00:52:13you and i philip

00:52:14i know you're going to learn

00:52:16to see it as i do

00:52:17but it hasn't happened yet

00:52:18i mean

00:52:19seeing it as a place

00:52:21of mystery and magic

00:52:22on a different plane

00:52:24from the dull

00:52:25practical things

00:52:26that people waste

00:52:27their lives on

00:52:27when you come

00:52:29on that plane

00:52:29with me

00:52:30you'll find

00:52:31a world of

00:52:32wonderful

00:52:33occult things

00:52:34where everything

00:52:34is possible

00:52:35nothing is barred

00:52:37there aren't any

00:52:38policemen

00:52:39and there aren't

00:52:39any laws

00:52:40you took

00:52:41one step

00:52:42towards that plane

00:52:43when you killed

00:52:44that old man

00:52:44for my sake

00:52:45did you know that

00:52:47i found i couldn't

00:52:48answer her

00:52:49but i kissed her

00:52:50instead

00:52:51and that seemed

00:52:51to satisfy her

00:52:52one sunday morning

00:52:56i woke in her bed

00:52:57and reached out

00:52:58for her

00:52:58she wasn't there

00:53:00there was a note

00:53:03on her pillow

00:53:03back soon

00:53:05i had to go out

00:53:07it was important

00:53:08wait for me

00:53:10center

00:53:11center

00:53:34where have you been

00:53:35and what have you

00:53:36done to your

00:53:36beautiful hair

00:53:37i haven't cut it off

00:53:38i just bundled

00:53:39it up under

00:53:40this cap

00:53:41see

00:53:42oh that's better

00:53:43you looked like

00:53:45a little boy

00:53:45what's it all about

00:53:47you weren't worried

00:53:48you had my note

00:53:49of course

00:53:50but you didn't

00:53:50say where you were

00:53:51i went to prove

00:53:52my love for you

00:53:53you don't have

00:53:53to prove anything

00:53:54i did what you did

00:53:55i killed someone

00:53:57center

00:54:00listen to me

00:54:01it's very important

00:54:02i had to get up

00:54:04early because i was

00:54:04going to chigwell

00:54:05and it's a very

00:54:06long way

00:54:07chigwell

00:54:07well a place

00:54:09called grange hill

00:54:10it's the next station

00:54:11it was the nearest

00:54:13one to where

00:54:13gerald arnhem lived

00:54:15you have guessed

00:54:17have you

00:54:17it's gerald arnhem

00:54:19i killed him

00:54:20for you

00:54:21i killed him

00:54:22at eight o'clock

00:54:23this morning

00:54:24you did what

00:54:25i'd been observing

00:54:27him

00:54:27i'd been over

00:54:28to that house

00:54:29you showed me

00:54:29twice last week

00:54:30he takes his dog

00:54:32for a walk

00:54:32in those woods

00:54:33every morning

00:54:34before he goes

00:54:34to work

00:54:35his dog

00:54:36yes

00:54:37a little black dog

00:54:38scotty

00:54:38i chose arnhem

00:54:40because he was

00:54:41your enemy

00:54:42how did it happen

00:54:44i came up to him

00:54:45holding my eye

00:54:46i said i'd got

00:54:48something in my eye

00:54:49and it was hurting

00:54:49and would he help

00:54:50me get it out

00:54:51that was clever

00:54:53wasn't it

00:54:54yes

00:54:54it's very clever

00:54:55he was as near

00:54:58to me

00:54:58as you are now

00:54:59i held my face up

00:55:02and he bent down

00:55:03to look at it

00:55:04i knew where

00:55:05to strike

00:55:06i stabbed him

00:55:07in the heart

00:55:08with a glass dagger

00:55:09with what

00:55:10my venetian dagger

00:55:12didn't i ever

00:55:13show you

00:55:13i did have two

00:55:15they're made

00:55:16of morano glass

00:55:17i did feel sorry

00:55:19for the poor little

00:55:19dog though

00:55:20it ran up to him

00:55:21and started this

00:55:22awful whimpering

00:55:23a glass dagger

00:55:25i marveled at her

00:55:27inventiveness

00:55:27for half a minute

00:55:29i'd believed her

00:55:30but now i recognized

00:55:31another fantasy

00:55:32gerard arnon

00:55:33disliked dogs

00:55:35he wouldn't have

00:55:36had one in the

00:55:36house

00:55:37i was frightened

00:55:38coming back

00:55:38in the train

00:55:39i wasn't sure

00:55:40if there was any

00:55:41blood on my clothes

00:55:42and i kept thinking

00:55:43people were looking

00:55:44at me

00:55:44but i'm sure

00:55:45they weren't

00:55:46when you plunge

00:55:47those daggers in

00:55:48they break off

00:55:49at the handle

00:55:49and only leave

00:55:50a scratch to show

00:55:51the victim

00:55:52doesn't even bleed

00:55:53no

00:55:54no

00:55:55anyway

00:55:56i put on jeans

00:55:57and got my hair

00:55:58hidden

00:55:58so people would

00:55:59think i was a boy

00:56:00i'll take these

00:56:02clothes off now

00:56:03though

00:56:03i don't feel

00:56:04quite clean

00:56:05after all that

00:56:06she undressed

00:56:07and stood there

00:56:08smiling at me

00:56:09i'm tired now

00:56:12i think i'll go

00:56:13to bed

00:56:14philip

00:56:15a terrible thing

00:56:17had happened

00:56:18i didn't want

00:56:20her anymore

00:56:20all desire

00:56:22had gone

00:56:23what's the matter

00:56:24nothing

00:56:26you get some sleep

00:56:28i don't feel

00:56:29i mean

00:56:31i'm anxious

00:56:32for you

00:56:33center

00:56:33you needn't be

00:56:35no one will

00:56:37find out

00:56:37i couldn't

00:56:39understand it

00:56:40you couldn't

00:56:41love someone

00:56:42as i had loved

00:56:42her

00:56:43and then be

00:56:43turned off

00:56:44by nothing

00:56:44more than

00:56:45lies and

00:56:45daydreams

00:56:46for that was

00:56:48all they were

00:56:48weren't they

00:56:51when monday

00:56:54evening came

00:56:55i drove around

00:56:56as usual

00:56:56but it was

00:56:57an ordeal

00:56:58the front door

00:57:00was open

00:57:00again

00:57:01center

00:57:05philip

00:57:07poor philip

00:57:11what's the matter

00:57:12you're late

00:57:14you left me

00:57:15yesterday

00:57:16you went

00:57:16while i was

00:57:17asleep

00:57:17i thought

00:57:19you were

00:57:20never coming

00:57:20back

00:57:21of course

00:57:21i came back

00:57:22i thought

00:57:23i was never

00:57:24gonna see you

00:57:25again

00:57:26i held her

00:57:28in my arms

00:57:29it was like

00:57:31hugging a

00:57:31frightened child

00:57:32don't cry

00:57:33please

00:57:34let's go out

00:57:37tonight

00:57:37we'll have

00:57:38a meal

00:57:38somewhere

00:57:39why

00:57:40please

00:57:41all right

00:57:42that's what

00:57:44you want

00:57:45we were so

00:57:47happy once

00:57:48why did we

00:57:50spoil it

00:57:50with all

00:57:51those lies

00:57:52philip

00:57:57what's wrong

00:57:58nothing

00:57:59just

00:58:00i'm worried

00:58:01for years

00:58:01you needn't

00:58:02be

00:58:02i'm not

00:58:03afraid of

00:58:04the police

00:58:04it's not

00:58:05the first

00:58:05time

00:58:06anyway

00:58:06they're just

00:58:07the agents

00:58:08of a society

00:58:08whose rules

00:58:09mean nothing

00:58:10to people

00:58:10like us

00:58:11philip

00:58:13yes

00:58:13do you remember

00:58:14me telling you

00:58:15i had a secret

00:58:15i'm gonna tell

00:58:17it now

00:58:17i was in love

00:58:19with someone

00:58:19else once

00:58:20at least i

00:58:21thought i was

00:58:22it doesn't matter

00:58:22no it doesn't

00:58:24i now know

00:58:25what love

00:58:25really is

00:58:26you needn't

00:58:27be jealous

00:58:28i'm not

00:58:29jealous

00:58:29what happened

00:58:30to him

00:58:31he left me

00:58:31for another

00:58:32girl

00:58:32i hate

00:58:34women who

00:58:34steal like

00:58:35that

00:58:35that woman

00:58:36arna married

00:58:37i hated her

00:58:38because of

00:58:39your mother

00:58:39because she'd

00:58:40hurt someone

00:58:41belonging to

00:58:41you

00:58:42philip

00:58:46yes

00:58:47i don't want

00:58:48any more to

00:58:48eat

00:58:49let's go

00:58:50home

00:58:51let's be

00:58:52by ourselves

00:58:53we went back

00:58:56and i made

00:58:56love to her

00:58:57i had to

00:58:58i closed my

00:59:00eyes

00:59:00and pretended

00:59:02we were back

00:59:02in my bed

00:59:03at home

00:59:03as we were

00:59:04the first day

00:59:05i met her

00:59:06now i was

00:59:07learning to

00:59:08fantasize too

00:59:09in the morning

00:59:11i kissed her

00:59:11goodbye before

00:59:12i left

00:59:12but i felt

00:59:14as though i

00:59:15were kissing

00:59:15a corpse

00:59:16and then

00:59:18everything

00:59:19changed

00:59:20what

00:59:22oh god

00:59:24how wonderful

00:59:25mr arnum

00:59:27mr arnum

00:59:28yes

00:59:29why it's

00:59:32philip

00:59:32philip wardman

00:59:33how are you

00:59:34it's good to

00:59:35see you

00:59:35and you

00:59:36how are you

00:59:37philip

00:59:37how's life

00:59:38treating you

00:59:39i had no idea

00:59:40you worked

00:59:41around here

00:59:41i don't actually

00:59:42i had to visit

00:59:43our head office

00:59:44today

00:59:44i don't often

00:59:45go there

00:59:45how's your

00:59:48mother

00:59:48fine

00:59:49fine

00:59:49she's fine

00:59:50my sister

00:59:51philip's

00:59:52married now

00:59:52ah yes

00:59:53i remember

00:59:54have you

00:59:56got time

00:59:56for a quick

00:59:57drink

00:59:57well no

00:59:58i'm afraid

00:59:58i'm in a bit

00:59:59of a rush

00:59:59i'm running

01:00:00late as it is

01:00:01ah well

01:00:01some other

01:00:02time then

01:00:02um

01:00:03will it

01:00:05will it

01:00:05be all right

01:00:06if i

01:00:07gave your

01:00:07mother a ring

01:00:08sometime

01:00:08for old time

01:00:09sake

01:00:09she's still

01:00:11at the same

01:00:11place

01:00:11yes

01:00:12i've got

01:00:13a number

01:00:13i've moved

01:00:14of course

01:00:15give her a ring

01:00:16if you want

01:00:16to

01:00:16she's out

01:00:17a lot

01:00:18but you

01:00:18may catch

01:00:18her

01:00:18i will

01:00:19oh goodbye

01:00:20philip

01:00:21it was nice

01:00:22seeing you

01:00:22again

01:00:23why had i

01:00:24ever hated

01:00:25center's room

01:00:26i loved it

01:00:27now

01:00:28and i loved

01:00:29her again

01:00:29that night

01:00:31we slept

01:00:31in each

01:00:32other's arms

01:00:32and there

01:00:33was no need

01:00:33for make

01:00:34believe

01:00:34philip

01:00:36why don't

01:00:37you come

01:00:37here and

01:00:38live with

01:00:38me

01:00:38i've been

01:00:39thinking about

01:00:39that but

01:00:40you once

01:00:41told me you

01:00:42used to live

01:00:42in the top

01:00:43flat

01:00:43i did

01:00:44but i

01:00:44didn't need

01:00:45all those

01:00:45rooms

01:00:46but if there

01:00:46were two

01:00:46of us

01:00:47it's a mess

01:00:47upstairs now

01:00:48we could

01:00:49clean it

01:00:49up and

01:00:49paint it

01:00:50we could

01:00:50get some

01:00:50furniture

01:00:51isn't it

01:00:52good enough

01:00:52for you

01:00:53down here

01:00:53it's too

01:00:54small

01:00:55doesn't it

01:00:56seem silly

01:00:56for the

01:00:57two of

01:00:57us to

01:00:57try to

01:00:58live

01:00:58down

01:00:58here

01:00:58when the

01:00:58top

01:00:59flat's

01:00:59going

01:00:59begging

01:01:00or

01:01:01wouldn't

01:01:01rita

01:01:01like

01:01:02it

01:01:02rita

01:01:03wouldn't

01:01:03mind

01:01:03the

01:01:05thing

01:01:05is

01:01:06i like

01:01:07it

01:01:07down

01:01:07here

01:01:07i'm

01:01:08going

01:01:09to tell

01:01:09you

01:01:09something

01:01:10what

01:01:10i have

01:01:12a bit

01:01:12of an

01:01:12agoraphobic

01:01:13problem

01:01:13do you

01:01:14know what

01:01:14that is

01:01:15of course

01:01:15i do

01:01:16don't

01:01:16be

01:01:16cross

01:01:17you

01:01:17must

01:01:17never

01:01:18be

01:01:18cross

01:01:18with

01:01:18me

01:01:19it's

01:01:19why

01:01:20i don't

01:01:20go out

01:01:20very much

01:01:21and why

01:01:21i like

01:01:22living

01:01:22below

01:01:22ground

01:01:23i hope

01:01:23we're

01:01:23going

01:01:24to live

01:01:24together

01:01:24all our

01:01:25lives

01:01:25centre

01:01:25and i

01:01:26don't

01:01:26want

01:01:27to spend

01:01:27fifty

01:01:27years

01:01:28in a

01:01:28burrow

01:01:32rita

01:01:32will that

01:01:33do

01:01:33wonderfully

01:01:34i want

01:01:40everyone to

01:01:40know about

01:01:41us now

01:01:41yes

01:01:42you can

01:01:43tell them

01:01:44all

01:01:44it's time

01:01:45to tell

01:01:46centre

01:01:49that's nice

01:01:50dear

01:01:50well you do

01:01:51know who

01:01:51i mean

01:01:52centre who

01:01:53was one of

01:01:53these

01:01:53bridesmaids

01:01:54yes

01:01:55tom

01:01:56pennon's

01:01:56girl

01:01:56i said

01:01:57it was

01:01:57nice

01:01:57so long

01:01:59as you're

01:01:59fond of

01:01:59each other

01:01:59i think

01:02:00it's

01:02:00very

01:02:00nice

01:02:01tom

01:02:01pennon

01:02:02yes

01:02:02darren's

01:02:03uncle

01:02:03the one

01:02:04with an

01:02:05ex-wife

01:02:05that dances

01:02:06and lives

01:02:06with a

01:02:06young boy

01:02:07that's

01:02:07right

01:02:07centre's

01:02:08got a

01:02:09flat

01:02:09in her

01:02:09house

01:02:09she

01:02:10reacted

01:02:11as if

01:02:11i've

01:02:11been

01:02:11talking

01:02:12about

01:02:12an

01:02:12ordinary

01:02:13girl

01:02:13nice

01:02:15i don't

01:02:17believe

01:02:18it

01:02:18you're

01:02:19kidding

01:02:19pulling

01:02:20our

01:02:20legs

01:02:20no

01:02:20i'm

01:02:20not

01:02:21you mean

01:02:21that

01:02:21all

01:02:22this

01:02:22time

01:02:22ever

01:02:23since

01:02:23my

01:02:24wedding

01:02:24you've

01:02:24been

01:02:24going

01:02:24out

01:02:25with

01:02:25her

01:02:25yeah

01:02:25and

01:02:26you let

01:02:26me

01:02:26go on

01:02:26about

01:02:26your

01:02:27fancying

01:02:27her

01:02:27she

01:02:28didn't

01:02:28want

01:02:28people

01:02:28to

01:02:28know

01:02:28not

01:02:29then

01:02:29well

01:02:29i do

01:02:30think

01:02:30that's

01:02:30underhand

01:02:31are you

01:02:32engaged

01:02:33or anything

01:02:33not exactly

01:02:35but we

01:02:35soon will

01:02:35be

01:02:36we'll put

01:02:36an announcement

01:02:37in the

01:02:37time

01:02:37no one

01:02:38does that

01:02:39sort of

01:02:39snobby

01:02:40stuff

01:02:40in our

01:02:40family

01:02:41well you

01:02:42are daft

01:02:42going on

01:02:43like that

01:02:44but why

01:02:44on earth

01:02:45didn't

01:02:45you tell

01:02:45us

01:02:45sooner

01:02:46why have

01:02:50you brought

01:02:51me up

01:02:51here

01:02:51are you

01:02:53kidnapping

01:02:53me

01:02:53Philip

01:02:54yeah

01:02:54for the

01:02:55rest of

01:02:55your

01:02:55life

01:02:56hamstered

01:02:59heath

01:02:59isn't

01:03:00all that

01:03:00romantic

01:03:00but it's

01:03:02the best

01:03:02i could

01:03:03manage

01:03:03santa

01:03:05i want

01:03:06to marry

01:03:06you

01:03:06will you

01:03:08be my

01:03:08wife

01:03:09yes

01:03:10Philip

01:03:10i'll

01:03:11marry

01:03:11you

01:03:11i want

01:03:13to marry

01:03:13you

01:03:13very much

01:03:14we were

01:03:15destined

01:03:16for each

01:03:16other

01:03:16from the

01:03:17beginning

01:03:17of time

01:03:18Philip

01:03:22no

01:03:24not

01:03:24here

01:03:25i'll

01:03:26take

01:03:27you

01:03:27home

01:03:27it's

01:03:31dark

01:03:31i'll

01:03:32put up

01:03:32the

01:03:32shutters

01:03:33no

01:03:33i'll

01:03:33do it

01:03:34you

01:03:35keep

01:03:36taking

01:03:36me

01:03:36out

01:03:36these

01:03:37days

01:03:37you're

01:03:37trying

01:03:38to

01:03:38cure

01:03:38me

01:03:38of

01:03:38my

01:03:38phobia

01:03:39aren't

01:03:39you

01:03:39that

01:03:40old

01:03:40boy

01:03:41is

01:03:41gone

01:03:41i

01:03:42haven't

01:03:42seen

01:03:42him

01:03:42for

01:03:42weeks

01:03:43what

01:03:43old

01:03:43boy

01:03:44the

01:03:44old

01:03:44boy

01:03:44used

01:03:44to

01:03:44sit

01:03:45outside

01:03:45on

01:03:45our

01:03:45steps

01:03:46you

01:03:46can't

01:03:47mean

01:03:47him

01:03:47why

01:03:48can't

01:03:48i

01:03:48that's

01:03:49the

01:03:49one

01:03:49i

01:03:50do

01:03:50mean

01:03:50but

01:03:50that

01:03:51was

01:03:51john

01:03:51crucifer

01:03:52who

01:03:52you

01:03:53ought

01:03:53to

01:03:53know

01:03:53you

01:03:54killed

01:03:54him

01:03:54you

01:03:57mean

01:03:57he

01:03:57was

01:03:57the

01:03:57man

01:03:58who

01:03:58was

01:03:58murdered

01:03:58in

01:03:58kensel

01:03:59green

01:03:59of course

01:04:00you

01:04:00must

01:04:01have

01:04:01known

01:04:01didn't

01:04:02you

01:04:02pick

01:04:02him

01:04:02on

01:04:03purpose

01:04:03why

01:04:03should

01:04:03i

01:04:04i

01:04:04thought

01:04:05you

01:04:05killed

01:04:05him

01:04:05because

01:04:05he

01:04:06was

01:04:06my

01:04:06enemy

01:04:06what

01:04:07do

01:04:08you

01:04:08mean

01:04:08he

01:04:09asked

01:04:09me

01:04:09for

01:04:09money

01:04:09once

01:04:10i

01:04:10hadn't

01:04:10any

01:04:11to

01:04:11give

01:04:11him

01:04:11and

01:04:11he

01:04:11shouted

01:04:12after

01:04:12me

01:04:12horrid

01:04:13things

01:04:14why

01:04:14did

01:04:14he

01:04:14think

01:04:14i

01:04:15knew

01:04:15that

01:04:15because

01:04:16you

01:04:16know

01:04:16my

01:04:17thoughts

01:04:17we're

01:04:18so

01:04:18close

01:04:18we

01:04:19can

01:04:19read

01:04:19each

01:04:19other's

01:04:19minds

01:04:20sent

01:04:20up

01:04:21sit

01:04:21down

01:04:22i've

01:04:22got

01:04:22to

01:04:22talk

01:04:22to

01:04:23you

01:04:23all

01:04:24right

01:04:24what

01:04:26is

01:04:26it

01:04:26give

01:04:26me

01:04:27a

01:04:27hand

01:04:27we

01:04:28must

01:04:28never

01:04:28talk

01:04:28about

01:04:29killing

01:04:29again

01:04:30not

01:04:30even

01:04:31as

01:04:31a

01:04:31joke

01:04:31killing

01:04:31isn't

01:04:32a

01:04:32joke

01:04:32it

01:04:33never

01:04:33can

01:04:33be

01:04:34i

01:04:34never

01:04:34said

01:04:34it

01:04:34was

01:04:35no

01:04:35but

01:04:35you

01:04:35made

01:04:36up

01:04:36stories

01:04:36about

01:04:36it

01:04:37i'm

01:04:37just

01:04:37as

01:04:37bad

01:04:38i

01:04:38did

01:04:38it

01:04:38too

01:04:38you

01:04:39pretended

01:04:39you

01:04:40killed

01:04:40someone

01:04:40and i

01:04:40pretended

01:04:41i

01:04:41killed

01:04:41someone

01:04:42and it

01:04:42doesn't

01:04:42matter

01:04:42now

01:04:42because

01:04:43neither

01:04:43of us

01:04:43really

01:04:43had

01:04:44but

01:04:44it's

01:04:44bad

01:04:45for us

01:04:45to go

01:04:45on

01:04:45talking

01:04:45about it

01:04:46as if

01:04:46it

01:04:46were

01:04:46real

01:04:47can't

01:04:47you

01:04:47understand

01:04:47that

01:04:48i'll

01:04:48never

01:04:48mention

01:04:49it

01:04:49again

01:04:49i

01:04:51understand

01:04:52philip

01:04:52you're

01:04:53very

01:04:53conventional

01:04:54still

01:04:55you were

01:04:56glad

01:04:57when you

01:04:57found out

01:04:57i lived

01:04:58with my

01:04:58mother

01:04:58weren't

01:04:58you

01:04:59it

01:04:59made

01:05:00things

01:05:07and rigid

01:05:07and you

01:05:08aren't

01:05:08going to

01:05:08change

01:05:08in a

01:05:09couple

01:05:09of

01:05:09months

01:05:10i do

01:05:12understand

01:05:13it makes

01:05:13things

01:05:13easier

01:05:14for you

01:05:14if there

01:05:14are

01:05:15things

01:05:15we

01:05:15don't

01:05:15talk

01:05:16about

01:05:16let's

01:05:19have

01:05:19some

01:05:19wine

01:05:20if you're

01:05:21going to

01:05:21drink

01:05:21any more

01:05:22wine

01:05:22we ought

01:05:22to eat

01:05:23something

01:05:23are you

01:05:24telling me

01:05:25i drink

01:05:25too much

01:05:25no

01:05:26but i

01:05:26think

01:05:26you

01:05:27don't

01:05:27eat

01:05:27enough

01:05:27i'm

01:05:28trying

01:05:29to look

01:05:29after

01:05:29you

01:05:29yes

01:05:30take

01:05:31care

01:05:32of me

01:05:32philip

01:05:32take

01:05:33care

01:05:34of

01:05:34me

01:05:34always

01:05:35philip

01:05:40what the

01:05:40hell are

01:05:41you doing

01:05:41here

01:05:41sorry

01:05:42i said

01:05:42get over

01:05:43to chigwell

01:05:43right i

01:05:44don't

01:05:44i told you

01:05:45yesterday

01:05:45mrs ripple

01:05:46still dissatisfied

01:05:47with her

01:05:47marble

01:05:47what's it

01:05:48i told you

01:05:49to get over

01:05:49to chigwell

01:05:50first thing

01:05:51i don't

01:05:51remember that

01:05:52oh don't

01:05:52you

01:05:52well you

01:05:53better get

01:05:53over there

01:05:54straight away

01:05:54god no

01:05:55wonder the

01:05:55company's

01:05:56going down

01:05:56the drain

01:05:56we'd just

01:05:59about given

01:06:00up on you

01:06:01hadn't we

01:06:01pearl

01:06:02i'm very

01:06:02sorry mrs

01:06:03ripple

01:06:03there was a

01:06:03misunderstanding

01:06:04i called

01:06:05mrs brown

01:06:05next door

01:06:06in so that

01:06:06i had a

01:06:07witness to

01:06:07your people's

01:06:08inefficiency

01:06:09didn't i

01:06:10pearl

01:06:10yes you

01:06:11did

01:06:11mary

01:06:11and now

01:06:12you are

01:06:12here you

01:06:13can explain

01:06:13why i've

01:06:14had to put

01:06:14up with

01:06:15this shoddy

01:06:15mess

01:06:16how much

01:06:17did you

01:06:17say you

01:06:17had to

01:06:18pay for

01:06:18this job

01:06:18dear

01:06:19six

01:06:19thousand

01:06:20five hundred

01:06:21and forty

01:06:21two pounds

01:06:22ninety five

01:06:23highway

01:06:24robbery

01:06:24look at

01:06:25that

01:06:26but that

01:06:26isn't a

01:06:27fault or

01:06:27damage

01:06:28that's the

01:06:28character of

01:06:29the stone

01:06:29marble's a

01:06:30natural

01:06:30substance

01:06:31it isn't

01:06:32as if it's

01:06:32plastic which

01:06:33can be made

01:06:33with a perfectly

01:06:34smooth surface

01:06:34i should just

01:06:35hope it isn't

01:06:36plastic considering

01:06:37what i paid for

01:06:38it of course i

01:06:40want marble but

01:06:41i want a proper

01:06:42piece without

01:06:43cracks

01:06:44well i'll have

01:06:46the matter looked

01:06:46into you'll

01:06:48probably hear from

01:06:48me in a day or

01:06:49two or a week or

01:06:50two if i'm

01:06:51lucky

01:06:51philip i've got

01:06:54good news

01:06:55you can do with

01:06:55it why what's

01:06:56wrong no just

01:06:57about that work

01:06:58what's this good

01:06:58news well i hope

01:06:59you'll think it's

01:07:00good news you can

01:07:01come and live here

01:07:02on the top

01:07:03floor yes

01:07:04do you really

01:07:04mean that can

01:07:05we yes rita

01:07:06doesn't mind

01:07:07well you don't

01:07:08feel comfortable

01:07:08up there i don't

01:07:09want you to make

01:07:10yourself miserable

01:07:10for me philip i

01:07:12want to tell you

01:07:13something i love

01:07:15you far far more

01:07:16than i thought i

01:07:17would when we

01:07:17first met i didn't

01:07:19know i was capable

01:07:20of loving anyone so

01:07:21much darling so you

01:07:24see i couldn't be

01:07:24miserable anywhere if

01:07:25you were there rita

01:07:27doesn't want any rent

01:07:28of course that means

01:07:29you wouldn't have a

01:07:30proper tenancy but i

01:07:31don't think she'd

01:07:32throw us out we

01:07:33won't put off

01:07:34moving we'll start

01:07:35on friday there's

01:07:37just one thing i

01:07:38want you to help

01:07:38you with first i'm

01:07:40so happy philip i've

01:07:42never been so happy

01:07:43in my life

01:07:44oh evening goat

01:07:51what well it ain't

01:07:52all that good is it

01:07:53on your way home

01:07:55are you yes but

01:07:56where have you been

01:07:56i haven't seen you

01:07:57for weeks i've been

01:07:58in hospital ain't i

01:07:59been having me

01:08:01prostate done in my

01:08:03mode of living as you

01:08:04might say it's not

01:08:05desirable having an

01:08:06urgent need to pee

01:08:07every ten minutes

01:08:08mind you i was going

01:08:11bonkers in that

01:08:11hospital why oh it's

01:08:14the doors it's doors

01:08:16being shut that i can't

01:08:17stomach six of us in

01:08:19this room five others

01:08:20than me oh it's all

01:08:22right by day but come

01:08:24the night they shuts

01:08:25the door i sweat like

01:08:27a pig when the door

01:08:27shut and they made

01:08:29me go call me

01:08:30listen you're not

01:08:31going straight back

01:08:32on the streets i said

01:08:33make me sound like a

01:08:36whore well i'm very

01:08:37glad to see you back

01:08:38here's something to

01:08:40celebrate oh there

01:08:41you go you're a

01:08:43gentleman

01:08:43hmm well i suppose

01:08:49that's an improvement

01:08:50at least you won't

01:08:51get soap and goodness

01:08:52knows what else trapped

01:08:53in the cracks if you're

01:08:54happy with the marble

01:08:55i'll take it upstairs

01:08:56the fitter will be

01:08:57along before the end

01:08:58of the week have you

01:08:59noticed pearl it's

01:09:00always the same with

01:09:01these people the

01:09:02beginning of the week

01:09:03is wednesday morning

01:09:04but before the end of

01:09:06the week is late

01:09:07friday afternoon i was

01:09:10very conscious of the

01:09:11weight of that marble

01:09:11slab the truth was i

01:09:13felt disturbed arnhem's

01:09:16wife had been coming

01:09:17out of mrs ripple's

01:09:18house when i arrived

01:09:19she looked older

01:09:20close to thinner and

01:09:22older and she had a

01:09:27little black dog with

01:09:28her i could see from

01:09:32the bathroom window

01:09:32that our garden was

01:09:33neglected it wasn't

01:09:34just that flora had

01:09:35gone the grass was

01:09:37rank and full of weeds

01:09:38i felt panic-stricken in

01:09:40some fearful unimaginable

01:09:42way i had to know the

01:09:43truth when i came

01:09:45downstairs the living

01:09:46room door was open i

01:09:47couldn't help hearing

01:09:48them and then i knew

01:09:51you know who that was

01:09:54who the woman with the

01:09:55dog who came in to ask

01:09:57if i knew anyone who'd

01:09:57help her with the garden

01:09:59oh yes i didn't catch

01:10:01her name myerson her

01:10:04husband was murdered

01:10:05when would it have been

01:10:06about a month ago

01:10:08murdered yes harold

01:10:10myerson he was murdered

01:10:12in haynall forest on a

01:10:14sunday morning a beautiful

01:10:16summer morning he was

01:10:18stabbed through the heart

01:10:18when he was out with

01:10:19that dog but i told you

01:10:22i killed him philip i

01:10:23stabbed him with my

01:10:24glass dagger i told you

01:10:26oh god i see now i must

01:10:27have killed the wrong man

01:10:28but you did tell me

01:10:29gerald arnham lived there

01:10:31you showed me the house

01:10:32it was your mistake not

01:10:33mine oh god it doesn't

01:10:35really matter does it

01:10:36it doesn't matter who i

01:10:38killed the point was to

01:10:40kill someone to prove my

01:10:41love for you

01:10:42well you made a mistake

01:10:43too it wasn't the old

01:10:45down and out outside that

01:10:46you killed

01:10:47i said please

01:10:47well next time we'll be

01:10:50better at it

01:10:51you'll be more careful

01:10:52shut up

01:10:53shut up

01:10:54shut up

01:10:55i'm uh i'm sorry i hit you

01:11:09i went mad

01:11:12it doesn't matter

01:11:16it does

01:11:17i shouldn't have hit you

01:11:20you can hit me if you

01:11:22want to

01:11:22you can do anything you

01:11:24like with me

01:11:25i love you

01:11:27it was all true then

01:11:28oh yes it was all true

01:11:30of course it was

01:11:31i didn't know you

01:11:32doubted me

01:11:33i thought you trusted me

01:11:34centa

01:11:35oh centa

01:11:38poor philip

01:11:40poor philip

01:11:42don't be sad

01:11:44you mustn't be sad

01:11:46love me

01:11:49no

01:11:50philip

01:11:51centa i can't

01:11:53i can't

01:11:57look

01:11:58we have to decide what to

01:12:00do

01:12:01you must tell me only the

01:12:03truth from now on

01:12:04yes

01:12:04well

01:12:05what did you mean when you

01:12:07said it wasn't the first

01:12:08time

01:12:08when we were talking about

01:12:09the police

01:12:10i killed someone else once

01:12:11with the other dagger

01:12:12i had this boyfriend called

01:12:16martin

01:12:17martin hunt

01:12:18and he left me for

01:12:19another girl

01:12:20you don't mind do you

01:12:22i'd never have spoken to

01:12:24him if i'd known i was

01:12:24going to meet you

01:12:25what

01:12:26what about him

01:12:27you are going to

01:12:28protect me

01:12:29you are going to go on

01:12:31loving me aren't you

01:12:32aren't you philip

01:12:33i want you to be jealous

01:12:44i want you to be jealous

01:12:44i know it's not kind of me

01:12:45but i can't help it

01:12:47i'm not jealous

01:12:48i know he wasn't important

01:12:50to you

01:12:50i'm worried for you

01:12:52i'm worried what's going

01:12:52to happen

01:12:53don't you see the glass

01:12:55dagger links the two

01:12:56deaths

01:12:56i love you

01:12:58i love you better

01:12:59than i love me

01:13:00so why should i care

01:13:01what becomes of me

01:13:03i get jealous

01:13:05if you ever found

01:13:07another girl

01:13:08i'd kill her

01:13:09i wouldn't hurt you

01:13:11but i'd kill her

01:13:14i didn't know what to say

01:13:17i didn't know whether i was

01:13:20more afraid of the law

01:13:21or of her

01:13:23i didn't think you'd be

01:13:26in philip

01:13:27there was food in the

01:13:28fridge did you find it

01:13:29yes i wasn't very hungry

01:13:30hello

01:13:31you remember gerard

01:13:33of course

01:13:33we met the other day

01:13:35we've been for a picnic

01:13:35gerard rang me yesterday

01:13:37took the day off and we

01:13:38had this picnic in

01:13:39open forest

01:13:40it was ever so nice

01:13:41like real country

01:13:43how are you philip

01:13:44you've been in the wrong

01:13:45place today

01:13:46where do you live now

01:13:47where do i

01:13:47oh i'm still in buckhurst hill

01:13:50but on the other side

01:13:51of the high road

01:13:52i didn't move fast

01:13:53i wanted so much

01:13:54to see gerard's house

01:13:56we were quite near

01:13:57but

01:13:57he said it wasn't

01:13:59fit for visitors yet

01:14:00he'd have to give it

01:14:01a good clean first

01:14:02i suppose the truth is

01:14:03you didn't want her

01:14:04to see you got rid

01:14:04of flora

01:14:05what

01:14:07gerard

01:14:10you didn't get rid

01:14:11of flora did you

01:14:12i'm sorry

01:14:13i'm desperately sorry

01:14:16philip's quite right

01:14:18i didn't want you to know

01:14:19you'd have been bound

01:14:20to ask where she was

01:14:21if you didn't like her

01:14:23i wish she'd said

01:14:24christine

01:14:25i did like her

01:14:26don't look like that

01:14:29he sold her to some

01:14:30people in chigwell

01:14:31i didn't sell her

01:14:33gave her then

01:14:33no

01:14:34it was an accident

01:14:36they auctioned the house

01:14:38and its contents

01:14:39while i was in america

01:14:40and the statue

01:14:41shouldn't have been

01:14:42included

01:14:43i'd left instructions

01:14:44but there was a mix-up

01:14:46and it was sold

01:14:47i couldn't get it back

01:14:50as a matter of fact

01:14:52that's why i didn't get in touch

01:14:53with you christine

01:14:54i thunked telling you

01:14:56i missed you very much

01:14:59you know

01:14:59well that's over

01:15:02i hope you feel

01:15:03it's cleared the air

01:15:04i'll make a salt and tea

01:15:06flora

01:15:08she'd started it all

01:15:10there was no point

01:15:12in keeping her upstairs now

01:15:13when arna mcgon

01:15:15i took her downstairs

01:15:16and put her in the garden

01:15:17where she used to stand

01:15:18i could explain to mum later

01:15:21had she always looked

01:15:23so tawdry

01:15:24so scruffy

01:15:26i couldn't sleep

01:15:31i kept remembering

01:15:33something sender had said

01:15:34a name i'd heard before

01:15:37i had this boyfriend

01:15:39called martin

01:15:40martin hunt

01:15:42martin hunt

01:15:44philip

01:15:46what's come over you

01:15:47calling at breakfast time

01:15:48to ask about martin hunt

01:15:50anyway you must know

01:15:51who he is

01:15:52what's wrong with your

01:15:53memory these days

01:15:54is he dead

01:15:55dead

01:15:56i shouldn't think so

01:15:57he's only about 25

01:15:59why should he be dead

01:16:02who is he

01:16:03i don't know him

01:16:04it was rebecca i knew

01:16:05he was rebecca neve's

01:16:06boyfriend

01:16:07why did you want to know

01:16:09someone

01:16:09someone told me

01:16:11he'd been killed

01:16:12in a car crash

01:16:13i shouldn't think so

01:16:14we'd have heard

01:16:15oh i nearly forgot

01:16:17mum rang half an hour ago

01:16:18very excited

01:16:19she said flora was back

01:16:21it sounded as if she'd

01:16:22walked in of her own accord

01:16:23i happened to find her

01:16:24i thought mum would like her

01:16:26so i got her back

01:16:27why didn't you say

01:16:28mum thinks it's a miracle

01:16:29i'm sure she doesn't really

01:16:31anyway i'll explain

01:16:32did you come all the way

01:16:34over here at this hour

01:16:35just to ask me about a bloke

01:16:36you didn't even know

01:16:37you'd heard of

01:16:38i had dreaded the evening

01:16:40i made myself drive over

01:16:42to centre as usual

01:16:43no

01:16:51i can't

01:16:53i had to tell her

01:16:58i had to tell her

01:16:59it was over

01:16:59she had killed twice

01:17:00she would kill others

01:17:01she was made that way

01:17:03all the rest of my life

01:17:05even if i never saw her again

01:17:06i would be marked by it

01:17:08i had to tell her

01:17:10that what she had done

01:17:12had destroyed my love for her

01:17:13but how was i to handle

01:17:17her love for me

01:17:18hello

01:17:28oh philip

01:17:30i saw you

01:17:31why did you do it

01:17:33i saw your car

01:17:35in the street

01:17:36you drove away

01:17:37and left me

01:17:38i know

01:17:38i couldn't come in

01:17:40but why

01:17:41you know why

01:17:42it's over

01:17:43you can't see each other again

01:17:45it's better never to see each other

01:17:47you can go back to your life

01:17:48and i'll start mine again

01:17:49you haven't any life

01:17:51except with you

01:17:52look

01:17:52we only knew each other

01:17:54for three months

01:17:54that's nothing out of a lifetime

01:17:56we'll forget each other

01:17:57i love you philip

01:17:59you said you loved me

01:18:00i must see you

01:18:01you must come here

01:18:03centre

01:18:04it won't do any good

01:18:05goodbye

01:18:06i must see you

01:18:16i can't live without you

01:18:18what's the use

01:18:19is it because of martin

01:18:20philip

01:18:21i'm not making this up

01:18:22this is real

01:18:23i never slept with him

01:18:24he didn't want me

01:18:26he wanted that girl

01:18:27he only went out with me once

01:18:29it isn't that

01:18:30that's why the police

01:18:31never came near me

01:18:32there was nothing to connect me

01:18:33centre

01:18:34all right

01:18:37i won't end this

01:18:38without seeing you again

01:18:38that they'll be cowardly

01:18:40i promise i won't do it

01:18:41i'll see you

01:18:43and we'll end it

01:18:44if i said i'd never done it

01:18:45if i said i'd made it all up

01:18:47good night

01:18:47who was that

01:18:49no one

01:18:50that is

01:18:51no one you know

01:18:52business

01:18:53oh

01:18:53poor gerard rang this afternoon

01:18:56he asked me out to dinner tonight

01:18:57and i said no

01:18:58he was upset

01:18:59well you were upset

01:19:01when he didn't come near you

01:19:02for months and months

01:19:02was i

01:19:04i don't think you'll be back

01:19:06and i'm not sorry

01:19:07aubrey wouldn't have liked it

01:19:09what's it got to do with her

01:19:10not her dear

01:19:12him

01:19:13my friend aubrey

01:19:14i told you about him

01:19:16i thought you said audrey

01:19:18no aubrey

01:19:19i met him at fee's wedding

01:19:21i haven't kept it a secret

01:19:23i always told you

01:19:25when i was going out with him

01:19:26he wants to marry me

01:19:28as a matter of fact

01:19:29what

01:19:29would you mind

01:19:30of course i wouldn't

01:19:31i'm pleased

01:19:33i just thought i'd ask

01:19:34when's it going to be

01:19:35oh i don't know that dear

01:19:36by the way you missed a bit of excitement this morning

01:19:39the police were around

01:19:40what

01:19:40well it wasn't anything really

01:19:42those new people next door were having a row

01:19:44shouting at each other

01:19:46and some busybody rang the police

01:19:48they came and went away again

01:19:50i suppose it's the sort of thing they'd call a domestic incident

01:19:54roseberry lawn interiors

01:20:00yes he's in

01:20:02philip it's for you

01:20:04mr gates

01:20:05who

01:20:06philip warden speaking

01:20:09oh good morning mr warden

01:20:10i'm a police officer

01:20:11detective sergeant gates cid

01:20:13what's it all about

01:20:15we're making inquiries about a stolen statue

01:20:17it was taken from a garden in chigwell

01:20:19we understand you've been in the area

01:20:21and we'd like to ask you a few questions

01:20:22if you can spare us some of your time

01:20:23at home or in your office

01:20:24whichever you prefer

01:20:25i i had to go to chigwell this morning

01:20:27to see a client

01:20:28i could come to you

01:20:29thank you sir

01:20:29that would suit us

01:20:30thank you for coming in sir

01:20:35this is inspector morris

01:20:36he'll put you in the picture

01:20:37i'll be frank with you mr warden

01:20:38we asked you to come here

01:20:39as a result of a rather interesting coincidence

01:20:42oh yes

01:20:42there was an incident in your area

01:20:45a minor matter

01:20:46and a number of officers

01:20:48paid a visit to a house near you

01:20:49during the course of this

01:20:51a woman officer

01:20:51saw a certain statue

01:20:53in your garden

01:20:54oh

01:20:55she very intelligently

01:20:57connected it with the one

01:20:58missing from mrs myerson's garden

01:21:00the description was on

01:21:01the metropolitan police computer

01:21:03is it valuable then

01:21:04mrs myerson's late husband

01:21:05paid 18 pounds for it at auction

01:21:07i don't know if you'd call that valuable

01:21:09i

01:21:09well i did take it

01:21:11i stole it if you like

01:21:13but i did think

01:21:14mistakenly as it happens

01:21:15that i had a right to it

01:21:16are you going to charge me

01:21:18with stealing it

01:21:19well

01:21:20is that your

01:21:21chief concern

01:21:22mr warden

01:21:23what

01:21:23i don't understand

01:21:25do you want me to make a statement

01:21:27if you would

01:21:28well

01:21:30the truth is

01:21:30the statue originally belonged

01:21:32wait a minute sir

01:21:32we need a record of this

01:21:34so i took it

01:21:36i thought i was entitled to

01:21:38i had no idea it had been sold

01:21:40i'm prepared to compensate mrs myerson

01:21:42i'm not sure the owner is particularly concerned

01:21:45about the statue in the present circumstances

01:21:47is that all then

01:21:50all for now

01:21:52yes

01:21:52are you going to prosecute me for taking the statue

01:21:54oh i don't think that would be necessary sir

01:21:57it would be rather a waste of time and the public's money

01:22:00thank you for coming in

01:22:02mrs ripple's happy about things now thank goodness

01:22:08any messages

01:22:09oh yes

01:22:10mr morris has been on the phone for you

01:22:12did he leave a number

01:22:14he'll call back

01:22:15i said you wouldn't be long

01:22:16oh

01:22:17that might be him now

01:22:19rosemary lawn interiors

01:22:21yes

01:22:23he's here now

01:22:24philip

01:22:24thanks

01:22:25hello

01:22:27inspector morris here

01:22:28have you

01:22:29have you got a girlfriend mr wardman

01:22:32why do you ask

01:22:34perhaps you know a girl with very long blonde hair

01:22:36well silver blonde

01:22:38a rather small girl

01:22:39no more than five feet tall

01:22:41i haven't got a girlfriend

01:22:44philip

01:22:51come in

01:22:52i was waiting for you

01:22:54i saw the car

01:22:55senta

01:22:55i knew you'd come

01:22:57i felt it

01:22:58i said to myself

01:23:00philip will come back to me

01:23:01he didn't mean what he said

01:23:03he couldn't mean it

01:23:04senta i have to talk to you

01:23:05come upstairs

01:23:06you said you'd help me with something i have to do

01:23:09that we have to do

01:23:10before we can live there

01:23:12live there

01:23:13but oh i should have done it myself

01:23:14but i'm not strong enough

01:23:15couldn't jackapote

01:23:16they're away

01:23:17anyway they mustn't know

01:23:19we have to do this before they come back

01:23:21come in

01:23:23it's quite big isn't it

01:23:26a smell like a butcher shop left open for several long hot days

01:23:31she turned and looked at me

01:23:34looked at me with eyes that seemed to me as remote as flora's

01:23:39remote

01:23:40and mad

01:23:42it's in here

01:23:44there was something there

01:23:51something that had once been a girl

01:23:54propped up against the wall and still dressed in green velvet

01:23:58i had found rebecca neve

01:24:04oh no

01:24:05come away

01:24:07we can't stay here

01:24:09we won't

01:24:10you've got your car

01:24:10i thought we could carry it down and put it in my room until it gets dark and then

01:24:14shut up for god's sake stop

01:24:16philip

01:24:17missenta listen

01:24:18i've given you away to the police

01:24:21what

01:24:21i didn't mean to but i have

01:24:22they'll come here

01:24:23they'll be here soon

01:24:25how philip how

01:24:26because of flora someone must have seen you with me and then later when you

01:24:29i'll try to get you away we'll use my car

01:24:32i don't want to go away

01:24:34where would i go

01:24:36i don't want to be anywhere without you

01:24:38you do still love me

01:24:41i

01:24:41yes

01:24:47was i lying

01:24:49by now i didn't know

01:24:51listen

01:24:54is it them

01:24:59yes

01:25:00they've come for me

01:25:02i

01:25:02i think they have

01:25:04you won't leave me

01:25:06i won't leave you

01:25:08i love you

01:25:10i really love you

01:25:12i know

01:25:13you only lie about the little things

01:25:16she crept into my arms

01:25:20and i held her tight

01:25:22the things we remember at terrible times

01:25:28when i stole the statue

01:25:32i had thought they wouldn't send a police car out for something like that

01:25:35but they would for this

01:25:38they would for this

01:25:42they would for this

01:25:47they would for this

01:25:48they would for this

01:25:49they would for this

01:25:50they would for this

01:25:51they would for this

01:25:52they would for this

01:25:53they would for this

01:25:54they would for this

01:25:55they would for this

01:25:56they would for this

01:25:57they would for this

01:25:58they would for this

01:25:59they would for this

01:26:00they would for this

01:26:01they would for this

01:26:02they would for this

01:26:03they would for this

01:26:04they would for this

01:26:05they would for this

01:26:06they would for this

01:26:07they would for this

01:26:08they would for this

01:26:09they would for this

01:26:10they would for this

01:26:11they would for this

01:26:12In The Bridesmaid by Ruth Rendell

01:26:19and dramatized by Betty Davis

01:26:21Philip was played by Jamie Glover

01:26:23Center by Rachel Lewis

01:26:25Christine Frances Jeter

01:26:28and Fee, Rachel Atkins

01:26:30Cheryl, Una Beeson

01:26:33Gerard, James Taylor

01:26:35Darren and Detective Sergeant Gates

01:26:38Michael Onslow

01:26:39The Old Tramp, newscaster and photographer

01:26:43were played by John Evitz

01:26:44Mrs. Ripple and Mrs. Neve

01:26:47by Margaret John

01:26:48Roy, Mike and Detective Inspector Morris

01:26:51Lyndon Gregory

01:26:52Pearl and Rita, Tina Gray

01:26:56The Bridesmaid was directed by Tracy Neal

01:27:09The Bridesmaid

01:27:15Do list to오

01:27:20this morning

01:27:21or neil

01:27:24we both

01:27:25literally

01:27:26understand

01:27:29the

01:27:30stunning

01:27:31the

01:27:32book

01:27:34is

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