:24:00
Which one sent you here to feel me out?
:24:03
It was my own brilliant idea.
:24:08
Before I see the police,
I think I'll have a talk with your father...
:24:12
and your father's wife.
:24:15
Open the door.
:24:22
It was a nice little front yard.
Cozy, okay for the average family...
:24:26
only you'd need a compass
to go to the mailbox.
:24:29
The house was all right, too,
but it wasn't as big as Buckingham Palace.
:24:33
I had to wait
while she sold me to the old folks.
:24:35
It was like waiting to buy a crypt
in a mausoleum.
:24:38
Mr. Marlowe.
:24:50
Mr. Marlowe, Father.
:24:51
- How do you do?
- How are you?
:24:52
It's good of you to come.
:24:54
This is Mrs. Grayle.
:25:00
Are you familiar with jade, Mr. Marlowe?
:25:07
What do you know about jade?
:25:08
It's green, isn't it?
:25:11
Yeah. No, thanks.
:25:13
Jade, Mr. Marlowe...
:25:14
is not sufficiently known
or appreciated in this country.
:25:19
The great rulers of the East, however...
:25:21
- Sit down, won't you?
- Thank you.
:25:22
The great rulers of the East have treated it
with a reverence accorded no other stone.
:25:28
They've spent years
searching for a single piece.
:25:31
Fei-ts'ui jade, in which I, as a collector...
:25:34
am particularly interested,
is extremely valuable.
:25:40
I'm afraid,
like most old men with a hobby...
:25:43
I'm inclined to be a bit of a bore.
:25:45
Keep going.
:25:46
But since my daughter
has brought you into this matter...
:25:50
injudiciously perhaps...
:25:52
I was already in it up to my eyebrows.
:25:54
I take it the whatchamacallit you lost
was this stuff, fei-ts'ui?
:25:58
A necklace, Mr. Marlowe.