:17:01
- Well, you're not.
- Oh, yes, I am.
:17:03
One cask of brandy?
That doesn't mean you're a smuggler.
:17:06
- Two casks.
- That was 15 years ago.
:17:09
I've done one or two other things since
that I didn't tell you or your mother about.
:17:13
- Can't have been very much.
- Of course not. Not very much.
:17:17
Nothing could appear very much
to a murderer's moll.
:17:21
But I never hope to be appreciated.
:17:23
Yes, your mother cured me of that.
:17:25
That's why I never could be bothered
with your mother.
:17:28
I appreciate you, Father. You and
Captain Kidd are my favorite heroes.
:17:34
My child, I am not deceived.
:17:36
If there's one thing I cannot bear,
it's insincerity.
:17:40
But you've got to help him.
You will help him, won't you?
:17:43
He's lonely. He hasn't got any friends
but me, and maybe you.
:17:47
- You will help him, won't you?
- He hasn't got me...
:17:50
...yet.
:17:54
You're just dying to get into a part of this,
and you know you are.
:17:57
A part in this melodramatic play,
you mean?
:18:00
That's the way you're treating it, Eve.
:18:02
As though it were a play
you were acting in at the Academy.
:18:05
Everything seems a fine acting role
when you're stage-struck...
:18:09
...doesn't it, my dear?
:18:11
Here you have a plot,
an interesting cast...
:18:14
...even a costume,
little the worse for wear.
:18:18
Unfortunately, Eve,
in this real and earnest life...
:18:22
...we must face the situation
and all its bearings.
:18:25
Yes.
:18:28
What do you mean?
:18:29
Well, Miss Charlotte Inwood
appears to be an expert in garden paths.
:18:33
I think she's led your young friend
up the garden path.
:18:36
I think we should hesitate
before we follow him.
:18:39
- But why?
- I don't know how this bloodstain...
:18:41
...got onto this dress, but I do know that
somebody smeared it on deliberately.
:18:45
But why should they do that?
:18:46
Well, Miss Inwood is an actress,
a very good one.
:18:50
She has an eye
for an emotional situation.
:18:52
Supposing she wanted our somnolent
young friend to go to her house...
:18:56
...and be spotted there.
:18:57
Well, this sanguinary garment
would provide a very plausible reason.