:22:00
What a base to operate from,
Captain Lesgate.
:22:03
The only trouble is, she does
rather enjoy being courted.
:22:06
And she's so very expensive.
:22:08
Perhaps that's why you've been trying
to sell her car for over a month.
:22:12
Mrs. Van Dorn asked me
to sell it for her.
:22:14
I know. I called her up
just before you arrived here.
:22:17
She only wanted 800.
:22:23
Where's the nearest police station?.
:22:25
Opposite the church.
Two minutes' walk.
:22:27
-Suppose I walk there now.
-What would you tell them?.
:22:30
-Everything.
-Everything?.
:22:32
All about Mr. Adams
and Mr. Wilson?.
:22:36
I should simply tell them that you
are trying to blackmail me into--
:22:39
Into?.
:22:41
Murdering your wife.
:22:44
I almost wish you would.
:22:45
When she heard that,
we'd have the laugh of our lives.
:22:48
-Aren't you forgetting something?.
-Am I?.
:22:50
You've told me quite a lot tonight.
:22:52
-What of it?.
-Suppose I tell them...
:22:54
...how you followed her
to that studio in Chelsea...
:22:57
...and watched them cooking
spaghetti and all that rubbish.
:22:59
-Will that ring a bell?.
-It would.
:23:02
They'd assume you'd followed her.
:23:03
-Me?. Why should I?.
-Why should you steal her handbag?.
:23:06
Why should you write
those blackmail notes?.
:23:09
Can you prove you didn't?.
:23:11
You certainly can't prove I did.
:23:14
It'll be a straight case
of your word against mine.
:23:17
That would puzzle them, wouldn't it.
What could you say?.
:23:20
I should say that you came here tonight
half-drunk and tried to borrow money...
:23:25
...on the strength that we
were at college together.
:23:27
When I refused, you said something
about a letter belonging to my wife.
:23:31
As far as I could make out,
you tried to sell it to me.
:23:34
I gave you what money I had,
and you gave me the letter.
:23:37
It has your fingerprints on it, remember?.
:23:44
Then you said if I went to the police...
:23:46
...you'd tell some crazy story about
my wanting you to murder my wife.
:23:50
Before you go any further, old boy,
do consider the inconvenience.
:23:54
You see, I'm quite well-known.
:23:57
There'd be pictures of you, as well.
:23:59
And sooner or later, there'd be
a deputation of landladies and lodgers...