:54:00
Just relax.
Give in, stop fighting it.
:54:04
I'm not. I'm not fighting.
It's you.
:54:08
and you're suspicions...
:54:10
about my husband.
:54:12
Suspicions? Such as?
:54:15
That he burned down your gin.
:54:17
Well?
:54:18
He didn't.
:54:19
Didn't he?
:54:20
No, he didn't.
:54:24
He didn't.
:54:26
I'm going in the house now.
:54:29
Do you believe in ghosts,
Mrs. Meighan?
:54:32
I do. I believe in the presence
of evil spirits.
:54:37
What evil spirits
are you talking about?
:54:39
The spirits of violence
and cunning...
:54:43
malevolence, cruelty,
treachery...
:54:47
destruction.
:54:48
Them's just human characteristics.
:54:51
Evil spirits that haunt the human
heart and take possession of it.
:54:56
They spread from one human heart
to another...
:55:00
the way a fire goes springing
from leaf to leaf...
:55:03
branch to branch
in a tree...
:55:06
till the forest is
all aflame with it.
:55:08
You've just got fire on the brain.
:55:10
I see more than there seems to be
on the surface.
:55:13
I saw last night was an explosion
of those evil spirits.
:55:17
I fought it, I ran into it,
beating it, stamping it...
:55:21
shouting a curse of God at it.
:55:24
They dragged me out, suffocating.
:55:26
I was defeated.
:55:28
When I came to,
lying on the ground...
:55:31
the fire had won the battle.
:55:33
All around was a ring
of human faces.
:55:36
I looked up,
they were illuminated...
:55:39
their eyes and teeth
were shining like this...
:55:43
yeah, like this...
:55:44
Don't, please, don't scare me.
:55:48
The faces I saw were grinning.
:55:51
Then I knew...
:55:53
I knew the fire
was not accidental.
:55:57
And you know
it was not accidental too.