:57:00
She died almost two years ago.
:57:02
-Any communications with her since?
-Not a peep.
:57:06
When you were at school,
wasnt Ann lonely?
:57:08
No more so than any other child.
:57:09
What did she do to fill in her days?
:57:11
Reading, l suppose.
Books, dolls, that sort of thing.
:57:15
-Alone?
-Most of the time. We lived in the country.
:57:19
Look, wheres all this getting us?
:57:22
Children, lonely children,
often make up imaginary playmates.
:57:27
-Did your sister ever do anything like that?
-Not that l know of.
:57:41
lm terribly sorry
if weve inconvenienced you...
:57:43
but were just following our instructions.
:57:45
Youve made me miss my plane.
:57:47
Well book you on another plane as soon
as youve answered a few questions.
:57:51
You mustnt be cross with me
because l betrayed your little secret.
:57:56
After all, l didnt know it was a secret.
:57:58
-Perhaps if you had told me--
-What precisely was it he did tell you?
:58:02
He began by asking me if it were unusual
for a child to invent a playmate.
:58:07
-And is it?
-Quite the contrary.
:58:10
lts one of the most common
of childhood fantasies.
:58:13
l recall one case, quite outré...
:58:16
-but thats neither here nor there, is it?
-lm afraid not.
:58:20
Then he told me
his sister had made up a child.
:58:23
He said when his sister was 5 years old...
:58:26
shed invented another little girl
who she named Bunny.
:58:30
And that after a time, she began to think
of this Bunny as being her own child...
:58:34
-not only a friend.
-Mr. Lake?
:58:37
She has a good memory,
except for one detail.
:58:40
-l wasnt talking about my sister.
-l never lie, Superintendent.
:58:44
That makes you
a most unusual woman, Miss Ford.
:58:47
-Did he say it was his sister?
-Not in so many words, perhaps...
:58:50
but wed been talking
about his sister earlier.
:58:53
lf it wasnt about Ann,
then why did you tell her...
:58:56
that the name of the imaginary child
was Bunny?
:58:58
l couldnt remember the real name,
so l used Bunny hypothetically.