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:51:02
True. It's not as funny as all that.
:51:05
There's an open season all year
round for some creatures,

:51:09
seducers and wife stealers, for example.
:51:11
Now, that's a bad italian joke.
:51:14
You should know. It's your
country of origin, is it not ?

:51:16
No, actually, I'm English.
:51:19
I was born here, in England.
:51:20
Were you now, actually ?
:51:23
Where ? In dear old cradle-
of-the-parliamentary-system,

:51:26
Who-screws-my-wife-merits-
a-large-pink-gin England ?

:51:29
Sense-of-humor-fair-play
England, I mean.

:51:32
Oh, don't you believe it.
:51:34
That's the way a foreigner talks.
What he really thinks in private is,

:51:36
"Filthy, wet country.
Ugly, red, cold men...

:51:40
who don't know how to treat
their pale, pink, cool women."

:51:42
What brought all this on then ?
:51:48
- What are you doing with that gun ?
- Obviously pointing it at you.

:51:51
I can see that, but why ?
:51:53
Because I'm a-gonna kill-a you.
:51:56
You're a-gonna kill-a me ?
:51:59
Jesus ! Here we go again with
another one of your games.

:52:02
Another one ? No, it's the same one.
We've been playing it all evening.

:52:06
It's called
"you're going to die, and
no one will suspect murder."

:52:12
You mean all that steal-the-jewels
stuff was just--

:52:16
I invited you round here to set up
the circumstances of your own death:

:52:20
the break-in, the disguise,
jewels in your pocket,

:52:24
the householder aroused,
grappling with the thief...

:52:27
and gun going off during the struggle,
and then,

:52:30
the final, fatal shot.
:52:33
Knock it off, Andrew, for God's sake.
:52:36
- It ain't funny no more.
- It ain't, ain't it ?

:52:39
- Can you find a flaw in it ?
- Marguerite.

:52:42
- The cops'll trace the connection
between Marguerite and me.
- What nonsense.

:52:45
They'll know that's why you did it.
:52:47
How was I expected to know who you were ?
The law will have every sympathy for me.

:52:50
Property's always been more highly
regarded in England than people.

:52:53
Even Marguerite will assume that
you were, after all, just an
adventurer after her jewels,

:52:57
a petty sneak thief who, in the end, found
larceny less burdensome than matrimony.


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