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Can you give me your solemn oath,
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as a foreigner,
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that if the answer
has nothing to do with the murder,
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you'll treat it confidentially?
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I will.
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Six months ago,
before I'd even met Miss Debenham,
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- my memsahib...
- Come again?
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My wife
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expressed herself bored,
not only at living in India,
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but at living with me.
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And asked me to provide her
with a divorce.
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In view of my position, commanding
officer, 12th Gurkhas, I refused.
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Well, had I not,
I should have lost my command.
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My wife returned to England,
where there is irrefutable evidence
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that she has been persistently
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unfaithful to me.
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I have therefore instituted
divorce proceedings
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in which she is cited
as the guilty party.
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And when those proceedings
are behind us,
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when those proceedings
are all over...
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...I propose
to marry Miss Debenham.
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Meanwhile,
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it is of vital importance,
under English law, that our...
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...behavior...
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...should not provide evidence
for counter-proceedings
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by my wife.
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Does that answer your question?
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Well...
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...it is certainly an answer.