1 00:02:12,549 --> 00:02:13,966 You promised! 2 00:02:14,425 --> 00:02:16,176 I promised you nothing! 3 00:02:16,427 --> 00:02:17,177 Jamais! 4 00:02:17,345 --> 00:02:18,053 Never! 5 00:02:18,847 --> 00:02:20,055 I am leaving for Rome. 6 00:02:20,974 --> 00:02:23,767 Please, please come with me. 7 00:02:24,018 --> 00:02:26,812 I have given and I have no more to give. 8 00:02:28,648 --> 00:02:32,359 Why, why do you treat me like this! 9 00:02:33,528 --> 00:02:34,403 No! 10 00:02:35,738 --> 00:02:38,866 Go, go, go, go! 11 00:02:47,292 --> 00:02:49,835 Heartless... fiend! 12 00:03:08,479 --> 00:03:13,734 It was at that moment, that love died and hate was born. 13 00:03:53,983 --> 00:03:54,733 Violet... 14 00:04:26,724 --> 00:04:29,518 Ah, Watson, well timed. 15 00:04:29,936 --> 00:04:32,771 Shake hands with Steve Dixie, the pugilist, 16 00:04:33,106 --> 00:04:35,274 who might have a future in his profession, 17 00:04:35,775 --> 00:04:37,442 if he didn't mix with bad company. 18 00:04:37,568 --> 00:04:38,777 What on earth's been happening here? 19 00:04:38,945 --> 00:04:41,655 Him meddlin' in affairs what don't concern 'im. 20 00:04:42,407 --> 00:04:44,950 Now, I warned 'im and he got cocky... 21 00:04:45,910 --> 00:04:49,538 No, keep talking, keep talking! It's fine. Mmm. 22 00:04:51,207 --> 00:04:52,082 It's fine, isn't it? 23 00:04:52,750 --> 00:04:58,714 Well, it won't be so damn fine if I have to thump you around a bit. 24 00:04:59,299 --> 00:05:00,799 Stop it, Watson, Stop it! 25 00:05:01,342 --> 00:05:05,387 Let us hear who has sent him on the belligerent errand. 26 00:05:05,513 --> 00:05:07,306 Sit down, Dixie. 27 00:05:08,891 --> 00:05:09,850 Talk to me. 28 00:05:12,437 --> 00:05:15,814 Ah, thank you. Now tell me what this is all about. 29 00:05:17,108 --> 00:05:22,446 I'm tellin' you nothin', Mr. Holmes. Except you keep away from Harrow. 30 00:05:22,989 --> 00:05:24,740 I haven't been to Harrow in months. 31 00:05:24,907 --> 00:05:27,743 You know what I'm talkin' about, I'm warnin' you! 32 00:05:28,411 --> 00:05:29,828 Keep away! 33 00:05:30,538 --> 00:05:36,168 On the matter of the killing of Perkins outside the Holborn bar... 34 00:05:38,588 --> 00:05:39,796 I had nothin' to do with that! 35 00:05:42,383 --> 00:05:44,718 I was trainin', yeah, 36 00:05:45,511 --> 00:05:47,512 at the Bull Ring in Birmingham when that boy got done. 37 00:05:47,764 --> 00:05:49,389 You'll tell that to the Magistrate. 38 00:05:49,557 --> 00:05:50,557 Mrs. Hudson! 39 00:05:52,310 --> 00:05:55,896 Look, er, no hard feelin's eh, Mr. Holmes. 40 00:05:56,898 --> 00:05:59,775 Mrs. Hudson. There's been a slight disturbance. 41 00:06:00,276 --> 00:06:00,859 I er, 42 00:06:02,904 --> 00:06:04,071 I just done what I was told. 43 00:06:04,238 --> 00:06:06,323 My regards to Barney Stockdale. 44 00:06:06,741 --> 00:06:08,909 You are responsible for this mess. 45 00:06:09,077 --> 00:06:12,329 Go on, down those stairs with you at once. 46 00:06:13,790 --> 00:06:18,251 Oh, he's a harmless enough fellow and easily cowed as you see. 47 00:06:19,170 --> 00:06:24,800 One of the Spencer John gang. Assaults, intimidation and the like. 48 00:06:25,093 --> 00:06:26,760 Why would they want to intimidate you? 49 00:06:28,262 --> 00:06:29,971 And who's Barney Stockdale. 50 00:06:30,098 --> 00:06:31,598 His immediate principal. 51 00:06:32,767 --> 00:06:37,437 Oh, who's paying Barney Stockdale, I wonder? 52 00:06:44,904 --> 00:06:48,115 "The Three Gables, Harrow Weald"? 53 00:06:48,950 --> 00:06:50,450 He's broken our window! 54 00:06:50,993 --> 00:06:52,911 "Dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes," 55 00:06:53,287 --> 00:06:56,832 "I have had a succession of strange incidents occur to me" 56 00:06:56,999 --> 00:06:58,625 "in connection with my house," 57 00:06:59,752 --> 00:07:02,462 "and I should much value your advice." 58 00:07:02,797 --> 00:07:06,550 You would find me at home any time tomorrow. 59 00:07:06,884 --> 00:07:09,970 "I believe that my late husband, Mortimer Maberley" 60 00:07:10,096 --> 00:07:12,556 "was one of your early clients." 61 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:15,809 "Yours faithfully," 62 00:07:17,395 --> 00:07:19,104 "Mary Maberley." 63 00:07:20,398 --> 00:07:22,899 This comic interlude with Steve Dixie 64 00:07:23,985 --> 00:07:26,486 convinces me there must be something in it. 65 00:07:28,573 --> 00:07:31,158 Let us wire her and go out there at once. 66 00:07:42,837 --> 00:07:47,215 I knew your husband well, madam, but it was some years ago. 67 00:07:47,341 --> 00:07:50,469 Well, it is some years since he was with us, the dear man. 68 00:07:50,761 --> 00:07:54,097 Oh, will you try some of this? I baked it myself. 69 00:07:56,350 --> 00:07:57,851 That's Douglas Maberley? 70 00:07:58,352 --> 00:07:59,060 Yes. 71 00:07:59,687 --> 00:08:02,939 I knew him slightly. Ah, he's a splendid fellow. 72 00:08:03,357 --> 00:08:06,401 Plays rugby for my old club, Blackheath. 73 00:08:06,986 --> 00:08:08,236 I am his grandmother. 74 00:08:10,406 --> 00:08:11,990 I was his grandmother. 75 00:08:13,701 --> 00:08:14,993 He died a month ago. 76 00:08:17,413 --> 00:08:18,079 Died? 77 00:08:18,873 --> 00:08:24,377 You hadn't heard? No, no, It was a sad ending. 78 00:08:25,838 --> 00:08:27,047 Oh, I am so sorry... 79 00:08:27,590 --> 00:08:31,009 He seemed so full of life and energy, It, it's hard to connect... 80 00:08:31,886 --> 00:08:34,095 He lived too intensely. 81 00:08:35,348 --> 00:08:37,307 It was the ruin of him. 82 00:08:37,558 --> 00:08:40,810 But, was it an accident? I mean, I mean the last thing I heard, he, 83 00:08:41,062 --> 00:08:43,396 he'd been appointed attache to our Embassy in Rome. 84 00:08:43,606 --> 00:08:47,776 He died in this house. Of pneumonia, they say. 85 00:08:48,528 --> 00:08:51,029 Brought on by a ruptured spleen. 86 00:08:52,740 --> 00:08:56,076 But it's not to talk of my grandson that I asked you here. 87 00:08:56,244 --> 00:08:57,744 Well, we are here, please. 88 00:08:59,247 --> 00:09:00,288 To give you service. 89 00:09:00,581 --> 00:09:02,499 Thank you. Well, 90 00:09:04,126 --> 00:09:08,588 I have been in this house for over a year now, leading a retired life. 91 00:09:09,507 --> 00:09:12,842 Three days ago, I had a call from a house agent. 92 00:09:13,386 --> 00:09:15,762 The money is no object, madam. 93 00:09:16,264 --> 00:09:19,849 But there's several empty houses round here on the market. 94 00:09:19,976 --> 00:09:25,272 No, This. My client's heart is set on this one. 95 00:09:26,524 --> 00:09:28,233 Will you name your price? 96 00:09:28,484 --> 00:09:32,612 I suggested five hundred pounds more than I gave for it, 97 00:09:33,239 --> 00:09:34,990 but he said that his client... 98 00:09:35,157 --> 00:09:37,951 My client desires to buy the furniture as well. 99 00:09:38,077 --> 00:09:39,244 All of it? 100 00:09:39,453 --> 00:09:40,245 Everything. 101 00:09:41,247 --> 00:09:43,081 But some of it's very good. 102 00:09:43,249 --> 00:09:45,959 Just state your price Mrs. Maberley. 103 00:09:46,210 --> 00:09:51,131 So I did. A good round sum and he agreed at once. 104 00:09:51,257 --> 00:09:55,218 You see, I always wanted to travel, around the World if I could. 105 00:09:55,553 --> 00:09:58,471 It's a legacy left to me by my dear Mortimer, 106 00:09:58,973 --> 00:10:01,391 though alas we never really achieved it. 107 00:10:01,892 --> 00:10:04,978 The man returned the next day with everything drawn up? 108 00:10:05,271 --> 00:10:10,483 Yesterday. Luckily, I showed it to Mr. Sutro, my lawyer. 109 00:10:10,610 --> 00:10:12,736 This is very strange. 110 00:10:13,654 --> 00:10:17,449 Are you aware that you cannot take anything out of the house. 111 00:10:18,117 --> 00:10:20,660 Not even your own personal possessions? 112 00:10:20,828 --> 00:10:24,331 Not my clothes? My jewellery? 113 00:10:24,498 --> 00:10:25,498 Anything. 114 00:10:25,833 --> 00:10:28,293 When the man returned to the house, you pointed this out. 115 00:10:28,628 --> 00:10:29,502 Yes. 116 00:10:29,879 --> 00:10:32,964 He said I might take some personal effects. 117 00:10:33,215 --> 00:10:37,385 But that nothing should go out of this house unchecked. 118 00:10:37,928 --> 00:10:40,472 My client is very liberal. 119 00:10:41,349 --> 00:10:45,977 But has fads, Madam, and a way of doing things. 120 00:10:47,229 --> 00:10:49,022 I'm afraid it must be everything, 121 00:10:50,358 --> 00:10:52,525 or nothing for my client. 122 00:10:53,319 --> 00:10:54,986 Then it must be nothing. 123 00:10:58,240 --> 00:10:59,240 Here it is. 124 00:11:01,327 --> 00:11:04,579 "Haines Johnson, Auctioneer Valuer. No address." 125 00:11:05,039 --> 00:11:06,998 I should doubt we shall find him in the directory. 126 00:11:07,124 --> 00:11:09,626 Honest men don't conceal their place of business. 127 00:11:24,767 --> 00:11:26,893 Just a little wheezy for eavesdropping. 128 00:11:29,730 --> 00:11:34,067 I, I just came in to find out if the visitors was 129 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:36,152 stayin' for lunch, Madam. 130 00:11:36,487 --> 00:11:38,113 Don't force me to use this. 131 00:11:39,031 --> 00:11:40,115 Mrs. Maberley, 132 00:11:40,908 --> 00:11:43,576 did you mention to anyone that you were going to consult me? 133 00:11:43,703 --> 00:11:46,037 I did not, Mr. Holmes. 134 00:11:46,914 --> 00:11:47,747 Who posted the letter? 135 00:11:47,915 --> 00:11:48,873 Susan did. 136 00:11:49,166 --> 00:11:52,669 Susan, aah. To whom did you send your message? 137 00:11:52,795 --> 00:11:54,629 I sent no message. 138 00:11:54,755 --> 00:11:55,714 Tell me. 139 00:11:55,965 --> 00:11:57,841 Susan! I remember now. 140 00:11:58,634 --> 00:12:01,261 I saw you speaking to someone over the hedge. 141 00:12:01,637 --> 00:12:03,638 That was my own business, Madam. 142 00:12:04,348 --> 00:12:05,682 Barney Stockdale. 143 00:12:06,892 --> 00:12:10,562 Fine chance that'd be. I don't even know the man. 144 00:12:12,148 --> 00:12:15,775 It is worth ten pounds to you if you tell me who is at the back of this. 145 00:12:15,901 --> 00:12:18,695 Someone who could lay down a thousand pounds 146 00:12:18,821 --> 00:12:21,406 for every ten you've got in the world. 147 00:12:21,532 --> 00:12:26,119 Is he a rich man? You smiled, a rich woman. 148 00:12:29,415 --> 00:12:31,249 Tell the name, and earn the money. 149 00:12:32,084 --> 00:12:35,128 I'll see you in hell first. 150 00:12:37,131 --> 00:12:41,217 I'll send for my box tomorrow... Madam. 151 00:12:44,972 --> 00:12:47,265 This gang means business. 152 00:12:47,391 --> 00:12:49,809 But what can they possibly want? 153 00:12:50,019 --> 00:12:52,896 Mrs. Maberley. You say you've been in this house for a year. 154 00:12:53,063 --> 00:12:54,105 Nearly two. 155 00:12:55,149 --> 00:12:56,399 So, for nearly two years, 156 00:12:56,525 --> 00:12:59,486 no one has taken any particular interest in the house, 157 00:13:00,488 --> 00:13:02,530 and yet, suddenly within three or four days, 158 00:13:02,656 --> 00:13:05,408 urgent demands are made for it, and its contents. 159 00:13:06,452 --> 00:13:09,120 Something new must have been brought into the house. 160 00:13:09,246 --> 00:13:13,041 No, I haven't bought anything new for a year. 161 00:13:13,667 --> 00:13:17,796 This Susan. How long has she been with you? 162 00:13:18,172 --> 00:13:19,798 Almost three weeks. 163 00:13:21,217 --> 00:13:22,717 Since your grandson's death? 164 00:13:22,843 --> 00:13:24,344 Oh, a week after. 165 00:13:28,182 --> 00:13:29,891 She presented herself. 166 00:13:31,018 --> 00:13:34,896 I mean, I took her in, I suppose, without proper reference. 167 00:13:35,022 --> 00:13:36,523 Do you know, this cake is delicious. 168 00:13:38,734 --> 00:13:43,530 Please, now will you tell us about the circumstances of your- 169 00:13:44,448 --> 00:13:46,241 Grandson's return from Italy. 170 00:13:46,700 --> 00:13:48,535 My gallant boy... 171 00:13:49,078 --> 00:13:53,665 you may remember him as debonair and splendid, Dr. Watson. 172 00:13:54,583 --> 00:13:58,461 You didn't see the morose and brooding creature he became. 173 00:13:59,547 --> 00:14:01,714 His heart is broken. 174 00:14:03,092 --> 00:14:09,639 In a single month, I watched him turn into a worn-out cynical man. 175 00:14:11,851 --> 00:14:12,517 A woman? 176 00:14:15,229 --> 00:14:16,855 He wouldn't speak of it... 177 00:14:18,607 --> 00:14:23,194 He was afraid of upsetting his grand mama, he said. 178 00:14:25,322 --> 00:14:27,282 And so you never learnt her name? 179 00:14:39,253 --> 00:14:43,715 It might be advisable for someone to stay with you tonight. Watson? 180 00:14:43,924 --> 00:14:45,258 Yes, of course. 181 00:14:50,097 --> 00:14:52,640 Oh, no. I really couldn't ask such a thing. 182 00:14:52,766 --> 00:14:54,225 No, no, no, no. Willingly. 183 00:14:56,854 --> 00:14:58,146 Thank you Mrs. Maberley. 184 00:14:59,106 --> 00:15:02,025 I shall be back before dark. Don't concern yourself. 185 00:15:16,332 --> 00:15:19,667 It might be useful to find this erm, what's she called, Violet? 186 00:15:21,253 --> 00:15:24,881 He may have confided something to her that he didn't tell his grandmother, 187 00:15:26,008 --> 00:15:27,175 in his last hours? 188 00:15:30,262 --> 00:15:30,845 Holmes? 189 00:15:41,482 --> 00:15:43,232 Good afternoon, Mr. Dixie. 190 00:15:45,152 --> 00:15:49,906 The old lady and the house are both under my protection. 191 00:15:50,449 --> 00:15:52,241 And don't you forget it. 192 00:15:58,832 --> 00:16:02,251 Make sure they're gone. Bring your revolver tonight. 193 00:16:35,369 --> 00:16:37,745 "D"- Douglas Maberley. 194 00:16:38,205 --> 00:16:43,543 Splendid, debonair, to morose cynical... Strong words. 195 00:16:46,588 --> 00:16:50,133 Oh, no. No. Oh! 196 00:16:50,718 --> 00:16:53,177 Who is this lady with no eyes. 197 00:16:58,851 --> 00:17:01,352 Our course lies there. 198 00:17:02,062 --> 00:17:05,189 It must be something she doesn't know she has. 199 00:17:05,441 --> 00:17:08,234 And probably wouldn't tell us, even if she did know. 200 00:17:11,196 --> 00:17:12,739 This is a case for Langdale Pike. 201 00:17:12,906 --> 00:17:13,990 That reptile? 202 00:17:14,158 --> 00:17:17,827 Nonsense. Don't talk rubbish. He's a gossip, of course. 203 00:17:19,121 --> 00:17:24,125 He might identify this rich woman. Sad, he was brilliant at university. 204 00:17:24,710 --> 00:17:27,712 And yet, I've always felt that underneath that veneer, 205 00:17:29,214 --> 00:17:32,133 that he was totally isolated, like me. 206 00:17:32,593 --> 00:17:37,096 You see that, that young girl there, under the tree, 207 00:17:38,015 --> 00:17:41,309 with the occasional hat. What do you make of her? 208 00:17:42,811 --> 00:17:44,103 She is looking for her dog. 209 00:17:44,229 --> 00:17:50,109 What? No, no... surely... 210 00:17:50,277 --> 00:17:54,405 A Salukee with a turquoise collar perhaps. 211 00:17:56,075 --> 00:17:59,452 She is a stranger in the park. So is the dog. 212 00:18:02,081 --> 00:18:03,164 There it is now. 213 00:18:06,877 --> 00:18:07,960 How did you know that? 214 00:18:09,463 --> 00:18:12,465 Her boots are country boots 215 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:16,344 but not so robust as to suggest a rough terrain. 216 00:18:16,553 --> 00:18:19,931 Wiltshire, Gloucestershire perhaps. 217 00:18:20,057 --> 00:18:21,641 Yes, yes, yes, but... 218 00:18:22,768 --> 00:18:26,145 Don't you find her attractive? 219 00:18:29,108 --> 00:18:31,984 Alright. Why a Salukee? 220 00:18:32,736 --> 00:18:35,154 Owners are meant to look like their dogs, they say. 221 00:18:35,823 --> 00:18:37,240 Wouldn't you say Salukee? 222 00:18:37,866 --> 00:18:39,283 Remarkable. 223 00:18:40,661 --> 00:18:44,330 She is, in point of fact, Lady Geraldine Windridge... 224 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:49,752 The Close, Marlborough, Wiltshire. 225 00:18:51,839 --> 00:18:55,341 And now, my dear Holmes, what is it you really want from me? 226 00:18:56,051 --> 00:18:58,344 The late Douglas Maberley... 227 00:19:00,222 --> 00:19:04,475 Poor boy. And what a waste. 228 00:19:07,020 --> 00:19:11,274 He was involved with a lady. A well-placed rich lady. 229 00:19:12,651 --> 00:19:13,693 Known to you? 230 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:34,255 Have you something to trade? 231 00:19:35,340 --> 00:19:38,426 Tittle for tattle? 232 00:19:39,803 --> 00:19:43,222 Langdale... I'm in a hurry. 233 00:19:49,313 --> 00:19:50,021 Thank you. 234 00:19:50,981 --> 00:19:53,399 Her name is Isadora Klein. 235 00:19:53,525 --> 00:19:58,613 Ah, yes. Widow of the German sugar king. Quite a celebrated beauty. 236 00:19:58,739 --> 00:20:00,948 The celebrated beauty. 237 00:20:04,286 --> 00:20:10,958 She's engaged to be married to the youthful Duke of Lomond. 238 00:20:12,544 --> 00:20:15,087 What else did Pike tell you? Anything about her and Maberley? 239 00:20:15,255 --> 00:20:15,922 Nothing. 240 00:20:17,716 --> 00:20:18,925 I wonder, Holmes. 241 00:20:20,010 --> 00:20:21,010 Do you think it could be about some- 242 00:20:21,136 --> 00:20:22,929 compromising letters she wants retrieving? 243 00:20:23,096 --> 00:20:25,556 I mean, particularly in view of her forthcoming marriage? 244 00:20:26,558 --> 00:20:30,228 You mean love letters? No, no, it's deeper than that. 245 00:20:31,271 --> 00:20:34,106 Listen, I demand that you spend 246 00:20:34,816 --> 00:20:37,985 a sleepless night at The Three Gables. 247 00:20:38,779 --> 00:20:40,696 With that revolver at hand. 248 00:20:41,949 --> 00:20:43,532 And how will you be spending the evening? 249 00:20:45,118 --> 00:20:49,705 Pursuing the matter from another angle. Examining the principle. 250 00:20:53,669 --> 00:20:57,922 So, what is it you have to tell me, Miguel? 251 00:20:59,258 --> 00:21:02,134 That stupid woman, Susan, has left the Maberley house. 252 00:21:02,803 --> 00:21:05,805 Was forced to leave, she claims. By Mr. Sherlock Holmes. 253 00:21:06,306 --> 00:21:08,808 He has refused our request to avoid Harrow. 254 00:21:09,518 --> 00:21:11,185 Sherlock Holmes. 255 00:21:12,938 --> 00:21:15,231 Then you did not "request" him hard enough. 256 00:21:17,943 --> 00:21:18,651 Well, 257 00:21:20,445 --> 00:21:24,073 so Mr. Sherlock Holmes is on the case. 258 00:21:24,825 --> 00:21:26,284 He paid a visit to the old lady, 259 00:21:26,868 --> 00:21:29,120 but left empty handed, have no fear. 260 00:21:29,413 --> 00:21:33,666 We are losing time, Miguel. We must act tonight. Arrange it. 261 00:21:36,295 --> 00:21:39,171 This Mr. Sherlock Holmes intrigues me. 262 00:21:43,343 --> 00:21:43,926 Is he clever? 263 00:21:45,512 --> 00:21:47,013 He has a reputation. 264 00:21:47,431 --> 00:21:49,640 For solving crimes, yes. 265 00:21:53,812 --> 00:21:55,354 But for women? 266 00:22:36,897 --> 00:22:40,816 You still owe me a favour dear boy. Remember? 267 00:22:41,568 --> 00:22:46,655 I shan't destroy the paper until you've returned the compliment. 268 00:22:47,407 --> 00:22:50,284 Remember. Tittle for Tattle. 269 00:22:52,287 --> 00:22:53,913 Look at you. I mean what sort of... 270 00:22:54,289 --> 00:22:59,877 Oh, of course, we are above the bourgeois epatant of costume. 271 00:23:00,003 --> 00:23:01,253 The revels have begun. 272 00:23:01,380 --> 00:23:04,256 Life is mystery enough without your pale conundrums? 273 00:23:05,842 --> 00:23:09,887 Oh, so many people, so little purpose. 274 00:23:10,097 --> 00:23:11,639 That's God's conundrum. 275 00:23:12,682 --> 00:23:15,017 If only we mortals could answer that... 276 00:23:15,143 --> 00:23:16,977 Then your life would have no meaning. 277 00:23:18,021 --> 00:23:21,732 Ahh cruel, 278 00:23:22,401 --> 00:23:25,361 cruel, cruel, but so true. 279 00:23:25,487 --> 00:23:27,321 I have always said that if our late mutual friend, 280 00:23:27,447 --> 00:23:30,241 Charles Augustus Milverton was the bad angel, 281 00:23:30,409 --> 00:23:35,830 I am the good angel. I suppress much, much more than I expose. 282 00:23:36,998 --> 00:23:40,459 What sort of world would it be, if I didn't? 283 00:23:41,128 --> 00:23:42,294 Which one is she? 284 00:23:44,756 --> 00:23:45,589 Over there, my dear fellow. 285 00:23:45,715 --> 00:23:48,092 You could hardly mistake her, with young Lomond. 286 00:23:52,597 --> 00:23:56,142 La belle dame sans merci. 287 00:24:00,689 --> 00:24:02,314 Douglas Maberley. 288 00:24:04,276 --> 00:24:08,571 And others. All those, all those, all those. 289 00:24:09,781 --> 00:24:12,158 Douglas, was one of the most striking young men in London... 290 00:24:12,284 --> 00:24:16,579 He gave all and expected all. 291 00:24:17,038 --> 00:24:18,080 Alas! 292 00:24:19,749 --> 00:24:21,000 It was she who ended it. 293 00:24:21,877 --> 00:24:25,212 Brutally. Marriage with a penniless diplomat of little breeding 294 00:24:25,338 --> 00:24:27,173 was not in the widow's plans. 295 00:24:28,467 --> 00:24:29,925 Don't you read my column? 296 00:24:32,846 --> 00:24:37,600 And yet he seems, even in death, to have some hold over her. 297 00:24:38,143 --> 00:24:38,893 What is it? 298 00:24:39,478 --> 00:24:41,187 Do what you like with the information I gave you, 299 00:24:41,354 --> 00:24:43,189 but have no truck with her. She... 300 00:24:43,315 --> 00:24:46,984 Look, the sight of her set my hairs on end. 301 00:24:48,028 --> 00:24:49,320 She is deadly. 302 00:24:50,197 --> 00:24:54,074 And now she has a great ducal line within her grasp. 303 00:24:54,826 --> 00:24:57,828 And look at them. She is old enough to be his... 304 00:24:58,497 --> 00:25:02,041 Ah, the anguished mother. 305 00:25:07,839 --> 00:25:09,423 I helped her husband once. 306 00:25:09,716 --> 00:25:14,637 What is your interest in her now? Douglas is history, he's dust, dust! 307 00:25:14,763 --> 00:25:17,723 Aren't we all, aren't we all. 308 00:25:19,392 --> 00:25:20,351 Even you. 309 00:25:20,977 --> 00:25:25,648 Not me, dear boy. Not me! I withstand the blasts of time! 310 00:25:27,651 --> 00:25:28,817 Can't you see? 311 00:25:49,422 --> 00:25:50,339 Good evening. 312 00:26:17,242 --> 00:26:20,869 I was on my way to India, Governess to a family, 313 00:26:21,079 --> 00:26:25,291 when I met my dear Mortimer. He was going the other way. 314 00:26:27,043 --> 00:26:32,965 Aah, this is the hat he was wearing, over sixty years ago. 315 00:26:34,342 --> 00:26:36,302 But you, you never got to India? 316 00:26:36,428 --> 00:26:39,179 No. I turned back and went with him. 317 00:26:40,098 --> 00:26:41,599 Oh, the fuss! 318 00:26:42,017 --> 00:26:45,060 You see, he was a penniless salesman at the time. 319 00:26:45,478 --> 00:26:50,065 Erm, Gripe water, you know, things for babies' tummies. 320 00:26:50,650 --> 00:26:53,986 But in his heart and soul there was adventure. 321 00:26:54,112 --> 00:26:59,825 Ah, the places we planned to visit, all over the world... 322 00:27:01,703 --> 00:27:03,162 We never left Harrow. 323 00:27:03,788 --> 00:27:07,458 Is er, is this Mortimer, wi, wi... with Douglas? 324 00:27:07,584 --> 00:27:11,879 Oh, good Heavens, have I kept that? How wonderful. 325 00:27:12,839 --> 00:27:16,008 Oh. They doted on each other. 326 00:27:16,843 --> 00:27:21,138 They were alike in so many ways. Two peas in a pod. 327 00:27:21,973 --> 00:27:24,642 Er, what, happened to his, his mother and father? 328 00:27:25,852 --> 00:27:31,357 Oh, my son and his wife were killed in a climbing accident in Snowdonia, 329 00:27:32,025 --> 00:27:34,860 when Douglas was only two years old. 330 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:37,821 We brought him up as our own, you see. 331 00:27:42,035 --> 00:27:43,702 This case in Harrow? 332 00:27:44,079 --> 00:27:46,538 It concerns your future daughter-in-law, 333 00:27:47,666 --> 00:27:52,795 and a late acquaintance of hers. The facts do her no credit. 334 00:27:55,006 --> 00:27:56,715 Something from her past. 335 00:27:58,218 --> 00:28:01,387 I knew it. Tell me at once. 336 00:28:02,847 --> 00:28:03,972 I need a little time. 337 00:28:07,852 --> 00:28:10,229 The wedding which I deplore, is almost upon us. 338 00:28:16,486 --> 00:28:17,861 My golden boy. 339 00:28:21,157 --> 00:28:22,741 He is besotted with this woman. 340 00:28:26,579 --> 00:28:28,330 If you know something against her, 341 00:28:29,124 --> 00:28:32,292 pray God let the scandal break, now. 342 00:28:34,462 --> 00:28:39,466 Oh, no, no, no. I think a scandal can be avoided. 343 00:28:46,474 --> 00:28:48,100 Is there anything you wish me to do? 344 00:28:48,268 --> 00:28:50,602 Granting me this interview was all that I needed. 345 00:28:51,104 --> 00:28:54,273 Mrs. Klein will not have been pleased to see me here. 346 00:28:54,983 --> 00:28:56,608 Mrs. Klein. 347 00:28:58,027 --> 00:28:59,945 Harry would be turning in his grave. 348 00:29:00,071 --> 00:29:02,114 Leave all to me, please. 349 00:30:33,832 --> 00:30:34,706 Mrs. Maberley? 350 00:30:40,004 --> 00:30:41,505 Oh, leave me. 351 00:30:42,382 --> 00:30:45,342 Go after them! They've got it! Go! 352 00:30:47,220 --> 00:30:50,180 Please, hurry. Oh. 353 00:30:52,517 --> 00:30:58,146 Oh. Oh, hurry. Please. Oh! 354 00:31:14,581 --> 00:31:16,498 Steve Dixie. 355 00:31:59,125 --> 00:32:04,296 Mr. Holmes, Mr. Holmes wake up! It's bad news, I'm afraid. 356 00:32:04,714 --> 00:32:06,465 Wake-up, Mr. Holmes. 357 00:32:10,303 --> 00:32:11,219 Mr. Holmes. 358 00:32:18,311 --> 00:32:22,064 It, it's bad news, Mr. Holmes. It's the doctor. 359 00:32:22,649 --> 00:32:26,109 He, he's been brutally attacked in Harrow. 360 00:32:26,235 --> 00:32:28,028 Oh, no, no, he is alive. 361 00:32:28,488 --> 00:32:31,323 He wired, or, or rather the lawyer did, to say 362 00:32:31,449 --> 00:32:33,533 I was to find you if you weren't in, 363 00:32:33,701 --> 00:32:35,994 and you're to get there as soon as possible. 364 00:32:36,579 --> 00:32:39,748 And I'd got him a nice piece of mackerel for his tea. 365 00:32:41,834 --> 00:32:43,835 Dora. Where is Dr. Watson? 366 00:32:46,130 --> 00:32:47,172 He's upstairs, sir. 367 00:32:48,299 --> 00:32:49,132 How is he? 368 00:32:49,509 --> 00:32:52,302 I don't know, sir. He had a good breakfast. 369 00:32:53,846 --> 00:32:54,805 Your mistress? 370 00:32:55,223 --> 00:32:56,598 She's restin', sir. 371 00:32:57,016 --> 00:32:59,893 She weren't badly hurt, but she's had a nasty shock, 372 00:33:00,436 --> 00:33:01,520 we all have. 373 00:33:08,903 --> 00:33:10,821 Good Lord, what have you run into? 374 00:33:13,866 --> 00:33:14,700 What happened? 375 00:33:15,868 --> 00:33:17,244 Madam says she wants to see you, 376 00:33:17,370 --> 00:33:19,371 as soon as you arrive Mr. Holmes, sir. 377 00:33:21,874 --> 00:33:24,876 Holmes, she is in a very frail condition. 378 00:33:27,630 --> 00:33:30,340 Physician, heal thyself. 379 00:33:41,394 --> 00:33:44,396 Mr. Holmes... how good of you. 380 00:33:45,565 --> 00:33:46,732 How are you feeling? 381 00:33:48,735 --> 00:33:53,238 I'm alive. Thanks to your brave friend, Doctor Watson. 382 00:33:53,906 --> 00:33:55,449 Did he get it back from them? 383 00:33:56,451 --> 00:33:57,034 Get what? 384 00:33:57,744 --> 00:34:00,245 Oh, of course, you wouldn't know, I don't... 385 00:34:02,081 --> 00:34:04,416 Mr. Holmes. I owe you an apology. 386 00:34:04,542 --> 00:34:09,004 I, I prayed it would have no bearing, but it it does... 387 00:34:11,090 --> 00:34:13,050 Oh, so stupid of me... 388 00:34:14,260 --> 00:34:16,595 It's the reason for everything. 389 00:34:19,265 --> 00:34:21,850 Douglas was writing a book. 390 00:34:23,311 --> 00:34:26,772 He said it would explain it all. He started it in Rome. 391 00:34:27,774 --> 00:34:30,776 And later, when they brought him back here, 392 00:34:30,943 --> 00:34:35,781 he, he sat for hours in that draughty little summer house, 393 00:34:35,948 --> 00:34:39,242 writing... sometimes in the most dreadful weather. 394 00:34:48,211 --> 00:34:50,921 And later, when he could no longer leave his room, 395 00:34:51,047 --> 00:34:52,964 he still struggled with it. 396 00:34:55,093 --> 00:34:56,343 Two copies. 397 00:34:57,887 --> 00:35:00,222 One he gave to Violet... 398 00:35:01,265 --> 00:35:06,812 and told her to deliver it to someone, I, I, don't know who. 399 00:35:07,980 --> 00:35:12,984 He had sworn her to secrecy and she kept her promise. 400 00:35:14,862 --> 00:35:16,196 The other copy... 401 00:35:16,823 --> 00:35:22,494 He urged me with almost with his dying breath, to send to his publisher. 402 00:35:47,395 --> 00:35:49,229 I should have done so, but... 403 00:35:50,982 --> 00:35:52,607 On the night of his funeral, 404 00:35:53,442 --> 00:35:56,820 and missing him so much, I, I read it through. 405 00:35:57,864 --> 00:36:01,324 I knew at once what it was... His life... 406 00:36:03,244 --> 00:36:06,705 That woman... I didn't even know her name. 407 00:36:09,167 --> 00:36:11,960 The scandal it would cause! And I, 408 00:36:12,962 --> 00:36:18,049 I shut it out of my mind, locked it away until last night 409 00:36:18,176 --> 00:36:21,553 when Dr. Watson reminded me... 410 00:36:21,804 --> 00:36:23,221 And they were waiting for you. 411 00:36:23,472 --> 00:36:26,892 Yes, and they snatched it from me, 412 00:36:27,810 --> 00:36:29,853 as I was taking it up to him... 413 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:35,734 All but this. 414 00:36:44,744 --> 00:36:47,204 I tore it from the brute. 415 00:37:00,968 --> 00:37:04,596 Where is it? Where is it? Miguel! 416 00:37:05,139 --> 00:37:06,556 Miguel! 417 00:37:08,893 --> 00:37:11,353 The page? Where is the last page? 418 00:37:11,812 --> 00:37:13,939 He has it. Oh, I know he has it! 419 00:37:14,065 --> 00:37:16,942 One page, Carina. Not even Sherlock Holmes could... 420 00:37:17,109 --> 00:37:20,403 Burn it! Don't talk! Burn it! 421 00:37:27,620 --> 00:37:31,706 "Face bled and his stomach burned from the savage blows." 422 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:34,167 "But it was nothing" 423 00:37:35,211 --> 00:37:36,795 "to the bleeding of his heart." 424 00:37:38,130 --> 00:37:39,839 "When he saw that lovely face," 425 00:37:41,133 --> 00:37:45,136 "the face for which he had been prepared to sacrifice his life for..." 426 00:37:46,055 --> 00:37:49,557 "She smiled, yes, by Heaven. She smiled," 427 00:37:49,892 --> 00:37:52,644 "like the heartless fiend she was." 428 00:37:52,895 --> 00:37:56,523 "It was at that moment that love died," 429 00:37:57,900 --> 00:37:59,442 "and hate was born." 430 00:38:01,612 --> 00:38:04,197 "If it is not for your embrace, my lady," 431 00:38:04,532 --> 00:38:09,661 "then it shall be for your undoing and my complete revenge." 432 00:38:10,162 --> 00:38:14,332 "My... complete revenge." 433 00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:17,836 The "he" becomes "my". 434 00:38:20,006 --> 00:38:23,967 Yes. The writer imagines himself the hero. 435 00:38:24,593 --> 00:38:27,679 Two copies. One to Mrs. Klein. 436 00:38:27,930 --> 00:38:30,890 And this for publication. 437 00:38:32,435 --> 00:38:34,352 All of London would recognise 438 00:38:35,438 --> 00:38:37,022 the wolf and the lamb. 439 00:38:39,233 --> 00:38:42,777 Sweet revenge. Read me the first sentence again. 440 00:38:43,112 --> 00:38:48,241 "Face bled and his stomach burned from the savage blows" 441 00:38:48,534 --> 00:38:50,035 The cause of death! 442 00:38:56,292 --> 00:38:59,210 Pneumonia, from a ruptured spleen, the old woman said. 443 00:39:00,588 --> 00:39:01,379 Good heavens. 444 00:39:02,214 --> 00:39:05,216 Ruptured from a kick. That's murder. 445 00:39:06,218 --> 00:39:07,385 We could never prove it. 446 00:39:09,513 --> 00:39:11,056 I'm leaving for Cricklewood. 447 00:39:18,272 --> 00:39:19,105 Steve. 448 00:39:20,566 --> 00:39:22,650 Grosvenor Square, five months ago. 449 00:39:23,110 --> 00:39:24,486 That weren't me, Mr. Holmes. 450 00:39:26,072 --> 00:39:27,197 You can't put that on me. 451 00:39:27,323 --> 00:39:32,077 It doesn't matter whose boot killed Douglas Maberley. 452 00:39:32,578 --> 00:39:34,162 You're all guilty. 453 00:39:36,248 --> 00:39:37,582 Ah, Susan! 454 00:39:40,586 --> 00:39:41,336 Susan. 455 00:39:42,630 --> 00:39:46,424 Guarding the coup, while your husband is in prison? 456 00:39:47,385 --> 00:39:50,095 Watson, you remember Mrs. Barney Stockdale. 457 00:39:50,262 --> 00:39:53,056 Oh, yes. Take care Holmes. 458 00:39:53,891 --> 00:39:56,434 You get out of 'ere. 459 00:39:56,685 --> 00:40:00,772 That woman will put you behind bars for what you did last night. 460 00:40:00,940 --> 00:40:04,901 And her employer, Mrs. Klein of Grosvenor Square, 461 00:40:05,069 --> 00:40:08,113 will see you all hanged for murder, unless... 462 00:40:08,948 --> 00:40:11,449 you do what I tell you, when I tell you. 463 00:40:12,201 --> 00:40:15,370 Remember Perkins of Holborn? 464 00:40:17,039 --> 00:40:17,705 Watson. 465 00:40:28,884 --> 00:40:29,843 Let me look at you. 466 00:40:32,430 --> 00:40:33,304 What do you see? 467 00:40:34,140 --> 00:40:34,973 I see... 468 00:40:39,061 --> 00:40:41,479 the woman I adore. 469 00:41:15,764 --> 00:41:17,849 I am ready now. No, stay here. 470 00:41:19,310 --> 00:41:21,561 She is not Moriarty. She is a woman. 471 00:41:22,021 --> 00:41:23,396 That hand needs redressing. 472 00:41:35,201 --> 00:41:36,701 Just remember, Holmes. 473 00:41:38,204 --> 00:41:40,830 The female can be more deadly than the male. 474 00:41:55,179 --> 00:41:59,265 Valuer and Auctioneer, my foot. 475 00:42:04,021 --> 00:42:06,523 Ah. Madam. 476 00:42:08,192 --> 00:42:09,234 You again, Holmes. 477 00:42:09,735 --> 00:42:12,237 If you have something to say to my bride, speak out, 478 00:42:12,571 --> 00:42:14,072 before I kick you out. 479 00:42:14,198 --> 00:42:18,368 No. I have been expecting Mr. Holmes. Leave us. 480 00:42:19,328 --> 00:42:21,371 Huh. I have no intention of leaving you with this... 481 00:42:21,497 --> 00:42:22,664 Go, James. 482 00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:25,833 Go! 483 00:42:29,755 --> 00:42:32,006 I am only surprised it took you so long. 484 00:42:32,383 --> 00:42:36,052 I am surprised that you thought bullies could frighten me. 485 00:42:37,096 --> 00:42:39,138 No man would take up my profession, 486 00:42:41,267 --> 00:42:43,268 if danger did not attract him. 487 00:43:00,369 --> 00:43:04,038 You are a gentleman. I will treat you as my friend. 488 00:43:04,623 --> 00:43:06,708 I cannot promise to reciprocate. 489 00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:13,881 No doubt it was foolish to threaten such a brave man as yourself. 490 00:43:14,049 --> 00:43:17,468 No, what was really foolish of an intelligent woman like you, 491 00:43:18,345 --> 00:43:20,513 is to place yourself in the power of a- 492 00:43:20,639 --> 00:43:24,392 band of rascals who could blackmail or give you away. 493 00:43:24,727 --> 00:43:27,770 Hmm. No, no. I am not so simple. 494 00:43:28,731 --> 00:43:32,567 None of them have the least idea who their employer is. 495 00:43:32,735 --> 00:43:34,819 Not Barney Stockdale and his wife? 496 00:43:37,448 --> 00:43:40,491 They are good hounds who run silent. 497 00:43:40,659 --> 00:43:42,660 And are prepared to go to prison for you. 498 00:43:45,122 --> 00:43:48,207 They take what comes. That's what they are paid for. 499 00:43:50,044 --> 00:43:51,044 And er, 500 00:43:53,005 --> 00:43:56,924 Mr. Haines Johnson. Oh, that surely is not his name. 501 00:43:57,843 --> 00:43:59,344 What is he paid for? 502 00:43:59,970 --> 00:44:00,720 Miguel? 503 00:44:04,016 --> 00:44:05,433 He is like a brother to me. 504 00:44:07,895 --> 00:44:12,398 As for the others they work, and I do not appear in the matter. 505 00:44:12,524 --> 00:44:14,025 Unless I bring you into it. 506 00:44:17,821 --> 00:44:19,864 But you are a gentleman, Mr. Holmes. 507 00:44:20,574 --> 00:44:22,533 You respect a woman's secret? 508 00:44:22,660 --> 00:44:26,037 Huh, is murder a woman's secret? 509 00:44:31,168 --> 00:44:31,876 Murder? 510 00:44:35,631 --> 00:44:40,301 "My face bled, my stomach burned" 511 00:44:41,261 --> 00:44:44,430 "from the savage blows, but it was nothing to the bleeding of my heart." 512 00:44:44,556 --> 00:44:45,848 Page two four five. 513 00:44:49,395 --> 00:44:51,771 And there's a witness, Mrs. Klein. 514 00:44:53,816 --> 00:44:57,694 The prize fighter, Steve Dixie, who will testify against you. 515 00:45:00,322 --> 00:45:03,408 And all this... you told my future mother-in-law? 516 00:45:04,952 --> 00:45:08,079 What I told the Dowager is of no importance, since she cannot prevent 517 00:45:08,247 --> 00:45:09,622 your marriage to her son. 518 00:45:10,457 --> 00:45:14,127 No, she cannot. And you believe that you can? 519 00:45:14,962 --> 00:45:15,837 Oh, yes. 520 00:45:17,506 --> 00:45:18,756 Why should you wish to? 521 00:45:22,803 --> 00:45:24,345 Is it because I am a foreigner? 522 00:45:27,474 --> 00:45:30,518 Are you an English snob, Mr. Holmes? 523 00:45:31,979 --> 00:45:32,937 Let me tell you, 524 00:45:33,439 --> 00:45:37,817 my people have been leaders in Pernambuco for generations. 525 00:45:39,653 --> 00:45:40,778 Madame. 526 00:45:42,614 --> 00:45:46,576 You are the bastard child of a gypsy in Andalucia. 527 00:45:48,871 --> 00:45:50,705 Hijo de puta! 528 00:45:56,295 --> 00:45:57,336 Who told you? 529 00:45:59,131 --> 00:46:00,506 It is my trade. 530 00:46:07,181 --> 00:46:09,140 Now you must give me the manuscript. 531 00:46:10,058 --> 00:46:12,602 No. No, no, no! 532 00:46:14,897 --> 00:46:17,982 You wish for ashes in a paper bag? 533 00:46:23,655 --> 00:46:24,822 You are hard to me. 534 00:46:26,158 --> 00:46:30,328 Look at it with my eyes. A life's ambition about to be ruined. 535 00:46:30,871 --> 00:46:32,789 The original sin was yours. 536 00:46:33,707 --> 00:46:35,166 Yes, I know, Douglas. 537 00:46:36,084 --> 00:46:37,877 Yes, I did love him, truly. 538 00:46:39,129 --> 00:46:43,341 Yes, yes. I did for a while, in my fashion. 539 00:46:44,259 --> 00:46:47,678 But he wanted marriage, nothing less would serve him 540 00:46:48,639 --> 00:46:50,431 and it did not fit with my plans. 541 00:46:51,058 --> 00:46:54,393 And so you hired ruffians to beat him 542 00:46:55,354 --> 00:46:57,146 until he was nearly dead, under your window. 543 00:46:57,272 --> 00:46:58,898 Is that the act of a lady? 544 00:46:59,691 --> 00:47:00,399 Yes, it is true. 545 00:47:00,526 --> 00:47:04,362 Barney and the boys drove him away, perhaps a little too roughly. 546 00:47:07,199 --> 00:47:08,533 But what did he do then? 547 00:47:09,993 --> 00:47:14,497 He wrote a book, a vicious, personal attack. 548 00:47:16,333 --> 00:47:18,209 Was that the act of a gentleman? 549 00:47:20,629 --> 00:47:23,047 You knew this publisher had not received it. 550 00:47:23,173 --> 00:47:27,134 Yes. So it had to be in the house of his grandmother. 551 00:47:28,387 --> 00:47:33,391 As long as that book existed, there was no safety for me. 552 00:47:35,352 --> 00:47:37,812 I wanted to do this thing honestly. 553 00:47:39,606 --> 00:47:42,900 I offered any price she cared to ask, 554 00:47:44,528 --> 00:47:45,736 but she wouldn't take it. 555 00:47:47,948 --> 00:47:52,034 Are we to be blamed for protecting ourselves? 556 00:47:55,581 --> 00:47:57,123 One thing intrigues me. 557 00:48:00,460 --> 00:48:06,841 Why a woman as lovely as you, who wields such power over men, 558 00:48:09,261 --> 00:48:12,638 needs the protection of anyone? 559 00:48:15,726 --> 00:48:20,771 Nature doesn't give a damn for any of us. 560 00:48:25,027 --> 00:48:28,779 I love James, and I want him. 561 00:48:30,991 --> 00:48:34,785 He represents all I have ever desired, 562 00:48:37,164 --> 00:48:41,918 and my one chance of a kind of security 563 00:48:43,503 --> 00:48:45,296 which I call happiness. 564 00:48:48,300 --> 00:48:50,760 And you would take it away from me? 565 00:48:53,889 --> 00:49:05,900 Why? 566 00:49:06,401 --> 00:49:08,778 Because you are a destroyer of men. 567 00:49:09,821 --> 00:49:10,780 Oh, yes. 568 00:49:12,115 --> 00:49:13,908 You destroyed Douglas Maberley. 569 00:49:15,118 --> 00:49:18,412 And very nearly my friend, John Watson, 570 00:49:19,206 --> 00:49:24,085 with a ruthless disregard for anything but your own selfish interest. 571 00:49:25,128 --> 00:49:26,963 Why have I failed with you? 572 00:49:28,674 --> 00:49:30,341 I require only this. 573 00:49:31,510 --> 00:49:33,928 That I read of the breaking of your engagement 574 00:49:34,054 --> 00:49:37,181 to the Duke of Lomond, by Thursday morning. 575 00:49:38,767 --> 00:49:40,059 And if I refuse? 576 00:49:40,435 --> 00:49:44,397 Scotland Yard. A full investigation, with witnesses. 577 00:49:46,566 --> 00:49:47,692 I am at your mercy. 578 00:49:48,819 --> 00:49:50,861 Haz de me lopeor- Do your worst. 579 00:49:52,406 --> 00:49:55,241 Oh, how much does it cost to go round the world 580 00:49:56,201 --> 00:49:59,036 in first class style? Let me see, yes. 581 00:49:59,413 --> 00:50:03,165 You will send a cheque for five thousand pounds to Mrs. Maberley. 582 00:50:03,291 --> 00:50:04,959 You owe her a little change of that. 583 00:50:06,044 --> 00:50:07,545 Goodbye, Mrs. Klein. 584 00:50:10,799 --> 00:50:12,967 I have no doubt I shall see you again one day... 585 00:50:14,511 --> 00:50:15,886 on the arm of a king. 586 00:50:19,182 --> 00:50:21,934 "And, therefore, The celebrated beauty, Mrs. Klein" 587 00:50:22,060 --> 00:50:23,644 "has departed for Spain." 588 00:50:25,522 --> 00:50:29,900 "Her people have been leaders in Pernambuco for generations." 589 00:50:31,778 --> 00:50:34,739 Well, it's a dignified report, 590 00:50:35,574 --> 00:50:37,992 I wonder what others would have made of it. 591 00:50:57,220 --> 00:50:58,888 You let her off the hook, Holmes. 592 00:51:00,098 --> 00:51:01,724 Compounding a felony, you mean? 593 00:51:02,768 --> 00:51:03,434 Murder. 594 00:51:05,437 --> 00:51:07,229 It would have been impossible to prove. 595 00:51:08,982 --> 00:51:10,608 Mrs. Klein has learnt 596 00:51:11,651 --> 00:51:15,696 that she can't play with edged tools forever without cutting those- 597 00:51:17,866 --> 00:51:19,492 aging hands of hers. 598 00:51:22,245 --> 00:51:24,288 Time is not on her side. 599 00:51:25,207 --> 00:51:25,790 Shall we?