First broadcast 18th January 1997.
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04:10When would you like to come in and sign the will?
04:12Any time.
04:14We live quite close, Mr. Fane.
04:16Oh, yes.
04:18You gave me your address.
04:20Hillside.
04:22I think it used to be called St. Catharine's.
04:26Oh, yes.
04:28On the Leehampton Road.
04:30Oh, shall we say Monday next at 10 a.m.?
04:36Yes, that'll be perfect.
04:42You know, I actually chose to come to you because I think, well, I believe you once knew my mother.
04:50Really? What was her name?
04:52Halliday.
04:54Megan Halliday.
04:56I think I was told you were once engaged to her.
05:00Oh, no, I never knew your mother, Mrs. Reed.
05:02But I was once engaged briefly to Helen Kennedy, who married your father as his second wife.
05:10Oh, I see.
05:12I'm sorry, I've got it all wrong.
05:14It was my stepmother.
05:16I knew it was something to do with India, so I thought it was my own mother.
05:20Helen Kennedy came out to India to marry me, but then she changed her mind.
05:26On the boat going home, she met your father after your mother's death.
05:31Have I put my foot in it?
05:33Oh, it was 19, oh, 20 years ago, Mrs. Reed.
05:37Time enough.
05:40You know, I suppose, that your father and Helen actually lived in your house in Dilmouth for quite a while.
05:46Yes.
05:47That's one of the reasons we came.
05:49It was fantastic to find it for sale.
05:51Yes.
05:52I remember it very well.
05:56You may not remember me, but I suppose I must have seen you as a little girl.
06:02I was only about two or three.
06:05Were you on leave from India or something like that?
06:08No, no, I chucked India for good.
06:11I passed all my law exams, so I came back here to my father's firm.
06:16I've been here ever since.
06:18Yes, ever since.
06:21You must come and have tea with my mother one day and bring your husband.
06:26Thanks.
06:27Next Monday, then.
06:28Ten o'clock.
06:29Goodbye, Mr. Fane.
06:30Well?
06:31He was here in Dilmouth at the right time.
06:32He couldn't possibly have done it.
06:33Why not?
06:34Too mild and ordinary.
06:35I thought of nothing.
06:36Thought thats just the sort that do.
06:37Why?
06:38Commit murders, darling.
06:39Yes, I suppose.
06:40well he was here in delmouth at the right time
06:49he couldn't possibly have done it why not too mild and ordinary i thought of nothing
06:56those are just the sort that do what commit murders darling yes i suppose when i first
07:05mentioned the house perhaps he was crazy about it oh look there's miss marple i wonder what
07:13she's up to holiday shopping well she's not going to find out very much doing that
07:18there we are madam comfy wearer summer vests two you said yes i think you'll find there
07:28in your side oh yes yes that's quite correct thank you we've had much summer this year
07:35why have we the last time i stayed in delmouth it was glorious weather but that of course
07:40was 20 years ago yes madam yes i was staying with friends in a house on the lee hampton
07:45road st catherine's perhaps you know it oh indeed i do madam that would have been in
07:52mrs finderson's time well the people i knew had it furnished a major halliday and his wife
07:57and baby daughter is there anything else i can do for you today madam no no thank you
08:02just the best that'll be eight and ten please madam yes yes of course yes there we are the
08:11halliday's had a very good cook she gave me a wonderful recipe for baked apple pudding and
08:18another as i recall for gingerbread i wonder what became of her that would be edith paget madam
08:24she's still in delmouth oh really how interesting for change madam thank you you know i always felt
08:31very sorry for major halliday because i believe his young wife left him for someone else in the end
08:36yes madam the doctor's sister wasn't it yes madam poor dr kennedy he was such a nice man
08:42as for his sister i don't know what became of her nobody ever speaks of her no no quite
08:49oh i suppose you don't know how i could get in touch with edith paget do you i dare say i do madam
09:02oh how kind because i've lost that recipe and i'm really rather fond of gingerbread
09:07oh bless us little mesquenny is it oh fancy now come in come in do you remember me miss purgey
09:19well of course i do well you must call me edy like you used to sit yourselves down now
09:26oh many's the game lily and i used to have with you
09:31lily lily was housemaid here lily abbott young girl part in a ways you must excuse me running on
09:42like this sir talking brings the old days back your friend miss maypole the lady has called
09:51she said you wanted to ask me something about the old days you see i was brought up in new zealand
09:57so i don't know anything about my life here with my father and stepmother oh very fond of you she was
10:05used to take you down the beach play with you in the garden nothing more than a girl herself really
10:13and you liked her yes madam i did no matter what anybody said i'd never believed she'd do what she did do
10:23though mind you there had been talk do you have any idea who it was she went away with
10:30well sir we had our suspicions well lily did she was a silly girl mind you that chap sweet on her edy
10:41she used to say and dewey's wife looked daggers who was that well now i don't just remember the name
10:51colonel esdale astley was it no they were staying at the royal clarence him and his wife
11:00summer visitors but i rather think he or maybe both of them had known mrs halliday before
11:08were they still here when helen my stepmother went away well i think they went a day or two after
11:17anyway it was close enough to make people talk they uh come from up north somewhere northumberland i think
11:27it were she was afraid of something wasn't she afraid yes oh no it's funny you should say that
11:39i remember lily coming in one day she'd been dusting the stairs ructions she said she'd a common way of
11:51talking sometimes she'd heard the master and the mistress in the drawing room i'm afraid of you
12:00that's what mrs halliday said and she sounded scared too i've been afraid of you for a long time
12:10you're not normal go away and leave me alone something of that kind and lily took it very
12:18seriously so when it happened oh i don't know what i mean at all telling you all this
12:28it's it's important edie we have to know well the plain fact is miss gwanny lily left you alone
12:39that night and went off the pictures i didn't know nothing about it otherwise i'd have been keeping
12:44an eye on you i was doing some ironing and you can't hear a thing in that kitchen when the maze
12:51door shut oh good evening edith oh good evening sir anything wrong sir
13:02oh i was looking for lily major halliday wants a word with her oh i do think lily went upstairs sir
13:10she said she had a day going on two hours since
13:15not in her room of course if she's not well
13:18hello good evening sir good gracious lily where'd you spring from
13:24oh i'd just come down to get a glass of water for an aspirin
13:28i thought maybe you'd gone up to see to miss gwenny
13:31hmm
13:32is there anything i can do sir
13:36i'd like you to come with me lily major halliday and i are puzzled about your mistress
13:40she doesn't appear to be at home we were hoping you might help us
13:43oh she said after dinner sir she was going for a walk
13:46we'd like you to look around her room
13:48thank you edie
13:49edie
14:01oh my stars what ever next
14:04never mind about that oh you'll never guess what's happened now
14:07what she's hooked it that's what
14:10oh
14:11well the mistress who else dr kennedy took me up to her room
14:17wanted to know if she'd taken any clothes with her and what
14:20never
14:24never made him think of that
14:26well she's left a note
14:28gone off with someone
14:30well the master's all in
14:33or more fully you ought to have seen it coming
14:35you've no right to speak like that
14:39and why not didn't i tell you
14:42well it's not likely to be mr soberside's fane
14:46for all he follows her around like a dog
14:48you think it's that colonel then
14:55that's my bet
14:56unless it's our mystery man in the flashy car
15:01look here
15:12it's all wrong
15:14what's wrong
15:16them clothes
15:18i went through them all because the doctor asked me and there's enough gone
15:23but they're the wrong things
15:25whatever do you mean
15:28she took an evening dress
15:30but she didn't take the belt nor the slip nor the shoes that goes with it
15:34and she took her green tweed which she never wears till autumn
15:38but she didn't take that fancy pullover
15:40and the undies too
15:42now they was a job lot
15:44no you mark my words she hasn't gone away at all
15:48the master's done her in
15:50oh lily
15:51remember she was scared to death of him
15:55didn't i tell you i heard her say so
15:57well that's just where you're wrong
16:00because it wasn't the master at all
16:02just after you told me i looked through the window
16:05and i seen the master coming down the hill with his golf clubs
16:10so it wasn't him with the mistress in the drawing room
16:13it was someone else
16:15someone else
16:18that'll be the house up there
16:23and stone man
16:24you see it on the map
16:26yes it must be it
16:27but are you sure it's the right place
16:29it better be
16:30hell of a long way to come
16:31northumberland on a wild goose chase
16:33colonel and mrs erskine
16:35and still a man a day
16:36they were the only military couple
16:38in the royal clarence's guestbook
16:40for that particular August
16:41and edie did say they were from northumberland
16:44oh it's bound to them
16:45the only question is
16:47will they rise to the bait
16:49what happens now
16:56we run out of water darling
16:58let's hope the erskines are feeling hospitable
17:10it is tea time after all
17:14life's pretty bleak up here
17:31no labors to speak of
17:33it's very good of you
17:34we only ask for a jug of water
17:36what a beautiful place
17:42how old is the house
17:44it's tuned up
17:45crumbling at the edges rather
17:47my husband's people have lived here for nearly 300 years
17:51i take it if you're you're from australia mrs reed
17:56no new zealand
17:58ah clearly
17:59but charles is from devon
18:01hello
18:01what part is that
18:03i was born in plymouth
18:05but we've actually just bought a house in dilmouth
18:08dilmouth
18:11yes
18:12do you know it
18:13we spent a few weeks there
18:16many years ago
18:17rather a pretty little place
18:20remember richard
18:22yes very well
18:24do sit down please
18:25thank you
18:27yes we stayed at the royal of george
18:29no the royal clarence wasn't it
18:32still there i suppose
18:34yes it is
18:34our house is quite near
18:36it's called hillside
18:38i think it used to be called
18:40what was it charles
18:43son catherine's
18:45you've had tea
18:55if you have time
18:57perhaps you'd like to see the garden
18:58do you think you'll be able to find it again
19:04i hope so
19:06it's a pair you gave me to match my pussycat eyes
19:08so you said
19:09did you see the way she was looking at me all the time
19:13there's something very nasty about that woman
19:16almost sinister
19:17i bet she gives him hell
19:18when are you thinking of tackling him again
19:20tomorrow morning
19:21she goes shopping in dife
19:23how do you know that
19:25he mentioned it when we're in the garden
19:26i think he's rather nice
19:29not the strangling type at all
19:31i'm sorry to be such a nuisance
19:34but i thought it was worth a try
19:36i know
19:37i had it on when we came out from tea
19:39i suppose you can't remember when you first
19:42little with them
19:42that's how i lose them
19:44oh look there it is
19:47just there
19:48so it is
19:56you've got sharp eyes
20:00mrs reed
20:01i knew it was here somewhere
20:02thanks so much
20:04actually i've got a confession
20:12i wanted to talk to you alone
20:15and this seemed the only way
20:17there's something i've got to know
20:20and i think you're the only person who can tell me
20:22what was that
20:24i think
20:26you were once in love with my stepmother
20:28helen kennedy
20:30helen halliday she became when she married my father
20:35were you
20:36i'm sorry i cheated
20:50all's fair though so
20:53i suppose there were letters
21:00women never destroy those do they
21:04why did you want to know
21:07i want to know more about her
21:09i was only a small child when she went away
21:11she went away
21:12she left dilmouth that summer and never came back
21:15didn't you know
21:17no i didn't know that
21:20there was a brother
21:26a doctor
21:27he doesn't know anything
21:29everyone thinks she ran away with someone
21:32and you thought that was me
21:35no such luck i'm afraid
21:42it all happened on the boat going out to india
21:48one of the kids had been ill and
21:51my wife was going to follow later
21:54helen and i just fell hopelessly in love
21:59hopeless because she was going out to marry someone else
22:03it was rather a desperate decision
22:07because she wasn't happy at home
22:09and wanted to get away
22:10hopeless for me too of course with a wife and two children
22:15yes i see
22:18in fact you didn't marry him
22:21she went back home and met this other man
22:24your father i suppose
22:27eight months later my father died and i came into this place
22:35i sent him my papers and went back to england
22:39my wife said she wanted a holiday while we were waiting to move into this house
22:45so
22:45i said what about dilmouth
22:49she knew nothing of course
22:51you wanted to see helen again
22:54so i thought
22:55it was a mistake
22:59janet's a jealous woman
23:02always has been
23:05when did you last see helen
23:07the night before we left
23:10we met on the beach
23:13i walked with her back to the house
23:16what time was this
23:19what time was this
23:20about nine o'clock
23:22it was getting dark
23:23we said goodbye
23:27was that a saturday
23:29august the 21st
23:31could have been
23:33yes yes it was
23:35because my wife was afraid the roads would be crowded
23:37helen
23:42helen left on the friday
23:43the night before
23:45not because of me
23:47was she afraid of anyone
23:53my father
23:55was he a jealous man
23:58why should he be
23:59i was jealous of him
24:01unless of course there was someone else
24:04jealous is a bloody awful thing
24:08i know
24:09i'll do the talking
24:15mrs reed had to come back janet
24:19she lost an earring in the garden yesterday
24:22really
24:23did you find it again
24:24yes thanks
24:26i was lucky
24:27thank you so much
24:29i must go
24:30we're leaving the hotel today
24:32i'll see you to your car
24:33sorry richard
24:36it was a very important call
24:38oh that's quite all right
24:40please don't bother
24:42thanks again
24:43for everything
24:52to leave it or not
25:00you arranged it with the girl
25:01i saw the way you were cheating
25:03for god's sake janet
25:05marriage as we all know miss marvel can be very difficult
25:10in this case it would have been disastrous
25:13my poor walter
25:14the girl was quite unsuitable
25:17really mrs vang
25:18oh i don't mean she was an actress or anything like that
25:21she was the local doctor's sister
25:23more like his daughter really
25:25years younger
25:26poor man had no idea how to bring her up
25:29got herself entangled first with a young man at the office
25:32bad lot
25:33they had to get rid of him
25:35oh
25:35how was that
25:36oh some confidential matter
25:38anyway
25:40this girl
25:41helen kennedy
25:43was i suppose
25:44very pretty
25:45but
25:45i didn't think so
25:47i always thought her hair was touched up
25:49but walter proposed
25:51and she refused him
25:53that's why he went to a sam
25:55or
25:55or was it burma
25:56and
25:57what do you think
25:58the moment he'd gone
26:00the silly girl changes her mind
26:02and says she wants to marry him
26:04oh dear me
26:05so
26:05she books a passage
26:06sets sail
26:07and
26:08what do you think the next move is
26:10well i can't imagine
26:11has a love affair on the boat
26:13going out
26:14with a married man
26:15would you believe
26:16so
26:17there was walter
26:19on the key to meet her
26:20and the first thing she does
26:22is to say she can't marry him after all
26:24now
26:25don't you think that's a wicked thing to do
26:28oh most distressing
26:30well it might have quite
26:32unhinged him
26:33oh
26:33walter has always had the most wonderful self-control
26:37and
26:38what happened to the young girl
26:39miss kennedy
26:40oh
26:41she came home
26:42had another affair
26:44on the way back
26:45and he this time
26:46married the man
26:47they settled down here
26:48at the other end of the town
26:50next to the old hospital
26:51it didn't last
26:53of course
26:53within a year
26:54she'd gone off
26:55with some married man
26:56what a lucky escape
26:58for your son
26:58oh
26:59that's just what i told him
27:00yes
27:01and the first young man
27:03with whom she became entangled
27:05in your son's office
27:06oh
27:07did very well for himself
27:08run us those coach tours
27:11afflick's daffodil coaches
27:13bright yellow things
27:14afflick
27:15um
27:16jackie
27:17afflick
27:18nasty pushing fellow
27:20oh there you are walter
27:23he's usually back about this time
27:25hello mother
27:26this is miss marple
27:28she's a friend of dolly bantry
27:30oh
27:30how do you do
27:31i'm quite well
27:33thank you
27:34now that you're home walter
27:35we must have some fresh tea
27:37no no don't bother mother
27:38of course we shall dear
27:39and more scones
27:40my mother spoils me i'm afraid
27:45it's all still a mystery
27:53walter fane was just boring
27:55and poor colonel erskine
27:57two dimes
27:59and one to find
28:01let's hope miss marple's made some progress
28:04if only there was some way we could trace lily abbott
28:08oh it's hopeless
28:10we don't even know if she's still alive
28:13dear dr kennedy
28:22i hope you can help me about the enclosed
28:25do you think it means money or a reward
28:29because i could do with the money i'm sure
28:31i often have been thinking about the night mrs alliday went away
28:36and i don't think sir she ever did
28:39because of what i saw out the window
28:41that posh car to what i seen before
28:45i saw
28:49before
28:51i wouldn't like to do anything without seeing you
28:56because i never have been mixed up with the police
28:59and mr kimball wouldn't like it
29:01i could come and see you sir next market day
29:07two days a week on and off
29:20not at this time of year
29:21oh i told you it mr foster
29:23that's why i felt i must come along and give a hand while mrs reads away
29:28one can never relax with greenflower
29:31true enough ma'am
29:32so sad
29:35nearly all part-time now isn't it
29:38i suppose you were once a full-time gardener mr foster
29:41yes i was ma'am
29:43when i worked over at dr kennedy for him and his young sister
29:46oh mrs reed's stepmother
29:48ah miss ellen
29:49pretty maid she was
29:50doctor set a lot of store by her
29:53always wanting to go somewhere
29:56dancing
29:57tennis
29:58funny thing i've always thought that was
30:02oh what was that
30:04well that tennis court
30:05someone came over in the middle of the night cut the net to ribbons
30:09oh nasty bit of spite you might say
30:11but who would ever want to do a thing like that
30:13that's what the doctor wanted to know
30:16said he weren't going to get another
30:18for if to spite one time
30:20it will be spite again
30:21ah rare and put out miss ellen was
30:25didn't have no luck
30:26first that net
30:28then her foot
30:30well what happened to her foot
30:32oh tripped and fell
30:33no more than a graze but it wouldn't heal
30:35doctor was fair worried
30:38yeah dressing it
30:40treating it
30:41poor maid was there with her foot up
30:43no more dancing or tennis for her that year
30:46and was that the year she broke off her engagement to mr affleck
30:50bit of nonsense that was
30:52yes but somebody must have felt spiteful towards miss ellen
30:55some of the young ladies might have done
30:57but jackie affleck was too sharp by half
31:00cut themselves in the end that thought do
31:02now it didn't last year long
31:04and good riddance i say
31:06us and don't want the likes of ee in dilmouth
31:08yeah let the gold be smart somewhere else
31:12ah mrs cock
31:19oh dr kennedy
31:21i'm sorry if i startled you
31:23best be careful with that old trouble of yours
31:26how are you keeping
31:26oh pretty fair thank you doctor
31:29you must take it easy
31:30i was looking for mr and mrs reed
31:32did i see someone in the garden
31:34good morning
31:39good morning foster
31:40morning doctor
31:41hello
31:42i'm dr kennedy
31:43oh how do you do
31:47such nasty stinging stuff this
31:50but it does kill the green fly
31:51jane marple
31:54how do you do
31:55i'm so sorry but i'm afraid mr and mrs reed are away
31:58it's my loan from mrs cocker
32:00i have a letter here will interest them
32:02oh is it from lily
32:03i see you're in their confidence
32:05well they did ask by advice
32:07but i'm afraid young people seldom take advice
32:10yeah that's true
32:11i'm fond of guenny
32:12she was a nice wee child
32:14i'm afraid she's heading for trouble
32:17what did you tell her
32:19to let sleeping murder allow
32:23yes
32:23if it was murder
32:26seems incredible to me i haven't heard from helen in all these years
32:31equally strange if she's dead that have not been notified
32:35you were very fond of her
32:37why
32:38i can still see her in this garden
32:41for the short time she was here she grew to love it
32:45very much
32:46would you give this letter to giles
32:55i've answered it
32:56i'll be seeing lily next thursday
32:58after they'll join me at my house for tea
33:00i'll see they get it
33:01directly they come home
33:03yes
33:04oh very interesting
33:07but that's all wonderful
33:09we've heard from lily
33:11and you found the third man
33:12the awful affleck
33:14you're a genius miss marple
33:16oh my dear boy
33:17and we've got news for you
33:18this arrived this morning
33:20it's your home office chap's report on the handwriting samples
33:23oh
33:23and he says the letter and helen's list are in the same hand
33:27oh dear
33:30oh dear why do you say that
33:31jealousy
33:33cruel is the grave
33:36and the coals there are were coals of fire
33:39yes
33:41as mrs erskine must know
33:43well here's all the details of our coaches mr reed
33:54should be something for your boys club there
33:55you just make your mind at what you want
33:57and we'll oblige
33:58thanks
33:58and uh
34:01what was this other business you said you wanted to discuss
34:03well
34:05it's really a private matter mr affleck
34:08we're trying to trace a relation of mine
34:10and we think you might have known her
34:12oh really
34:13what was the lady's name
34:15helen halliday
34:16before she married my father she was
34:20helen kennedy
34:21that was a long time ago mrs reed
34:27so what's the trouble
34:29quarrel
34:30left home
34:32what is it money
34:33she went away one night
34:34a few years before the war
34:36no one knows where she is
34:39now the hang should i
34:40we heard you were friendly once
34:43fat chance of that
34:44doesn't their brother know where she is
34:49he had two letters from her
34:51but no address
34:52regular little mystery then
34:55you could advertise
34:57we have
34:58no luck there
34:59no
35:00maybe she's dead
35:02lovely girl she was too
35:05what did you really feel about her mr affleck
35:08now there's a question
35:09i'll be honest with you mrs reed
35:14i uh
35:15i felt sorry for the kid
35:19sorry
35:20just that
35:21that brother of hers
35:23she had no fun at all
35:25you didn't like dr kennedy did you
35:28was he responsible for you losing your job
35:31oh
35:32oh you know about that do you
35:34yes
35:36yes i was fired from failing watchman's
35:38i've naught to hide
35:39dirty work it was
35:42and i know who was responsible
35:44but it wasn't dr kennedy
35:47so i can't help you i'm afraid
35:51i had a bit of fun with helen
35:57and that's all it was
35:58but you saw her again
36:01after she was married
36:03did i
36:04maybe i did
36:06a couple of times
36:07now if you good people will excuse me
36:10just let me know what you want
36:1224 or 32 seater
36:13and we'll oblige
36:16i think this is his
36:32it must be
36:33a yellow peril
36:35isn't it horrible
36:36remember what lily said in her letter
36:39about a posh car
36:41and edie
36:44the mystery man in the flashy car
36:47i wonder what lily's going to tell us this afternoon at dr kennedy's
36:53do you think she really knows
36:54admire my bus
36:56little buttercup i call her
37:00i chose daffodils for the coaches
37:03so that all fits
37:05it's just my fancy
37:06nice spot of weather
37:09i think i'll take it for a spin
37:11good idea
37:20damn
37:25do you think he heard
37:27i hope not
37:30i think he's going to be
37:33a bit
37:34a bit
37:35a bit
37:36of a
37:38super
37:38one
37:39of a
37:39and
37:40and
37:40i'll be
37:41a bit
37:41and
37:42and
37:43and
37:43and
37:44and
37:45and
37:45and
37:45and
37:47and
37:48and
37:49and
37:51and
37:53and
37:54and
37:55and
37:56and
37:56and
37:58Oh, my. You've taken me a surprise.
38:13What are you doing here, Dad?
38:16No! No!
38:23I gave explicit directions. They're very simple.
38:28Only a few minutes' walk up the road.
38:33More likely, she decided not to come at all.
38:36Perhaps her husband stepped in.
38:39These country folk are incalculable.
38:42I wonder what she could have told us in any case.
38:46Probably nothing really matters if Helen is alive or dead.
38:51If what she thinks is true, those letters to me were forgeries.
38:58Well, I've been thinking a lot about her lately.
39:03Helen?
39:05Who could have killed her?
39:08She had no enemies.
39:10Here's a photograph.
39:13For many, many years, I hadn't thought about her at all.
39:18Now I think about her all the time.
39:21It's your doing.
39:24No.
39:27No, I think it's her.
39:29What do you mean?
39:30Just that.
39:32I can't explain it.
39:35It's not us.
39:37It's Helen herself.
39:40Can you hear the news?
39:42Yes?
39:43Well, I'm afraid it is murder.
39:44Lily Kimball's body was found by a passing holiday maker in the woods near the railway lines at Matchings Halt.
39:53yes well i'm afraid it is murder lily kimball's body was found by a passing holiday maker
40:03in the woods near the railway lines at matching's halt matching's halt that's the station before
40:09she should have gone to woodley bolton i said on my letter yes we found your letter in her handbag
40:15dr kennedy was mrs kimball a patient of yours not for 20 years you advised her to take the
40:223 30 train from coon lee and to get out at woodley bolton well she must have taken a train two hours
40:30before because her body was found about three o'clock she'd been strangled you say you expect her at your
40:37house for tea i had four o'clock then what happened well the most likely explanation is she agreed to
40:45meet somebody else well then continue her journey by the later train have you any idea that might have
40:51been it's possible yes mrs reene i think my wife feels that you should question a man called jackie
41:00affleck daffodil coaches very well
41:04now is there anything else you think you ought to tell me
41:12if mrs kimball wasn't a patient of yours dr kennedy what was the purpose of her visit today and did
41:23that also concern mr mrs reene yes it did it's hard to explain i suppose it all started when i went to see
41:34a play in london the duchess of malfi
41:41why are they digging in that spot well that was my idea you remember when you first saw this house
42:05you were struck by the fact that this window had no view to the sea and then foster found the old
42:11steps under the shrubs yes it's one of the things that made me think i've been here before
42:17but it seemed to me that somebody wanted to dig new steps so they covered up the old ones
42:21and when anything new is dark
42:24then it was my father
42:26it must have been my father who else could have done that
42:31oh i don't think we must jump to conclusions not just yet
42:34you need a drink darling
42:40miss marple
42:42oh thank you no i think i think mrs cocker is making tea
42:47well i need something a little stronger
42:49it was one of three people
42:52walter fane erskine or jackie affleck
42:55and whoever it was murdered lily this afternoon
42:59presumably the inspector is checking alibis
43:03well it can't be colonel erskine
43:05he's in northumberland
43:07of course
43:08well that's one we can check up on
43:13what are you going to do
43:14i took their number
43:15yes here it is
43:18no it's not urgent mrs fane
43:46i'll telephone his office in the morning
43:48thank you
43:50goodbye
43:52all three of them on the loose
43:58mr affleck
44:01him too
44:02we saw him set off in his car
44:04they could all have met lily off that train
44:07here's your tea
44:11thank you mrs cocker
44:12could you put it there
44:13i'm sorry we're keeping you up so late
44:17oh i done some sandwiches for you
44:19and i suppose the gentleman in the gardener would want a bite pretty soon
44:23i couldn't walk out on you madam
44:25not with all this to do going on
44:27excuse me mrs reed
44:29yes inspector
44:31i'm sorry granny
44:33miss marple was right
44:36we found what we were looking for
44:39what is it
44:43i knew it
44:45i saw
44:46i saw what was taken
44:48oh
44:49it's all right mrs cocker
44:51oh my life
44:52dr kennedy is here
44:54please sit back
44:55you know this old trouble don't you
44:57yes
44:58you'll be all right
44:59well you've all in the hospital we're on our way
45:25i have a word with you
45:41I wonder, before looking for me, might I have a word with you?
45:55Yes, Miss Marple.
45:56Well, it's just that I, uh, it is rather important.
45:59You better tell me, Miss Marple.
46:01Yes, I'm not a wallet.
46:03I'm not confiding.
46:11I'm not a wallet.
46:41I'm not a wallet.
47:11I'm not a wallet.
47:11I'm not a wallet.
47:13I'm not a wallet.
47:15...
47:20...
47:24...
47:27...
47:30...
47:34...
47:44hello hello Gwenda hello darling have they seen her yes but keeping her in
47:55for observation dr. Kennedy's gone now so I'm going around to her place to
47:59collect some things how long will you be then I'll get the dinner on all right
48:05marvelous thanks love you
48:14foreign
48:21yeah
48:26yeah
48:29yeah
48:32yeah
48:35yeah
48:40yeah
49:14Hello?
49:31Who is it?
49:44Hello, Gwennie.
49:51I came from the hospital.
49:54Mrs Cockle's going to be fine.
49:57Yes and I.
49:58Giles just found.
50:00Why have you come?
50:06I wanted to see you.
50:09That's as you were that night.
50:11A little girl standing on the stairs.
50:14The way you remembered it.
50:15I watched Helen come home.
50:22I saw her from the hospital window.
50:25In those days, she was just across the road.
50:28She was with a man.
50:31With Gillespie.
50:32I knew she was in love with him, planning to run away.
50:35And I should lose her.
50:40Because, you see, Gwennie, I couldn't bear it out.
50:47It was you.
50:50You I saw.
50:53It was the wee girl as Helen was once.
50:56I didn't want to do her any harm.
51:00Just hold her close, tight, and safe.
51:06With her golden hair.
51:09The death of young ones is never to be pitied.
51:13Cover her face.
51:16My eyes are death of Gwennie.
51:18I won't lose you.
51:21Oh, my darling.
51:24My dear sister.
51:30Oh, my dear Sister.
51:31Papa.
51:31Papa.
51:32Papa.
51:33Oh, my God.
51:37Oh, my dear sister.
51:41Oh, you don't think I do?
51:43Oh, don't think I do?
51:43Oh, don't think I do?
51:44Oh, no.
51:49Oh, my sister.
51:49of course there were so many things that pointed to him but most of all he was at
51:55the right place at the right time. then there were those signs of those terrible possessive
52:01madness. the damaged tennis net and the graze that wouldn't heal while he was treated. we
52:07thought Helen was almost a nymphomaniac. well that's because dr. Kennedy told you so. all
52:13she wanted was to get away. remember Jackie Affleck said he was sorry for the kid? then
52:18there was Lily. oh poor Lily. dr. Kennedy didn't know that she was at the pictures that evening of
52:24the murder. he thought that she knew the truth and had sent him a blackmail letter. his car must have
52:31been outside the hospital on that evening and he thought she'd spotted him walking to the house.
52:35a posh car. i'd seen it before. so he wrote her a letter telling her to catch an earlier train and
52:41get out at Matchings Hall. all he had to do then was exchange that letter for the one the police found
52:46in her bag after he killed her. yes. and of course Helen's letter from abroad and the sample
52:52of handwriting he gave us were both by him. so of course they looked the same. why didn't
52:58we think of that? because you believed what he told you. it's very dangerous to believe people.
53:04I haven't for years. but really the most wicked thing was the way he deluded your poor father.
53:13using drugs to induce hallucinations and involving an innocent man in his own fearful fantasies of
53:20strangling and domination. yet part of his mind was very cool and calculating. even persuading your father
53:28to make changes so that Helen's grave was already dug. such wickedness. and i blame myself that i
53:37didn't see it all at once. it was a play you see. cover her face. those are words spoken by a brother
53:47who's just contrived his sister's death. poor Helen who died young. i hope she's really sleeping now.
53:57i think she is. well now my dears. have you thought any more about the new rosebuds? well we wanted your advice.
54:11well i almost think we haven't trusted a message. you know we bring out so many new ones.
54:18so you can take it every day. you can take a look at me. you can take a look at me. you can take a look.
54:35You