...
_A pause. The noise of something being moved beyond the kitchen._
Dan _sits on the sofa with a jerk, looking before him. His fingers
beat a rapid tattoo on the sides of the sofa. He looks at them, rises
convulsively and walks round the room, grasping chairs and furniture as
he goes round. He returns to the sofa, sits, and begins the tattoo
again. With a sudden wild automatic movement he beats his closed fists
in rapid succession against the sides of his head._ BELSIZE
_returns, carrying the hat-box._
BELSIZE (_crossing and placing the hat-box on the table_): This
one's locked. Have you got the key?
DAN _rises, and takes a step into the middle of the room. He looks at
the hat-box at last._
DAN (_in a dead voice_): It isn't mine.
BELSIZE: Not yours?
DAN: No.
BELSIZE: Oh?... Whose is it, then?
DAN: I dunno. It isn't mine.
OLIVIA _stands at the sun-room door._
OLIVIA: I'm sorry, I thought ... Why, inspector, what are you doing
with my box?
BELSIZE: Yours?
OLIVIA: Yes! It's got all my letters in it!
BELSIZE: But it was in .
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