TERENCE, _both terrified_.
(_Looking around_) Everything looks all right here.
MRS. TERENCE: I tell you we _did_ 'ear her! Plain as plain! And
we'd gone near a quarter of a mile----
DORA: Plain as plain----
MRS. TERENCE: Made my blood run cold. "Danny!" she screamed. "Danny,
where are you?" she said. She wanted 'im back, she did, to save 'er----
DORA: Because she was bein' murdered. I knew it! I'd never a' run like
that if I 'adn't 'eard----
BELSIZE: We'll soon find out who's right.... Now then----(_As_
OLIVIA _steps aside behind the sofa_) Hello, Dan!
DAN (_quietly, rising and standing by the fireplace_): Hello.
BELSIZE (_standing behind the invalid chair_): Second time to-day,
eh?...
DAN: That's right.
BELSIZE: How's the old lady?
DAN (_after a pause_): Not so bad, thanks, inspector! Gone to bed,
and says she didn't want to be disturbed----
BELSIZE: Smell of paraffin ...
DAN (_with a last desperate attempt at bluster_): You know what
she's like, inspector, a bit nervy these days--
_As_ BELSIZE _goes to the bedroom and flashes a light into
it_.
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