The Letter

to communicate that to my friend? 536 00:29:50,956 --> 00:29:52,821 It might be well to keep in touch with him. 537 00:29:52,958 --> 00:29:54,038 Thank you, sir. 538 00:30:41,256 --> 00:30:42,256 Yes, sir. 539 00:30:45,344 --> 00:30:46,208 Thank you, sir. 540 00:30:46,345 --> 00:30:47,676 Mr. Joyce, Mr. Reid 541 00:30:47,804 --> 00:30:49,282 was coming to see you in half an hour. 542 00:30:49,306 --> 00:30:51,012 - Oh. - I've canceled the appointment. 543 00:30:51,141 --> 00:30:52,176 Yes. 544 00:30:58,065 --> 00:30:59,521 Yes, that's right. 545 00:31:08,450 --> 00:31:09,235 Stay in the visiting room 546 00:31:09,368 --> 00:31:10,824 as long as you want, Mrs. crosbie. 547 00:31:10,952 --> 00:31:11,816 The warden's orders. 548 00:31:11,953 --> 00:31:14,114 That's very nice of him. Thank you. 549 00:31:37,396 --> 00:31:38,727 Howard, how good of you to come. 550 00:31:38,855 --> 00:31:39,855 Good morning, Leslie. 551 00:31:39,898 --> 00:31:40,917 I wasn't expecting you today. 552 00:31:40,941 --> 00:31:42,226 How are you today, Mrs. Cooper? 553 00:31:42,401 --> 00:31:43,795 Oh, fine, thanks. It's a different place 554 00:31:43,819 --> 00:31:45,046 since Mrs. crosbie's been here. 555 00:31:45,070 --> 00:31:46,350 Mrs. Cooper's been so kind to me. 556 00:31:46,405 --> 00:31:47,440 In fact, everyone has. 557 00:31:47,572 --> 00:31:49,437 It's a shame she has to stay here at all. 558 00:31:50,075 --> 00:31:52,737 Well, I'll just wait outside. 559 00:31:52,869 --> 00:31:54,869 You can call me when you're finished, Mrs. crosbie. 560 00:31:54,913 --> 00:31:55,913 Thank you. 561 00:31:57,916 --> 00:32:02,501 Oh, how lovely. I do miss my garden. 562 00:32:03,338 --> 00:32:04,953 You're looking very well, Leslie. 563 00:32:05,090 --> 00:32:07,797 Well, this is a wonderful place to rest. 564 00:32:08,427 --> 00:32:10,759 Well, it's only 5 days more. 565 00:32:10,887 --> 00:32:12,073 I know. Every morning when I wake up, 566 00:32:12,097 --> 00:32:14,053 I say, "one less," just likeiused to 567 00:32:14,182 --> 00:32:16,298 when I was in school with the holidays coming. 568 00:32:16,977 --> 00:32:18,683 Oh, Howard, don't feel sorry for me. 569 00:32:18,812 --> 00:32:20,427 The time has passed very quickly. 570 00:32:20,605 --> 00:32:21,749 I've done a good deal of reading, 571 00:32:21,773 --> 00:32:23,309 and I've worked on my lace. 572 00:32:24,109 --> 00:32:25,940 It's Robert I'm worried about. 573 00:32:26,069 --> 00:32:28,230 He's taking it terribly hard. 574 00:32:29,197 --> 00:32:30,562 Poor darling. 575 00:32:31,116 --> 00:32:32,396 He's much more anxious about you 576 00:32:32,451 --> 00:32:34,407 than you seem to be about yourself. 577 00:32:34,536 --> 00:32:35,992 Well, Howard, I must confess to you, 578 00:32:36,746 --> 00:32:39,158 I'm not looking forward to testifying in court. 579 00:32:40,959 --> 00:32:42,415 One of the things that's impressed me 580 00:32:42,544 --> 00:32:44,105 is that every time you've told your story, 581 00:32:44,129 --> 00:32:46,461 you've told it in exactly the same words. 582 00:32:46,631 --> 00:32:48,121 You've never varied a hairsbreadth. 583 00:32:48,300 --> 00:32:50,791 And what does that suggest to your legal mind? 584 00:32:51,261 --> 00:32:53,627 Well, it suggests either that you have 585 00:32:53,805 --> 00:32:55,511 an extraordinary memory... 586 00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:56,640 Or? 587 00:32:57,058 --> 00:32:58,343 Or that you're telling the plain, 588 00:32:58,477 --> 00:32:59,842 unvarnished truth. 589 00:32:59,978 --> 00:33:02,185 I'm afraid I have a very poor memory. 590 00:33:04,983 --> 00:33:06,210 I suppose I'm right in thinking 591 00:33:06,234 --> 00:33:07,474 that you had no communication 592 00:33:07,611 --> 00:33:09,672 with Hammond for several weeks before the catastrophe. 593 00:33:09,696 --> 00:33:11,732 Oh, quite. I'm positive of that. 594 00:33:11,823 --> 00:33:14,906 The last time I saw him was at a tennis party at the mcsharons... 595 00:33:15,035 --> 00:33:16,995 I don't suppose I said more than two words to him. 596 00:33:17,037 --> 00:33:18,402 They have two courts, you know, 597 00:33:18,497 --> 00:33:20,408 and we happened to be playing different sets. 598 00:33:20,832 --> 00:33:22,072 And you hadn't written to him? 599 00:33:22,209 --> 00:33:23,244 Oh, no. 600 00:33:23,585 --> 00:33:25,246 Well, at one time, 601 00:33:25,420 --> 00:33:27,376 you were on fairly intimate terms with him. 602 00:33:28,048 --> 00:33:28,833 How did it happen 603 00:33:29,007 --> 00:33:30,998 that you stopped asking him to anything? 604 00:33:31,134 --> 00:33:32,894 Well, we didn't have anything much in common. 605 00:33:33,011 --> 00:33:34,876 He's very popular, you know. 606 00:33:35,013 --> 00:33:36,594 A lot of calls upon his time, 607 00:33:36,723 --> 00:33:38,463 and, well, I didn't see the necessity 608 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:40,556 of showering him with invitations. 609 00:33:41,186 --> 00:33:44,178 You're quite certain that