The Pit and the Pendulum

270 00:20:30,747 --> 00:20:33,467 particularly this chamber. 271 00:20:33,667 --> 00:20:37,628 But it did not bother her at first either. 272 00:20:38,338 --> 00:20:40,640 Our life was good... 273 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:44,969 rich with the shared pleasures of our love. 274 00:20:49,599 --> 00:20:53,019 Each morning I would bring her breakfast. 275 00:20:55,855 --> 00:21:00,994 In the afternoons, she usually sat for me while I attempted all in vain... 276 00:21:01,194 --> 00:21:04,331 to capture her beauty on canvas. 277 00:21:04,531 --> 00:21:07,626 I did that portrait which you saw on her room before... 278 00:21:07,826 --> 00:21:12,288 but it is all inadequate to what I called the loveliness of her. 279 00:21:13,832 --> 00:21:19,346 We dined, sometimes alone, enjoying intimate conversation... 280 00:21:19,546 --> 00:21:22,632 sometimes with the doctor. 281 00:21:23,884 --> 00:21:28,179 And every night Elisabeth would play for me. 282 00:21:32,225 --> 00:21:36,780 Life was simple, quiet, richly pleasurable... 283 00:21:36,980 --> 00:21:40,900 and then the darkness began to fall. 284 00:21:42,903 --> 00:21:45,831 More and more entering her room in the mornings... 285 00:21:46,031 --> 00:21:50,168 I would find her awake and discover that she had not slept all the night. 286 00:21:50,368 --> 00:21:55,039 I tried to find out why, but she had no explanation. 287 00:21:56,833 --> 00:21:58,593 Her appetite began to fade. 288 00:21:58,793 --> 00:22:00,887 She began to lose weight and color. 289 00:22:01,087 --> 00:22:02,556 I tried to make her eat... 290 00:22:02,756 --> 00:22:06,467 but something kept her from it. 291 00:22:07,803 --> 00:22:11,773 I would come upon her wandering in the corridors at night. 292 00:22:11,973 --> 00:22:13,942 I tried to find out what was wrong... 293 00:22:14,142 --> 00:22:15,318 but she never had an answer... 294 00:22:15,518 --> 00:22:19,906 except to say that... that something was oppressing her. 295 00:22:20,106 --> 00:22:22,075 Oh God, help me for my blindness. 296 00:22:22,275 --> 00:22:24,652 I should have known... 297 00:22:26,363 --> 00:22:28,749 Then one day she disappeared. 298 00:22:28,949 --> 00:22:32,702 Frantic, I searched the castle for her. 299 00:22:42,087 --> 00:22:43,931 And then I knew. 300 00:22:44,131 --> 00:22:48,426 The castle and its awful history had obsessed her. 301 00:22:49,010 --> 00:22:51,438 These very instruments of torture... 302 00:22:51,638 --> 00:22:54,107 which were my birthright and my curse... 303 00:22:54,307 --> 00:22:57,027 now tormented her as well... 304 00:22:57,227 --> 00:23:00,489 infecting her with a kind of haunted fascination. 305 00:23:00,689 --> 00:23:03,784 And watched her drawn to one and then another... 306 00:23:03,984 --> 00:23:07,913 as if the aura of pain and suffering which surrounded them... 307 00:23:08,113 --> 00:23:11,458 was luring her to sickness... 308 00:23:11,658 --> 00:23:14,702 and to death. 309 00:23:17,789 --> 00:23:21,635 Immediately I made my plans to leave the castle with her. 310 00:23:21,835 --> 00:23:24,596 We would travel for a while, restore her spirits... 311 00:23:24,796 --> 00:23:27,757 and then make our home elsewhere. 312 00:23:28,717 --> 00:23:32,354 Then on the very eve of our departure... 313 00:23:32,554 --> 00:23:35,148 we heard her scream from below... 314 00:23:35,348 --> 00:23:38,068 the most hideous blood-chilling scream... 315 00:23:38,268 --> 00:23:40,978 I have ever heard in my life. 316 00:24:00,373 --> 00:24:03,427 Just before she died, she whispered a name. 317 00:24:03,627 --> 00:24:05,178 Sebastian. 318 00:24:05,378 --> 00:24:08,464 Sebastian. 319 00:24:22,562 --> 00:24:24,564 Mr. Barnard. 320 00:24:25,065 --> 00:24:26,199 Dona. 321 00:24:26,399 --> 00:24:27,618 May I speak with you? 322 00:24:27,818 --> 00:24:29,536 Yes, of course. 323 00:24:29,736 --> 00:24:31,371 How is your brother? 324 00:24:31,571 --> 00:24:35,450 Better, thank you. Dr. Leon is staying with him. 325 00:24:37,744 --> 00:24:41,048 I have come to ask you to please believe him, Mr. Barnard. 326 00:24:41,248 --> 00:24:43,833 He has told you the truth. 327 00:24:44,584 --> 00:24:46,887 Has he? 328 00:24:47,087 --> 00:24:49,765 Yes. And not telling you before... 329 00:24:49,965 --> 00:24:52,842 he only meant to spare you pain. 330 00:24:53,343 --> 00:24:55,896 He is a good man, Mr. Barnard... 331 00:24:56,096 --> 00:24:58,357 a kind and gentle man... 332 00:24:58,557 --> 00:25:02,185 and I know that he adored your sister. 333 00:25:06,481 --> 00:25:10,702 I would like to believe him, Dona Medina... 334 00:25:10,902 --> 00:25:14,039 but I find it very difficult to do so. 335 00:25:14,239 --> 00:25:17,793 There is something about him I cannot help at sense... 336 00:25:17,993 --> 00:25: