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Of course if you insist...

Yes.

Yes, I'll be there. One o'clock.

Well...

Thank you, Vincent.

You were wise

not to tell your husband.

A successful marriage

is usually based

on what a husband and wife

don't know.

- Too frightened to eat, Mrs Sutton?

- I'm not hungry.

Waiting for the wretched blackmailer

to remove his mask?

What do you want?

- You mean... how much?

- Yes.

Well, I saved you

from an ugly scandal,

one that could ruin

your distinguished husband's career.

What an advertisement

for a psychoanalyst:

"Married unaware to a kleptomaniac".

And you would pay me to keep this

whimsical fact out of the papers?

Yes.

- Now?

- Yes, now.

I can see I was never cut out

to be a villain.

I dislike inspiring so much terror

in such a lovely woman.

Please don't talk to me.

Oh, yes, I forgot,

you're buying my silence.

$5,000! Dear me, that's quite a sum,

considering that it's tax-free.

I take it you don't intend to report

this to Uncle Sam or your husband.

Very few wives

are in so fortunate a position

with a bank account of their own,

obviously a large one.

That's all I'll pay.

That's quite enough.

Isn't it?

You're rather disillusioning,

Mrs Sutton,

for the wife of so brilliant a man.

First for assuming you would get rid

of a blackmailer by giving him money,

secondly, and worse,

by identifying me as a nasty crook.

Here is your cheque, Mrs Sutton.

You've disturbed my vanity

rather deeply.

I always fancied

I had a fine, upright look,

and that an honest heart shone out

of my not-too-splendid face.

(Sobs)

I'm joking, Mrs Sutton.

Please, Vincent is an old friend.

I wouldn't want him to think

I was on ogre

that makes beautiful

women cry into their soup.

That's better. Thank you.

May I tell you

why I insisted on meeting you?

I have something that I was sure will

make you feel better about yesterday.

I persuaded the manager, Mr Simms,

to give me the Mrs William Sutton

shoplifting report

from the store files. Here it is.

If you tear it up,

there will no longer be a record of

yesterday's episode on file anywhere.

I... I feel like such a fool.

How can I ever thank you?

Do you know Tina Cosgrove?

Not very well.

I've been to some of her parties.

She's giving one for me.

For you?

Then you must be a celebrity.

In Tina's eyes, anybody

who attends three of her parties

automatically becomes a celebrity.

I made the grade last month.

Tina, darling!

What a wonderful party!

Everybody's here!

I adore people

famous enough to know me.

How magnificent, Tina!

Wherever you are,

you always attract the best society!

Don't be silly! I don't have

to attract society, I manufacture it!

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