The Night Has Eyes Page #5

No, but I'll have one more try.

Hear that? It's hollow. Come on.

Look.

Do you think perhaps

there is a body inside it?

Don't be so stupid.

Let's open it and see.

No. No.

I'd rather not.

Come on, let's go.

Wait a minute. The secret room.

It's hollow too. I think

we've got something here.

If I get out of this window.

I may be able to see if there's another

one between here and the next floor.

Give me a hand.

You stay in here. I'll do it.

Looking for something?

He's coming up.

I'm gone!

I expect you've seen

everything you want to by now.

I need someone to give me

a hand. Any objections?

Of course not.

I'll lend you my dungarees and

my housekeeper's wellingtons.

Won't she mind?

Mrs Ranger is a philosopher.

She never minds anything.

Oh.

The storm has made a

nice mess of this roof.

I've got my grain stored in there.

Here's your chance to

make yourself useful.

Hurry up with that felt.

I'm coming.

Come on, come on, come on.

Ow!

If you could only see yourself.

Here, let me give you a hand.

I can manage quite well, thank you.

A fine time of year you've

chosen to go swimming.

There. You'd better get

some dry things on.

I'm perfectly alright, thank you.

Don't be an idiot.

What's he been up to?

Oh, I slipped.

So did I. But it didn't get

me that kind of a bed

Now take your things off.

I'll get you something to wear.

They won't be very up-to-date I'm afraid.

Well?

Lovely.

The dress I mean.

It belonged to my grandmother.

Would you prefer

mushroom or mulligatawny?

I .. I don't know.

Does it matter?

Well, make up your mind.

Well, mushroom.

Me too.

Mulligatawny for Doris.

With her cold, won't it

be too hot for her?

Could it be?

Hmm .. some cook.

I can cook 57 varieties.

Talking about cooks,

tell me about your housekeeper.

Mrs Ranger? She's a treasure.

I can never tell you how

much she's done for me.

She was a nurse in the hospital they sent

me to after release from the prison camp.

I wasn't allowed any razors or

braces or scissors at that time.

That's the kind of state I was in.

When I was discharged,

she came here with me.

She's been with me ever since.

Is she the only person here besides you?

No. There's Sturrock, the odd-job man.

He drove her over to

Pensley for her shopping.

Where did you get that?

From Evelyn.

She had one, too.

Why do you ask?

No particular reason. I must have

seen one like it somewhere before.

Evelyn had a kind of fancy about it.

She looked on it as a symbol.

She was to give it to the

man she fell in love with.

And did she?

She never met him.

And what about you?

Oh, I ..

I've met men whose characters I've liked.

Whose brains I've admired.

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