Young and Innocent

Christine!

Don't shout, I tell you!

Don't shout!

I will shout if I want to! Who's

going to prevent me from shouting.

Listen to me! Why won't you

listen?

You're a liar! A liar! You lied

when you met me!

You lied to get rid of me!

You're a liar and a cheat!

That's enough of it! Get out

of here!

That's a nice thing for a wife

to say!

I'm nothing of the sort!

Oh, yes, you are! And you're not

going to get rid of me with...

...your silly Reno divorce!

You're my wife!

Well, what about it?

And I'm not going to have any

boys hanging around.

What do you mean?

Oh, you can't fool me! I've

watched him! I saw him come in!

Don't be a fool! That boy

is not...

- A liar! A liar!

- Why won't you listen?

Because I'm not an idiot!

You quit me eight years ago to go

on the screen!

I, who worked for you! Took you

out the chorus...

...let you out of the gutter.

And now you spend your time

going around with boys, you!

Go on, say it, say it!

Christine!

- Is she drowned?

- No, she's a mermaid.

This woman was never drowned

She was strangled with this belt.

Keep back, please!

Now then, which of you found the

body first?

- I did.

- No, he didn't! We did.

- Both of you?

- Elsa saw it first.

- That's right!

- But he says he did.

- Well, he didn't!

- Contradict the evidence, eh?

Don't be silly.

Well, just a moment if you

don't mind.

Now, miss, what's your tale?

Well, we were both going down

to bathe.

And just as we got...

We saw this young man running

away

It's absurd, I was running to

get home.

You weren't, you were running

away, wasn't he, Helen?

- That's right

- Nonsense, the girl's hysterical.

I'm not! I'm not hysterical!

You were running away, you know

you were!

It's fantastic! I saw the body

from the top of the crest and...

...naturally came down.

I couldn't be sure if she was

already dead or only unconscious.

You see, I didn't see the belt.

I ran out to get help so that I

could make artificial respiration.

I was only there a few minutes.

This woman has only been dead

a few minutes.

Well, it's time we got this thing

finished.

Now, is this belt yours or

isn't it?

For the hundredth time I tell

you it isn't!

How do you know it isn't?

You've already admitted that

you've got a raincoat.

Don't put down "got",

put "had" a raincoat.

- Which you've lost

- No, not lost, which I had stolen.

Why are you trying to distort

everything I say?

Don't get excited, old man, it's

only a formality.

You had it stolen, let it go as

that. When was it stolen?

Well, I can't remember.

You see, I left it in the car and

went in to get some cigarettes.

When I came back it was gone.

You mean it just went into

thin air?

What sort of a place was this?

A common shelter called

Tom's Hat.

All right, we'll let that go.

Now, did you know the dead

woman well?

Yes, fairly well, I knew her in

America.

Could it be unfair to suggest

that you were especially...

...good friends?

- Mr. Kent means her lover.

- It would be unfair!

Then we could put down that you

were friends, good friends.

Oh, put down what you like!

Were you good enough friends to

discuss money?

What's the idea? We discussed

money three years ago when...

... I sold her a story.

Paid in good hard cash.

I received money from her on

former occasions.

Talking of money, would it be

accurate to say that you are...

...not well off?

More than that, it would be

practically true.

Would it? Considering the fact

that she's left you...

...twelve hundred pounds in

her will?

- What's happened to him?

- He passed out or pretended to.

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