"He won't feel anything." "As if he were asleep." "Anesthetic, please!" "Ah!" "This new anesthetic slows down the heartbeat." "We must operate before the heart rate goes back to normal." "Scalpel!" "We have guests tonight, my wife would never forgive me if I was to be late." "Professor?" " Yes?" " Commissioner Scott is here, he would like to talk to you." "Let him in." " How are you?" " Do you think he will make it?" "It was a pretty bad wound, I did everything I could." " All we could do is hope for the best." " Thank you, professor." "Good night, Inspector." "The professor did everything he could to save him you should stay calm." "Your dad will get better, you'll see." " Good evening, professor." " Good evening." "Ah, Marta..." "Yes, sir." "Please tell my wife that I am very tired and that I went to my room." "Everything's ready upstairs, professor." "Thank you, Marta!" "My apologies, but I am a bit tired." " Oh no, we must apologize." " Goodbye." "We abused your hospitality." " See you soon, dear." " Good night." " Good night." " Good night." " Goodbye." " Goodbye." " Good night." " See you soon." " Good night." " Goodbye." "Thank you, doctor, you made a miracle happen." "No." "Only science is to be thanked." "It is a great victory, professor." "Perhaps it's not a miracle, but it certanly looks like one." "The human body is jealous of its own secrets." "We wasted so much time trying to study the soul meanwhile the material element of our beings is still an unknown universe." "Had you not slowed down the heartbeat the patient wouldn't have survived an open-heart surgery like that one." "Oh..." "I'm not sure." "Evidently my new anesthetic slows down the general dynamics of the organism." " Professor, the patient is in the operating room." " Good!" "Margaretha, Margaretha!" "Margaretha, no!" "What..." "No!" " Bring those downstairs." " Very well." " The coach is at the door." " Thank you, Marta." "Did you make up your mind, professor?" "Yes, it's decided." "I already gave my resignation from the clinic." "Everything here reminds me of Margaretha." "Everything." "You take care of the house, Marta." "Please." "You can count on me." " Goodbye." " Goodbye." "And by the way, please take care of the cat." "Jezebel?" "Yes, of course." "Goodbye." "I hope you will be happy in my home." "Dear, I will be happy anywhere, if you are with me." "We should be there." "Deliver the rest of our baggage tomorrow morning." " Take this." " Thank you, sir." "Come, dear." "Nature is such a tyrant." "She only needed a few years to give the garden such a wild-looking appearance." "Look, a light in that window." " Who could it be?" " Must be Marta, the housekeeper." "Let's go inside." "Oh!" "Wait a moment, dear." "I'll turn a light on." "Marta?" "What a storm!" "Is that her portrait?" "Yes, it's her." "Come, dear." "Have a seat" "Wait for me, I'll go find Marta." " Marta?" " Don't leave me alone, I beg you." "Don't worry." "Oh!" " It's Jezebel." " He scared me." "Jezebel, come here." "He also grew wild..." "Good evening, Marta." "Welcome back, professor." "This is my wife, Cynthia." "Let me inroduce you to Marta, our housekeeper." "Nice to meet you." "I apologize for the mess." "I only had enough time to tidy up the rooms upstairs." " Ah!" "I prepared something to eat." " Thank you." "You must be hungry." " No." "No, I'm just tired." "Then I will escort the lady to her room." "What was that?" "It's nothing, madam." "It's just my sister." " She stayed here with me for all these years." "But I'm going to take her back to the hospital tomorrow." "She's mentally ill." "All right." "Come dear, let's go upstairs." "Why does Marta look at me in such a bizarre way?" "Marta might seem odd, but she is very good-natured." "Come, dear." "This is your room." "It will look more cheerful when the lights will be in working order." "It's beautiful." "Was this her room?" "Yes." "Forgive me, but this house gives me a weird feeling." "I feel like a stranger, as if everything were hostile to me." " The cat, even." " You are just a little tired." "Tomorrow you'll see things in a different light." "Yes, of course." "Marta is going to bring you your suitcase, if you need anything ring the bell next to the bed." " Thanks." " Good night, my love." "Good night." "Bernard, is that you?" " Good morning, my dear." " Good morning." "Let's sit." " What's the matter with you?" " I didn't sleep well." "How so?" "Didn't you hear anything last night?" "No, nothing." "After you left someone tried to get into my room." "Thats's absurd, I don't see who would do something like that." "I don't know." "I heard some footsteps and I saw the doorknob turning." "You were very tired last night, perhaps it was your imagination." "But I am sure there was someone outside my room." "Nonsense." "My room is next to yours, and I didn't hear a thing." "I am sorry, but going back to my old clinic after all these years has made me nervous." "Forgive me." "What is it?" "A nurse from the clinic is here, named Franz." " He'd like to talk to you urgently." " Excuse me, dear." "Oh!" "I must run to the hospital, I will see you later." "We have an invitation to the theatre tonight." "I couldn't say no." " I will pick you up at 8 o'clock." " Yes." "Oh!" "Your room is upstairs." "Why is this door closed?" "It's always been closed." "A truly splendid performance." "It really was." "In my opinion, they really stressed the romantic side of the opera." "Yes, a huge interpretation." "Absolutely." " Don't you think?" " Yes, just like the size of the soprano..." "Professor, an urgent call for you from the clinic." "Excuse me, an urgent call from the clinic." "I must go." "Would you take Cynthia home and then join me at the clinic?" " Certo, professore." " See you later, dear." " See you later." "After you." "I was in Vienna when I found out that your husband had decided to return here." "I immediately requested a transfer." "His experiments have always interested me." "Oh, then for you too, medical science is just as charming as a beautiful woman." "In Vienna I studied with professor Freud a doctor of great intelligence." "Have you ever heard of him?" "No." "At first I admired professor Bernard, now I envy him." "Thank you." " I hope I didn't bore you." " No, on the contrary." "Would you allow me to escort you inside?" "You'd better not." "My husband is waiting for you at the clinic, remember?" "Goodnight." "Death will take you in your sleep!" "In your sleep!" "A sleep as deep as death." "A sleep as eternal as death." "Just like death." "Just like death!" "Death!" "Ah, it's you." " Marta." " I heard a noise and I came to check." "Please, light the way to the house." "Come." " You may go." "Could you take the cat with you?" " Very well." "Until when will your sister stay here?" "My sister?" "I took her to a clinic just outside the city." "Checked in last night." "He got old." "He's not as good as he used to be." "He let her die." "Why didn't you use your anesthetic?" "It could have saved her." "No." "I am not going to use that anesthetic anymore." "It must be improved." "It could be fatal." "Goodnight." "Do you need anything, Professor?" "I know I'm not wrong." "I'm completely sure of it, I'm telling you." "I only saw her for one second but the fear I felt is permanently carved in my mind." "This is totally ridiculous." "Ever since I met you, you haven't been feeling well." "The shock for your father's death has rattled your nervous system." "And since you left the clinic you haven't recovered completely." "I know it sounds crazy, but I really did see her, believe me!" "I was terror-stricken." "I waited for you all night long, but I didn't hear you come back." "I came home very late." "Bernard, all these portraits of her, even here in your own room..." "I know you adored her." "But please, try to understand." "Wherever I go, I have the impression that her eyes are following me spying on me." " Don't think about it." "I must go." "Please Cynthia, remember:" "When I am not home I don't want anyone to enter this room!" "I will see you at dinner." " Good morning, madam." " Good morning." "What brings you here?" "I must talk to your husband." "Bernard is out." "Is it an urgent matter?" "No, nothing urgent." " Please, have a seat." " Thanks." "Do you like it here in London?" "Is something wrong?" "Doctor, do you believe in ghosts?" "Of course not." "Neither did I, until yesterday." "Since I moved in this house I live in terror and I started believing in them." "Last night I saw a dress hemline and a pair of boots saw them with my own eyes." "What do you mean?" "It's impossible." "You must have been hallucinating." "I know you won't believe me, but I'm telling you the truth." "Curd, don't you think that my husband is a little odd?" "Well, not more than any other man of genius." "Why do you ask?" "Nothing, just a silly idea." " Would you like somehting to drink?" " No, thank you." "I must go back to the clinic." "And by the way, Cynthia, if you ever need anything you can count on me." "Thank you." "Goodbye." "I think I must go back to the clinic." "Do you really have to go, dear?" "Yes, I have some patients in critical conditions." "I must see them before night comes." "You have changed so much." "I feel like I don't mean anything to you anymore, Bernard." "Perhaps it was a mistake bringing me here." "Nonsense, my dear." "I'm just a little nervous." "My hands are not as steady as they used to be." "Don't be too late." "Staying here on my own scares me." "Would you like me to ask Marta to spend the night with you?" "No!" "No, no!" "Not Marta!" "I'd rather be alone." "Very well, dear, as you wish." "Come back soon." "I'll be waiting for you." "Then I'll come kiss you goodnight when I get back." " Professor Bernard!" " What is it, doctor Loewe?" "Nothing." "I am on call, tonight." "I heard a noise, but I had no idea it was you." "I just meant to check the blood coagulation." "I'd have helped you if you called me." "I did not know you were on call tonight." "In any case, it's not urgent." "Come, let's get out of here!" "Oh!" "I came to say goodnight." "Where have you been?" "Marta didn't tell us the truth about her sister leaving the house." "She's still here!" "Did you see her?" "Yes." "I went down to the garden and I saw her through the window but she had her back to me." "It's bizarre." "And somehting else, Bernard, where does that door lead to?" " Which door?" " The one with the big mirror." "It's my old laboratory, I wish it stayed closed." "Bernard..." "Something changed since we came here." "Why don't we leave this house?" "Tomorrow!" "I left this house once already and I am still regretting it today." "Don't you ever ask me that again!" "Goodnight." "Margaretha!" "Cynthia!" "Cynthia!" "No!" "She must have fainted." "Help me, quick." "Keep the same treatment." "Are you wounded, professor?" "Oh, it was Jezebel, my cat." "Professor?" "Yes, Franz." "Professor the operationg room is ready." "Very well." "Have them bring the patient in." "Prepare the plasma for the transfusion and get the anesthetic ready, I'll be down in a second." "Is something wrong, professor?" "You must have comprehended who is the cause of my worry." "My wife." "Your wife?" "Yes." "When I met her she was under treatment, in the aftermath of a serious trauma." "I fell in love with her instantly." "And I tried to persuade myself that she was completely cured." "She seems pretty well-balanced to me." "Perhaps a little impressionable." "Now she's obsessed with the idea that I don't love her." "That I am still in love with my first wife and that Margaretha's ghost is haunting her." "It's all your fault, professor." " My fault?" " Yes." "Your wife is like a stranger in that house." "And the fact that you wanted everything to remain exactly as it was makes her think that you still love your first wife." "Cynthia sees her as if she was living, as an antagonist and her subconscious materializes her doubts." "Bu this is absurd!" "What's wrong with taking Cynthia to that house?" "To me it is a place filled with memories and not all of them are pleasant, I assure you." "But I can't run away forever." "Maybe moving to a different house would be beneficial." "Perhaps." " How are you, dear?" " Oh!" "How are you feeling?" "Where am I?" "What happened?" "Nothing, my dear." "You haven't been feeling well in the last few days, that's all." "You fainted last night." "You were in a pitiful state." "No, it's impossible." "As predicted, your nerves are again failing." "In any case, you should not worry." "It will be over soon." "Here, my dear." "Drink this, it will make you sleep." "Yes, good girl." "Now you are going to sleep for a long time." "Yes, I am sleepy already." "Very sleepy." "Marta, do not disturb my wife, she's asleep." "I think it would be better for you to leave the house for a few days." "I'm sure you understand." "You can come back to work next week." "As you wish, professor." "And I'd like to tell you that I will never forget everything you did for me and for my poor wife." "Professor..." "Professor?" "Oh!" " Professor?" " Yes?" " Franz is here." "Ah!" "Franz!" "Did you find my toolbag?" "There was nobody home." "Nobody?" " Are you sure?" " Nobody was there." "I rang the bell, I circled the house from the outside." "I called, but nobody answered." "Maybe your wife went to take a walk." "She never leaves the house by herself." "I must run home and see if there's something wrong." "You understand, don't you?" "Please, take my place." "Cynthia!" "When he looked away I pured the milk in the flowers vase." "Calm down." "If your husband..." "You're not really thinking that..." "I don't know what to think." "Only you can help me." " Only you can do it." " Yes, Cynthia." "The other night I woke up in a horrible place." "Bernard was there, looking at me with the eyes of a monster." "Suddenly I felt his hands on my throat, tightening up strangling me!" "I can't remember anything after that, I must have fainted." " And then?" " Nothing." "This morning when I woke up Bernard was there just looking at me." "He went to get that glass of milk." "I pretended drinking it and falling asleep." "I will have it analyzed." "But if it will end up being nothing but milk will you be convinced of how absurd your suspicions are?" "In the meantime try to stay calm." "In time, these hallucinations will go away." "Yes, I know very well that they seem real to you..." "Cynthia..." "I was worried for you." "What are you doing here?" "Your wife came here to see you, professor." "I took the initiative to keep her here." "Thank you." "Dear, we'd better go back home." "Let's go." " Where's Marta?" " I let her go." " Did you fire her?" " Yes." "I didn't think you'd be upset." "I thought it would make you happy." "The concentration of poison is big enough to kill a horse." "Are you sure of it?" "I ran three different tests and they all gave the same result." "Maybe that milk was meant to put someone to sleep but it surely would have been a sleep of the eternal kind..." "But then, Cynthia..." "My God, don't let it be too late!" "Oh!" "You will not escape." "I will bury you alive." "Just like I was buried alive twelve years ago." "You tried to steal Bernard from me, and for this you will die!" "You will die!" "Buried alive!" "You will die!" "It's no use to run." "You will die!" "Help!" "Margaretha." "Everything will be like it used to be." "Help!" "I will restore your beauty with her young blood." "Yes, kill her!" "Kill her!" "In her you were only seeing me..." "just me!" "Bernard, no, no, no!" "No!" "Stop!" "Cynthia!" " Cynthia!" " Thank you, Curd." "I owe you my life." "The past is burning, and the nightmare is now over."