"# Light waltz" "All right." "Not a single well-known personality!" "What's happening to this place?" "Do you think the management will give me a discount?" "What do they think I come here for, you know, to look at pageboys?" "That one's cute." "Once upon a time..." "Once upon a time..." "Are you shocked?" "Well, sure you are." "Well!" "Now,wait a minute, here is somebody." "And how!" "It's Max de Winter." "It'sMax de Winter." "The man who owns Manderley." "You have heard of Manderley?" "Yes, of course." "He's been ill." "They say he can't get over his wife's death." "She drowned, in a bay near Manderley." "She drowned, in a bay near Manderley." "Here, kiddo." "Take that to the man over there with the waiter." "Rebecca, his wife was called." "A beauty." "Well... weren't we all?" "It's so good of you to join us." "It's so good of you to join us." "I did wonder, just that little bit, would you remember me?" "Immediately,Mrs Van Hopper." "Exactly where?" "My cousin Billy's birthday." "Claridge's." "He was so proud to have you for his friend." "And to hear him talk about Manderley!" "Stars in his eyes." "A fairyland!" "Stars in his eyes." "A fairyland!" "I wonder you can bear to leave it." "Billy said, you know, that, what do you call it, that galleried hall?" "He said it was a gem!" "I bet Manderley's entertained royalty, huh?" "Not since Ethelred." "The one they called the Unready." "Not since Ethelred." "The one they called the Unready." "My family gave him that name." "He was invariably late for dinner." "I like that one." "I love a man with humour!" "OK." "Now that we've broken the ice, I hope we'll see some more of you." "Come over to the suite, have a drink." "I often have a few friends over, you know." "I often have a few friends over, you know." "That's very kind." "But I've only just arrived, and..." "What do you think of Monte Carlo?" "Or don't you think anything of it?" "I suppose it's... artificial in a way." "But then the setting..." "She's spoilt, that's her trouble." "Most girls would give their eyes to see Monte!" "Wouldn't that rather defeat the purpose?" "(Bursts out laughing) You are the funny one!" "Good morning." "Good morning." "Are you alone?" "Yes." "Please, join me." "Garçon." "Une chaise pour mademoiselle." "So." "How are you this morning?" "So." "How are you this morning?" "I'm very well, thank you." "I'm, er, sorry if I was rude last night." "You weren't." "Well, not to you, perhaps." "How is your friend this morning?" "She has a touch of... influenza." "Poor Mrs Van Hopper." "To be treated with champagne cocktails, perhaps, hm?" "To be treated with champagne cocktails, perhaps, hm?" "Poached eggs, toast, English marmalade and coffee." "Yes?" "WAITER:" "Merci." "She'straining me to be what's called a companion." "She pays me." "I didn't know you could buy companionship." "I didn't know you could buy companionship." "Not the real kind." "Of course not." "I looked up the word in a dictionary." "It said a companion is a friend of the bosom." "Don't you have any family?" "No." "My parents are both dead." "Oh." "We have something in common." "We're both on our own in the world." "We're both on our own in the world." "I've a sister and an old grandmother but neither make for companionship." "But you do have a home, though, somewhere of your own." "I had a postcard of Manderley when I was a child." "Cost half my pocket money." "An empty house." "Sometimes as lonely as a full hotel." "Sometimes as lonely as a full hotel." "So what happens when Mrs Van Hopper falls downstairs and breaks her exquisite neck?" "I suppose there'll be other Mrs Van Hoppers." "Plenty." "And at your age, such a future holds no terrors." "Nothing does." "Nothing does." "I'm twice your age." "Go and put a hat on." "At Manderley you can hear the sea from the terrace." "The tide washing in and out." "Not like it is here." "Cold, grey, like slate." "In spring, there are daffodils, primroses, bluebells." "But I won't have them picked for the house." "Sheer vandalism." "But I won't have them picked for the house." "Sheer vandalism." "Wild flowers are best left where they are." "My sister used to complain all the scents made her feel drunk." "Only kind of drunkenness I like." "You crush a petal, a thousand scents go straight to your head." "No!" "I'm sorry, that was unforgivable of me." "Please, don't be frightened." "Shall we go back now?" "Shall we go back now?" "There, see?" "Not as dangerous as it looks." "Do you know this place?" "Have you been here before?" "Yes." "Yes, it doesn't change." "Safely home." "Thank you." "Thank you." "You're cold." "Here." "Put these on." "So," "So, what have you been doing with yourself today?" "Playing tennis with the professional." "Oh!" "Whatever he did for your backhand, he put some colour in your cheeks." "Anyone new arrive?" "Not that I noticed." "Not that I noticed." "I'd better have the doctor in tomorrow." "I'm getting my headaches again." "Ooh..." "Maybe it's just the boredom of the company!" "Where is everybody these days?" "Monte used to be..." "Where is everybody these days?" "Monte used to be..." "Come, dear." "I mean,where is the old crowd?" "See anything of Max de Winter?" "I saw him having breakfast." "Did he have lunch with anybody?" "He wasn't in the restaurant at lunchtime." "There." "You see?" "They say he never mentions her name." "Just won't talk about it." "Just won't talk about it." "And nobody gets near him." "He gave me the brushoff." "Still..." "I don't see why I shouldn't try again." "When I get back up on my toes again." "Max de Winter's far too good-mannered to turn a lady down twice." "Max de Winter's far too good-mannered to turn a lady down twice." "Even if the lady's not that much of a lady." "Good morning." "Where does madam wish to go today?" "(Laughs)" "What were you going to say?" "I can see you've got something you want to say." "What is it?" "If only there was an invention that could put a memory in a bottle." "Like scent." "And it never faded, and it never got stale." "When you wanted it, you just opened the bottle and it would be like living the moment all over again." "What moments in your young life would you preserve like that?" "This one." "Is the coffee really that good?" "Don't laugh at me." "Don't treat me like a silly child." "I know I haven't seen much of the world." "I'm not a woman of 36, in black satin and pearls." "You wouldn't be here with me if you were." "Stop biting your nails." "It's an ugly habit." "Why do you take me out, day after day?" "If you think I'm so silly and ugly." "Why?" "You're being kind." "Is that it?" "Don't choose me for your charity!" "Damn my kindness and my charity." "I don't have any." "I ask you out with me because I want you." "You're young enough to be my daughter, and I don't know how to deal with you." "But I do know that you've blotted out the past, better than all the bright lights of a dozen Monte Carlos." "If you don't believe me, say so, and I'll move on." "I only stayed because of you." "I don't know anything more about you than the first day we met." "Do you want me to go?" "Oh, to hell with this." "Promise me something." "You'll never wear black satin." "# Charleston" "Now, everyone knows," "I'm not one to open old wounds, and it must be like a knife through the heart to think of her." "But, Max." "You've just got to let your friends help you." "Max, you know." "Join our little celebrations, have a laugh." "You can't brood your life away!" "It's not fair on the female population." "A good-looking man like you going to waste." "I can't believe Rebecca would want that, Max." "How kind of you to trouble yourself." "Especially since I scarcely know you, and my wife never did." "Now, if you'll excuse me, there are things I have to do." "No, no." "You're leaving, so soon?" "We've hardly got started." "You can stay for a couple more drinks." "Hey, everybody!" "Everybody." "We are going to drink to Rebecca de Winter." "Don't speak her name!" "Not one of you here knew her." "Good night." "Well... pardon me," "Mr Max de Winter." "I mean, it's only a little party!" "You had every right to walk out." "DE WINTER:" "I should know better." "Infantile tantrums at my age." "It was just so unexpected." "You know what a foolish, lonely, unhappy woman she is." "Huh!" "To be pitied and put up with?" "Patiently borne?" "Yes." "Hm." "I'm simply not very good at that kind of thing." "One of my defects." "One of my worst, wouldn't you say?" " You're laughing at me again." " No." "Not really." "You can be an awfully solemn little thing at times." "A little thing?" "Is that how you see me?" "Don't be hurt, I didn't mean it to..." "I hope you'll always be like that to me." "Natural, and open." "Like a little girl who never grows up?" "No, I'm not saying that." "What I'm saying is that I hope you'll always be like you." "Anyway, what does it matter how you see me?" "You could be gone in a few days and you'll forget all about me." "I'm quite sure I won't forget." "Your funny, simple-minded little friend?" "You." "Of course I wouldn't forget you." "Do I have to come down there and set you straight?" "Just tell them, Mrs Van Hopper's usual stateroom." "OK?" "There you are." "You're never here when I need you these days." "Well, now." "We got work to do." "We're packing up!" "Leaving tomorrow." "I'm sick to death of Europe." "How do you like the sound of New York?" "What a face!" "I mean, I said New York." "I can't make you out." "The chances I'm giving you." "I thought you said you didn't like Monte." "I've got used to it." "Big of you." "OK." "You can just get used to New York." "(Sobs)" "(Knock at door)" "We're going to New York." "I've come to say goodbye." "No." "So." "Mrs Van Hopper's had enough of Monte Carlo, and wants to go home." "So do I." "She to New York, and I to Manderley." "Which would you prefer?" "Don't joke about it." "It's unfair." "I don't make jokes." "Not this early." "Look, it's perfectly simple." "Either you go to New York with Mrs Van Hopper, or you come to Manderley with me." "Do you want a secretary or something?" "No, you little fool." "I'm asking you to marry me." "I'm sory." "I'm being rather a brute to you, aren't I?" "We ought to be in a conservatory." "Orchids." "You should be in a white frock, there should be a violin playing a waltz." "We'll have to do without all that." "Stop it, Maxim." "I'm not the sort of person..." "I don't belong to your sort of world, for one thing." "And what is my world?" "Well, Manderley." "You know what I mean." "Nonsense." "But you haven't answered my question." "How can I?" "I don't know what to say." "Do you mind how soon we get married?" "It can be arranged in days." "A licence, a magistrate." "No church, bells?" "Choirboys?" "No." "I had that kind of wedding before." "Say yes.We can drive to Venice for the honeymoon." "Venice?" "All lovers should go there." "We can hold hands in a gondola." "Take a cruise back to England." "I want to show you Manderley." "I would be Mrs de Winter?" "Mm." "Don't you want to be?" "I thought perhaps you loved me." "I do." "So it's yes." "Yes, Maxim." "Listen, don't worry, we'll discuss everything over breakfast." "Good morning." " Food for thought, eh?" " I have so many thoughts." "Then have a large breakfast." "What about Mrs Van Hopper?" "Shall I tell her?" "No." "I'll do it." "I'll tell her." "Well, you'd better do it now." "I'll be here." "I'm sure she'll be very happy for us." "Well, I've got to hand it to you." "Tennis lessons, huh?" "Well." "Game, set and match to you, kiddo." "(Mrs Van Hopper laughs)" "You been doing anything you shouldn't?" "I'll finish your packing, of course." "Of course." "You'll have to do a lot more than packing as mistress of Manderley." "Think you can handle it?" "You think you can handle him?" "(Whistles)" "I mean, he's a very attractive creature, you know, sure." "But you watch out, Cinderella." "Maybe the Prince turns out to be not so charming." "You see his eyes the other night?" "(Whistles)" "Tiger, tiger!" "You ready for that kind of thing in your bed?" "As you said, you don't have much time." "I'll finish the big trunk." "Good luck, kiddo." "DE WINTER:" "You are the most delightful company, Mrs de Winter." "But on our last night aboard, I think we have to make an appearance." "Just for appearances' sake." "I'll wear my new dress." "And I'll be on my best behaviour." "Very polite to all the old bores." "Have to be quite a bit of that when we get back." "Around the county at any rate." "At Manderley we please ourselves." "And I hope you'll love it as much as I do." "Nothing too bright." "Just light." "You can take quite a lot of colour, madam." "I'm not used to much." "It's an experiment." "We know exactly what's right for you, madam." "Now, let's see what you think of this one." "# The Black Bottom" "Good evening, Mr de Winter." "May I join you?" "What have you done to yourself?" "What's that muck on your face?" "Is it too much?" "It's a sort of joke, really." "All the other women..." "It went with the dress." " I didn't mary a tart." " Maxim, please!" " Wipe it off, now." " No, I can't!" "Not here." "Are you determined to make a fool of me?" "Wipe it off!" "Stop it, Maxim." "I don't understand." "I think we should go back to the cabin, darling." "I'm so sorry." "How could I be so stupid all over a bit of lipstick?" "All you wanted was to amuse me, and I bite your head off." "It's just that you took me by surprise." "I'll never do anything so horrible again." "Say you'll forgive me, please?" "Of course." "I love you." "DE WINTER:" "Almost there." "Are you tired?" "You can expect some curiosity." "They'll want to know what you're like." "Only natural." "Don't be nervous." "Just be yourself and they'll love you." "Here we are." "Nice to see you, George." "Don't worry about seeing to the house." "Mrs Danvers is the one for that." "Just leave it to her." "She's quite a character in her own way." "You'll probably find her a bit stiff at first." "It's just her manner." "Now, close your eyes." "I'll tell you when to open them." "Now." "Look." "There." "Do you like it?" "It's yours." "Come on, then, now, chaps." "That's right." " Come on, now." " I'm coming." "Quickly!" "We haven't got long." "Damn that woman!" "What's the matter?" "Who are all these people?" "Mrs Danvers has summoned all the staff." "She should know I wouldn't want that." "Ah, Fred." "Glad to see you home, sir." "And madam, too." "Give Robert that coat." "Now you won't have to say a thing." "I'll do it." "Thank you for this welcome." "It's good to see you all again." "I hope you're all in the best of health, hm?" "I must say it's good to be back among you." "Thank you." "(Whispering)" "There." "All done." "Thank you, Frith." "Right." "Good afternoon, sir." "Good afternoon, madam." "Mrs Danvers." "Quite a reception, thank you." "Meet Mrs de Winter." "I'm so pleased to meet you, Mrs Danvers." "Thank you, madam." "I and all the staff at Manderley are at your disposal." "Good." "Now you're friends." "Fine." "Tea, I think, Frith." "I hadn't realised it was quite so big." "Yes." "Manderley is a big house." "Not as big as some, of course." "Sorry to keep you waiting, Mrs Danvers." "It is for you to make your own time, madam." "It is this way." "I'm told you've been redecorating." "Oh, Mrs Danvers, it's charming." "I hope I carried out Mr de Winter's orders." "But you can't see the sea from here." "No." "Not from this wing." "You can't hear it, either." "Not from this wing." "But Mr de Winter said you were to have this room." "So this wasn't his bedroom before?" "No." "He and Mrs de Winter lived in the west wing." "In the most beautiful room in the house." "Looking down to the sea." "Mrs Danvers, I hope we will come to understand each other." "You must have patience with me." "This life is so new to me." "I do want to make a success of it and make Mr de Winter happy." "I hope I shall do everything to your satisfaction." "Oh, I'm sure you will." "I won't want to make any changes." "Can you tell me when your maid will be arriving, madam?" "Do you wish for one?" "I hadn't thought about it." "It is usual for ladies in your position." "Perhaps you would see about it for me." "Maybe some young girl wanting to train." "It is for you to say, madam." "Thank you, Mrs Danvers." "(Dog barks)" "Go on." "DE WINTER:" "Come." "(Dog barks)" "Go on, boy." "Who's the woman in the white dress?" "Who?" "In the gallery." "The woman all in white." "Some great-great-great-aunt or other." "Caroline, I think her name was." "She's very beautiful." "Mm." "I suppose so." "Wonderful eyes." "Young, but... not young." "Would you like me to look like that?" "No." "Why not?" "Because it wouldn't suit you." "Why wouldn't it?" "Stop asking silly questions and eat your egg." "Maxim!" "Sorry." "You mustn't mind me." "Running a place like Manderley." "Such a job." "Lot on my mind." "Right." "Got a mass of things to do." "Think you can amuse yourself?" "Er, lunch today, sister, brother-in-law, Crawley, my agent." "Old Danvers'll see to it." "You don't mind, do you?" " Good morning." " Morning, madam." "(Clears throat)" "Do you require anything, madam?" "I can't find any matches to light the fire." "It's rather cool." "The fire in the library isn't normally lit until the afternoon." "You'll find a good fire in the morning room." "Yes." "I see." "Should you wish one in the library as well, I'll give orders, of course." "I wouldn't dream of it." "I'll go to the morning room." "Thank you, Frith." "You'll find writing paper in there, madam." "Mrs de Winter always did her correspondence after breakfast." "Yes, thank you." "You go through the drawing room, madam, and turn right." "Thank you, Frith." "(Telephone rings)" "Yes, who is it?" "Mrs de Winter?" "You've made a mistake." "She's been dead for over a year." "It's Mrs Danvers, madam, speaking to you on the house telephone." "I wondered if you'd approved today's menus." "Oh." "I'm sorry." "Yes, I'm sure I do." "They're on the blotter in front of you." "On the desk." "Yes." "Very suitable, very nice indeed." "Thank you, madam." "Good morning!" "Sorry." "Frank Crawley, Maxim's estate manager." "Yes, of course." "Maxim's told me about you." "Good morning." " Exploring Manderley?" " There's so much to learn about it." "CRAWLEY:" "It's a fascinating old place." "Is this side completely shut up?" "No, just that with only two, the west wing isn't needed." "The first Mrs de Winter used it." "I imagine it was done to her taste." "She liked big rooms." "With all the shutters closed, it looks like forbidden territory." "No!" "Your side of the house has better light." "That's what was in Maxim's mind." "To suit you, as we can all see now." "That's very kind, Mr Crawley." "What do you want here, madam?" "Can I help you?" "I lost my way." "Do you want me to show you these rooms?" "This is the west wing." "You can, of course, see whatever you wish." "You have only to ask." "Your guests have arrived." "Let me show you back to your side of the house." "I'm sure I can find it." "There's no need." "WOMAN:" "We're not a bit alike, my brother and I." "You never know what's going on in that funny head of his." "I lose my temper at the slightest provocation - bang, it's all over." "Maxim hits the roof once in a blue moon, and how he hits it!" "You won't set him off, though." "You'll know how to soothe the savage breast." "Quite intolerable, Beatrice." "BEATRICE:" "Poor Maxim." "Such a ghastly time he had." "Perfect wreck sixmonths ago." "Now you look much better." "Much better." "Doesn't he, Giles?" "You're a different person." " Isn't he, Crawley?" " Absolutely." "Thank you." "My God!" "Poor Maxim." "Do you hunt, my dear?" "I'm afraid not." "I learnt to ride as a child, but I don't remember much." "Oh, you can't live in the countryside and not ride." "She sketches and paints." "Rather well" "Very nice, I'm sure, on a wet day." "But there's no exercise." "I like walking and swimming." "The water's far too cold." "As long as the currents aren't too strong." "Is it safe to swim in the bay?" "Jasper could do with a swim." "Been eating too much, old boy." "Just like Giles." "Give a dog a bad name, eh?" "Are you very much in love with him?" "No, don't answer." "I'm an interfering bore." "You mustn't mind me." "I'm devoted to Maxim." "(Motor car horn)" "Come on, Bee, old girl!" "How are you finding Mrs Danvers?" "I've never met anyone quite like her before." "Don't suppose you have." "Thing is, she's insanely jealous." " Why?" " Resents you being here at all." "I thought Maxim would have told you." "She simply adored Rebecca." "I see." "Dare say she'll get over it in time." "(Motor car horn)" "I wouldn't force Maxim to talk about it." "No, of course." "All part of forgetting Rebecca." "If he can." "Hell, that was a tactless damn thing to say!" "One thing." "You're not a bit like Rebecca." "A little of my family goes a very long way." "As for Grandma..." "Don't be grumpy." "I liked them." "Beatrice just says what she thinks." "Does she think?" "She thinks I should do something with my hair." "What?" "What the hell's wrong with it?" "So you like my hair?" "Of course I do." "Of course I like your hair." "It's quite a shock, isn't it?" "The contrast is so sudden after the woods." "No-one ever expects it." "Jasper?" "Jasper!" "Come on, you stupid dog, where are you?" "Over there." "No, he can look after himself." "It's all right, I'll fetch him." "He can find his own way back!" "Jasper?" "Here, Jasper!" "Silly dog." "Jasper?" "(Jasper whimpers)" "What's the matter?" "This isn't a nice place." "Come on, Jasper, let's go home." "(Barks)" "(Growls)" "I know that dog." "He comes from the house." "He ain't your dog." "No, he's Mr de Winter's dog." "Come on, Jasper." "Good boy." " She don't go there now." " No, not now." "Gone in the dark." "Gone in the sea, ain't she?" "Won't come back." " I never said nothin', did I?" " Of course not." "Don't worry." "I never said nothin'." "(Rumble of thunder)" "Ben's harmless." "His father was one of the keepers." "And that cottage should be locked." "Jasper!" "Wait for me, Maxim." "If you hadn't chased that stupid dog, we'd be home by now!" "The tide might have caught him." "Is it likely I'd leave him if he was in danger?" " In your mood, anything's possible." " You're whining because you're tired." "That's just your excuse." "Excuse for what?" "For not coming over the rocks." "Why do you think I didn't?" "I don't know, I'm not a thought-reader." "I didn't say that..." "I could see it in your face." "See what in my face?" "Please, let's stop this." "Please, Maxim." "All right." "I didn't want to go to the other beach." "I never go near the bloody place." "I never go to that damned cottage." "You wouldn't if you had my memories." "You wouldn't talk about it, or even think about it." "Does that satisfy you?" "Please, Maxim." "I don't want you to look like that." "It hurts too much." "Please." "We should have stayed in Italy." "We should never have come back to Manderley." "I was a fool to come back." "You're wounded and hurt inside." "I can't bear to see you like this." "I love you so much." "Do you?" "Do you?" "Here." "It was having that crowd for lunch." "I should have waited a few weeks." "Poor old Beatrice." "She always gets my goat, but I'm quite fond of her really." "We will be happy here, won't we?" "Of course." "If you pass Grandma's inspection." "(Voices)" "Could I speak to you, sir?" "Of course." "What is it?" "There's an unpleasantness between Robert and Mrs Danvers." "Robert was almost in tears, sir." "Oh, Lord." "Robert has to change the flowers in the morning room." "Frith, please - the problem?" "An ornament is missing, sir." "Mrs Danvers says he either took it, or broke it and hid the pieces, sir." "What ornament?" "The china cupid, sir." "One of my treasures?" "I believe so, sir." "I'll see Mrs Danvers after breakfast." "Very good, sir." "Damn." "Cupid's worth a hell of a lot." "I can't stand servants' rows." "Maxim, I'm sorry." "I feel such a fool." "(Knock)" "Well, there you are, Mrs Danvers." "One fallen angel." "It seems Mrs de Winter broke it herself, and forgot to say anything." "Drama over, I hope." "I'm sorry." "I didn't think Robert would get into trouble." "Perhaps, Mrs Danvers, you'd send the pieces to London." "If it can't be mended, can't be helped." "Frith." "Tell Robert to dry his tears." "Very good, sir." "I will apologise to Robert." "But the evidence did point to him." "I would like to ask that if it should happen again," "Mrs de Winter will inform me, so as to save any unnecessary disturbance." "We try to avoid unpleasantness." "Yes,well, Mrs de Winter was afraid you'd have her thrown in gaol." "Like some frightened little between-maid." "A between-maid would never be allowed to touch the valuables in the morning room." "We've never had breakages in the moming room." "When Mrs de Winter was alive, she and I dusted the valuables together." "Now there's no-one else I can trust." "Yes, well." "It can't be helped." "Thank you, Mrs Danvers." "Thank you, sir." "You do such extraordinary things." "When you broke the wretched thing, you should have told her to get it mended." "I can't help being shy." "I thought you were getting over it." "I try, I try every day." "Every time I go out or meet someone new, I do try." "I've not been brought up to it like you." "It's not that, it's just getting on with it." "Life at Manderley is all that matters to anyone down here." "That's why you married me." "You knew I was dull and quiet, so there'd never be any gossip." "What do you mean?" "I don't know." "What do you know about any gossip?" "Nothing." "Why look at me like that?" "Who's been talking to you?" "No-one." "What have I said?" "You know what you said." "It didn't mean anything, it just came into my head, really." "It wasn't a nice thing to say, was it?" "No." "It was stupid." "Horrible." "I'm sorry." "Hello!" " You look a little peaky, dear." "Anything wrong?" " Nothing, really." "Not starting an infant?" "No, I don't think so." " No morning sickness?" " No." "Doesn't always follow." "I was fine when Roger was born." "Played golf the day before he arrived." " Any suspicions, you let me know." " There's nothing to tell." "A son and heir would be terribly good for Maxim." "Doing anything to prevent it?" " Of course not, no." " Don't look shocked." "Brides today are up to everything!" "Nuisance if you want to hunt and land yourself an infant in the first season." "You'd be fine." "Babies don't interfere with sketching." "(Laughs)" "Come on." "Mustn't keep Granny waiting." "I want my tea!" "It's on its way, Gran." "Don't be grouchy." "Why doesn't Nora bring the tea?" "It's coming, Gran!" "It's watercress sandwiches today." "Oh." "I like watercress days." "You didn't tell me it was watercress." "Of course I told you!" "We are forgetful today, aren't we?" "I couldn't do that job for a thousand a day." "Why are you so late, Nora?" "Now, we mustn't be naughty." "And who are you?" "I haven't seen you before." "Bee, who is this child?" "Gran, you know perfectly well this is Maxim's wife." "They've just come back to live at Manderley." "She's not Rebecca!" "What have you done with Rebecca?" "Who said you could live at Manderley?" "Tell Maxim to bring Rebecca!" "We shall simply have to go." "She's not Rebecca!" "I don't know what to say." "It was quite awful for you." "Don't worry about it." "We did tell her about everything." "Please, there's no need." "I'd forgotten how she always made a fuss of Rebecca." "Had her rocking with laughter." "And Rebecca had this gift of being so attractive to absolutely everybody." "It really didn't matter who." "Men,women, children, dogs." "And I suppose the poor old lady can only connect Maxim with Rebecca." "What a ghastly afternoon." "I know you won't thank me." "I don't mind." "I don't mind." "Giles will be very upset." "Well, don't tell him, then." "What does it matter?" "It doesn't matter at all." "DE WINTER:" "We should never have come back to Manderley." "I was a fool to come back." "I'll walk the rest, Davies." "Frank." "Walk me back to the house." "With pleasure!" "I've had lunch with the bishop and his lady, and tea with Grandmother." " Did I wear the right hat?" " The perfect hat!" "Tell me about Manderley's fancy-dress balls." "Used to be an annual event, quite a big show." "Everyone in the country came." "Quite a crowd from London." "I keep being asked if we're going to give another." "Lot of organisation." "I suppose Rebecca did it." "Most of it." "It appears Rebecca made a success of everything." "All these invitations are for people to look me up and down." "Measure me up against Rebecca." "Five out of ten, would you say?" "On average?" "Don't think that." "I'm sure people find you as refreshing and charming as I do." "Kindness and sincerity and modesty are worth all the wit and beauty in the world." "Thank you, Frank." "I've got you for a friend whatever happens, haven't I?" "Are they all Rebecca's things at the cottage?" "Yes." "So it was her own little place, a special place?" "It was a boat house." "She had it converted." "What did she use it for?" "Moonlight picnics." "One thing and another." "Romantic." "Did you ever go to her moonlight picnics?" "Once or twice." "That's where she drowned, isn't it?" "Tell me how it happened." "She was in her boat." "A little yacht with a cabin." "Late one night, it capsized." "It can be very squally." "She must have drowned trying to swim ashore." " She was alone, then?" " Yes." "She often came back in the small hours, slept at the cottage." "Did Maxim mind that?" "I don't know." "Was she found on the beach?" "About 40 miles up channel, two months later." "Maxim had to go and identity her." "I'm sorry." "You must hate being reminded." "But I feel I must know." "To help me understand Maxim." "He never talks about Rebecca." "But I know he thinks about her." "As if he blames himself." "No." "He is trying to forget." "None of us here want to bring back the past." "I've never seen any photographs." "Was Rebecca very beautiful?" "She was the most beautiful creature I ever saw." "We'll do it, Frith." "Thank you." "Did I do something very selfish, marrying you?" "How do you mean?" "Perhaps there are too many years between us." "You should have married a boy of your own age." "Not somebody with half his life behind him." "Age doesn't mean a thing in marriage." "Lots of couples get..." "I don't care about other couples." "Just us." "It was my fault." "I rushed you into it, never gave you a chance to think it over." "I didn't want to think it over." "There wasn't anyone else." "Don't talk as if we made a mistake." "You know I love you." "More than I've ever loved anything in my life." "You're everything to me." "Everything there is." "You're disappointed in me." "You think I'm not right for Manderley." "If that's what you think, don't pretend." "Admit it, and I'll go away." "Is that what you want?" "Nonsense." "It's just your imagination." "This all began because I broke the cupid." "Damn the cupid!" "Do you think I care if it's broken?" "It made you think about Rebecca again." "Everything in that room is hers." "That's howIl broke the cupid." "Not on purpose." "But because I was thinking, "This is my room now."" "So I took some different flowers in, to change the room." "But of course, I was clumsy." "Not a bit like Rebecca." "If you really think we can't be happy, please say so." "It wouldn't be true." "I'm sorry if I... seem to shut you out sometimes." "It must be difficult to live with." "Not much fun." "I want us to be happy." "Then we are." "So that's agreed, it's official." "Don't laugh at me." "No." "I'm sorry, I have these meetings in London over the next couple of days." "Leaving you alone just at the wrong time." "I'll be all right." "Lots to do." "Thank you, Robert." "Better hurry, sir." "You don't want to be late, it's a long drive." "Indeed." "Tell Mrs de Winter I'll telephone her from London." "Very good, sir." "(Dog barks)" "Come on, Jasper!" "(Laughs)" "You can't forget her either, can you, Jasper?" "(Barking)" "Quiet, Jasper." "Sh, boy." "You're not supposed to go in there." "Mr de Winter doesn't like it." "Done nothing wrong." "What have you taken, Ben?" "Show me." "Well, you can have it." "But you mustn't do it again." "You've got angel's eyes." "Not like the other one." "Taking things could get you into trouble." "You won't put me in the asylum?" "Done nothing wrong." "I never told no-one." "What do you mean, Ben?" "She eyes like a snake!" "Come at night." "I looked in on her once." "She turned on me." "She said, "You ain't seen me here."" ""Let me see you looking on me again, I'll have you put in the asylum."" "She said, "They're cruel to people in the asylum."" "She's gone now, ain't she?" "She won't come back." "I don't know who you mean, Ben." "But no-one's going to put you in the asylum." "Don't worry about that." "I think you should go home now,Ben." "Angel's eyes." "He's just a poor, sad thing, Jasper." "Can't know what he's saying." "Stupid to even think about it." "Poor, sad, sad thing." "I'm a silly, timid, hysterical schoolgirl, Jasper." "Let's go home." "I'm not in the mood for visitors, are you?" "We'll keep out of their way." "Must be in the library." "Hurry and she won't see you." "Damn, I left my cigarette case in the morning room." "Hello, you little tyke!" "Not forgotten me, then?" "Oh, I do beg your pardon." "Too bad of me to butt in on your privacy." "It's quite all right." "I just popped in to see old Danny." "She's an old friend of mine." "That's the fellow I'm after." "I don't smoke, thank you." "How's old Max?" "He's very well, thank you." "He's in London today." "And left the bride all alone?" "Very neglectful." "Isn't he afraid someone'll come and..." "carry you off?" "I would be." "Aren't you going to introduce me,Danny?" "It's the usual thing." "Pay one's respects to the bride." "This is Mr Favell, madam." "Mrs de Winter's cousin." "How do you do, Mr Favell?" "Can I offer you a sherry?" "A charming invitation." "What about it, Danny?" "Shall I stay for sherry?" "No, perhaps not." "But thanks all the same." "Mrs de Winter." "Sherry and a little chat might have been a lot of fun." "Dear old Manderley." "But I'd better be going." "I'll see you out, Mr Favell." "Right." "Oh, come and see my car." "She's a beaut." "Danny?" "No, thank you." "Goodbye, Mr Jack." "Bye, Danny." "Happy days, eh?" "Look." "I'd rather you didn't mention this little visit of mine to Max." "He doesn't approve of me." "I've never known why." "And it might get poor old Danny into trouble." "All right." "Thanks." "Isn't she lovely?" "Goes twice as fast as Max's old bucket." "Damn shame, old Max jaunting up to London and leaving you all alone." "I don't mind being alone." "But it's all wrong." "It's against nature." "How long have you been married, three months?" "About that." "I wish I had a young bride of three months waiting for me at home." "I'm a poor, lonesome bachelor." "Fare you well!" "Rebecca." "Rebecca." "MRS DANVERS:" "Is anything the matter, madam?" "Are you unwell?" "No, I'm quite all right." "I saw from the garden the shutters were open." "You wanted to see her room, didn't you?" "Of course you did." "You've been wanting to see it for a long time." "Now you're here, let me show you everything." "Isn't it a beautiful bed?" "You've been touching her nightdress." "The scent is still fresh, isn't it?" "You could almost imagine she'd only just taken it off." "I keep everything as it was that night." "Ready for her." "Just as it always was." "See how tall she was." "It touches the ground on you." "She had a lovely figure." "Tall, slim." "And yet lying there in bed, she looked just a slip of a girl, with her mass of dark hair." "I used to brush her hair every evening." "20 minutes at a time." "It came down below her waist when she was first married." "I used to do everything for her." "Let me show you her clothes." "She could wear any style." "Stand any colour." "The clothes she was wearing the night she was drowned were torn from her body in the water." "There was nothing on her at all when she was found." "The rocks had battered her to bits." "Her beautiful face." "Mr de Winter identified her." "He insisted." "He was very ill." "But no-one could stop him." "Please!" "Now you know why Mr de Winter doesn't come here any more." "Listen to the sea." "Never since the night she drowned..." "He'd sit up night after night in the library." "In the morning, cigarette ash round the floor." "And then all day he'd pace up and down, up and down." "No." "He never comes here." "No-one ever comes here but me." "You wouldn't think she was dead, would you?" "I feel her everywhere." "So do you, don't you?" "I hear her footsteps behind me." "The sound of her dress sweeping the stain as she comes down to dinner." "Do you think the dead come back to watch us?" "Is she watching us now?" "No..." "I don't know." "No!" "Does she watch you and Mr de Winter together?" "Maxim..." "Maxim!" "Maxim." "MRS DANVERS:" "Does she watch you and Mr de Winter together?" "DE WINTER:" "Nonsense." "I've made my views quite clear to you." "MRS DANVERS:" "Might I ask, sir, how you heard?" "Never mind who told me, it's of no importance." "I happen to know he was here this afternoon when I was not." "I won't have Jack Favell inside the gates!" "Write and tell him to keep away." "If you want to see him, you can do so outside Manderley." "Do you understand?" "I won't warn you about this again." "(Door opens softly, then shuts)" "Oh, Maxim, do say yes." "Don't be an old stick-in-the-mud, it's a splendid idea." "It's just what you need to set you up as mistress of Manderley." "The fancy-dress ball was the show of the year." "Top dog." "Grand sight." "Manderley lit up." "I love fireworks." " It does sound daunting." " You'll carry it off." "You needn't do anything alarming." "Just receive the guests and dance the night away with the Charlie Chaplins and Napoleons." "Yes, my God." "The whole county making fools of themselves." "He always groans and always enjoys it in the end." " Do I?" " That's a yes!" "Yippee, old boy!" "What will you wear?" "Oh, I never dress up." "It's the one perk I insist on." "What about you?" "Little Bo Peep?" "Alice in Wonderland!" "No, nothing like that." "What, then?" "Wait and see." "You might get the surprise of your life, Maxim." "Oh, Lord!" "I'd like to help organise." "Leave that to Frank and old Danvers." " They know the form." " Quite right." "Never volunteer." "You just have fun!" "Come and look, Clarice." "Which do you like best?" "Oh, madam, they look beautiful!" "Hm, I'm not sure." "It's so exciting." "Mr Frith says it will be just like old times." "You should hear my mother talking about it!" "She's thrilled." "It has to be really special." "Oh, madam, it'll be wonderful!" "Deciding what to wear, madam?" "Nothing seems quite suitable, Mrs Danvers." "I wonder you don't copy one of Manderley's own pictures in the gallery." "I hadn't thought of that." "It's not for me to suggest but but I remember you admired the portrait of a young lady all in white." "Yes, I do." "Thank you, Mrs Danvers." "I should need a wig, of course, as well as the costume." "I know excellent shops in London for that sort of thing." "And it must be kept a secret to surprise Mr de Winter." "I think I know how to keep a secret, madam." "What are you thinking about?" "Hm?" "Nothing." "You look like a little criminal." "What is it?" "Nothing, really." "What goes on in the tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone." "I don't like to think of you as a scheming kind of woman." "There you are, Mr Crawley." "Bed the plants down there." "Get a move on!" "You take this one, James." "Right." "Take the glasses over there." "Flowers down there." "(Band tunes up)" "It's perfect, madam." "Fit for a queen, madam!" "So handsome." "Oh, yes, it is." "It is, it is, Clarice!" "Oh, it is!" "Now the wig, Clarice." "(Knocks) Are you ready?" "Beatrice?" "You can't come in!" "I'm dying to see you." "Come on, before the mob arrive!" "Just another minute." "Wait downstairs." "This had better be good!" "Now the hat." "Oh, madam, what will Mr de Winter say?" "Oh, yes!" "What will he say?" "I can't imagine what's going on up there." "She's been hours." "Big occasion for her, old boy." "Miss Caroline de Winter!" "(Gasps)" "What the hell are you doing?" "It's the picture." "The white dress." "Go and change now before anybody comes." "Change?" "Yes." "It doesn't matter into what, anything will do." "Why are you standing there?" "Didn't you hear what I said?" "(Sobbing)" "Of course I knew at once it was just a mistake." "You couldn't possibly have known, why should you?" "Known what?" "About the dress." "The picture you copied." "It's what Rebecca did for the last fancy-dress ball." "Identical!" "There you stood on the stairs." "For one ghastly moment I really thought..." "Well, it's over now." "Poor dear." "How were you to know?" "I ought to have known." "Nonsense." "How could it have occurred to any of us?" "But it was such a shock, you see." "And Maxim..." "Yes, Maxim?" "Well, Maxim thinks, you see, that it was deliberate on your part." "Because you did tell him you'd surprise him." "For him it was a frightful shock." "You can imagine!" "Yes." "I should have known." "I should have seen." "No, no!" "Look, don't worry." "You'll be able to explain the whole thing to him quietly." "Everything will be hunky-dory!" "We can tell everyone that the shop sent the wrong costume." "And that you're coming down in ordinary evening dress." "Now." "Let's find you something nice." "Why not?" "Make anything up." "What does it matter?" "That's the way!" "For Maxim's sake." "(Tinkling of headdress)" "# JOHANN STRAUSS:" "Spring Voices" "WOMAN:" "She's not a bit like I'd imagined." "MAN:" "Apparently, her costume didn't please her." "YOUNG WOMAN:" "I heard they had a colossal row!" "Heard about the mix-up over the outfit." "Sue the shop, I would!" "Show 'em what's what." "England and Manderley expect, damn it!" "(Titters)" "They aren't dancing at all." "You've done wonders, considering." "And it's a sweet little frock, really." "Tonight, Josephine?" "Sorry, de Winter." "Emperor's prerogative!" "(Chuckles)" "# Tea For Two" "...absolutely charming." "Oooh!" "This bonny prince is much better on a horse." "Meet Colonel Julyan." "Charmed, Mrs de Winter." "Doesn't look like the pillar of rectitude one expects from a magistrate." " Come on, Charlie." " Come on, my dear." "(Laughter)" "(Admiring gasps)" "Capital!" "Well done, Manderley!" "# God save our gracious king" "# Long live our noble king" "# God save our king" "# Send him victorious" "# Happy and glorious" "(Faintly) # Long to reign over us..." "Let's stop pretending." "You don't love me, you love Rebecca." "You've never forgotten about her." "You think about her night and day - Rebecca, Rebecca, Rebecca." "No. you're wrong." "What does it matter that I love you?" "What kind of love is it to you?" "It's like a child or a pet dog." "No!" "You want something else I can't give you - what you had with her." "You belong to Rebecca." "I have to..." "No!" "Don't touch me." "I'm not Rebecca." "But she's here." "In this room." "I can smell the scent she wears." " Please!" " No!" "No." "(Door shuts)" "I am not Rebecca." "(Foghorns)" "Good morning, madam." "We cleared away, but if you would like breakfast..." "No, that's quite all right, Frith." "It is late." "Did Mr de Winter have breakfast?" "Er, no, madam." "Is he in the library?" "No, madam." "I haven't seen Mr de Winter this morning." "Good morning." "Morning, madam." "I'm afraid we made a lot of work for you." "As long as everyone enjoys themselves, that's what matters." "Yes, of course." "Have you seen Mr de Winter?" "No, madam, not yet." "Not this morning." "Thank you." "Is anything the matter?" "I must find Maxim." "He's not in the office." "He's probably gone for a walk." "Morning after." "It must have been distressing for you." "He didn't come to bed last night, Frank." "I said things to him and didn't let him answer." "You're still tired." "Get some more rest until he comes back." "You mustn't blame yourself." "You weren't to know about the dress." "Look, I've got to get going." "Don't worry too much about Maxim." "He'll turn up when he's ready." "It's his way!" "You've done what you wanted." "Are you happy now?" "You made me wear that dress last night." "You did it just to hurt Mr de Winter." "To make him suffer." "Hasn't he suffered enough?" "Do you think his pain can bring Rebecca back again?" "What do I care about his suffering?" "He's never cared about mine." "How do you think I've felt, watching you take her place, walk in her footsteps." "touch the things that were hers?" "What do you think it's meant to me, hearing the servants call you Mrs de Winter... all the while my Mrs de Winter lying dead and forgotten in the church crypt!" "He deserves to suffer!" "Marrying a chit of girl not ten months after!" "Well, he's paying for it, isn't he?" "He's made his own hell." "He has no-one but himself to thank for it." "It isn't true." "We were happy together." "On honeymoon?" "He's a man isn't he?" "Course he enjoyed himself!" "How dare you speak to me like that!" "A bit of spirit after all." "Spirit!" "No-one could match my lady for spirit." "I looked after her ever since she was a child." "She had men turning their heads to stare at her when she was 12 years old." "She always knew she was going to be a beauty." "They were a pair, her and her cousin Mr Jack." "Did just whatever they liked together." "She had the strength of a little lion!" "I remember her on one of her father's horses, a real brute they said she'd never ride." "I can see her now, her hair flying out behind her, slashing at him, digging the spurs in!" "She rode him, all right." "She had him trembling all over, all froth and blood." ""That'll teach him, won't it, Danny?" She said." "And that's how she went at life." "Till she died." "She's dead." "Oh, oh, she's dead!" "You're ill, Mrs Danvers." "You should rest." "See a doctor." "Leave me alone!" "What's it to you if I show my feelings?" "I'm not ashamed of them." "I don't shut myself up in my room to cry like Mr de Winter." "Oh, yes, I used to hear him, behind his door like a trapped animal." "You must stop this." "He was mad about her." "Like every man who ever looked at her." "And he was so jealous." "He still is." "That's why he won't let Mr Jack come here." "I won't listen!" "It's no use, is it?" "You'll never get the better of her." "Even dead, she's still mistress here." "She'll always be the real Mrs de Winter." "Why don't you leave Manderley to her?" "He wants to be alone with her again." "It's you that should be dead." "Why don't you jump?" "It's easy." "It wouldn't hurt." "Jump and have done with it." "Then you won't be unhappy any more." "Go on." "Don't be afraid." "It's for the best." "(Explosions)" "What is it?" "It's the rockets." "There must be a ship down in the bay." "MAN:" "She's fast on the reef, you'll have to get the crew off." "I'll get the men." "When you see Mr de Winter, madam... tell him there'll be a hot meal ready for the men at any time." "(Urgent voices)" "BYSTANDER:" "Lifeboat's coming out." "Thank you, Frith." "I hope you won't think me odd." "I've been in a daze." "Would madam perhaps like me to send for Clarice?" "Perhaps you'd like to lie down?" "No." "I'll go down to the cove." "Everyone else seems to be there." "Yes, indeed." "Very good, madam." "Is anyone hurt?" "Nothing serious." "She'll not go down too fast." "Lifeboat's here at last." "Got him?" "Got him." "Maxim's always splendid about things like this." " Can't do enough." " I'm sure." "I'd better go and round up the troops." "They seem to want to make a day of it." "Shall you stay?" "Yes." "Three more to come!" "Steady now." "Sit him down." "She'll break up bit by bit." "She'll not sink like a stone like the little 'un." "The fishes have eaten her by now." " What do you mean, Ben?" " Her!" "The other one." "I looked in." "She said she'd have me put in the asylum." "She can't now, can she?" "The fishes have eaten her." "She can't now can she7 The fishes have eaten her." "They have, haven't they?" "You've nothing to worry about, Ben." "MAN:" "Daniel, over here!" "You'll be fine." "Will they be all right, the sailors on the wreck?" "No-one's much hurt." "They'll be taken to the harbour for check-ups." "Are you all right?" "You look tired." "I haven't slept." "I've just walked." "All night?" "Have you forgiven me?" "For last night, all I said?" "Am I forgiven?" "Can we start all over again?" "Be truthful with each other?" "Please, Maxim." "I've grown up since last night." "I'll never be a child again." "Won't you?" "Mr de Winter, sir?" "I have to see you, sir." "This is the harbour master." "Repeat." "I have to see you, Mr de Winter." " Matter of urgency." " What the devil is this about?" "It's my stretch of the coast." "Some red tape or other." "Look after things, will you, Frank?" "Yes, of course." "He'll be all right." "If I could have a quiet word, please, sir." "I'm sorry." "This is a delicate matter and it should remain between us." "The last thing I want to do is cause you both any pain or distress." "It's hard that we can't just let the past lie quiet, but I don't see how we can under the circumstances." "We sent a diver down." "He found the little sailing boat that belonged to the late Mrs de Winter." "But that isn't all." "There's a body in the cabin." "No flesh on it, of course, the water's seen to that." "I'm sorry, Mr de Winter, but it's my duty to tell you and report it further." "Officially." "Yes." "Of course." "MRS DE WINTER:" "Becca was supposed to be alone." "There was someone with her." "And no-one knew." "So it appears, madam." "But there was a lot about it in the papers." "No-one was reported missing." "Not now." "Questions to be asked and answered." "There'll be publicity, I 'm afraid." "An inquest, of course." "Maxim, I'm so sorry." "Must you put my husband through this all over again?" "I have to report that body." "It's too late." "We've lost our chance of happiness." "No!" "It's happened." "The thing I always knew would happen." "Always!" "I remember that look in her eyes before she died..." "She knew this would happen." "Rebecca knew she'd win in the end." "What are you telling me?" "It's Rebecca's body they've found in the boat!" "No." "Look, the woman in the crypt is someone... belonging nowhere - no name, unclaimed." "There never was an accident." "Rebecca didn't drown." "I killed her." "I killed her in the cottage." "I carried her body to the boat and sank it." "Can you tell me you love me now?" "No." "I'm a fool even to ask it." "Over." "Everything." "Maxim, look at me." "Look at me, Maxim." "We can't lose each other." "I love you, Maxim." "What else is there?" "Oh, God, I love you!" "I love you." "MAXIM:" "I hated her." "We never really loved each other." "I don't think she was ever capable of love." "All those years." "All a pretence?" "When I married her, I was told I was the luckiest man in the world." "Wasn't she so lovely?" "So accomplished, so amusing." "I got the truth five days after we were married." "Remember that day in the car above Monte Carlo?" "You asked if I'd been there before." "She told me all about herself." "The affairs she'd had, the sort of men..." "Plenty of detail." "And she didn't intend to change." "Look I'll make a bargain with you." "Of course I'll look after your precious Manderley for you." "I'll make it the most famous showplace in the country." "_ They'll say we are the happiest, luckiest, handsomest couple in all England." "What a triumph!" "What a goddamn triumph we'll be, Max. (Laughs)" "Oh, what a leg-pull!" "What a wonderful, marvellous joke!" "You'll go along with it, Max." "Of course you will." "Anything for the pride and honour of your good name... and Manderley." "Of course you will." "She was right." "I did." "I was a coward." "I just couldn't face the humiliation." "She was so clever." "They all believed in her down here." "Servants, friends, relations." "None of them knew how she despised them all." "She'd walk around some garden party, arm-in-arm with me... a smile on her face like an angel." "The next day she'd scurry back up to London to that flat of hers, like some animal to its hole in a ditch." "You don't have to tell me any more." "Months, years, I accepted it." "Because of Manderley." "What she did in London didn't touch me, because it didn't hurt Manderley, so I told myself." "Then she started bringing her special friends down here." "Midnight picnics at the cottage." "Especially that cousin, Jack Favell." "I couldn't allow that." "Not here, not him." "I told her I'd kill him if I found him anywhere at Manderley." "And one night I came home late." "She'd gone up to London that morning..." "I was surprised she'd come back already." "Some of her things were in the hall." "I knew where she'd be." "And he'd be there with her." "I couldn't stand it any longer, all the lies, deceit." "I had to make it stop." "She could live in London with him, or the other men, if she wanted to... but not here at Manderley." "She could go." "It was over." "Finished." "REBECCA:" "Well, you're wrong, Max." "Put the gun away." "He isn't here." "No-one's here." "And it isn't over, Max." "I'm not prepared to just go." "I'm divorcing you." "(Laughs)" "Haven't you thought how damned hard that would be?" "Think of us in a court of law." "We have the model marriage, don't we, Max?" "Everyone knows that." "I'll get proof." "No, you won't." "Not a chance!" "We've played our parts too well." "We're a loving couple." "We adore each other." "Not a servant here knows any different." "Take Danny." "Did anyone ever have a more personal maid?" "She'd swear anything for me in court." "You wouldn't have a hope in hell." "I could kill you." "Suppose I had a child, Max." "Who's going to prove it isn't yours?" "No-one." "It would give you the thrill of your life to watch my son grow into his inheritance." "It won't happen." "God, it's funny." "All the smug locals and miserable peasants who bow and scrape to you, they'll be so pleased." ""What we've always hoped for," they'll all say." "I'll be the perfect mother, Max." "Just like I've been the perfect wife." "And none of them will ever know." "(Chokes)" "(Grunts)" "I got her into the cabin." "Took the boat out into the bay... and used a spike to drive holes in the bottom boards." "I left her there." "I waited and watched till it was all over." "It seemed like a lifetime." "The boat sank too close in to the shore." "I couldn't handle her well enough." "If I'd got further out beyond the reef they'd never have found her." "It was the shipwreck." "If that hadn't happened..." "She was too close in." "And finding you hasn't made any difference." "Loving you hasn't altered things." "She knew she'd destroy me in the end." "Rebecca is dead." "She can't harm you any more." "There's her body." "They'll identify it." "Her rings, maybe her clothes." "She wasn't lost at sea, battered against the rocks." "If they find out it's Rebecca, you must say the other body was a mistake." "The body in the crypt was a mistake." "When you identified it, you were distraught, ill." "You didn't know what you were doing." "It was a mistake." "You will say that, won't you, Max?" "Yes." "Yes, I will." "I killed Rebecca." "It's done." "I don't have any remorse for that." "What I regret is what I've done to you." "See?" "It's gone." "That funny, young, lost look you used to have that I loved so much." "It's gone and it won't come back." "I killed that too." "But we have each other." "They can't prove anything against you." "Nobody saw you that night." "No-one knows but you and I, Maxim." "The only two people in the world." "You must do this for us." "You say it was not unusual for your late wife to take her boat out alone." "Not at all unusual." "It was one of her great pleasures." " She was an accomplished yachtswoman?" " Very." "She was accomplished at everything she did." "I was asking about her ability to handle a sailing boat." "She was highly proficient." "What can it matter now?" "Stupid waste of time!" "I would prefer no comment on the evidence given in my court." "Watch your step, girl." "Sailing calls for caution in the judgement of weather, doesn't it?" "Of course." "Would you describe your late wife as reckless?" "Certainly not." "But she did have a reputation for welcoming danger." "What do you mean?" "As a sportswoman, Mr de Winter." "Yes, I suppose that's true." "She was not a timid person." "You can say that again!" "Manners, Bee." "A strong-willed woman, Mr de Winter?" "It's fair to say she knew her own mind." "You are James Tabb, boat builder." "You say you converted the late Mrs de Winter's sailing yacht... from its original construction as a fishing boat." "Is that correct?" "It is, sir." "Was the boat fit to put to sea?" "She was when I fitted her out." "It was Mrs de Winter's fourth season with her." "Had the boat ever capsized before?" "No, sir." "And I'd have heard if it had!" "I suppose great care would be needed to handle this small vessel in rough weather." "She wasn't a cranky little craft, like some." "She was stout and seaworthy." "Mrs de Winter had sailed her in much worse weather." "(Door opens and shuts)" "Did it surprise you that the boat was lost that night?" "I couldn't understand it, and I've said so all along." "She was lost." "That's all there is to it!" "CORONER:" "But if Mrs de Winter went below for a coat, as is supposed... and a gust of wind came along, it would be enough to capsize the boat." "No." "No, not in my view." "CORONER:" "Well, that seems to be what happened." "No-one blames your workmanship." "I accept that you delivered the boat in sound condition, which is all I need from you." "It seems Mrs de Winter relaxed her watchfulness and lost her life." "It's happened before in local waters." "Excuse me, sir." "There's a bit more to it than that." "Indeed?" "What, precisely?" "After the boat was brought up, I got permission from the harbour master to examine her." "What I want to know is, who drove the holes in her planking?" "What's the fellow telling us now?" "Are you saying, deliberately done?" "I am, sir." "I'm saying the boat never capsized at all." "She was scuttled." "What does the man think he's saying?" "Mr de Winter, do you know anything about those holes?" "Nothing whatever." "It is a shock to you, of course." "It was a shock to find that I made a mistake in identification 12 months ago." "Now I find that my late wife not only drowned in her cabin, but that the boat was damaged deliberately to sink." "Are you surprised that I am shocked?" "Mr de Winter, we all feel deeply for you." "But I have to inquire into this and will do so." "I don't do it for my amusement." "That's quite obvious." "Maxim, don't lose your temper." "Do we agree that whoever took the boat out must have driven the holes?" "So it appears." "It appears very strange, does it not?" "Certainly." "You have no suggestion to offer?" "None at all." "Mr de Winter painful as it may be, it is my duty to ask you a very personal question." "Very well." "Were relations between you and the late Rebecca de Winter perfectly happy?" "That's disgraceful!" "Will someone please help my wife?" "We'll take her out." "All right." "Careful." "Feeling better?" "Good girl." "I'm sorry." "What a stupid thing to do." "It was so hot in there." "That stupid little man asking those ridiculous questions!" "What does he think he's doing?" "Bloody silly business." "Where's Maxim?" "Still in there." "They're probably going over it again." "I'm going to take you home now." " No." "I must stay with him." " Maxim told me to take you home." "Giles and Beatrice will stay." "It's what Maxim wants." "You behave in there." "Coroner ticked her off." "Stupid little man." "Fancy listening to that boat builder!" "How can he tell how those holes were made after all this time?" "Boat builder's probably a communist, making trouble." "Just what they'd do." "Jack Favell." "Why was he there?" "Rebecca was his cousin." "Why was he with Mrs Danvers?" " He's known her since he was a boy." " I know, Frank." "But what does he want now?" "Is he going to tell them something against Maxim?" "I can't think what." "Favell and Mrs Danvers - so mixed up with Rebecca's other life." "It frightens me." "You need to lie down." "All this has upset you." "You know as much as anybody, Frank." "What's going to happen?" "If Maxim keeps his temper and doesn't say things he doesn't mean, why shouldn't it end up like it was before?" "It always was a puzzle." "She was alone in the boat and she drowned." "Strange accident." "And that's all you know?" "You will lie down, won't you?" "I ought to be there with him." "He will come home today, won't he?" "Please." "Go and rest." "(Thunder)" "(Thunder)" "Go on." "Don't be afraid." "(Gasps)" "I'm glad I killed her." "I'm glad I killed her!" "You see?" "It's gone." "That funny, young, lost look you used to have that I loved so much." "It's gone and it won't come back." "I killed that too." "The jury brought in suicide, without sufficient evidence to show state of mind." "Finished?" "Not quite." "Frank and I have to go to church to bury her." "Just the two of us and the vicar." "And then it's over." "Go in." "I have to go." "Yes." "Please show him in, Frith." "Very good, madam." "Good of you to let me in out of the rain." "Didn't think old Max would be back yet." "Last rites and all that." "I brought Danny back." "She's feeling knocked sideways by it all." "What do you want?" "I could use a large whisky and soda." "Mind if I help myself?" "Why do you want to see Maxim?" "Oh, you'd have been proud of old Max if you'd stayed." "Terrific show he put up." "Stonewalled 'em all the way." "Such dignity." "Never raised his voice." "Made the coroner look a real guttersnipe with his prying questions." "What questions?" "Oh, nothing damaging." "Although he would keep fishing." "Did Rebecca have any money troubles, for one thing." "Money troubles, for God's sake!" "Rebecca must be laughing her knickers off." "Why not call in at the estate office in the morning if you need to see Maxim?" "Oh, now, don't chase me away." "You think I'm the big bad wolf, don't you?" "I'm not." "Really." "I'm just a perfectly ordinary, harmless bloke." "I think you're behaving splendidly over all this taking on this great place." "Meeting all these strange new people." "Putting up with old Max and his moods." "And then finding out the truth." "Because you do know the truth, don't you?" "That's why you fainted." "I don't understand you." "I think you should leave." "I'm going to see justice is done to Rebecca." "Suicide?" "My God!" "Was the jury picked from a loony bin?" "(Door opens)" "Get out." "You've been told before." "Hold on, Max." "I'm here to congratulate you on the inquest." "Raise a glass to your nerve." "Mind if I?" "Shall I throw you out?" "Listen to me, Max." "I can make things very unpleasant for you." "Dangerous, in fact." "Tell me how." "Look, let's come clean about all this." "I don't suppose there are any secrets between you and your wife." "And from the look of things, Crawley here makes up a happy trio." "Would you like to leave us alone?" "No." "I'd rather stay." "Really, Maxim." "I'll speak plainly." "You all know Rebecca and me were lovers." "I've never denied it." "Never will." "When she drowned it hit me hard." "Bloody hard." "But it seemed it was just an accident." "Just lousy bad luck." "Until today." "Now we know better." "Nothing to do with luck, was it?" "CRAWLEY:" "Suicide." "Legal verdict." "Except that I have other evidence." "This is the last letter Rebecca ever wrote to me." "It has a date and time on it." "The afternoon before she died." ""I tried to ring you from the flat, but no answer." "I'm going to Manders." "I shall be at the cottage if you get this follow me down in the car." "I'll spend the night at the cottage and leave the door open for you." "I've got something to tell you and I want to see you as soon as possible." "Rebecca."" ""I want to see you as soon as possible."" "Is that a note you'd write when you're about to commit suicide?" ""I've got something to tell you." And then you drown yourself?" "I'd been to a hell of a party that night." "Didn't see the letter till the next morning." "By the time I got round to phoning here, old Danny gave me the news." "Didn't help the hangover much!" "Didn't help the hangover much!" "If I'd read this out to the coroner today, it would have made things tricky for you." "Why didn't you?" "Well, for one thing, old Danny doesn't know about it yet." "And I don't think we want her to, do we?" "If Danny were to find out that someone else had holed the boat... that someone had murdered her beloved Rebecca, you, Max, in a jealous rage, which is what I'd certainly tell her..." "I'd say that'd send old Danny right off her rocker." "God knows what she might be capable of." "You and yours wouldn't be safe even if you were acquitted, which I doubt." "Maxim?" "You're just guessing." "You have no proof." "Good old loyal Frank." "Always sucking up to your lord and master." "MAXIM:" "Stop that, Favell." "What is it you want?" "I don't want to smash you, Max." "God knows you've never been a friend to me, but I don't bear any malice." "All married men with lovely wives are jealous." "And some can't help playing Othello." "I don't blame them." "I'm sorry for them." "Why can't fellows share their wives instead of killing them?" "You still get your fun." "A lovely woman isn't a motor tyre, she doesn't wear out." "The more you use her, the better she goes." "For God's sake, man!" "You snotty prig." "You tried your luck with Rebecca and didn't get far, did you?" "Think it'll be easier with the new bride?" "An arm every time she faints and she'll be so grateful." "Maxim, no!" "Leave it." "Leave it!" "You asked for that." "Did I?" "I want some money out of this, Max." "For what?" "Keeping quiet." "Not a penny!" "What do you have in mind?" "Two or three thousand a year." "For life." "You can afford it." "Cheap enough to save your neck." "Blackmail?" "Never!" "Insurance." "Best you ever had." "Frank, get him cleaned up and get him out." "Come on." "Max, it's all gone too far." "Rebecca's note, the way you set about me in a jealous rage, just the way you had to kill Rebecca." "If I go to the police, that'll be it." "No-one will arrest me for giving you a bloody nose." "It's an occupational hazard in your kind of life." "Max, old boy, see sense." "Make me an offer." "Or else." "While you're washing your face, Favell, I'm going to call Colonel Julyan." "He's the district magistrate." "When he gets here, tell him your story." "See what he thinks about blackmail." "You wouldn't dare!" "Frank, get him to the bathroom, please." "Colonel Julyan can be here in half an hour." "You're putting a noose round your neck." "You're drunk." "You two think about that." "You had your chance!" "He knows." "He knows." "I'm calling his bluff." "He only wants money." "You could send him away." "He'd always be there." "We'd be his prisoners like I was Rebecca's." "I'm frightened, Maxim." "Something dreadful will happen if we don't stop him." "We must face him down till he's got nothing left." "And then we're finished with him, and finished with Rebecca." "Remember, he's only guessing." "He knows nothing." "Oh, Maxim." "I'm going to call Julyan." " Evening." " Good evening, sir." "Why haven't you spoken up about this before?" "He hoped I would pay him not to." "Preposterous." "It's a confidence trick." "And he's a murderer!" "He'll pay for that" "Gentlemen, I am here because of serious accusations made by both of you." "Not in order to witness a brawl." "And this letter isn't evidence of anything criminal." "Precisely." "There's more, what's behind it." "Rebecca wasn't a wife to you." "When was the last time you touched her?" "She was going to ditch you and marry me." "And you could see it coming." "The shame of it, the public degradation." "Too much for Maxim de Winter." "So you killed her." "Utter make-believe." "Who's going to say all this in court, apart from you?" "Call in the police." "I'm ready." "I hardly think you are yet." "Give it up, Favell." "You don't have a single witness." "Oh, don't I?" "You could be wrong." "There is someone." "He was always creeping about the woods and the bay." "And the cottage." "He saw plenty he shouldn't have." "We had to scare him off." "I never said nothing." "Shall we have the sweet-smelling Ben along to tell us what he saw, when he was playing peeping Tom?" "No, don't." "I mean, it isn't fair on someone like that." "FAVELL:" "Max?" "Frank, would you be good enough to get Ben along here, please?" "It shouldn't take long." "Yes." "Of course." "To Manderley." "Eh, Max?" "You did it all for this pile of stones and a few serfs tugging their forelocks." "Can I get anybody a drink?" "Don't worry, Ben." "There's nothing wrong." "No-one is going to hurt you." "Hello, Ben." "How's life been treating you since I saw you last?" "You know who I am, don't you?" "Eh?" "Go on." "Take one." "As many as you like." "It's all right, Ben." "Now..." "You know me, don't you?" "You've seen me at the cottage on the beach, haven't you?" "I never seen you." "Don't be a bloody fool." "You saw me at the cottage with Mrs de Winter." "I never seen you!" "FAVELL:" "Will this make you remember?" "Has he come to take me to the asylum?" "Answer me!" "You saw me with Mrs de Winter." " More than once!" " She's gone." "You saw us in the woods and at the cottage!" "I never seen you!" "Don't be frightened, Ben." "I don't want to go to the asylum." "I want to stay out!" "Favell!" "Oh, yes, he's Manderley property." "Says whatever you want!" "He'd tell the truth if I put a stick across his back!" "All right, Frank." "BEN:" "I want to go home!" "Find him something nice to eat, Robert, then take him home." "Off with you, Ben." "Nothing's wrong." "Don't hurry him, Robert." "Yes, sir." "Get out, Favell." "Not finished yet." "Get Danny in here." "Let's tell her who killed Rebecca." "Frank, do as he wishes." "How did you do it, Max?" "You didn't beat her brains in." "No sign of violent injury." "Did you... smother her?" "Strangle her?" "Drown her?" "Don't overreach yourself, Favell." "Mrs Danvers, please come in." "Mr Favell has something to ask you." "Danny, tell these people about Rebecca and me." "Tell them what?" "You know damn well." "We lived together on and off for years." "She was in love with me." "No." "She wasn't." "She wasn't in love with you." "Or Mr de Winter." "Or any man." "She despised men!" "She was above all that." "You old fool!" "Didn't she meet me at the cottage, spend weekends with me in London?" "What if she did?" "She had a right to amuse herself." "Love?" "With you?" "With any of you?" "It was a game to her." "She told me so." "Make love with you?" "Or any man?" "She did it to make herself laugh." "I've known her come back and sit upstairs in her bed... and shake with laughter at the lot of you!" "You were her favourite, but it was always a game." "I... was the only one she really loved." "They say that drowning is painless, isn't it?" "There's your witness, Favell." "There's still Rebecca's letter." "It was no suicide note." "She was going to tell me something." "But what?" "If we knew that, it might explain everything." "You'll never know now." "It might just tell us what it was made you snap at last, eh, Max?" "You're finished." "You're clutching at straws." "Why was she in London that day?" "What was she doing?" "Who did she see?" "Pointless." "Forget it." "No, Frank." "Let him chase his own tail if he wants." "It's something dogs do." "I'm going to nail you, Max." "One way or another." "No, you're not." "Not without evidence." "And we don't know where she went." "I have her private engagement diary." "I kept all those things." "Mr de Winter never asked for them." "There's an address book, too." "Do you want to see them?" "Thank you, Danny!" "De Winter, do you mind if we see this diary?" " Shall we go and get it?" " I should do that." " Mrs deWinter, will you come with us?" " Of course." "FAVELL:" "Now..." "Where will this lead us, Max?" "Yes." "If you would, please." "It is rather important." "Well, that would be splendid." "Yes." "She went to her hairdresser, then to her club for lunch." "Then to see someone called Baker." "COLONEL JULYAN:" "Thank you." "Most considerate." "Goodbye." "Baker's a medical man." "Clinical consultant." "Women's specialist." "He'll see us tomorrow afternoon." "You know what he's going to say, don't you, Max?" "Now it all fits together." "Now we know what sent you over the edge that night." "Rebecca was pregnant with my child." "She told you, as she'd have told me if I'd got down here." "That drove you to frenzy and you had to kill her." "Stop it!" "Stop it!" "How low can you stoop, Favell?" "You're finished, Max." "I'm going to hang you." "Maxim." "Look at me." "The woman who consulted me, giving her name as Mrs Rebecca Danvers, was very ill." "Very seriously ill." "Clearly she gave me a false name because she wanted confidentiality." "Our profession has to respect that like the Confession, but... from your description, this was your wife, Mr de Winter." "And she's now dead." " The circumstances are exceptional." " Yes..." "Get on with it, can't you?" "There were two consultations." "The second was to tell her the results of the examination and X-rays from the first and the implications." "She told me very forcefully that she wanted the plain, simple truth." "No hints or evasions." "Yes, yes." "That was what I gave her." "She had no more than a few months to live." "Cancer had taken a firm hold." "An operation would have been useless." "Outwardly she appeared to be a completely healthy woman." "But the pain would increase from week to week... and she would have to be kept under morphia until the end came." "She said she'd been suspecting it for some time." "Oh, Christ." "There is one other thing you should know, Mr de Winter." "X-rays showed she had a malformation of the uterus." "She would never have been able to have a child." "But that was a separate condition, nothing to do with the cancer." "Um, thank you for your assistance, Dr Baker." "(Music from barrel organ)" "Oh, my God, Rebecca." "(Barrel organ)" "Tell that bloody fellow with the barrel organ to clear out." "I can't stand his blasted row." "Can he drive his car?" "Give me a minute." "I'll be all right." "This has been a damned unholy shock to me." "Cancer." "Who'd have thought?" "A woman like that..." "Pull yourself together, man, for heaven's sake." "Turned out well for you, eh, Max?" "Your lucky day!" "You've got your motive for suicide." "Except I still don't believe it." "You'll have to now." "Not me." "Then keep it to yourself." "The law is most severe on slanderous accusations." "You two need to be alone." "I'll take Favell to his flat and catch the night train." "Get in, Favell!" "This should be the end of the matter." "But you know how stories spread in country districts, given half a chance." "You may feel like getting away for a bit." "Why not go abroad?" "You know the old saying:" "Out of sight, out of mind." "Just a thought." "Thank you." "Fare you well." "She lied to me about the baby because she wanted me to kill her." "Her last practical joke." "The biggest of them all." "She can't hurt us anymore." "No." "Do you think Colonel Julyan could have suspected?" "Quite possibly." "And Frank guessed long ago, didn't he?" "Oh, I think so." "But he'd never say anything." "It's over." "We've got to begin again." "(Clink of bottle)" "Where will we go?" "Christ!" "What time is it?" "The sky's so red." "Is it dawn already?" "It's not dawn." "It's Manderley." "(Horses whinny)" "MAN:" "Get those horses right away!" "Come on, right away!" "Top floor." "(Smashing glass)" "(Wild neighing)" "Frank!" "Frith!" "For God's sake!" "We're doing everything we can." " Can we save it?" " Maybe the ground floor." " Oh, my God." "Manderley." " We saved what we could, sir." "Is anyone hurt?" "Nobody hurt, sir." "No-one's seen Mrs Danvers." "Maxim, don't!" " She may still be alive." " Maybe she doesn't want to live!" "Maxim!" "Maxim!" "Mrs Danvers!" "(Smashing glass)" "(Coughs)" "(Groans)" "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again." "The house was a tomb." "Our fear and suffering lay buried in the ruins." "There would be no resurrection." "But I knew that when I woke I would not be bitter." "I would think of Manderley as it might have been... if we could have lived there without fear." "I would remember the rose garden in summer, tea under the chestnut tree." "The murmur of the sea from the lawns below." "These things will always be with me." "They are memories that cannot hurt, and sweeten this exile we have brought upon ourselves." "But I will not tell Maxim about my dream." "We never talk of Manderley." "And of course we can never go back." "Our little hotel is dull." "Day after day dawns very much the same." "Yet we would not have it otherwise." "We are both free, although not unscathed, of course." "There will never be children." "But we are together, with no barriers between us." "He is wonderfully patient and never complains." "Not even when he remembers." "Which happens, I think, more often than he likes me to know."