_] Alice--
MRS. WESTERN. Leave me alone, Tom. I know what I'm doing. I'll send for a
policeman.
HARVEY. [_Imploringly._] Alice, Alice--
MRS. WESTERN. [_Pausing, with her hand on the bell._] I'll let the girl
off, if you'll tell me the truth.
HARVEY. I _have_ told you the truth.
MRS. WESTERN. You persist in this silly falsehood?
HARVEY. It isn't--I tell you it isn't!
MRS. WESTERN. Very well, then.
[_She presses the bell. At that moment the door bursts open, and_
MARTIN _comes in triumphantly, with the bracelet on a salver._
SMITHERS _and_ WILLIAM _are behind him, but do not pass beyond
the threshold._
MARTIN. [_Eagerly._] Ma'am, ma'am, we've found the--
[MRS. WESTERN _has turned towards him, still holding the other
bracelet in her hand._ MARTIN _catches sight of it, and stops dead
short, staring bewilderedly at it._
MRS. WESTERN. [_Calmly._] Where did you find it?
[_She takes the bracelet off the salver and lays it on the
table._
MARTIN. [_With a great effort._] It had fallen into the pocket of the
car--there was a hole in the pocket--it had worked its way right down into
the body.
MRS. WESTERN. Very well. Thank you.
[MARTIN _goes; the other servants have already slunk off. There
is a moment's silence._ MRS. WESTERN _suddenly flings the
bracelet she has in her hand in_ MISS FARREN'S _direction._
MRS. WESTERN. [_Contemptuously._] Here. I return you your property.
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