I Confess Page #4

with the apologies, if necessary.

Hello, Pierre. This is Willy.

Oh, no. No.

Is Ruth there? Yes, please.

Hello, Ruth.

I see.

Yes, I understand. Yes. Of course.

That's very kind of you. Thank you.

What does Willy want?

He wants me to come to his office now.

May I ask you why?

I was seen on the ferry this morning

with Michael Logan.

Apparently, I was followed

by a detective.

Could you have picked

a less public place if you had to see...?

I'm sorry.

Would you like to tell me

what you're going to do?

I'm going to answer whatever questions

the inspector wishes to ask me.

I'm also going to explain that Michael

could not have killed Villette.

Has Father Logan cleared himself

to your satisfaction?

He didn't have to.

I was with him at the time.

Would you like me to go with you?

I'm in no position to ask

any favors of you, Pierre.

- Monsieur and Madame Grandfort.

- Do come in.

I'm extremely grateful that

you are both cooperative.

- Ruth, Pierre, I'm terribly sorry.

- It's perfectly all right.

Larrue promises to keep it

from the press.

I will do my best.

Sit down, please.

- Father Logan's outside.

- Bring him in. Come in.

I've asked Father Logan to join us.

Father Logan...

...Madame and Monsieur Grandfort,

Mr. Robertson.

- Me, you know.

- Good evening, Father Logan.

- Good evening.

- Sit down.

Thank you.

- May we begin, please?

- Well, Madame Grandfort...

What do you wish to know?

You met and talked with Father Logan

on the 9:
00 ferry.

- Yes.

- May I ask the reason for this meeting?

I don't think the reason

could help you, inspector.

- It was personal?

- Yes.

Very well.

You also met and spoke

with Father Logan...

...the morning after Villette's murder.

You met and spoke to him

immediately in front of Villette's house.

- Yes.

- May I ask the reason for that?

I had an appointment

with Monsieur Villette.

- He was your lawyer?

- No.

Father Logan, knowing of the murder,

stopped you from entering the house?

- Yes.

- Of course, he did not know...

...you had an appointment

with Monsieur Villette.

He did. The night before, I'd had

an appointment with Father Logan.

I told him I was going to meet Monsieur

Villette at 9:
30 the following morning.

You had an appointment

with Father Logan...

...the night Monsieur Villette

was murdered?

- Yes.

- Where?

- We took a ride in my car.

- What time?

Between 9 and 11.

Madame Grandfort.

- Are you sure of the time?

- Oh, yes.

I got home just after 11. My husband

had come in five minutes before.

That's right, inspector.

You told your husband, of course,

that you had just seen Father Logan?

No, I did not tell my husband.

Was there any particular reason

why you shouldn't have told him?

- Yes.

- Inspector, I beg you.

Consider if your line of questioning

has to be so personal.

That is for me to decide, Father.

- Madame Grandfort?

- Yes?

You understand I must

ask these questions.

Yes. I came to tell that you...

...Father Logan could not have been

involved in Villette's death.

I was with him at the time.

I have accepted everything

that you have said, madame.

But I must know, if possible...

...the reason for your appointment

with Monsieur Villette.

Monsieur Villette was blackmailing me.

I had met Father Logan to ask his advice.

You hadn't told

your husband about this?

- It was...

- It was what, madame?

It was nothing to do with my husband.

- Surely he would have been concerned.

- Yes. You see, that was it.

- I didn't want to worry him.

- So you turned to Father Logan.

- Yes.

- Is Father Logan your parish priest?

- No.

- No?

Yet you turned to him for advice when

you wouldn't turn to your husband.

- Father Logan is an old friend.

- And he advised you to tell your husband.

No, how could he? He couldn't do that.

Before your first appointment

with Father Logan...

...he knew you were being blackmailed?

Oh, how could he?

I hadn't seen him in years.

You hadn't seen him in years, and yet

you say he was an old friend.

Mr. Larrue.

- Inspector?

- Yes, sir?

My wife doesn't have to

answer those questions.

She's not under oath.

Your wife was seen outside

Villette's house with Father Logan.

She was seen this morning

with Father Logan.

She told us of an appointment

with him that took place...

...the night Monsieur Villette

was murdered.

Surely, Monsieur Grandfort...

...you do not want your wife

to implicate herself further.

It is you who are trying to implicate her.

My wife came here to answer questions

and to clear, as far as possible...

...Father Logan of any suspicions.

She has done both of those things.

Madame Grandfort,

why were you being blackmailed?

You don't need to answer that.

Why shouldn't she, Father?

- What are you afraid of?

- It isn't necessary. Don't answer.

Madame Grandfort,

are you trying to protect Father Logan?

From what? He hasn't done anything.

It would seem as if he had.

Are you a human being, inspector?

You think it's important

for me to tell you...

...why I was being blackmailed.

You don't care whom I hurt, just so long

as I answer all your questions.

- I only want to clear a murder.

- Yes, I know.

You only want everything clear.

And I want to clear Father Logan.

- Ruth.

- Willy.

May I have a glass of water, please?

Ruth.

Pierre, why must you hear

what I'm going to say?

Thank you, Willy.

Inspector...

...the blackmail was about

me and Father Logan.

Father Logan and I grew up together.

Have you ever been young, inspector?

Of course, you know

that the first thing is to fall in love.

If we'd been engaged,

it wouldn't have mattered...

...because the war came.

He was one of the first to volunteer.

I hated him for that.

I was selfish even then.

He took things so seriously.

War. And love.

Yes, even love.

Because when I said

we ought to get married...

... he said there were enough

widows already.

He said he loved me too much.

He didn 't know

he could never love me enough.

That night, we went dancing.

It was our last evening together.

It was all too short.

That was the night Michael went away.

I thought the world was coming

to an end.

I suppose there were millions of people

feeling the same way that night.

You don 't think of millions of people.

You think of yourself...

... and the one you're in love with.

He asked me not to wait for him.

A lot of other boys must've said

the same thing to their girls.

I had to wait for him.

His letters were long at first,

but always serious.

I didn 't want serious letters...

... but I would prefer those

to no letters at all.

Because...

... after a while...

... he stopped writing.

Soon afterward...

... I started working

for my future husband.

Pierre was...

Pierre was...

Madame Grandfort,

perhaps if you are unable to continue...

It's all right. L...

I'm sorry.

Pierre was always so brilliant.

He was kind.

He realized I was unhappy.

And like very kind people...

... he didn 't ask me why.

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