Lady Macbeth Page #3

I just want to walk

a little with you, Anna.

I won't scare you.

Promise.

(Door opening)

Get off me.

I need to talk to you.

Go back to your house

and your little master.

Please come inside. I can't...

If I come inside,

then we're found out.

And if we're found out,

then I'll hang.

While that boy's here, I'm out here.

That's the end of it.

Get out!

(Teddy laughing)

(Katherine) Sebastian!

Katherine, watch me.

- Watch me.

- Not now, Teddy.

- Please, please!

- Get off! Leave me alone!

Sebastian!

Sebastian.

(Knock at door)

Sebastian?

Sebastian?

Ma'am.

- What is it?

- I'm sorry, ma'am, but it's the boy.

We can't find him anywhere.

- Teddy?

- Teddy?

Teddy?

Teddy?

- Teddy?

- Teddy?

Teddy?

Teddy?

(Door opening)

(Rapid footsteps)

- Teddy!

- He was at the waterfall. He's freezing.

- Get some blankets.

- Who are you?

How dare you walk into this house

and give orders? Get out.

- I saved him.

- Get out!

(Teddy coughing)

(Agnes) Teddy, Teddy.

I will not stay here and be humiliated

for the sake of that boy.

- Sebastian...

- I will not!

Tell me what to do.

I will do anything.

- It's too late.

- What? What do you mean?

I stood in front of him, Katherine.

At that waterfall,

that... perfect drop.

One step behind him.

And I...

It's too late.

It doesn't have to be.

It doesn't have to be if you trust me.

(Teddy groaning)

(Door opening)

(Teddy coughing)

You should go to bed.

I can't.

One of us should get some sleep.

I wouldn't sleep.

Lie down for a while.

I'll sit up with him.

You need some rest and he'll need you

when he wakes up.

- Just for an hour or so.

- If you like.

Thank you.

(Coughing)

- Katherine.

- Shh, Teddy. Sleep.

What are you doing?

- Shh.

Let me go. Katherine.

- Shh.

(Muffled cries)

(Muffled cries)

(Teddy falls silent)

It is done.

Sebastian.

No, no, no.

Go wait until I come.

Go.

(Door opening)

(Door closing)

(Sobbing)

(Katherine) I must've fallen asleep

for ten minutes, perhaps.

When I woke, he wasn't breathing.

Can you remember

what time that was, Mrs Lester?

Just before the girl came in.

Er... I couldn't say exactly.

Five, perhaps.

- I was upset.

- Of course.

(Agnes crying)

I wonder...

What?

Could you have been asleep

longer than you thought?

Might someone have taken

the opportunity to come in?

- There were bruises...

- From the waterfall.

They weren't there before.

- When I woke, the boy was dead.

- Katherine...

He must've got the bruises

from the waterfall.

- Dr Burdon says not.

- Can Dr Burdon swear to it?

- Have we not suffered enough?

- Mrs Lester...

Forgive me.

- (Detective) Mrs Lester, you do realise...

- (Door opening)

We killed the boy.

(Detective) I beg your pardon, sir.

Who are you?

(Sebastian) She killed him.

She held a pillow over his face

and I held his legs.

She killed Alexander Lester.

She killed Boris Lester,

poisoned him with mushrooms

and let him die.

She... killed that boy.

She killed that boy

so that we could be together.

And I thought I loved her.

She suffocated me.

She suffocated me

and she hounded me.

And then she never let me be.

She's a disease.

(Detective) Mrs Lester?

He's lying.

Anna...

He and Anna did it.

- For whatever reason of their own.

- You b*tch!

Everyone knows that

she picks the mushrooms

and he follows her

to the woods every morning.

Perhaps they were found out

and threatened with separation.

My father-in-law beat him

within an inch of his life

the day before he died.

And that boy...

That boy was like a child to me.

Anna will say if otherwise.

I did nothing.

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