Secret Beyond the Door... Page #7

- But for the consequences of his thoughts.

I didn't kill Eleanor.

But you did kill your wife, Celia.

I tried not to kill!

The first time, in Mexico, I ran away from her.

The impulse to kill faded.

I thought I'd dreamed it.

Then, when she met me at the station

at Levender Falls, I felt a deep,

gentle kind of love.

Until... I don't know what it was...

it swept over me like a haze...

she became someone else,

someone I had to kill.

I fought it down, over and over again.

There are dark forces in this world.

We're, all of us, children of Kane,

we've - all of us - once thought of murder.

I can't help myself. I love her

but, so help me God,

if Celia were here,

I'd still have to kill her.

Oh, Mr Mark, you didn't answer.

Miss Caroline wonders,

are you coming down to breakfast?

Breakfast...

tell Miss Caroline I'll come down.

Mark, I cannot run an organized household

without some kind of co-operation.

I'm taking David to New York today and I have to

do the breakfast dishes before I leave.

Andy and Sarah are going to

Levender Falls for the grain celebration.

No-one has the slightest

consideration for me.

Miss Robey overslept.

Celia isn't even in her room.

- I know.

She won't be here for breakfast.

Miss Robey.

Make out your final check. I want you

to leave Blaze Creek as soon as possible.

Mark!

- I ask a certain amount of loyalty of my

employees. Miss Robey has demonstrated,

very plainly, that she will go to

some lengths to deceive me.

She told you.

I was stupid enough to trust her

when she said she wouldn't.

Now you don't have to be

grateful any more.

What does she mean?

Who told you what?

What did she do, Mark?

She tried to interfere in my life

and I'm sick and tired of interference.

- Yes, but... I always thought she...

but Mark, now I'll have to stay. I gather from your

attitude that Celia has gone somewhere.

I can't possibly ask Andy and Sarah to stay.

They've been looking forward to the celebration

for weeks.

You'll be alone.

I want to be alone -

and for the first time in your life, Carrie,

I'm going to have what I want.

I thought you left, last night.

- I did.

I ran in to Bob on the lawn. He'd come

for David and lost his way in the fog.

I went with him to Levender Falls.

Why... why did you come back?

Because I love you.

Because I married you, for better

or for worse.

Oh, there you are. Andy's going to drive us to the

station. Bob Dwight didn't show up.

Celia's back.

- Oh, I'm glad, Mark.

I'm so glad.

- I want you and David to stay.

No. Now I have to go.

Ever since breakfast, I've been thinking, Mark.

I always meant it for your good -

planning things for you, arranging things for you;

but instead, I only kept you from being happy.

Carrie, you've got to stay.

- No.

If you and Celia have differences,

they won't be settled with me here.

Go up to her and talk it out.

I know you love her.

If we're going to catch the train,

we've got to leave.

Good bye, Mark.

Can't be alone with her. I can't.

Celia.

I'm leaving.

I have to go to New York.

- I'll miss you.

You'll be all alone here -

everyone has left.

You'd better go to

Levender Falls for the night.

- I'm not afraid.

Celia, I love you very much.

- I know.

In three hours,

there'll be a hundred miles between us.

In three weeks, ten thousand...

I must get away from her... as far as possible.

Going to New York?

I forgot something at home.

Hello? Who is it?

Who? Oh, Miss Robey.

No, Mr Lampford's gone to New York.

No, I don't know when he's coming back.

Good night, Miss Robey.

I knew you wanted to kill me

last night, Mark -

and I know why you've

come back now.

Last night, I wanted to save myself

but I'd rather be dead than live without you.

That would be a slow death -

for a lifetime.

Yes, lilacs have something to do with it.

Search your mind, darling: There's something

hidden in your mind so deep,

hidden so far back that you no longer

know it's there.

You're keeping something locked up in your mind,

Mark, for the same reason you've kept this room

locked up.

Because you don't want

any body to know what's in it.

Once you said you loved me

but something hidden forces you to hate me,

to kill me.

I don't hate you.

The day I met you at the station, you wanted to

kiss me, until you saw the lilac in my lapel.

My mother loved lilacs.

But you had all the bushes

rooted out when she died.

I loved my mother.

- Caroline told me you loved her very much.

Did your mother hurt you, Mark,

when you were a child?

Did you hear?

I locked the door in Mexico.

That's when it began.

It was summer, a beautiful summer...

I was ten years old.

I'd forgotton that summer, all of it...

- Because you didn't want

to remember.

Mother and father were separated.

I didn't care - she was my whole world.

I was with her in the garden that afternoon.

I can hear the bees humming over the flowers

even now.

She picked masses of lilac.

I helped her carry them to the house.

We put some in every room.

Locking the door!

What about locking the door?

She was going out that night,

dancing; I was jealous.

Carrie teased me - she always teased me.

I begged mother not to go.

And finally, she said that when

I was ready for bed

I could come to her room

and she'd read to me.

It would have meant so much.

She should have known.

When I was ready for bed,

I went to the door...

You were locked in!

She locked me in.

I heard her turn the key.

I called her, but she left for the dance. I pounded

on the door until there was blood on my hands,

'til the nails were torn to the quick.

I ran to the window and

I saw her drive away with a man.

I called her - and then I cried.

It was the last time in my life that I cried.

I snatched the lilacs and strangled them,

crushed them, killed them!

I wanted to kill her!

I was only ten, but I hated her.

I knew that some day,

some day...

Tonight.

Caroline locked the door, Mark!

It wasn't your mother - it was Caroline.

She told me! She told me!

Mark!

It's locked.

That's when I heard the key turn.

Stand aside.

Celia!

Mark!

Celia!

Celia!

Mark! I didn't know you

were in there.

That night, you killed the root

of the evil in me,

but I still have a long

way to go.

We have a long way to go.

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