’E don’t bluff me. ’E’s in a great ’urry. I believe ’e’s the thief.

STRANGER

Thousand devils! We’re wasting time. (He looks at the clock and then plucks out his watch.) Your clock’s slow. It’s stopped. It was that time when I came in.

MISS PERKINS

Tell him. Tell him.

MR PERKINS

Oh, chuck it!

STRANGER

(Perceiving that he is getting “warm.”) What stopped the clock?

MISS PERKINS