’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