OLIVIA (vehemently, coming to the table): In the same way any sane, decent-minded human being would want—would want to have you arrested for the monster you are!

DAN (quietly): What d'you come back for?

OLIVIA: I … I've told you….

He smiles at her slowly and shakes his head. She sits at the table and closes her eyes.

I got as far as the edge of the wood. I could see the lights in the village…. I came back.

She buries her head in her arms. DAN rises, looks at her a moment regretfully, puts away his cigarette, and stands with both hands over the invalid chair.

DAN (casually): She didn't keep any money anywhere else, did she?

OLIVIA: I've read a lot about evil——

DAN realises his hands are wet with paraffin and wipes them on his trousers.

DAN: Clumsy….