DAN (pleased): Will they?
BELSIZE: Come along——
DAN turns to follow him. DORA is in the way.
DAN: Oh, yes … I forgot about you…. (smiling with a curious detached sadness) Poor little fellow. Poor little chap…. (Looking round) You know, I'd like somethin' now I never wanted before. A long walk, all by meself. And just when I can't have it. (Laughing) That's contrary, isn't it?
BELSIZE (sternly): Coming?
DAN (looking at OLIVIA): Just commin' (He goes to OLIVIA, takes out his cigarette, puts his manacled arms round her, and kisses her suddenly and violently on the mouth. He releases her with an air of bravado, puts back his cigarette, and looks at her) Well, I'm goin' to be hanged in the end…. But they'll get their money's worth at the trial. You wait!
He smiles, and raises his hand to his hat-brim with the old familiar jaunty gesture of farewell. He walks past BELSIZE and out through the front door. BELSIZE follows him. The bang of the front door. OLIVIA _falls to the sofa.
The sound of_ DORA'S sobbing.
CURTAIN
NIGHT MUST FALL was first presented in London by J. P. Mitchelhill at the Duchess Theatre on May 31st, 1935, with the following cast: