Gregory secretly flirts with the maid, and tells Paula she is paranoid and is imagining the maid's disdain. Whenever she shows up, her face betrays a feeling of disdain Paula becomes convinced that Nancy loathes her. The young maid, Nancy (Angela Lansbury), does little to improve the situation. Paula begins to believe she should not go out in public. When Gregory finds it in her handbag, Paula becomes hysterical, and he takes her home. On the one occasion when Gregory does take her out to a musical gathering at a friend's house, he shows Paula his watch chain, from which his watch has mysteriously disappeared. He is also jealous and accusatory whenever others express an interest in her. Gregory allows her neither to go out nor to have visitors, implying that he is doing so for her own good, because her nerves have been acting up, causing her to become a kleptomaniac, and to imagine things that are not real.
Gregory does everything in his power to isolate his wife from other people. Gregory suggests that these are all figments of Paula's imagination. Paula also hears footsteps coming from above her in the sealed attic, and sees the gaslights dim and brighten for no apparent reason. A picture disappears from the walls of the house, and Gregory says that Paula took it, one of many instances of her removing and hiding it, but Paula has no recollection of having done so. At the Tower of London, Paula loses an heirloom brooch that Gregory had given her, despite its having been stored safely in her handbag. Gregory's reaction is swift and violent however, he quickly composes himself, explaining his outburst as one of frustration at the bad memories his bride is experiencing.Īfter Alice's belongings are packed away in the attic and the door blocked, events take a turn for the bizarre. Before they do, Paula discovers a letter addressed to her aunt by a man named Sergius Bauer, dated only two days before the murder, tucked away in a music book. To help calm her anxieties, Gregory suggests they store all of Alice's furnishings in the attic. Paula ends her long tutelage to marry him, and is persuaded by Gregory to leave the society and friends she knows in order to return to London, where she has no acquaintances, in order to live in the long-vacant London townhouse her aunt bequeathed her. Now an adult, Paula (Ingrid Bergman) meets Gregory Anton (Charles Boyer), and, in the course of a two-week-long whirlwind romance, falls in love with him and they quickly marry. Paula studies with him for years, all the while trying to forget that terrible night at Number 9 Thornton Square in London. Paula is sent to Italy so that she can train to be an opera star with the same teacher who once trained Alice.
The perpetrator bolted, without the jewels he sought, after being interrupted by a child-Paula ( Terry Moore)-Alice's niece, who was raised by her aunt following Paula's own mother's death years earlier. World-famous opera singer Alice Alquist has just been murdered.
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