by John Galsworthy
Dramatised as a serial in eleven parts by Muriel Levy
Part 9
Production by Val Gielgud
The mentally sick Ronald Ferse has disappeared. Dinny is staying with Diana. Ferse returns suddenly. Dinny tries to telephone her Uncle Adrian, but finds Ferse standing over her with a knife. He cuts the telephone wire, and indicates that he does not intend to suffer any interference.
Diana and Dinny lock themselves in Dinny's bedroom. Ferse makes an attempt to reach his wife. In the morning they find his room in complete disorder, and he has gone. They go to Adrian and tell him the whole story. He takes charge of a search in which Hilary and Fleur help. They find Ferse dead at the bottom of a chalk pit.