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Witness for the prosecution [@eng listening]

He lowers his voice.
) When I say 
to you, Miss MacKenzie, that you could not possibly recognize a voice through a closed door, 
what do you answer? (
He pauses.
) Can you tell me what I said? 
JANET. I can no’ hear anyone if they mumble. 
SIR WILFRID. In fact you didn’t hear what I said, although I am only a few feet from you in an 
open court. Yet you say that behind a closed door with two people talking in an ordinary 
conversational tone, you definitely recognized the voice of Leonard Vole as you swept past 


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that door on two occasions. 
JANET. It was him, I tell you. It was him. 
SIR WILFRID. What you mean is you want it to be him. You have a preconceived notion. 
JANET. Who else could it have been? 
SIR WILFRID. Exactly. Who else could it have been? That was the way your mind worked. 
Now tell me, Miss MacKenzie, was Miss French sometimes lonely all by herself in the 
evening? 
JANET. No, she was not lonely. She had books from the library. 
SIR WILFRID. She listened to the wireless, perhaps? 
JANET. Aye, she listened to the wireless. 
SIR WILFRID. She was fond of a talk on it, perhaps, or of a good play? 
JANET. Yes, she liked a good play. 
SIR WILFRID. Wasn’t it possible that on that evening when you returned home and passed the 
door, that what you really heard was the wireless switched on and a man and woman’s voice, 
and laughter? There was a play called 
Lover’s Leap
on the wireless that night. 
JANET. It was not the wireless. 
SIR WILFRID. Oh, why not? 
JANET. The wireless was away being repaired that week. 
SIR WILFRID. (
Slightly taken aback.
) It must have upset you very much, Miss MacKenzie, if 
you really thought Miss French intended to marry the prisoner. 
JANET. Naturally it would upset me. It was a 
daft
thing to do. 
SIR WILFRID. For one thing, 
if
Miss French had married the prisoner it’s quite possible, isn’t it, 
that he might have persuaded her to dismiss you. 
JANET. She’d never have done that, after all these years. 
SIR WILFRID. But you never know what anyone will do, do you? Not if they’re strongly 
influenced by anyone. 
JANET. He would have used his influence, oh yes, he would have done his best to make her get 
rid of me. 
SIR WILFRID. I see. You felt the prisoner was a very real menace to your present way of life at 
the time. 
JANET. He’d have changed everything. 
SIR WILFRID. Yes, very upsetting. No wonder you feel so bitterly against the prisoner. (
He 
sits.

MYERS. (
Rising
) My learned friend has been at great pains to extract from you an admission of 
vindictiveness towards the prisoner… 
SIR WILFRID. (
Without rising, and audibly for the benefit of the Jury
) A painless 
extraction—quite painless. 
MYERS. (
Ignoring him
) Did you really believe your mistress might have married the prisoner? 
JANET. Indeed I did. I’ve just said so. 
MYERS. Yes, indeed you have. In your view had the prisoner such an influence over Miss 
French that he could have persuaded her to dismiss you? 
JANET. I’d like to have seen him try. He’d not have succeeded. 
MYERS. Had the prisoner ever shown any dislike of you in any way? 
JANET. No, he had his manners. 


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MYERS. Just one more question. You say you recognized Leonard Vole’s voice through that 
closed door. Will you tell the Jury how you knew it was his? 
JANET. You knew a person’s voice without hearing exactly what they are saying. 
MYERS. Thank you, Miss MacKenzie. 
JANET. (

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