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counts the money and calls long distance. In the kitchen he prepares breakfast, sets two places, then stops to remove one. Train wheels.
In a beautiful cottage in the country, Verdoux, relieved to get away from "the jungle fight," greets his little son. His wife has forgotten it was their tenth wedding anniversary, but Verdoux has a sentiment for such things. As she exclaims, "Ten wonderful years!" the camera moves down to her foot in a brace. The present he gives her is a deed to the house and garden. "They'll never take that away from us." With better luck, in a few more years, he'll retire.
When his wife speaks of the strain he has been under in recent years and that he seems so desperate, Verdoux replies, "These are desperate days. Millions are starving and unemployed. It is not easy for a man of my age." In moments of trouble he thinks of this other world. "You and Peter are all I have on this earth," he says, as he wheels his wife inside. When his son pulls the cat's tail, he remarks, "There's a cruel streak in you. I wonder where you got it . . . violence begets violence, remember."
Train wheels . . . Verdoux in a coach. The raucous Annabella Bonheur is entertaining some guests. Just as Annabella remarks, laughing, that her husband comes home for one week and is away six — he enters. It is Verdoux in a naval uniform. "Pigeon," he shouts.
The guests leave, and there is an amatory scene on the sofa with Annabella reclining in his lap. It is interspersed with a business discussion — her investments in the Pacific Ocean Power Co., her purchase of a diamond from one of the guests who has just left. To prove that she can't manage money affairs, Verdoux examines the phony diamond. "Glass, you silly ass. Glass!"
Putting on a large, feathered hat, Annabella with Verdoux visits a nightspot. There he runs out to a drug