Donohue monologue (Act 3) — The Thirteenth Chair: A Play in Three Acts

She was engaged to you--he had compromising letters she had written to him--he was threatening her with exposure--she went to get her letters. They had tea together--she's admitted that, after we proved it, and then when he wouldn't give up her letters she killed him. So much for the first murder. (_Turns away._) Now for the second: she was sitting next to Wales; he had already threatened her with exposure; in another minute the medium would have told her name as that of the person who had been at Spencer Lee's rooms. She pulled her hand away from his, struck and took his hand again. (_There is a pause._) Young man, you'll have a hard time tearing apart that chain of evidence.