For the weirdo in this melodrama, a young man who kidnaps a girl and keeps her locked in the cellar of an old English country house, is a puzzler if ever there was one. He violently captures the girl by cornering her in a vacant alley and knocking her out with chloroform, the way he does the butterflies he also gathers. Then he hauls her off in a small van.
But once he has got her in the cellar, he treats her with soothing gentleness, brings her trays of food with flowers and begs her to fall in love with him. Stern though he is about insisting that she not go beyond the door, he is equally as lenient and indulgent in trying to be agreeable to her.
No wonder, the girl, an art student, is more bewildered than frightened by him, more inclined to be cautious and analytical than to try to crack him over the head. And no wonder she is altogether baffled and terrified now, indeed—when she finally offers to give herself to him and he shuns and reviles her hideously.
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