Chapter 5
Lanyon's Death and the Face at the Window
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1 A high view looks down over a quiet London square in winter.
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2 From his top step, Dr. Jekyll waves off departing friends in winter sunlight
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3 On a bright January afternoon, Poole bows his head and refuses Utterson entry
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4 At last Utterson is let into Dr. Lanyon's house.
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5 Utterson sees Dr. Lanyon, once rosy, now sitting wasted and pale in his carver
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6 At his gaslit table, Lanyon calmly tells Utterson he has only weeks to live
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7 At Lanyon's dinner table, Utterson leans gently toward his host and remarks that Jekyll is ill too.
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8 The dying Dr. Lanyon half-rises and holds up a shaking palm at Jekyll's name
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9 Utterson reaches his open hand across Lanyon's white tablecloth in a quiet plea
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10 Utterson and Lanyon sit together at one corner of a long, empty dining table under the gaslight.
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11 Eyes shut, Lanyon begs Utterson to talk of other things or leave
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12 A full glass of wine stands untouched by a decanter on Lanyon's mahogany table
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13 Utterson has just come home from Lanyon's house.
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14 Utterson presses flat the many close-written pages of Jekyll's letter under one candle
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15 Alone by candlelight, Utterson sits with his hand on Jekyll's letter and stares into the dark.
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16 After Lanyon's funeral, Utterson sits alone by one candle with his dead friend's envelope
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17 By a melancholy candle, Utterson's hands freeze over the broken seal of Lanyon's envelope
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18 On the night after Lanyon's funeral, Utterson decides not to open the second seal.
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19 Utterson stands below Poole at Jekyll's front door and listens to his gloomy report
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20 On Jekyll's doorstep, the loyal butler gives his usual quiet report to an unseen visitor
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21 Utterson walks away across the grey square from Jekyll's closed-off house.
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22 On a quiet Sunday, Utterson and Enfield stop again before the blistered, bell-less door
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23 On a quiet Sunday at sunset, Enfield happily says that the Hyde affair is over.
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24 On a quiet Sunday walk, Enfield stops in front of the neglected door.
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25 Utterson gestures toward the dark court by the old door, and Enfield turns to follow
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26 Utterson and Enfield stand in the damp, dusky court and look up at the half-open middle window.
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27 Jekyll leans on his barred window frame and tells Utterson below it will not last long
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28 Utterson waves cheerfully up at the half-open window and Enfield raises his hat
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29 Jekyll sits at his barred window above the dim court and sadly turns down the walk
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30 Dr. Jekyll leans out of his half-open window and smiles warmly down at his friends
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31 At the half-open window, Jekyll's polite smile vanishes into abject terror and despair
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32 The middle cabinet window has been slammed shut.
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33 Utterson and Enfield hurry out of the dim, damp court in silence with their backs to the window.
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34 Out of the by-street at last, Utterson turns to Enfield on a street in blue Sunday dusk.
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35 Enfield answers Utterson's "God forgive us" with a grave nod and walks on
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36 The small court behind the laboratory at dusk, just after Utterson and Enfield have gone.
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