Lanyon Sees Hyde Become Jekyll

1 A January evening settles over Cavendish Square, quiet and orderly.

2 Dr Lanyon sits alone at his long dining table, reading Jekyll's strange registered letter

3 Alone at his laid supper table, Dr Lanyon holds Jekyll's registered letter taut under the gaslight.

4 Lanyon sits alone at his long gaslit table, bent over Jekyll's registered letter

5 Dr Lanyon presses the letter flat on the tablecloth and frowns down the table at the door

6 Jekyll's letter lies flat on Lanyon's dinner table, and it ends in the shaky initials "H.J."

7 Under hard gaslight, Dr Lanyon reads the last line of the postscript to Jekyll's letter

8 At night, Lanyon, Poole and two tradesmen walk into Dr. Denman's dusty, windowless surgical theatre.

9 Jekyll's drawer on Lanyon's table: white salt, blood-red tincture, a book of dates

10 Alone at midnight, servants sent to bed, Dr Lanyon loads an old revolver under gaslight

11 At midnight, Lanyon opens his door, hand on his revolver, to a tiny figure by the pillar

12 In Lanyon's gaslit consulting room, the small midnight visitor is swamped in rich clothes

13 Seen from directly above, the graduated glass on Lanyon's green leather table has stopped fizzing.

14 Just before he drinks, the small visitor raises the green draught like a toast.

15 In the consulting room, the small visitor clutches the table as the draught takes hold

16 It is past midnight in the gaslit consulting room.

17 Alone at his writing table in grey winter daylight, Dr Lanyon stops mid-confession