" In the Reading Room of the library surrounded by bookshelves, they met up with Spengler under a table with a stethescope, who reported: "This is very big." She is ushered into an anteroom where she is old to sit next to a detective's desk and remain silent.Loomis hurried to the scene.After being punched in the face by Sheriff Brackett for the danger he had put Laurie in, and for his "greedy f--king book," Loomis (against orders) approached the shack to possibly "draw him out" and persuade Michael to release Laurie.Attempting o avoid the manager, the tenant Gerry Jeffers (Claudette Colbert) who wears only her silky pink bathrobe ("wrapper"), is hiding behind the shower curtain and finally reveals herself as he inspects the shower head.Plot SynopsisThe well-known, multi-chaptered, much-celebrated, archetypal play was originally 20 episodes in length (but many have since been lost), and now only exists as nine chapters (rearranged), for a total of 214 minutes.