On Fri, 16 Jun 1995, Donald Larsson wrote:
 
> That is probably true enough in a legalistic sense.  But isn't the original
> absconding of funds a *moral* crime (until she repents and intends to return
> it)?  That difference--between legal crime, moral crime and the effects of
> guilt on both--is often played around with in Hitchcock's films.
>
 
That's true.  Her initial transgression, however, for which she pays
dearly, is having an illicit affair.  That, after all, is the motivation
for running off with the money in the first place--and it's sooo Hitchcock.
 
Meredith McMinn
 
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