The Heart of the Matter

Genre: drama

Year Published: 1953

Creator: George More O'Ferrall

Credits: Cast: Trevor Howard, Elizabeth Allan

Description: Scobie is Deputy Commissioner of the Sierra Leone Police in Freetown during the Second World War. He is unhappily married to fellow-Catholic Louise and both mourn their only daughter. On a search of a visiting Portuguese ship, the neutral vessel Esperança, he finds an envelope addressed to Germany. When he confiscates it, the captain begs him to do nothing because the letter is to his daughter. After he finds she has been given a hut near his house and after he pays her a visit the two start an affair. Louise forces him to attend mass and take communion, which damns him because he

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