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her actions, has set it up so that she would use the
morphine as a means to try to kill herself.
· In the novel, David had no motive for killing his sister,
especially when it would mean depriving himself
of the Cloade fortune. In this adaptation, however,
he is upgraded to a mass murderer who wanted
revenge against his sister for marrying Gordon and
excluding her brother as her "first love". David plotted
his revenge by raping and impregnating her Irish
Catholic housemaid, Elieen Corrigan, and then performing
an induced abortion on her, breaking her
and forcing her to submit to his will by promising
her heaven if she obeyed him, and threatening eternal
damnation in "the fires of hell" if she refused. He
then took Eileen to a bomb shelter in the basement
and forced her to pose as his own sister, whom he
then slaughtered along with the entire Cloade estate
by a surprise attack of blowing it up with dynamite.
· In the adaptation, after David is denounced as a mass
annaabi.ee 
