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house on fire. Now the status of the fair sex has changed a great deal since the day's range in Rome. And a woman's reasons for jealousy in the 20th century are far fewer. Gone is the legal description of her as good as done shattle.

No longer needs to envy the male his ability to vote. She can vote too. Today she can go out into the world and have a career. You can earn a lot of money. You can play a lot of income flex.

He can even wear trousers in more ways than one. He can even wear shorts. Well, let's not go into that. On the other hand, she can still be jealous about another woman, and the strength of her jealousy then can still set the house on fire.

The green-eyed monster still has the power to bring tragedy into her life, and the lies of her nearest and dearest. Yes, even today, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. And of course, it never really matters whether she is being scorned or not.

And if she thinks she is, that's enough. It was enough in the case I'm going to tell you about today. The case of a beautiful society queen who thought her lover was being unfaithful. The case that puzzled the experts of Scotland Yard and provided one of the most sensational old Bailey trials of the 1930s.

There can be only one title for it, the case of the Green Eyed Monster. It is the evening on May the 30th, 1932. From one of the flats in Williams Mews, London, comes the sound of a very gay cocktail party.