Seems those people up at the houmfort won't stop drumming and dancing till they've gotten Jessica back, and finished their ritual tests, something of that sort.
8 seconds sound clip from the I Walked with a Zombie movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:50:21.305 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- As a matter of fact, that's why I'm here. I want to talk to you.
- Perhaps when you're finished in here, you'd come into the garden.
- Is it about this afternoon? I saw the Commissioner here.
- Jeffries? Yes, he was here. He and Maxwell.
- They're in a great stew about it.
- For her own safety, Jeffries and Maxwell want Jessica sent away to Saint Thomas to the asylum.
- Maybe. But Wesley insists she stay here.
- He hasn't any legal right, if that's what you mean.
- But he says that I am responsible for Jessica's illness, that I deliberately drove her insane.
- You couldn't have done that, Paul.
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