Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Mark Sherwin is driving in country when notices, Fact2: Assuming man is victim of hit-and-run, Fact3: farm owner and daughter agree to look after Sherwin, Fact4: police find no case to match Sherwin 's age and physical description, Fact5: woman enters and on seeing Sherwin
Output (English): Mark Sherwin Ayres is driving in the country when he notices a man lying at the side of the road. Assuming the man is the victim of a hitandrun, he stops to offer assistance, only to be coshed and left stunned while his wallet and car are stolen. On recovering his senses, he staggers towards a nearby farmhouse where he collapses. He is found by the farm owner, who summons a doctor. Meanwhile, the car thief comes to grief while speeding round a corner on a clifftop road, the car plunges over the edge and explodes in flames. Sherwin regains consciousness, but is suffering from complete amnesia with no idea of his own identity or how he came to be found in such a remote location. The farm owner and his daughter agree to look after Sherwin while he recuperates. The police investigate missing persons reports but find no case to match Sherwins age and physical description. Some days later Sherwin is on the mend, and happens to find in his overcoat pocket a ticket stub from a theatre in a town some 50 miles away. Hoping to find some clue as to his identity, he takes a train to the town and walks the streets to see whether anything will jog his memory. He comes across a house which he seems to recognise and walks in through the unlocked door. Inside he finds a flowercovered coffin in the front room. A woman Norden enters and on seeing Sherwin, screams and faints. This jolts Sherwins memory back into gear and he recognises the woman as his wife Christine, who has believed him dead since there was no reason for anybody to consider that the body found in the burnedout car was not his. Sherwin is bothered by his wifes odd demeanour, particularly her excessive concern about whether or not anybody could have seen him in the street or arriving at the house. His suspicions aroused, he decides to continue to play the amnesiac. Saying he is going upstairs to rest, he eavesdrops on her telephone calls and soon realises that she is speaking to a lover of some time standing, the gist of the conversation being the need to dispose of Sherwin quickly before anyone else finds out that he was not the crash victim. Gradually, he finds out that Christine and her lover Anthony Forwood had been intending to sell the house and cash all his assets, and his inconvenient reappearance has derailed their plans. Aware now of Christines true colours, he decides to play along with her schemes until he can engineer a suitable comeuppance for the pair.