Mrs. Dudley tries to give that same speech later to Claire Bloom’s character, and “Theo” ignores her.
Yes, Theo. She was a strange one wasn’t she? Remember when they were in the bedroom, and the loud knocking, and pounding started and went on for what seemed forever? The door bowed in and out, and the door knob jiggled, and when it was finally all over, Eleanor said she had kept her eyes tightly closed the whole time, but was glad that Theo had taken hold of her hand. Then Theo tells her “I wasn’t holding your hand”, and Eleanor cries out: “God! God! Whose hand was I holding?” I was 16 when I saw that in the theater, and it stayed with me. At the time, it was the scariest movie I had ever seen.