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Suspense - "Song of the Heart" (Old Time Radio, 1948) · Suspense | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: August 2nd, 1948 brings us to Suspense, Episode 6, Song
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  Speaker 1: of the Heart. Van Heflin stars in a drama centered
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  Speaker 1: on a man living under the influence of an overbearing
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  Speaker 1: aunt with Lorene Tuttle and Betty Lou Gerson in the
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  Speaker 1: supporting cast. An encounter at a company picnic introduces a
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  Speaker 1: possible new romantic connection, and the pressures and resentments in
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  Speaker 1: the man's home life begin to come forward. Elliot Lewis
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  Speaker 1: wrote this CBS presentation for the Autolite-sponsored run. We now
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  Speaker 1: take you back to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: In just a moment, suspense with Van Heflin.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Martin. Hello, Frank.
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  Speaker 5: What are you doing out here?
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  Speaker 2: I've been fishing, and not for Autolite customers this time, Ab.
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  Speaker 5: Autolite customers?
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  Speaker 6: Well, no.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think you'll find many cars in the middle
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  Speaker 5: of the bay. Autolite resist a spark plug, either.
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  Speaker 2: No cars, but there's plenty of Autolite in powerboats. You know,
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  Speaker 2: more auto light ignition systems are used in marine craft
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  Speaker 2: than any other brand.
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  Speaker 5: Old reliable is the first thought of boat owners, too, eh?
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  Speaker 6: It'd be hard to get back to town if you
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  Speaker 6: had a breakdown out here.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we wouldn't get back to hear your suspense show
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  Speaker 5: if that happened.
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  Speaker 2: Well, tie up alongside and let's listen to it here.
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  Speaker 2: I've got my portable.
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  Speaker 4: Suspense. Autolite and its 60,000 dealers and service stations bring
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  Speaker 4: you radio's outstanding theater of thrills. Starring tonight, Mr. Van
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  Speaker 4: Heflin in Anton Leder's production of Song of the Heart.
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  Speaker 4: A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.
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  Speaker 7: Well, you explain all that to the officer in the car, ma'am.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Can I help you?
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  Speaker 8: Please. I, uh... What? I have a confession to make.
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  Speaker 4: A confession?
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  Speaker 8: Please, are you the officer that I'd tell it to?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I do, I guess.
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  Speaker 9: My name is Neil Wilson. I live with Tonta Alice.
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  Speaker 9: Aunt Alice at 265 West 19th Street.
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  Speaker 8: All right.
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  Speaker 4: So?
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  Speaker 8: Last night, I guess it was early this morning, I
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  Speaker 8: killed Tonta Alice. Mike. Yes?
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  Speaker 7: You better get this.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 8: Go on. You killed your, uh, uh, Tanta Alice?
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  Speaker 10: Yes.
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  Speaker 8: How? I took a pillow and smothered.
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  Speaker 5: Go on.
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  Speaker 8: Could I tell you about it? I mean, all about it? Sure. Well,
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  Speaker 8: I have a fine job.
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  Speaker 9: I'm the general manager of the Hand S Company.
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  Speaker 8: I've been with them ever since I got out of school.
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  Speaker 8: I'm an orphan. I live with my aunt, with Tanta Alice.
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  Speaker 8: You live with your aunt? Yes, I don't remember.
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  Speaker 9: My parents, they died when I was just a little
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  Speaker 9: boy in an accident.
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  Speaker 8: Tanta Alice brought me up. She was like my own mother.
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  Speaker 4: Why did you kill her?
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  Speaker 8: I guess I should start when I met Muriel Jones.
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  Speaker 8: That was.
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  Speaker 9: Only last Sunday at the annual company picnic. It was
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  Speaker 9: the first time I'd ever been to one. Usually I
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  Speaker 9: spent Sunday afternoons with Tanta Alice. Everyone was at the picnic,
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  Speaker 9: from shipping clerks to executives, everyone. But I sat off
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  Speaker 9: to the side by myself and... Well, that's the afternoon
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  Speaker 9: that I met Muriel.
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  Speaker 10: Having a good time?
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  Speaker 8: What? Oh, yes, thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Isn't it a lovely day?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, it is.
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  Speaker 10: I'm Muriel Jones, accounting department.
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  Speaker 8: How do you do? I'm... Neil Wilson. Yes, I know.
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  Speaker 8: Do you mind if I sit down here? Oh, no,
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  Speaker 8: please do.
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  Speaker 10: Thank you.
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  Speaker 8: It's really a beautiful day, isn't it? What are you
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  Speaker 8: staring at? I didn't... Don't you like my blouse? Oh, yes,
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  Speaker 8: very much. I wasn't staring.
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  Speaker 4: It's a present.
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  Speaker 10: A gift from a friend.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, really?
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  Speaker 10: I like it because I've been told I had pretty shoulders.
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  Speaker 8: Do you think so? Yes. Yes. Yes, I do.
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  Speaker 10: Did you come alone?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 8: So did I.
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  Speaker 10: I had several invitations, but I turned them down.
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  Speaker 8: Why? Did I turn them down? Huh.
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  Speaker 10: Because I knew you were going to be here.
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  Speaker 8: Really?
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  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 10: I've seen you at the office. You always look so strict.
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  Speaker 10: I wanted to meet you and see if you were.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I'm flattered.
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  Speaker 10: You should be. Most of the time, all the men
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  Speaker 10: chase after me. This is a First time I ever
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  Speaker 10: did anything like this.
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  Speaker 8: Got a cigarette? Oh, yes, I'm sorry. Here you are. Thanks.
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  Speaker 9: Match?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: Thanks.
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  Speaker 8: Don't you smoke? Well, not just now, thank you.
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  Speaker 10: Would you like to take me home?
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  Speaker 8: Well, yes, I would. Should we go now? All right.
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  Speaker 10: Aren't you going to help me up?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 10: Why, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Wilson, how strong you... You smell of sunshine. What a
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  Speaker 8: pretty speech.
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  Speaker 11: Do you always kiss young ladies when you first meet them?
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  Speaker 8: I never have before.
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  Speaker 10: Never met a young lady like me.
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  Speaker 8: Before, have you? No, no, I haven't.
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  Speaker 10: Don't kiss me anymore here. Take me home.
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  Speaker 8: I'd been out with girls before, but nothing ever came
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  Speaker 8: of any of it.
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  Speaker 9: I'm too introverted, I guess, to make the first move,
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  Speaker 9: and the ladies that I'd known previously were not the
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  Speaker 9: kind who'd make the move for me. But Muriel did,
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  Speaker 9: and I thought that that meant that she loved me.
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  Speaker 9: We drove for a while when we left the picnic,
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  Speaker 9: and then I took her home.
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  Speaker 10: I like your car.
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  Speaker 8: Would you like to go for a ride tomorrow?
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  Speaker 11: You mean you'll pick me up in the morning, drive
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  Speaker 11: me to work?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I'd like to. Isn't that sweet? About 7.45? All right.
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  Speaker 10: I'll have some coffee ready if you like. Would you
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  Speaker 10: like having your morning coffee with me?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, I'm afraid I couldn't. Thanks a lot, though.
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  Speaker 4: It'll be all right.
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  Speaker 10: My girlfriend lives here with me.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, no, no. It's not that. I mean, I always
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  Speaker 8: have breakfast with Tante Alice. Who? My Aunt Alice. I
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  Speaker 8: call her Tante. That means aunt. Oh.
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  Speaker 10: Isn't this silly? Standing out here like we didn't have
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  Speaker 10: a place to go.
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  Speaker 11: Why don't you come in for a few minutes?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I'd like to. That's good.
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  Speaker 10: I know you'll excuse the looks of the house. I
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  Speaker 10: left this morning before I had a chance to straighten
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  Speaker 10: things out. You just sit down there.
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 10: Here, I'll put these things in the other room. Is
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  Speaker 10: there anything.
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  Speaker 8: I can get you? No, thanks. It's very comfortable. That's good.
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  Speaker 10: This is nice.
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  Speaker 8: You're beautiful.
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  Speaker 10: Thank you. Just for saying nice things like that.
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  Speaker 8: Muriel. Muriel, I... What? I've never known anyone like you.
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  Speaker 8: You're just saying that. No, no, that's true.
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  Speaker 10: Do you believe in love at first sight?
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  Speaker 8: Yes. So do I.
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  Speaker 11: I knew a girl and a fellow once who got
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  Speaker 11: married three days after they met. That was love at
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  Speaker 11: first sight, wasn't it?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, I'm sure it was. Is that the way you
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  Speaker 8: feel about me? Yes. Yes, it is.
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  Speaker 11: I knew the first time I saw you it would
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  Speaker 11: be like this, didn't you?
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  Speaker 8: I hoped it would be. Give me a kiss. Will
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  Speaker 8: you marry me? Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Wilson, how sad.
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  Speaker 8: Will you marry me?
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  Speaker 10: I should be delighted.
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  Speaker 9: I drove home without knowing where I was going. I
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  Speaker 9: felt as though as though I'd never breathed before that day.
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  Speaker 9: I felt that I was the luckiest.
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  Speaker 8: Man in the world.
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  Speaker 4: Neil, dear?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, yes, Aunt Alice.
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  Speaker 10: Did you have a nice day at the picnic, dear?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, I had a wonderful day.
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  Speaker 10: Well, aren't you going to kiss me?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, sure.
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  Speaker 10: Why, Neil, dear, what's that on your mouth?
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  Speaker 8: What?
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  Speaker 4: Where?
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  Speaker 10: Looks to me like leprouche.
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  Speaker 5: Where?
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  Speaker 10: On your mouth, dear, and on your cheek, too. Why, Neil, dear.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I was... You better.
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  Speaker 10: Let me wipe it off. Who is the girl? Do
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  Speaker 10: I know her?
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  Speaker 8: Her name is Muriel Jones.
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  Speaker 9: She works at the office in the accounting department.
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  Speaker 10: How is it that I've never met her if you've
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  Speaker 10: known her so long?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I haven't. I just met her today.
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  Speaker 10: You just met her?
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  Speaker 8: And she.
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  Speaker 8: Well, it... Tante Alice, it was love at first sight.
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  Speaker 10: Was it, dear?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, we're going to be married. When, dear? Well, pretty soon,
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  Speaker 8: I think.
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  Speaker 10: Am I going to meet her?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, I'll bring her here to dinner tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 10: All right, dear, all right. We'll have a nice dinner
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  Speaker 10: for her.
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  Speaker 8: Well, you'll like her, Tante Alice. She's a wonderful girl.
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  Speaker 10: I'm sure she is, dear. I'm sure. You better get
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  Speaker 10: some sleep now. Tomorrow is a work day, you know.
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  Speaker 10: Is there something special you'd like for breakfast?
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  Speaker 9: I won't be having breakfast here in the morning, Tante Alice.
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  Speaker 9: Muriel's fixing coffee for me at her house.
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  Speaker 10: Just coffee? Well, that's not enough breakfast for a man
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  Speaker 10: with a day's work to do.
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  Speaker 8: No, no, coffee's plenty.
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  Speaker 10: But you've never had just coffee for breakfast, Neil, dear.
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  Speaker 8: No, it's enough. Thanks anyway. All right. All right, then.
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  Speaker 10: I'll just have a little fruit juice here for you
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  Speaker 10: before you leave.
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  Speaker 9: No, no, never mind, Auntie Alice. You can sleep in
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  Speaker 9: the morning. I'm having breakfast with Muriel. I don't know
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  Speaker 9: what time it was when I woke up that night.
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  Speaker 9: I'd been dreaming of Muriel. I remember the streetlights were out.
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  Speaker 9: What woke me was some music from downstairs. Tante Alice
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  Speaker 9: hadn't gone to bed yet. She was playing one of
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  Speaker 9: her old phonograph records. It was a sweet, sad record.
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  Speaker 9: And it's a song that I'll never forget as long
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  Speaker 9: as I live.
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  Speaker 4: For suspense, Autolite is bringing you Mr. Van Heflin. In
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  Speaker 6: met you, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Dad and I wouldn't miss Van Heflin for anything.
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  Speaker 6: Avast with the sales talk, mates. Here's Van Heflin in
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  Speaker 6: suspense again.
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  Speaker 4: And now Autolite brings back to a Hollywood soundstage Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Van Heflin as Neo in Song of the Heart. A
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  Speaker 4: tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.
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  Speaker 7: You went to sleep and your aunt was playing this record.
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  Speaker 4: He's up to the end of the day.
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  Speaker 8: He met the girl. Yes, that's right.
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  Speaker 4: What happened the next day?
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  Speaker 9: Well, the next day when I got up in the morning,
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  Speaker 9: Tata Alice was already up. Well, I don't know, maybe
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  Speaker 9: she hadn't even been asleep. The table was set for
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  Speaker 9: two in the breakfast room. When the toaster was out,
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  Speaker 9: my fruit juice was on the table, and she was
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  Speaker 9: frying bacon when I came downstairs.
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  Speaker 10: Good morning, Neil, dear.
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  Speaker 8: Good morning.
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  Speaker 10: You're early, aren't you? Breakfast will be ready in just
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  Speaker 10: a moment.
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  Speaker 9: I'm not having breakfast at home. I told you that
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  Speaker 9: last night.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, that was last night, Neil, dear. Today is another day.
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  Speaker 9: I'm having breakfast with Muriel. I have to go now.
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  Speaker 9: I'll see you this evening.
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  Speaker 10: We'll have a nice dinner, Neil, dear.
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  Speaker 8: I'm bringing Muriel home for dinner with me.
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  Speaker 10: Tonight? Oh, but dear, that's hardly warning enough.
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  Speaker 8: You said last night that you wanted to meet her.
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  Speaker 10: But so soon, dear?
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  Speaker 9: Now listen to me. I'm bringing a girl home for
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  Speaker 9: you to meet. I love this girl. Now, I want
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  Speaker 9: you to be nice to her. I don't want a
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  Speaker 9: fiasco like the last time.
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  Speaker 10: Neil, please, dear.
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  Speaker 9: I don't want you pouting and sulking this time. I
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  Speaker 9: don't want to have to apologize for your actions.
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  Speaker 10: I think that will be all, Neil, dear. I think
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  Speaker 10: that's enough.
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  Speaker 9: If you aren't going to behave yourself properly, now just
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  Speaker 9: say so now and we'll not come home for dinner.
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  Speaker 8: That's up to you.
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  Speaker 10: I'm only thinking of you. Now, don't be cross. Give
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  Speaker 10: me a big smile like you used to when you
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  Speaker 10: were a bad little boy.
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  Speaker 8: All right. How's that? Oh.
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  Speaker 4: Better than that.
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  Speaker 8: Now, please, Tante Alice, I'm late. I'll see you at dinner.
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  Speaker 10: All right, dear. You call me from the office if
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  Speaker 10: you decide to bring her home for dinner.
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  Speaker 8: We'll be home for dinner.
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  Speaker 9: I'm telling you now, I don't have to call you
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  Speaker 9: from the office.
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  Speaker 10: You call me, dear.
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  Speaker 9: You see, the last time I tried to bring a
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  Speaker 9: girl home, Tante Alice had acted just the same way.
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  Speaker 8: She'd behaved so badly that I'd never done it again.
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  Speaker 9: That had been after the junior class party at high school.
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  Speaker 8: It's 13 years ago, and I'd never done it again.
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  Speaker 9: I waited for Muriel after work that evening, and we
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  Speaker 9: drove toward my home together.
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  Speaker 10: Hold your head still so I can kiss you.
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  Speaker 8: Let's get married tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: Why, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Wilson, I said.
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  Speaker 4: No, really.
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  Speaker 10: Well, what about your Aunt Alice?
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  Speaker 8: What about her?
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  Speaker 10: She won't be angry at me, stealing you away from me?
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  Speaker 8: Why should she be?
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  Speaker 10: Well, the way she's.
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  Speaker 8: Hung on to you. For instance.
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  Speaker 10: Why doesn't she live by herself?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I don't know. We've been together so long. Sure,
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  Speaker 8: but after all, she's only your aunt.
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  Speaker 10: You've got a life of your own to lead. She's
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  Speaker 10: got enough money to live by herself.
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  Speaker 8: Well, it's not money. She's quite wealthy. How did you
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  Speaker 8: know she had money? Oh, I heard someone at the
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  Speaker 8: office talk about it. Oh.
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  Speaker 9: Look, incidentally, Aunt Alice might act a little strangely when
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  Speaker 9: I bring you in the house.
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  Speaker 8: Just don't pay any attention to her.
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  Speaker 9: If she tries to do anything or say anything to
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  Speaker 9: upset you, promise me that now.
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  Speaker 8: I promise you.
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  Speaker 11: I can understand her being upset at someone taking you
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  Speaker 11: away from her, though.
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  Speaker 8: After all, it takes one to know one.
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  Speaker 9: The rest of the ride home, we didn't talk.
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  Speaker 8: Mira just sat close to me. She held my hand
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  Speaker 8: in hers. I'll take your coat. Oh, thank you. Come on,
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  Speaker 8: let's go into the living room. What's that playing? Oh,
• 15:37
  Speaker 8: that's the phonograph.
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  Speaker 10: Pretty old machine, isn't it?
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  Speaker 8: Well, actually, yeah, it's the record scratching. That's what she
• 15:44
  Speaker 8: was playing last night.
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  Speaker 10: What is it, French?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, Tante Alice has a collection of old records. This
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  Speaker 8: is the first time she's played them in years since
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  Speaker 8: I was in high school. Where is she? I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: She must be in the kitchen.
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  Speaker 10: Well, I might as well sit down, I guess. Oh,
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  Speaker 10: I forgot to ask you. Are my seams straight?
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  Speaker 8: What? Oh, yes, they are. They look straight.
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  Speaker 10: So hard to keep your stockings straight. I never can get.
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  Speaker 8: Mine long enough.
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  Speaker 10: Well, good evening, working people.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, good evening, Tante Alice.
• 16:15
  Speaker 10: And this must be Mabel.
• 16:17
  Speaker 9: No, no, it's Muriel. Muriel, this is my aunt, Miss
• 16:21
  Speaker 9: Alice Trimble. Uh, Tante Alice, this is Muriel, Miss Muriel Jones.
• 16:25
  Speaker 10: How do you do? Oh, please sit down. Dinner will
• 16:27
  Speaker 10: be ready soon. Is the phonograph too loud? I was
• 16:29
  Speaker 10: just playing some old records.
• 16:30
  Speaker 8: Yes, it is a little loud, Tante Alice. Oh. That's better.
• 16:35
  Speaker 8: Is there anything I can do to help?
• 16:36
  Speaker 10: No, no, that's all right, dear. Just last-minute things like
• 16:39
  Speaker 10: the gravy. I'll do them in a bit. I'll just
• 16:42
  Speaker 10: sit here with you two young people for a while. Oh, my,
• 16:45
  Speaker 10: I've had a day preparing to meet Neil's latest young lady.
• 16:49
  Speaker 10: He always does this to me. Calls suddenly in the
• 16:51
  Speaker 10: middle of the afternoon and says, I'm bringing a young
• 16:54
  Speaker 10: lady home for dinner.
• 16:55
  Speaker 8: Why do you say that?
• 16:55
  Speaker 10: Most of me wants to marry, as though he thinks.
• 16:58
  Speaker 10: As he said, he wants to marry you. Be careful
• 17:01
  Speaker 10: of him. He's a devil.
• 17:02
  Speaker 8: Tanya Alice, please. Now, that's not true.
• 17:03
  Speaker 10: Can you imagine wanting to get married before you really
• 17:06
  Speaker 10: get to know someone? Did Neil tell you we're going
• 17:09
  Speaker 10: to get married? He did ask you then. Oh, Neil,
• 17:12
  Speaker 10: shame on you.
• 17:13
  Speaker 8: Shall we have our dinner?
• 17:14
  Speaker 10: In a moment, dear.
• 17:15
  Speaker 8: In a moment.
• 17:16
  Speaker 10: You poor little girl. And Neil has been acting the
• 17:19
  Speaker 10: Don Juan with you also. You poor dear. Well, excuse me.
• 17:24
  Speaker 10: I'll let you hear some of my records while I
• 17:25
  Speaker 10: make the gravies.
• 17:28
  Speaker 8: Would you like me to help?
• 17:29
  Speaker 10: No, no, you stay with the young lady. Muriel, is it?
• 17:33
  Speaker 10: I can handle things alone, this once. And after all,
• 17:37
  Speaker 10: if she should ever come back here again, I want
• 17:40
  Speaker 10: her to think kindly of us. Wasn't that a nice dinner?
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: Very nice, thank you.
• 17:54
  Speaker 10: Did you enjoy your dinner, Neil, dear?
• 17:55
  Speaker 8: Yes, it was very nice, Tati Alice. Here, would you
• 17:57
  Speaker 8: like a cigarette? Thanks.
• 18:00
  Speaker 10: Neil, dear, don't you think you should take the girl
• 18:03
  Speaker 10: home now so that we can go to bed?
• 18:05
  Speaker 8: Well, you can go, Tante Alice. We'll sit here for
• 18:07
  Speaker 8: a while.
• 18:08
  Speaker 10: Well, all right. I'm very tired. Good night, young lady.
• 18:14
  Speaker 10: I do hope you stop in and see us again someday.
• 18:17
  Speaker 10: I'm always delighted to meet Neil's friends. Neil, dear, you
• 18:23
  Speaker 10: haven't oiled my doors.
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: Am i going to do with her what am i
• 18:28
  Speaker 8: going to.
• 18:28
  Speaker 10: Do i don't think i've ever been treated.
• 18:30
  Speaker 8: Oh i'm sorry darling please believe me i'm sorry but
• 18:32
  Speaker 8: what can.
• 18:33
  Speaker 11: I do how can i get rid of her just
• 18:34
  Speaker 11: leave when we're married we'll leave.
• 18:36
  Speaker 9: She'll follow us i'm i'm all she has in the
• 18:39
  Speaker 9: world i i wish she were dead me no i
• 18:41
  Speaker 9: wish she were dead what good is she to anyone
• 18:44
  Speaker 9: hanging on for dear life to me holding me afraid
• 18:47
  Speaker 9: that i'll go out on my own and have my
• 18:48
  Speaker 9: own life and that she'll have no part of it Oh, sure,
• 18:52
  Speaker 9: she's been good to me, and she's worked for me,
• 18:53
  Speaker 9: but I've been good to her, too, and I've helped her.
• 18:56
  Speaker 10: We'll go away together.
• 18:57
  Speaker 8: She won't follow us. Have you enough money?
• 19:00
  Speaker 9: Well, I think so. Yes, I have enough, and then
• 19:02
  Speaker 9: there's always her money. She has it lying all over
• 19:05
  Speaker 9: the house. She doesn't believe in banks.
• 19:06
  Speaker 10: Well, you could take some of that.
• 19:07
  Speaker 8: I think that's fair. Oh, listen, we'd better be quiet.
• 19:12
  Speaker 8: She'll hear us.
• 19:14
  Speaker 10: I'll turn the phonograph on, then. She won't.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: You're right, though.
• 19:20
  Speaker 8: About what?
• 19:22
  Speaker 10: What use is she?
• 19:23
  Speaker 8: She has money which she doesn't need.
• 19:25
  Speaker 10: She's unhappy living alone.
• 19:26
  Speaker 8: It would kill her to live alone. I hate to
• 19:30
  Speaker 8: say this, dear. I won't live in the same house
• 19:33
  Speaker 8: with you. No, no, I don't blame you. I was
• 19:35
  Speaker 8: thinking there are a lot.
• 19:36
  Speaker 10: Of people whose time is finished.
• 19:39
  Speaker 8: You know, they've done all they're good for.
• 19:41
  Speaker 9: I read once where Eskimos put their aged people on
• 19:45
  Speaker 9: ice floes and push them out into the ocean. No ceremony,
• 19:47
  Speaker 9: no sorrow. Just that it's the end of their time
• 19:50
  Speaker 9: of usefulness, and that's that.
• 19:52
  Speaker 8: Neil. You know, it would be doing her a favor.
• 19:56
  Speaker 8: She wouldn't know.
• 19:57
  Speaker 11: Well, you did say she wouldn't live long without you, Neil,
• 20:01
  Speaker 11: but she'd probably die of loneliness.
• 20:04
  Speaker 8: She's never been alone.
• 20:06
  Speaker 11: And if she is going to follow us, like you said,
• 20:10
  Speaker 11: Then I'm sorry I can't marry you, Neil, and that's
• 20:12
  Speaker 11: hard for me to say because I love you.
• 20:13
  Speaker 8: I don't think I've ever been in love before. Never
• 20:17
  Speaker 8: before you.
• 20:18
  Speaker 9: I need you, Neil, very badly. I think that we
• 20:22
  Speaker 9: should have the opportunity to make good with our lives.
• 20:25
  Speaker 8: Sure we should. But how?
• 20:28
  Speaker 10: As gently as possible.
• 20:29
  Speaker 8: Yes. You know, I think... What?
• 20:33
  Speaker 9: Well, after she's asleep tonight, just put a pillow over
• 20:37
  Speaker 9: her face. No one will ever know.
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: It would be doing her a favor, Neil. Look, they
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: couldn't tell. I mean, they... How could they? She's old.
• 20:49
  Speaker 8: She's smothered in her sleep. Yeah, that's right.
• 20:52
  Speaker 10: We could use her money to go away. After all,
• 20:55
  Speaker 10: she won't need it.
• 20:55
  Speaker 8: That's true enough. It's here in the house?
• 20:59
  Speaker 9: Well, all of it that's in cash, $ 5, 000 or something. Mary, look,
• 21:04
  Speaker 9: you do love me now, don't you?
• 21:05
  Speaker 8: Oh, no, I do. Kiss me. What was that? Oh,
• 21:11
  Speaker 8: Tiny Alice.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Yes, Neil, dear.
• 21:13
  Speaker 10: I was listening to the record player. I'm so glad
• 21:17
  Speaker 10: you children enjoyed it. Isn't it a lovely song? You
• 21:21
  Speaker 10: know what it means?
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: No.
• 21:24
  Speaker 8: No, I don't.
• 21:25
  Speaker 10: Turn it off, please, Neil, dear.
• 21:27
  Speaker 8: Sorry.
• 21:29
  Speaker 10: Oh, I feel so odd tonight. I think I should
• 21:35
  Speaker 10: like to tell you a story before I go to sleep.
• 21:38
  Speaker 10: Would the girl mind?
• 21:40
  Speaker 8: Go ahead.
• 21:43
  Speaker 10: That record tells a story about a boy and his mother.
• 21:49
  Speaker 10: The boy lived at home with his mother. And the
• 21:53
  Speaker 10: boy met a girl. And the mother didn't like the
• 21:56
  Speaker 10: girl and warned the boy away from her. But the
• 21:59
  Speaker 10: girl used all her wiles on the boy and the
• 22:01
  Speaker 10: boy turned against his mother. And the girl told him
• 22:05
  Speaker 10: that proof of his love for her would be that
• 22:07
  Speaker 10: he killed his mother. And proof of the killing would
• 22:11
  Speaker 10: be that he brought the girl his mother's heart. And
• 22:16
  Speaker 10: so the poor boy killed his mother and took her
• 22:19
  Speaker 10: heart to bring it to the girl. And on the way,
• 22:23
  Speaker 10: he stumbled and fell, and the heart escaped his hands.
• 22:29
  Speaker 10: And before he could.
• 22:29
  Speaker 12: Get to his feet again, or even see if he
• 22:32
  Speaker 12: was injured from the fall, The heart spoke, and the
• 22:37
  Speaker 12: heart said to him, Are you hurt, my son?
• 22:42
  Speaker 10: I cried when I heard that song the first time.
• 22:49
  Speaker 8: Such a sad... You'd better go to sleep now. It's late.
• 22:54
  Speaker 10: Good night, dear, dear. Sleep well.
• 22:59
  Speaker 8: Sleep well. What an unpleasant story.
• 23:08
  Speaker 9: She knows all sorts of things, like that fable sort of.
• 23:11
  Speaker 9: She gets older, she quotes them to me at great length.
• 23:14
  Speaker 11: Will it take her long to go to sleep now?
• 23:16
  Speaker 8: No, no, no.
• 23:17
  Speaker 9: She's told me a story now. She'll go right to
• 23:19
  Speaker 9: sleep now. We sat there and waited. Not saying anything,
• 23:32
  Speaker 9: not touching one another, just waiting. Finally, after about an hour,
• 23:37
  Speaker 9: Muriel suddenly kissed me. She kissed me hard, and she
• 23:40
  Speaker 9: held me close to her. Then I got up, and
• 23:43
  Speaker 9: I walked quietly over to Tata Alice's door. I opened it,
• 23:48
  Speaker 9: and I walked into her bedroom. She was sleeping on
• 23:50
  Speaker 9: her back. I took a pillow from her chaise, and then,
• 23:55
  Speaker 9: just as I was about to put it over her face,
• 23:56
  Speaker 9: I thought I saw her eyes move.
• 23:57
  Speaker 8: I waited. I was mistaken.
• 24:01
  Speaker 9: She was sleeping soundly, just as she always did. I
• 24:05
  Speaker 9: lowered the pillow softly over her mouth and nose and
• 24:08
  Speaker 9: I held it there. Watched her chest until there was
• 24:12
  Speaker 9: no movement from her breathing. Then I opened her bureau
• 24:15
  Speaker 9: drawer and took out her money box. Then Muriel and
• 24:18
  Speaker 9: I left the house.
• 24:20
  Speaker 10: All right?
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: Yes, yes, all right.
• 24:22
  Speaker 10: Don't feel badly. You did a good thing. It's just
• 24:25
  Speaker 10: like a mercy killing.
• 24:26
  Speaker 8: It was for her own good. I know that.
• 24:28
  Speaker 11: We've got each other now and a whole life to
• 24:29
  Speaker 11: live together without any interference.
• 24:31
  Speaker 8: I know. I'll drive.
• 24:32
  Speaker 10: Poor baby, you're upset.
• 24:34
  Speaker 8: All right. Can I have the keys? Yes, yes, right here. Oh. What?
• 24:39
  Speaker 8: Did you take the pillar off her face? Oh, no, no, no,
• 24:43
  Speaker 8: I forgot.
• 24:43
  Speaker 10: Run back and do it. You can leave the box
• 24:46
  Speaker 10: on the seat. Hurry now.
• 25:12
  Speaker 9: I heard the car leave and I knew what it meant.
• 25:15
  Speaker 8: And I didn't do anything about it. I just stood there.
• 25:18
  Speaker 9: I wanted to cry. I didn't go into Tante Alice's room.
• 25:22
  Speaker 9: I just stood there. After a while, I opened the
• 25:26
  Speaker 9: front door again. Went and sat down on the steps
• 25:29
  Speaker 9: and waited for the light to come. And all night long,
• 25:32
  Speaker 9: I heard the record playing in my brain. And I
• 25:35
  Speaker 9: heard Tante Alice sing. And the heart spoke. And the
• 25:39
  Speaker 9: heart said to him, are you hurt, my son?
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: That it?
• 25:50
  Speaker 8: That's it.
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: I'll type it up for him to sign. All right, Mike.
• 25:54
  Speaker 9: She's driving my car, but I don't care. I mean,
• 25:57
  Speaker 9: if you want to catch her, she's driving my car.
• 25:59
  Speaker 8: We'll catch her. What do I do now?
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: You come with me. Funny you're coming in here this morning. Although,
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: of course, we'd have had a routine investigation anyway.
• 26:10
  Speaker 8: Because the pillow was still on her face?
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: Well, yeah.
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: Although she might have had a heart attack or the
• 26:17
  Speaker 7: pillow might have smothered her without her knowing it, most
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: accidental deaths are pretty strange. Much stranger than the planned ones. No,
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: I meant that you didn't look at the room very
• 26:28
  Speaker 7: closely when you went in there to kill your aunt.
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: In here.
• 26:32
  Speaker 9: What do you mean that I didn't look at the
• 26:34
  Speaker 9: room very closely?
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: Your aunt was a pretty smart cookie, and I guess
• 26:38
  Speaker 7: she was really looking out for you, warning you with
• 26:40
  Speaker 7: that song, anticipating what you were planning. We were over
• 26:45
  Speaker 7: there this morning. The door was open, the prowl car
• 26:47
  Speaker 7: spotted it, and went to see what was cooking. Must
• 26:49
  Speaker 7: have been after you left to come down here. They
• 26:52
  Speaker 7: found your aunt's body, but they turned in a sort
• 26:55
  Speaker 7: of routine report.
• 26:57
  Speaker 8: Routine?
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: This case looked open and shut. Because right next to
• 27:02
  Speaker 7: the bed on her night table, in her own handwriting...
• 27:06
  Speaker 7: Your Tanta Alice left a suicide note.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Van Heflin, for a splendid performance.
• 27:38
  Speaker 8: Mr.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: Heflin will return in just a moment.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: Boy, that show was a knockout. Well, thanks for letting
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: us listen, Frank. Always glad to do a friend a favor.
• 27:49
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  Speaker 4: And now, here again is Mr. Van Heflin.
• 28:40
  Speaker 9: It's always a great pleasure to join Tony Leder and
• 28:43
  Speaker 9: his fine cast of suspense actors on radio's outstanding theater
• 28:47
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• 28:50
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• 28:58
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• 29:03
  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Van Heflin appeared by arrangement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, producers of Julia Misbehaves,
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Lorene Tuttle played the
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: part of Tata Alice, and Betty Lou Gerson was Muriel.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Tonight's suspense play was written by Elliot Lewis, with music
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: composed by Lucian Morawick and conducted by Lud Luskin. The
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: entire production was under the direction of Anton M.
• 29:27
  Speaker 8: Leder.
• 29:29
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• 29:34
  Speaker 2: The Morrison Affair.
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• 29:48
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• 30:17
  Speaker 1: The curtain falls on this evening's suspense, Song of the Heart.
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