WEBVTT 00:00:35.759 --> 00:00:39.659 I'm E .G. Marshall. Welcome to the terrifying 00:00:39.659 --> 00:00:44.479 world of your own imagination. I would like to 00:00:44.479 --> 00:00:47.740 offer a few observations on the vagaries of the 00:00:47.740 --> 00:00:52.899 animal called man. Take the popular saying, seeing 00:00:52.899 --> 00:00:57.920 is believing. What idiot first said that? And 00:00:57.920 --> 00:01:02.259 how many idiots have repeated it since? Do you 00:01:02.259 --> 00:01:07.579 believe in love? Tell me the color of it. Do 00:01:07.579 --> 00:01:13.260 you believe in truth, goodness, mercy? What shapes 00:01:13.260 --> 00:01:18.359 do they come in? No, my friends. Seeing is not 00:01:18.359 --> 00:01:23.819 believing. Only believing is believing. And we'll 00:01:23.819 --> 00:01:26.680 prove it to you in the story that follows. The 00:01:26.680 --> 00:01:29.540 longer we're away from this earth, Alice, the 00:01:29.540 --> 00:01:33.670 less we rely on our senses. The senses... in 00:01:33.670 --> 00:01:37.250 a manner of speaking, start to fade little by 00:01:37.250 --> 00:01:41.409 little. They tell me this is quite normal. Actually, 00:01:41.430 --> 00:01:43.469 they tell me I'm a bit ahead of the game to be 00:01:43.469 --> 00:01:47.170 able to enjoy as much as I do. Charles, when 00:01:47.170 --> 00:01:51.290 you say they, they tell you this and they tell 00:01:51.290 --> 00:01:57.170 you that, you mean? I mean them, of course. All 00:01:57.170 --> 00:02:03.329 those. The ones up there? It isn't up there. 00:02:03.400 --> 00:02:08.080 Alice and it isn't down there either well where 00:02:08.080 --> 00:02:14.120 is it it's simply there meaning not here I thought 00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:20.379 you knew that are there a lot of them of course 00:02:20.379 --> 00:02:23.659 there are a lot of them what would you expect 00:02:35.510 --> 00:02:39.590 The Ghost at the Gate was written especially 00:02:39.590 --> 00:02:43.490 for the Mystery Theatre by Elspeth Eric and stars 00:02:43.490 --> 00:02:46.949 Beatrice Strait. I'll be back shortly with Act 00:02:46.949 --> 00:03:03.090 One. With how much ease believe we what we wish. 00:03:03.949 --> 00:03:07.129 An English playwright named Dryden wrote that 00:03:07.129 --> 00:03:12.729 in the year 1679. Brilliant man, Mr. Dryden. 00:03:13.229 --> 00:03:18.069 But wait, listen to this. Men freely believe 00:03:18.069 --> 00:03:22.650 that which they desire. Someone else seems to 00:03:22.650 --> 00:03:26.169 have had the same idea. And he wasn't a 17th 00:03:26.169 --> 00:03:30.150 century English playwright. He was a Roman emperor 00:03:30.150 --> 00:03:34.300 named Julius Caesar. Proving once again that 00:03:34.300 --> 00:03:39.759 no man in any age has a monopoly on wisdom. Now, 00:03:40.020 --> 00:03:48.139 let's get on with our story. Come in, Dorothea. 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:54.479 Your chocolate, Mrs. Emory. Oh, good. Shall I 00:03:54.479 --> 00:03:56.860 light the fire in the fireplace? Yes, please. 00:03:57.439 --> 00:04:01.300 I think it's chilly enough for... Oh, Dorothea. 00:04:01.500 --> 00:04:04.919 Ma 'am? You forgot the other cup again. I did? 00:04:05.080 --> 00:04:08.860 I told you to always bring two cups. Oh, it seems 00:04:08.860 --> 00:04:12.159 so silly. I'll decide what's silly. When I asked 00:04:12.159 --> 00:04:15.020 you to drink it... I've explained that to you, 00:04:15.020 --> 00:04:17.439 Dorothy, and more than once. I like to drink 00:04:17.439 --> 00:04:20.040 two cups of chocolate before retiring. And I 00:04:20.040 --> 00:04:22.779 don't like that icky sediment in the bottom of 00:04:22.779 --> 00:04:26.959 the cup. Uh, I'll try, Mrs. Emily. Um, now, if 00:04:26.959 --> 00:04:29.319 that's all... Or do you want me to go downstairs 00:04:29.319 --> 00:04:32.660 and fetch up another cup? Oh, no, no. Go to bed. 00:04:33.720 --> 00:04:36.759 Good night, Mrs. Emery. Good night, Dorothea. 00:04:38.339 --> 00:04:40.980 All right now, darling. Chocolate's all poured. 00:04:41.259 --> 00:04:46.680 Fire's lighted. Charles! Everything's ready. 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:49.740 Now come on, darling, or the chocolate'll get 00:04:49.740 --> 00:04:53.180 cold. Don't want any chocolate. Oh, Charles, 00:04:53.300 --> 00:04:56.300 you love chocolate. You always love chocolate. 00:04:56.500 --> 00:05:00.100 Tastes like mud. But it's very good chocolate. 00:05:00.910 --> 00:05:03.290 You know what good chocolate Dorothea makes? 00:05:03.550 --> 00:05:06.509 Now come on Charles, don't make me wait. You 00:05:06.509 --> 00:05:11.790 want me? Want you? Oh Charles, how can you ever 00:05:11.790 --> 00:05:14.829 ask such a thing? Why, I go through the whole 00:05:14.829 --> 00:05:17.529 day thinking of you, all afternoon at the community 00:05:17.529 --> 00:05:22.230 chest I think about you. Why darling, it's torture 00:05:22.230 --> 00:05:24.529 for me listening to those other women whose husbands 00:05:24.529 --> 00:05:28.720 are with them in their conventional way. I want 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:31.339 to scream at them, but I have my Charles, you 00:05:31.339 --> 00:05:34.740 silly females. Every night he comes to my bedroom 00:05:34.740 --> 00:05:39.220 and he's tall and handsome and brilliant and 00:05:39.220 --> 00:05:43.699 romantic and adorable and manly and we sit and 00:05:43.699 --> 00:05:47.220 talk together and he... All right, Alice. That's 00:05:47.220 --> 00:05:54.699 enough. There you are. Oh, Charles. Missed me? 00:05:55.519 --> 00:05:58.889 Oh, darling, the days are so terrible. I can't 00:05:58.889 --> 00:06:00.490 think of anything but this moment when we're 00:06:00.490 --> 00:06:03.410 together. But you know that, my dear, I tell 00:06:03.410 --> 00:06:06.290 you every single night. I need to hear it, Alice. 00:06:07.689 --> 00:06:10.569 We who have more or less left this world can't 00:06:10.569 --> 00:06:12.509 come back unless we are wanted by someone who 00:06:12.509 --> 00:06:18.149 is still here. Wanted a lot. Otherwise we can't 00:06:18.149 --> 00:06:21.389 make the trip, as it were. We can't even purchase 00:06:21.389 --> 00:06:24.509 a ticket, so to speak, unless we have a destination 00:06:24.509 --> 00:06:27.899 that is vibrant with love and... Need and desire. 00:06:28.139 --> 00:06:32.439 But I love you and I need you. I desire you. 00:06:33.220 --> 00:06:36.079 You should know that, Charles. Well, it doesn't 00:06:36.079 --> 00:06:40.180 hurt to hear it. Here's your chocolate. Try it. 00:06:40.620 --> 00:06:44.420 I don't want it. Oh, Charles. The longer we're 00:06:44.420 --> 00:06:46.920 away from this Earth, Alice, the less we rely 00:06:46.920 --> 00:06:50.279 on our senses. The senses, in a manner of speaking, 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:54.500 start to... to fade. Mashed potatoes begin to 00:06:54.500 --> 00:06:57.600 taste like cold cream. Coffee tastes like iodine, 00:06:58.019 --> 00:07:01.240 and this chocolate tastes like mud. They tell 00:07:01.240 --> 00:07:04.980 me this is quite normal. Charles, when you say 00:07:04.980 --> 00:07:10.060 they, they tell you this and they tell you that, 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:15.000 you mean... I mean them, of course. All those. 00:07:16.100 --> 00:07:20.660 The ones up there? It isn't up there, Alice. 00:07:21.180 --> 00:07:24.920 And it isn't down there, either. Well, where 00:07:24.920 --> 00:07:30.759 is it? It's simply there, meaning not here. Heavens, 00:07:30.759 --> 00:07:34.259 I thought you knew that. Are there a lot of... 00:07:34.259 --> 00:07:39.199 of them? Of course there are a lot of them. It's 00:07:39.199 --> 00:07:43.959 all so vast, so endless, and so damnably peaceful. 00:07:44.759 --> 00:07:48.139 I know what it is to be lonely, Charles. This 00:07:48.139 --> 00:07:50.600 big house, I couldn't bear to move out of it 00:07:50.600 --> 00:07:52.699 after you weren't here all the time. Because 00:07:52.699 --> 00:07:54.579 I couldn't leave the place where you and I had 00:07:54.579 --> 00:07:58.000 spent so many happy years together. Why don't 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:01.860 you ask someone to move in with you? Move in? 00:08:03.439 --> 00:08:07.139 Why, I never thought. Such a large house. You 00:08:07.139 --> 00:08:09.680 could have separate quarters. You wouldn't be 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:12.399 forever bumping into each other. But who would 00:08:12.399 --> 00:08:15.939 want to move in? Who would I want to move in? 00:08:16.740 --> 00:08:21.000 Oh, some old good friend? Well, like who, Charles? 00:08:21.620 --> 00:08:25.060 Oh. Someone like Connie, maybe. Connie Lawrence. 00:08:25.879 --> 00:08:29.720 Connie Lawrence? Well, I've certainly known her 00:08:29.720 --> 00:08:33.840 long enough. We were roommates at school. What 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:36.360 do you think she'd want to? She'll jump at the 00:08:36.360 --> 00:08:38.259 chance, would be my guess. She still lives in 00:08:38.259 --> 00:08:40.820 that tiny one -room apartment. I know she's saving 00:08:40.820 --> 00:08:44.019 for her retirement. And with the pay school teachers 00:08:44.019 --> 00:08:49.240 get in this town. Charles? I'll call her tomorrow. 00:08:50.159 --> 00:09:05.399 She gets home from school at three. Come in, 00:09:05.580 --> 00:09:09.960 doctor. Your breakfast, Mrs. Emery. Thank you. 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:13.600 You don't want two cups in the morning, do you? 00:09:13.740 --> 00:09:18.039 Oh, no. No. Coffee doesn't leave that icky stuff 00:09:18.039 --> 00:09:21.909 the way chocolate does. Actually, I think I won't 00:09:21.909 --> 00:09:24.809 have chocolate at night anymore, Dorothea. I 00:09:24.809 --> 00:09:27.409 feel like trying something else. But two cups, 00:09:27.669 --> 00:09:30.690 just the same, don't forget. Yes, ma 'am. Don't 00:09:30.690 --> 00:09:32.730 go just yet, Dorothea. I want to talk to you 00:09:32.730 --> 00:09:36.370 about something. Sit down, won't you? Oh, yes, 00:09:36.509 --> 00:09:41.350 ma 'am. Dorothea, do you find the work too hard 00:09:41.350 --> 00:09:45.210 in this big house? No, ma 'am. Well, we used 00:09:45.210 --> 00:09:47.490 to have a houseman and an upstairs maid and a 00:09:47.490 --> 00:09:49.889 cook. Oh, I have no complaints, Mrs. Emery, if 00:09:49.889 --> 00:09:52.970 you don't. Oh, I don't? This is the only job 00:09:52.970 --> 00:09:56.289 I've ever had. I've worked here for 22 years. 00:09:57.110 --> 00:10:00.629 I was so fond of both you and Mr. Emery right 00:10:00.629 --> 00:10:04.909 from the start, and I still am of you. And goodness 00:10:04.909 --> 00:10:07.389 knows I practically worship this house. It's 00:10:07.389 --> 00:10:10.789 so beautiful. I love taking care of it, and I 00:10:10.789 --> 00:10:13.419 love living in it. Do you still have that little 00:10:13.419 --> 00:10:15.879 room on the third floor in the back? Oh, I love 00:10:15.879 --> 00:10:18.600 that little room, Mrs. Emory. I can look out 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:22.840 and see the garden. I was thinking, why couldn't 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:26.200 we give you all the other rooms as well? The 00:10:26.200 --> 00:10:29.700 rooms the other servants used to have. All of 00:10:29.700 --> 00:10:31.659 them? Well, why couldn't we knock out the partition 00:10:31.659 --> 00:10:33.820 between your room and what used to be the cook's 00:10:33.820 --> 00:10:38.519 room? I have... I'd have two windows. And make 00:10:38.519 --> 00:10:41.039 one of the other rooms into a really big dressing 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:43.360 room. Oh! And maybe put in some kind of a kitchen 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:45.539 for you with a hot plate in the refrigerator. 00:10:45.899 --> 00:10:52.820 Oh! Mrs. Emory, I never thought I... I never 00:10:52.820 --> 00:10:57.940 imagined in my wildest dreams. No, no. It's all 00:10:57.940 --> 00:11:01.340 settled. Oh! I'm going to stay right here in 00:11:01.340 --> 00:11:04.860 bed all morning and make plans. I don't know 00:11:04.860 --> 00:11:08.299 how to... Thank you, Mrs. Emery. Don't try. It's 00:11:08.299 --> 00:11:12.019 my pleasure. I just hope I deserve all the... 00:11:12.019 --> 00:11:15.820 Hope. Before I forget, Dorothea. Last night, 00:11:15.820 --> 00:11:18.039 while I was drinking your lovely chocolate, an 00:11:18.039 --> 00:11:22.240 idea came to me. You and I are raffling around 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:25.460 in this big house. Oh, we certainly are. And 00:11:25.460 --> 00:11:29.399 I was wondering, well, how would it be if we 00:11:29.399 --> 00:11:33.320 invited Miss Lawrence to stay with us? Miss Constance 00:11:33.320 --> 00:11:37.210 Lawrence? Do you remember her? Isn't she the 00:11:37.210 --> 00:11:39.350 one who teaches school? Used to come to dinner 00:11:39.350 --> 00:11:42.309 once in a while, and after she'd help Mr. Amory 00:11:42.309 --> 00:11:45.830 with the double -crossed it? That's Connie. I 00:11:45.830 --> 00:11:48.129 thought we could open up the two big rooms on 00:11:48.129 --> 00:11:50.769 this floor in the back. In that way, she and 00:11:50.769 --> 00:11:52.490 I would have separate quarters and not be, you 00:11:52.490 --> 00:11:55.230 know, bumping into each other all the time. Of 00:11:55.230 --> 00:11:58.169 course, I imagine she'd expect to take care of 00:11:58.169 --> 00:12:01.629 her own room. Oh, I wouldn't mind. Let's do more 00:12:01.629 --> 00:12:04.860 rooms. You wouldn't mind cooking for her? What's 00:12:04.860 --> 00:12:08.919 one more person to cook for nothing? Well then, 00:12:09.240 --> 00:12:13.240 it's all settled. My goodness. The house will 00:12:13.240 --> 00:12:17.419 be kind of lively again. Almost like before. 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:23.299 Not quite, of course, but... Well, you know what 00:12:23.299 --> 00:12:26.919 I mean. I know what you mean, Dorothea. It will 00:12:26.919 --> 00:12:59.629 be more lively. I'm sorry, Goldie. Hello? Connie, 00:13:00.330 --> 00:13:04.629 this is Alice Emory. Alice! How are you? Long 00:13:04.629 --> 00:13:07.350 time no see. Well, I don't get out a great deal. 00:13:08.129 --> 00:13:10.190 Maybe we could have dinner some evening. Would 00:13:10.190 --> 00:13:12.870 you like to come here? Well, I thought you might 00:13:12.870 --> 00:13:17.070 like to come here. Well, if you'd rather. Heaven 00:13:17.070 --> 00:14:57.779 knows your dinners are better than mine. I can't 00:14:57.779 --> 00:15:02.620 leave this little place. I can't give up my afternoons. 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:07.100 Why, I couldn't live without my afternoons. I 00:15:07.100 --> 00:15:11.659 know this place is small and dark and furniture 00:15:11.659 --> 00:15:15.840 is dingy and the bathroom is old fashioned. But 00:15:15.840 --> 00:15:20.159 we've never minded, have we dearest? Have we? 00:15:25.870 --> 00:15:28.850 I'm moving to Alice's house. I might lose you 00:15:28.850 --> 00:15:31.990 forever. You might never come to visit me again 00:15:31.990 --> 00:15:34.950 and all my lovely afternoons will be really over. 00:15:35.590 --> 00:15:38.970 You're not to worry, Connie. You mean we can 00:15:38.970 --> 00:15:42.769 go on as we always have? Only we'll have more 00:15:42.769 --> 00:15:47.370 room. Well, if you say so. Trust me, Connie. 00:15:47.529 --> 00:16:18.799 Oh, I do trust you, Charlie. There's nothing 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:23.139 like the love of a good woman. Unless it's the 00:16:23.139 --> 00:16:26.899 love of two good women. We'll come back in a 00:16:26.899 --> 00:16:40.200 bit for act two. Now we come back to our story. 00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:45.659 We seem to have uncovered a triangle here. Connie, 00:16:46.039 --> 00:16:50.799 Alice, and Charles. as Connie calls him. And 00:16:50.799 --> 00:16:54.419 the apex of the triangle is naturally, if you 00:16:54.419 --> 00:16:58.659 will pardon my chauvinism, the man. Listen now 00:16:58.659 --> 00:17:04.460 to the second act of the ghost at the gate. What 00:17:04.460 --> 00:17:08.160 a lovely dinner that was, Alice. Was it, Connie? 00:17:08.640 --> 00:17:11.039 It was the wine that made everything taste so 00:17:11.039 --> 00:17:13.619 good. What ever gave you the idea of bringing 00:17:13.619 --> 00:17:16.859 home a bottle of wine? Alice! It's the first 00:17:16.859 --> 00:17:19.730 anniversary of me. moving in here. Don't you 00:17:19.730 --> 00:17:23.710 realize? I've been here a month. Well, for heaven's 00:17:23.710 --> 00:17:26.769 sake. Why, it seems like a week. Or it seems 00:17:26.769 --> 00:17:29.150 like you've always lived here. I don't know which. 00:17:29.369 --> 00:17:32.609 It has worked out, hasn't it? Has it ever worked 00:17:32.609 --> 00:17:35.809 out? I was so afraid it wouldn't. You know what? 00:17:36.470 --> 00:17:38.390 It's meeting just for dinner that's done it. 00:17:38.609 --> 00:17:41.890 Leading separate lives except for dinner. Connie, 00:17:42.650 --> 00:17:46.390 let's have wine every night. This wine. What 00:17:46.390 --> 00:17:49.400 kind is it? I can't quite make out what the label 00:17:49.400 --> 00:17:53.259 says. Oh, it's in French. Oh, so never mind. 00:17:53.500 --> 00:17:55.619 It's got a picture of a house on it. If it's 00:17:55.619 --> 00:17:59.299 French, it's a chateau. I didn't know that. You're 00:17:59.299 --> 00:18:03.180 very clever, Alice. Save the label, and I'll 00:18:03.180 --> 00:18:06.680 order a case of it. Must be really nice to have 00:18:06.680 --> 00:18:10.259 money. I've always found it to be nice. I guess 00:18:10.259 --> 00:18:12.200 money is about the nicest thing in the world. 00:18:12.380 --> 00:18:17.119 Money isn't. Love is. Oh, yes. First comes love, 00:18:17.400 --> 00:18:21.400 friends come second, then money. How about friends 00:18:21.400 --> 00:18:27.640 who have money? Oh, Connie, you're very witty 00:18:27.640 --> 00:18:31.380 tonight. So are you, Alice. Witty and profound. 00:18:32.019 --> 00:18:34.259 Seriously, though, Connie, you have been happy 00:18:34.259 --> 00:18:38.119 here, haven't you? Oh, Alice, my beautiful room, 00:18:38.500 --> 00:18:41.319 the marvelous food. Having done it for you to 00:18:41.319 --> 00:18:44.880 make my bed and clean up, it's heavenly. You're 00:18:44.880 --> 00:18:49.079 stuck with me. Oh, I am so glad, Connie. You 00:18:49.079 --> 00:18:52.720 can't imagine how glad. Is there any more of 00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:55.660 that wine? More than half a bottle. Oh, good. 00:18:56.339 --> 00:19:02.019 Let's... Mrs. Emery? What? Oh! Dorothea! What 00:19:02.019 --> 00:19:04.980 is it? It's after nine o 'clock, Mrs. Emery. 00:19:05.240 --> 00:19:08.279 You don't say. I was wondering, should I bring 00:19:08.279 --> 00:19:11.259 your clear consomme upstairs to you? What clear 00:19:11.259 --> 00:19:14.220 consomme? Well, Mrs. Emory, we talked about it 00:19:14.220 --> 00:19:16.119 last night. Remember when you decided to give 00:19:16.119 --> 00:19:18.640 up the chocolate, and then we tried apple juice 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:21.359 and prune juice and lemonade, and last night 00:19:21.359 --> 00:19:23.859 you said clear consomme because it has a nice 00:19:23.859 --> 00:19:28.200 aroma? I did say that, didn't I? Uh -huh. What 00:19:28.200 --> 00:19:32.480 time did you say it was? Quarter past nine. Oh! 00:19:33.480 --> 00:19:36.319 My goodness. What's the matter, Alice? Time. 00:19:36.519 --> 00:19:39.339 Past my bedtime. You want the consomme? Okay, 00:19:39.359 --> 00:19:41.769 heck with the consomme. I'll take the wine. You 00:19:41.769 --> 00:19:44.210 don't mind, do you, Connie? Why not, Alice? Well, 00:19:44.210 --> 00:19:46.710 let me have your glass, too, all right? Sure, 00:19:46.789 --> 00:19:49.549 Alice. I've got my glass, Connie. Forgive me 00:19:49.549 --> 00:19:52.670 for eating and running. Alice, it's your house. 00:19:54.069 --> 00:19:57.650 I simply didn't realize the time. A quarter past 00:19:57.650 --> 00:20:01.549 nine. Heaven! She'd better not drink any more 00:20:01.549 --> 00:20:04.170 of that wine. She's not used to it. Neither am 00:20:04.170 --> 00:20:07.210 I. Only tonight we were celebrating my being 00:20:07.210 --> 00:20:11.480 here a month. Why did you want two glasses, Dorothea? 00:20:11.839 --> 00:20:15.160 Oh, she always wants two. Two cups, two bowls, 00:20:15.319 --> 00:20:18.480 two glasses. One of her little ways. But tonight 00:20:18.480 --> 00:20:22.079 she took my glass. Do you suppose she wants me 00:20:22.079 --> 00:20:24.740 to join her? I wouldn't know, Miss Lawrence. 00:20:25.279 --> 00:20:28.839 Maybe. Maybe she's always expected me to join 00:20:28.839 --> 00:20:31.579 her after dinner, only she didn't want to suggest 00:20:31.579 --> 00:20:35.000 it. When I moved in here we agreed that we'd 00:20:35.000 --> 00:20:37.380 lead absolutely independent lives not getting 00:20:37.380 --> 00:20:40.259 each other's way We've been very careful about 00:20:40.259 --> 00:20:43.480 that going to our separate rooms after dinner 00:20:43.480 --> 00:20:47.119 Maybe all this time she was hoping I'd stop by 00:20:47.119 --> 00:20:50.559 her room on my way to my room And I never noticed 00:20:50.559 --> 00:20:53.940 Dorothy. Yeah, that must be it. I wouldn't really 00:20:53.940 --> 00:20:58.519 know I never guessed Oh self -centered. I wasn't 00:20:58.519 --> 00:21:01.460 sensitive. I'll never forgive myself I'm going 00:21:01.460 --> 00:21:04.319 up there right now and apologize. Can I clear 00:21:04.319 --> 00:21:08.960 the table now? Do whatever you like. She's got 00:21:08.960 --> 00:21:12.519 to forgive me. That's all there is to it. Dear, 00:21:12.819 --> 00:21:16.299 sweet, generous Alice. She'll understand. She'll 00:21:16.299 --> 00:21:20.900 know I didn't mean to hurt her feelings. Alice? 00:21:21.400 --> 00:21:24.519 May I come in? Come on, darling. Have some wine. 00:21:25.539 --> 00:21:28.579 Alice? Connie and I had it for dinner. We just 00:21:28.579 --> 00:21:34.160 loved it. Try it, Charles. Charles? Not at all 00:21:34.160 --> 00:21:41.619 bad. Nice bouquet. Charlie! Charlie! Where did 00:21:41.619 --> 00:22:00.859 you come from, Connie? You never told me. What 00:22:00.859 --> 00:22:04.220 did you think of Charlie's explanation? I've 00:22:04.220 --> 00:22:07.200 heard it all before. How he needs lots of love 00:22:07.200 --> 00:22:09.140 to make the trip from there to here. He always 00:22:09.140 --> 00:22:11.180 needed a lot of love, even when he was just here. 00:22:11.299 --> 00:22:14.240 Well, he got a lot. Did he really spend all those 00:22:14.240 --> 00:22:17.680 afternoons with you? I mean, before he left here 00:22:17.680 --> 00:22:21.619 and went there? Five afternoons a week. Alice, 00:22:22.460 --> 00:22:26.680 do you hate me? I should. I know, but do you? 00:22:27.519 --> 00:22:29.779 I guess I do when it comes right down to it. 00:22:29.869 --> 00:22:32.529 I'll move out. I'll move back to my one room. 00:22:32.589 --> 00:22:35.630 But I don't want you to move out. Oh, we were 00:22:35.630 --> 00:22:39.029 having such a good time. Remember how we were 00:22:39.029 --> 00:22:41.730 laughing and carrying on at dinner? I haven't 00:22:41.730 --> 00:22:44.349 laughed like that in years and years. Could have 00:22:44.349 --> 00:22:48.609 been the wine. There's half a bottle left. Should 00:22:48.609 --> 00:22:52.390 we? Let's. You don't think we'll turn into a 00:22:52.390 --> 00:22:55.210 couple of alcoholics, do you? Not on half a bottle 00:22:55.210 --> 00:23:01.799 of wine. Like white wine. Well? Here's to... 00:23:01.799 --> 00:23:08.160 To what? Here's to Charles. To Charlie. I feel 00:23:08.160 --> 00:23:11.480 as if I've just buried him. Said goodbye forever. 00:23:12.839 --> 00:23:15.160 Did he really come to see you five afternoons 00:23:15.160 --> 00:23:18.900 a week, Connie? At three o 'clock. You see, my 00:23:18.900 --> 00:23:21.319 school and his bank let out at the same time. 00:23:21.559 --> 00:23:25.079 It was practically inevitable. Charlie was a 00:23:25.079 --> 00:23:29.319 no good man. He still is. Only now he's a... 00:23:29.319 --> 00:23:35.839 a no good ghost. Oh, Alice. There's enough wine 00:23:35.839 --> 00:23:38.880 left for a glass apiece. Fill her up. Hold out 00:23:38.880 --> 00:23:43.759 your glass. All that bluff about needing to be 00:23:43.759 --> 00:23:46.279 loved and wanted or he couldn't make the trip. 00:23:46.539 --> 00:23:48.279 Remember what we were saying at dinner, Connie, 00:23:48.380 --> 00:23:51.279 about love being the most important thing? I've 00:23:51.279 --> 00:23:53.640 always believed that. And friends being the second 00:23:53.640 --> 00:23:56.430 most important thing? Especially friends like 00:23:56.430 --> 00:24:00.369 you, Alice. And like you, Connie. I feel closer 00:24:00.369 --> 00:24:03.109 to you right now than I've ever felt to anybody. 00:24:03.789 --> 00:24:07.250 My mother, my father, my canary. We've been through 00:24:07.250 --> 00:24:12.269 a lot, Connie. Just in the last half hour. And 00:24:12.269 --> 00:24:16.769 yet we're still friends. Isn't that amazing? 00:24:17.569 --> 00:24:23.660 Truly remarkable. It must mean something. Something 00:24:23.660 --> 00:24:30.519 very profound. Like what? Like, well, like there 00:24:30.519 --> 00:24:33.220 are times in a person's life when love isn't 00:24:33.220 --> 00:24:37.720 the most important thing. Friends are. Friends? 00:24:38.680 --> 00:24:43.099 Yes. Stupid ghost. Silly, pompous ghost. You 00:24:43.099 --> 00:24:46.039 believe in ghosts? Say no. Neither do I. Never 00:24:46.039 --> 00:24:49.240 have. Except Charlie, of course. Why should Charlie 00:24:49.240 --> 00:24:51.759 be an exception? He is for you too, Alice. You 00:24:51.759 --> 00:24:55.079 know he is. Tell me something. Why do you believe 00:24:55.079 --> 00:25:00.119 in him? Because... Why? I want to. That's why 00:25:00.119 --> 00:25:02.359 I believe in him too. Is that wrong? Not wrong, 00:25:02.359 --> 00:25:04.460 but you've got to stop, and I've got to stop. 00:25:04.880 --> 00:25:06.799 We can't have him visiting you in the back of 00:25:06.799 --> 00:25:08.619 the house from three to six, and then coming 00:25:08.619 --> 00:25:10.599 to see me in the front of the house from nine 00:25:10.599 --> 00:25:14.980 to twelve. Now that we know... It wouldn't be 00:25:14.980 --> 00:25:18.460 nice. Well, we couldn't be friends anymore. Oh, 00:25:18.799 --> 00:25:22.519 Alice. But if we don't believe in him, if we 00:25:22.519 --> 00:25:26.299 don't, well, don't desire him, then he'll have 00:25:26.299 --> 00:25:30.759 to go back there and stay there. He won't be 00:25:30.759 --> 00:25:34.079 able to come here anymore. He can't make the 00:25:34.079 --> 00:25:40.319 trip! Connie, can you do it? Stop warning him? 00:25:40.480 --> 00:25:44.799 Yes. Of course I can. Why I'm having a wonderful 00:25:44.799 --> 00:25:50.099 time. I don't need him Neither do I will be better 00:25:50.099 --> 00:25:53.779 off without him We'll be free Connie liberated 00:25:53.779 --> 00:25:58.099 women Let's drink to that right you are bottoms 00:25:58.099 --> 00:26:11.119 up What courage lies in the bottom of a glass 00:26:11.119 --> 00:26:15.539 courage for the shy the lonely, the frightened, 00:26:16.319 --> 00:26:20.920 the frustrated, and for the two elderly ladies 00:26:20.920 --> 00:26:25.099 determined to forget a ghost. We'll return shortly 00:26:25.099 --> 00:26:40.700 with Act 3. Alice and Connie are bravely resolved 00:26:40.700 --> 00:26:46.769 to forget the man. both had loved so long. But 00:26:46.769 --> 00:26:53.049 what of him? Poor lonely unloved ghost, doomed 00:26:53.049 --> 00:26:58.230 to live on forever in the there, banished forever 00:26:58.230 --> 00:27:28.769 from the here. What of him? I'm here, Charlie, 00:27:28.869 --> 00:27:34.430 but you're not. I am so. I don't believe in you 00:27:34.430 --> 00:27:38.789 anymore. You do too. And I don't love you or 00:27:38.789 --> 00:27:43.930 want you, so there. Connie, you're being very 00:27:43.930 --> 00:27:48.869 cruel. I expect I am. If you don't believe me, 00:27:49.349 --> 00:27:52.089 why are you talking to me? Don't try to confuse 00:27:52.089 --> 00:27:55.809 things, Charlie. Answer my question. Why are 00:27:55.809 --> 00:27:57.509 you talking to me if you... You don't believe 00:27:57.509 --> 00:28:11.410 in me. Goldie, tell that ghost to go away. How 00:28:11.410 --> 00:28:15.450 did it go today, Connie? Oh, he was around. I 00:28:15.450 --> 00:28:18.549 could hear him. What did he want? The usual. 00:28:19.369 --> 00:28:23.130 Be loved, be wanted. I told him no more of that. 00:28:23.250 --> 00:28:26.069 You had a conversation with him? Not much of 00:28:26.069 --> 00:28:29.519 a one. You haven't stopped believing. Have you 00:28:29.519 --> 00:28:34.500 stopped, Alice? I think so. You haven't. If you'd 00:28:34.500 --> 00:28:36.380 stopped, you wouldn't say, I think so. You'd 00:28:36.380 --> 00:28:39.660 know. Oh, Connie, how can I know? Mrs. Emery? 00:28:40.680 --> 00:28:43.140 What is it, Darthia? Do you want Cleopatra to 00:28:43.140 --> 00:28:47.799 be in your room tonight or what? Nothing. Not 00:28:47.799 --> 00:28:52.039 anything? Not a thing. Oh, well, all right. I 00:28:52.039 --> 00:28:54.539 had it already, but... That ought to show him, 00:28:54.660 --> 00:29:21.420 don't you think, Connie? A blessed thing, Charles. 00:29:22.180 --> 00:29:26.779 Ah, you spoke. I didn't mean to. But you did. 00:29:27.680 --> 00:29:30.059 How beautiful to hear your voice. Don't tell 00:29:30.059 --> 00:29:34.220 me that old malarkey, Charles. Malarkey? I never 00:29:34.220 --> 00:29:36.259 thought I'd hear my wife use a word like that. 00:29:36.359 --> 00:29:40.680 I'm not your wife. I'm your widow. And I'm using 00:29:40.680 --> 00:29:44.519 a lot of words I never used before. Alice, say 00:29:44.519 --> 00:29:48.210 you love me still. I can't make the... trip unless 00:29:48.210 --> 00:29:52.710 you love me I loved you for 35 years Alice I'm 00:29:52.710 --> 00:29:56.650 facing eternity what's 35 years maybe not much 00:29:56.650 --> 00:30:00.670 there where you are but it's a long time here 00:30:00.670 --> 00:30:03.349 now I'm going to turn off the light and go to 00:30:03.349 --> 00:30:15.029 sleep I was talking to him before I could stop 00:30:15.029 --> 00:30:18.180 myself the same with me But he couldn't complete 00:30:18.180 --> 00:30:20.160 the trip because I wouldn't say I loved him. 00:30:20.500 --> 00:30:23.200 Same here. And I really don't think I do love 00:30:23.200 --> 00:30:26.579 him, Connie. I think I just got into the habit. 00:30:26.859 --> 00:30:30.140 Me too. What does he want to hang around for? 00:30:30.680 --> 00:30:33.440 Can't imagine. Must be so beautiful there where 00:30:33.440 --> 00:30:36.059 he is. Why should he want to come here? He says 00:30:36.059 --> 00:30:39.619 it's very peaceful there. Sounds heavenly. Not 00:30:39.619 --> 00:30:43.099 much like here, Alice. That's why he keeps coming 00:30:43.099 --> 00:30:45.940 back. He can't stand the peacefulness. He isn't 00:30:45.940 --> 00:30:49.779 having any fun. I bet you're right. No worries, 00:30:49.980 --> 00:30:53.960 no troubles, no arguments, no problems. He can't 00:30:53.960 --> 00:30:56.740 stand it. That's the way he was when he was here. 00:30:57.000 --> 00:30:59.720 That's why he took up with me. Why else would 00:30:59.720 --> 00:31:02.059 he want to have a clandestine affair in the afternoon 00:31:02.059 --> 00:31:04.220 with a middle -aged schoolteacher when he had 00:31:04.220 --> 00:31:08.000 a wonderful wife like you? He was bored. He wanted 00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:13.180 a little excitement. He still wants it. Funny. 00:31:14.019 --> 00:31:16.279 I always thought people change when they left 00:31:16.279 --> 00:31:18.839 this terrible world. I guess they don't. I hope 00:31:18.839 --> 00:31:22.000 I change. I'd hate to go on the same way for... 00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:25.980 for eternity. Being petty and jealous and suspicious. 00:31:26.180 --> 00:31:30.059 Oh, no. Well, how can it be so peaceful there 00:31:30.059 --> 00:31:33.960 if everyone's the same as they were here? Maybe. 00:31:34.859 --> 00:31:38.200 Maybe the others don't stay the same. Maybe they 00:31:38.200 --> 00:31:41.660 accept all that eternal peace and enjoy it. In 00:31:41.660 --> 00:31:45.019 the meantime, Connie. While we're still here, 00:31:46.380 --> 00:31:49.759 we have a problem that must be dealt with. Let's 00:31:49.759 --> 00:31:51.539 face it, neither of us has stopped believing 00:31:51.539 --> 00:31:54.319 in Charles completely. Alice, I don't know if 00:31:54.319 --> 00:31:57.619 I'll ever be able to stop completely. Maybe there'll 00:31:57.619 --> 00:32:00.339 always be some little corner of my mind that 00:32:00.339 --> 00:32:03.539 goes on believing that Charlie is here. It's 00:32:03.539 --> 00:32:06.640 the same with me. And as long as we both have 00:32:06.640 --> 00:32:08.799 that last little shred of belief, he will be 00:32:08.799 --> 00:32:11.789 here. Wandering around the house making bleating 00:32:11.789 --> 00:32:14.289 noises. But we won't answer it. We've got to 00:32:14.289 --> 00:32:20.329 be strong. Use their measures. Like what? Like... 00:32:20.329 --> 00:32:24.869 Like rejecting him. Utterly. How do we do that? 00:32:26.289 --> 00:32:28.930 I have two rooms in the front of the house. Two 00:32:28.930 --> 00:32:31.549 big rooms with a big bath between. Would you 00:32:31.549 --> 00:32:34.890 consider taking one of them? Why, I... That would 00:32:34.890 --> 00:32:37.440 be... What I call rejecting him utterly. He'd 00:32:37.440 --> 00:32:39.359 never try to visit one of us if the other one 00:32:39.359 --> 00:32:42.259 was there. Could I bring Goldie? Of course you 00:32:42.259 --> 00:32:45.960 can bring Goldie. I'll get a canary, too, of 00:32:45.960 --> 00:32:48.759 the opposite sex. You'll hear some real singing 00:32:48.759 --> 00:32:52.259 then, all right. Let's skip the set. Let's go 00:32:52.259 --> 00:32:54.480 upstairs now and look at the room and you can 00:32:54.480 --> 00:32:56.799 decide what furniture you want to keep and which 00:32:56.799 --> 00:32:59.480 you want to get rid of. It's all terribly exciting. 00:33:00.200 --> 00:33:02.799 Oh, Alice, I don't want to be dead for a long 00:33:02.799 --> 00:33:15.299 time. between the windows and the chair here. 00:33:15.960 --> 00:33:18.859 We take out the love seat. And that'll leave 00:33:18.859 --> 00:33:21.859 room for the bed. What do you think, Connie? 00:33:22.079 --> 00:33:26.259 I think it's perfect. Now, what color do you 00:33:26.259 --> 00:33:31.119 want the walls painted? Uh, blue. Blue? Really? 00:33:32.940 --> 00:33:35.880 I thought with your dark hair you'd have wanted 00:33:35.880 --> 00:33:39.240 pink or yellow. Ooh, such a nice background for 00:33:39.240 --> 00:33:42.700 Goldie. I'll tell you a secret, Alice. My hair 00:33:42.700 --> 00:33:50.700 is dyed this color. Alice? Alice? Listen to him. 00:33:50.839 --> 00:33:54.900 He sounds miserable. I expect he is. You really 00:33:54.900 --> 00:33:58.400 dye your hair, Connie? Do it myself. Want me 00:33:58.400 --> 00:34:01.680 to? I'll show you how. I wonder why I ever let 00:34:01.680 --> 00:34:06.619 myself go gray. You look lovely. Sort of a pale 00:34:06.619 --> 00:34:13.579 ash blonde. Pale ash blonde? I like the sound 00:34:13.579 --> 00:34:20.699 of that. Connie? Connie? Where are you, my darling? 00:34:20.920 --> 00:34:23.900 Poor old thing. Don't you give in! Oh, I won't! 00:34:23.960 --> 00:34:27.460 I won't! Be strong! Oh, I will! I swear! Connie! 00:34:27.579 --> 00:34:29.639 Now, you said blue for the walls. Now, what shade 00:34:29.639 --> 00:34:32.440 of blue? Act marine, turquoise, robin's egg? 00:34:32.659 --> 00:34:35.780 Turquoise. Good. And we'll put white criss -cross 00:34:35.780 --> 00:34:38.840 curtains at the windows. With turquoise tie -backs! 00:34:39.079 --> 00:34:41.289 You're right! And we'll get a turquoise and white 00:34:41.289 --> 00:34:45.210 spread for the bed. Beautiful. Could I possibly 00:34:45.210 --> 00:34:49.030 have a white rug? A what? Shag rug. Why not? 00:34:49.949 --> 00:35:04.269 Alice. Connie. Connie. Do you mean to sit there 00:35:04.269 --> 00:35:06.070 and tell me you didn't even take one peek at 00:35:06.070 --> 00:35:08.440 your new room? I wanted to wait until you got 00:35:08.440 --> 00:35:10.980 home from community chess. Well, right after 00:35:10.980 --> 00:35:13.019 dinner, we'll look at it together. What if the 00:35:13.019 --> 00:35:15.000 color is wrong? The painter showed me a sample. 00:35:15.199 --> 00:35:18.000 Pure tech -wise. We'll eat fast. I can't wait 00:35:18.000 --> 00:35:21.320 to see it. Dorothy had the bed moved in. Oh, 00:35:21.380 --> 00:35:25.739 Connie. I hope we'll get along as well as we've 00:35:25.739 --> 00:35:28.639 been getting along after you move in. We will. 00:35:28.739 --> 00:35:32.219 We will. And Charlie will go back there and settle 00:35:32.219 --> 00:35:35.699 down. He'll be much better off. He'll thank us. 00:35:36.559 --> 00:35:41.679 If I know Charles, he won't. Well, if you don't 00:35:41.679 --> 00:35:44.400 know him, I don't know who does. Unless it's 00:35:44.400 --> 00:35:52.320 you. You know you're right there. Connie, I have 00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:56.760 a thought. What if I went to the community chest 00:35:56.760 --> 00:36:00.639 in the morning instead of the afternoon? That 00:36:00.639 --> 00:36:02.260 way, when you get through school, we could do 00:36:02.260 --> 00:36:07.869 things like go to the movies. and you know what 00:36:07.869 --> 00:36:11.449 else weekends we could take a train into the 00:36:11.449 --> 00:36:14.710 city and see a play or a concert or go to a museum 00:36:14.710 --> 00:36:18.230 all those things I've been wanting to do only 00:36:18.230 --> 00:36:21.630 I didn't want to do them alone do you know what 00:36:21.630 --> 00:36:26.570 else you mean there's more well you have that 00:36:26.570 --> 00:36:29.929 two months off in the summer we could go to Europe 00:36:29.929 --> 00:36:35.670 Europe I'll pay of course I don't argue I'm your 00:36:35.670 --> 00:36:39.309 rich friend, so I'll pay. Alice, say it again. 00:36:40.309 --> 00:36:42.610 We're doing the right thing by Charlie, aren't 00:36:42.610 --> 00:36:45.369 we? Charles must stop being a ghost and settle 00:36:45.369 --> 00:36:48.730 down. And be happy. He will be happy, won't he? 00:36:48.869 --> 00:36:51.590 Charles will be happy there in whatever way they 00:36:51.590 --> 00:36:55.650 are happy there. Just as we will be happy here. 00:36:56.000 --> 00:36:58.260 I dare say the ways are different, but to each 00:36:58.260 --> 00:37:00.940 his own. Isn't that the expression? Oh, Alice, 00:37:01.260 --> 00:37:03.539 you do have a way of making everything sound 00:37:03.539 --> 00:37:07.099 simple. It is simple. If you stare the facts 00:37:07.099 --> 00:37:10.480 in the face and don't waver. I hope we're not 00:37:10.480 --> 00:37:13.239 being selfish. We're being realistic, that's 00:37:13.239 --> 00:37:16.780 all. Sometimes realistic and selfish look like 00:37:16.780 --> 00:37:20.119 the same thing, but they're not. Finished your 00:37:20.119 --> 00:37:23.019 coffee? Uh -huh. Then guess what we're going 00:37:23.019 --> 00:37:25.940 to do? Go look at my new room. Yes, only wait 00:37:25.940 --> 00:37:29.199 a minute. Dorothea, I simply can't wait to see 00:37:29.199 --> 00:37:32.639 it. Yes, Mrs. Emery. You know that case of French 00:37:32.639 --> 00:37:35.739 wine I ordered. Did it come? The one with the 00:37:35.739 --> 00:37:38.099 picture of the chateau on the label. It came 00:37:38.099 --> 00:37:41.599 last week. Well, will you uncork a bottle and 00:37:41.599 --> 00:37:46.000 bring it upstairs to my suite? To our suite. 00:37:46.519 --> 00:37:50.159 Oh, Alice. And two glasses. Yes, Mrs. Emery. 00:37:50.380 --> 00:37:54.210 Connie. You and I are going to drink to a brand 00:37:54.210 --> 00:38:02.130 new life. Three new lives. Yours, mine, and his. 00:38:03.349 --> 00:38:17.869 Come along. Come in, Dorothea. Oh, good, the 00:38:17.869 --> 00:38:20.409 wine's arrived. Just set it down here, Dorothea. 00:38:20.429 --> 00:38:23.320 Yes, ma 'am. Dorothy and Miss Lawrence and I 00:38:23.320 --> 00:38:26.340 have decided to go to Europe for two months this 00:38:26.340 --> 00:38:29.880 summer. Oh? So you'll have a good long vacation 00:38:29.880 --> 00:38:32.739 instead of your usual two weeks. Full salary, 00:38:32.739 --> 00:38:35.780 of course. You're free to go where you like or 00:38:35.780 --> 00:38:39.099 you can stay here. Oh, thank you, Mrs. Henry. 00:38:40.460 --> 00:38:43.679 I don't know where I'd go exactly. Well, suit 00:38:43.679 --> 00:38:49.380 yourself. Pour the wine, Connie. We'll, uh... 00:38:49.260 --> 00:38:52.360 That be all for this evening? That'll be all. 00:38:52.820 --> 00:38:55.719 Then I'll say good night to you both. Good night. 00:38:55.940 --> 00:39:04.800 Sleep well, Dorothea. Thank you. Two whole months. 00:39:06.900 --> 00:39:10.500 They'll be gone two whole months. What'll I do 00:39:10.500 --> 00:39:15.420 with myself? Dorothea? Where would I go? Dorothea? 00:39:15.420 --> 00:39:17.940 What would I do if I stayed here in an empty 00:39:17.940 --> 00:39:22.599 house? Dorothea, can't you hear me? I'd be all 00:39:22.599 --> 00:39:27.440 by myself. No, you wouldn't. No, you wouldn't. 00:39:27.500 --> 00:39:31.719 If there was just somebody... There he is. There 00:39:31.719 --> 00:39:37.440 he is. If you'd only listen. Somebody like... 00:39:37.440 --> 00:39:43.599 like him. There is me, Dorothea. Oh, Dorothea, 00:39:43.599 --> 00:39:48.119 hear me. But he's gone. Believe in me. Never 00:39:48.119 --> 00:39:53.559 to return. Love me. Want me. And I loved him 00:39:53.559 --> 00:40:02.179 so. Dorothea, listen. And I still do. Oh, I love 00:40:02.179 --> 00:40:38.760 him still. Dorothea, look at me. I've never forgotten 00:40:38.760 --> 00:40:45.360 you. Really? I... Well, I know it was just that 00:40:45.360 --> 00:40:48.519 one weekend when Mrs. Emory went to her 25th 00:40:48.519 --> 00:40:53.400 college reunion, but I've never forgotten. That 00:40:53.400 --> 00:40:58.800 was quite some time ago. I was younger then, 00:40:58.800 --> 00:41:02.280 of course. You haven't changed, Dorothea. Not 00:41:02.280 --> 00:41:35.570 an eye older. That weekend you came up to my 00:41:35.570 --> 00:41:37.929 room on the third floor, don't you remember? 00:42:58.730 --> 00:43:02.050 Connie and Alice with their new hairdos and their 00:43:02.050 --> 00:43:05.929 new pants suits. Good luck to them all. Good 00:43:05.929 --> 00:43:09.869 luck to all of us. It's what we need the most. 00:43:10.690 --> 00:43:24.929 I'll be back shortly. I hope you enjoyed our 00:43:24.929 --> 00:43:28.250 little ghost story. It wasn't meant to be taken 00:43:28.250 --> 00:43:32.570 too... His wife isn't meant to be taken too seriously. 00:43:33.590 --> 00:43:37.909 Or, for that matter, death. Don't you agree? 00:43:39.469 --> 00:43:42.329 Our cast included Beatrice Strait, Paula Truman, 00:43:42.829 --> 00:43:46.150 Joan Loring, and John Barragrave. The entire 00:43:46.150 --> 00:43:48.590 production was under the direction of Hyman Brown. 00:43:49.730 --> 00:44:42.280 And now, a preview of our next take. But he'll 00:44:42.280 --> 00:44:44.960 emerge unharmed when the flames die down. It's 00:44:44.960 --> 00:44:48.760 a miracle, Casey. It's impressive. But I don't 00:44:48.760 --> 00:44:52.500 believe in miracles. This is E .G. Marshall inviting 00:44:52.500 --> 00:44:55.400 you to return to our mystery theater for another 00:44:55.400 --> 00:44:59.820 adventure in the macabre. Until next time.