1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Roma wine presents Suspense. 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:18,000 Roma wine made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 3 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:19,000 Salud! 4 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:20,000 Your health, senor. 5 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:23,000 Roma wine toasts the world. 6 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:29,000 The wine for your table is Roma wine made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 7 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:37,000 This is the Man in Black, here to introduce this weekly half hour of Suspense. 8 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:42,000 Tonight as stars we bring you two of Hollywood's outstanding actresses, 9 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:46,000 Miss Ida Lupino and Miss Agnes Moorhead. 10 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:49,000 And so with the remarkable tale of the sisters, 11 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:55,000 and with the performances of Ida Lupino as Lydia Haskell and Agnes Moorhead as Ellie, 12 00:00:55,000 --> 00:01:21,000 Roma wines again hope to keep you in Suspense. 13 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:25,000 Here is one I think would be very lovely. 14 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:32,000 It has a far superior lining, pure silk, much heavier than the others we've looked at. 15 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,000 Do you care for this one, Miss Haskell? 16 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:38,000 Oh yes, that's very nice. 17 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:42,000 I believe I'd like to see something perhaps even a little better. 18 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:46,000 Of course, if you just step over this way, Miss Haskell. 19 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:53,000 Now here, here is an exquisite casket, something that really does honor to the departed. 20 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,000 Yes, it's beautiful. 21 00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:02,000 Now the interior is just the same as the last, but the casket itself is of bronze, solid bronze. 22 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:04,000 Won't that be rather heavy? 23 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:09,000 Yes, but not too heavy. Will there be six pallbearers? 24 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:10,000 I don't know. 25 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:16,000 Well, it doesn't matter really. Four men can carry this very easily. 26 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:22,000 Miss Haskell, I want you to notice the floral design here, all hand wrought, every bit of it. 27 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:29,000 And, oh yes, notice the seams in this casket, airtight and watertight guaranteed. 28 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:32,000 You know of course how important that is. 29 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:33,000 Yes. 30 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:43,000 Yes, but this casket in a hundred years or even two hundred years will be just as strong and will look just as beautiful as it does on this stand today. 31 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,000 You couldn't buy a finer piece of workmanship. 32 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,000 How much is this one, please? 33 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:55,000 Miss Haskell, a durable by the way, durable for durability we say in the trade. 34 00:02:55,000 --> 00:03:04,000 This casket is priced at, you see, $775, but we can't bring back the department. 35 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:10,000 No, our only solace is the knowledge that we've done in the last possible honor. 36 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:13,000 Very well. I'll take this one. 37 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:22,000 I'm sure you're making a very wise choice. In all my years as a mortician, I've never found a family that regretted money spent on a durable. 38 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:24,000 And now, let me see. 39 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:25,000 I'll give you a check. 40 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:30,000 Oh no, that won't be necessary. Not immediately. After the funeral will do. 41 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:37,000 Oh, by the way, we haven't mentioned it. Are we handling the funeral arrangement? 42 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,000 I really don't know yet. 43 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:43,000 Oh, well, you want the casket delivered somewhere? 44 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:47,000 No. I'd like you to hold it for a while, please. 45 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:50,000 Hold it? But for how long? 46 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,000 For three weeks. 47 00:03:52,000 --> 00:04:01,000 Three weeks? I don't understand. Who is the party, the deceased? Who is this casket for? 48 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,000 It's for me. 49 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:17,000 You have heard the prologue to this evening's suspense play, The Sisters. 50 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:24,000 Before we return to the scene of our drama, here is a message from your host, the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California. 51 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:28,000 You remember the old saying, the grass is always greener in the other fellow's yard? 52 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:38,000 You might agree with the truth of that statement if you happen to overhear a conversation that might easily be taking place at this moment in the smart and festive Club Montmartre in Havana, Cuba. 53 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:43,000 An American has just complimented his Cuban friend on the fine quality of Havana tobacco. 54 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:49,000 Graciously, the Cuban replies, but you of the United States need have no envy of us. 55 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:55,000 Nature has made a great gift of perfection to your country, too, the magnificent wine which we also enjoy. 56 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:59,000 It is Roma Wine, made in your own California. 57 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:05,000 Friends, that little anecdote is typical of many countries where wine is truly enjoyed. 58 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:11,000 For in other lands, Roma wines must be imported over long distances from our own California. 59 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:20,000 A luxury to be enjoyed on special occasions, while lucky you can enjoy these superb Roma wines as a daily delight, 60 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:26,000 with no import duty, no expensive shipping charges added to your cost for Roma wine. 61 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:38,000 Whichever one of Roma Wine's many types, your own taste test names his favorite, you'll agree here is truly superb wine that could come only from truly choice wine districts. 62 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:44,000 And you'll say, no wonder Roma wines are America's largest selling wines. 63 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:55,000 I'll spell out the name for you, R-O-M-A, Roma Wine, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 64 00:05:55,000 --> 00:06:05,000 And now it is with pleasure that Roma wines bring back to our sound stage Ida Lupino as Lydia Haskell and Agnes Moorhead as Ellie in The Sisters. 65 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:10,000 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 66 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:30,000 Lydia, Lydia, I thought I heard you come in. Where have you been, Lydia? You've been gone all afternoon. 67 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:31,000 I've been shopping. 68 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,000 What did you buy? Did you get the ribbons I asked for? 69 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,000 No, I didn't have time. 70 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:39,000 Oh, I wanted some new ribbons. My others are all worn out. See, Lydia? 71 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:43,000 Ellie, I wish you'd stop putting ribbons in your hair like a schoolgirl. You're almost 40 years old. 72 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:45,000 I know, Lydia. I know. 73 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:50,000 Well, then try to act like it. Hand me my sewing and light the lamp. It's getting dark. 74 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:55,000 I wonder why we have to grow old. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we had always stayed young like we used to be? 75 00:06:55,000 --> 00:07:00,000 Oh, did you remember when Mother used to send us to school with our ribbons matching and our dresses matching, 76 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:06,000 and at the end of the day, no one would even guess we were sisters because I was always so must and you were always so clean? 77 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:09,000 Oh, I wish we were young again, Lydia. 78 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:11,000 Stop talking nonsense, Ellie. 79 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:17,000 It is nonsense, isn't it? Oh, oh, the doorbell rang while you were out just before you came home? 80 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:18,000 You did not say... 81 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:22,000 Oh, no, you told me never to answer it. I just looked out of the upstairs window. 82 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:24,000 Did you see who it was? 83 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:29,000 Oh, yes. It was a man, a rather big man. He rang a long time and then he went away. 84 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,000 Well, he didn't see you, did he? 85 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:37,000 Oh, no. I just peeked ever so carefully from behind the curtains. Then I came down here and watched him going down the walk. 86 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:38,000 You came downstairs? 87 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:39,000 Yes, I did. 88 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:41,000 I told you never to come down those stairs when I'm not in the house. 89 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:45,000 It was all right, Lydia. I held on very tight to the balusters all the way and I didn't want to look down the stairwell, 90 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:48,000 so I didn't get dizzy and I didn't want to jump. 91 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:50,000 Well, don't do it again. 92 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:54,000 It was just that I was lonely. I didn't think you were ever coming home. 93 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:57,000 Lydia, you didn't tell me what you bought. 94 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,000 Hmm? Oh, a duravo. 95 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,000 What's that? What's a duravo? 96 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:04,000 Don't ask so many questions, Ellie. 97 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:11,000 All right. Lydia, I think I'll sew too. I could fix up one of these old ribbons. May I, Lydia? 98 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,000 Yes. Yes, so. It'll be good for you. 99 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,000 Thank you. 100 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:28,000 I'm not a little girl. 101 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:30,000 Lydia? 102 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:31,000 Yes? 103 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,000 Lydia, could I go shopping someday? 104 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:35,000 Don't be a fool, Ellie. 105 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:40,000 I'm sorry. I just thought, no, I suppose you're right. It wouldn't do. Not yet. 106 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:48,000 Oh, yes. 107 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:50,000 There wasn't any mail today. 108 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:51,000 Wasn't there? 109 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,000 No, I thought perhaps there'd be a letter from David. 110 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:57,000 It's been such a long time since he's written. Hasn't it? 111 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:58,000 I haven't noticed. 112 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:01,000 Oh, yes, he used to write every week. One Tuesday. 113 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:03,000 Then I'd get the letter on Thursday. 114 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:07,000 But there wasn't one this week or last to the week before that. 115 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:10,000 It's strange, isn't it? But perhaps he's been busy. 116 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:12,000 Perhaps. 117 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:18,000 Still, he never used to be too busy to write. I can't understand it. You suppose there's some other reason? 118 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:22,000 What are you trying to say, Ellie? Are you hinting that perhaps I'm keeping your mail from you? 119 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:23,000 Oh, no. 120 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:26,000 Well, you seem to be. Why should I keep David's letters from you? 121 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:33,000 But I didn't say that. I just said it was strange that David hadn't written. That's all. He wouldn't keep David's letters. I know that, Lydia. 122 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:34,000 Go on with your sewing. 123 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:37,000 Oh, yes, I want to finish these ribbons. 124 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:42,000 He's coming by. 125 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:44,000 All his friends. 126 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:46,000 Stop singing that. Stop it. 127 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,000 But Lydia, it's a hymn. I've always sung. 128 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:51,000 I don't care. I said stop. Or learn something else. 129 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:58,000 That's all you sing day and night, day and night. Same tune over and over and over. Now stop it. 130 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:03,000 Lydia. Lydia, sometimes you frighten me the way you look at me. 131 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:07,000 You make me think that perhaps I'm not getting well. 132 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:11,000 Perhaps I'm still crazy. I'm not. 133 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:14,000 I'm not still crazy, am I, Lydia? 134 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:16,000 I'm not. 135 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:40,000 I'm not. 136 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:41,000 Yes? 137 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:45,000 Evening. Are you Miss Lydia Haskell? 138 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,000 Why, yes. 139 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:51,000 Well, can I speak to you for a minute? I was here this afternoon, but there was no one home. 140 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:53,000 What is it, please? 141 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:59,000 Well, we had a call from Doan Brothers, the undertakers. I'm from the police department. 142 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:04,000 Really? I don't see what the police could want with me. Come in if you wish. 143 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:09,000 Thanks. 144 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:10,000 Sit down. 145 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:13,000 Thank you. 146 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:21,000 There's nothing we want, Miss Haskell, except it's sort of unusual for a woman to order a casket for herself. 147 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:29,000 Unusual? I've heard of many cases of that kind. People who are alone in the world and have no one else to look after things. 148 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:35,000 Sure, I know. Only it's a little more unusual when you can name the date. 149 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:40,000 The undertaker said you wanted the casket held for three weeks. 150 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:45,000 Why three weeks? Must be some reason for it. 151 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:53,000 Yes, there is. I'm going to die. I shall die in three weeks, or perhaps even before. 152 00:11:53,000 --> 00:12:01,000 There's no doubt of it in my mind, and that's why I ordered the casket. You may call it a premonition if you want. 153 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:06,000 Maybe I could also call it suicide. That's why I'm here, Miss Haskell. 154 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:10,000 I don't know whether you know it, but suicide is a crime in the eyes of the state. 155 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,000 For which there is no punishment. 156 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:17,000 Not if it's successful, no. But there is prevention. 157 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:26,000 You see, I know I'm going to die. I feel it. But I have no intention of taking my own life. There's no need to do so. 158 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:35,000 Mm-hmm. Miss Haskell, this premonition, as you call it, have you any idea what brought it on? 159 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:36,000 No. 160 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:40,000 You've been speaking to anyone, fortune tellers or anything like that? 161 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:42,000 No. 162 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:46,000 Well, what makes you so sure? How do you know you can trust this premonition? 163 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:53,000 You're not an old woman. I'd say you're in pretty good health. You have a lot of good years ahead of you. 164 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:58,000 I have a religion. Not a church religion, just one of my own. 165 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:04,000 It preaches that people go on living until they've outgrown their usefulness, then they die. 166 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:10,000 From one cause or another. When that time comes, the desire to live is gone. 167 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:15,000 And you see, only desire keeps the body alive and breathing. 168 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:17,000 I don't understand that. 169 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:19,000 No, I'm sorry. 170 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:23,000 Miss Haskell, you live alone here? 171 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:24,000 Yes. 172 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:27,000 No relatives? No housekeeper? 173 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:29,000 I live alone here. 174 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:33,000 Pretty large house for a person living alone. 175 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:37,000 Yes. There are three floors and far too many rooms. 176 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:40,000 It's on the outskirts of town and it's quiet. 177 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:43,000 And it gives me the privacy I've been looking for. 178 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:48,000 A privacy which you are invading for the first time since I moved here five years ago. 179 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:53,000 Sorry, Miss Haskell, I'm only doing my job. I was told to look you up and find out why you bought that casket. 180 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:56,000 Then I think we may assume your job is over. 181 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:02,000 I guess so. But the office might ask me to drop back once in a while, you know, just to keep in touch. 182 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:04,000 I won't be at home. 183 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:07,000 Why? You don't go out very much. 184 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:11,000 The folks in the town say they don't even see you more than once a week maybe. 185 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,000 When you come, I won't be at home. 186 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:17,000 All right. Sorry to bother you. 187 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:18,000 Good night. 188 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:21,000 Good night. 189 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:28,000 Oh, Miss Haskell, how are you going to die? 190 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:32,000 I don't know. Nor do I consider it important. 191 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:34,000 Why should you? 192 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:54,000 Good night. 193 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:55,000 Lydia. 194 00:14:55,000 --> 00:15:01,000 Ellie, what are you doing down here? 195 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:03,000 What are you doing sitting on the steps in the dark? 196 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:04,000 Lydia. 197 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:05,000 Haven't I told you never to come down here at night? 198 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:06,000 Lydia. 199 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:07,000 Oh, what do you want? 200 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:10,000 I heard that man was here. Lydia, why did you buy the casket? 201 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:13,000 Why are you going to die? You mustn't, Lydia, you mustn't die. 202 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:16,000 I'd be alone if you died and you know what would happen? 203 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,000 They'd send me away like they did once before. 204 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:21,000 The people in the town would come and find me living here and they'd send me away. 205 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:23,000 Go up to bed, Ellie, and go to sleep. 206 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:27,000 How can I sleep? Oh, Lydia, you won't die. Promise me you won't. 207 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:30,000 I promise you. I'll go to bed. 208 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:34,000 But why did you buy the casket? And the things you said to that man is if you wanted to die. 209 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:39,000 Why, Lydia? Why do you want to die? I don't want to die. No one does. 210 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:41,000 No, you have such a lot to live for, haven't you, Ellie? 211 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:44,000 Yes. I'd be happy, Lydia. You'll make me happy. 212 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:48,000 And someday when I'm well again, I'll go back home and David will be waiting for me. 213 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:51,000 You know he'll be there. You've always told me he'd be waiting. 214 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:54,000 He'll see that I'm well again and he'll take me back. 215 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:57,000 I'm not so old, am I? David won't see me as old. 216 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:01,000 He told me that when I was well, no matter how long it took, he'd still see me as a young girl. 217 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:06,000 That's why I'd be happy. Just waiting for the time I can go back to David. 218 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:09,000 Ellie, haven't you learned yet? 219 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:13,000 Don't you know yet that you're mad? And that you'll always be mad. 220 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:16,000 Don't say that. I'm getting better, Lydia. You know I'm getting better. 221 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:21,000 Yes. Putting bows in your hair, sewing ribbons all day long, 222 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:26,000 sneaking about the house at night, spying on me, singing the same hymn over and over and over 223 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:27,000 until I think I'm going mad too. 224 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:31,000 Is that why you wanted I? To get away from me? I thought you loved me, Lydia. 225 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:35,000 Why should I love you? Look what life has given me and tell me why. 226 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:39,000 You've always spoiled everything for me, Ellie. Even from the time we were children. 227 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:43,000 How could I spoil everything? We were just like the same charlity of twins. 228 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:44,000 You were I and I was you. 229 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:49,000 We looked the same, yes. We were born the same day, yes. And that's where it ended. 230 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:54,000 You were the nice one. I used to hear them say so. You were even the prettiest, they said. 231 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:58,000 As if they could see any difference between us. Whatever you wanted, you had. 232 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:01,000 You smiled so beautifully. But I never smiled. 233 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:04,000 Though I was the sullen one, the dark cloud in the house. 234 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:05,000 You made it so, Lydia. We all loved you. 235 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:09,000 When a doll was broken, they gave you mine. When you tore your dancing dress, you'd take mine. 236 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:12,000 You gave it to me, Lydia. I remember you gave it to me. 237 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:17,000 I've always given things to you, Ellie. I gave you the best of everything we had. 238 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:22,000 I've given you my whole life. I even gave you David. 239 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:29,000 Lydia, you were in love with David. He came to our house with you. He came to see. 240 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:31,000 Oh, Lydia, I didn't know. 241 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:38,000 No, you never knew. No one did. I had to stand by and watch you take him from me. 242 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:41,000 And when you had your first attack, I was glad. 243 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:45,000 People say what a shame it was. But I was very glad. 244 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:46,000 Lydia. 245 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:48,000 Because I knew then that he could never have you. 246 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:51,000 Oh, yes, you were going to be cured and he was going to wait. 247 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,000 It won't matter how long he waits. 248 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:58,000 You will never be cured and he'll never have you. Never. 249 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:03,000 You hate me. You've always hated me. I see it now. 250 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:07,000 Even when you've been taking care of me. When we came to this town, you didn't bring me here so I'd be cured. 251 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:13,000 You wanted to keep me this way, mad. That's why you took me out of that place. Because they might have made me well again. 252 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:14,000 Go upstairs. 253 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:17,000 You hate me. And now you're going to die and leave me without anyone. 254 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:20,000 I told you I'm not going to die. 255 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:24,000 Oh, Ellie. Ellie, I'm sorry we've had this quarrel. 256 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:29,000 I didn't mean to upset you. Just that I'm upset myself. Tired. 257 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:31,000 I didn't mean the things I said. 258 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:32,000 You bought a casket. 259 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:34,000 It was only an idea I had in case anything ever happened to me. 260 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:37,000 You bought a casket. Lydia, was it for yourself or is it for me? 261 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,000 Ellie. You wouldn't. You wouldn't, would you, Lydia? 262 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:40,000 What are you talking about? 263 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:42,000 Hold the lamp up. Hold it close to you. I want to see your face. 264 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:43,000 Ellie, go off to bed. 265 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:46,000 Yes, I can see it in your eyes. It is for me. You're going to kill me. You're going to murder me. 266 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:47,000 Don't be a fool, Ellie. 267 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,000 It's true you want to get rid of me because you hate me. You... 268 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:54,000 Oh, now I see. I see you love David. You're going to kill me and they'll come and find me and bury me and they'll think it's you. 269 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:55,000 Be quiet. 270 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:58,000 They'll think it's you who is dead because no one knows I'm living here and then you'll go away. 271 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:04,000 You'll go back to David and you'll say that Lydia has died and he'll think you're me and that you're well again and he'll marry you. You'll have him. 272 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:07,000 You'll be Ellie. You'll have David in my place. 273 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:09,000 Ellie. Ellie, stop it. Did you hear what I said? 274 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:12,000 Be quiet. Be quiet. 275 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:14,000 I'll go upstairs and get to bed. 276 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:33,000 Oh, Lydia, Lydia, how can you be so wicked? 277 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:35,000 Ellie. 278 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:38,000 Ellie, are you awake? 279 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:39,000 Ellie, dear. 280 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:42,000 You mustn't think anymore about what we said tonight. 281 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:48,000 Do you hear? It's not so, Ellie. It's just your imagination, dear. 282 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:53,000 You mustn't think about it. It will be bad for you. 283 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:58,000 Are you asleep, Ellie? 284 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:01,000 She's not asleep. 285 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:06,000 She's lying over there on the other side of the room staring at me through the dark. 286 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:09,000 She knows it was the truth tonight. 287 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:12,000 She's going to die and that I'm going to kill her. 288 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:14,000 That quarrel. 289 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,000 I shouldn't have let her know. 290 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:18,000 I lost my temper. 291 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:20,000 Stupid. 292 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:23,000 I must think clearly. 293 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:25,000 How am I going to kill her? 294 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:29,000 It mustn't look like murder because they'll suspect things then. 295 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:32,000 No, it must be suicide. 296 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:35,000 How? When? 297 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:47,000 It'll have to be soon now that she knows. 298 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:49,000 There. 299 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:53,000 Listen. She's starting again. 300 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:57,000 She's singing that hymn again. That hymn. 301 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:59,000 I must be calm. 302 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:01,000 I mustn't get excited. 303 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:03,000 I must think clearly. 304 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:06,000 How am I going to kill her? 305 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:08,000 I wish it were over. 306 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:11,000 I could go back then. Back to David. 307 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:15,000 How quickly she saw through that, but I'd go back in our place. 308 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,000 He'll never suspect. 309 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,000 Because I'll be Ellie to him. 310 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:22,000 Ellie, cured and happy again. 311 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,000 I learned to smile. 312 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:28,000 First she must die. 313 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:30,000 How? 314 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:36,000 Stairs. 315 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:39,000 Stairwell. 316 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:42,000 She gets dizzy if she looks down into the stairwell. 317 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,000 Yes, it could be so easy. 318 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:48,000 In a day or two that policeman will come back to the house. 319 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:51,000 They'll find her and they'll think it's me. 320 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,000 Of course. 321 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,000 The stairwell. 322 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,000 Three floors from the attic here. 323 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:01,000 Three floors straight down. 324 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:03,000 So easy when you think clearly. 325 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:06,000 The stairwell. Of course. 326 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,000 Ellie. Ellie dear. 327 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:23,000 Ellie, you mustn't cry anymore. 328 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:26,000 Do you hear me? 329 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,000 Are you afraid of the dark? 330 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:32,000 I'll light the lamp for you dear. 331 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,000 There. 332 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,000 That's better isn't it? 333 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,000 Why are you shivering? 334 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,000 Are you cold? 335 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,000 Come along, put your wrapper on. 336 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,000 We'll go down to the parlour and light a fire. 337 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,000 I'll make you a nice cup of hot milk. 338 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,000 Come along Ellie. 339 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,000 Ellie, stop acting like this. 340 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:52,000 Now come dear. 341 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,000 Here's your wrapper. 342 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,000 That's the girl. 343 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:58,000 Get up now. 344 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,000 I'll carry the lamp. 345 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,000 Give me your hand dear. 346 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,000 You're as cold as ice. 347 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,000 Now be careful. 348 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,000 Walk slowly. 349 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,000 There we are. 350 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:16,000 Hold on to the banisters dear. 351 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,000 That's right. 352 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:21,000 I'll hold the lamp up high so you can see better. 353 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,000 I'm afraid of the stairwell. 354 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,000 That's right dear. 355 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:27,000 I'm afraid. 356 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:29,000 Ellie, you must get over that fear. 357 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,000 Look Ellie. 358 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,000 Just look down. 359 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,000 There's nothing to frighten you. 360 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,000 Look down the stairwell Ellie. 361 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,000 No. 362 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,000 I'm holding you dear. 363 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,000 Just lean over and look down. 364 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,000 You can see all the way. 365 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,000 No, don't make me love. 366 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,000 Nothing is it? 367 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,000 Nothing at all? 368 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:53,000 Are you dizzy dear? 369 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,000 I'm holding you. 370 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,000 Let me go. I can't stand it. 371 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,000 Come closer dear. 372 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,000 No. 373 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,000 No. 374 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,000 Let me get back. 375 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:07,000 No. 376 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,000 No. 377 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:37,000 A very strange thing. 378 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:41,000 It was brought to my mind of course because this is the house. 379 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,000 Just here. The next one we're coming. 380 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,000 Yes. 381 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,000 She was in to see us just a few days ago. 382 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,000 Came in to order the casket. 383 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,000 She saw a casket she wanted. 384 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,000 And then she told me it was for herself. 385 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,000 Well. 386 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,000 She must have had a premonition. 387 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,000 Yes. 388 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,000 I notified the police of course. 389 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,000 She said she wanted me to hold the casket three weeks. 390 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,000 Then just the day before yesterday. 391 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,000 The police came back to the house here. 392 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,000 And found her lying at the bottom of the stairwell. 393 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,000 Dead. 394 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,000 She'd been dead about two days. 395 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,000 Funny how she knew. 396 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,000 The banister up on the attic floor broke away. 397 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,000 And she fell. 398 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,000 Did she have any people? 399 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,000 No. 400 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,000 Little galoon they tell me. 401 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,000 We're going to bury her tomorrow. 402 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,000 Haskell in a way. 403 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,000 Haskell. 404 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,000 That's strange looking. 405 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,000 That's strange living all by herself here. 406 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,000 In a big three story frame house. 407 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:39,000 Yes. 408 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,000 Isn't it? 409 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,000 Hey. 410 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,000 What is it? 411 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,000 My imagination I guess. 412 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,000 Could have spawned us all light in the attic windows. 413 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,000 What couldn't have been? 414 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,000 The police have shut it up. 415 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,000 Of course. 416 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,000 That story of yours really gave me the creeps. 417 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,000 Come on let's walk on. 418 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,000 Hmm. 419 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,000 What a queer thing the power of suggestion is to be sure. 420 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,000 You conveyed it to me of course. 421 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,000 You know just now I thought I could hear someone upstairs in there. 422 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,000 A woman. 423 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,000 A woman singing. 424 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,000 A woman? 425 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,000 Yes. 426 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,000 Sort of crooning to herself. 427 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,000 Some kind of a hymn. 428 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,000 Sort of crooning to herself. 429 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,000 Some kind of a hymn. 430 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,000 Sort of crooning to herself. 431 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:49,000 Sort of a hymn. 432 00:26:49,000 --> 00:27:13,000 And so closes the sisters presented by Roma Wines. 433 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:17,000 And starring Ida Lupino and Agnes Moorhead. 434 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:23,000 Tonight's tale of suspense. 435 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:27,000 In just a moment we'll hear again from Miss Lupino. 436 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:31,000 In the meantime here is a true life suspense drama. 437 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,000 Your guests raise their wine glasses to their lips. 438 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:37,000 Your reputation as a host hangs in the balance. 439 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,000 Will they approve the wine of your selection? 440 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:45,000 Well no need to feel the least bit concerned if you have elected to serve any of Roma Wines many different types of taste delighting california. 441 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:51,000 Perhaps the tangy appetizing Roma Sherry. 442 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,000 Or the richly satisfying Roma Burgundy. 443 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:57,000 Or the delicately delicious Roma Sauternes. 444 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:03,000 And notwithstanding your cost for any of these good Roma Wines is only pennies a glass. 445 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:11,000 Your guests verdict is sure to agree with this verdict of wine connoisseurs of many lands. 446 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:15,000 Roma Wines are truly magnificent. 447 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:21,000 The Roma Wines are truly magnificent. 448 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:25,000 Roma Wines are truly magnificent. 449 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,000 Let me repeat the name please. 450 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:35,000 R-O-M-A. 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