WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.000 Roma wine presents Suspense. 00:07.000 --> 00:18.000 Roma wine made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 00:18.000 --> 00:19.000 Salud! 00:19.000 --> 00:20.000 Your health, senor. 00:20.000 --> 00:23.000 Roma wine toasts the world. 00:23.000 --> 00:29.000 The wine for your table is Roma wine made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 00:29.000 --> 00:37.000 This is the Man in Black, here to introduce this weekly half hour of Suspense. 00:37.000 --> 00:42.000 Tonight as stars we bring you two of Hollywood's outstanding actresses, 00:42.000 --> 00:46.000 Miss Ida Lupino and Miss Agnes Moorhead. 00:46.000 --> 00:49.000 And so with the remarkable tale of the sisters, 00:49.000 --> 00:55.000 and with the performances of Ida Lupino as Lydia Haskell and Agnes Moorhead as Ellie, 00:55.000 --> 01:21.000 Roma wines again hope to keep you in Suspense. 01:21.000 --> 01:25.000 Here is one I think would be very lovely. 01:25.000 --> 01:32.000 It has a far superior lining, pure silk, much heavier than the others we've looked at. 01:32.000 --> 01:35.000 Do you care for this one, Miss Haskell? 01:35.000 --> 01:38.000 Oh yes, that's very nice. 01:38.000 --> 01:42.000 I believe I'd like to see something perhaps even a little better. 01:42.000 --> 01:46.000 Of course, if you just step over this way, Miss Haskell. 01:46.000 --> 01:53.000 Now here, here is an exquisite casket, something that really does honor to the departed. 01:53.000 --> 01:55.000 Yes, it's beautiful. 01:55.000 --> 02:02.000 Now the interior is just the same as the last, but the casket itself is of bronze, solid bronze. 02:02.000 --> 02:04.000 Won't that be rather heavy? 02:04.000 --> 02:09.000 Yes, but not too heavy. Will there be six pallbearers? 02:09.000 --> 02:10.000 I don't know. 02:10.000 --> 02:16.000 Well, it doesn't matter really. Four men can carry this very easily. 02:16.000 --> 02:22.000 Miss Haskell, I want you to notice the floral design here, all hand wrought, every bit of it. 02:22.000 --> 02:29.000 And, oh yes, notice the seams in this casket, airtight and watertight guaranteed. 02:29.000 --> 02:32.000 You know of course how important that is. 02:32.000 --> 02:33.000 Yes. 02:33.000 --> 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. 02:43.000 --> 02:46.000 You couldn't buy a finer piece of workmanship. 02:46.000 --> 02:48.000 How much is this one, please? 02:48.000 --> 02:55.000 Miss Haskell, a durable by the way, durable for durability we say in the trade. 02:55.000 --> 03:04.000 This casket is priced at, you see, $775, but we can't bring back the department. 03:04.000 --> 03:10.000 No, our only solace is the knowledge that we've done in the last possible honor. 03:10.000 --> 03:13.000 Very well. I'll take this one. 03:13.000 --> 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. 03:22.000 --> 03:24.000 And now, let me see. 03:24.000 --> 03:25.000 I'll give you a check. 03:25.000 --> 03:30.000 Oh no, that won't be necessary. Not immediately. After the funeral will do. 03:30.000 --> 03:37.000 Oh, by the way, we haven't mentioned it. Are we handling the funeral arrangement? 03:37.000 --> 03:39.000 I really don't know yet. 03:39.000 --> 03:43.000 Oh, well, you want the casket delivered somewhere? 03:43.000 --> 03:47.000 No. I'd like you to hold it for a while, please. 03:47.000 --> 03:50.000 Hold it? But for how long? 03:50.000 --> 03:52.000 For three weeks. 03:52.000 --> 04:01.000 Three weeks? I don't understand. Who is the party, the deceased? Who is this casket for? 04:01.000 --> 04:03.000 It's for me. 04:12.000 --> 04:17.000 You have heard the prologue to this evening's suspense play, The Sisters. 04:17.000 --> 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. 04:24.000 --> 04:28.000 You remember the old saying, the grass is always greener in the other fellow's yard? 04:28.000 --> 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. 04:38.000 --> 04:43.000 An American has just complimented his Cuban friend on the fine quality of Havana tobacco. 04:43.000 --> 04:49.000 Graciously, the Cuban replies, but you of the United States need have no envy of us. 04:49.000 --> 04:55.000 Nature has made a great gift of perfection to your country, too, the magnificent wine which we also enjoy. 04:55.000 --> 04:59.000 It is Roma Wine, made in your own California. 04:59.000 --> 05:05.000 Friends, that little anecdote is typical of many countries where wine is truly enjoyed. 05:05.000 --> 05:11.000 For in other lands, Roma wines must be imported over long distances from our own California. 05:11.000 --> 05:20.000 A luxury to be enjoyed on special occasions, while lucky you can enjoy these superb Roma wines as a daily delight, 05:20.000 --> 05:26.000 with no import duty, no expensive shipping charges added to your cost for Roma wine. 05:26.000 --> 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. 05:38.000 --> 05:44.000 And you'll say, no wonder Roma wines are America's largest selling wines. 05:44.000 --> 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. 05:55.000 --> 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. 06:05.000 --> 06:10.000 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 06:24.000 --> 06:30.000 Lydia, Lydia, I thought I heard you come in. Where have you been, Lydia? You've been gone all afternoon. 06:30.000 --> 06:31.000 I've been shopping. 06:31.000 --> 06:33.000 What did you buy? Did you get the ribbons I asked for? 06:33.000 --> 06:35.000 No, I didn't have time. 06:35.000 --> 06:39.000 Oh, I wanted some new ribbons. My others are all worn out. See, Lydia? 06:39.000 --> 06:43.000 Ellie, I wish you'd stop putting ribbons in your hair like a schoolgirl. You're almost 40 years old. 06:43.000 --> 06:45.000 I know, Lydia. I know. 06:45.000 --> 06:50.000 Well, then try to act like it. Hand me my sewing and light the lamp. It's getting dark. 06:50.000 --> 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? 06:55.000 --> 07:00.000 Oh, did you remember when Mother used to send us to school with our ribbons matching and our dresses matching, 07:00.000 --> 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? 07:07.000 --> 07:09.000 Oh, I wish we were young again, Lydia. 07:09.000 --> 07:11.000 Stop talking nonsense, Ellie. 07:11.000 --> 07:17.000 It is nonsense, isn't it? Oh, oh, the doorbell rang while you were out just before you came home? 07:17.000 --> 07:18.000 You did not say... 07:18.000 --> 07:22.000 Oh, no, you told me never to answer it. I just looked out of the upstairs window. 07:22.000 --> 07:24.000 Did you see who it was? 07:24.000 --> 07:29.000 Oh, yes. It was a man, a rather big man. He rang a long time and then he went away. 07:29.000 --> 07:31.000 Well, he didn't see you, did he? 07:31.000 --> 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. 07:37.000 --> 07:38.000 You came downstairs? 07:38.000 --> 07:39.000 Yes, I did. 07:39.000 --> 07:41.000 I told you never to come down those stairs when I'm not in the house. 07:41.000 --> 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, 07:45.000 --> 07:48.000 so I didn't get dizzy and I didn't want to jump. 07:48.000 --> 07:50.000 Well, don't do it again. 07:50.000 --> 07:54.000 It was just that I was lonely. I didn't think you were ever coming home. 07:55.000 --> 07:57.000 Lydia, you didn't tell me what you bought. 07:57.000 --> 07:59.000 Hmm? Oh, a duravo. 07:59.000 --> 08:02.000 What's that? What's a duravo? 08:02.000 --> 08:04.000 Don't ask so many questions, Ellie. 08:04.000 --> 08:11.000 All right. Lydia, I think I'll sew too. I could fix up one of these old ribbons. May I, Lydia? 08:11.000 --> 08:14.000 Yes. Yes, so. It'll be good for you. 08:14.000 --> 08:16.000 Thank you. 08:16.000 --> 08:28.000 I'm not a little girl. 08:28.000 --> 08:30.000 Lydia? 08:30.000 --> 08:31.000 Yes? 08:31.000 --> 08:33.000 Lydia, could I go shopping someday? 08:33.000 --> 08:35.000 Don't be a fool, Ellie. 08:35.000 --> 08:40.000 I'm sorry. I just thought, no, I suppose you're right. It wouldn't do. Not yet. 08:40.000 --> 08:48.000 Oh, yes. 08:48.000 --> 08:50.000 There wasn't any mail today. 08:50.000 --> 08:51.000 Wasn't there? 08:51.000 --> 08:53.000 No, I thought perhaps there'd be a letter from David. 08:53.000 --> 08:57.000 It's been such a long time since he's written. Hasn't it? 08:57.000 --> 08:58.000 I haven't noticed. 08:58.000 --> 09:01.000 Oh, yes, he used to write every week. One Tuesday. 09:01.000 --> 09:03.000 Then I'd get the letter on Thursday. 09:03.000 --> 09:07.000 But there wasn't one this week or last to the week before that. 09:07.000 --> 09:10.000 It's strange, isn't it? But perhaps he's been busy. 09:10.000 --> 09:12.000 Perhaps. 09:12.000 --> 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? 09:18.000 --> 09:22.000 What are you trying to say, Ellie? Are you hinting that perhaps I'm keeping your mail from you? 09:22.000 --> 09:23.000 Oh, no. 09:23.000 --> 09:26.000 Well, you seem to be. Why should I keep David's letters from you? 09:26.000 --> 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. 09:33.000 --> 09:34.000 Go on with your sewing. 09:34.000 --> 09:37.000 Oh, yes, I want to finish these ribbons. 09:37.000 --> 09:42.000 He's coming by. 09:42.000 --> 09:44.000 All his friends. 09:44.000 --> 09:46.000 Stop singing that. Stop it. 09:46.000 --> 09:48.000 But Lydia, it's a hymn. I've always sung. 09:48.000 --> 09:51.000 I don't care. I said stop. Or learn something else. 09:51.000 --> 09:58.000 That's all you sing day and night, day and night. Same tune over and over and over. Now stop it. 09:58.000 --> 10:03.000 Lydia. Lydia, sometimes you frighten me the way you look at me. 10:03.000 --> 10:07.000 You make me think that perhaps I'm not getting well. 10:07.000 --> 10:11.000 Perhaps I'm still crazy. I'm not. 10:11.000 --> 10:14.000 I'm not still crazy, am I, Lydia? 10:14.000 --> 10:16.000 I'm not. 10:16.000 --> 10:40.000 I'm not. 10:40.000 --> 10:41.000 Yes? 10:41.000 --> 10:45.000 Evening. Are you Miss Lydia Haskell? 10:45.000 --> 10:47.000 Why, yes. 10:47.000 --> 10:51.000 Well, can I speak to you for a minute? I was here this afternoon, but there was no one home. 10:51.000 --> 10:53.000 What is it, please? 10:53.000 --> 10:59.000 Well, we had a call from Doan Brothers, the undertakers. I'm from the police department. 10:59.000 --> 11:04.000 Really? I don't see what the police could want with me. Come in if you wish. 11:04.000 --> 11:09.000 Thanks. 11:09.000 --> 11:10.000 Sit down. 11:10.000 --> 11:13.000 Thank you. 11:13.000 --> 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. 11:21.000 --> 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. 11:29.000 --> 11:35.000 Sure, I know. Only it's a little more unusual when you can name the date. 11:35.000 --> 11:40.000 The undertaker said you wanted the casket held for three weeks. 11:40.000 --> 11:45.000 Why three weeks? Must be some reason for it. 11:45.000 --> 11:53.000 Yes, there is. I'm going to die. I shall die in three weeks, or perhaps even before. 11:53.000 --> 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. 12:01.000 --> 12:06.000 Maybe I could also call it suicide. That's why I'm here, Miss Haskell. 12:06.000 --> 12:10.000 I don't know whether you know it, but suicide is a crime in the eyes of the state. 12:10.000 --> 12:12.000 For which there is no punishment. 12:12.000 --> 12:17.000 Not if it's successful, no. But there is prevention. 12:17.000 --> 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. 12:26.000 --> 12:35.000 Mm-hmm. Miss Haskell, this premonition, as you call it, have you any idea what brought it on? 12:35.000 --> 12:36.000 No. 12:36.000 --> 12:40.000 You've been speaking to anyone, fortune tellers or anything like that? 12:40.000 --> 12:42.000 No. 12:42.000 --> 12:46.000 Well, what makes you so sure? How do you know you can trust this premonition? 12:46.000 --> 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. 12:53.000 --> 12:58.000 I have a religion. Not a church religion, just one of my own. 12:58.000 --> 13:04.000 It preaches that people go on living until they've outgrown their usefulness, then they die. 13:04.000 --> 13:10.000 From one cause or another. When that time comes, the desire to live is gone. 13:10.000 --> 13:15.000 And you see, only desire keeps the body alive and breathing. 13:15.000 --> 13:17.000 I don't understand that. 13:17.000 --> 13:19.000 No, I'm sorry. 13:19.000 --> 13:23.000 Miss Haskell, you live alone here? 13:23.000 --> 13:24.000 Yes. 13:24.000 --> 13:27.000 No relatives? No housekeeper? 13:27.000 --> 13:29.000 I live alone here. 13:29.000 --> 13:33.000 Pretty large house for a person living alone. 13:33.000 --> 13:37.000 Yes. There are three floors and far too many rooms. 13:37.000 --> 13:40.000 It's on the outskirts of town and it's quiet. 13:40.000 --> 13:43.000 And it gives me the privacy I've been looking for. 13:43.000 --> 13:48.000 A privacy which you are invading for the first time since I moved here five years ago. 13:48.000 --> 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. 13:53.000 --> 13:56.000 Then I think we may assume your job is over. 13:56.000 --> 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. 14:02.000 --> 14:04.000 I won't be at home. 14:04.000 --> 14:07.000 Why? You don't go out very much. 14:07.000 --> 14:11.000 The folks in the town say they don't even see you more than once a week maybe. 14:11.000 --> 14:14.000 When you come, I won't be at home. 14:14.000 --> 14:17.000 All right. Sorry to bother you. 14:17.000 --> 14:18.000 Good night. 14:18.000 --> 14:21.000 Good night. 14:21.000 --> 14:28.000 Oh, Miss Haskell, how are you going to die? 14:28.000 --> 14:32.000 I don't know. Nor do I consider it important. 14:32.000 --> 14:34.000 Why should you? 14:34.000 --> 14:54.000 Good night. 14:54.000 --> 14:55.000 Lydia. 14:55.000 --> 15:01.000 Ellie, what are you doing down here? 15:01.000 --> 15:03.000 What are you doing sitting on the steps in the dark? 15:03.000 --> 15:04.000 Lydia. 15:04.000 --> 15:05.000 Haven't I told you never to come down here at night? 15:05.000 --> 15:06.000 Lydia. 15:06.000 --> 15:07.000 Oh, what do you want? 15:07.000 --> 15:10.000 I heard that man was here. Lydia, why did you buy the casket? 15:10.000 --> 15:13.000 Why are you going to die? You mustn't, Lydia, you mustn't die. 15:13.000 --> 15:16.000 I'd be alone if you died and you know what would happen? 15:16.000 --> 15:18.000 They'd send me away like they did once before. 15:18.000 --> 15:21.000 The people in the town would come and find me living here and they'd send me away. 15:21.000 --> 15:23.000 Go up to bed, Ellie, and go to sleep. 15:23.000 --> 15:27.000 How can I sleep? Oh, Lydia, you won't die. Promise me you won't. 15:27.000 --> 15:30.000 I promise you. I'll go to bed. 15:30.000 --> 15:34.000 But why did you buy the casket? And the things you said to that man is if you wanted to die. 15:34.000 --> 15:39.000 Why, Lydia? Why do you want to die? I don't want to die. No one does. 15:39.000 --> 15:41.000 No, you have such a lot to live for, haven't you, Ellie? 15:41.000 --> 15:44.000 Yes. I'd be happy, Lydia. You'll make me happy. 15:44.000 --> 15:48.000 And someday when I'm well again, I'll go back home and David will be waiting for me. 15:48.000 --> 15:51.000 You know he'll be there. You've always told me he'd be waiting. 15:51.000 --> 15:54.000 He'll see that I'm well again and he'll take me back. 15:54.000 --> 15:57.000 I'm not so old, am I? David won't see me as old. 15:57.000 --> 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. 16:01.000 --> 16:06.000 That's why I'd be happy. Just waiting for the time I can go back to David. 16:06.000 --> 16:09.000 Ellie, haven't you learned yet? 16:09.000 --> 16:13.000 Don't you know yet that you're mad? And that you'll always be mad. 16:13.000 --> 16:16.000 Don't say that. I'm getting better, Lydia. You know I'm getting better. 16:16.000 --> 16:21.000 Yes. Putting bows in your hair, sewing ribbons all day long, 16:21.000 --> 16:26.000 sneaking about the house at night, spying on me, singing the same hymn over and over and over 16:26.000 --> 16:27.000 until I think I'm going mad too. 16:27.000 --> 16:31.000 Is that why you wanted I? To get away from me? I thought you loved me, Lydia. 16:31.000 --> 16:35.000 Why should I love you? Look what life has given me and tell me why. 16:35.000 --> 16:39.000 You've always spoiled everything for me, Ellie. Even from the time we were children. 16:39.000 --> 16:43.000 How could I spoil everything? We were just like the same charlity of twins. 16:43.000 --> 16:44.000 You were I and I was you. 16:44.000 --> 16:49.000 We looked the same, yes. We were born the same day, yes. And that's where it ended. 16:49.000 --> 16:54.000 You were the nice one. I used to hear them say so. You were even the prettiest, they said. 16:54.000 --> 16:58.000 As if they could see any difference between us. Whatever you wanted, you had. 16:58.000 --> 17:01.000 You smiled so beautifully. But I never smiled. 17:01.000 --> 17:04.000 Though I was the sullen one, the dark cloud in the house. 17:04.000 --> 17:05.000 You made it so, Lydia. We all loved you. 17:05.000 --> 17:09.000 When a doll was broken, they gave you mine. When you tore your dancing dress, you'd take mine. 17:09.000 --> 17:12.000 You gave it to me, Lydia. I remember you gave it to me. 17:12.000 --> 17:17.000 I've always given things to you, Ellie. I gave you the best of everything we had. 17:17.000 --> 17:22.000 I've given you my whole life. I even gave you David. 17:22.000 --> 17:29.000 Lydia, you were in love with David. He came to our house with you. He came to see. 17:29.000 --> 17:31.000 Oh, Lydia, I didn't know. 17:31.000 --> 17:38.000 No, you never knew. No one did. I had to stand by and watch you take him from me. 17:38.000 --> 17:41.000 And when you had your first attack, I was glad. 17:41.000 --> 17:45.000 People say what a shame it was. But I was very glad. 17:45.000 --> 17:46.000 Lydia. 17:46.000 --> 17:48.000 Because I knew then that he could never have you. 17:48.000 --> 17:51.000 Oh, yes, you were going to be cured and he was going to wait. 17:51.000 --> 17:54.000 It won't matter how long he waits. 17:54.000 --> 17:58.000 You will never be cured and he'll never have you. Never. 17:58.000 --> 18:03.000 You hate me. You've always hated me. I see it now. 18:03.000 --> 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. 18:07.000 --> 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. 18:13.000 --> 18:14.000 Go upstairs. 18:14.000 --> 18:17.000 You hate me. And now you're going to die and leave me without anyone. 18:17.000 --> 18:20.000 I told you I'm not going to die. 18:20.000 --> 18:24.000 Oh, Ellie. Ellie, I'm sorry we've had this quarrel. 18:24.000 --> 18:29.000 I didn't mean to upset you. Just that I'm upset myself. Tired. 18:29.000 --> 18:31.000 I didn't mean the things I said. 18:31.000 --> 18:32.000 You bought a casket. 18:32.000 --> 18:34.000 It was only an idea I had in case anything ever happened to me. 18:34.000 --> 18:37.000 You bought a casket. Lydia, was it for yourself or is it for me? 18:37.000 --> 18:39.000 Ellie. You wouldn't. You wouldn't, would you, Lydia? 18:39.000 --> 18:40.000 What are you talking about? 18:40.000 --> 18:42.000 Hold the lamp up. Hold it close to you. I want to see your face. 18:42.000 --> 18:43.000 Ellie, go off to bed. 18:43.000 --> 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. 18:46.000 --> 18:47.000 Don't be a fool, Ellie. 18:47.000 --> 18:49.000 It's true you want to get rid of me because you hate me. You... 18:49.000 --> 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. 18:54.000 --> 18:55.000 Be quiet. 18:55.000 --> 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. 18:58.000 --> 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. 19:04.000 --> 19:07.000 You'll be Ellie. You'll have David in my place. 19:07.000 --> 19:09.000 Ellie. Ellie, stop it. Did you hear what I said? 19:09.000 --> 19:12.000 Be quiet. Be quiet. 19:12.000 --> 19:14.000 I'll go upstairs and get to bed. 19:14.000 --> 19:33.000 Oh, Lydia, Lydia, how can you be so wicked? 19:33.000 --> 19:35.000 Ellie. 19:35.000 --> 19:38.000 Ellie, are you awake? 19:38.000 --> 19:39.000 Ellie, dear. 19:39.000 --> 19:42.000 You mustn't think anymore about what we said tonight. 19:42.000 --> 19:48.000 Do you hear? It's not so, Ellie. It's just your imagination, dear. 19:48.000 --> 19:53.000 You mustn't think about it. It will be bad for you. 19:53.000 --> 19:58.000 Are you asleep, Ellie? 19:58.000 --> 20:01.000 She's not asleep. 20:01.000 --> 20:06.000 She's lying over there on the other side of the room staring at me through the dark. 20:06.000 --> 20:09.000 She knows it was the truth tonight. 20:09.000 --> 20:12.000 She's going to die and that I'm going to kill her. 20:12.000 --> 20:14.000 That quarrel. 20:14.000 --> 20:16.000 I shouldn't have let her know. 20:16.000 --> 20:18.000 I lost my temper. 20:18.000 --> 20:20.000 Stupid. 20:20.000 --> 20:23.000 I must think clearly. 20:23.000 --> 20:25.000 How am I going to kill her? 20:25.000 --> 20:29.000 It mustn't look like murder because they'll suspect things then. 20:29.000 --> 20:32.000 No, it must be suicide. 20:32.000 --> 20:35.000 How? When? 20:35.000 --> 20:47.000 It'll have to be soon now that she knows. 20:47.000 --> 20:49.000 There. 20:49.000 --> 20:53.000 Listen. She's starting again. 20:53.000 --> 20:57.000 She's singing that hymn again. That hymn. 20:57.000 --> 20:59.000 I must be calm. 20:59.000 --> 21:01.000 I mustn't get excited. 21:01.000 --> 21:03.000 I must think clearly. 21:03.000 --> 21:06.000 How am I going to kill her? 21:06.000 --> 21:08.000 I wish it were over. 21:08.000 --> 21:11.000 I could go back then. Back to David. 21:11.000 --> 21:15.000 How quickly she saw through that, but I'd go back in our place. 21:15.000 --> 21:17.000 He'll never suspect. 21:17.000 --> 21:19.000 Because I'll be Ellie to him. 21:19.000 --> 21:22.000 Ellie, cured and happy again. 21:22.000 --> 21:25.000 I learned to smile. 21:25.000 --> 21:28.000 First she must die. 21:28.000 --> 21:30.000 How? 21:30.000 --> 21:36.000 Stairs. 21:36.000 --> 21:39.000 Stairwell. 21:39.000 --> 21:42.000 She gets dizzy if she looks down into the stairwell. 21:42.000 --> 21:45.000 Yes, it could be so easy. 21:45.000 --> 21:48.000 In a day or two that policeman will come back to the house. 21:48.000 --> 21:51.000 They'll find her and they'll think it's me. 21:51.000 --> 21:53.000 Of course. 21:53.000 --> 21:55.000 The stairwell. 21:55.000 --> 21:57.000 Three floors from the attic here. 21:57.000 --> 22:01.000 Three floors straight down. 22:01.000 --> 22:03.000 So easy when you think clearly. 22:03.000 --> 22:06.000 The stairwell. Of course. 22:18.000 --> 22:21.000 Ellie. Ellie dear. 22:21.000 --> 22:23.000 Ellie, you mustn't cry anymore. 22:23.000 --> 22:26.000 Do you hear me? 22:26.000 --> 22:28.000 Are you afraid of the dark? 22:28.000 --> 22:32.000 I'll light the lamp for you dear. 22:32.000 --> 22:34.000 There. 22:34.000 --> 22:36.000 That's better isn't it? 22:36.000 --> 22:38.000 Why are you shivering? 22:38.000 --> 22:40.000 Are you cold? 22:40.000 --> 22:42.000 Come along, put your wrapper on. 22:42.000 --> 22:44.000 We'll go down to the parlour and light a fire. 22:44.000 --> 22:46.000 I'll make you a nice cup of hot milk. 22:46.000 --> 22:48.000 Come along Ellie. 22:48.000 --> 22:50.000 Ellie, stop acting like this. 22:50.000 --> 22:52.000 Now come dear. 22:52.000 --> 22:54.000 Here's your wrapper. 22:54.000 --> 22:56.000 That's the girl. 22:56.000 --> 22:58.000 Get up now. 22:58.000 --> 23:00.000 I'll carry the lamp. 23:00.000 --> 23:02.000 Give me your hand dear. 23:02.000 --> 23:04.000 You're as cold as ice. 23:04.000 --> 23:06.000 Now be careful. 23:06.000 --> 23:08.000 Walk slowly. 23:12.000 --> 23:14.000 There we are. 23:14.000 --> 23:16.000 Hold on to the banisters dear. 23:16.000 --> 23:18.000 That's right. 23:18.000 --> 23:21.000 I'll hold the lamp up high so you can see better. 23:21.000 --> 23:23.000 I'm afraid of the stairwell. 23:23.000 --> 23:25.000 That's right dear. 23:25.000 --> 23:27.000 I'm afraid. 23:27.000 --> 23:29.000 Ellie, you must get over that fear. 23:29.000 --> 23:31.000 Look Ellie. 23:31.000 --> 23:33.000 Just look down. 23:33.000 --> 23:35.000 There's nothing to frighten you. 23:35.000 --> 23:37.000 Look down the stairwell Ellie. 23:37.000 --> 23:39.000 No. 23:39.000 --> 23:41.000 I'm holding you dear. 23:41.000 --> 23:43.000 Just lean over and look down. 23:43.000 --> 23:45.000 You can see all the way. 23:45.000 --> 23:47.000 No, don't make me love. 23:47.000 --> 23:49.000 Nothing is it? 23:49.000 --> 23:51.000 Nothing at all? 23:51.000 --> 23:53.000 Are you dizzy dear? 23:53.000 --> 23:55.000 I'm holding you. 23:55.000 --> 23:57.000 Let me go. I can't stand it. 23:57.000 --> 23:59.000 Come closer dear. 23:59.000 --> 24:01.000 No. 24:01.000 --> 24:03.000 No. 24:03.000 --> 24:05.000 Let me get back. 24:05.000 --> 24:07.000 No. 24:07.000 --> 24:09.000 No. 24:09.000 --> 24:37.000 A very strange thing. 24:37.000 --> 24:41.000 It was brought to my mind of course because this is the house. 24:41.000 --> 24:43.000 Just here. The next one we're coming. 24:43.000 --> 24:45.000 Yes. 24:45.000 --> 24:47.000 She was in to see us just a few days ago. 24:47.000 --> 24:49.000 Came in to order the casket. 24:49.000 --> 24:51.000 She saw a casket she wanted. 24:51.000 --> 24:53.000 And then she told me it was for herself. 24:53.000 --> 24:55.000 Well. 24:55.000 --> 24:57.000 She must have had a premonition. 24:57.000 --> 24:59.000 Yes. 24:59.000 --> 25:01.000 I notified the police of course. 25:01.000 --> 25:03.000 She said she wanted me to hold the casket three weeks. 25:03.000 --> 25:05.000 Then just the day before yesterday. 25:05.000 --> 25:07.000 The police came back to the house here. 25:07.000 --> 25:09.000 And found her lying at the bottom of the stairwell. 25:09.000 --> 25:11.000 Dead. 25:11.000 --> 25:13.000 She'd been dead about two days. 25:13.000 --> 25:15.000 Funny how she knew. 25:15.000 --> 25:17.000 The banister up on the attic floor broke away. 25:17.000 --> 25:19.000 And she fell. 25:19.000 --> 25:21.000 Did she have any people? 25:21.000 --> 25:23.000 No. 25:23.000 --> 25:25.000 Little galoon they tell me. 25:25.000 --> 25:27.000 We're going to bury her tomorrow. 25:27.000 --> 25:29.000 Haskell in a way. 25:29.000 --> 25:31.000 Haskell. 25:31.000 --> 25:33.000 That's strange looking. 25:33.000 --> 25:35.000 That's strange living all by herself here. 25:35.000 --> 25:37.000 In a big three story frame house. 25:37.000 --> 25:39.000 Yes. 25:39.000 --> 25:41.000 Isn't it? 25:41.000 --> 25:43.000 Hey. 25:43.000 --> 25:45.000 What is it? 25:45.000 --> 25:47.000 My imagination I guess. 25:47.000 --> 25:49.000 Could have spawned us all light in the attic windows. 25:49.000 --> 25:51.000 What couldn't have been? 25:51.000 --> 25:53.000 The police have shut it up. 25:53.000 --> 25:55.000 Of course. 25:55.000 --> 25:57.000 That story of yours really gave me the creeps. 25:57.000 --> 25:59.000 Come on let's walk on. 25:59.000 --> 26:01.000 Hmm. 26:01.000 --> 26:03.000 What a queer thing the power of suggestion is to be sure. 26:03.000 --> 26:05.000 You conveyed it to me of course. 26:05.000 --> 26:07.000 You know just now I thought I could hear someone upstairs in there. 26:07.000 --> 26:09.000 A woman. 26:09.000 --> 26:11.000 A woman singing. 26:11.000 --> 26:13.000 A woman? 26:13.000 --> 26:15.000 Yes. 26:15.000 --> 26:17.000 Sort of crooning to herself. 26:17.000 --> 26:19.000 Some kind of a hymn. 26:19.000 --> 26:21.000 Sort of crooning to herself. 26:21.000 --> 26:23.000 Some kind of a hymn. 26:23.000 --> 26:25.000 Sort of crooning to herself. 26:25.000 --> 26:49.000 Sort of a hymn. 26:49.000 --> 27:13.000 And so closes the sisters presented by Roma Wines. 27:13.000 --> 27:17.000 And starring Ida Lupino and Agnes Moorhead. 27:17.000 --> 27:23.000 Tonight's tale of suspense. 27:23.000 --> 27:27.000 In just a moment we'll hear again from Miss Lupino. 27:27.000 --> 27:31.000 In the meantime here is a true life suspense drama. 27:31.000 --> 27:33.000 Your guests raise their wine glasses to their lips. 27:33.000 --> 27:37.000 Your reputation as a host hangs in the balance. 27:37.000 --> 27:39.000 Will they approve the wine of your selection? 27:39.000 --> 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. 27:45.000 --> 27:51.000 Perhaps the tangy appetizing Roma Sherry. 27:51.000 --> 27:53.000 Or the richly satisfying Roma Burgundy. 27:53.000 --> 27:57.000 Or the delicately delicious Roma Sauternes. 27:57.000 --> 28:03.000 And notwithstanding your cost for any of these good Roma Wines is only pennies a glass. 28:03.000 --> 28:11.000 Your guests verdict is sure to agree with this verdict of wine connoisseurs of many lands. 28:11.000 --> 28:15.000 Roma Wines are truly magnificent. 28:15.000 --> 28:21.000 The Roma Wines are truly magnificent. 28:21.000 --> 28:25.000 Roma Wines are truly magnificent. 28:25.000 --> 28:27.000 Let me repeat the name please. 28:27.000 --> 28:35.000 R-O-M-A. 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