1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,000 Now, the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California presents... 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,000 Suspense! 3 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:24,000 Tonight, Roma wines bring you the suspenseful play called The Taming of the Beast, starring Nancy Kelly and Helmut Dantien. 4 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:34,000 Suspense is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. That's R-O-M-A, Roma Wines. 5 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:43,000 Those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live, to your happiness and entertaining guests, to your enjoyment of everyday meals. 6 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:51,000 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant, as Roma Wines bring you a remarkable tale of suspense. 7 00:00:51,000 --> 00:01:03,000 And with the drama called The Taming of the Beast, and with the performances of Miss Nancy Kelly as Nora Van Nostrand and Mr Helmut Dantien as Dr. Ferrari, Roma Wines hope indeed to keep you in... 8 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:08,000 Suspense! 9 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:17,000 I knew what kind of woman Nora was the minute I laid eyes on her. She was very beautiful, equally neurotic and utterly heartless. 10 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:24,000 She was the kind of a woman who wants everything, gives nothing and still thinks she's a passionate bargain for any man. 11 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:33,000 Completely unconscious of the fact that her only real motivation in life is to humiliate, dominate and finally destroy any man she can get her hands on. 12 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:38,000 But that didn't matter either. You see, she had three million dollars. 13 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:44,000 And I'd already made up my mind if my plans worked out that I was going to kill her. 14 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:53,000 She and Mark had given a party that night. 15 00:01:53,000 --> 00:02:00,000 The last of us were just leaving and you could tell then that a storm was brewing and was going to break out the minute the door closed behind us. 16 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:01,000 Good night, Nora, darling. 17 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,000 Oh, Evelyn, it was wonderful to have you. 18 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:08,000 Darling, you know I wouldn't miss one of your parties for anything. You can always count on at least one good fight. 19 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,000 Good night, Mark. 20 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:11,000 Oh, good night. 21 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:12,000 Oh, good night, Nora. 22 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,000 Good night, Harry. 23 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:16,000 Oh, can I see you tomorrow? 24 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:17,000 Call me. 25 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:20,000 Oh, I will. Good night, Mark. Thanks a million for everything. 26 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:22,000 Good night. Good night, Mrs. Venostran. 27 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:30,000 Oh, Dr. Ferrari, I'm so glad Maxine brought you along. You were simply fascinating. I do want to hear more about it sometime. 28 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:34,000 Thank you. Thank you very much. Good night, Mr. Venostran. It was a great pleasure indeed. 29 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:39,000 Good night, Doctor. 30 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:45,000 Mark, Mark, must you insult everyone that I ever bring into this house? 31 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:46,000 Me? I didn't insult anyone. 32 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:50,000 Well, maybe you didn't slap anyone across the face with your gloves, but you might just as well have. 33 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:51,000 Maybe I might at that. 34 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:52,000 And what does that mean? 35 00:02:52,000 --> 00:03:03,000 Nora, for your information, and I mean this very sincerely, it's apt to stir up some pretty primitive adrenal reactions when a man sees some handsome heel trying to make a date with his wife right under his very nose. 36 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:06,000 Oh, Mark, how utterly childish. What are you thinking of? 37 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,000 It's not what I'm thinking of. It's what he's thinking of. You know what it is. 38 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:13,000 Well, what if he is? He's only human. And if you're insinuating that I'm... 39 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:15,000 I'm not insinuating anything. If I thought that... 40 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:22,000 What do you expect me to do while you're downtown all day? Sit around home playing housewife? You know I'm not that kind of a person. You promised me when we were married. 41 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:28,000 I know, Nora, I know. I'm sorry. It's just that I'm a little jealous. Can't you see that? Because I love you. Okay? 42 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:33,000 No. No, Mark. I think we ought to have a very thorough talk about the whole thing. 43 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:35,000 All right, darling, but not tonight. I'm tired. 44 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:40,000 Not tonight. Not tonight. I'm tired. That's what you always say every time I want to discuss anything with you. 45 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:46,000 It's all right when you want to sit up all night and talk, but when it's a question of my problems and my friends... 46 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:52,000 What do you mean, your friends? I've never heard you say a decent word about anyone other than your life, unless you wanted to pick a quarrel with me. 47 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,000 Mark, don't you shout at me. All right, but... 48 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:58,000 I'm certainly not the one who's trying to pick a quarrel. I'm simply trying to get you to adopt a reasonable attitude. 49 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:03,000 Well, you're not trying to be reasonable. You're just trying to make me out of heel because I don't like that bunch of sponging, neurotic... 50 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:08,000 Spongey? Who pays for the parties we give? Who bought and paid for this house that you're living in? 51 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,000 Laura. I did. And I don't notice you leaning over backwards. 52 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:14,000 I'm your husband, Laura. Then stop torturing me. Stop preaching. 53 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:19,000 Stop telling me what I ought to do and try to be decent yourself once in a while. 54 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:20,000 I'm not preaching. Oh, shut up! 55 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:24,000 I won't stand for this, Laura. Won't you? Well, then maybe you won't stand for this either. 56 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:25,000 Laura. For this. 57 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:31,000 Laura, I warn you, stop throwing those glasses around. What will you do? What will you do? What will you do? 58 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:35,000 Laura, you're all you mind. You're sick. You're crazy. All right. All right. I'm crazy. 59 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,000 See? See? I'm crazy. I'm crazy. 60 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,000 You... You hit me. 61 00:04:47,000 --> 00:05:01,000 I could kill you when you act like this. I could kill you. 62 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:06,000 Yes, what is it? Dr. Ferrari, Mr. Mark Van Oostrand would like to see you. 63 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:14,000 Van Oostrand? So soon? Have him come in. 64 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:19,000 Hello, Dr. Ferrari. Come in, Mr. Van Oostrand. 65 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:27,000 Sit down. Thanks. So, I'm afraid I didn't make a very good first impression as a host last night. 66 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:31,000 Oh, that's all right. A man in my profession never goes on first impressions anyway. 67 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:39,000 No, I suppose not. But if there was anything that... Well, I guess without realizing it, I was a little disturbed even then. 68 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,000 About your wife. How did you know? 69 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:52,000 Oh, it's rather obvious. You're a sane, sober, well-adjusted sort of man, while Mrs. Van Oostrand is inclined to be more volatile. 70 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:54,000 You mean neurotic, don't you? 71 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,000 If you prefer. And if you know what the word means. 72 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:58,000 I think I do. 73 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:04,000 Very well, then. Yes, Mrs. Van Oostrand is very definitely neurotic. But most of us are, more or less. 74 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:10,000 Doctor, I'm not trying to blame her. I know there are causes behind these things. And I love Nora. 75 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:14,000 But I don't know how I could go on living without her. And I mean that quite literally. 76 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,000 Of course you do. 77 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:20,000 At first I was able to cope with it all right, but now I'm beginning to lose my grip. 78 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:30,000 Like last night. We had a terrible quarrel after all of you had left. We made it up, of course, but this time it really shook me. Frightened me. 79 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:31,000 Yes. 80 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:36,000 I'd suggested a couple of times before that maybe she ought to go to a doctor, some nerve specialist or something. 81 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:48,000 It always made her so furious that I... Well, anyway, after hearing some of your conversation last night, some of the results you'd had, well I thought, what could I lose? I'd try again. 82 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:49,000 And so you did. 83 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:53,000 Yes. And I was never so surprised in my life. She agreed. 84 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:59,000 Well, of course we often find that meeting people socially is very helpful in overcoming resistance. 85 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:05,000 Yeah, that's what I thought I was. Doctor, you can help her, can't you? I don't know what I'd do if... 86 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:08,000 Mrs. Van Oosteren herself will cooperate. Yes, I can. 87 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:11,000 Swell. She's here with me waiting outside. Shall I bring her in? 88 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:13,000 Please do. 89 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:14,000 Nora? 90 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:15,000 Yes? 91 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:16,000 Come in, will you, darling? 92 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:18,000 How do you do, Mrs. Van Oosteren? 93 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:24,000 Hello, Dr. Ferrari. I suppose Mark has convinced you by this time that I'm mad as a hatter. 94 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:25,000 Oh, no, darling. 95 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:28,000 In our profession, Mrs. Van Oosteren, we don't go and hearsay evidence. 96 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:32,000 Well, I guess there's no sense in my hanging around. 97 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:37,000 I know I wouldn't wait if I were you. These preliminary interviews sometimes take quite a while. 98 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,000 I'll see you this evening, Nora. 99 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:40,000 Goodbye, darling. 100 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:41,000 Goodbye. 101 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:44,000 Well, Mrs. Van Oosteren? 102 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:52,000 Well, what do we do now? I suppose I go into some sort of a trance and you pry all my little secrets out of me. 103 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:58,000 Let us understand each other. Nobody's forcing you to come here, and you can go now if you like. 104 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,000 And suppose I don't like? 105 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,000 All right, then let's talk sense. 106 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:06,000 You know this is all very silly, don't you? 107 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:10,000 I don't know anything of the kind. Why did you come if you thought it was silly? 108 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:11,000 To humor Mark. 109 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:16,000 Oh, I see. You've never humored him before my going to a doctor, have you? 110 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:21,000 All right. Do you want the nice, sensible reason, or do you want the real one? 111 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:23,000 Let's try the real one. 112 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:28,000 Well, then, I came here because I find you very attractive. 113 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:30,000 I see. 114 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:31,000 Well, it's your turn. 115 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,000 Do you want the professional answer? 116 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:36,000 Oh, no. Let's not be professional yet. 117 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:42,000 In that case, I think you're the most exciting woman I've ever met in my life. 118 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:58,000 For suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you as stars Miss Nancy Kelly and Mr. Helmut Dantien, 119 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:01,000 whom you have heard in the first act of The Taming of the Beast, 120 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:04,000 a radio play by Charles Smith and Robert Richards, 121 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:08,000 which is Roma Wines' presentation tonight of Suspense. 122 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:20,000 Between the acts of suspense, this is Truman Bradley for Roma Wines. 123 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:25,000 Next Sunday is Easter, and now here is a timely word from Elsa Maxwell, 124 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:28,000 gracious authority on hospitality. 125 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:33,000 Easter is a joyous day, and I know many of you have carefully saved ration points 126 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:35,000 to get something special for dinner. 127 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:41,000 Perhaps it is a tempting mouth-watering roast of ham or a tender golden brown roast duck. 128 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:48,000 May I suggest that you add to the joyousness of the occasion by serving Roma California Sauternes. 129 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:53,000 This glorious wine lends a welcome note of golden color to your table 130 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:56,000 and adds to the enjoyment and pleasure of dining. 131 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:02,000 An attractively set table, a steaming platter with the Easter ham or duck or roast, 132 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:06,000 done to a golden brown turn and then the crowning touch, 133 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:10,000 a glistening glass full of Roma Sauternes set beside each dinner plate. 134 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:12,000 Truly a tempting picture. 135 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:17,000 And Roma Sauternes is the gracious note that makes your dinner truly enjoyable. 136 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:21,000 You'll enjoy its fragrant delicateness and delightful bouquet. 137 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:27,000 Like all the Roma wines, this masterpiece of the winegrowers' art has unvarying goodness. 138 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:32,000 The happy result of selected grapes, picked at the very peak of their flavor 139 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:38,000 in California's choicest vineyards, guided to perfection by the ancient skill of Roma's famed wineries. 140 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:42,000 Serve Roma wine this Easter. Serve it regularly. 141 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:47,000 Remember, more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. 142 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:51,000 R-O-M-A, Roma wines. 143 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:54,000 And now Roma wines bring back to our soundstage, 144 00:10:54,000 --> 00:11:00,000 Nancy Kelly as Nora van Oostrand and Helmut Dantien as Dr. Paul Ferrari 145 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:06,000 in The Taming of the Beast, a play well calculated to keep you in suspense. 146 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:10,000 Of course I'm no more a doctor than Shirley Templow, a psychologist either. 147 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:14,000 But I've picked up enough of the lingo to get by. It's easy. 148 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:18,000 You just go to one of these semi-resort places in a state where the laws aren't too strict, 149 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:22,000 put on a little front, get invited to the right parties, 150 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:26,000 and before you can say Sigmund Freud, everybody in town, was so much better than you. 151 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:29,000 You can't do that. You can't do that. 152 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:32,000 You can't do that. You can't do that. 153 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:36,000 You can't go to parties, and before you can say Sigmund Freud, everybody in town, 154 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:39,000 was so much money and time, they haven't anything better to do 155 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:42,000 are flocking into your office and writing you big fat cheques 156 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:45,000 just to lie around and talk about themselves. 157 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:49,000 With Nora, all I had to do was to get her to come around once, 158 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:53,000 and I knew I could keep her coming back. 159 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:57,000 Well, things were coming along very nicely with Nora, 160 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:01,000 I still kept a little professional touch just for appearances. 161 00:12:02,300 --> 00:12:06,200 Then one afternoon she came in and I noticed she had a look in her eye. 162 00:12:06,700 --> 00:12:09,200 A glit of excitement and amusement too. 163 00:12:09,700 --> 00:12:12,500 Almost as though she was secretly laughing at me. 164 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:18,200 For a minute I was worried and I fell back on the indifference and the professional manner 165 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:20,500 until I could find out what it was. 166 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:23,700 You're very quiet today, darling. 167 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,400 Is this one of the days I'm supposed to do the talking? 168 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:28,400 No, Nora. I will do the talking. 169 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:30,400 Well then why don't you? I'm waiting. 170 00:12:31,100 --> 00:12:33,900 Nora, have you had those x-rays taken as I asked you to? 171 00:12:33,900 --> 00:12:37,400 How now, darling? How in the world did x-rays get into this conversation? 172 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:39,400 Because they are very important. 173 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:43,900 A minor organic disorder can cause all kinds of psychic disturbances. 174 00:12:43,900 --> 00:12:45,400 I've told you all about that, darling. 175 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:47,900 Yes, darling, you did and it was very boring. 176 00:12:47,900 --> 00:12:50,400 That's not the point. Did you have them taken? 177 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:51,900 Yes, I did. 178 00:12:51,900 --> 00:12:52,900 At the Mills Laboratories? 179 00:12:52,900 --> 00:12:53,900 Yes. 180 00:12:53,900 --> 00:12:54,900 And when will I have the proofs? 181 00:12:54,900 --> 00:12:56,900 Oh, two or three days, I think they said. 182 00:12:56,900 --> 00:12:58,400 Oh, that's right. That's fine. 183 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:01,400 Paul, I want to ask you something now. 184 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:02,400 What? 185 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:05,400 Paul, do you really think I'm improving? 186 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:06,900 What do you think? 187 00:13:06,900 --> 00:13:14,400 Oh, well, I feel more vital, more alive, more exhilarated than I have for oh years. 188 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:16,400 Do you really think it's you? 189 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:17,900 What do you think? 190 00:13:17,900 --> 00:13:20,400 Well, I think maybe yes. 191 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:28,400 Nora, perhaps the time has come for me to have a little talk with you about some things that I haven't been sure you were quite ready for up to now. 192 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:31,400 Darling, you're really pretty attractive, aren't you? 193 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:42,400 Nora, as you become a more adjusted person, a more complete and more developed person, you must expect certain changes in your attitude towards your environment and your life. 194 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:46,400 Oh, I'll certainly feel cheated if there aren't. What are you getting at, Paul? 195 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:55,400 Nora, you must expect as you become adjusted that relationships with people who are no longer as adjusted as yourself will no longer be entirely satisfactory to you. 196 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:59,400 Oh, relationships such as, such as marriage? 197 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:00,400 Yes, quite, Nora. 198 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:02,400 This is a proposal, isn't it, Paul? 199 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:03,400 What, Nora? 200 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:12,400 Yes, yes, I think it is. And I think what you're really trying to tell me and haven't the courage to say is that I've got to get Mark out of the way. 201 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:13,400 I didn't say that, Nora. 202 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:17,400 Well, that's what you meant, wasn't it? But you don't need to worry, Paul. 203 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:18,400 Worry? 204 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:23,400 I suppose it really isn't fair. I suppose I really should have told you as soon as I came in. 205 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:24,400 Told me what? 206 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:31,400 Yes, I know I should have. You must be able to confide in your analyst. Isn't that the idea? 207 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:32,400 Nora, what are you talking about? 208 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:33,400 About Mark. 209 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:35,400 What about Mark? 210 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:52,400 Mark shot himself as I was leaving the house about 20 minutes ago. 211 00:14:52,400 --> 00:15:00,400 This, of course, was a wonderful break. In all my plans, I never thought Mark would bow himself out with as little fuss as that. 212 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:09,400 I must say he was a sport about it. No notes left behind, no accusing anybody. He just put the gun to his head and that was it. 213 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:17,400 After that, it was easy. Nobody knew anything yet, so I was able as Nora's analyst to say that it was vital to our health to get away. 214 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:25,400 We left the very night and were married in Yuma six hours later. And we stayed away just travelling around for nearly six months. 215 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:31,400 Nora had the big house and everything back home, so of course finally we went back. 216 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:37,400 I'd forgotten all about the x-rays I told Nora to have taken. They were nothing but window dressing anyway. 217 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:46,400 But the next day when I went downtown to close up my office... 218 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:54,400 Dr. Ferrari speaking. Who? Oh yes, Mills Laboratories, yes. Yes, of course. Oh yes, x-rays for Mrs. Ferrari. 219 00:15:54,400 --> 00:16:09,400 Yes, well, what is it? Tell me. What? Oh, this is terrible. Are you sure? She's my wife, you see. She's... I'm very sorry. 220 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:16,400 Forgive me, yes. Listen, you must promise me one thing. Promise me that you won't tell this to another living soul. 221 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:29,400 Absolutely to no one, you understand that. Thank you very much. You might as well send them around to my house. 222 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:37,400 I could hardly believe it, because you see I hadn't really made up my mind yet when I was going to kill Nora or how. 223 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:44,400 I only knew for a certainty that she would become unbearable eventually, and then I would have to do it. 224 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:52,400 But now, there was my answer. The brakes were coming my way all right and fast. 225 00:16:52,400 --> 00:17:00,400 Of course Nora became more and more difficult just as I'd known she would, but I could stand anything now. That is, I thought I could. 226 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:08,400 But one day I went into my study. I'd closed my office, but the big stud in the east wing did come in handy every so often. 227 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:15,400 And I always kept it locked. Only this time when I unlocked the door and went in there was Nora. 228 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:21,400 Oh, hello. What are you doing in here, Nora? What do you mean, what am I doing in here? 229 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:26,400 Just what I said. What are you doing in here? Going through your things? Yes, I can see that. And why? 230 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:31,400 Paul, you seem to forget that this is my house. And you seem to forget that these are my things. 231 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:36,400 And that the reason I keep them locked up is precisely so that you won't go sticking your nose into things that are none of your business. 232 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:43,400 Now get out of here. Oh no. Nora, are you going to walk out or am I going to put you out? Neither, I think. 233 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:50,400 Who was that woman who was in here this afternoon? A patient. A patient. You haven't had a patient since you retired on my money. 234 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:55,400 That's right. And enjoying every penny of it. Who was she? I told you, a patient. You're lying. 235 00:17:55,400 --> 00:18:01,400 All right, I'm lying. She was anything you want to think. Now will you please go away and leave me alone? 236 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:07,400 Then I suppose these are hers. Oh, you found those, didn't you? Yes, yes, I found them, did I? 237 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:10,400 And would you mind telling me why any patient of yours has to have full length x-ray pictures? 238 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:17,400 Oh really, Nora, you're beginning to board on the psychotic. You don't think I get excited about x-ray pictures of women, do you? 239 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:24,400 What are these pictures? I see you've forgotten, my dear, that when you were more impressed with my talents than you seem to be now, 240 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:35,400 you had some full length x-ray pictures taken. Oh. Those are yours. I don't blame you for not recognizing yourself. Beauty is only skin deep. 241 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:44,400 Paul, why did you stop analyzing me? Because you didn't need it anymore. You decided that rather suddenly, didn't you? 242 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:50,400 Yes, I decided that the day after I married you. Now will you please leave me? You're becoming very tiresome. 243 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:58,400 Tiresome? Now I'm tiresome? After you drove poor Mark to his grave? After you... Those who are bringing in poor Mark now. 244 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:06,400 Bringing? Oh, if I could only bring him back. Oh, stop it, Nora. You wouldn't have Mark back if you walked into this room right now. 245 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:14,400 Oh, wouldn't I? No, and I tell you why. You never did want Mark from the moment you found out that you could snap your fingers and he would come running to you like a puppy. 246 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:22,400 And you wanted me from the moment you found out that I wouldn't. And that's why you wouldn't leave me if I tried to beat you away with a club. How is that for analysis? 247 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:31,400 Oh. Oh, you beast. You vile, contemptible beast. So I am a beast. But until you find some way of taming the beast, you are stuck with it. 248 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:40,400 And that concludes the lesson for today. Class dismissed. Maybe I will, Paul. Maybe... Maybe I will find some way of taming the beast. 249 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:47,400 Go ahead and try. And in the meantime, you might try being a little more like a human being yourself in the short time you have got left. 250 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:52,400 Well, I... What do you mean? What I say. What do you mean? 251 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:57,400 All right, Nora. I've tried to keep it from you. But maybe you have got that coming to you, too. 252 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:04,400 Oh, what are you saying? It's not what I'm saying. It's what those x-rays are saying. And if you don't believe me, take them to any doctor. 253 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:13,400 I asked you what you were saying. Why don't you tell me? You have got a brain tumor, Nora. You will be dead in about 90 days. 254 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:31,400 I suppose I shouldn't have told her. But I couldn't resist it. And I couldn't see that it would make much difference one way or the other. 255 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:38,400 The laws in this state are pretty tight about a husband sharing a wife's property. And I was bound to get half anyway. 256 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:48,400 Nora had no relatives. So even if she tried to get nasty and leave the other half to the old lady's home or something, I could always break the will. 257 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:54,400 As a matter of fact, telling her seemed to do a certain amount of good. Because suddenly she changed. 258 00:20:54,400 --> 00:21:04,400 For the first time since I had known her, she had moments and even several days in a stretch of being genuinely kind and considerate and even affectionate. 259 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:12,400 She wasn't suffering much, having violent headaches, but otherwise in pretty good shape right up until the end. 260 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:20,400 And the 90 days were nearly up when she called me into her room one day. And I went in and sat beside her on the bed. 261 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:25,400 Paul, do you ever think much about death? 262 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:31,400 Oh darling, you mustn't have morbid thoughts like that. Maybe it won't happen for a long time. Maybe. 263 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:37,400 Oh no, my thoughts aren't morbid. I really don't mind now. I don't mind in the least. 264 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:39,400 That's the way to be, Nora. 265 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:41,400 But what about you, Paul? 266 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:42,400 What about me? 267 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:46,400 Yes. How do you feel about death? 268 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:48,400 Well, I guess I never thought much about it. 269 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:50,400 Oh, don't you think everyone should? 270 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:52,400 Maybe. 271 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:54,400 What do you think, Paul? 272 00:21:54,400 --> 00:22:02,400 Well, I can't say that I'm exactly looking forward to it, but it looks like I'm lucky. Looks like it's still a pretty far away for me. 273 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:09,400 And that's funny, Paul, because you know, I am looking forward to it. 274 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:11,400 You're looking forward to it? 275 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:19,400 Paul, don't you think that if somebody really accomplished something by dying, they would look forward to it? 276 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:23,400 You mean being a hero or a saviour of your country or something? I don't believe in heroics. 277 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:34,400 No, no, I don't mean that. I mean, if someone did something for themselves, something they wanted to do more than anything else in all their lives, 278 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:41,400 and the only way they could do it was by dying, then wouldn't they look forward to it? 279 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:45,400 Well, maybe. Though I can't quite imagine the circumstances. 280 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:57,400 No, no, I suppose you can't. But Paul, if someone lost everything they'd always wanted by dying, that would be terrible, wouldn't it? 281 00:22:57,400 --> 00:22:59,400 Yes, yes, I guess it would. 282 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:08,400 Dying would be torture then, wouldn't it? It would be the most terrible torture that any human being could ever experience, wouldn't it? 283 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:11,400 What's this all about, Nora? I never knew you were a philosopher. 284 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:14,400 Paul, did you ever see this before? 285 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:17,400 Why, yes, that's Mark's gun, isn't it? The one he killed and saved with. 286 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:20,400 That's right, Paul. Mark's gun. 287 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:24,400 What, what are you doing with it up here? 288 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:29,400 Well, didn't it ever occur to you that I wouldn't go without taking you with me? 289 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:33,400 No, Nora, you are, you are, what are you talking about? Give me, give me that gun. 290 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:35,400 No, no, don't, don't move, Paul. 291 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:36,400 Nora. 292 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:45,400 That hurts, doesn't it, Paul? You wouldn't get the money then, would you, Paul? You wouldn't get the money or anything, only death. 293 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:47,400 That would be torture, wouldn't it, Paul? 294 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:51,400 Nora, you're out of your mind. That would be murder. They would hack. 295 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:56,400 You see, Paul, they wouldn't hang me, would they? 296 00:23:56,400 --> 00:24:00,400 They wouldn't have time, because I'll be dead in a few days. 297 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:02,400 But I'll still be alive when you're dead. 298 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:03,400 Nora. 299 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:07,400 You see, Paul, I did find a way of taming the beast after all. 300 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:21,400 Nora, no, Nora, no. 301 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:26,400 I'm going to die. There is not the slightest question about that. 302 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:31,400 Probably by tomorrow night at the latest. That's why I'm able to tell about this. 303 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:37,400 It doesn't matter now. Nothing matters much when you are dying, and you know you are dying. 304 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:43,400 But Nora was right. It would have been torture, except for one thing. 305 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:49,400 I still had one break coming. I've still got one last laugh. 306 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:53,400 Because now I know how Nora is going to feel when she goes. 307 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:59,400 Because she told me so herself. She told me what torture it would be. 308 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:05,400 For me, she thought. Only it won't. It will be for her. 309 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:14,400 Because it wasn't more than half an hour after she had shot me that the phone by her bed rang and she answered it in person. 310 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:15,400 Hello? 311 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:18,400 Mrs. Van Nostra, that is Mrs. Ferrari? 312 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:19,400 Yes. 313 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:23,400 Oh, thank heaven we've located you, Mrs. Ferrari. There's been a terrible mistake. 314 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:25,400 Well, who is this? 315 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:30,400 This is the Mills Laboratories. We took some x-rays of you last year, do you remember? 316 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:31,400 Yes. 317 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:37,400 Well, this has never happened before. But we were checking through our files today when we found out about the mistake. 318 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:43,400 We sent you the wrong x-rays. The other patient just died and that's how we came to find out about it. 319 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:49,400 So, you see, we... Hello, Mrs. Ferrari? Mrs. Ferrari? 320 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:50,400 Yes? 321 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:59,400 So I say, you see, you're in perfect health and you'll probably live to be a hundred. Hello? Hello, Mrs. Ferrari? Hello? 322 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:21,400 You'll live to be a hundred. You'll live to be a hundred. 323 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:52,400 And so closes the Taming of the Beast, in which Roma Wines have brought you Miss Nancy Kelly and Mr. Helmut Dantien as stars of tonight's study in Suspense. 324 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:58,400 Before our stars return to the microphone, let me say a word for Roma Wines, the sponsor of Suspense. 325 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:05,400 Elsa Maxwell is world famous for her hospitality and her understanding of niceties of entertaining. 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