WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.000 Now, the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California presents... 00:07.000 --> 00:13.000 Suspense! 00:18.000 --> 00:24.000 Tonight, Roma Wines bring you Miss Mildred Natwick and Mr. Don DeFau, as stars of The Furnished Floor, 00:24.000 --> 00:30.000 a suspense play produced, edited and directed for Roma Wines by William Spear. 00:34.000 --> 00:41.000 Suspense! Radio's outstanding theater of thrills is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. 00:41.000 --> 00:49.000 That's R-O-M-A, Roma Wines. Those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live, 00:49.000 --> 00:55.000 to your happiness and entertaining guests, to your enjoyment of everyday meals. 00:55.000 --> 01:03.000 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant, as Roma Wines bring you a remarkable tale of suspense. 01:03.000 --> 01:10.000 And with The Furnished Floor, a new study written for suspense by Lucille Fletcher, the author of Sorry Wrong Number, 01:10.000 --> 01:15.000 and other distinguished radio plays, and with the performances of Don DeFau as Mr. Jennings, 01:15.000 --> 01:20.000 and Mildred Natwick as Mrs. Hawkins, Roma Wines hope indeed to keep you in... 01:20.000 --> 01:25.000 Suspense! 01:27.000 --> 01:32.000 Sit down, rest yourself a minute, Miss McIntyre, and take a cup of tea. I got some news for you. 01:32.000 --> 01:39.000 You'll never guess it in a hundred years. Do you remember that Mr. Jennings, you know, my nice tenant that moved away last year? 01:39.000 --> 01:45.000 The tall, thin fella, the one with the pretty little wife, Mabel, who died so sudden last October. Oh, sure you know him. 01:45.000 --> 01:51.000 Most devoted husband I ever seen, always bringing her flowers and billowing and cooing. 01:51.000 --> 01:58.000 He moved out upstairs about two weeks after she died. So heartbroken he was, sold every stick of furniture, 01:58.000 --> 02:06.000 got rid of the canary and the piano and just skadood. I expected any day to hear they'd fished him up out of the river, but no. 02:06.000 --> 02:11.000 This morning, while I'm cleaning down the stairs, who do you think should ring my bell? 02:11.000 --> 02:14.000 Ring! 02:18.000 --> 02:21.000 Hello, Mrs. Hawkins. Remember me? 02:21.000 --> 02:24.000 What? It's Mr. Jennings. 02:26.000 --> 02:32.000 My, Mr. Jennings, you sure give me a turn. I never expected to see you around this neighborhood again. 02:32.000 --> 02:36.000 Well, here I am. How's the upstairs floor? 02:36.000 --> 02:40.000 Just as you left it, Mr. Jennings. I haven't rented it to a soul. 02:40.000 --> 02:42.000 Well, I want to rent it again. 02:42.000 --> 02:43.000 What, you, Mr. Jennings? 02:43.000 --> 02:46.000 That's right. I'm setting up housekeeping again. 02:46.000 --> 02:51.000 Well, if that don't beat getting married again, Mr. Jennings. 02:51.000 --> 02:54.000 In a way. Let's run up and take a look, shall we? 02:54.000 --> 03:01.000 Okay, if you say so. Only, won't it make you feel kind of blue to see the old place again? 03:01.000 --> 03:03.000 Blue? Why should it? 03:03.000 --> 03:05.000 Well, memories, you know. 03:05.000 --> 03:10.000 That's just what I want to find. Memories. Everything just as it was. 03:10.000 --> 03:15.000 I hope you've left it just the same, Mrs. Hawkins. No painting or new wallpaper? 03:15.000 --> 03:18.000 Not yet. Thought I'd fix it up to please the new tenant. 03:18.000 --> 03:21.000 Well, leave it just as it was. Please, for me. 03:21.000 --> 03:28.000 Well, here's the keys. Maybe you'd like to go in and look around by yourself. 03:28.000 --> 03:38.000 No. Do come in, Mrs. Hawkins. You were always so very kind. More a friend than a landlady. 03:38.000 --> 03:46.000 Oh, how beautiful it looks, even bare. The sunshine always was so warm up here. 03:46.000 --> 03:51.000 And the trees. I'd almost forgotten how close the trees were. 03:51.000 --> 03:54.000 And there's the marks our sofa made against the wall. 03:54.000 --> 03:58.000 And the square shapes of our pictures still on the wallpaper. 03:58.000 --> 04:00.000 It could stand a good cleaning, of course. 04:00.000 --> 04:04.000 Do you remember how Mabel used to sit here up on evening and sing? 04:04.000 --> 04:08.000 The upright was over there and over at the Maxfield Parish. 04:08.000 --> 04:14.000 And over near the bay window, above the ferns, the canary sat in his cage. 04:14.000 --> 04:19.000 And when she sang, swing low, sweet chariot, he'd always sing with her. 04:19.000 --> 04:22.000 Oh, come now, Mr. Jennings. You'll be getting yourself all fretted up. 04:22.000 --> 04:27.000 Oh, no, no. I assure you, Mrs. Hawkins, it's very important. 04:27.000 --> 04:32.000 You see, I'm going to have it again, just as it was. 04:32.000 --> 04:33.000 Is that so? 04:33.000 --> 04:37.000 I've made a list. But in a year, so many details escape one. 04:37.000 --> 04:42.000 Like those ferns, for instance. I'd almost forgotten how she loved ferns. 04:42.000 --> 04:48.000 Oh, yes. And there was something over in that corner. What was it? 04:48.000 --> 04:52.000 A rocker. Her mother's old rocker. 04:52.000 --> 04:55.000 It used to squeak over a loose board whenever anybody sat in it. 04:55.000 --> 04:59.000 You mean you're going to try and find all them things again, Mr. Jennings? 04:59.000 --> 05:00.000 Yes. 05:00.000 --> 05:03.000 But you sold all them to junk dealers. You gave them away. 05:03.000 --> 05:06.000 But you scattered them every which way when you broke up your home. 05:06.000 --> 05:11.000 I've already been looking. I've collected a lot of things. It isn't so hard. 05:11.000 --> 05:16.000 You see, our furniture wasn't very precious to anyone but us. 05:16.000 --> 05:20.000 Of course you know what you're doing, Mr. Jennings. It's none of my business, I suppose. 05:20.000 --> 05:23.000 Will two months rent be enough in advance, Mrs. Hawkins? 05:23.000 --> 05:29.000 I won't be moving in for another couple of weeks, but from time to time, I'd like to have things delivered. 05:29.000 --> 05:33.000 Two months will be just dandy. I'll make you a special bargain price, too. 05:33.000 --> 05:36.000 See, and you don't want no redecorating. 05:36.000 --> 05:41.000 You're sure your lady friend won't want none either, Mr. Jennings? 05:41.000 --> 05:42.000 I hardly think so. 05:42.000 --> 05:47.000 Well, I hope you'll both be very happy here. It's nice to have you back in the neighborhood. 05:47.000 --> 05:49.000 It's good to be home. 06:03.000 --> 06:06.000 Now, Mrs. MacIntyre, what would you have done in my place? 06:06.000 --> 06:08.000 I admit, it'd give me a funny feeling, you know. 06:08.000 --> 06:13.000 You would think a man had more respect for the dead and her dead only less in a year 06:13.000 --> 06:18.000 than to bring a new wife plumb back to the same floor and the same furniture. 06:18.000 --> 06:23.000 And I say, what kind of a woman is she, too, to stand for that kind of nonsense? 06:23.000 --> 06:26.000 But of course, it ain't really none of my business. 06:26.000 --> 06:39.000 Besides, two months rent. Two months rent. 06:39.000 --> 06:43.000 Well, Mr. Jennings, what are you doing here this time of night? 06:43.000 --> 06:45.000 I'm moving in. 06:45.000 --> 06:46.000 Moving in? 06:46.000 --> 06:51.000 I intended coming much earlier, but I had so many last minute things to do, like picking up Dickie and... 06:51.000 --> 06:54.000 Oh, now, don't tell me that's your old canary, Mr. Jennings. 06:54.000 --> 06:56.000 Yes, it's little Dickie. 06:56.000 --> 07:00.000 I found him in a pet shop on Third Avenue in his old cage. 07:00.000 --> 07:02.000 He looks pretty chipper, doesn't he? 07:02.000 --> 07:06.000 Well, aren't you the one? I'd have thought he'd have died of lonesomeness ages ago. 07:06.000 --> 07:08.000 Did all my furniture and things get here, Mrs. Hawkins? 07:08.000 --> 07:12.000 Just about. They've been delivering off and on for the last week. 07:12.000 --> 07:15.000 You sure got everything back, Mr. Jennings. 07:15.000 --> 07:18.000 Well, pretty nearly everything. 07:18.000 --> 07:21.000 A couple of rugs are missing and our old kitchen table and... 07:21.000 --> 07:23.000 Oh, I got the piano. 07:23.000 --> 07:26.000 I bought the old upright back from the Sunday School. 07:26.000 --> 07:28.000 Boy, I've been more than lucky. 07:28.000 --> 07:33.000 Mrs. Hawkins, you won't mind, will you, if I start moving some of it into place tonight? 07:33.000 --> 07:34.000 I'll be very quiet. 07:34.000 --> 07:37.000 Tonight? Oh, it's pretty near midnight, Mr. Jennings. 07:37.000 --> 07:41.000 Yes, I know, but I have to work all day tomorrow and the next day. 07:41.000 --> 07:43.000 You see, there's so little time. 07:43.000 --> 07:45.000 Oh, you're expecting her soon? 07:45.000 --> 07:46.000 Very soon. 07:46.000 --> 07:52.000 Oh, well, if you don't get it done in time, I'll be glad to give you and her a hand when she gets here. 07:52.000 --> 07:55.000 No, no. It's got to be already before she comes. 07:55.000 --> 07:58.000 Otherwise, she won't come. 07:58.000 --> 08:01.000 You don't say, Mr. Jennings. 08:01.000 --> 08:04.000 So, if you don't mind, it'll only be for a few nights. 08:04.000 --> 08:08.000 And I won't move any of the heavy pieces after midnight. 08:08.000 --> 08:13.000 If you only knew what this means to me, Mrs. Hawkins, how I've waited for months. 08:13.000 --> 08:15.000 Is that so, Mr. Jennings? 08:15.000 --> 08:19.000 Well, I'm sure glad you found somebody to make a home for you again. 08:19.000 --> 08:22.000 I hope she's the right girl for you and is going to make you happy. 08:22.000 --> 08:24.000 Oh, she will, all right. 08:24.000 --> 08:30.000 Of course. There are some people I know say a man ought to wait a couple of years, but... 08:30.000 --> 08:35.000 Well, I was only saying yesterday, certain men are natural-born husbands and homebodies. 08:35.000 --> 08:38.000 They need a home and a woman to look after them. 08:38.000 --> 08:43.000 Yes, yes, that's true. Well, good night, Mrs. Hawkins. I'll try not to disturb you. 08:43.000 --> 08:58.000 Good night, Mr. Jennings. 08:58.000 --> 09:03.000 Come in, Mrs. McTire. No, it's okay. He's at the office. He'll never know we come up. 09:03.000 --> 09:07.000 Yeah, take a look around. Ain't it something? 09:07.000 --> 09:12.000 Everything fixed up down to the last knife and fork, just exactly as she had it. 09:12.000 --> 09:14.000 Don't it give you the creeps? 09:14.000 --> 09:18.000 Yep, that's the same canary singing in his cage just like it used to. 09:18.000 --> 09:22.000 And look, Mrs. McTire, come here in the bedroom. 09:22.000 --> 09:26.000 He's even got her clothes hung up in the closet. 09:26.000 --> 09:39.000 Now, I'm asking you, Mrs. McTire, what do you think the second Mrs. Jennings is going to say to that? 09:39.000 --> 09:47.000 Mr. Jennings? 09:47.000 --> 09:49.000 Hello, Mrs. Hawkins. 09:49.000 --> 09:54.000 Well, I've been beside myself with worry, Mr. Jennings. Where have you been all this time, if I may ask? 09:54.000 --> 09:55.000 Right here. 09:55.000 --> 09:56.000 Right here? 09:56.000 --> 10:02.000 Didn't you hear us come in? I've been to work all day, of course, but last night, a little after one. 10:02.000 --> 10:04.000 Perhaps you were sleeping. 10:04.000 --> 10:06.000 Us? You mean you and... 10:06.000 --> 10:08.000 Well, yes, she's come. 10:08.000 --> 10:11.000 You mean she's been upstairs all day? 10:11.000 --> 10:12.000 Certainly. 10:12.000 --> 10:14.000 I haven't heard a sound. 10:14.000 --> 10:20.000 Probably she's sleeping. She was very tired. The trip was more exhausting than I'd dreamed. 10:20.000 --> 10:25.000 Well, you might have stopped by and told me on your way to work this morning, Mr. Jennings. 10:25.000 --> 10:33.000 Of course, it's none of my business, but I could have at least introduced myself to my own tenant and maybe even helped her out. 10:33.000 --> 10:37.000 Oh, it's all right. She doesn't want to see anybody just yet. 10:37.000 --> 10:48.000 Oh, no? Well, of course, I wouldn't intrude on your privacy for anything, Mr. Jennings, although I'm sure when the first Mrs. Jennings was alive, we were all friends here. 10:48.000 --> 10:57.000 Oh, no, no, it isn't that. It's only that in these first few days, everything is so new and strange. She's not quite herself. 10:57.000 --> 11:05.000 Okay, Mr. Jennings, you know best. But if you should want me, you just call down the dumb waiter and I'll be right up. 11:05.000 --> 11:12.000 Thanks, Mrs. Hawkins. Thank you. But on no account are we to be disturbed. On no account. 11:12.000 --> 11:39.000 Music. 11:39.000 --> 11:52.000 We have a presentation tonight in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 11:52.000 --> 11:57.000 Between the acts of suspense, this is Truman Bradley for Roma Wines. 11:57.000 --> 12:08.000 Happier days are here again. 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The last thing in the world I am is a busybody, but well, you know, 14:01.000 --> 14:06.000 I don't go out much on account of my heart, and our two floors are kind of close. 14:06.000 --> 14:13.000 Downstairs in my dining room you can hear most everything that goes on upstairs. Now wouldn't you have thought there'd have been something last night, 14:13.000 --> 14:20.000 some talking or footsteps or dishes rattling? Well I'm telling you, I sat there till midnight and there wasn't a thing. 14:20.000 --> 14:29.000 Nothing at all except along about half past twelve I hear the dumb waiter come rumbling down the shaft. 14:29.000 --> 14:39.000 Well I just stole a peek and there going by with his claws sticking up in the air was that little yellow canary, dead. 14:39.000 --> 14:53.000 Good morning Mrs. Hawkins. Good morning. And how's Mrs. Jennings today? Wonderful. 14:53.000 --> 15:00.000 Oh, feeling a bit better now? Oh yes, of course she's still very weak, but every day I'm sure will make her stronger. 15:00.000 --> 15:08.000 I have high hopes for her recovery. You had a doctor in to see her yet? Dr. Rubenstein, my doctor is very good. 15:08.000 --> 15:30.000 No, I'm afraid a doctor wouldn't help her. No, no. 15:30.000 --> 15:42.000 Mrs. Jennings? Mrs. Jennings? It's Mrs. Hawkins, the lady downstairs. 15:42.000 --> 15:51.000 I heard you were sick and so I got a little bit of lunch for you Mrs. Jennings. It's just a little bowl of homemade chicken broth, but it's nice and rich. 15:51.000 --> 16:01.000 You sleeping Mrs. Jennings? Okay, then I'll just slip in quietly with my own key that you don't mind and leave it right beside your bed. 16:01.000 --> 16:29.000 Oh that's funny. Hawkins must have bought a new kind of lock. It didn't say anything to me. Mrs. Jennings? Mrs. Jennings? 16:29.000 --> 16:39.000 Mr. Jennings? Oh, good evening Mrs. Hawkins. You got a minute Mr. Jennings. I'd like to speak to you if you don't mind. 16:39.000 --> 16:45.000 Well, Mrs. Jennings is waiting for me upstairs. It's about Mrs. Jennings. She's still poorly you say? 16:45.000 --> 16:53.000 Well, she is confined a good deal to her bed. Well, why don't you get someone in to look after her? I know a good woman. Mrs. McIntyre goes out nursing by the day. 16:53.000 --> 17:02.000 No, oh no. Well, I don't like it Mr. Jennings. Locking her up like that every morning so not a soul can get in. Suppose something happened. 17:02.000 --> 17:09.000 What could happen? What could happen? Anything could happen. A fire. Oh, that doesn't worry me. 17:09.000 --> 17:19.000 Or she could get worse and maybe even die. Oh no. Everybody's got to go sometime Mr. Jennings. I wouldn't take no chances. 17:19.000 --> 17:27.000 Yes, I know. But not her. Not her? What ever do you mean Mr. Jennings? Because she's immune. 17:27.000 --> 17:36.000 Immune? Against? She ain't got no contagious disease up there has she? Oh no, no. It's nothing like that. 17:36.000 --> 17:47.000 Oh Mrs. Hawkins, please, please don't worry or be uneasy. It's worked out so beautifully. It's nothing that can do you any harm. And we're so happy. So wonderfully happy. 17:47.000 --> 17:52.000 Oh, Mr. Jennings, I'll be up in about one hour with the plumber. The plumber? 17:52.000 --> 17:59.000 I'm sorry to disturb you at supper time, but there's something gone wrong with the pipes and we think it's upstairs in your floor. 17:59.000 --> 18:04.000 You can't come in. Mrs. Jennings will be sleeping. Plumber says it's the only time he can come. 18:04.000 --> 18:13.000 Unless he comes tomorrow afternoon while you're at the office. You want to leave me your key Mr. Jennings? No, no I can't. 18:13.000 --> 18:18.000 Well, he'll have to get in there sooner or later Mr. Jennings. The water downstairs all black and discolored. 18:18.000 --> 18:21.000 It's out of the question tonight. I'll discuss it with you in the morning. 18:21.000 --> 18:24.000 Okay Mr. Jennings. 18:24.000 --> 18:43.000 Well now Mrs. McIntyre, how would you feel? Your own house going to rack and ruin. You can't even do nothing about it. 18:43.000 --> 18:54.000 I ask you, what kind of a thing's he got up there that nobody can see? I tell you, just sitting here in this silent house night after night gives me the creeps. 18:54.000 --> 19:05.000 And with my heart what is? Well anyway, his two month's rent's up tomorrow and I got my mind made up. I got my mind made up. 19:05.000 --> 19:17.000 Oh, oh good evening Mrs. Hawkins. I didn't know you for a minute standing there in the dark. 19:17.000 --> 19:25.000 Well I didn't want to miss you this time Mr. Jennings. No? I got your money this morning for next month stuck under the door. 19:25.000 --> 19:34.000 Oh yes, yes, I had to leave early. I hope it is all right. No, it wasn't all right. I'm sorry but the floor's been rented Mr. Jennings. 19:34.000 --> 19:39.000 Rent it? To a young serviceman and his wife from the fort. They took it sight unseen this morning. Oh but you can't. 19:39.000 --> 19:46.000 They're living in a crowded room on 81st street. It's very crowded. I told them I figured you could probably get most of your stuff out in a week. 19:46.000 --> 19:52.000 A week? I never told you I was going Mrs. Hawkins. I'm sorry Mr. Jennings. 19:52.000 --> 19:58.000 If it's a matter of a little more rent, I'll be glad to pay and sign a lease. Any kind of a lease you want. 19:58.000 --> 20:05.000 It's not a matter of rent or a lease Mr. Jennings. It's just I want my floor back that's all. But Mrs. Hawkins. 20:05.000 --> 20:12.000 I like neighborly people upstairs Mr. Jennings. I'm home a lot. I like people I can trust. I don't want no mysteries in my house. 20:12.000 --> 20:21.000 New locks on the door so no one can get in and sneak in and out at night. Oh Mrs. Hawkins I swear you it's all right. Perfectly all right. 20:21.000 --> 20:28.000 You know all this business about Mrs. Jennings. Never a face at the window. Never a footstep on the floor or a dish rag hung out on the line. 20:28.000 --> 20:35.000 Mrs. Jennings is ill. She's not like other people. I tell you I won't go. You've got to let me stay. 20:35.000 --> 20:43.000 Here's your rent back Mr. Jennings. I haven't any place to go. This is my home. It's all I have. I stake debt of everything on being here. Everything. 20:43.000 --> 20:55.000 Are there other floors vacant in this neighborhood? No, no. It's got to be this one. This particular floor. Mrs. Hawkins if I could buy the house. The whole house. 20:55.000 --> 21:03.000 Buy the house? Yes, yes. If it's for sale. Perhaps you've never thought of selling it but I'd give you a good price. I'd scrape the money together somehow. 21:03.000 --> 21:11.000 This house ain't for sale. It happens to be my home too Mr. Jennings. Oh I know, I know. But you're all alone now that Mr. Hawkins is... 21:11.000 --> 21:25.000 Oh I mean it's a heavy responsibility. A big house and all those stairs to keep clean and the repairs and all. Oh Mrs. Hawkins if you don't reconsider I'd do anything. 21:25.000 --> 21:32.000 No, it's too much for me. I don't understand it. Why can't she see me and talk to me? Why can't she invite me in for a cup of tea and explain? 21:32.000 --> 21:42.000 Because she can't. What's the matter with her that she can't? Is she so ugly or so beautiful or so crazy? Who is she anyway? 21:42.000 --> 22:10.000 I can't tell you. Okay Mr. Jennings then that's that. 22:10.000 --> 22:31.000 Mrs. Hawkins. Mrs. Hawkins. Yes? I'm here Mr. Jennings at the dumb waiter. Mrs. Hawkins. Yes Mr. Jennings. What is it? 22:31.000 --> 22:46.000 I'm sending you down the key on the dumb waiter. She wants you to come up. She? Mrs. Jennings. Okay? Got it? 22:46.000 --> 22:59.000 Yes. She wants me to come up now Mr. Jennings. That's right. Well it's kind of late if she ain't so well. 22:59.000 --> 23:11.000 That's all right. She's feeling much better tonight. She wants to talk to you about the floor before it's too late. 23:11.000 --> 23:38.000 Okay. I'll be right up. 23:38.000 --> 23:59.000 Okay Mr. Jennings. I'm here. Come in. You have the key. Okay. 23:59.000 --> 24:10.000 Well where's your lights Mr. Jennings? I can't see a thing. I'll light a candle in a moment. Mrs. Jennings prefers the dark. 24:10.000 --> 24:25.000 But you know this floor so well Mrs. Hawkins. Come in. Well where are you Mr. Jennings? Right in here. In the parlor. Sitting on the sofa. 24:25.000 --> 24:35.000 That's just the wind. There's always a little draft blowing in here. But won't you sit down Mrs. Hawkins? No thanks. I'm only going to stay a minute. 24:35.000 --> 24:48.000 Just long enough to meet Mrs. Jennings. Oh. But you've already met her. Already met her? Don't you remember? Five years ago. 24:48.000 --> 24:59.000 A rather chilly day. The rain was falling. She rang the bell to ask about the upstairs floor. And you invited her in for a cup of tea. 24:59.000 --> 25:10.000 I'm afraid you're mistaken. That was the first Mrs. Jennings. That's what I mean. Oh. Oh no Mr. Jennings. 25:10.000 --> 25:22.000 Now do you understand Mrs. Hawkins? Now do you know why we couldn't ever go away? We? But they couldn't. Well the first Mrs. Jennings it's- 25:22.000 --> 25:32.000 I know. You saw her coffin in this very room didn't you Mrs. Hawkins? You saw them take her away. I think you even followed out to that cold dark cemetery. 25:32.000 --> 25:43.000 Well but- But she couldn't stay away. She pleaded with me in my dreams to bring her back and I brought her back. Oh no Mr. Jennings. 25:43.000 --> 25:56.000 Don't say such things. If everything were the same as in the past she said, we could have the past. If I furnished our old floor with the same things, she'd live here too. 25:56.000 --> 26:08.000 Excuse me Mr. Jennings. I'm afraid I got to- Oh no no no don't go yet. There's nothing frightening about it. Would you be afraid to look at a forsythia bush that had been asleep all winter? 26:08.000 --> 26:15.000 Or a tulip? Or a tree? I ain't afraid Mr. Jennings. I only- Listen. 26:15.000 --> 26:40.000 What? You don't hear it? In the bedroom? The rocking? No. Mabel. Mabel. No. Don't. Don't call her. I hear it Mr. Jennings. Oh but she wants to meet you. She's always loved you so much. 26:40.000 --> 26:58.000 I- I really- I just assumed some other time Mr. Jennings. The door's locked. It snapped shut behind you. Really Mrs. Hawkins don't go. She'll be in in a moment. There. There. She's coming down the hall. 26:58.000 --> 27:16.000 Now let me out of this. Do you hear? Let me out. My heart won't stand. Oh. Oh. Here she is. There. Standing in the doorway. Smiling. Oh my darling. My darling. 27:16.000 --> 27:32.000 I don't see nobody. Mrs. Hawkins. She's going to sing for you. Sing for me? This is the first night she's been able to. You remember the old song she used to sing of an evening? 27:32.000 --> 27:46.000 Swing low sweet- I don't want to hear it. Oh please. Please Mrs. Hawkins. She's very timid. You'll frighten her. The dead can't come back. They'd never want to live on this earth again. Go on Mabel dearest. Don't mind. 27:46.000 --> 28:00.000 You're looking very beautiful tonight my darling. I like that dress. Do you remember when we bought it? On our first wedding anniversary. Why don't they all come back then? Why couldn't my poor old John? 28:00.000 --> 28:18.000 Sit down dearest. There. Now it seems like old times again. The flower in your hair. The canary singing in his cage. No. No it can't. I. No. Oh. I told you. My heart won't get a doctor quick. 28:18.000 --> 28:34.000 Your voice. Your voice was always like a bird's to me. I'll never forget the first time I ever heard it. On an evening. In spring. At the Calvary Baptist Church. A doctor. Play dearest play. 28:48.000 --> 29:03.000 Go on dearest. It's all right. Sing. 29:03.000 --> 29:18.000 Swing low sweet chariot. Come and forth to carry me home. 29:18.000 --> 29:33.000 Swing low sweet chariot. Come and forth to carry me home. 29:49.000 --> 29:59.000 Roma wines have brought you Mildred Natwick and Don DeFore as stars of the furnished floor tonight's study in Suspense. 29:59.000 --> 30:22.000 This is Truman Redley for Roma Wines, the sponsor of Suspense. And here's a hint on how to make better cocktails. Make them with zestful, full flavored Roma Vermouth. The Vermouth of almost a hundred rare herbs. Made and bottled in the heart of California's famous vineyards. Yet surprisingly low priced. Try Roma Vermouth soon, won't you? 30:22.000 --> 30:40.000 Mildred Natwick will soon be seen in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production Yolanda and the Thief. Don DeFore is currently being seen in the Hal Wallace production You Came Along, a Paramount Picture. Next Thursday you will hear Miss Myrna Loy, a star of Suspense, radio's outstanding theatre thrill. 30:40.000 --> 31:05.000 Presented by Roma Wines, R-O-M-A. Made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.