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Those better tasting California wines enjoyed by more Americans than any other wine. 00:51.000 --> 00:55.000 For friendly entertaining, for delightful dining. 00:55.000 --> 01:03.000 Yes, right now, a glass full would be very pleasant as Roma wines bring you Joan Bennett in a remarkable tale of... 01:03.000 --> 01:05.000 Suspense! 01:09.000 --> 01:11.000 Are you feeling any better now? 01:11.000 --> 01:13.000 You know what I've been wondering, lying here? 01:13.000 --> 01:15.000 What's that, Mrs. Allen? 01:15.000 --> 01:16.000 Are you really a nurse? 01:16.000 --> 01:17.000 Why, of course. 01:17.000 --> 01:21.000 That stuff you keep giving me to make me sleep, it doesn't. 01:21.000 --> 01:24.000 You'd be asleep in no time, Mrs. Allen, if you'd only make up your mind to it. 01:24.000 --> 01:26.000 It's all in your mind, you know. 01:26.000 --> 01:29.000 That's funny. You saying that to me. 01:29.000 --> 01:32.000 Now then, Mrs. Allen, you mustn't keep talking. 01:32.000 --> 01:35.000 That's how it was with him. All in his mind. 01:35.000 --> 01:39.000 That's why I couldn't help him. That's why nobody in the world could help him. 01:39.000 --> 01:44.000 I know that now. But I couldn't bring myself to admit it until last night. 01:44.000 --> 01:49.000 You know where I was last night? I was at the Hollywood Bowl. 01:49.000 --> 01:53.000 It should have been the proudest night of my life. 01:53.000 --> 01:58.000 I was waiting for my husband to enter the stage and take his place as the leader of a great orchestra. 01:58.000 --> 02:01.000 Yes, I should have felt proud, but all I could feel was fear. 02:01.000 --> 02:04.000 It wasn't a new fear. It was an old fear. 02:04.000 --> 02:06.000 As old as our lives together. 02:06.000 --> 02:08.000 It began nearly two years ago. 02:08.000 --> 02:13.000 Ira and I had driven to the Pasadena station to meet a new pupil of his in from the East. 02:13.000 --> 02:17.000 I didn't have any reason to believe that this new arrival would be any different from the dozens of others 02:17.000 --> 02:20.000 who come every year to live with us and study music with my husband. 02:25.000 --> 02:28.000 Ira, I don't see him anywhere. Don't you know what he looks like? 02:28.000 --> 02:30.000 What's that, my dear? 02:30.000 --> 02:33.000 Oh, never mind. There, that looks like it might be him over there. 02:33.000 --> 02:37.000 Excuse me. Are you looking for Professor Whitmer? 02:37.000 --> 02:40.000 Oh, Professor Whitmer. Yeah, I'm Mark Allen. 02:40.000 --> 02:44.000 You'll have to talk to my wife. I can't hear you just now. 02:44.000 --> 02:46.000 Glad to know you, Mrs. Whitmer. 02:46.000 --> 02:47.000 How do you do? 02:47.000 --> 02:51.000 You know those streamlined hearing devices you see advertised in the papers all the time, Mr. Allen? 02:51.000 --> 02:55.000 I have one, but like an idiot, I left it at home. 02:55.000 --> 02:59.000 Well, that's something Beethoven would have liked to have been able to say, Professor. 02:59.000 --> 03:04.000 Yes. But you know, Mr. Allen, I think he'd rather have put up with being plain deaf. 03:04.000 --> 03:06.000 Excuse me, sir, but what about your bag, sir? 03:06.000 --> 03:08.000 We have our car with us, Mr. Allen. 03:08.000 --> 03:10.000 Right. Just take my car. 03:10.000 --> 03:12.000 Would you look after Mr. Allen's bag, my dear? 03:12.000 --> 03:16.000 I just did. It's the one right here. Just put the bags in the bag. 03:16.000 --> 03:17.000 Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. 03:17.000 --> 03:18.000 Here you are. 03:18.000 --> 03:19.000 Oh, thank you. 03:19.000 --> 03:22.000 I guess we can all ride in the front, can't we? 03:22.000 --> 03:24.000 After you, Mrs. Whitmer. 03:24.000 --> 03:27.000 See, Mr. Allen, my wife takes care of everything. 03:27.000 --> 03:31.000 That's what poor old Beethoven needed. Good, dependable wife. 03:31.000 --> 03:34.000 Is this your first visit to California, Mr. Allen? 03:34.000 --> 03:38.000 That's right. Never been further west than Chicago before in my life. 03:38.000 --> 03:41.000 Well, you'll find the climate a nice change anyway. 03:41.000 --> 03:45.000 What about you, Mrs. Whitmer? You a native of California? 03:45.000 --> 03:49.000 Not exactly, but the professor and I have lived here ever since we were married. 03:49.000 --> 03:52.000 It's a great tragedy, a great conductor losing his earring like that. 03:52.000 --> 03:56.000 It doesn't worry him so much, now that he has his own protégés. 03:56.000 --> 03:58.000 Must be hard on you, though, sometimes. 03:58.000 --> 04:00.000 Why should it be hard on me? 04:00.000 --> 04:04.000 Oh, I just thought it might be. That's all. 04:04.000 --> 04:07.000 By the way, what's your first name, Mrs. Whitmer? 04:07.000 --> 04:09.000 Why, uh, Frenzy. 04:09.000 --> 04:12.000 You mind if I call you that sometimes? 04:12.000 --> 04:15.000 Why, of course not. You can call me anything you like, Mr. Allen. 04:15.000 --> 04:17.000 Ira, there's the bell. 04:17.000 --> 04:19.000 Huh? What's that, my dear? 04:19.000 --> 04:21.000 There's a train coming. Oh, oh, yes. 04:21.000 --> 04:41.000 Thank you, my dear. 04:41.000 --> 04:43.000 I hope I didn't give you a scare, Mr. Allen. 04:43.000 --> 04:46.000 I really shouldn't be driving without that full device. 04:46.000 --> 04:48.000 My dear, would you like to drive? 04:48.000 --> 04:52.000 If you drive, we're almost home now anyway. 04:52.000 --> 04:54.000 Is this where we live? 04:54.000 --> 04:56.000 Uh-huh. This is Brooksville. 04:56.000 --> 04:58.000 Nice little town we live in. 04:58.000 --> 05:00.000 I certainly hope you'll enjoy it, Mr. Allen. 05:00.000 --> 05:03.000 I'm sure I will, Frenzy. 05:10.000 --> 05:11.000 That's all there was to it. 05:11.000 --> 05:15.000 And yet, if he'd asked me to go away with him to Timbuktu that night, I'd have gone. 05:15.000 --> 05:17.000 But he didn't. He didn't ask me anything. 05:17.000 --> 05:18.000 He just watched me. 05:18.000 --> 05:20.000 Not like the musical genius he was supposed to be. 05:20.000 --> 05:23.000 He was rough and hard and strong. 05:23.000 --> 05:25.000 A kid from the wrong side of the tracks. 05:25.000 --> 05:26.000 A kid like me. 05:26.000 --> 05:28.000 And I was watching him. 05:28.000 --> 05:30.000 I was watching him all the time until one morning, 05:30.000 --> 05:32.000 Ira had gone into L.A. for the day. 05:32.000 --> 05:36.000 I was in the kitchen washing up the breakfast dishes. 05:36.000 --> 05:39.000 And he was supposed to be up in his room composing. 05:39.000 --> 05:42.000 But he wasn't composing any more than I was washing dishes. 05:42.000 --> 05:44.000 He was waiting for me to go up to him. 05:44.000 --> 05:47.000 He didn't have to wait long. 05:52.000 --> 05:53.000 Oh, pardon me. 05:53.000 --> 05:57.000 Why, uh, come on in, Mrs. Allen. 05:57.000 --> 05:59.000 I was looking for my husband. 05:59.000 --> 06:02.000 He, uh, went to the concert at the Philharmonic. 06:02.000 --> 06:05.000 He did? Oh, I wanted him to do an errand for me. 06:05.000 --> 06:07.000 Well, that's too bad. 06:07.000 --> 06:10.000 Oh, well, it'll have to wait until next week now, I suppose. 06:10.000 --> 06:14.000 He, uh, might remember and call you. 06:14.000 --> 06:16.000 He might? 06:18.000 --> 06:20.000 That's nice. What's it called? 06:20.000 --> 06:22.000 It's an overture. 06:22.000 --> 06:24.000 Overture and two keys. 06:24.000 --> 06:25.000 Oh. 06:25.000 --> 06:27.000 You asked me that before. 06:27.000 --> 06:29.000 At breakfast. Remember? 06:29.000 --> 06:31.000 Oh, yes, so I did. 06:31.000 --> 06:33.000 I'd forgotten. 06:33.000 --> 06:35.000 But look at me. 06:35.000 --> 06:38.000 Why, the professor would kill me if he caught me wasting your time like this. 06:38.000 --> 06:41.000 Maybe that's one reason you waited until he was out of the way. 06:41.000 --> 06:43.000 Well. 06:43.000 --> 06:45.000 Want to hear the other reason? 06:45.000 --> 06:48.000 It's been on your mind ever since that first day at the station. 06:48.000 --> 06:50.000 Only you figured you'd wait. 06:50.000 --> 06:53.000 Let me make the first move. 06:53.000 --> 06:56.000 It's the way a dame always figures. 06:56.000 --> 06:58.000 Until she meets the right guy. 06:58.000 --> 07:00.000 Meaning you? 07:00.000 --> 07:02.000 I don't mean Santa Claus. 07:02.000 --> 07:04.000 What does that make me? 07:04.000 --> 07:06.000 Come here, darling. 07:06.000 --> 07:09.000 You like to play hard to get, don't you? 07:12.000 --> 07:14.000 Am I so hard to get? 07:14.000 --> 07:16.000 I've been going crazy. 07:16.000 --> 07:18.000 What do you think I've been doing? 07:18.000 --> 07:20.000 When does he get back? 07:20.000 --> 07:21.000 Late. 07:21.000 --> 07:22.000 How late? 07:22.000 --> 07:24.000 Never before six. 07:24.000 --> 07:26.000 Hello, darling. 07:26.000 --> 07:28.000 Six o'clock came too soon that night. 07:28.000 --> 07:30.000 It always came too soon. 07:30.000 --> 07:32.000 I think I dreaded that clock more than I dreaded Ira. 07:32.000 --> 07:34.000 We couldn't cheat on the clock. 07:34.000 --> 07:38.000 But with Ira, well, taking care of Ira wasn't a problem for any Einstein. 07:38.000 --> 07:40.000 But Mark was the one who had to do it. 07:40.000 --> 07:44.000 Mark had to fix it so that earphones or no earphones, Ira would be deaf. 07:44.000 --> 07:46.000 As deaf as an adid. 07:46.000 --> 07:49.000 Sometimes I couldn't understand why Mark got the idea. 07:49.000 --> 07:51.000 I was a little confused. 07:51.000 --> 07:53.000 I was a little confused. 07:53.000 --> 07:57.000 Sometimes I couldn't understand why Mark got so upset over that part of it. 07:57.000 --> 07:59.000 He used to tell me that I never would understand. 07:59.000 --> 08:01.000 I wasn't a musician and I wasn't deaf. 08:01.000 --> 08:05.000 Well, anyway, I had plenty of other things to feel bad about. 08:05.000 --> 08:06.000 We both did. 08:06.000 --> 08:11.000 We were like two shipwrecked sailors dying of thirst and all we got to drink was salt water. 08:11.000 --> 08:23.000 You can stand that kind of thirst just so long. 08:23.000 --> 08:25.000 Hello. 08:25.000 --> 08:26.000 Hello, yourself. 08:26.000 --> 08:28.000 Keep on playing. 08:28.000 --> 08:29.000 Oh. 08:29.000 --> 08:31.000 Isn't he gone yet? 08:31.000 --> 08:33.000 He just called off his L.A. appointment. 08:33.000 --> 08:34.000 What's up? 08:34.000 --> 08:36.000 Oh, he thinks he's in for the flu or something. 08:36.000 --> 08:38.000 Anyway, he's staying home all day. 08:38.000 --> 08:40.000 Lock the door, baby. 08:40.000 --> 08:41.000 Keep the germs out. 08:41.000 --> 08:42.000 Mark. 08:42.000 --> 08:43.000 Yeah? 08:43.000 --> 08:44.000 He was talking about you. 08:44.000 --> 08:46.000 He said you decided to cut the course. 08:46.000 --> 08:49.000 I've taken in all about all he can teach me. 08:49.000 --> 08:51.000 Besides, the dough's running short. 08:51.000 --> 08:52.000 You're lying. 08:52.000 --> 08:54.000 But I'm glad you're lying. 08:54.000 --> 08:56.000 Mark, take me with you. 08:56.000 --> 08:57.000 We can go away together. 08:57.000 --> 08:58.000 Where? 08:58.000 --> 08:59.000 New York, Chicago. 08:59.000 --> 09:00.000 It doesn't matter. 09:00.000 --> 09:01.000 He'd follow us. 09:01.000 --> 09:02.000 You know that? 09:02.000 --> 09:04.000 The kind of guy who'd track us down to the end of the earth. 09:04.000 --> 09:05.000 I wouldn't mind. 09:05.000 --> 09:06.000 I would. 09:06.000 --> 09:08.000 I'd mind plenty. 09:08.000 --> 09:10.000 You mean your career as the great conductor. 09:10.000 --> 09:12.000 That makes me a heel, doesn't it? 09:12.000 --> 09:13.000 That makes you like the rest of them. 09:13.000 --> 09:15.000 That's all Ira thinks about, his career. 09:15.000 --> 09:16.000 He cares about as much for me as... 09:16.000 --> 09:18.000 Okay, okay. 09:18.000 --> 09:20.000 So far as the law is concerned, 09:20.000 --> 09:22.000 she's Professor Whitmer's wife. 09:22.000 --> 09:24.000 And there isn't anything we can do about it. 09:24.000 --> 09:26.000 Isn't there, Mark? 09:26.000 --> 09:27.000 Nothing that makes sense. 09:27.000 --> 09:29.000 Mark. 09:29.000 --> 09:31.000 Does it make any sense to you? 09:31.000 --> 09:33.000 I've thought about it. 09:33.000 --> 09:36.000 You wanted to hear me say it, though, didn't you? 09:36.000 --> 09:38.000 Don't look at me like that. 09:38.000 --> 09:40.000 Then you'd be sure I was crazy about you. 09:40.000 --> 09:41.000 Mark. 09:41.000 --> 09:43.000 Come here. 09:43.000 --> 09:46.000 We only didn't feel this way every time. 09:46.000 --> 09:48.000 But we do, don't we? 09:48.000 --> 09:50.000 Every time. 09:50.000 --> 09:53.000 Hello, darling. 09:54.000 --> 09:55.000 Ira. 09:55.000 --> 09:58.000 I must apologize for lowering myself to the role of an eavesdropper. 09:58.000 --> 09:59.000 Ira, please. 09:59.000 --> 10:01.000 Then it's also regrettable that you, Mr. Allen, 10:01.000 --> 10:05.000 should presume that my affliction would affect my powers of observation. 10:05.000 --> 10:07.000 Or, for that matter, my tolerance. 10:07.000 --> 10:10.000 You'll kindly make arrangements to leave my house. 10:10.000 --> 10:13.000 I guess that's about the way it is, Professor. 10:13.000 --> 10:15.000 I've already taken the liberty, or... 10:15.000 --> 10:19.000 Or should I say the precaution of reserving a ticket to New York. 10:19.000 --> 10:22.000 We have 40 minutes to get to the Pasadena station. 10:22.000 --> 10:23.000 Ira, I must talk to you. 10:23.000 --> 10:25.000 Undoubtedly, my dear. 10:25.000 --> 10:27.000 Mr. Allen is going to catch his train. 10:27.000 --> 10:29.000 I must go get the car. 10:29.000 --> 10:32.000 You might help Mr. Allen with his packing. 10:32.000 --> 10:34.000 What time do you have? 10:34.000 --> 10:36.000 Five to eleven. 10:36.000 --> 10:37.000 Yeah. 10:37.000 --> 10:39.000 We can just make it. 10:39.000 --> 10:41.000 Mark, you're not really going. 10:41.000 --> 10:42.000 Mark! 10:42.000 --> 10:43.000 It's in my music case. 10:43.000 --> 10:45.000 No, it's right there on the piano. 10:45.000 --> 10:46.000 What about the rest of your junk? 10:46.000 --> 10:47.000 Are you leaving that behind to sue me? 10:47.000 --> 10:49.000 It's only until I can send you a forwarding address. 10:49.000 --> 10:51.000 At least you can tell me where you're going. 10:51.000 --> 10:53.000 You heard him. New York. 10:53.000 --> 10:54.000 Where's the car now? 10:54.000 --> 10:55.000 Mark! 10:55.000 --> 10:56.000 Yeah? 10:56.000 --> 10:59.000 Mark, let me know if you should change your mind. 10:59.000 --> 11:01.000 I won't have to let you know, Franzi. 11:01.000 --> 11:04.000 I haven't changed my mind. 11:13.000 --> 11:16.000 After he left, I remember looking at the alarm clock beside his bed. 11:16.000 --> 11:18.000 It said eleven o'clock. 11:18.000 --> 11:20.000 Then I thought about what I'd be doing tomorrow at eleven o'clock. 11:20.000 --> 11:23.000 And the day after that, and the next week, and the next year. 11:23.000 --> 11:27.000 Eleven o'clock for all the rest of my life would be the time he walked out of that door. 11:27.000 --> 11:29.000 I wanted to cry, but I couldn't. 11:29.000 --> 11:31.000 I just sat there listening to the clock. 11:31.000 --> 11:34.000 I must have sat there without moving for hours. 11:34.000 --> 11:38.000 Then I heard the bell. My first thought was Ira. 11:38.000 --> 11:42.000 Automatically, I got up and walked downstairs to answer it. 11:44.000 --> 11:46.000 Good day, ma'am. You Mrs. Whitmer? 11:46.000 --> 11:47.000 That's right. 11:47.000 --> 11:49.000 Lieutenant Scott, police headquarters. 11:49.000 --> 11:50.000 You know this gentleman here? 11:50.000 --> 11:51.000 Oh, yes. 11:51.000 --> 11:54.000 You must get ready for some bad news, Mrs. Whitmer. 11:54.000 --> 11:55.000 My husband? 11:55.000 --> 11:57.000 Yes, ma'am. There's been an accident. 11:57.000 --> 12:01.000 Lieutenant, I'm an old friend of the family. Maybe you'd better let me tell her. 12:01.000 --> 12:03.000 You'll have to give me some address then, Mr. Allen. 12:03.000 --> 12:06.000 Call me here. Pasadena 1213. 12:06.000 --> 12:09.000 That's only a matter of the next few days, you understand? 12:09.000 --> 12:11.000 I'll stay in town as long as you need me. 12:11.000 --> 12:15.000 Pasadena 1213. All right, Mr. Allen. Good day, Mrs. Whitmer. 12:15.000 --> 12:16.000 Goodbye. 12:16.000 --> 12:17.000 Goodbye, Lieutenant. 12:17.000 --> 12:20.000 Mark. Oh, Mark, I thought I was never going to see you again. 12:20.000 --> 12:25.000 Didn't you? I think I want to sit down a minute. 12:25.000 --> 12:27.000 Mark, tell me, what happened? Quickly. 12:27.000 --> 12:30.000 It was pretty terrible. 12:30.000 --> 12:33.000 I told him a couple of times to take it easy. 12:33.000 --> 12:37.000 He must have done 70 when we hit the main drag. 12:37.000 --> 12:40.000 Maybe that's why I didn't recognize where we were. 12:40.000 --> 12:44.000 Anyway, I wouldn't have known we were that close to the crossing until I heard the bell. 12:44.000 --> 12:47.000 He still had time. If he'd thrown on his brakes when I hollered at him, 12:47.000 --> 12:50.000 it would have been all the time in the world. 12:50.000 --> 12:52.000 Maybe he thought he couldn't make it or maybe he just didn't hear me. 12:52.000 --> 12:54.000 I don't know. I just don't know. 12:54.000 --> 12:59.000 It was too late to grab the wheel. It was too late to do anything. 12:59.000 --> 13:01.000 That was when I jumped. 13:01.000 --> 13:02.000 Mark. 13:02.000 --> 13:04.000 The next thing I knew, there were cops all over the place. 13:04.000 --> 13:06.000 There was a dock there, too. 13:06.000 --> 13:10.000 I'd been here hours ago if I hadn't had to convince them that I didn't need any ambulance. 13:10.000 --> 13:11.000 And Ira? 13:11.000 --> 13:13.000 And those cops, they ask more questions. 13:13.000 --> 13:14.000 Mark. 13:14.000 --> 13:15.000 Huh? 13:15.000 --> 13:18.000 I asked you about Ira. 13:18.000 --> 13:22.000 Ira didn't need any ambulance either, Franzi. 13:22.000 --> 13:24.000 He was dead. 13:38.000 --> 13:44.000 For Suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you Joan Bennet in Overture in Two Keys. 13:44.000 --> 13:52.000 Roma Wines presentation tonight in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 13:56.000 --> 14:01.000 Between the acts of Suspense, this is Ken Niles for Roma Wines. 14:01.000 --> 14:06.000 These cold blustery evenings, there's real pleasure in staying comfortably at home, 14:06.000 --> 14:10.000 listening to favorite radio programs, reading by the fireplace, 14:10.000 --> 14:14.000 and enjoying the mellow pleasure of a fine Roma wine. 14:14.000 --> 14:19.000 Yes, better tasting Roma California wines, Sherry, Port, or Muscatel, 14:19.000 --> 14:24.000 add warmth and friendliness to quiet evenings and informal entertaining. 14:24.000 --> 14:30.000 And because Roma wines taste better, more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. 14:30.000 --> 14:35.000 Roma wines taste better because Roma begins with choicest grapes. 14:35.000 --> 14:39.000 Then with patient skill and America's finest winemaking resources, 14:39.000 --> 14:44.000 Roma guides these choice grapes unhurriedly to tempting taste perfection. 14:44.000 --> 14:49.000 Later, along with Roma wines of years before, this rich grape treasure 14:49.000 --> 14:54.000 awaits selection from the world's greatest wine reserves for your pleasure. 14:54.000 --> 14:59.000 So share with your friends these better tasting Roma wines. 14:59.000 --> 15:01.000 Insist on Roma. 15:01.000 --> 15:04.000 R-O-M-A. Roma Wines. 15:04.000 --> 15:09.000 And now Roma wines bring back to our Hollywood soundstage Joan Bennett 15:09.000 --> 15:14.000 as Franzi Whitmer with Howard Duff as Mark Allen in Overture and Two Keys, 15:14.000 --> 15:19.000 a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 15:19.000 --> 15:31.000 They held the inquest at the house, 15:31.000 --> 15:34.000 took the coroner less than three minutes to return the verdict. 15:34.000 --> 15:41.000 Accidental death. 15:41.000 --> 15:44.000 I thought we should wait, but Mark said it wouldn't make any difference. 15:44.000 --> 15:46.000 If people were going to talk, they'd talk anyway. 15:46.000 --> 15:49.000 So a couple of weeks later we drove down to Yuma and got married. 15:49.000 --> 15:53.000 During the ceremony I felt a little like laughing, much more like crying. 15:53.000 --> 15:57.000 And let me tell you, if you ever get married in one of those Yuma wedding chapels, 15:57.000 --> 16:00.000 you both feel like crying too. They do business day and night. 16:00.000 --> 16:06.000 On the outside there are neon lights and on the inside everything is artificial lilies in an organ. 16:06.000 --> 16:09.000 And do you, Franzi Whitmer, take this man as your lawfully wedded husband 16:09.000 --> 16:10.000 to have him hold from this day forward? 16:10.000 --> 16:12.000 I do. 16:12.000 --> 16:17.000 And do you, Mark Allen, take this woman as your lawfully wedded wife? 16:17.000 --> 16:19.000 Mark. 16:19.000 --> 16:20.000 What? 16:20.000 --> 16:21.000 I do, I do. 16:21.000 --> 16:24.000 I repeat, do you, Mark Allen, take this woman 16:24.000 --> 16:35.000 as your lawfully wedded husband to have him hold from this day forward? 16:35.000 --> 16:38.000 Poor Mark. I kidded him afterwards about fluffing his lines 16:38.000 --> 16:40.000 and he acted very serious about the whole thing 16:40.000 --> 16:43.000 and tried to make out that he didn't hear that particular part. 16:43.000 --> 16:46.000 Well, I guess every man thinks that those words are written just to make him nervous 16:46.000 --> 16:49.000 and every woman thinks they are written just for her. 16:49.000 --> 16:51.000 At least I know I did. 16:51.000 --> 16:54.000 At first we were as happy as any two people could possibly be 16:54.000 --> 16:59.000 and then it wasn't that anything changed, but I began to worry about Mark. 16:59.000 --> 17:02.000 It was as though we were expecting something. 17:02.000 --> 17:04.000 Sometimes when he thought I wasn't watching him 17:04.000 --> 17:07.000 it almost seemed as though we were listening to something. 17:07.000 --> 17:09.000 A couple of nights ago we had the party. 17:09.000 --> 17:11.000 It was kind of a send-off for Mark's debut at the Bowl. 17:11.000 --> 17:15.000 And it was a very Tony affair, all the long head. 17:15.000 --> 17:19.000 You can just imagine my humiliation, Mr. Allen, 17:19.000 --> 17:22.000 right in the middle of Mimi's death scene too. 17:22.000 --> 17:27.000 And afterwards he had the nerve to tell me there was nothing wrong with his voice. 17:27.000 --> 17:31.000 It was stage fright. Oh, I could have slaughtered that tenor. 17:31.000 --> 17:34.000 If you'll excuse me, Madam Tetra, I think my wife wants me. 17:34.000 --> 17:36.000 Oh, dear darling. 17:36.000 --> 17:38.000 Frank, can't we get rid of these people? 17:38.000 --> 17:40.000 Eventually, I suppose. 17:40.000 --> 17:42.000 Here comes Donnelly. Maybe he'll know how to cut it short. 17:42.000 --> 17:44.000 Well, it looks like a good party. 17:44.000 --> 17:47.000 You see, Mrs. Allen, you get an important manager 17:47.000 --> 17:49.000 and all the important artists visit your home. 17:49.000 --> 17:51.000 Now can you get them all out of my home? 17:51.000 --> 17:54.000 Well, now you can't disappoint your public, Mark. 17:54.000 --> 17:57.000 What about playing something to sort of wind up the evening? 17:57.000 --> 18:00.000 How about the overtone? I know it won't sound on the piano, 18:00.000 --> 18:02.000 but after all it is a fa... 18:02.000 --> 18:04.000 Now where is he going? 18:04.000 --> 18:06.000 You asked him to wind up the evening, didn't you? 18:06.000 --> 18:09.000 But how can I make an announcement if he doesn't tell me what he's going to play? 18:09.000 --> 18:17.000 Shh! 18:17.000 --> 18:42.000 All right, I'll get it. 18:42.000 --> 18:44.000 Of course it wasn't anything important. 18:44.000 --> 18:46.000 Phone calls that come at a moment like that never are. 18:46.000 --> 18:49.000 It was just someone who wanted to wish Mark good luck tomorrow night. 18:49.000 --> 18:51.000 I said thanks and hung up. 18:51.000 --> 18:53.000 It wasn't until I was halfway back up the stairs 18:53.000 --> 18:57.000 that I knew something had gone wrong. 18:57.000 --> 18:59.000 Oh, my dear, you should have seen his face. 18:59.000 --> 19:01.000 It looked more like a stroke to me. 19:01.000 --> 19:02.000 What happened? 19:02.000 --> 19:04.000 There's nothing to be alarmed over, Mrs. Allen. 19:04.000 --> 19:05.000 Where's my husband? 19:05.000 --> 19:07.000 He's upstairs, resting. 19:07.000 --> 19:08.000 What's the matter with him? 19:08.000 --> 19:11.000 Nothing at all, my dear. Really nothing at all. 19:11.000 --> 19:14.000 He was a little overtired, so he went upstairs. 19:14.000 --> 19:18.000 If you ask me, Mrs. Allen, it's a plain case of stage fright. 19:18.000 --> 19:20.000 Well, I was telling him... 19:20.000 --> 19:21.000 I didn't wait for the rest. 19:21.000 --> 19:24.000 When I found him, he was just lying there staring into the darkness. 19:24.000 --> 19:29.000 I wanted to hold him in my arms and tell him that no matter what, he was my guy. 19:29.000 --> 19:30.000 But I didn't. 19:30.000 --> 19:40.000 I didn't say a word, neither did he. 19:40.000 --> 19:44.000 It seemed like a long while later when I woke up. 19:44.000 --> 19:45.000 I didn't want to wake up. 19:45.000 --> 19:49.000 I was tired, dead tired, so tired that waking up hurt me all over. 19:49.000 --> 19:53.000 Only this time, it hurt more than usual. 19:53.000 --> 19:55.000 Then suddenly, I was sitting upright in bed, 19:55.000 --> 19:57.000 with a chill running straight up my spine. 19:57.000 --> 19:58.000 The sound came from the music room. 19:58.000 --> 20:02.000 I fumbled for the light, but that didn't tell me anything I didn't know already. 20:02.000 --> 20:03.000 Mark's bed was empty. 20:03.000 --> 20:05.000 Somehow, I got out of bed and walked downstairs. 20:05.000 --> 20:09.000 I kept walking, until I was standing outside the music room door. 20:09.000 --> 20:12.000 Standing at the bar of judgment, I would have still said the same prayer, 20:12.000 --> 20:17.000 that the door would be locked, but it wasn't locked. 20:17.000 --> 20:20.000 The room was in darkness, except for the small lamp on the floor. 20:20.000 --> 20:24.000 In there, looking like something out of a horror picture, sat my husband. 20:24.000 --> 20:27.000 I couldn't see his face, only his hands flying up and down in the lamplight. 20:27.000 --> 20:29.000 His knuckles were wet with blood. 20:29.000 --> 20:35.000 Mark! Mark! Mark! 20:35.000 --> 20:37.000 Oh, darling. Darling, I had to do it. I had to do something. 20:37.000 --> 20:39.000 Talk to me. Keep on talking to me. 20:39.000 --> 20:40.000 What do you want me to say? 20:40.000 --> 20:42.000 Just keep talking. And hold my hand. 20:42.000 --> 20:45.000 Your hands, oh darling, look at your hands. 20:45.000 --> 20:47.000 Mark, tell me what's wrong. I don't understand. 20:47.000 --> 20:50.000 Everything was fine until I left the room to answer the phone. 20:50.000 --> 20:53.000 Was it a phone, Belle? I didn't hear any phone. 20:53.000 --> 20:54.000 Mark! 20:54.000 --> 20:58.000 I wouldn't have even known you'd come upstairs if it hadn't been for your perfume. 20:58.000 --> 21:02.000 Even then, I didn't believe it. Then I... I came down here. 21:02.000 --> 21:04.000 I played like this. 21:04.000 --> 21:06.000 I came here. 21:06.000 --> 21:08.000 And I played louder. 21:08.000 --> 21:10.000 I still couldn't hear. 21:10.000 --> 21:12.000 I couldn't hear! 21:12.000 --> 21:14.000 I couldn't hear! 21:14.000 --> 21:18.000 Darling, don't, don't. You're all right now. 21:18.000 --> 21:21.000 Mark, it's awfully late. 21:21.000 --> 21:22.000 What time is it? 21:22.000 --> 21:24.000 Four o'clock in the morning. 21:24.000 --> 21:27.000 That's funny. You do it too. 21:27.000 --> 21:29.000 What did I do? 21:29.000 --> 21:32.000 Listen to see if your watch is going. 21:32.000 --> 21:35.000 Must be a reflex action. Even he did it. 21:35.000 --> 21:37.000 Mark! 21:37.000 --> 21:42.000 It always reminded me of Nelson putting his telescope to his blind eye. 21:42.000 --> 21:46.000 I don't suppose you understand about that. 21:46.000 --> 21:50.000 Even if you'd loved him, you'd never have known what it meant for a musician... 21:50.000 --> 21:51.000 to be deaf. 21:51.000 --> 21:54.000 Mark, there's only one thing I know or care about. 21:54.000 --> 21:57.000 I don't care about anything else in this world. I just don't care. 21:57.000 --> 21:58.000 Fran? 21:58.000 --> 22:00.000 Yes? 22:00.000 --> 22:01.000 You know, don't you? 22:01.000 --> 22:03.000 Yes, Mark. 22:03.000 --> 22:06.000 You've always known, haven't you? 22:06.000 --> 22:08.000 Yes, I suppose I have. 22:08.000 --> 22:11.000 I'm sorry, Fran, for you. 22:11.000 --> 22:16.000 Oh, Mark, I told you I don't care. I don't care about anything but you. 22:16.000 --> 22:20.000 It has an awful sound. Murder. 22:20.000 --> 22:37.000 As I sat watching him walk across the great stage of the Hollywood Bowl, I wanted to pray. 22:37.000 --> 22:39.000 But I knew I hadn't even the right to do that. 22:39.000 --> 22:42.000 All I could do was think of what he must be thinking. 22:42.000 --> 22:44.000 How he must have timed it to the split second. 22:44.000 --> 22:48.000 How he must have snipped the wire on the earphone so Ira wouldn't notice it. 22:48.000 --> 22:52.000 How he must have felt when they were coming to the railroad crossing and he heard the warning bell and Ira couldn't. 22:52.000 --> 22:55.000 Ira couldn't hear anything. Mark had planned it that way. 22:55.000 --> 23:24.000 He had killed my husband because he couldn't hear a little bit. 23:24.000 --> 23:31.000 Play. 23:31.000 --> 23:58.000 Play. 23:58.000 --> 24:03.000 Why don't you play? 24:03.000 --> 24:05.000 Play. 24:05.000 --> 24:07.000 Play. 24:07.000 --> 24:17.000 Play. 24:17.000 --> 24:19.000 Let me through, please. Please, I have to get through. 24:19.000 --> 24:22.000 I'm sorry, lady. Mr. Allen isn't receiving any visitors. 24:22.000 --> 24:23.000 I'm his wife. 24:23.000 --> 24:27.000 Oh, of course. This way, Miss Allen. 24:27.000 --> 24:29.000 Oh, thank heaven. 24:29.000 --> 24:33.000 That's all right, Doctor. Mrs. Allen, the press are outside. 24:33.000 --> 24:34.000 You must talk to them. 24:34.000 --> 24:35.000 Mark. 24:35.000 --> 24:36.000 I heard the bell. 24:36.000 --> 24:39.000 Darling, it's all right. It's all right. I'm here with you. It's me, Franzie. 24:39.000 --> 24:44.000 Didn't you hear it? The candor ring as I entered the stage. 24:44.000 --> 24:54.000 It was the bell. 24:54.000 --> 24:58.000 It took us an hour to get him to make any sense and then suddenly he was all right. 24:58.000 --> 25:00.000 As all right as I have ever seen him in my life. 25:00.000 --> 25:05.000 The doctor was as pleased as an old midwife and insisted that it was the sedative that had done the trick. 25:05.000 --> 25:10.000 I wish he'd been right. But you see, by then I was beginning to see what was wrong with Mark. 25:10.000 --> 25:13.000 And I knew that all the doctors in the world wouldn't do him any good. 25:13.000 --> 25:16.000 But I still dared to hope that somehow I could. 25:16.000 --> 25:18.000 All right, come on, let's go. 25:18.000 --> 25:20.000 Don't you want me to drive home? 25:20.000 --> 25:21.000 I'm okay now. 25:21.000 --> 25:24.000 Oh, Mark. 25:24.000 --> 25:26.000 Oh, you mustn't cry, baby. I'm okay now. 25:26.000 --> 25:29.000 Well, that's why I can cry, you goof. 25:29.000 --> 25:30.000 Mark. 25:30.000 --> 25:31.000 Yeah. 25:31.000 --> 25:35.000 Let's go away from here, right away to Canada or someplace for a year, longer if you want. 25:35.000 --> 25:38.000 Even if you don't even look at a note of music, it doesn't matter. 25:38.000 --> 25:41.000 You'll be right away from everything and then it won't happen anymore. I know it. 25:41.000 --> 25:45.000 If you'll only get away, right away. Even from me, if that would help. 25:45.000 --> 25:47.000 Where should we go? Florida? New York? 25:47.000 --> 25:48.000 Oh, darling. 25:48.000 --> 25:51.000 You know, it's about time you saw something else but palm trees. 25:51.000 --> 25:54.000 Let's make it New England. Up around Vermont or something. 25:54.000 --> 25:56.000 We'll have to get you a sleeping bag or you'll die of cold. 25:56.000 --> 25:57.000 I love you. 25:57.000 --> 25:58.000 Me too. 25:58.000 --> 25:59.000 Why don't you let me drive? 25:59.000 --> 26:01.000 You can't with one hand. 26:01.000 --> 26:02.000 I can too. 26:02.000 --> 26:06.000 Mark, you know, I was wondering, can you get double sleeping bags in Vermont? 26:06.000 --> 26:08.000 Mark, Mark, you better slow down if you... 26:08.000 --> 26:10.000 Yeah, maybe Canada. 26:10.000 --> 26:12.000 Mark, we're coming to the crossing. There's a train. 26:12.000 --> 26:13.000 They say it's quiet up there. 26:13.000 --> 26:14.000 Mark! 26:14.000 --> 26:18.000 They say you can almost hear how quiet it is some places in the woods up there. 26:18.000 --> 26:19.000 Mark! 26:19.000 --> 26:21.000 Mark! 26:37.000 --> 26:39.000 That's how the music ended. 26:39.000 --> 26:42.000 They told me today that he was dead before they got us to the hospital. 26:42.000 --> 26:46.000 I'm going to live. Isn't that swell? 27:06.000 --> 27:07.000 Suspense. 27:07.000 --> 27:13.000 Presented by Roma Wines. R-O-M-A. Roma. America's favorite wines. 27:13.000 --> 27:18.000 This is Ken Niles returning to our stage with a lovely star of tonight's Suspense play. 27:18.000 --> 27:24.000 Glamorous favorite of movie-going millions but a newcomer to Suspense fans, Miss Joan Bennett. 27:24.000 --> 27:29.000 Welcome to the Suspense family, Joan, and congratulations. 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