WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.000 In just a moment, Suspense, starring Agnes Moorhead. 00:05.000 --> 00:06.000 Hi, Hap. 00:06.000 --> 00:07.000 Hello, Annie. 00:07.000 --> 00:08.000 How are things? 00:08.000 --> 00:13.000 Couldn't be better, Hap, except walking 12 blocks to your service station just isn't for me. 00:13.000 --> 00:14.000 You got my new spark plugs in? 00:14.000 --> 00:18.000 Just finished putting those brand new auto light resistor spark plugs in your car. 00:18.000 --> 00:20.000 Guess she takes a big load off your arches, eh, Hap? 00:20.000 --> 00:23.000 Sure does. My feet have the pep but not the pickup. 00:23.000 --> 00:25.000 What are you listening to tonight? 00:25.000 --> 00:28.000 It's Thursday, Hap. I'm listening to the auto light suspense show. Never miss it. 00:28.000 --> 00:32.000 Well, here's where I rest my weary bones. I'm listening to Agnes Moorhead. 00:32.000 --> 00:36.000 Hey, Hap, here comes Frank Martin, the auto light salesman, to join us. 00:36.000 --> 00:37.000 Hello, Frank. 00:36.000 --> 00:37.000 Hi, Ed. 00:37.000 --> 00:38.000 Meet Hap Horton. 00:38.000 --> 00:41.000 Auto light spark plugs, batteries and ignition systems. 00:41.000 --> 00:43.000 The lifeline of your car. 00:43.000 --> 00:45.000 Well, thanks, Mr. Horton, for the assist. 00:45.000 --> 00:49.000 And wait until I give you the real lowdown on those brand new auto light resistor spark plugs 00:49.000 --> 00:51.000 Ed just put in your car. Say they... 00:51.000 --> 01:01.000 Say it later, Frank. Here comes Agnes Moorhead. 01:01.000 --> 01:08.000 Suspense. 01:08.000 --> 01:15.000 Auto light and its 60,000 dealers and service stations bring you Radio's Outstanding Theatre of Thrills. 01:15.000 --> 01:24.000 Starring tonight, Miss Agnes Moorhead in a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 01:24.000 --> 01:29.000 Today, everybody's switching to auto light and tonight auto light takes pleasure in presenting 01:29.000 --> 01:46.000 Anton Leder's production of the famous short story, The Yellow Wallpaper, starring Agnes Moorhead. 01:46.000 --> 01:49.000 I've never seen a worse wallpaper in my life. 01:49.000 --> 01:58.000 All those strangled heads and bulbous eyes and fungus growth seem to shriek with derision. 01:58.000 --> 02:08.000 When we came to this house, the minute I saw it, I made up my mind secretly to start writing again in spite of them. 02:08.000 --> 02:11.000 But I don't dare let John know I'm keeping this journal. 02:11.000 --> 02:13.000 It's difficult being married to a doctor. 02:13.000 --> 02:17.000 John's an excellent doctor, I'm sure, but he's so inconsistent about me. 02:17.000 --> 02:21.000 He says I'm not really sick, that I'm only a little run down from caring for the baby. 02:21.000 --> 02:24.000 That I have a temporary nervous depression. 02:24.000 --> 02:29.000 Yet he prescribes phosphates or phosphites, I don't know which, and tonics and exercise. 02:29.000 --> 02:32.000 And he absolutely forbids me to work until I'm well again. 02:32.000 --> 02:34.000 He hates for me to write a word. 02:34.000 --> 02:37.000 But writing is such a relief to my mind. 02:37.000 --> 02:40.000 I can write down things, tell things here that... 02:40.000 --> 02:43.000 No, John says I'm not to brood about those things. 02:43.000 --> 02:48.000 I confess they make me feel bad, so I'll only write about the house. 02:48.000 --> 02:50.000 I saw it for the first time today. 02:50.000 --> 02:52.000 It's the most beautiful place. 02:52.000 --> 02:56.000 John rented it for the summer and we drove up today a perfect June morning. 02:56.000 --> 02:59.000 The bay and the white sails and people already in swimming. 02:59.000 --> 03:03.000 And then the shaded lane and the riotous old fashioned flowers and the gnarly trees. 03:03.000 --> 03:05.000 And the house. 03:05.000 --> 03:09.000 The house standing alone in the summer stillness. 03:09.000 --> 03:14.000 I could never tell John, but you know, the house spoke to me. 03:14.000 --> 03:17.000 It was only because he rattled on so that I couldn't hear what he... 03:17.000 --> 03:19.000 Reminded me of those English places you read about. 03:19.000 --> 03:22.000 Gardeners, cottages and everything and had only 200 a month. 03:22.000 --> 03:26.000 Hedges and walls and gates that lock and there's a ghostliness. 03:26.000 --> 03:28.000 Remember I rented it just for you, darling. 03:28.000 --> 03:33.000 And you're going to let Jenny do all the work while you live like a prince. 03:33.000 --> 03:35.000 You like it, darling? Speak up. 03:35.000 --> 03:40.000 Yes, John, yes it's lovely but it's strange as though it might be haunted. 03:40.000 --> 03:43.000 Darling, you've got that look on your face again. 03:43.000 --> 03:45.000 That dopey look. 03:45.000 --> 03:50.000 Well, Jenny's home, has a station wagon and if I know my dear sister... 03:50.000 --> 03:53.000 She's already turned the place inside out and cleaned it top to bottom. 03:53.000 --> 03:55.000 John, is it haunted, do you think? 03:55.000 --> 03:58.000 What, the house? At 200 a month? 03:58.000 --> 04:00.000 Well, that's asking too much of fate. 04:00.000 --> 04:01.000 Come on, how about... 04:01.000 --> 04:05.000 You always laugh at anything you can't touch or see or put down in figures. 04:05.000 --> 04:07.000 There is something strange about the house, I feel it. 04:07.000 --> 04:09.000 If you weren't always imagining things. 04:09.000 --> 04:10.000 I'm not imagining. 04:10.000 --> 04:12.000 One reason I don't get well is that you don't believe me. 04:12.000 --> 04:14.000 You don't even believe I'm sick. 04:14.000 --> 04:17.000 You tell my friends and relatives, I've heard you. 04:17.000 --> 04:19.000 I've heard you, that there's nothing wrong with it. 04:19.000 --> 04:20.000 There is nothing wrong with it. 04:20.000 --> 04:21.000 I see you saying it again. 04:21.000 --> 04:23.000 Oh, I'm sorry. Please don't cry. 04:23.000 --> 04:25.000 Now, come along. Let's go inside. 04:29.000 --> 04:32.000 And so I came into this house in tears. 04:32.000 --> 04:34.000 It was wrong. It was all wrong. 04:34.000 --> 04:38.000 Maybe the house saw me crying or this room. 04:38.000 --> 04:40.000 I got so unreasonably angry with John, I shouldn't. 04:40.000 --> 04:44.000 I know he's so careful and loving and I repay him so badly. 04:44.000 --> 04:46.000 I should control myself. 04:46.000 --> 04:47.000 At least in front of him. 04:47.000 --> 04:50.000 But it makes me so tired not to show what I feel. 04:50.000 --> 04:52.000 Jenny met us at the door. 04:52.000 --> 04:55.000 Naturally she saw I'd been crying, but she took pains to ignore it. 04:55.000 --> 04:58.000 Well, hello you two. You're early. 04:58.000 --> 05:00.000 You must have started at the crack of dawn. 05:00.000 --> 05:01.000 How was the trip? 05:01.000 --> 05:02.000 Made it in less than two hours. 05:02.000 --> 05:05.000 We were like his peas in a pod, Jenny and John. 05:05.000 --> 05:07.000 Both efficient and kind. 05:07.000 --> 05:09.000 And how did you bear up, Ted? 05:09.000 --> 05:11.000 Very well, thank you, Jenny. 05:11.000 --> 05:14.000 Both kind and both somehow cruel. 05:14.000 --> 05:16.000 But I don't really think that. 05:16.000 --> 05:18.000 Well, you're just in time for lunch. 05:18.000 --> 05:21.000 I bought a flounder down at the wharf and cooked it with capers and cream. 05:21.000 --> 05:22.000 Sound good? 05:22.000 --> 05:23.000 Wonderful, Jenny. 05:23.000 --> 05:24.000 May I see the house first? 05:24.000 --> 05:28.000 The whole grand tour? All pet. The flounder will cook to death. 05:28.000 --> 05:29.000 Well, at least my room. 05:29.000 --> 05:30.000 Our room. 05:30.000 --> 05:32.000 All right, if you insist. 05:32.000 --> 05:35.000 But if that fish is spoiled, don't blame me. 05:35.000 --> 05:36.000 Why would I blame her? 05:36.000 --> 05:38.000 Whose room is this, Jenny? Yours? 05:38.000 --> 05:40.000 Uh-huh, it's small, but it's near the door and the telephone. 05:40.000 --> 05:41.000 Oh, John, John, look. 05:41.000 --> 05:42.000 What? 05:42.000 --> 05:43.000 Let's take this one for you and me. 05:43.000 --> 05:45.000 I love those roses over the window. 05:45.000 --> 05:47.000 I've already put your things upstairs, pet. 05:47.000 --> 05:50.000 Well, this has a little porch and such pretty old fashioned chintz hanged. 05:50.000 --> 05:52.000 Well, you'll love the room upstairs, darling. 05:52.000 --> 05:54.000 And you can see there's no room in here for two beds. 05:54.000 --> 05:56.000 And I won't hear of being in separate rooms. 05:56.000 --> 05:58.000 I'm going to make you rest and take your tonic. 05:58.000 --> 06:00.000 John and I have talked it all over. 06:00.000 --> 06:03.000 And the room at the top of the house has so many windows. 06:03.000 --> 06:06.000 And you know, darling, you must absorb lots of fresh air. 06:06.000 --> 06:07.000 Get your appetite back. 06:07.000 --> 06:10.000 They smother me with concern. They crush me with kindness. 06:10.000 --> 06:11.000 Come along. 06:11.000 --> 06:13.000 Ha-ha, there's a good girl. 06:13.000 --> 06:15.000 All right, you know what's best. 06:15.000 --> 06:17.000 And you're going to like that nursery. 06:17.000 --> 06:19.000 It gets loads of sunshine. 06:28.000 --> 06:30.000 Up the steep, narrow stairs, 06:30.000 --> 06:33.000 two stories up to the very top of the house, 06:33.000 --> 06:36.000 there's a gate at the top that locks. 06:37.000 --> 06:39.000 I wonder why. 06:39.000 --> 06:41.000 And beyond the gate is the nursery room. 06:41.000 --> 06:42.000 This room. 06:42.000 --> 06:47.000 It is big and airy, nearly a whole floor with windows that look every way. 06:48.000 --> 06:50.000 They say it was a nursery. 06:51.000 --> 06:53.000 But what was it really? 06:53.000 --> 06:55.000 Open the door, Jenny. Wide. 06:55.000 --> 06:56.000 All right. 06:56.000 --> 06:57.000 Well, darling? 06:57.000 --> 06:58.000 Why the windows bar? 06:58.000 --> 07:00.000 For the little children. Otherwise it wouldn't be safe. 07:00.000 --> 07:02.000 Oh, yeah, I suppose. 07:02.000 --> 07:04.000 Children climb around, so don't they? 07:04.000 --> 07:08.000 What are those rings and things in the walls? 07:08.000 --> 07:11.000 Oh, I expect they made it into a gymnasium when the children got older. 07:11.000 --> 07:12.000 A sort of playground. 07:12.000 --> 07:14.000 Oh, they must have hated the wallpaper. 07:14.000 --> 07:16.000 Well, they were rough on it, that's for sure. 07:16.000 --> 07:19.000 They've stripped it off in patches. I don't blame them. It's hideous. 07:19.000 --> 07:23.000 Oh, who wants to look at the wallpaper with this view? 07:23.000 --> 07:25.000 My, you can see the whole bay. 07:25.000 --> 07:27.000 It's a revolting color. It's unclean. 07:27.000 --> 07:30.000 Such a strange, sickish yellow there where the sun's faded it. 07:30.000 --> 07:32.000 I never saw it was paper in my life. 07:32.000 --> 07:34.000 Don't dramatize it, darling. 07:34.000 --> 07:36.000 You must be hungry, and I know you're tired. 07:36.000 --> 07:39.000 I'm not tired. Why do you both act this way? 07:39.000 --> 07:41.000 I say the wallpaper's ugly and you look at each other. 07:41.000 --> 07:44.000 Your eyes shuttle back and forth, and suddenly you both act as though I'd lost my reach. 07:44.000 --> 07:48.000 Darling, that was something we weren't going to say. 07:48.000 --> 07:50.000 Be a good girl, pet. 07:50.000 --> 07:52.000 We don't act anyway. 07:52.000 --> 07:54.000 We just don't want you to worry. 07:54.000 --> 08:00.000 We want you to be well. 08:00.000 --> 08:04.000 It's true, that's all they want. 08:04.000 --> 08:07.000 John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage. 08:07.000 --> 08:13.000 And he says I have foolish fancies and he sometimes can talk them away, but not this time. 08:13.000 --> 08:19.000 No matter what he says, it's a smoldering, sulfurous, unclean, it's hideous wallpaper. 08:19.000 --> 08:22.000 No wonder the children scratched at it and stripped it down. 08:22.000 --> 08:26.000 No wonder they gouge the plaster with their little fingernails. 08:26.000 --> 08:29.000 No wonder they hate it. I hate it myself. 08:29.000 --> 08:34.000 And somehow I feel it hates me. 08:34.000 --> 08:56.000 For Suspense, Autolite is bringing you Miss Agnes Moorhead in the Yellow Wallpaper. 08:56.000 --> 09:12.000 Autolite's presentation of Radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 09:12.000 --> 09:14.000 Say, isn't she terrific? 09:14.000 --> 09:17.000 Yes, sir, Agnes Moorhead is always terrific. 09:17.000 --> 09:19.000 She sure is. 09:19.000 --> 09:21.000 Say, car sure sounds good. 09:21.000 --> 09:23.000 Couldn't resist stepping on the starter. 09:23.000 --> 09:27.000 These new Autolite Resistor spark plugs sure make this a contented car. 09:27.000 --> 09:29.000 Yep, and you got the first set in town. 09:29.000 --> 09:33.000 Well, right now you can get Autolite Resistor spark plugs almost anywhere in the United States. 09:33.000 --> 09:37.000 It's sensational why no other spark plug will give and maintain such performance. 09:37.000 --> 09:39.000 Sounds like a good sales story. 09:39.000 --> 09:42.000 Where did the name Resistor come from, Mr. Martin? 09:42.000 --> 09:44.000 Autolite worked with leading car and truck manufacturers, 09:44.000 --> 09:49.000 and they ignition engineered a 10,000-ohm resistor right into the Autolite spark plug 09:49.000 --> 09:54.000 that permits a wider spark gap setting and maintains it far longer than any other spark plugs. 09:54.000 --> 09:57.000 Actually, Mr. Horton, when you replace your narrow gap spark plugs 09:57.000 --> 10:02.000 with a set of wide gap Autolite Resistor spark plugs, you can tell the difference in your car. 10:02.000 --> 10:04.000 It's right from the book, I'll bet, eh, Mr. Martin? 10:04.000 --> 10:07.000 Well, I'll guess so, but here's the simple lowdown. 10:07.000 --> 10:11.000 As a result of the wide gap in the Resistor spark plug, your engine idles smoother, 10:11.000 --> 10:14.000 you have better luck with lean gas mixtures and save gas, 10:14.000 --> 10:19.000 and within established limits you reduce spark plug interference with radio and television reception. 10:19.000 --> 10:25.000 Yes, and today you can get the Resistor spark plug from almost any of Autolite's 60,000 dealers. 10:25.000 --> 10:27.000 That's the biggest spark plug news in years. 10:27.000 --> 10:34.000 And now Autolite brings back to our Hollywood sound stage, Miss Agnes Moorhead, 10:34.000 --> 10:42.000 as star in The Yellow Wallpaper, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 10:42.000 --> 10:59.000 We've been here two weeks and I haven't felt like riding again since that first day. 10:59.000 --> 11:03.000 I'm sitting by the window now, up in this frightful nursery room. 11:03.000 --> 11:06.000 There's nothing to stop my riding as much as I please. 11:06.000 --> 11:10.000 John is away all day and sometimes even at night if he has a serious case. 11:10.000 --> 11:17.000 I'm glad my case is not serious, but these nervous troubles can be depressing all the same. 11:17.000 --> 11:20.000 I cry at nothing and cry most of the time. 11:20.000 --> 11:25.000 John doesn't know how much I suffer. He knows there's no reason to suffer and that satisfies him. 11:25.000 --> 11:28.000 I suppose John was never nervous in his life. 11:28.000 --> 11:31.000 He laughs at me so about this wallpaper. 11:31.000 --> 11:34.000 No, I won't let you have your way, you silly goose. 11:34.000 --> 11:38.000 If we'd taken the room downstairs, you'd be seeing faces in the chinstrapes. 11:38.000 --> 11:42.000 Not faces. Look at that spot, John. And that one over there. 11:42.000 --> 11:45.000 Yes, I see. It's a repeating pattern. 11:45.000 --> 11:49.000 It's a broken neck with two bulging eyes staring at me upside down. 11:49.000 --> 11:53.000 And to me it's climbing ivy or some kind of a vine. 11:53.000 --> 11:55.000 Take your choice, could be anything. 11:55.000 --> 11:58.000 Besides, I can't re-paper a room just for a three months rental. 11:58.000 --> 12:09.000 Well, then let's move downstairs. Take me away from her. Don't you see, John, it hates me. 12:09.000 --> 12:11.000 I wish I'd get well faster. 12:11.000 --> 12:13.000 Yes, you. You're willing. You're good sensed, aren't you? 12:13.000 --> 12:14.000 I'm afraid. 12:14.000 --> 12:15.000 But you're so much better. 12:15.000 --> 12:18.000 When I married you, I meant to be such a help, but I'm only a burden. 12:18.000 --> 12:21.000 You are a help to me. You're my comfort. 12:21.000 --> 12:26.000 I can't even be with my baby. It makes me so nervous. 12:26.000 --> 12:28.000 Will I ever be well enough to see him again? 12:28.000 --> 12:31.000 Of course you'll be well. If you try. 12:31.000 --> 12:35.000 Then I'll try, I promise. 12:35.000 --> 12:39.000 But from now on I won't look at the wallpaper and I'll stop seeing things out of the windows. 12:39.000 --> 12:40.000 Out of the windows? 12:40.000 --> 12:43.000 I see people walking up and down the paths and in the arbors. 12:43.000 --> 12:48.000 I know it's silly and it's only in certain lights when I look at the wallpaper from the bed that I see. 12:48.000 --> 12:49.000 See what? 12:49.000 --> 12:55.000 Nothing. Nothing. No, you're right. 12:55.000 --> 13:04.000 There's nothing except a pattern. 13:04.000 --> 13:08.000 A front pattern and an under pattern in a different shade of yellow. 13:08.000 --> 13:10.000 It dwells in my mind so. 13:10.000 --> 13:15.000 I lie on that great immovable bed. It's nailed down, I believe, and follow that pattern about by the hour. 13:15.000 --> 13:18.000 And then where it isn't faded and when the sun is just so, 13:18.000 --> 13:30.000 I see a strange, faint, formless sort of figure lurking, waiting behind that front design. 13:30.000 --> 13:33.000 I don't know why I should write like this day after day. 13:33.000 --> 13:36.000 I don't want to. I don't feel able. 13:36.000 --> 13:43.000 And I know John would think it absurd, but I must express what I feel and think in some way. It's such a relief. 13:43.000 --> 13:48.000 There are things in that wallpaper that nobody knows about but me. 13:48.000 --> 13:59.000 You know, there's a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern. 13:59.000 --> 14:03.000 Last night it was moonlight and the moon shines in all around just as the sun does. 14:03.000 --> 14:12.000 John was asleep and I hated to wake him, so I kept still and watched the moonlight on the wall until I felt creepy. 14:12.000 --> 14:18.000 The woman behind the paper began to shake the pattern as if she wanted to get out. 14:18.000 --> 14:26.000 I got up softly and went and felt the paper to see if it did move. 14:26.000 --> 14:29.000 It moved! It moved, I'm sure of it. 14:29.000 --> 14:33.000 And the poor woman cried out as though her voice came a long way over water. 14:33.000 --> 14:37.000 Charlie Bane, look me! Charlie Bane, look me! 14:37.000 --> 14:41.000 Charlie Bane, look me! 14:41.000 --> 14:46.000 Oh, the poor thing. 14:46.000 --> 14:51.000 Then I went back to the bed. John was awake. 14:51.000 --> 14:56.000 What is it, darling? Why are you up? You shouldn't go walking around like that. You'll catch cold. 14:56.000 --> 14:58.000 The moonlight woke me. 14:58.000 --> 15:00.000 You are cold. You're shivering. 15:00.000 --> 15:03.000 John, I'm not really getting better. Why don't you take me away? 15:03.000 --> 15:08.000 Our lease will be up in three weeks, darling. I don't see how we can leave before then. 15:08.000 --> 15:14.000 Of course, if you were in any danger, I would, but you really are better, dear, whether you see it or not. 15:14.000 --> 15:16.000 I'm a doctor and I know. 15:16.000 --> 15:20.000 Oh, my appetite may be better in the evening when you're here, but it's worse in the morning when you're gone. 15:20.000 --> 15:22.000 Why, you're gaining flesh and bone. 15:22.000 --> 15:24.000 I don't weigh a bit more, not even as much. 15:24.000 --> 15:28.000 Well, bless your little heart. You shall be as sick as you please. 15:28.000 --> 15:31.000 But let's go to sleep, huh? And talk about it in the morning. 15:31.000 --> 15:33.000 You won't go away? 15:33.000 --> 15:36.000 How can I, dear? And why should I, since you're better? 15:36.000 --> 15:38.000 Better in body, perhaps, but in mind. 15:38.000 --> 15:43.000 Darling, for my sake and your sake and for the sake of our child, I beg you not to let that idea enter your head. 15:43.000 --> 15:45.000 Not for an instant. 15:45.000 --> 15:51.000 Can't you trust me as a doctor when I tell you it's a false and foolish idea? 15:51.000 --> 15:54.000 Answer me, darling. Don't you trust me? 15:54.000 --> 15:56.000 Yes, of course I trust you only. 15:56.000 --> 15:58.000 What? 15:58.000 --> 16:01.000 I'm sleepy. Let's go to sleep. 16:01.000 --> 16:11.000 But I didn't sleep. I lay there for hours trying to decide if the front pattern and the back pattern move together or separately. 16:17.000 --> 16:26.000 At night, in the moonlight, the front pattern becomes bars, and the woman behind it shakes the bars. 16:26.000 --> 16:32.000 Yes, she shakes the bars as she creeps around. 16:39.000 --> 16:46.000 I lie down ever so much now. John says it's good for me and to sleep all I can, but you see I don't sleep. 16:46.000 --> 16:50.000 And that cultivates deceit, for I don't tell them I'm awake. 16:50.000 --> 16:52.000 Oh, no. 16:52.000 --> 17:00.000 Fact is, I'm getting a little afraid of John. He seems very odd sometimes, and it strikes me that perhaps it's the yellow wallpaper. 17:00.000 --> 17:05.000 I like this room now, and life is much more exciting than it used to be. 17:05.000 --> 17:11.000 I have something more to expect, to look forward to, to watch. 17:11.000 --> 17:14.000 And I really do eat better, and I'm quieter than I was. 17:14.000 --> 17:22.000 John is pleased to see me improve. 17:22.000 --> 17:28.000 You see, you're flourishing like a weed in spite of your wallpaper. 17:28.000 --> 17:35.000 Yes, in spite of the wallpaper. 17:35.000 --> 17:41.000 In spite of it, because of it. But I had no intention of telling him that. 17:41.000 --> 17:45.000 He might want to take me away, and I don't want to leave now until I've found out. 17:45.000 --> 17:54.000 There's one week more, and I think that will be enough. 17:54.000 --> 17:58.000 There's a funny mark on the wall low down near the mop board. 17:58.000 --> 18:05.000 A streak that runs around the room, goes behind every piece of furniture except the bed. 18:05.000 --> 18:12.000 A long, straight, even smudge, as if it had been rubbed over and over and over. 18:12.000 --> 18:18.000 How was it done? Who did it? What did they do to it? 18:18.000 --> 18:27.000 Round and round, round and round, round makes me dizzy. 18:27.000 --> 18:38.000 I've really discovered something at last. 18:38.000 --> 18:42.000 There are a great many women behind the pattern, and sometimes only one, 18:42.000 --> 18:46.000 and she creeps around fast, and her creeping shakes the pattern. 18:46.000 --> 18:50.000 She's trying to climb through and can't because the pattern strangles everything. 18:50.000 --> 18:53.000 But she does get out in the daytime, I know because I've seen her. 18:53.000 --> 18:59.000 When a car comes, she hides in the blackberry vines. I don't blame her, I'd hide too. 18:59.000 --> 19:08.000 I always lock the door when I creep by daylight. 19:08.000 --> 19:13.000 There are only two days left to tear this paper off and let the woman out in the room, 19:13.000 --> 19:15.000 and John's beginning to take notice. 19:15.000 --> 19:19.000 I don't like the look in his eyes or the way he talks with Jenny about me. 19:19.000 --> 19:21.000 I overheard them. 19:21.000 --> 19:26.000 She isn't sleeping nights, Jenny. She's quiet, but I know she's awake. 19:26.000 --> 19:29.000 Well, it's a little wonder she sleeps the whole blessed day. 19:29.000 --> 19:32.000 Maybe I ought to call in another doctor. 19:32.000 --> 19:36.000 No, it's just stubbornness, John. She's determined to prove you're wrong. 19:36.000 --> 19:42.000 I suppose you're right. Oh, I'm sure she'll improve. Oh, darling. 19:42.000 --> 19:45.000 Hello, Pet. How you creep about. 19:45.000 --> 19:49.000 That's a funny thing to say, Jenny. It isn't I who creeps. 19:49.000 --> 19:53.000 Jenny says you stay in your room too much. You don't take your exercise. 19:53.000 --> 19:57.000 You tell me to rest and then you tell me to take exercise. I can't do both. 19:57.000 --> 20:00.000 Well... As though I can't see through them. 20:00.000 --> 20:04.000 Tomorrow's our last day here. We'll talk about exercise when I get you back to town. 20:04.000 --> 20:06.000 I'll have to rouse you out of bed pretty early, Pet. 20:06.000 --> 20:10.000 You know, some of that furniture up there belongs downstairs, and the movers will be here at nine. 20:10.000 --> 20:15.000 Maybe, uh, maybe you'll sleep upstairs tonight, Jenny. So you won't be alone, darling. 20:15.000 --> 20:17.000 You won't be here tonight, John? 20:17.000 --> 20:20.000 Not until tomorrow evening, or there's a difficult case. 20:20.000 --> 20:24.000 If you're going to feel lonesome... Oh, no, Jenny. I'll rest better alone. I'm sure of it. 20:24.000 --> 20:26.000 Thank you all the same. 20:29.000 --> 20:34.000 That was clever of me. The sly thing. 20:34.000 --> 20:37.000 I won't be alone a bit. 20:37.000 --> 20:44.000 As soon as the moon shone in, the poor thing behind the paper began to crawl and shake the pattern. 20:44.000 --> 20:48.000 I ran to her. I pulled, and she shook. 20:48.000 --> 20:52.000 I shook, and she pulled. 20:52.000 --> 20:56.000 And that morning we peeled off yards and yards of yellow wallpaper, 20:56.000 --> 20:59.000 a strip about as high as my head and half around the room. 20:59.000 --> 21:03.000 When Jenny came up in the morning, she looked at the wall in amazement. 21:03.000 --> 21:07.000 You know why I did it, Jenny? Just to spite the vicious thing. 21:07.000 --> 21:09.000 Why are you so surprised? 21:09.000 --> 21:12.000 Oh, I... I'm not. 21:12.000 --> 21:16.000 Why, I wouldn't mind doing it myself. 21:16.000 --> 21:18.000 But you mustn't tire yourself, Pent. 21:18.000 --> 21:20.000 She wouldn't mind doing it. 21:20.000 --> 21:23.000 Why don't you come downstairs and lie down? 21:30.000 --> 21:35.000 How she betrayed herself, that Jenny. She wouldn't mind doing it. 21:35.000 --> 21:42.000 But I'm here and no person touches this paper but me, not a lie. 21:44.000 --> 21:48.000 I've locked the door and thrown the key down into the front path. 21:48.000 --> 21:52.000 I don't want anybody to come in till John comes. I want to surprise him. 21:52.000 --> 21:55.000 And I've got a rope up here. Even Jenny doesn't know that. 21:55.000 --> 21:58.000 If the woman gets out from behind the pattern and tries to run away, 21:58.000 --> 22:03.000 I can tie her securely to one of the rings in the wall. 22:03.000 --> 22:06.000 There. There she is. 22:06.000 --> 22:11.000 There, see how the pattern moves like wallowing seaweeds. 22:11.000 --> 22:13.000 Oh, it'll strangle her unless I help. 22:13.000 --> 22:18.000 Wait, wait, wait, I'll help you. I'll peel off the paper all I can. 22:18.000 --> 22:20.000 Wait, wait, be patient. 22:20.000 --> 22:24.000 You, you, you push. You push it out, Paul. 22:24.000 --> 22:28.000 Oh, it, it sticks horribly to the plaster. 22:28.000 --> 22:31.000 I can get it off with my teeth. 22:31.000 --> 22:34.000 Oh, it hurts. 22:34.000 --> 22:36.000 But I'm getting it. I'm getting it. 22:36.000 --> 22:39.000 Wait, wait, just a little bit more. 22:39.000 --> 22:41.000 I'm getting it. 22:41.000 --> 22:44.000 A little bit more. A little bit more. 22:44.000 --> 22:47.000 A little bit more. A little bit more. 22:51.000 --> 22:56.000 I wonder if they all came out of the wallpaper as I did. 22:56.000 --> 22:59.000 I think they did. 22:59.000 --> 23:03.000 But I have you securely tied by my rope now. 23:03.000 --> 23:06.000 You'll never get away. 23:06.000 --> 23:09.000 But I don't want to get away. 23:09.000 --> 23:14.000 It's so pleasant to be out in this great room to creep about as I please. 23:17.000 --> 23:19.000 It's so pleasant. 23:19.000 --> 23:26.000 But I suppose I'll, I'll have to get back behind the pattern when night comes. 23:26.000 --> 23:29.000 That will be hard to do. 23:35.000 --> 23:39.000 Well, it's, it's better than going outside. 23:39.000 --> 23:43.000 I won't go outside, even if Jenny asks me to. 23:43.000 --> 23:50.000 For outside, I have to creep on the ground where everything is green instead of yellow. 23:53.000 --> 23:58.000 And here I can creep smoothly on the floor. 23:59.000 --> 24:02.000 Listen. Listen, she's coming now. 24:02.000 --> 24:05.000 Darling. Darling, open the door. 24:05.000 --> 24:08.000 You hear me? Open the door. 24:08.000 --> 24:10.000 Oh, it's John at the door. 24:10.000 --> 24:13.000 Open the door, darling. Open it, please, dear. 24:13.000 --> 24:15.000 Oh, he does pound and shout. 24:15.000 --> 24:18.000 So use Dr. John. You can't open it. 24:18.000 --> 24:21.000 Open it, do you hear me, dear? Open it. 24:21.000 --> 24:23.000 Jenny, bring me the axe. 24:23.000 --> 24:26.000 Oh, no, he'll break down that beautiful door. 24:26.000 --> 24:31.000 John, dear, the key's down in front of the house under a plant and leaf. 24:33.000 --> 24:35.000 Please, my darling, please. 24:35.000 --> 24:37.000 It's down by the front door, John. 24:37.000 --> 24:39.000 Open the door, for heaven's sake. 24:39.000 --> 24:43.000 I can't. I can't. The key's downstairs, John. 24:43.000 --> 24:46.000 It's under a plant and leaf by the front steps. 24:46.000 --> 24:48.000 It's under a plant and leaf down. 24:48.000 --> 24:52.000 Go and see. Go and see. You'll find it if you look. 24:52.000 --> 24:54.000 You'll find it. 24:56.000 --> 24:58.000 There. There. 24:58.000 --> 25:00.000 He's gone to look. 25:00.000 --> 25:04.000 The wallpaper has stopped laughing. 25:04.000 --> 25:06.000 The evil thing. 25:06.000 --> 25:12.000 Now I can creep slowly, smoothly on the floor. 25:12.000 --> 25:18.000 Round and round and round and round and round. 25:18.000 --> 25:22.000 My shoulder just fits into that long smudge on the wall, 25:22.000 --> 25:25.000 so I can't lose my way. 25:25.000 --> 25:28.000 Oh, he's coming back. 25:28.000 --> 25:30.000 He's running on the stairs. 25:30.000 --> 25:32.000 How astonished he'll be. 25:32.000 --> 25:34.000 Darling. 25:34.000 --> 25:38.000 Oh, my dear. My dear, what is it? 25:38.000 --> 25:40.000 What's happened? 25:40.000 --> 25:42.000 I've got out at last, John. 25:42.000 --> 25:44.000 Out? Out from... 25:44.000 --> 25:46.000 Yes, out in spite of you and Jenny. 25:46.000 --> 25:48.000 I pulled down the paper. 25:48.000 --> 25:51.000 I shook the pattern and pushed and pulled it down. 25:51.000 --> 25:54.000 It stuck horribly. 25:54.000 --> 25:56.000 But you'll never... you'll never put me back. 25:56.000 --> 25:58.000 You'll never put me back. 25:58.000 --> 26:02.000 You'll never put me back. 26:02.000 --> 26:05.000 You're so pale, John. 26:05.000 --> 26:07.000 Why do you close your eyes? 26:07.000 --> 26:09.000 You watch. 26:09.000 --> 26:14.000 Watch how swiftly I creep around in this lovely yellow room. 26:19.000 --> 26:21.000 Fainted? 26:21.000 --> 26:26.000 Now why should that man have fainted? 26:26.000 --> 26:29.000 But he did. 26:29.000 --> 26:33.000 And right across my path by the wall, 26:33.000 --> 26:37.000 so that I have to creep over him every time. 26:37.000 --> 27:02.000 Round and round and round and round and round. 27:02.000 --> 27:05.000 Thank you, Agnes Moorhead, for a magnificent performance. 27:05.000 --> 27:08.000 Miss Moorhead will be back in just a moment. 27:08.000 --> 27:11.000 Oh, what a show. 27:11.000 --> 27:14.000 That Agnes Moorhead's really some actress. 27:14.000 --> 27:17.000 Well, I guess I better head for home, Motherland. 27:17.000 --> 27:20.000 Oh, say, Mr. Martin, can you give me those simple words of yours again? 27:20.000 --> 27:22.000 My boy Billy pesters me with slogans. 27:22.000 --> 27:24.000 You bet, Mr. Horton. 27:24.000 --> 27:26.000 When you replace your narrow-gap spark plugs 27:26.000 --> 27:28.000 with a set of wide-gap auto-light resistor spark plugs, 27:28.000 --> 27:30.000 you can tell the difference in your car. 27:30.000 --> 27:33.000 For example, your engine idles smoother. 27:33.000 --> 27:36.000 You have better luck with leaner gas mixtures and save gas. 27:36.000 --> 27:38.000 And within established limits, 27:38.000 --> 27:41.000 you reduce spark plug interference with radio and television reception. 27:41.000 --> 27:44.000 So, switch to auto-light, because... 27:44.000 --> 27:47.000 Auto-light means resistor spark plugs. 27:47.000 --> 27:49.000 Ignition engineered spark plugs. 27:49.000 --> 27:51.000 Auto-light means batteries. 27:51.000 --> 27:53.000 Stay full, batteries. 27:53.000 --> 27:56.000 Auto-light means ignition systems. 27:56.000 --> 28:07.000 The lifeline of your car. 28:07.000 --> 28:10.000 And now here again is Miss Agnes Moorhead. 28:10.000 --> 28:13.000 It's always a great pleasure for me to appear on Suspense. 28:13.000 --> 28:16.000 I've thoroughly enjoyed this appearance this evening. 28:16.000 --> 28:19.000 And next week, when I turn listener again, 28:19.000 --> 28:23.000 I'll join the rest of you to welcome Mr. Charles Lawton's return to these microphones 28:23.000 --> 28:26.000 in a role written especially for him. 28:26.000 --> 28:31.000 Next week, then, an honest man starring Charles Lawton on... 28:31.000 --> 28:43.000 Suspense. 28:43.000 --> 28:46.000 Agnes Moorhead may soon be seen in the Warner Brothers production, 28:46.000 --> 28:48.000 Johnny Belinda. 28:48.000 --> 28:52.000 Tonight's Suspense play was adapted for radio by Sylvia Richards 28:52.000 --> 28:56.000 from an original story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. 28:56.000 --> 29:00.000 Music was composed by Lucian Morawick and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 29:00.000 --> 29:03.000 The entire production was under the direction of Anton M. 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