1 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:29,220 Good evening. 2 00:00:29,260 --> 00:00:31,930 So glad you could join us. 3 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:34,930 We are holding a séance tonight. 4 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:38,500 At our last session, we managed to get in touch 5 00:00:38,530 --> 00:00:41,000 with the spirit of Marconi, 6 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:43,170 the inventor of radio. 7 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:45,340 But unfortunately, 8 00:00:45,370 --> 00:00:48,110 it was impossible to understand what he was saying 9 00:00:48,140 --> 00:00:50,450 because of the static. 10 00:00:50,480 --> 00:00:55,550 Now, if all of you will place your hands palm down 11 00:00:55,580 --> 00:00:58,390 on the tops of your television sets 12 00:00:58,420 --> 00:01:03,390 we shall attempt to speak to Alexander Graham Bell. 13 00:01:04,460 --> 00:01:05,760 Hello? 14 00:01:07,060 --> 00:01:08,060 Hello! 15 00:01:08,100 --> 00:01:10,070 [knocking] 16 00:01:10,070 --> 00:01:12,930 I seem to have reached him already. 17 00:01:12,970 --> 00:01:14,670 Mr. Bell, do you--? 18 00:01:14,700 --> 00:01:16,440 [knocking] 19 00:01:16,470 --> 00:01:18,340 That’s peculiar, 20 00:01:18,370 --> 00:01:20,540 it’s a woman. 21 00:01:20,580 --> 00:01:23,110 She says, "Mr. Bell is not in." 22 00:01:23,140 --> 00:01:24,280 [knocking] 23 00:01:24,310 --> 00:01:26,850 No, I’ll call later. 24 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:29,520 That was his answering service. 25 00:01:29,550 --> 00:01:33,860 Now, if you will concentrate on this little screen in front of me, 26 00:01:33,890 --> 00:01:38,090 there is someone I am positive wants to get in touch with you. 27 00:01:38,130 --> 00:01:40,730 And I am certain he’ll be in. 28 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:42,530 Listen. 29 00:01:59,750 --> 00:02:01,520 [woman] Hubert? 30 00:02:03,550 --> 00:02:05,320 Yes, Mother? 31 00:02:05,350 --> 00:02:09,320 Darling, you’ve been sitting around all afternoon 32 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:10,460 in your suit jacket. 33 00:02:10,490 --> 00:02:11,490 It’s so bad for it. 34 00:02:11,530 --> 00:02:13,190 I brought you this. 35 00:02:13,230 --> 00:02:17,330 Well, I thought I might be going out, but it seems I haven’t. 36 00:02:17,370 --> 00:02:19,900 Well, there now, I’ll just hang this away. 37 00:02:19,930 --> 00:02:20,900 [chirping] 38 00:02:20,940 --> 00:02:21,900 Cheep? 39 00:02:21,940 --> 00:02:22,900 [chirping] 40 00:02:22,940 --> 00:02:24,110 That’s my pretty. 41 00:02:24,140 --> 00:02:27,180 -Cheep? -[chirping] 42 00:02:27,210 --> 00:02:29,080 Oh, darling, I wanted to ask you. 43 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:32,780 Did you charge some things at the drugstore? 44 00:02:32,810 --> 00:02:34,150 Yes, I needed them. 45 00:02:34,180 --> 00:02:38,250 Well, of course. I’ll just write the check now. 46 00:02:38,290 --> 00:02:40,990 Do you need any pocket money? 47 00:02:41,090 --> 00:02:42,490 Mother, you’re gonna wear yourself out 48 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:43,830 with all these little things. 49 00:02:43,860 --> 00:02:45,090 Now, wouldn’t it be easier for you 50 00:02:45,130 --> 00:02:46,800 -if I had a checking account? -Oh, no, dear, no. 51 00:02:46,830 --> 00:02:49,930 You see, you’re like your dear father. 52 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:52,170 You’re not very clever with money. 53 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:55,800 -Whereas I am a very careful person. -[mouths along] 54 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:58,870 And anyway, dear Arthur wanted it this way. 55 00:02:58,910 --> 00:03:00,440 I don’t mind at all. 56 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:03,680 Oh, of course, I know that you’re unhappy sometimes 57 00:03:03,710 --> 00:03:06,550 because you’re not earning anything just now. 58 00:03:06,580 --> 00:03:08,450 But you mustn’t be. 59 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:11,390 I enjoy having you home here with me. 60 00:03:11,420 --> 00:03:16,690 And there is no hurry about getting another position. 61 00:03:16,730 --> 00:03:18,190 There. 62 00:03:19,630 --> 00:03:21,060 You spoil me. 63 00:03:21,060 --> 00:03:22,830 Well, of course I do. 64 00:03:22,860 --> 00:03:24,300 It’s my occupation. 65 00:03:24,330 --> 00:03:26,470 If I didn’t have it, I’d just be fretting, 66 00:03:26,500 --> 00:03:29,600 wishing I were with your dear father. 67 00:03:29,640 --> 00:03:33,270 Mother, Daddy’s been... gone six years now. 68 00:03:33,310 --> 00:03:36,780 Not gone, dear. Never say that. 69 00:03:36,810 --> 00:03:41,980 My Arthur is just across the threshold, waiting. 70 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:43,650 Of course. 71 00:03:43,690 --> 00:03:47,520 Oh, close the window a little, like a good boy. 72 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:52,130 I-I do wish that I could somehow get in touch with Arthur. 73 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:53,760 Oh, Mother, don’t try that again. 74 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:55,960 That’s such a waste of money. 75 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:57,500 But I worry about him so. 76 00:03:57,530 --> 00:04:01,200 I wonder if he’s lonely, if he needs me. 77 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:03,200 It’d be simple enough to go to him. 78 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:04,770 I’ve kept the medicine. 79 00:04:04,810 --> 00:04:07,340 The last people you went to were complete... 80 00:04:09,310 --> 00:04:10,580 Medicine? 81 00:04:10,610 --> 00:04:12,910 Yes, dear, from your father’s last illness. 82 00:04:12,950 --> 00:04:18,390 Taken in large quantities it’s poison, you know. 83 00:04:18,420 --> 00:04:20,690 -Oh. -If anything happened to you, 84 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:22,960 I wouldn’t hesitate for a moment. 85 00:04:26,060 --> 00:04:30,070 You don’t mean if I got married? 86 00:04:30,070 --> 00:04:32,930 No. I’ve told you, dear, when that time comes, 87 00:04:32,970 --> 00:04:35,740 you just bring your wife to live here. 88 00:04:35,770 --> 00:04:38,570 No, I... 89 00:04:38,610 --> 00:04:40,110 I just worry about Arthur. 90 00:04:41,940 --> 00:04:44,410 I do miss him. 91 00:04:44,450 --> 00:04:47,350 Do you think he misses me? 92 00:04:47,380 --> 00:04:48,950 I don’t know, dearest. 93 00:04:48,980 --> 00:04:52,350 I do know how much you want to be in touch with him. 94 00:04:52,390 --> 00:04:54,960 And that’s difficult, as I said. 95 00:04:54,990 --> 00:04:57,890 But I did hear about a young woman the other day. 96 00:04:57,930 --> 00:04:59,190 Oh? 97 00:04:59,230 --> 00:05:02,160 Now, I could look into that for you. 98 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:04,700 But you mustn’t talk about it. 99 00:05:04,730 --> 00:05:06,900 She doesn’t like to exploit her gift. 100 00:05:06,940 --> 00:05:09,400 Oh, Hubert, would you? 101 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:11,170 Darling, could you? 102 00:05:11,210 --> 00:05:14,340 Like the dear thoughtful boy that you are? 103 00:05:14,380 --> 00:05:17,580 I could try. 104 00:05:17,610 --> 00:05:19,950 [knocking on the door] 105 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:28,820 Oh. 106 00:05:28,860 --> 00:05:31,230 I’m so glad you could get away. 107 00:05:32,660 --> 00:05:34,230 Can we have dinner? 108 00:05:34,260 --> 00:05:35,730 No, I’m afraid not. 109 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:39,930 I only have a few minutes. 110 00:05:39,970 --> 00:05:43,770 Mother’s expecting me. 111 00:05:43,810 --> 00:05:46,210 [Hubert] How are you? 112 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:48,480 Okay. 113 00:05:48,510 --> 00:05:52,880 I waited at an agent’s office for three hours today. 114 00:05:52,910 --> 00:05:55,320 And I’m flat broke. 115 00:05:55,350 --> 00:05:57,350 I just don’t know. 116 00:05:57,390 --> 00:05:59,790 Oh, that’s too bad, dear. 117 00:05:59,820 --> 00:06:03,830 I wish I could take you out and buy you a wonderful dinner. 118 00:06:03,860 --> 00:06:06,560 Mother’s a good cook, I’ll bet, huh? 119 00:06:06,590 --> 00:06:08,560 She could teach me. 120 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:12,030 Oh, Hubert, why can’t I meet her? 121 00:06:12,030 --> 00:06:14,740 Mother’s never liked any girl I’ve ever taken home. 122 00:06:14,770 --> 00:06:17,810 That’s why I hesitated about asking you. 123 00:06:17,840 --> 00:06:20,410 But now you may get to meet her. 124 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:21,810 How? 125 00:06:21,840 --> 00:06:24,050 Listen. Do you remember that play you did in Summer Stock 126 00:06:24,050 --> 00:06:25,950 where you were a medium? 127 00:06:26,050 --> 00:06:27,620 Yes. 128 00:06:27,650 --> 00:06:29,220 Oh, boy, was that a flop show. 129 00:06:29,250 --> 00:06:31,750 -Yeah. But you remember it? -Well, sure. 130 00:06:31,790 --> 00:06:34,520 Well, listen, my mother believes in that kind of thing. 131 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:36,860 And she’s gonna try to get in touch with my dead father. 132 00:06:36,890 --> 00:06:38,860 Now, could you do that? 133 00:06:38,890 --> 00:06:41,060 You mean, put on an act? Fool her? 134 00:06:41,060 --> 00:06:43,370 Yeah. It’ll be easy, because I’ll help you. 135 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:45,130 See, the point is this. She’s going to go to somebody, 136 00:06:45,170 --> 00:06:47,070 and who knows what they’ll charge her. 137 00:06:47,100 --> 00:06:49,070 This way you get the fee 138 00:06:49,100 --> 00:06:51,070 and we’ll make her very happy. 139 00:06:51,110 --> 00:06:53,540 Isn’t that a good idea? 140 00:06:53,580 --> 00:06:54,910 Sure. 141 00:06:54,940 --> 00:06:57,280 Listen, she mustn’t know that you know me. 142 00:06:57,310 --> 00:06:58,810 You understand that? 143 00:06:58,850 --> 00:06:59,810 Mmm-hmm. 144 00:06:59,850 --> 00:07:01,120 Look, can you do this? 145 00:07:01,150 --> 00:07:03,020 With the trance, and a man’s voice, all that? 146 00:07:03,020 --> 00:07:06,220 Of course I can do it. If you tell me what to say. 147 00:07:06,250 --> 00:07:11,290 Oh, I’ll tell you what to say. I promise you. 148 00:07:11,330 --> 00:07:13,500 Listen, I’m gonna make an appointment, then, for this week. 149 00:07:13,530 --> 00:07:15,100 Is that all right? 150 00:07:15,130 --> 00:07:16,770 Yeah. 151 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:27,840 There is too much light. 152 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:31,750 Just the one lamp? Of course. Of course. 153 00:07:37,390 --> 00:07:39,390 Dimmer, please. 154 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:48,700 Is that all right? 155 00:07:48,730 --> 00:07:50,700 Yes, thank you. 156 00:07:50,730 --> 00:07:53,570 Whatever you say, Miss Coulette. We are in your hands. 157 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:55,070 Shall we sit down, Mother? 158 00:07:55,070 --> 00:07:58,410 [Coulette] You must understand that I, myself, 159 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:00,010 become unconscious. 160 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:02,840 The Princess Artiti speaks through me. 161 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:04,880 Oh, she is your control, is she? 162 00:08:04,910 --> 00:08:06,310 Yes. 163 00:08:06,350 --> 00:08:11,320 She was an Egyptian princess of the 18th dynasty 164 00:08:11,350 --> 00:08:15,660 who lived in Egypt in 1375 BC. 165 00:08:16,730 --> 00:08:18,830 She married her brother. 166 00:08:20,030 --> 00:08:21,500 They all did, you know. 167 00:08:23,430 --> 00:08:26,030 Mother, will you sit there? And I’ll sit here. 168 00:08:30,810 --> 00:08:32,540 Will you try to make contact? 169 00:08:34,510 --> 00:08:37,050 I will try. 170 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:40,620 I do not know what will happen. 171 00:08:40,650 --> 00:08:43,280 Sometimes, nothing. 172 00:08:45,150 --> 00:08:47,290 Please... 173 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:52,860 concentrate on the one you wish to contact. 174 00:08:52,890 --> 00:08:56,300 Think hard. That helps. 175 00:08:56,330 --> 00:08:59,270 -Think, darling. I am thinking. -Shh. 176 00:09:04,510 --> 00:09:07,010 [humming] 177 00:09:12,810 --> 00:09:16,380 [high-pitched] I am the Princess Artiti. 178 00:09:16,420 --> 00:09:18,520 Why am I being called? 179 00:09:18,550 --> 00:09:21,690 The power is not strong tonight. 180 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:23,690 I cannot help you. 181 00:09:23,730 --> 00:09:26,090 Oh, please. 182 00:09:26,130 --> 00:09:28,760 Oh, they are crowding. 183 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:31,530 No, go away. 184 00:09:31,570 --> 00:09:36,910 He wants to speak, but he is not the one. 185 00:09:36,940 --> 00:09:38,810 [humming] 186 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:42,710 So many. 187 00:09:42,740 --> 00:09:46,410 So many. 188 00:09:46,450 --> 00:09:50,220 Princess, if you could just find the one. 189 00:09:51,290 --> 00:09:53,820 But the one who is wanted 190 00:09:53,860 --> 00:09:56,590 knows he is being called. 191 00:09:56,620 --> 00:09:57,760 I see him. 192 00:09:59,830 --> 00:10:01,600 He is elderly. 193 00:10:03,370 --> 00:10:06,170 He has hair 194 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:10,370 of masses of silver. 195 00:10:10,410 --> 00:10:11,670 Arthur. 196 00:10:14,010 --> 00:10:18,410 He is trying to say something. 197 00:10:18,450 --> 00:10:21,520 Something about his... 198 00:10:21,550 --> 00:10:25,150 His comfortable, old sofa. 199 00:10:25,190 --> 00:10:26,350 [gasps] 200 00:10:28,660 --> 00:10:31,290 He cannot speak. 201 00:10:31,330 --> 00:10:34,060 [Sophia] Oh, please. 202 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:37,900 [mouthing words] 203 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:45,740 The forces are restraining him. 204 00:10:45,770 --> 00:10:49,240 He is fading. 205 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:52,680 Fading. 206 00:10:52,710 --> 00:10:56,050 I can’t tell you more. 207 00:11:02,390 --> 00:11:05,660 It was Arthur! Don’t you see it? 208 00:11:05,690 --> 00:11:08,760 Miss Coulette, my name is Sophia. 209 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:12,270 And my husband used to call me his... 210 00:11:14,100 --> 00:11:17,170 Comfy old Sofie. 211 00:11:17,210 --> 00:11:19,540 She could never have known that. 212 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:23,550 Oh, my dear, you were marvelous! 213 00:11:23,580 --> 00:11:26,080 Will you come again soon? 214 00:11:26,110 --> 00:11:27,680 Very soon? 215 00:11:31,450 --> 00:11:33,960 Of course, Mrs. Winter... 216 00:11:33,990 --> 00:11:36,190 if you wish it. 217 00:11:36,220 --> 00:11:39,430 Oh, I do. I do. 218 00:11:43,770 --> 00:11:44,730 [chirping] 219 00:11:44,770 --> 00:11:46,370 That’s my girl. 220 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:48,740 That’s my baby. 221 00:11:48,770 --> 00:11:51,340 Cheep. Cheep. 222 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:54,180 Is everything just so? 223 00:11:54,210 --> 00:11:56,640 I’m sure it is, Mother. Don’t fuss so. 224 00:11:56,680 --> 00:11:58,110 Just so the environment’s all right. 225 00:11:58,150 --> 00:11:59,850 That’s all that Miss Coulette required. 226 00:11:59,880 --> 00:12:01,120 [chirping] 227 00:12:01,150 --> 00:12:02,580 I like her very much, don’t you? 228 00:12:02,620 --> 00:12:04,320 Oh, she has great gifts. 229 00:12:05,550 --> 00:12:08,090 I somehow sense 230 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:10,330 that tonight, we’ll be able to talk together, 231 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:12,890 your father and I. 232 00:12:12,930 --> 00:12:15,060 Yes, I sense that, too, dearest. 233 00:12:18,630 --> 00:12:21,540 [high-pitched] Now he is coming. 234 00:12:21,570 --> 00:12:24,540 I see him. 235 00:12:24,570 --> 00:12:29,740 He is standing at the end of a long, dark passage, 236 00:12:29,780 --> 00:12:32,280 holding out his hands. 237 00:12:33,350 --> 00:12:35,980 Ready to receive you. 238 00:12:37,390 --> 00:12:40,460 The lady is waiting. 239 00:12:43,630 --> 00:12:47,230 [low-pitched] Sofie. 240 00:12:47,260 --> 00:12:48,960 Arthur. 241 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:50,870 Now listen to me tonight. 242 00:12:50,900 --> 00:12:54,240 There’s something I must ask you. 243 00:12:54,270 --> 00:12:57,970 Dear Sofie. 244 00:12:58,010 --> 00:13:01,040 Listen to me, please. 245 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:03,040 I worry about you. 246 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:05,210 I know that you always depended on me for everything. 247 00:13:05,250 --> 00:13:07,850 And I so loved doing everything for you. 248 00:13:09,050 --> 00:13:12,320 Are you all right, my dear? 249 00:13:12,350 --> 00:13:13,790 Are you happy? 250 00:13:13,820 --> 00:13:16,060 Mother, I think if you’ll just be silent, 251 00:13:16,060 --> 00:13:17,860 Father will speak. 252 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:25,570 I am here, dearest Sofie, 253 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:29,770 and I love you as ever. 254 00:13:31,340 --> 00:13:35,880 And, oh, how I miss you. 255 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:41,080 I am lonely on this shore. 256 00:13:42,150 --> 00:13:45,520 -I wait for you. -[mouthing words] 257 00:13:47,090 --> 00:13:50,730 I need you. 258 00:13:52,490 --> 00:13:54,800 Then I’ll come, Arthur. 259 00:13:54,830 --> 00:13:56,770 I swear I will. 260 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:58,630 And quickly. 261 00:13:58,670 --> 00:14:00,700 I promise you. 262 00:14:00,740 --> 00:14:02,570 I know now... 263 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:06,340 I know now what I must do. 264 00:14:10,050 --> 00:14:11,880 Okay, that’s fine. You’d better go now. 265 00:14:17,150 --> 00:14:18,650 [Sophia] Hubert? 266 00:14:23,090 --> 00:14:25,460 You see, I was right. 267 00:14:25,490 --> 00:14:27,060 He is lonely. 268 00:14:27,060 --> 00:14:30,370 I had the instinct. I seemed to know he... 269 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:32,770 He does need me. 270 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:35,270 You do understand. 271 00:14:35,300 --> 00:14:37,070 Yes, I understand. 272 00:14:39,110 --> 00:14:40,940 I shall miss you terribly. 273 00:14:43,980 --> 00:14:45,280 When? 274 00:14:47,350 --> 00:14:51,690 Isn’t it fortunate that I am not inclined to throw things away? 275 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:54,920 -The medicine? -Oh, yes, much the best way. 276 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:57,830 Now, let me see. There’ll be several things to attend to. 277 00:14:57,860 --> 00:15:00,700 But I think I can do that tomorrow in the daytime. 278 00:15:00,730 --> 00:15:04,530 And then... in the evening, 279 00:15:04,570 --> 00:15:07,770 one of our nice, quiet evenings. 280 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:09,600 Yes, that will be best. 281 00:15:10,910 --> 00:15:12,870 Tomorrow evening then, Arthur. 282 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:17,050 Tomorrow evening at this time, my son. 283 00:15:27,060 --> 00:15:28,820 There. 284 00:15:28,860 --> 00:15:32,060 That’s every penny I owe anybody. 285 00:15:32,060 --> 00:15:33,500 Now, let me see. 286 00:15:33,530 --> 00:15:36,400 I’ve checked the linen and the silver, and the china. 287 00:15:36,430 --> 00:15:38,130 I’ve put my clothes in moth bags, 288 00:15:38,170 --> 00:15:40,470 I’ve stopped my library subscription. 289 00:15:40,500 --> 00:15:42,440 I’m sure you’ve seen to everything, Mother. 290 00:15:44,940 --> 00:15:48,640 Dust on the piano! Well, now, I can’t have that. 291 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:50,810 -Mother. -Yes, dear? 292 00:15:50,850 --> 00:15:52,080 [chuckles] 293 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:54,450 I’m just going to fetch a dust cloth. 294 00:15:54,480 --> 00:15:57,590 Perhaps if I went out for a breath of air. 295 00:15:57,620 --> 00:15:59,490 Oh, poor child, 296 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:02,760 I’ve kept you with me all this long, last day. 297 00:16:02,790 --> 00:16:05,060 It must have been very difficult for you. 298 00:16:05,090 --> 00:16:09,460 No, dearest, it’s just that this waiting is so painful. 299 00:16:09,500 --> 00:16:11,830 You know where the poison is, you haven’t mislaid it? 300 00:16:11,870 --> 00:16:14,540 Of course I haven’t. I know exactly where it is. 301 00:16:14,570 --> 00:16:17,770 I am a very careful person, 302 00:16:17,810 --> 00:16:19,610 as Arthur used to say. 303 00:16:19,640 --> 00:16:22,110 Now, I’ll just dust the piano. And... 304 00:16:22,140 --> 00:16:23,180 [chirping] 305 00:16:23,210 --> 00:16:25,910 Oh! Oh, dear. 306 00:16:25,950 --> 00:16:27,150 Oh! 307 00:16:27,180 --> 00:16:28,150 [chirping] 308 00:16:28,180 --> 00:16:29,420 Could you run an errand for me? 309 00:16:29,450 --> 00:16:30,720 I’d be glad to. 310 00:16:30,750 --> 00:16:35,160 Oh, it was a nasty, old piece of newspaper, baby. 311 00:16:35,190 --> 00:16:37,560 The drugstore has shelf paper. 312 00:16:37,590 --> 00:16:40,100 Would you get me something pretty? 313 00:16:40,130 --> 00:16:42,260 You want me to buy paper for the canary now? 314 00:16:42,300 --> 00:16:43,830 Yes, dear. Would you? 315 00:16:43,870 --> 00:16:45,930 And will you mail these? 316 00:16:45,970 --> 00:16:49,870 I must have everything just so. 317 00:16:49,900 --> 00:16:51,710 Yes, I suppose you must. 318 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:55,540 Are you frightened? 319 00:16:55,580 --> 00:16:58,080 No. No. 320 00:16:58,110 --> 00:17:00,880 You mustn’t be. It’s nothing. 321 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:02,580 It’s just a transition. 322 00:17:02,620 --> 00:17:04,420 I know that. I believe that. 323 00:17:04,450 --> 00:17:06,490 Well then, run along out. 324 00:17:08,090 --> 00:17:10,130 I’ll be here. 325 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:11,360 I promise you. 326 00:17:11,390 --> 00:17:13,630 I could never go unless you were near me. 327 00:17:13,660 --> 00:17:16,400 So have no fear of that. 328 00:17:16,430 --> 00:17:18,230 Well then, I’ll be right back. 329 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:22,040 [knocking on the door] 330 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:22,940 Come in. 331 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:29,380 What happened? 332 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:32,610 Congratulations. 333 00:17:35,180 --> 00:17:36,580 Is she... 334 00:17:36,620 --> 00:17:39,050 Everything is going to be all right. 335 00:17:39,050 --> 00:17:41,490 -When? -Tonight. 336 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:43,190 Now, Hubert, you can’t let her do this. 337 00:17:43,220 --> 00:17:45,190 Just let me go and tell her that we were kidding. 338 00:17:45,230 --> 00:17:46,330 No! 339 00:17:47,460 --> 00:17:48,630 No, you mustn’t. 340 00:17:48,660 --> 00:17:49,630 But, you just can’t-- 341 00:17:49,660 --> 00:17:50,900 Listen, if you tell her now 342 00:17:50,930 --> 00:17:52,870 that wasn’t my father last night 343 00:17:52,900 --> 00:17:55,070 you’d break her heart. 344 00:17:55,070 --> 00:17:57,310 All right, then you do it some other way. 345 00:17:57,340 --> 00:17:59,140 You tell her that you need her here. 346 00:17:59,170 --> 00:18:00,680 Now, you can do that. 347 00:18:00,710 --> 00:18:01,640 But I don’t need her. 348 00:18:04,110 --> 00:18:05,880 I’m not a child, you know. 349 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:09,380 Hubert... 350 00:18:09,420 --> 00:18:10,920 What is this? 351 00:18:11,020 --> 00:18:13,820 That’s paper for the bottom of her canary cage. 352 00:18:13,860 --> 00:18:17,330 Hubert, I don’t think we ought to let her do it. 353 00:18:17,360 --> 00:18:19,030 I do. I think it’s the best thing for everybody 354 00:18:19,030 --> 00:18:20,930 all the way ’round. 355 00:18:21,030 --> 00:18:22,930 Dearest, this is murder. 356 00:18:23,030 --> 00:18:25,600 You know that, don’t you? 357 00:18:25,630 --> 00:18:27,440 The law can’t touch us. 358 00:18:27,470 --> 00:18:29,870 Well, they can touch us if they know about it. 359 00:18:30,940 --> 00:18:32,040 Listen, if this is murder, 360 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:33,380 you’re in on it just as much as I am. 361 00:18:33,410 --> 00:18:34,740 So you’re not going to interfere. 362 00:18:34,780 --> 00:18:36,410 How are you gonna explain 363 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:38,410 your part in this to the police? 364 00:18:38,450 --> 00:18:40,880 Or anybody else? 365 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:42,720 My part? 366 00:18:42,750 --> 00:18:45,590 You’re the one that set her off with that act of yours. 367 00:18:45,620 --> 00:18:49,320 And that’s fraud, criminal fraud! 368 00:18:49,360 --> 00:18:51,760 I was acting. 369 00:18:51,790 --> 00:18:52,960 Listen, there’s nothing you can do 370 00:18:53,060 --> 00:18:55,930 except sit and wait and be patient. 371 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:57,470 Now, you understand that? 372 00:19:02,470 --> 00:19:03,770 Yeah. 373 00:19:10,050 --> 00:19:12,010 Let’s look at it this way. 374 00:19:12,050 --> 00:19:14,580 My mother will be happy. I’ll be rich. 375 00:19:14,620 --> 00:19:17,050 We can get married, go to Europe on our honeymoon. 376 00:19:17,090 --> 00:19:18,820 And nobody’ll know the difference. 377 00:19:21,020 --> 00:19:22,060 [door closes] 378 00:19:26,700 --> 00:19:27,930 Mother? 379 00:19:29,430 --> 00:19:31,270 Mother! 380 00:19:31,300 --> 00:19:32,830 Here I am. 381 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:37,670 What’s that? 382 00:19:37,710 --> 00:19:40,280 I have brought you your jacket. 383 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:43,750 Now, I want this to be 384 00:19:43,780 --> 00:19:47,320 just like one of our usual lovely evenings. 385 00:19:47,350 --> 00:19:50,320 You in your chair and I in mine. 386 00:19:50,350 --> 00:19:52,750 I don’t want to be found in bed. 387 00:19:52,790 --> 00:19:57,290 I want to be here, where we’ve had so many happy times. 388 00:19:57,330 --> 00:19:58,960 -Do you understand? -Yes, I understand. 389 00:19:59,060 --> 00:20:00,900 I meant, what’s that in the glass? 390 00:20:00,930 --> 00:20:02,530 That’s the medicine. 391 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:05,200 It was exactly where I had put it. 392 00:20:05,230 --> 00:20:09,340 A place for everything and everything in its place. 393 00:20:09,370 --> 00:20:12,040 That is how Arthur used to tease me. 394 00:20:12,070 --> 00:20:14,710 Now, I will just put this away. 395 00:20:14,740 --> 00:20:15,680 Ma... 396 00:20:46,110 --> 00:20:47,510 Well... 397 00:20:49,580 --> 00:20:51,580 Now, I wonder if I’ve forgotten anything. 398 00:20:51,610 --> 00:20:53,310 I can’t imagine what. 399 00:20:57,850 --> 00:21:00,390 Oh, what a tangled... 400 00:21:00,420 --> 00:21:02,120 Oh, dear. 401 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:03,690 Mother, does that matter now? 402 00:21:03,730 --> 00:21:06,230 It won’t take a minute, dear. 403 00:21:09,060 --> 00:21:10,700 [sighs] 404 00:21:16,300 --> 00:21:18,070 Get me the police. 405 00:21:18,070 --> 00:21:21,610 Dearest, I don’t like to ask, but have you left a note of any kind? 406 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:23,680 Oh, yes, I’ve taken care of that. 407 00:21:23,710 --> 00:21:28,450 I’ve written everything down and explained it most clearly. 408 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:30,790 And your will, I suppose, is in order? 409 00:21:30,820 --> 00:21:33,790 Oh, yes. There’s a copy in the desk drawer 410 00:21:33,820 --> 00:21:36,190 and the lawyers have the original. 411 00:21:38,690 --> 00:21:45,230 Well, I do believe I have thought of everything now. 412 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:49,840 Forgive me, darling, but I do need this. 413 00:21:49,870 --> 00:21:52,170 Well, of course, dear. 414 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:56,210 Oh, Hubert, now, you’re not going to cry? 415 00:21:57,480 --> 00:22:00,580 There’s no need to, believe me. 416 00:22:05,750 --> 00:22:07,860 I do believe you. 417 00:22:07,890 --> 00:22:09,260 And I won’t cry. 418 00:22:12,860 --> 00:22:17,670 Mother, I’d like to propose a toast. 419 00:22:17,700 --> 00:22:20,200 -To Daddy. -Ah! 420 00:22:30,310 --> 00:22:31,480 Dear. 421 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:37,350 Mother, I did think you’d drink that toast with me. 422 00:22:37,390 --> 00:22:39,790 Oh, I will, dear. I will. 423 00:22:41,120 --> 00:22:43,220 Dearest, I have tried to understand everything. 424 00:22:43,260 --> 00:22:45,690 Now, won’t you try? 425 00:22:45,730 --> 00:22:47,860 Have pity on me. Don’t drag this thing out. 426 00:22:47,900 --> 00:22:51,000 Can’t you see that I can’t stand much more of this? 427 00:22:51,100 --> 00:22:53,130 If you are going to do it... 428 00:22:53,170 --> 00:22:56,670 I-If you are going to do it, then, please do it. 429 00:22:56,710 --> 00:23:00,040 Don’t drag it out. For my sake. For... 430 00:23:01,510 --> 00:23:02,440 For... 431 00:23:07,380 --> 00:23:10,920 It doesn’t hurt, does it, darling? 432 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:18,630 I’ve only been waiting to see you safely over the threshold. 433 00:23:20,530 --> 00:23:21,800 Well, you didn’t think 434 00:23:21,830 --> 00:23:23,730 I was going to leave you here all alone, 435 00:23:23,770 --> 00:23:25,430 did you, darling? 436 00:23:27,070 --> 00:23:30,340 I’ve poisoned you, darling. 437 00:23:30,370 --> 00:23:34,440 Now you’ll be with Mommy and Daddy for always. 438 00:23:35,510 --> 00:23:37,710 You’re not afraid, are you? 439 00:23:37,750 --> 00:23:39,650 It won’t be long. 440 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:41,980 [sirens approaching] 441 00:23:44,190 --> 00:23:45,990 There. 442 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:50,760 Well, Arthur, 443 00:23:50,790 --> 00:23:54,230 I think I have attended to everything. 444 00:23:54,260 --> 00:23:56,100 Just so. 445 00:23:56,100 --> 00:23:58,300 [tires screeching, door closes] 446 00:23:59,670 --> 00:24:01,840 [doorbell buzzing] 447 00:24:02,900 --> 00:24:05,040 What in the world is that? 448 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:26,390 That concludes our tribute to mother love. 449 00:24:26,430 --> 00:24:31,270 I shall return after we reveal our sponsor’s identity. 450 00:24:34,270 --> 00:24:37,710 There is an epilogue to tonight’s story. 451 00:24:37,740 --> 00:24:42,610 Mrs. Winter decided to trade spiritual togetherness 452 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:44,550 for solitary confinement 453 00:24:44,580 --> 00:24:47,820 and discovered she preferred it that way. 454 00:24:47,850 --> 00:24:51,090 After seeing Hubert, I can’t say I blame her. 455 00:24:51,090 --> 00:24:53,420 Next week, we shall make our own attempt 456 00:24:53,460 --> 00:24:55,520 at togetherness with you. 457 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:58,460 Until then, goodnight.