In that house, I was to hear a strange confession, a confession only madness could have wrung from the lips of a sane person.

— Betsy Connell (Frances Dee)

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7 seconds sound clip from the I Walked with a Zombie movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:05:40.861 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- You mean a figurehead.

- If you say, miss.

- And the enormous boat brought the long-ago fathers, and the long-ago mothers of us all, chained to the bottom of the boat.

- They brought you to a beautiful place, didn't they?

- If you say, miss. If you say.

- Fort Holland. From the gate, it seemed strangely dreamlike. The garden had life of its own.

- I was to know all the nooks and crannies of that great house, to love them or hate them, according to what happened there.

- In that house, I was to hear a strange confession, a confession only madness could have wrung from the lips of a sane person.

- And yet it was in the same room with the candles lit, that I made the discovery of my own love, knew happiness, deep through the heart. My room.

- I still can remember my delight, unpacking, getting ready for dinner.

- Yet, all the while, I wondered at the stillness of Fort Holland. The fact that I saw no one on the garden paths or in the rooms.

- Yes?

- Miss Connell, it's dinner.

- Oh. Thank you.

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