But my dear Hermione, Hubert couldn't possibly have telephoned me within the past hour... I've been walking in the park since three.
9 seconds sound clip from the Back for Christmas (Suspense) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:17:18 in the radio play.
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- That's Herbert, though. It's really quite simple however, once you find out what he's up to.
- Now take that telephone call he put through to you a few minutes before you arrived, Freddy...
- To me?
- Hubert wanted to surprise me about your plan to meet us in New York next month.
- Wasn't that why he called? To ask you not to mention it?
- And as for my going to America...
- Now, come, come, Freddy, you may as well confess. Hermione has just found me out again.
- But, Hubert, old chap, I really don't...
- You see what a poor liar Hubert makes? He's as red as a beet root!
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