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It's been so long since anyone called me by my first name. I'd like you to, if you want to. It's Marion... And yours?

11 seconds sound clip from the Back for Christmas (Suspense) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:07:12 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- You seemed so alone... the way I'm alone in the world.

- I'd like to have asked you to stay awhile and talk with me. But some way or other I wound up giving you your change and letting you go on your way...

- You say... you're all alone in the world?

- Since my father died.

- Did you never think of marrying?

- My father was a very remarkable man. I never found anyone who seemed to measure up to what he led me to expect of men.

- It's been so long since anyone called me by my first name. I'd like you to, if you want to. It's Marion... And yours?

- Hubert us, but in English, Hubert. Sounds better.

- How long have you been alone? I knew you were a widower, of course, the first time I saw you... I can always tell.

- There's a certain sadness in a man's eyes... a sweet sadness, I think...when he has been married and then lost...

- A widower... I never thought of it in quite that way...

- Oh, I'm sorry... I, shouldn't be talking like this.

[...]

Back for Christmas (Suspense) Sound Clip

Back for Christmas (Suspense)Quotes from Back for Christmas- Suspense Radio Show based on a short story written by John Collier, first aired on December 23, 1943.

Actors: Peter Lorre (Hubert Schumacher)

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