- Peculiar you should have been talking to him on the phone not three minutes ago and now here he is.
- Yes, isn't it?
8 seconds sound clip from the Back for Christmas (Suspense) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:12:20 in the radio play.
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- And just look at your jacket. Have you been digging in that cellar again?
- Go and change your clothes before the guests arrive.
- Oh. Never mind. I see somebody coming up the walk now. Go and let them in.
- Yes.
- Peculiar you should have been talking to him on the phone not three minutes ago and now here he is.
- But then, as you say, all of my friends are peculiar.
- Not half so peculiar as you.
- Digging in the cellar an hour before we leave for America... just look at yourself!
- And now that I think of it... Oh, never mind. Go and let them in.
- You were going to ask me something about the hole I'm digging in the cellar.
- Good heavens, stop rolling your eyes about that way.
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