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You know, Mrs. Schumacher, you're quite a surprise. Your letter reserving the rooms was so thorough... I was expecting an older, more forbidding sort of person, frankly, Ma'am.

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

You can hear this line at 00:24:00 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Exactly what Hermione would have written!

- The rest of the trip was uneventful.

- Marion and I met in New York, just as we had planned. Just as we had planned.

- Professor and Mrs. Schumacher. We have reservations, I believe.

- Oh, yes. We've been expecting you, sir.

- Boy! Take Professor and Mrs. Schumachers's luggage up to their suite.

- You know, Mrs. Schumacher, you're quite a surprise. Your letter reserving the rooms was so thorough... I was expecting an older, more forbidding sort of person, frankly, Ma'am.

- No - as a matter of fact, we are just married...but I...

- My letter reserving the rooms?

- Oh. I wrote the letter, my dear, and signed it Mrs. Hubert Schumacher, just as a joke.

- What a cunning old fox you are...

- Now that I think of it, I am, rather.

- Oh, I almost forgot. There's a letter for you Mrs. Schumacher.

- That's peculiar. I wonder who on earth?

- Well, we shall find out in good time.

[...]

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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