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You'll have to do better than this when I plan the trip home, or we'll never in the world be back for Christmas.

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

You can hear this line at 00:09:47 in the radio play.

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[...]

- I dismissed the servants.

- Dismissed the servants? But I've asked some friends of mine in to a farewell luncheon. Go and tell them it's a mistake.

- I'm afraid it is too late now. They've packed and gone.

- You have messed things up properly. How many times have I told you to leave things to me? I make the plans around here.

- Yes, Hermione.

- You'll have to do better than this when I plan the trip home, or we'll never in the world be back for Christmas.

- Back for Christmas. Back for Christmas. Must you keep saying that?

- Why not? We are coming back for Christmas. Aren't we?

- Supposing I were offered a professorship in one of those wealthy American Universities?

- Nonsense. Americans care nothing for botany.

- Luther Burbank was an American.

- That's different. What have you ever done except muck around in the dirt with a lot of roots and tubers?

- Well, they asked me to lecture, didn't they?

[...]

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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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