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It's a frightful notion, but they don't let me play when they're at home.

6 seconds sound clip from the Fugue in C Minor (Suspense) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:07:48 in the radio play.

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- And by some malicious stroke of fate, there was an epidemic of scarlet fever raging out there. The authorities wouldn't lift the quarantine and let them out for her funeral.

- Oh, poor little things.

- Yes, it upset them dreadfully. In fact, I sometimes fear it's left a mark on them which may endure all their lives.

- Why, what do you mean?

- They suffer from delusions. Delusions about her. They think that in some way she is linked... Her soul is imprisoned in the organ pipes.

- How horrible.

- I wish I could do something about it.

- It's a frightful notion, but they don't let me play when they're at home.

- That echo chamber in particular, next door to their bedroom... Do you know it's nothing but an empty sealed room with a few wires?

- Of course, it's all because they never saw her dead. But they have a notion that she's... Well, somehow hidden there.

- How ghastly. They really think that, do they? Children can think up such very strange things in their little minds, can't they?

- Tonight for 'Suspense,' Roma Wines are bringing you as stars Miss Ida Lupino and Mr. Vincent Price, whom you've heard in the prologue to 'Fugue in C Minor'... tonight's tale of Suspense!

- Let us look in on another scene for a moment: a smart dinner party at the internationally famous Hotel Nacional de Cuba in Havana.

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Fugue in C Minor (Suspense) Sound Clip

Fugue in C Minor (Suspense)Quotes from Fugue in C Minor - Suspense Radio Show based on a horror story written by Lucille Fletcher, aired on June 1st, 1944.

Actors: Vincent Price (Mr. Theodore Evans), Ida Lupino (Miss Amanda)

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