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Oh. But your mama wanted you to be educated, didn't she? She wanted you to grow up and be intelligent people, didn't she? Well, didn't she, Daphne?

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

You can hear this line at 00:11:30 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Oh, no. Please don't press her. I know when I was a little girl I hated people to talk about my age.

- I'd much rather hear about... Well, about school.

- We're not going back there... no matter what anybody says!

- David!

- That's all right.

- Then you didn't like school?

- No! And Mommy didn't like it either. She cried when we went away.

- Oh. But your mama wanted you to be educated, didn't she? She wanted you to grow up and be intelligent people, didn't she? Well, didn't she, Daphne?

- Who are you?

- You may call me Aunt Amanda. I'm a friend of your papa's.

- Do you know where my mama is?

- Your mama? Well, your mama's in Heaven, dear.

- No, she's not.

- Then where is she, dear?

- Please. Please don't start them off, Amanda. It's too upsetting.

- Come along, children. Now we're going to have a little music, like old times.

- Do you remember when your mother was alive, we all used to play together? David, you, with your cornet and Daphne at the violin. And Mama at the piano.

[...]

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The idiotic tunes people play nowadays. Give me the old stern classics. They have strength and power! Give me something with life to it, something that will flood the whole house with sound!
A scream, for example. There's something so exciting about pulling out all the stops and drowning out all human sound!
Why, there's no one here. No one at the keyboard. The organ's playing itself. -That's impossible. The motor's not going.
So, you see, we live like angels here, in a paradise of music. -How thrilling.
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.
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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