The casket wasn't open, but I've been to lots of funerals where they don't open the casket. And from what I understand, she was pretty badly mangled.

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

You can hear this line at 00:16:22 in the radio play.

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- Even if the children had been able to come home, I wouldn't have let them look.

- The coffin was sealed when I left Philadelphia. I didn't want to see her again myself.

- But there was a funeral. People came, there were flowers, an undertaker...

- Yes.

- Well, if they could believe that. If there was one witness... Perhaps my own sister Lizzie...

- Funeral? Of course there was a funeral. The finest funeral in town. A snow-white hearse and twenty-five coaches. Everybody sent flowers.

- The casket wasn't open, but I've been to lots of funerals where they don't open the casket. And from what I understand, she was pretty badly mangled.

- But it was a beautiful funeral. Mr. Evans played the organ himself, the finest selections... all the sweet old pieces his wife liked. There was 'Narcissus' and 'Mighty Lak' a Rose' and 'Goodbye, Forever'...

- That's the way it was. So you see, David, my sister Mrs. Chumley was there.

- Yes. But how did she know it was Mama? She didn't see Mama, did she?

- Well, nobody saw your poor mama, dear. She wouldn't have wanted anyone to see her.

- Mama wasn't there. She talks to us every night. She tells us to look for her.

- Where, dear?

- In the pipes.

[...]

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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