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.

[...]

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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!
And the delightful thing, of course, about having a pipe organ in the house is that it's everywhere. To sit at a keyboard and hear the walls, the ceilings, the floors vibrate.
Why, there's no one here. No one at the keyboard. The organ's playing itself. -That's impossible. The motor's not going.
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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