The immediate announcement of your engagement to Horace is the only step we can take to silence this scandalous gossip.

8 seconds sound clip from the The Moon's Our Home (1941) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:42:24 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Good morning, Sarah. I want to speak to you.

- I thought you would, Granny.

- Boyce, you may leave.

- Yes, ma'am.

- Sarah, everything is arranged. I've already talked to Horace and the newspapermen are waiting.

- Waiting for what?

- For the announcement of your engagement to Horace!

- Engagement? But, Granny...

- My dear, my dear... I've gone over the situation quite thoroughly.

- The immediate announcement of your engagement to Horace is the only step we can take to silence this scandalous gossip.

- But, Granny, it's - it's impossible. Why, Granny, suppose I were to tell you that I was already married.

- I'd say it was your way of evading an issue.

- But I am.

- Huh? Who to?

- Why, to Sam Smith, that's who.

- All right, all right... who is he? Where does he come from? What does he do?

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