The first days she haunted the seawall watching, though she knew it was useless.

7 seconds sound clip from the The Snow Goose (1954) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:25:30 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Look, the resale boat. It's sinking.

- A concussion.

- Yes, he's going. He's a man with a...

- And there goes the goose, suttling around like a plane saluting. Once, twice, three times.

- Now flying back to England.

- He'll bring bad news to someone, I'm afraid.

- When Rhayader had sailed away, Fritha had remained alone at the little lighthouse on the Great Marsh, taking care of the birds, waiting for she knew not what.

- The first days she haunted the seawall watching, though she knew it was useless.

- Later, she roamed through the storerooms of the lighthouse where Rhayader had stacked his canvases.

- There she came across the picture that Rhayader had painted of her from memory when she was still a child.

- The picture and all she saw in it stirred her as nothing had before, for much of Rhayader's soul had gone into it.

- And now Fritha knew in her blood, had known from the moment he sailed away that Rhayader would not return.

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