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Speaker 1: The CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents.

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Speaker 2: Come in.

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Speaker 3: Welcome.

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Speaker 2: I'm A G.

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Speaker 1: Marshall, presiding as usual over a vintage assortment of tales

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of mystery, terror, excitement and suspense. Someday we shall simply

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have to rid ourselves of all the well worn cliches

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that obscure our speech and corrode our thinking, And for

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our present purposes, we should start with the one that

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says ignorance is bliss The fact of the matter is

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that the truly ignorant are seldom blissful. Indeed, they are

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usually unhappy, suspicious, stubborn.

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Speaker 4: And frustrated.

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Speaker 1: M true, a little bit of wisdom may be dangerous,

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but a great deal of ignorance is usually fatal. As

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we shall demonstrate.

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Speaker 2: The curtain.

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Speaker 4: I've I've never seen such flowers? Beautiful ante, Yes, how

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do you grow them? Oh? That's my secret?

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Speaker 5: D How should there be a secret between husband and wife? Well,

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whole neighborhood's talking. How do you grow such flowers?

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Speaker 4: You wouldn't you want to know? Tell me no, I

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absist very well, it's how you wanted them. Oh well,

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I'll do you water them with blood? Our mystery drama.

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Speaker 1: The Flowers of Death was written especially for the mystery

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Theater by Sam Dan and stars Mercedes mc cambridge. I'll

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be back shortly with that one. And there are those

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who strive to be different, who march to the rhythms

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of their very own drummers. And these are a breed apart.

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When they succeed, we hail them as geniuses. When they fail,

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we can fine them as madmen. In either case, they

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remain a mystery to most of us. They are beyond

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the common understanding. This is because for so many of us,

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the usual tendency is to play it safe. The usual

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advice is don't stick your neck out. The usual goal

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is to be like everybody else. Don't rock the boat,

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don't make waves. These have been articles of faith for

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Walter Morrison and for Gretchen, his wife.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Charlie Wader, where are you at the office? I

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call to tell you I'll be late for dinner tonight.

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Speaker 4: Oh well, well, it can't be helped here.

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Speaker 2: Parker's in from the coast, and I can score some

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points if I hang around and just chat with him.

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Speaker 4: Okay, alright, h uh uh.

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Speaker 2: We should ask Parker and his wife out to dinner.

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Speaker 4: Oh, she's really a horrible woman water.

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Speaker 2: Well, sure she is, but Parker can do me a

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Speaker 4: Mm alright there, I'll see if I can say about

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and if it's uh, go where brown?

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Speaker 2: H Yes, it's your least flattering color. You shouldn't look

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too good. She's older than you and she'd resent it.

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Speaker 4: Oh, he just here, I understand. Is there anything else

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you want me to do? Watering?

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Speaker 2: Oh, that's about it, see you later.

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Speaker 4: Oh just a minute. Hello, Yes, what is it? Mm?

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I was right, you would right about fay about you?

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Oh look, I don't buy anything from door to door salesman.

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In that event, May I trouble you for a glass

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of water?

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Speaker 2: Water?

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Speaker 4: Actually, I'd prefer a glass of wine if you had it.

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I suppose it's an odd request in this century, in

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this place, in this time, concept of hospitality has ceased

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to exist, sir, I'm really very busy. Well, consider your ancestors.

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They would have invited me inside with a hearty welcome,

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prevailed upon me to stay for supper, spend the night.

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I'm really not interested today. The stranger who rings the

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doorbell is directed to the nearest motel. If indeed the

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door has opened at all, you'll have to excuse me.

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My telephone is ringing. No, it isn't. I warn you,

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I'll scream for help. I'll call for the police. You

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simply don't know how to handle this at all? Do you?

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What do you want? What are you selling? What do

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you need? I already told you I don't want to

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buy anything. That's not what I asked you. I asked

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you what you need. I don't need anything. Now, please

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just let me close the door. Is that really true

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that you don't need anything? Yes? You have everything your

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heart desire. Yes, now please love, happiness, fulfillment. Yes, yes,

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thank carefully, don't answer quickly. I told you I don't

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want anything you're selling. I'm not selling anything. Well, then

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why did you ring? As I was walking by, I

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saw you at your window. You reminded me of someone

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someone I knew a long time ago. I'm I'm really

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not interested. You should be. I mean you no harm.

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I saw your face. It reminded me of someone I

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loved once, but I can't remember her name. Oh please,

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I'm frightened. Don't be afraid you remind me of her?

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But who was she? There were so many? Steady, I

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love deeply and with all my heart, but not for law,

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never for law. Who are you God? You are what

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I should say, a god? Yes, that's what impossible. Why

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because because everyone knows? What everyone knows is usually nonsense.

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It's what you know, what I know that counts. You

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say you are a god. Remember, I can see your mind.

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You've decided to humor me. You believe that I'm a lunatic.

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You hope I'm harmless. Why do you say you can

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read my mind? Isn't it natural for me to think

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that a person who my name is Dionysus Dionysius, the

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ancient Greek god of wine and growing things. Well, I

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don't care much for wine, but I wish you could

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help me with my garden. You are beautiful when you smile. Suddenly,

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this whole thing that makes me laugh. Why do you

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say you're Dionysius, Because it's true I'm dreaming. I must

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be dreaming. What are dreams, Dionysius? I remember I had

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a course at school, at college in ancient lit It

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was a long time ago. Dionysius and Apollo, Yes, in

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Zeus and Palasatina, my sisters, my brothers. Dionysius, the god

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of growing things, I think I fell in love with you?

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Speaker 2: Then I know?

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Speaker 4: Why have you come to me now? Because nothing grows

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in your heart anymore? What is this life? You lead?

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The stone empty life? Oh I'm I'm very happy. Water

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and I were happy weave Gretchen. Why does nothing grow

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in your garden? Oh? Things grow, they do it. Why

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did you say you wish I could help you with

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your garden? Well, because I know, because nothing grows with

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beauty with fire. Once in another life you were in

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my garden, the garden of Dionysus. I remember now, yes,

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and I'm sorry for the way it ended. You remember

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how it ended? Yes? It always ends badly when one

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of the immortal gods loves a woman of the earth.

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Speaker 2: The garden?

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Speaker 4: Do you remember the garden? I remember? You will live

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in that garden again with you. That garden shall be

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in your own heart, and everything beautiful will grow from it.

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I have walked the world and wandered the sentries in

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search of you, and now I've found you again. I

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love you. I love you, But will you leave me again? Never?

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I will always be in your garden.

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Speaker 5: My thoughts will always be in your heart. Come, come not,

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let us walk in the garden.

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Speaker 4: We come in. Well, Walter, have a chair, my boy,

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I can say, read the report, Walter, first rate job.

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I appreciate that, Sair. Well, now, Walter, Carolway's resigned yet,

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so I've been told, mister Baylor, and you don't have

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to be told the assistant general sales managers Dobbs wide open.

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But I don't have to be told that at all.

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Say it's the jump, Walter, the big one. Yes, I've

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been ailing for it these past ten years. We just

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don't promote a man around here. We promote a team,

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a team, a man and his wife. Oh oh, I understand.

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I'm glad you do. Man has to have the right

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kind of wife.

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Speaker 5: Yes, well, Gretchen is absolutely perfect.

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Speaker 4: Good. I'd like to meet her.

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Speaker 5: Uh what, sir, may I invite you to our house

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for dinner?

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Speaker 4: Well, thank you, Walter, I accept. And what did you say?

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Her name was Gretchen, who sounds like a a frivolous name.

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Speaker 5: While her her real name is Margaret, sir, But you see,

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Gretchen is ah is a kind of nickname.

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Speaker 4: I prefer Margaret. Well, mister Baylor, I'm sure we can see,

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my boy. It's just after that very unfortunate experience with

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Carroway's wife. Here we have a man whose assistant general

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manager of this company and his wife is practically a hippie,

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gets your name in the news with all kinds of

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unsavory and distributable people. Guess I understand it. And you

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might say I'm I'm snake bitten. We uh the company

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we simply cannot afford us.

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Speaker 5: Say naturally, mister Baylor, I can assure you that gretch

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that my wife is everything the wife of an executive

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of this corporation should be.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure of it.

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Speaker 2: My boy.

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Speaker 5: When uh, when would it be convenient for you to die?

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Speaker 4: What this? Mister Bailey?

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Speaker 2: Are you free Friday night?

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Speaker 4: Yes, of course, good good Friday night for dinner. Thank you,

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sir and and Walter. I I think I can offer

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you my congratulations. Oh, my love, my love, don't leave me,

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stay stay Margaret, Margaret, Are you all right, I love,

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You're not going I'm not yet, Margaret. H Yeah, Margaret, Hi, honey. Oh,

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I was dreaming. I was dreaming. Well this is uh.

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I'd like you to just nap on the couch in

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the living room. Are you all right? Yes? Yes, it

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real only a dream. Oh, but I don't have dinner ready.

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I must have fallen this lall that's all right, I'll

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take you out. We'll celebrate, celebrated. Why it's happened, Assistant

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General Thay managing, Oh remember that's what we aimed a

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ten years ago. Well, today today we hit the tark

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Is it? Officials about only one tiny detail? And that

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is you? Me? Who have you got to do with it? Everything?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 4: Listen, Margaret, why do you think Carroway reside? What did

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you call me? Margaret? Who my name is Gretchen? Well, yes, perhaps,

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but Gretchen comes from Margaret. I don't like Margaret. That's

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why I call myself Gretchen.

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Speaker 5: Well, Margaret suits you better, dear, it's more mature, more dignified.

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Speaker 4: I don't think so well. Mister Baylor does. Well? Why

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should my name be any of mister Baylor's.

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Speaker 5: This Darley, Before we get sidetracked, I asked, if you

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knew why Carroway resigned, what.

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Speaker 4: Does mister Baylor have against my Carroway didn't jump, Darling,

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he was pushed. His wife didn't fit in. What does

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that mean?

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Speaker 5: Evidently a man's wife has to fit a certain image

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in this corporation.

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Speaker 4: Well, I was never involved in any of your business

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things before, I know, but now it'll be different. Why

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did you say, missus Carroway didn't fitting?

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Speaker 5: Well, she wasn't too careful about what she said. Why

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what did she say matter?

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Speaker 4: She she's the type who says a lot of cooky,

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odd ball things. All I know is that she said

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to me she couldn't take this, this rat race.

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Speaker 5: Series while the corporation it's supposed to be your life.

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You just can't say things like that in front of

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people like mister Baylor.

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Speaker 4: What do I have to meet mister Baylor?

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Speaker 3: Earling?

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Speaker 4: What's gotten into you? Walter? Is the company your litel?

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Of course it is.

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Speaker 3: It's always been. It's my career, it's our living.

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Speaker 4: Now that should answer that question. Are you going to

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meet mister Baylor here Friday night? He's coming to dinner?

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Did you have to invite it? He wanted to look

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you over here in your own city. Why, Well, to

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determine whether you'd be an asset for the company. I see, Darling,

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What has gotten into you? Why all these questions? I'm tarring?

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I had this dream about what I can't seem to remember.

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I forget it. Come on, let's go out to dinner

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right now. Okay, and Walter, you're mister Baylor. I promise

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you He'll be proud of Darling. I know that. Now

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where would you like to eat?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 4: Anywhere? I just remember we can now afford the very

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best water. Look look what what is that the garden?

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What about the garden? Look at the flowers? Well, where

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where did you get those flowers? They were they weren't

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here this morning? Look at those colors. Did you ever

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see such colors? Red?

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Speaker 5: Such brilliant red roses and carnations? And I I've never

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seen such beautiful garden?

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Speaker 4: Oh my garden, his and mine?

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Speaker 1: What did you say?

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Speaker 4: It wasn't a dream? It less in a dream? Well?

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Where are we?

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Speaker 1: We have a quiet, rather shy, and self effacing, middle

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class suburban housewife, just this side of forty. A stranger

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rings her bell announces he is an ancient Greek god, Dionysus,

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and that he wants.

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Speaker 4: To be her lover.

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Speaker 1: Once again. Notice that again? Well it has to be

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a dream, you say, sure, But how about the sudden

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blooming of that lush, brilliant, beautiful garden.

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Speaker 4: How about it?

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Speaker 1: Further growth must await my return in just a few

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minutes with Act two? Is it how it was in

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the ancient days? Did the guy god's appear in dreams?

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All the loves we read about between the immortals and

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their human subjects, were these all dreams visions?

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Speaker 4: Well, we don't know.

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Speaker 1: We present only the facts in the case, and the

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basic fact in this case seems to be that suddenly

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the garden of Gretchen Morrison is a lush, luxuriant riot

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of color, after she had dreamed that she had a

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love affair with the ancient god Dionysius. Well, people have

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had even more extravagant dreams.

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Speaker 4: From what I've heard. It wasn't a dream. It wasn't

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a dream. What do you say? Oh nothing, Jarlie, How

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did you never get all those flowers? I'd say, it's

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what are there? Gretchen Warfa? Hello? Hello for it of

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how's the golf? Hey? What have you folks done here?

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You know? Margaret? She had just put us around in

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the gardens. Margaret? Who's Margaret? Oh? Hell, that's my nickname

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for Gretchen. What if you've done to your garden? Gretchen?

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H nothing? Look, come on, Gretchen, I'm I'm willing to

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advocate gracefully. June and I consider ourselves be garden people

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in this neighborhood. Well, Porter, I uh, and quite frankly, Gretchen,

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we never saw you as a threat. What I mean

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is you did have a few respectable looking plans and

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that fantastic Porter he said, a fertilizer, a new kind

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of who notts dere don't get away your secrets. Come on, Gretchen,

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We've always been good friends. Where they just grew. That's

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a very shrewd and I don't blame you. Every one

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of them is a sure winner at the Garden Club

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show next month. I'll just think, port this will be

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the first year you're not going to win. I'll get

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to the bottom of this somehow. Well, good night to Porters,

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Margaret Marriot. How did you raise those flowers? Huh? I

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suppose you could call these the fruits of love?

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Speaker 3: Marge my Margaret, Oh, oh there you were.

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Speaker 4: Didn't you hear me call you? You were calling Margaret? Now, look, dear,

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it's only for mister Baylor's sake.

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Speaker 5: My name is Gretcha. I'm all right, Well, just go

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along with it for tomorrow night. No, what are you

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doing out here?

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Speaker 4: I'm sitting among my flowers. Whom shouldn't we uh be

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inside with dinner.

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Speaker 2: I was just.

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Speaker 4: Listening, listening to what to what they were saying? To what?

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Who's saying? My flowers? The flock flowers. They they can't

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say anything that isn't true. Eh, they're speaking. Now, Why

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I don't hear anything? You don't hear flowers? You see them?

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Each color has a meaning. Now, gretchenm that bush just

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in front of you. It isn't the same shade of

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red all the time, from instant to instant it darkens

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and then light me as the flowers feel and thinks, Margaret,

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quit this nuts here it is yet it is not, dear.

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I know, I know you're.

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Speaker 5: Under a stray, but I'm nice you are, and I

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was thinking about it now. Tomorrow night is the most

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important night in our lives.

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Speaker 4: It is why, why, oh my god, which one?

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Speaker 5: Please listen now, you and I we've worked for this.

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We had ten years invested in tomorrow night.

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Speaker 4: Oh please, water, You mustn't excite yourself.

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Speaker 5: Like tomorrow night we cross the great divide. What that

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line that separates the successes from the also rants Tomorrow

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night a door will open for us and we step

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into the executive suite.

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Speaker 4: Yes. Oh, and that door will be opened by Frederick

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Tower Baylor or it won't be open, Darling. It just

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all depends on you. Here's what you have to do.

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I got this list from mister Baylor's secretary. This after

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the water, Dear, I in the midst of what I

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was talking to these flowers, and now I think your

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anger has frightened them. Not Margaret, I mean Gretchen. Yes, Gretchen,

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you don't feel well. Oh no, I feel one. I've

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never seen you so well. You're usually so sensible. I've

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never been as sensible as I am at this very moment.

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All my senses are alive and free. Do you think

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should you see a doctor? Why? Because you're not well?

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That isn't true, Wretchen. What's wrong? Nothing is wrong. Even

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if I were ill, which I'm not. What would a

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doctor do prescribe a pill? And what would the pill

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be made of? From the essences of the very plants

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and flowers and growing things right here in my very

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own garden. So you see, all I need to do

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is just stay here.

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Speaker 5: How would you look at this list? Mister Baylor is

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a steak and potatoes. Man if dinner should be no problem,

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just the steak, French fries, a solad and ice cream.

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And he likes the steak rare that's practically are with

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the blood just about dripping from it.

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Speaker 4: He's very close to the primitive, isn't he You're mister Bailey. Look,

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let's not even choke about it, all right? And furthermore,

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he isn't my mister Baylor. He's on, mister Baylor. It's

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our future, My dear, I shall not disgreece.

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Speaker 3: Through these past few days.

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Speaker 4: I can't follow things around here. It's these flowers in

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this garden and the way you've been talking. Which way is?

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Speaker 3: And I don't know, but it isn't.

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Speaker 4: Your usual way.

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Speaker 5: You're not the same person, but I am no, no, no, no, no,

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there's something very different about you. No, please, dear, for

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this tremendously important night, don't do anything that would spoil it.

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Speaker 4: I don't like the look on your face. What are

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you talking about? Look, no human beings should have heard

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that trouble.

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Speaker 3: It's important? How many times do I have to remind.

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Speaker 4: You nothing in this life should be that important. You

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look as if you as if you could kill somebody,

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well maybe I could. After all, if you ought to

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make it in this company, you have to be a killer.

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I don't mean you have to commit murder exactly, but

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you have to step on people and necessary to destroy them,

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eliminate them as rivals. Well that's committing a kind of margery.

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Look look, why are we standing around here and talking

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about it? Have you destroyed many people on your way, Walter?

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Now what kind of a question is there? I suppose

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I sidelined a few in my time. Well it was

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them or me? Now come on, this whole conversation is

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out of place. Well about tomorrow night, my dear, I

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shall not disgrace you, Margaret, we're here. Well, oh it's

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a nice looking place you have here. Yes, indeed, the

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little woman is certainly a lady of good taste. Thank you, Well,

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good evening, dear. I would I would like to present

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mister Bam, who is executive vice president. How do you do?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 4: Hel? Hello? M m Do you like my gown? It

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was worn by the ancient Greek women, especially on festive occasions?

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But we we uh did did you prepare a picture

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of my Martini's dye?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 4: My dear. We shall have wine later, wine, oh, yes,

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wine made with honey. The ancients called it mead delicious. Well, yes, darling,

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and we shall have a most wonderful supper, a meal

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that would be enjoyed by the gods themselves, goats, milk

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and cheese, bread and fruits and dates and nuts. But sorry,

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I told you that, mister Bayley, that will come later. First,

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I have prepared a bath for mister Bailey. Who are dear?

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Will you bathe? Don't you, mister Bailey? Well I I

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one must separate himself from the cares of the day

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before one can enjoy the delight of the evening, And

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so you must wash away. I don't believe me, dear

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mister Baylor, will use the main bath, and Walter, dear,

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yours is waiting for you in the guest room. And now,

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if you'll excuse me for just a moment, I shall

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make sure your bath water is properly scented. The picture

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of goat's milk is there on the sideboard. It's ice

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cold and delicious.

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Speaker 5: Walter, sir, I I really don't know what to say.

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Is this your idea of a joke?

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Speaker 4: Mister Bella, please believe me, because if it is, I'm

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not who you mister Bella. I really don't know what

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to say. That ridiculous costume and goat's milk and cheek mistake,

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I'll straighten the dot. Well, this is exactly what I

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have to guard against. I thought Carroway was married to Cook,

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but yours. I'm sorry, sir, you should be mister Bayler,

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mister Beller, where are you going? Where do you think

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I'm going? Oh? But don't your fish has been ill? Yes,

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she hasn't been feeling well lately. We really you'd never

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know it to look at her. Good night, mister Baylor.

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But well, whatever became of mister Baylor?

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Speaker 5: Whatever became of mister Baylor? Do you mean you have

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to ask?

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Speaker 4: Great? Did he go his bath? He's ready? Yes, I'm

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sure it is. Have some milk drink it? You feel

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much better? Why did you do that? Margaret? Do you

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know what you did to me? I don't like that.

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You know what you did to me? You destroyed me? Now,

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please tell me why? Why? Why did you destroy me?

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But I didn't tell me why. We've been married fifteen years.

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I thought we loved each other.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if any reason you would have to

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hate me. Why why did you suddenly destroy me?

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Speaker 1: How many marriages are there are like this? A man

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works hard with a single minded dedication to getting ahead

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in his company. His wife sits at home, gardens, does

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some club work, but mainly and mostly.

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Speaker 4: She waits for him.

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Speaker 1: The big thing in their lives is the job, the career,

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the company. I suppose the answer is there are many

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marriages like this. Even the best of machinery breaks under stress,

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and human beings are not the most perfect machines. We'll

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see what repairs, if any can be affected, when I

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shall return with actree. They're the man who shares your bed,

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you're board, just as you share his. You share a

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bank account, automobiles, a house, a boat, a place in

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the community. And then one day it becomes clear to

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you that you don't well, you don't share each other.

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That is, you share things, but you really don't know

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each other. As a matter of fact, you're strangers. You've

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been married for fifteen years and you're strangers.

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Speaker 5: I don't want to discuss what happened here to see

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me for what did happen? You deliberately ruined whatever chance

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I had to become assistant general sales manager.

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Speaker 4: And if you have the ability, how could I have

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ruined your jack? Because in this company ability isn't everything. Well,

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then in that case, quit and take a job in

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an outfit where it is you just don't understand and

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I don't have time to explain it. But you're ill. No,

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I've never felt better on what you did tonight? Was

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that the action of a rational woman? I think? So?

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Would you do something for me? See a doctor? Oh, Margaret,

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See that's what's wrong with me? You call me Margaret.

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That's just for mister Baylor's benefit. Will he isn't here now?

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And why should I give up my identity for the

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sake of your boss? Isn't it bad enough that you

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gave up yours?

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Speaker 2: Margaret?

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Speaker 4: What's coming into you all of a sudden? Now? You

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never spoke this way before? You were always so reasonable,

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so cooperative. Now what is a proof of wal Don't

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take that tone with me now, Mark, Gretchen, listen, will

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you help me. I'm trying to help you. Come on,

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let's walk in the guide, Let's enjoy the beautiful growing thing.

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Speaker 5: Gretchen, I want you to see a doctor. No, please,

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please do it for me. There is something wrong with you.

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Are you aware of the things you said to mister Baylor.

465
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:32,440
Speaker 4: Darling. We live according to certain rules, I know, and

466
00:28:32,519 --> 00:28:37,079
I don't like those rules anymore. Gretchen, Gretchen, you're different

467
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:41,279
and and I'm scared not just see a doctor, huh.

468
00:28:41,359 --> 00:28:45,119
And I told you what, Eh, there's nothing wrong with me.

469
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,119
Speaker 5: Just let me hear the doctors say so. And I

470
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:58,480
promise you I'll abide by his decision. Mister Baylor, Yes,

471
00:28:58,720 --> 00:28:59,720
may I commence her.

472
00:29:00,119 --> 00:29:04,559
Speaker 4: I am busy. This won't take a moment. That's the bailor.

473
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:08,160
I want you to give me another chance. I think

474
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:10,559
the matter has closed. Well, you know, I'm the best

475
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:14,240
qualified man in the company. Nothing or respects Walter. I'm

476
00:29:14,279 --> 00:29:16,880
sorry she was ill. I'm sorry to hear that he's

477
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:20,039
being treated for it. I said, I was sorry. O.

478
00:29:20,119 --> 00:29:21,880
This business we're in it isn't easy, and it takes

479
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,640
its toll. That's why it takes a special kind of

480
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:27,200
man who has the support of a special little kind

481
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:27,519
of wife.

482
00:29:27,559 --> 00:29:29,960
Speaker 5: But she's worked hard and and she's tried hard all

483
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:31,960
these years with me, and I guess I guess.

484
00:29:31,839 --> 00:29:35,359
Speaker 4: The strain was just too much. Well, then, I don't

485
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:38,359
think I can see my way clear place. So let's

486
00:29:38,359 --> 00:29:39,200
give her another chance.

487
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:43,119
Speaker 5: Better that this thing should happen now rather than later.

488
00:29:43,119 --> 00:29:44,599
We can nip it in the bud. She'll be all right,

489
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:47,039
I promise. Well, in a few weeks, she'll be just fine.

490
00:29:47,039 --> 00:29:49,880
Speaker 4: You'll see, well, I l I'll think about it.

491
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:52,799
Speaker 2: Thank you, sir, Thank you.

492
00:29:58,759 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 4: And he said his name was Dionysius, Yes, doctor Marx.

493
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,440
And don't tell me he didn't appear. If you say

494
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:09,279
he was there, he was there for you. Why should

495
00:30:09,319 --> 00:30:12,319
the name Dionysus occur to you? Where did you ever

496
00:30:12,359 --> 00:30:15,240
hear it before? I suppose in college and the study

497
00:30:15,279 --> 00:30:19,400
of mythology, and that was years ago. I never even

498
00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:22,559
thought of it, but you absorbed it, and you now

499
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:26,839
have the classic conflict between Apollo, who represents duty, and Dionysus,

500
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:29,920
who is desire. But I never see all people face

501
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:33,559
this battle. In some it rages with more fire. In

502
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:37,440
some the flames are banked. But in no one is

503
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:41,440
it of a dormant But the garden, the flowers and plants,

504
00:30:41,599 --> 00:30:44,440
and the growing things, how do you accounquer them? There's

505
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:49,240
a reasonable rational explanation of sudden coming together in one

506
00:30:49,279 --> 00:30:54,839
spot of wind water soil. But this garden, he said,

507
00:30:55,799 --> 00:31:01,039
And I know it's the fruit of love. All I love.

508
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:05,640
I sit there among the blossoms, and I know he's

509
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:10,759
with me. He's talking to me. My dear Gretchen, You'll

510
00:31:10,799 --> 00:31:14,480
learn better in the winter. What about the winter. In

511
00:31:14,559 --> 00:31:28,200
the winter, the garden will die, and so will the stream. Yes, yes,

512
00:31:28,359 --> 00:31:35,720
my love, Yes, I hear you. Yes, I see you, Regen, Regen, Oh, Peter,

513
00:31:36,319 --> 00:31:39,279
you start with me. Oh is this your secret?

514
00:31:39,319 --> 00:31:39,559
Speaker 3: Do y?

515
00:31:39,759 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 4: Do you talk to your flowers? Of course, Ry, I

516
00:31:43,039 --> 00:31:46,599
just can't understand this garden. It grows more beautiful every day.

517
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:52,160
Come on, Gretchen, what's the secret. It's a garden of love,

518
00:31:52,559 --> 00:31:55,759
for sure, But how does it work. It's the love

519
00:31:55,880 --> 00:32:01,680
of two people. Okay, I will ask. I'm satisfied, just

520
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:05,519
to enjoy it. I do have a confession to make.

521
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:09,359
I was so wild with envy that I came in

522
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:13,440
here the other night and I stole a small rose bush.

523
00:32:13,559 --> 00:32:16,279
But you could have asked me for it. I planted

524
00:32:16,279 --> 00:32:23,160
it in my garden, and the next morning it was dead. Uh.

525
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:26,400
I was careful. I handled it gently, I watered it

526
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:30,960
and feed it, but it died. It withered completely as

527
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:37,519
if it had died a long time ago. Perhaps it did. Gretchen,

528
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:41,359
what's come over you? You seem so different? So yes,

529
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:45,880
what you always struck me is a well, well, i'll

530
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:50,559
say it, A very quiet little person. And now you

531
00:32:50,559 --> 00:32:55,640
you glow all over. I feel there's a glow inside me. Oh, Gretchen,

532
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:59,759
it's beautiful. But I see now it's a it's a

533
00:33:00,119 --> 00:33:05,920
i'm awful beauty. It's a frightening beauty. Here and terror,

534
00:33:06,839 --> 00:33:12,279
it's all part of beauty. Those crimson flowers, that that red,

535
00:33:13,359 --> 00:33:17,519
it's like the red of blood. These flowers they look

536
00:33:17,559 --> 00:33:21,359
as if they're being nourished with blood. They are porty,

537
00:33:21,559 --> 00:33:26,920
they are How did you know? How did did did

538
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:27,319
I know?

539
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:29,599
Speaker 2: Well? Are uh? Well?

540
00:33:30,799 --> 00:33:40,519
Speaker 4: Good night, Gretch, good night? Hello, Quitch.

541
00:33:40,519 --> 00:33:44,720
Speaker 2: And it's four o'clock. I called a check to make

542
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:47,240
sure you were the doctors. Oh what do you have

543
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:48,359
an appointment? Did you forget?

544
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:49,119
Speaker 4: No?

545
00:33:49,279 --> 00:33:50,400
Speaker 2: What are you doing at home?

546
00:33:51,079 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 4: I don't care to go?

547
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 2: What do you say?

548
00:33:55,039 --> 00:33:58,039
Speaker 4: Well? Why should I go? I'm not the one who's sick.

549
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 2: Mister Baylor is giving us another chat.

550
00:34:00,119 --> 00:34:04,519
Speaker 4: Oh, mister Baylor, what an unfortunate man. He should spend

551
00:34:04,519 --> 00:34:08,079
more time with growing things. Bring him home with you tonight.

552
00:34:08,159 --> 00:34:10,280
Speaker 2: I'm on my way right now, this minute. Now, don't

553
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:11,039
you go anywhere?

554
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:21,239
Speaker 4: Why, Walter, where would I go? Drink this walde? You'll

555
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:24,000
feel better, Darling. I spoke to doctor Morriks.

556
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 5: There is something wrong with you. Now, Why don't you

557
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:26,880
help yourself?

558
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 4: Here's nothing wrong? How can you say this? I feel alive, Walter,

559
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:35,239
all of me, every part of me, come to the

560
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:40,400
garden with new order. You live, you love like a god.

561
00:34:40,679 --> 00:34:42,519
Something's come over. You don't ask me what, but a

562
00:34:42,559 --> 00:34:47,880
week ago something happened, Yes, something happened. You changed. Well,

563
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,840
I can hardly believe you're Gretchen my wife. I'm Gretchen.

564
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:55,320
You had sense, you had a knowledge of life. Well,

565
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:57,880
you and I we worked together toward the goal. Yes, dear,

566
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:04,159
but I found a better You did what love? Love?

567
00:35:05,159 --> 00:35:09,679
That was the secret, the secret of the ancient god. Gretchen.

568
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:11,840
I'm going to drag you to the doctor. Oh if

569
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:15,119
you must fight, fight like a man with your hands.

570
00:35:15,679 --> 00:35:16,639
I despise you.

571
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:17,599
Speaker 2: What has happened?

572
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:20,599
Speaker 4: You can't just suddenly tear down our life. What's wrong

573
00:35:20,679 --> 00:35:23,000
with what I'm doing? Why shouldn't I work for the

574
00:35:23,039 --> 00:35:25,760
Baylor corporation because it's a house for a slave.

575
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:26,599
Speaker 3: Well, it's my job.

576
00:35:26,679 --> 00:35:27,280
Speaker 4: We agreed.

577
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:30,159
Speaker 3: You never objected that it brought us this house in the.

578
00:35:30,199 --> 00:35:35,280
Speaker 4: Car and turned us into fawning, simpering, terrified slave. Okay, okay.

579
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,039
Everybody in the world is a slave to something. That's

580
00:35:38,039 --> 00:35:38,679
what life is.

581
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:40,079
Speaker 2: You give together.

582
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:44,559
Speaker 4: Yes, everyone is a slave. But I have been freed.

583
00:35:44,599 --> 00:35:49,960
What do you mean, freed by whom? By my lover? What?

584
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:54,639
What lover? He's in the garden, Gretchen, Gretchen, you come

585
00:35:54,679 --> 00:35:58,159
back here? You want me? Fight for me, fight him

586
00:35:58,199 --> 00:36:05,800
for me? Oh lord, oh law, stay with me. Don't

587
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:08,920
let anyone keep us apart. Gretchen. Who you talking to?

588
00:36:09,199 --> 00:36:12,599
My lover? Don't you see him? Meres another cry? Someone else,

589
00:36:12,679 --> 00:36:15,840
someone else who gives me what I need? Who? He's

590
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:19,320
a guy with a high to choke it out? If

591
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:19,800
you either?

592
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:20,239
Speaker 3: God?

593
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 4: Who is the guy you're joking me? The car you

594
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:33,159
ordered ordered?

595
00:36:33,519 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 3: Oh?

596
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:37,480
Speaker 4: Oh please God, please.

597
00:36:38,639 --> 00:36:39,119
Speaker 2: Bury me.

598
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 4: In my God, please his star and no one will know.

599
00:36:54,599 --> 00:37:09,199
Please Hello Porter, Hello, Alder, just drop by to see

600
00:37:09,199 --> 00:37:12,719
if there was any news of Gretchen. No, Well, keep

601
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:14,320
your chin up, fella. Maybe she'll come back.

602
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:18,119
Speaker 5: Yes, I hope so did you two have a fight. Well,

603
00:37:18,159 --> 00:37:21,079
it was uh more of a misunderstanding.

604
00:37:21,199 --> 00:37:24,639
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm sorry. Have you notified anyone? Well, I reported

605
00:37:24,639 --> 00:37:27,920
it to the police. But uh oh and doctor Marx

606
00:37:28,679 --> 00:37:33,039
said that she must have wandered off funny funny other garden,

607
00:37:33,079 --> 00:37:38,519
that that beautiful garden just withered without her. Yeah, she

608
00:37:38,679 --> 00:37:41,000
was right. She said it was the fruit of love

609
00:37:41,599 --> 00:37:46,119
without her love it just yell ye. Well, I I

610
00:37:46,199 --> 00:37:48,400
just don't wanna take up too much more of your time.

611
00:37:48,519 --> 00:37:51,079
Oh it's all right. I wish I could figure out

612
00:37:51,119 --> 00:37:54,599
why those luxuriant plants grew so suddenly and just as

613
00:37:54,639 --> 00:37:55,719
suddenly they died.

614
00:37:55,960 --> 00:38:00,400
Speaker 5: Well, uh, you know what doctor Mark said, Uh, sudden

615
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:04,199
coming together of sun and rain, soil water. That's right,

616
00:38:04,679 --> 00:38:06,800
She's an inscrutable girl at mother nature.

617
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:09,400
Speaker 4: Yes, we'll never know. I guess not.

618
00:38:11,159 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 5: Well, Uh, this is a good chance for me to

619
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:14,559
say goodbye.

620
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:15,800
Speaker 4: I'm off on a trip.

621
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:19,400
Speaker 5: Oh yes, I uh made general sales manager.

622
00:38:19,519 --> 00:38:20,000
Speaker 2: Oh I know.

623
00:38:20,199 --> 00:38:26,039
Speaker 4: Yes, poor Gretchen came too late for her. How she

624
00:38:26,159 --> 00:38:31,119
wanted it, how she would have enjoyed it. Well, Uh,

625
00:38:31,679 --> 00:38:33,960
say goodbye to June for me. Huh, okay, Waller, I

626
00:38:34,039 --> 00:38:42,159
will water. I is it my imagination. What the garden?

627
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:48,840
What about it? M those plants that that wal it

628
00:38:49,079 --> 00:38:56,599
that color, that crimson color, that the scarlet color. Look well,

629
00:38:56,679 --> 00:39:04,239
that that looks that's it's blood. Blood. Oh you're crazy,

630
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:08,039
It is just collar. I what's your sluck? Blood on

631
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:16,440
all the weathered blossoms, fresh bright blood over the garden. Gretchen, Gretchen,

632
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:19,039
what do you mean, Gretchen? And I can't it can't

633
00:39:19,039 --> 00:39:21,159
be the blood. It can't be. Well, whoever said it

634
00:39:21,159 --> 00:39:23,760
can it can't be because because because there was no blood.

635
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:25,800
What do you mean? There was no blood.

636
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:26,079
Speaker 3: When I killed her?

637
00:39:26,079 --> 00:39:28,199
Speaker 4: There was no blood. She fell, she fell safe, and

638
00:39:28,639 --> 00:39:30,800
she stuck her head hard against the tree. But there

639
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:31,400
was no blood.

640
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:32,199
Speaker 2: Water.

641
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:35,679
Speaker 4: Do you know what you're saying? I can prove it.

642
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:37,320
Pick her up.

643
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:39,840
Speaker 3: You'll see there is no blood.

644
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:42,119
Speaker 4: No blood.

645
00:39:51,079 --> 00:39:55,280
Speaker 1: Well, there was some in the garden, in the beautiful

646
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:59,159
garden of Gretchen and Dionysius. And the garden is no

647
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:03,880
unusual rule garden where all flowers have something in them

648
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:06,079
of the one who plants them and.

649
00:40:06,159 --> 00:40:12,639
Speaker 4: Watches and waters and nurses and loves them. I'll be

650
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:13,360
back shortly.

651
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:28,880
Speaker 1: The struggle, the never ending struggle between Apollo and Dionysus.

652
00:40:29,159 --> 00:40:32,480
Between duty and pleasure, between what we want and what

653
00:40:32,519 --> 00:40:36,079
we must settle for, is fought inside.

654
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:36,440
Speaker 4: Each of us.

655
00:40:36,679 --> 00:40:43,920
Speaker 1: And sometimes it's Apollo who conquers, and sometimes Dionysus happy. However,

656
00:40:44,079 --> 00:40:47,920
is he or she where neither has conquered, but where

657
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:52,280
both spirits can live side by side in peace, then quiet?

658
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:56,960
But too much quiet gets boring after a bit, so

659
00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:03,679
make sure we disturb your tomorrow. Our cast included Mercedes

660
00:41:03,719 --> 00:41:07,760
mc cambridge, Larry Haynes, Robert Maxwell and gilmac The entire

661
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:14,079
production was under the direction of Hyman Brown and now

662
00:41:14,639 --> 00:41:16,679
a preview of our next tale.

663
00:41:17,119 --> 00:41:20,960
Speaker 4: I'll bug me, Louise. What are you doing trying to

664
00:41:21,039 --> 00:41:24,280
empty the bottle? Maybe I have a reason I might

665
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:30,480
catch up with you, Maya. You're shaking, Jim, What is it? Jim?

666
00:41:30,559 --> 00:41:36,239
What's the matter? I was followed? Somebody followed me all

667
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:39,199
the way home. I'd asked you not to walk the

668
00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:42,880
streets alone at night. Who was it? What did he

669
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:46,000
look like? I don't know who it was. All I

670
00:41:46,039 --> 00:41:49,559
could hear was the footsteps, just the shadow of a

671
00:41:49,599 --> 00:41:53,960
beat behind mine, as though he she, whoever it was,

672
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:57,920
was trying to fit their feet into my footprints. Every

673
00:41:58,039 --> 00:42:02,079
time I stopped, they stopped. And when I turned around

674
00:42:02,679 --> 00:42:06,199
there was nobody there. Nobody at all.

675
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:09,719
Speaker 1: Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Uncle Ben's

676
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:11,679
Long Grain and Wild Rice.

677
00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:14,079
Speaker 4: This is E. G. Marshall inviting you.

678
00:42:14,079 --> 00:42:17,719
Speaker 1: To return to our Mystery Theater for another adventure in

679
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:40,159
the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams.

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