WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:05.759 Set up with the everyday grind, died out from the 2 00:00:05.799 --> 00:00:09.359 summer heat, I want to get away from it, Dawn. 3 00:00:09.919 --> 00:00:10.839 We offer you. 4 00:00:13.279 --> 00:00:20.600 Escape, escape designed to free you from the four walls 5 00:00:20.600 --> 00:00:23.399 of today, for a half hour of high adventure. 6 00:00:26.239 --> 00:00:29.280 You are groping through the midnight dimness of a gigantic 7 00:00:29.320 --> 00:00:33.640 department store, and suddenly you realize that a hundred eyes 8 00:00:33.679 --> 00:00:36.640 are staring at you from the shadows, and a hundred 9 00:00:36.679 --> 00:00:40.280 hands are reaching for your throat, and your most urgent 10 00:00:40.439 --> 00:00:42.840 desire is to escape. 11 00:00:50.119 --> 00:00:53.679 Tonight we escape to a fantastic world of night dwellers, 12 00:00:54.039 --> 00:01:00.000 as John Collier imagines it in his Eerie story Evening Primrose. 13 00:01:25.480 --> 00:01:28.079 SAIDA what's a moody? 14 00:01:28.120 --> 00:01:28.359 It's me? 15 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:31.560 You last gave me to death? 16 00:01:32.239 --> 00:01:32.719 What do you mean? 17 00:01:32.719 --> 00:01:36.200 Coming in so quiet? I thought you be asleep. I 18 00:01:36.239 --> 00:01:36.959 don't want to wake you. 19 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:37.719 Sam. 20 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:38.879 I'm so glad you're home. 21 00:01:39.519 --> 00:01:40.159 What's a many? 22 00:01:40.519 --> 00:01:41.200 What's terrible? 23 00:01:41.319 --> 00:01:42.560 You gotta do something, Sam? 24 00:01:42.879 --> 00:01:43.599 What's terrible? 25 00:01:43.719 --> 00:01:45.239 It is? Just look at this? 26 00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:49.159 What's terrible about that? Looks like an ordinary pair of paper? 27 00:01:49.159 --> 00:01:50.120 To me, that's just it. 28 00:01:50.280 --> 00:01:53.159 That's just what I thought. But it's got writing in it. 29 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:54.519 Oh, it's awful. 30 00:01:54.640 --> 00:01:56.319 And now wait a minute, Maybe you better tell me 31 00:01:56.359 --> 00:01:57.319 what this is all about. 32 00:01:57.959 --> 00:02:01.319 Well, today I went chopping at races the Yeah, I 33 00:02:01.359 --> 00:02:03.319 needed some writing papers, so I picked this up. It 34 00:02:03.359 --> 00:02:05.120 was on top of the pile, so I bought it, 35 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:08.280 and I brought it home tonight. When I opened it, 36 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:09.599 I thought. 37 00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:13.199 Well, that's not so terrible. Just take it back tomorrow 38 00:02:13.240 --> 00:02:14.159 and make him give you a knowing. 39 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:17.360 You don't understand. It's what's written in it that's so terrible. 40 00:02:17.560 --> 00:02:21.599 What do you mean what's written in it? All right now? 41 00:02:21.639 --> 00:02:22.520 And I'll read it. 42 00:02:22.560 --> 00:02:25.039 Look Sadie, I'm tired. I've been bawling all of the night. 43 00:02:25.159 --> 00:02:31.400 Sam, Please just read it, but for Pete's Sam. 44 00:02:29.639 --> 00:02:30.199 All right. 45 00:02:32.199 --> 00:02:37.639 October nineteenth. Today I made my decision. I decided to 46 00:02:37.639 --> 00:02:42.800 say goodbye to the world, to get out, leave, break away. 47 00:02:43.560 --> 00:02:50.560 And I have done it, Sadie, And now I am free, 48 00:02:51.159 --> 00:02:53.879 really free. Yes I am free. 49 00:02:53.680 --> 00:03:04.840 At least, Yes I am free at last. The world 50 00:03:04.919 --> 00:03:09.520 is an intolerable place for a poet. I was broke, starving, 51 00:03:09.560 --> 00:03:12.080 at my wits end, and then I had the brilliant 52 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:15.000 idea I'd escaped to a place where I'd had no 53 00:03:15.080 --> 00:03:17.520 need to earn a living, where I could write to 54 00:03:17.599 --> 00:03:21.479 my heart's content in peace and security. And where is 55 00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:25.240 this place right under your nose, so close you'd never 56 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:29.960 think of it. I am now living in Bracy's department store. 57 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:33.680 I have everything within arm's reach that anyone would need 58 00:03:33.719 --> 00:03:40.560 a desire, and it's all free, absolutely free. I arrived 59 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:43.639 this afternoon. I'd spent three days looking over all the 60 00:03:43.719 --> 00:03:47.360 department stores in town. I decided on Bracey's because of 61 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:51.759 the completeness of their food department. Therefore, this afternoon I 62 00:03:51.879 --> 00:03:54.680 entered the store and went immediately to the fourth floor, 63 00:03:54.719 --> 00:03:58.039 to the rug department, and hid myself in this dusty 64 00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:00.560 out of the way corner behind the pile of carpets. 65 00:04:01.520 --> 00:04:04.319 Once I'm settled, i'll furnish it with the best of 66 00:04:04.439 --> 00:04:09.039 modern pieces from the furniture department. It's small, but it'll 67 00:04:09.039 --> 00:04:14.039 be cozy enough and safe. After the store closed, I 68 00:04:14.159 --> 00:04:17.240 made my first venture out. I tiptoed as far as 69 00:04:17.279 --> 00:04:22.480 the stationary counter and got this paper, the writer's primary need. Now, 70 00:04:22.519 --> 00:04:25.240 after making my first entry, I'll go out and get food, 71 00:04:25.879 --> 00:04:29.920 the wine, and the pillars from my bed, perhaps even 72 00:04:29.959 --> 00:04:31.439 a fancy dressing gown. 73 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:36.800 This is perfect. Here I'll be able to write. 74 00:04:41.000 --> 00:04:46.079 Dawn October fourteenth. I am almost too unnerved to write this. 75 00:04:47.199 --> 00:04:51.000 The whole thing is unbelievable. After the store was dark 76 00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:53.279 and completely quiet, I crept out and started for the 77 00:04:53.279 --> 00:04:57.160 food department. One steps echo hollowly in an empty department 78 00:04:57.240 --> 00:04:59.920 store at night, and I found myself gliding along the 79 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:04.560 floor on tiptoe, moving as silently as possible. But the 80 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:08.959 sound of footsteps persisted, and suddenly I realized that they 81 00:05:08.959 --> 00:05:13.480 were not my own, the night watchman. I was in 82 00:05:13.560 --> 00:05:16.319 the salon modern so quickly I seized a mink coat 83 00:05:16.319 --> 00:05:17.639 from a hanger and drinked it about my. 84 00:05:17.560 --> 00:05:19.480 Shoulders and stood stock still. 85 00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:29.000 I could have reached out and touched him, but he 86 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:30.160 passed without so much. 87 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:30.600 As a glance. 88 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:36.000 I started to smile, but the smile froze on my lips. 89 00:05:37.920 --> 00:05:42.199 There was someone else here. I was looking straight into 90 00:05:42.199 --> 00:05:46.240 a pair of eyes, large, flat, luminous in human eyes 91 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:49.240 a dozen feet away. They belonged to a creature dressed 92 00:05:49.240 --> 00:05:51.399 as a man, but he was as pale as something 93 00:05:51.399 --> 00:05:54.800 found under a stone. His hands, hanging motionless at his sides, 94 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:57.439 looked more like the fins on a fish than human hands. 95 00:05:58.120 --> 00:06:04.079 And then he not bad for a beginner, I'm sorry. 96 00:06:04.120 --> 00:06:07.120 I didn't know anybody else lived here. 97 00:06:07.240 --> 00:06:11.680 Oh, yes, we live here. It's delightful. We yes, all 98 00:06:11.720 --> 00:06:14.279 of us, don't you see? Look around you? 99 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:19.480 I looked around and saw nothing. I looked again and 100 00:06:19.879 --> 00:06:22.480 saw an old one come clamoring out from behind a clock. 101 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:27.519 And there were three elderly angeneus, incredibly emaciated, pale as 102 00:06:27.600 --> 00:06:32.720 lace almost transparent, simmering before a perfume counter and a 103 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:35.040 chenzy lady swam out from the curtains and the drapes. 104 00:06:35.480 --> 00:06:39.279 Then they came swarming thick around me, pale, thin, wispy, 105 00:06:39.480 --> 00:06:48.600 moving silently, fluttering like gauze in the wind, whispery important 106 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:53.240 the darkning. They were pressing around me, clawing, holding me, 107 00:06:53.360 --> 00:06:57.160 their pale faces contorted with venomous and human hatred. I 108 00:06:57.240 --> 00:06:59.600 was paralyzed. All I could do was repeat over and 109 00:06:59.639 --> 00:07:00.240 over again. 110 00:07:00.879 --> 00:07:04.319 I am not a detective. I'm not a detective. 111 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:05.199 I'm not. 112 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:13.560 The sickly stop let him speak. 113 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:22.680 I am not a detective or a burglar. I'm a poet. 114 00:07:23.079 --> 00:07:27.160 What are you doing here? I've renounced the world. 115 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:29.800 I came here to live where I could be alone, 116 00:07:30.439 --> 00:07:31.360 away from the world. 117 00:07:31.560 --> 00:07:32.959 Why didn't you come over? To the world. 118 00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:39.480 She's coming now. 119 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:42.639 I followed their eyes toward the balcony, and the hair 120 00:07:42.639 --> 00:07:46.199 on my neck rose again. They're coming down the wall 121 00:07:46.639 --> 00:07:51.040 like an ancient spider. Clambered an old lady, wrinkled and 122 00:07:51.120 --> 00:07:54.279 crackled and emaciated. She must have been at least eighty, 123 00:07:55.000 --> 00:07:59.720 a shadowy matriarch, and the things around me bowed and scraped. 124 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:02.600 As she reached the floor and floated tortoisesh. 125 00:08:02.040 --> 00:08:06.480 What's going on here? Where is that stupid girl? What's 126 00:08:06.600 --> 00:08:07.120 keeping her? 127 00:08:07.240 --> 00:08:07.399 Oh? 128 00:08:07.480 --> 00:08:09.839 Missus vanderpan what is it? 129 00:08:10.439 --> 00:08:10.959 Who's this? 130 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:16.720 Mister Roscoe, Missus Vanderpant, May I present mister mister Snell, 131 00:08:17.199 --> 00:08:21.240 Charles Snell. Yes, mister Snell, he's a poet. He has 132 00:08:21.279 --> 00:08:25.000 come here to live. Oh he has he That's what 133 00:08:25.040 --> 00:08:27.079 he says, and I believe him. 134 00:08:27.360 --> 00:08:27.720 Well. 135 00:08:28.120 --> 00:08:31.639 He avoided the night watchman quite neatly for a beginner. 136 00:08:32.320 --> 00:08:34.399 Thank you very well. 137 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:40.879 We shall see. A poet should find inspiration here. 138 00:08:40.919 --> 00:08:44.639 Mister Snell. Missus Vanderpant is our grand old lady. 139 00:08:44.919 --> 00:08:49.039 Oh I am quite the oldest inhabitant here, mister Snell. 140 00:08:49.879 --> 00:08:54.720 Three mergers in a complete rebuilding, but they didn't get 141 00:08:54.840 --> 00:08:57.879 rid of me. Oh, where is Ella? 142 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:00.799 Where is my bras see? He was bringing in missus 143 00:09:00.879 --> 00:09:02.200 vonderpant it will come. 144 00:09:02.279 --> 00:09:08.639 Terrible little creature. She's our founding, mister Snall, she's not 145 00:09:08.879 --> 00:09:10.279 quite our sort. 146 00:09:10.639 --> 00:09:11.960 Oh is that so? 147 00:09:12.759 --> 00:09:16.559 I have been here, mister Snell, ever since the terrible 148 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:20.600 times of the eighties. I was a young girl, then 149 00:09:21.120 --> 00:09:24.879 a beauty, they said, I'm sure, and poor Papa lost 150 00:09:24.919 --> 00:09:28.639 his money. Racy's meant a lot to a young girl 151 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:32.440 in those days. So when I wasn't able to have 152 00:09:32.519 --> 00:09:34.840 a charge account. 153 00:09:34.360 --> 00:09:39.279 I came here to live. That's better than a charge account. 154 00:09:39.879 --> 00:09:42.759 I was quite alarmed when others began to come after 155 00:09:42.840 --> 00:09:46.600 the crash of nineteen hundred and seven. But it was 156 00:09:46.679 --> 00:09:53.360 the dear judge, the colonel, missus, how are you, missus? 157 00:09:53.360 --> 00:09:59.879 Bilbay right plays and it comes of an old Philadelphia family. 158 00:10:00.879 --> 00:10:05.919 You'll find us quite nice here, I'm sure I will. 159 00:10:06.159 --> 00:10:10.080 And of course our dear young people came in nineteen 160 00:10:10.200 --> 00:10:16.039 twenty nine. Their poor paupers jumped from skyscrapers. They couldn't 161 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:18.600 bear to be without charge accounts either. 162 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:23.159 But you mean all these nice people live here ooh, 163 00:10:23.200 --> 00:10:25.960 and many more. You shall meet them all later. 164 00:10:26.159 --> 00:10:30.879 Oh, here comes Ella with my bras come hear you, stupid. 165 00:10:30.440 --> 00:10:33.200 Thing, Missus vander Patters waiting, Ella, Yes. 166 00:10:33.639 --> 00:10:36.960 Yes, sir, I'm coming as fast as I can here 167 00:10:37.159 --> 00:10:41.080 on the table over there. Now, be careful, don't spill it. 168 00:10:41.559 --> 00:10:45.360 But she's young, well, of course, she is a little 169 00:10:45.480 --> 00:10:46.759 younger than most of us. 170 00:10:46.919 --> 00:10:49.799 She's different, she's beautiful. 171 00:10:49.960 --> 00:10:52.559 That's right, old fellow. She's really not our sort. 172 00:10:52.720 --> 00:10:54.200 Or you shouldn't say such things. 173 00:10:54.200 --> 00:10:54.759 She can hear you. 174 00:10:54.960 --> 00:10:57.039 Oh that doesn't matter, Missus Bilby. 175 00:10:57.159 --> 00:11:02.039 Please, mister Snow will understand these things better after you've 176 00:11:02.080 --> 00:11:04.879 been here for a while. But it seems to me. 177 00:11:04.919 --> 00:11:10.000 Miss Snail, we have certain rules here. They are necessary 178 00:11:10.080 --> 00:11:14.080 for our survival. I'm sure you won't find it hard 179 00:11:14.159 --> 00:11:15.159 to observe them. 180 00:11:15.240 --> 00:11:16.759 Well, yes, but I should. 181 00:11:16.440 --> 00:11:19.799 Advise you that you try. If you do not, it 182 00:11:19.840 --> 00:11:27.120 would be most unfortunate, mister Snail, most unfortunate for you. 183 00:11:34.759 --> 00:11:39.519 October fifteenth. You can imagine my feelings last night. My 184 00:11:39.639 --> 00:11:42.919 first thought was to escape as quickly as possible. In fact, 185 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:45.039 I planned to quit my hiding place and mingle with 186 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:49.200 the crowds and leave Braceeds forever. But just at dawn, 187 00:11:49.240 --> 00:11:52.000 mister Roscoe brought me a cup of coffee, which must 188 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:55.320 have been drugged for I fell asleep, and when I awoke, 189 00:11:55.440 --> 00:11:58.799 I found that I'd slept all day, and night was 190 00:11:58.840 --> 00:11:59.879 closing over the store. 191 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:00.480 Once more. 192 00:12:04.600 --> 00:12:10.399 Later, I have spent my second night here. I saw 193 00:12:11.240 --> 00:12:18.360 Ella again, Ella, the pearl of this remote, fantastic cave. 194 00:12:19.320 --> 00:12:23.240 She's not like the others, a trifle pale, but otherwise 195 00:12:23.279 --> 00:12:24.240 normal and human and. 196 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:32.559 Beautiful. A child of perhaps eighteen, she is. 197 00:12:32.480 --> 00:12:41.840 The only thing that makes this nightmare bearable. October twentieth 198 00:12:42.720 --> 00:12:46.559 Escape seems almost impossible. There is a very effective burglar 199 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:51.039 alarm system, and the doors are all carefully guarded, but 200 00:12:51.360 --> 00:12:53.240 that is nothing compared to the dark men. 201 00:12:54.799 --> 00:12:55.879 Who are the dark men? 202 00:12:56.840 --> 00:12:59.919 I don't know, but the inhabitants here threaten any transgressor. 203 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:03.600 With these dark men, I shall try to discover who 204 00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:06.960 they are. I am sure I'm watched, though they've begun 205 00:13:07.000 --> 00:13:07.480 to trust me. 206 00:13:07.559 --> 00:13:07.799 Now. 207 00:13:08.480 --> 00:13:11.519 Speaking to the night watchman would be suicide, even if 208 00:13:11.559 --> 00:13:14.840 he believed my fantastic story or didn't shoot me as 209 00:13:14.879 --> 00:13:18.480 a burglar. I'm convinced that neither eleanor I could get 210 00:13:18.480 --> 00:13:21.679 out of here alive. She and the night watchmen are 211 00:13:21.679 --> 00:13:25.039 the only real people here. And how the others hate 212 00:13:25.039 --> 00:13:26.159 the night watchman. 213 00:13:26.399 --> 00:13:30.240 Odious vulgar creature. He reeks of the coarse sun. 214 00:13:30.399 --> 00:13:31.720 Oh, come now, missus Bilby. 215 00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:35.320 He's really a very personable young man, very young for 216 00:13:35.399 --> 00:13:36.120 a night watchman. 217 00:13:36.159 --> 00:13:39.159 Mister Snow, Sometimes I wonder about your taste. 218 00:13:39.399 --> 00:13:41.919 You must not stay so much to yourself. You must 219 00:13:41.960 --> 00:13:43.799 become dead acquainted with our ways. 220 00:13:44.159 --> 00:13:47.279 That's quite true, old man. Oh, you must come to 221 00:13:47.320 --> 00:13:49.879 the plate tonight. We're going to be entertained with one 222 00:13:49.919 --> 00:13:54.360 of Missus Bilby's tragic comedies, Love in Shadowland. I'm sure 223 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:55.240 you will enjoy it. 224 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:56.799 I'm sure I will. 225 00:13:57.000 --> 00:13:58.679 It's really a festive occasion. 226 00:13:58.720 --> 00:13:58.919 You know. 227 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:02.000 One of is coming over Wannamakers. 228 00:14:02.120 --> 00:14:04.919 Yes, the entire colony over at Wannamakers is coming here 229 00:14:05.240 --> 00:14:06.639 en mass, to attend the play. 230 00:14:06.919 --> 00:14:09.440 You mean there are people living in other. 231 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:13.320 Stores, Oh dear, yes, didn't you know? Of course, the 232 00:14:13.360 --> 00:14:15.600 best people live in Braces and Wanna Makers. 233 00:14:15.639 --> 00:14:17.919 Come now, missus Bilby, there are some very nice people 234 00:14:17.919 --> 00:14:18.480 at Altman's. 235 00:14:19.440 --> 00:14:24.200 Miss Bilby, Hello, Ella, good evening, mister Snall. 236 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:26.279 Well what is it ella. 237 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:29.960 Please, ma'am. I i'd so love to see your play tonight. 238 00:14:30.600 --> 00:14:32.600 May I have your permission, certainly not. 239 00:14:33.399 --> 00:14:35.759 You know better than that, your stupid creature. You know 240 00:14:35.840 --> 00:14:38.600 where you belong, in the basement by the garbage can. 241 00:14:38.639 --> 00:14:42.519 But Missus Bilby, mister sna Ella, you're becoming entirely too 242 00:14:42.600 --> 00:14:45.360 forward of late. I advise you to watch your step. 243 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:47.399 Remember the dark men. 244 00:14:47.720 --> 00:14:51.399 Oh no, please, mister Roscoe. I'll be good, I promise 245 00:14:51.440 --> 00:14:51.799 I will. 246 00:14:52.039 --> 00:14:53.399 Oh no, please, don't send. 247 00:14:53.240 --> 00:14:53.919 For the dark man. 248 00:14:54.279 --> 00:14:56.440 I'm sorry, Missus Bilby. 249 00:14:55.759 --> 00:15:01.559 Ella, I'll come back. Charles. You forget yourself, let her go. 250 00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:04.879 But how can you treat her like that? Why are 251 00:15:04.919 --> 00:15:08.039 you always frighten her? And what is all this about 252 00:15:08.080 --> 00:15:10.679 the dark men? Wailed mister Snellight. 253 00:15:10.639 --> 00:15:15.279 Please, mister Rascal, not now, you'll spoil our whole evening. 254 00:15:15.559 --> 00:15:17.919 And I do so want mister Snell to enjoy. 255 00:15:17.679 --> 00:15:21.879 My play very well, Missus Bilby. Later, Charles, but I 256 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:23.519 want to know about the dark men. 257 00:15:23.759 --> 00:15:34.159 Later, later October. 258 00:15:29.919 --> 00:15:34.720 Twenty first, I found an opportunity to speak to Ella alone. 259 00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:39.120 I had not dared to speak to her before. Here 260 00:15:39.159 --> 00:15:42.480 one has the sense always of pale eyes secretly watching. 261 00:15:42.879 --> 00:15:44.799 But last night at the play, I induced a fit 262 00:15:44.840 --> 00:15:48.279 of hiccups as I anticipated I was sternly reprimanded and 263 00:15:48.360 --> 00:15:50.559 told to go and secret myself in the basement where 264 00:15:50.600 --> 00:15:53.840 the night watchman wouldn't hear me. This was exactly what 265 00:15:53.919 --> 00:15:58.080 I'd planned. I went to the basement, and there, in 266 00:15:58.120 --> 00:16:02.679 the darkness, among the garbage cans and the rats, I 267 00:16:02.720 --> 00:16:04.639 heard sobbing. 268 00:16:05.159 --> 00:16:09.840 Ella, Ella, Oh, Ella, is that you? 269 00:16:10.639 --> 00:16:11.039 Yes? 270 00:16:11.639 --> 00:16:13.960 Why are you crying? What is it? Ella? 271 00:16:14.679 --> 00:16:18.120 They wouldn't even let me see the plane. 272 00:16:18.399 --> 00:16:19.840 Oh is that all? 273 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:23.240 Oh, mister Snellert, I'm so unhappy? 274 00:16:23.600 --> 00:16:24.320 Are there they? 275 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:25.840 You mustn't cry. 276 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:30.080 You're the only one, the only one who is kind. 277 00:16:31.320 --> 00:16:33.440 Ella. Why are you here? 278 00:16:34.559 --> 00:16:36.080 Why did they treat you so differently? 279 00:16:36.600 --> 00:16:40.080 Because I'm not like them? I didn't choose to come here. 280 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:42.480 You mean you are hell prisoner? 281 00:16:42.840 --> 00:16:47.120 Yes, you see, I was only six. I came here 282 00:16:47.159 --> 00:16:50.519 on a shopping tour with my mother. I got lost 283 00:16:50.600 --> 00:16:54.000 and fell asleep behind the counter. It was dark when 284 00:16:54.039 --> 00:16:57.519 I awoke, and they found me. Some of them wanted 285 00:16:57.559 --> 00:16:59.320 to send for the dark men because they were afraid 286 00:16:59.360 --> 00:17:02.559 I would tell on em, But missus Vonderpant said now 287 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:07.559 I could stay and be her maid. I've been here ever. 288 00:17:07.400 --> 00:17:11.000 Since since you were six. But haven't you ever tried 289 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:11.599 to get away. 290 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:16.000 Oh no, I don't know anything about out there. I 291 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:20.119 wouldn't know what to do. Besides her, I'm afraid to 292 00:17:20.160 --> 00:17:23.960 take the chance. If anyone tries to get out, they 293 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:25.079 send for the dark men. 294 00:17:26.160 --> 00:17:28.599 Ella, who are the dark men? 295 00:17:28.880 --> 00:17:33.400 Don't you know? Oh, it's horrible. Tell me you know 296 00:17:33.480 --> 00:17:37.039 how people live in all the stores at Gimbals and Bloomingdales. 297 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:38.039 Yes, yes, I know. 298 00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:43.160 Will the dark men live at the Undertakers Good Heavens. 299 00:17:43.680 --> 00:17:47.359 And whenever someone dies or breaks the rules, or when 300 00:17:47.400 --> 00:17:50.079 a burglar gets in and sees these people and might tell, 301 00:17:51.039 --> 00:17:53.359 they send for the dark men. 302 00:17:53.359 --> 00:17:54.119 That's horrible. 303 00:17:54.440 --> 00:17:56.440 They put the body in the butcher's shop and the 304 00:17:56.440 --> 00:18:01.160 food department, and then the dark men come. I saw 305 00:18:01.200 --> 00:18:01.680 them once. 306 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:04.640 It was terrible. What do they do? 307 00:18:05.400 --> 00:18:08.559 They go in where the dead person is. They have 308 00:18:08.640 --> 00:18:12.640 wax with them and all sorts of things, And when 309 00:18:12.680 --> 00:18:16.640 they're gone, there's just a wax model left on the counter. 310 00:18:18.599 --> 00:18:20.599 Then our people put a frock on it or a 311 00:18:20.640 --> 00:18:22.400 bathing suit and mix it up with all the other 312 00:18:22.440 --> 00:18:26.319 wax models in the windows. And nobody ever knows. 313 00:18:27.079 --> 00:18:29.839 Ellie, you mean all these dummies. 314 00:18:29.440 --> 00:18:34.039 Hut, No, at least not all of them. But if 315 00:18:34.079 --> 00:18:37.599 you displease these people, the same thing might happen to you. 316 00:18:43.319 --> 00:18:47.839 October thirtieth, I've not kept up my journal. Writing has 317 00:18:47.880 --> 00:18:51.519 been out of the question once more. I'm frozen with terror, 318 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:54.079 not for myself now, but for Ella. 319 00:18:54.839 --> 00:18:55.480 They hate her. 320 00:18:56.079 --> 00:18:58.359 Any time, they might turn against her and send her 321 00:18:58.720 --> 00:19:02.960 to the dark men. My mind is filled with her. 322 00:19:04.279 --> 00:19:08.039 I dream of her every day. I live to see 323 00:19:08.079 --> 00:19:12.839 her at night. We've managed it several times. They trust 324 00:19:12.839 --> 00:19:15.200 me now and let me roam about without interference. 325 00:19:16.039 --> 00:19:17.759 And finally tonight. 326 00:19:17.480 --> 00:19:27.960 I met her again and said it, Ella, I love you. 327 00:19:29.359 --> 00:19:30.200 I love you. Ella. 328 00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:32.960 Let let's get married or whatever they do here, and 329 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:34.480 then we can live together in my home in. 330 00:19:34.480 --> 00:19:35.359 The carpet department. 331 00:19:35.559 --> 00:19:39.039 They wouldn't dare hurt you then, Oh, don't look so dismayed. 332 00:19:39.200 --> 00:19:41.200 If you like, we'll go away from here. Maybe we 333 00:19:41.240 --> 00:19:44.519 can get transferred to Bergdorf Goodman overlooking Central Park. 334 00:19:45.000 --> 00:19:45.480 Charles. 335 00:19:45.480 --> 00:19:51.960 Don't you but I love you, Ella? 336 00:19:52.519 --> 00:19:54.519 You're not in love with someone else? 337 00:19:55.400 --> 00:19:59.279 Charles, Yes, I am. 338 00:19:59.400 --> 00:20:00.200 But who? Yeah? 339 00:20:01.039 --> 00:20:05.839 I thought you hated them ally, Ah, it must be Roscoe. 340 00:20:05.839 --> 00:20:07.359 He's the only one that's young enough. 341 00:20:07.599 --> 00:20:11.440 Oh No, Charles, not Roscoe, especially not him. I do 342 00:20:11.640 --> 00:20:13.400 hate them more make me shudder. 343 00:20:13.559 --> 00:20:15.160 Well who is it? Then? 344 00:20:15.640 --> 00:20:18.640 Is he who the night watchman? 345 00:20:19.640 --> 00:20:21.480 No, it's impossible. 346 00:20:21.559 --> 00:20:24.720 Oh I love him. He smells of the sun. 347 00:20:24.880 --> 00:20:25.200 Ella. 348 00:20:25.880 --> 00:20:29.400 Oh it was wonderful the way it happened. Don't tell 349 00:20:29.400 --> 00:20:31.039 on me, Charles, or they're punishment. 350 00:20:31.160 --> 00:20:34.079 Oh no, No, I was careless. 351 00:20:34.160 --> 00:20:36.799 And there he was coming around the corner in the 352 00:20:36.880 --> 00:20:41.440 ladies lingerie department. I was caught. There were only some 353 00:20:41.559 --> 00:20:45.400 wax models in there under things. There was nothing else 354 00:20:45.440 --> 00:20:50.720 to do. I slipped off night dress and stood still. 355 00:20:52.079 --> 00:20:55.400 M m, I see he. 356 00:20:55.440 --> 00:21:00.079 Stopped near me. He looked at me. Oh, Charles. If 357 00:21:00.119 --> 00:21:03.960 he spoke to me, he said, say, honey, I wish 358 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:08.440 they made them like you on Eighth Avenue. Oh, Charles, 359 00:21:08.480 --> 00:21:10.119 wasn't that a lovely thing to say? 360 00:21:10.640 --> 00:21:13.839 Personally, I should have said Park Avenue. 361 00:21:14.119 --> 00:21:17.599 Charles, don't get like these people here. It doesn't matter 362 00:21:17.640 --> 00:21:21.920 what avenue, Charles. It was just a lovely thing to say. 363 00:21:22.200 --> 00:21:24.680 But what can you do about him? Allow? He belongs 364 00:21:24.720 --> 00:21:25.720 to another world. 365 00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:30.440 Yes, to Eighth Avenue, And I want to go there, Charles. 366 00:21:30.960 --> 00:21:32.119 Are you really my friend? 367 00:21:32.200 --> 00:21:32.359 Oh? 368 00:21:32.519 --> 00:21:33.880 Yes, yes, of course I am. 369 00:21:34.079 --> 00:21:36.680 Then I'll tell you I'm going to stand there again 370 00:21:36.720 --> 00:21:39.799 in a laundry department, so he'll see me, and then 371 00:21:40.319 --> 00:21:41.680 perhaps you'll speak to me again. 372 00:21:41.839 --> 00:21:44.079 Oh Ella, you're only torturing yourself. 373 00:21:44.400 --> 00:21:48.319 No, because this time I shall answer him and he'll 374 00:21:48.359 --> 00:21:48.759 take me. 375 00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:52.400 Away, take you away. Oh no, no, no, no, Ella. 376 00:21:52.480 --> 00:21:55.759 I couldn't bear that you don't love him. 377 00:21:56.160 --> 00:21:58.000 You only think you do because you think you'll take 378 00:21:58.000 --> 00:21:59.880 you out of here, But you don't know that he 379 00:22:00.039 --> 00:22:03.000 will and I will. Ella, I've made up my mind. 380 00:22:04.599 --> 00:22:08.319 I couldn't let you do it, even if I loved you. 381 00:22:08.319 --> 00:22:12.799 You couldn't do it, Charles. Why not because you really 382 00:22:12.839 --> 00:22:15.640 belong here. You've become one of. 383 00:22:15.599 --> 00:22:19.279 Them now, Ella, Ella, you mustn't say that it's true. 384 00:22:19.640 --> 00:22:24.720 And Charles, I've got to go with someone watching. 385 00:22:25.960 --> 00:22:31.680 Wait Hella, No Ella, come back, Ella, please, old fellow, 386 00:22:31.680 --> 00:22:37.319 you'll arouse the night watchman Rascal. Yes, love can be 387 00:22:37.599 --> 00:22:41.519 very upsetting, can't it. You heard just the last moment, 388 00:22:41.680 --> 00:22:43.400 or so very touching. 389 00:22:43.839 --> 00:22:47.279 I was rather surprised, And yet it's understandable. I've been 390 00:22:47.319 --> 00:22:52.200 attracted to Ella myself. We're still young, you know, and 391 00:22:52.359 --> 00:22:57.119 so she loves another too bad old fellow. Who could 392 00:22:57.160 --> 00:23:00.319 it be? Could it be that I am the cause 393 00:23:00.400 --> 00:23:03.720 of your heart break. You flatter yourself too much, Rascal. 394 00:23:03.880 --> 00:23:10.279 Then who the old judge? M certainly not the colonel, hardly, 395 00:23:10.400 --> 00:23:14.480 none of those, not one of the customers. She loves 396 00:23:14.519 --> 00:23:16.759 the night watchman. Can you imagine that she loves the 397 00:23:16.880 --> 00:23:20.480 night ooh. 398 00:23:21.160 --> 00:23:24.960 Er Roscoe. I shouldn't have said that. It's not true. 399 00:23:25.079 --> 00:23:26.440 At least I don't think it's true. 400 00:23:27.039 --> 00:23:29.599 You wouldn't you said you'll love her too. 401 00:23:30.119 --> 00:23:34.079