What happens
Thomas Edwin Bartlett, a grocer, marries a young schoolgirl named Adelaide, whose schooling he is keen to keep her from. When she struggles with algebra, Adelaide is given a tutor, George Dyson, and the two grow close over lessons in mathematics and chemistry. Crime Classics aired this story on June 22, 1953. The episode is narrated in a dramatic style and features Lou Merrill, Betty Harper and Terry Kilburn in the leading roles. The transcript here ends before the story reaches its conclusion.
Late nineteenth-century England, in and around Thomas Bartlett's grocery store and home, and at the school Adelaide attends.
Characters: Thomas Edwin Bartlett, Adelaide Bartlett, George Dyson, Mr. Becker
Listen for: Adelaide's shift from schoolgirl to wife, and the lessons George Dyson gives her in algebra, geometry and chemistry.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.