What happens
Lewis Dodd, a composer, is taken into the home of the Sanger family, where he lives with the sisters Kate, Paula and Tessa. Tessa is the youngest, and she is fond of Lewis, though she hides her feelings. When the Sanger children's mother's family arrives, Lewis meets Florence, and their attachment grows quickly. The broadcast is a Screen Guild Theater radio adaptation of the 1944 Warner Brothers love story The Constant Nymph, based on the novel and play by Margaret Kennedy and Basil Dean, first aired on March 20, 1944. Charles Boyer, Geraldine Fitzgerald and Maureen O'Sullivan star. The first part of the story sets up Lewis's connection to the household and the tensions that follow.
The Sanger family home and surrounding house in the mountains, later the family house in England.
Characters: Lewis Dodd, Florence, Tessa Sanger, Kate Sanger, Paula Sanger, Roberto, Sanger
Listen for: Lewis's changing feelings between Florence and Tessa, and the tension at the Sanger household.
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.