What happens
Mr. Jennings, a widower, returns to his former rooming house with a newly married wife, Mabel's replacement, and insists on refurnishing the upstairs floor exactly as it was when his first wife lived there. Mrs. Hawkins, the landlady, agrees to rent it to him and grows uneasy about his secretive habits and the unseen new bride who never comes downstairs. Her neighbor Mrs. McIntyre gossips over tea about the strange arrangements. The episode is part of Suspense, broadcast on September 13, 1945, and is presented by Roma Wines, with Mildred Natwick as Mrs. Hawkins and Don DeFore as Mr. Jennings.
A rooming house in a city neighborhood, the upstairs furnished floor and the downstairs rooms of the landlady.
Characters: Mr. Jennings, Mrs. Hawkins, Mrs. McIntyre, Mabel
Listen for: Mrs. Hawkins's growing suspicion of Mr. Jennings and the unseen new wife upstairs.
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.