What happens
Emma and her younger sister Constance live in a bleak old house on a hill outside a small New England factory town, and Emma keeps tight control over Constance's life. Constance secretly begins a correspondence with Julian, a man in New York introduced through the housekeeper Dorothy, who is Julian's cousin. When Julian arrives to take Constance away, Emma tries to stop them, and the sisters' long resentments come to a head. The Whistler series aired this story on October 30, 1944, and the transcript presented here covers the opening part of the episode.
A run-down old house on a windswept hill outside a small New England factory town, around 1905 and later.
Characters: Emma, Constance, Dorothy, Julian, Mr. Willoughby
Listen for: Constance's secret letters from Julian and the confrontation between the sisters when Julian arrives.
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.