The Crown Derby Plate by Marjorie Bowen

The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast

Tony Walker

Science Fiction, Fiction, Drama

4.9 • 835 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Everybody dies, don't they?
0:10.5	Everybody come back.
0:12.6	Isn't that same?
0:14.4	You tried to get into the locked drawer today, didn't you?
0:17.1	How do the dead come back, mother?
0:19.9	What's the secret?
0:21.2	The Crown Derby plate by Marjorie Bowen.
0:26.5	Martha Pim said that she had never seen a ghost
0:29.3	and that she would very much like to do so,
0:32.5	particularly at Christmas,
0:34.4	for you can laugh as you like.
0:35.8	That is the correct time to see a ghost.
0:39.3	I don't suppose you ever will, replied her cousin Mabel comfortably,
0:43.0	while her cousin Clara shuddered and said that she hoped they would change the subject,
0:47.8	or she disliked even to think of such things.
0:51.0	The three elderly, cheerful women sat around a big fire, cozy and content, after a day of pleasant activities.
0:59.3	Martha was the guest of the other two, who owned a handsome, convenient country house.
1:05.4	She always came to spend her Christmas with the winters and found the leisurely country life delightful after the
1:12.0	bustling round of London, for Martha managed an antique shop of the better sort, and worked
1:17.4	extremely hard. She was, however, still full of zest for work or pleasure, though sixty
1:23.3	years old, and looked backwards and forwards to a succession of delightful days.
1:29.7	The other two, Mabel and Clara, they'd quieter but nonetheless agreeable lives.
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