- [opening narration]
- Narrator: When Roland Stone escaped from the Abominable Snowman and returned home after seventeen long months in the high Himalayas, Penelope, his wife, felt at last she had grasped the elusive bluebird of happiness, until that mysterious phone call to Roland. As we look in now, Penny is pleading with Roland.
- [first lines]
- Pitiful Penelope: Don't go, Roland! Don't go! You just came.
- Roland Stone: I know, my darling. I just came to tell you that I must go.
- Pitiful Penelope: Oh, but Roland, I need you. The quintuplets need you.
- Roland Stone: Please, Penny baby! Your tears are taking the crease out of my cuffs. Oh, Penny, I must be off. You *know* I must be off.
- [last lines]
- Roland Stone: Thank you, thank you, friends. I deserve it, I know. But thank you anyway.
- [closing narration]
- Narrator: And when Roland Stone returned home to a tremendous hero's welcome, his courageous wife was indeed back in shape. Gone the lonely days, the pain, the doubts, the fears. Will Pitiful Penelope be able to remain in this aura of bliss? Or does the shadowy figure lurking in the slum doorway bode ill to her future happiness? One never knows, does one?