- [afterword]
- Alfred Hitchcock: [Hitchcock is sitting back in his office chair] This concludes our entertainment. So until next time, when we shall bring you another story,
- [gets up, takes his bowler hat and umbrella that are hanging on a coat rack, and walks to the open window]
- Alfred Hitchcock: goodbye.
- [bows, tosses both bowler hat and umbrella out the window, and walks off]
- [introduction]
- Alfred Hitchcock: [Hitchcock is standing in a high-rise office looking out the window at the streets below; there is a mass of ticker tape on the desk behind him; he turns to address the audience] Oh hello, fellow speculators. I've just made a killing in the stock market, nothing to it. I simply told my partner we've been wiped out. He's a very excitable fellow.
- [looks out window and makes a sympathetic sound]
- Alfred Hitchcock: Actually, I was joking. We haven't been wiped out. Actually, we made a tidy profit.
- [looks out window again]
- Alfred Hitchcock: I wish he hadn't done it. We have a very sensitive elevator man. He doesn't like it when he brings people up, and then they don't ride down again. It confuses him.
- [walks forward and leans in]
- Alfred Hitchcock: As for our story, it is called, "The Mail Order Prophet", and it too is set in the background of stocks and bonds.