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Suggested Episode Title: "Peter Sends Lora Away"

Summary: The episode begins in Peter Carver's room at the Hopewell Hospital for the Criminally Insane.  Peter has just told Lora that he does not want to see her again and that she should get on with her life and find happiness without him.  Lora, heartbroken and thinking that Peter no longer loves her, departs.  Peter thinks to himself that he will probably stay there until he dies.

Then his doctor comes in and tells him that if he will submit to brain surgery his chances of being released and returning to a normal life are very good.  Peter refuses.  Will he change his mind before Lora returns to their penthouse in Washington, D.C. to live there alone?

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Suggested Title: "Ilsa Borg Appears"

Summary: In this episode  Peter, Lora and May Case are in London and a story line begins in which Peter will soon be kidnapped and held prisoner by former members of the French Resistance.  Peter and Lora have separated, and he tells beautiful Ilsa Borg that he doesn't foresee their ever getting back together.  Peter and Ilsa are posing as man and wife as he tries to help her against people who have already attempted to murder her.

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Suggested Title: "Ilsa Borg Appears"

Summary: In this episode  Peter, Lora and May Case are in London and a story line begins in which Peter will soon be kidnapped and held prisoner by former members of the French Resistance.  Peter and Lora have separated, and he tells beautiful Ilsa Borg that he doesn't foresee their ever getting back together.  Peter and Ilsa are posing as man and wife as he tries to help her against people who have already attempted to murder her.

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Suggested Episode Title: Ilsa Borg May Not Survive the Night

Summary:  It is evening in London, and the fog has rolled in off the Thames. A mysterious stranger accosts Peter, tells him Ilsa is near death and has been calling for him, and leads him to a building where he says she is inside. Meanwhile Lora and May Case are having tea and sandwiches in Lora's room at the Claridge Hotel in a London suburb.  Lora decides to go to Peter's hotel and ask him if he still loves her.

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Suggested Episode Title: "Peter Vanishes" 

Summary: In Washington, D.C a man from The United States Foreign Office comes to the home that Angus McDonald shares with his wife Gail (Peter's sister) and tells Angus that British Intelligence has reported Peter missing.  Then the scene shifts to "a large farmhouse in France" owned by Madame Pruniere.

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Suggested Episode Title: "Madame Pruniere"

Summary: This is one of the ten or so best episodes of a radio soap opera that I have ever heard.  Peter is being held prisoner in a farmhouse on the coast of France.  Madame Pruniere, who owns the home and is an American who has become a French citizen after working for the Resistance during the war, reminds Peter that today is Thanksgiving Day in America.  She is one of the most remarkable and interesting characters that I have run across in all the old-time radio programs I have heard.  The two of them have a pleasant and friendly discussion.  Peter is from Washington D.C., Madame Pruniere from Nevada.  She recalls a Thanksgiving meal of "turkey and turnips, minced pie, pumpkin pie and creamed onions."

Then the scene shifts to Lora's flat in suburban London.  The beautiful and tragic Ilsa Borg calls on Lora and tells her that Peter is all right and safe in France.  Lora can tell that Ilsa is in love with Peter, and thinks he is probably in love with Ilsa.

Note: This episode may be misdated.  Soap operas were almost always aired on the same day that the story line was taking place.  The examples overwhelm the exceptions.  In a soap like "A Woman of America", which was set among pioneers of the Old West, one would not expect a contemporary story line.  I do not know how to verify the actual broadcast date, but the program has a sponsor and offers to sell Christmas cards to listeners who send money, so I think it may very well have been broadcast on Thanksgiving Day.

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Suggested Episode Title: "Madame Pruniere Warns Peter Not To Try To Escape"

Summary:  Madame Pruniere and Peter stand at a seawall near her farm in France, looking across the fog-shrouded waters towards Dover.  She laments having grown old, and recalls how she made her home a refuge for people trying to escape from the Germans during World War II.  Meanwhile, in London Lora confides to May Case that she thinks Peter probably loves Ilsa Borg, who is both more beautiful and more passionate than Lora.

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Suggested Episode Title: "Solitaire"

Summary:  In London, Ilsa Borg is now considered responsible for Peter's kidnapping even though she loves him.  Joe Bonnie decides to bring Scotland Yard into the case.  Meanwhile, at Madame Pruniere's farmhouse on the coast of France Peter is reduced to playing solitaire while she looks over his shoulder and tries to help him win.

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Suggested Episode Title: "Ilsa Borg Has Returned to France"

Summary: Ilsa has left London and has seen Peter at Madame Pruniere's farmhouse in France.  In London, Lora ponders returning to Washington for Christmas.  In France, Peter asks Madame Pruniere to release him so that he can return to London.  She replies that she must keep him in protective custody until further notice.  Then she warns him not to be rude to Ilsa, whom she refers to as her granddaughter, ever again.

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Suggested Episode Title: "Madame Pruniere Wants To Arrange Marriage Between Peter and Ilsa Borg"

Summary: In London, Lora makes final preparations to return to the penthouse in Washington.  She decides for one last time "to return to the embankment and watch the sun going down on the river Thames."  At Madame Pruniere's farmhouse in France, Peter and Ilsa Borg talk in the courtyard.  She tells him that her "grand-mere" wants to arrange her marriage to Peter.  He replies that he is already married and loves his wife.

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Suggested Episode Title: "Blackmailers Have Contacted Lora About Peter's Whereabouts"

Summary: Back in Washington, Lora and May Case plan a Christmas Party.  Lora has been contacted by blackmailers and told that Peter is alive.  They have sent her one of his notebooks as proof.

Conclusion: In tomorrow's episode, "What might have been a very lonely Christmas Eve is saved by an unexpected visitor to the home of Lora Lawton."

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Suggested Episode Title: "Madame Pruniere Reunites Peter and Lora"

Summary: Madame has been responsible for Peter's escape from his kidnappers.  She and Peter have returned to Washington together, and they wait in the penthouse for Lora to appear for her reunion with Peter.

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Suggested Episode Title: "Can Bert Harris Be Trusted?"

Summary: At the hospital, brain surgeon Dr, Randy Ballancoutrt and Peter's personal physician Dr. Alec Mercer debate how to persuade Peter to consent to the operation that will restore his memory and lucidity.  Bert Harris is supervisor of the Carver Shipbuilding Company and is going to the hospital, ostensibly to convince Peter to have the surgery.  Meanwhile at the shipyard Stephen Grant, a naval architect, tells Lora that he thinks Harris is deliberately holding back production of a new ship model that could save the company.  Will Bert Harris and his wife Betsy abduct Peter from the hospital in order to "rescue" him?

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Suggested Episode Title: "Peter Escapes From Hospital"

Summary: Peter does not want to submit to the brain surgery that his doctors are urging him to have, fearing that it might kill him or leave him incapacitated for the rest of his life.  His friend and employee at the Carver Shipbuilding Company, Bert Harris, tells the doctors in no uncertain terms that he thinks Lora has railroaded Peter into "hospitals and an insane asylum."  Peter escapes and gets into Bessie's car, and they leave for the cabin in the woods that belongs to Bert and Bessie.

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Suggested Episode Title: Peter's Hospital Room Discovered Empty

Summary: Recriminations abound as everyone blames everyone else for Peter's disappearance from the hospital.  But the loudest voice of all is that of Bert Harris, who knows more that anyone else about how the escape occurred and where Peter is now. 

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Suggested Episode Title: "Carolyn Lamb Pays Lora a Visit"

Summary: Bert Harris arrives at the cottage and learns that Peter has been suffering from severe headaches and urgently needs medicine.  Back in Washington, Carolyn Lamb pays Lora a midnight visit and accuses her of "using a sick husband to win friends and influence people."  She thinks Lora is trying to steal her fiancee, Dr. Randy Ballancourt, and tells her that she will never succeed.  Carolyn smokes cigarettes, is a member of the sophisticated New York social set, and considers Lora to be nothing but a dull housewife.

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Suggested Episode Title: "May Plans a Visit To Bessie."

Concern grows as to Peter's whereabouts.  Lora, Peter's secretary May Case, architect Stephen Grant and Dr. Randy Ballancourt anxiously discuss the matter.  Only shipyard foreman Bert Harris knows that Peter is staying at Bert's "little fishing cabin in the woods."  May alarms Bert by telling him that she plans to visit Bessie there within the next few days and get some of her spice cookies.

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Suggested Episode Title: "Peter's Condition Worsens"

Summary: At the fishing cabin thirty miles from Washington D.C. where Peter is staying with Bert and Bessie Harris, Peter confides in Bessie that he thinks Lora is trying to take over the shipyard and that sometimes he hates her.  She persuades him to call Lora, but while the long distance call is being placed he forgets who he is calling and begins to experience a violent headache.  

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Suggested Episode Title: "Lora Discovers Peter's Location"

Summary: It is evening.  Lora, accompanied by architect Stephen Grant who has a revolver, drives to the fishing cabin ten miles from Mercury to find Peter and bring him home.  They are met on the road by a speeding car.  Bert Harris, having learned that his wife Bessie has given away Peter's whereabouts, has assaulted and possibly murdered her.