The Outside Girl

CBS Radio Mystery Theater "The Outside Girl" is a Mystery from Friday, October 20, 1978.

Geraldine, the Dryers’ household maid, calls with the news that because of her mother’s illness she will have to send someone to take her place. Cassandra, who calls herself an “outside girl,” arrives and immediately opines that the subject for a portrait in the Dryer library looks “dead.” While working, she talks to it sympathetically and later it seemingly, talks back to Charles Dryer, who painted it. It’s a portrait of his late father, whom he disliked, and it says to Charles: “Help, please help me.”