The Morrison Affair

Originally Aired: September 2, 1948 Suspense #305, "The Morrison Affair," stars Madeline Carroll as Sheila Morrison, a desperate Englishwoman seeking the help of Boston attorney Mr. Ballou. She needs advice about divorcing her husband, Dr. Paul Morrison, a prominent surgeon from a distinguished family, but she's terrified to reveal her identity. As she reluctantly tells her story, she explains how she met and married Paul in London in 1939, where they were happy until the war changed him hideously. Unable to have children of her own, Sheila begged Paul to adopt an orphan, but he refused, citing concerns about heredity and insisting any son must truly belong to both of them or not at all. After Paul returned to America with the Army Medical Corps, Sheila remained in London, consumed by loneliness and her desperate desire for a child. On a fateful train journey to the countryside, she encountered a struggling war widow traveling with three children, including an infant named Jamie whose father had just been killed. As Sheila held the baby and the overwhelmed mother spoke wistfully about wishing someone well-off could give him a better life, a dangerous opportunity presented itself that would lead to the desperate circumstances now forcing Sheila to seek legal help.