- Michael Anthony: [Anthony enters the library to discover Tipton seated in a high backed chair, wearing a smoking jacket with a cane in his lap. A book is in Tipton's lap.Only Tipton's hands are visible to the viewers] You sent for me, sir?
- John Beresford Tipton: Look at them, Mike.
- [Points his cane at a bookshelf]
- John Beresford Tipton: Shakespeare, Milton, Plato, Dostoevsky, the poets and philosophers whose wit and wisdom enrich our lives. If we would only listen to them. Why does man have to learn the hard way?
- Michael Anthony: I don't know, Mr. Tipton.
- John Beresford Tipton: It's wasteful! Wasteful, Mike.
- [Chuckles]
- John Beresford Tipton: That's what I've been accused of myself when I give away a million dollars.
- [Tipton hands an envelope to Anthony]
- John Beresford Tipton: Here's the man for it this time.
- Michael Anthony: [to the viewers] Hello. My name is Michael Anthony. For many years, I was Executive Secretary to John Beresford Tipton. From the time he started giving away $1,000,000 to unsuspecting people,
- [Opening a drawer and extracting several files]
- Michael Anthony: one of my duties was to keep case histories to report, for his vicarious pleasure, the delights, the wonders, and sometimes the heartbreaks his gifts brought. Here at Silverstone, John Beresford Tipton lived in seclusion. I knew Mr. Tipton in many moods. But the spring morning he called me into his library, I discovered a new one.
- Robert P. Chesley - Uncle Robby: [McMahon enters his office at the bank, carrying a glass of water, which he gives to Chesley, slumped in a chair] Thank you.
- [Sips the water along with some medication]
- Robert P. Chesley - Uncle Robby: I'll be alright now. It was a bit of a shock.
- Andrew V. McMahon: And I thought I'd led up to it so nicely, so it wouldn't be a shock.
- Robert P. Chesley - Uncle Robby: Oh, you did it wonderfully. It's not everyday a man learns he's a millionaire. I'd given up that dream at least fifty years ago.
- Andrew V. McMahon: Fifty years ago? Well, that's pretty young for a man to give up his dreams.
- Robert P. Chesley - Uncle Robby: I exchanged one dream for another.
- Andrew V. McMahon: And this exchanged dream of yours - will the million dollars make up for it?
- Robert P. Chesley - Uncle Robby: Indeed, it will, for my boys on the east side. You see, every summer it's been a fight to beg, borrow, or save enough money to send them away for a few days to summer camp. But with this,
- [indicating the check]
- Robert P. Chesley - Uncle Robby: I can build them the biggest and finest summer camp in the Adriatic's.
- Andrew V. McMahon: You couldn't do better.
- Robert P. Chesley - Uncle Robby: But I mustn't spend it all on them. I have a couple of bigger kids to help out - my niece and her husband.
- [Starts for the door, then pauses and turns to face McMahon]
- Robert P. Chesley - Uncle Robby: Do you know what they did for me?
- [McMahon shakes his head]
- Robert P. Chesley - Uncle Robby: Just before they were married, they took all of the money they had saved for their honeymoon and gave it to me.
- Andrew V. McMahon: Gave it to you?
- Robert P. Chesley - Uncle Robby: Yes, they wanted me to help my boys, even though it deprived them of their honeymoon.
- [Suddenly alarmed]
- Robert P. Chesley - Uncle Robby: Honeymoon? Oh, gosh. My will.
- Andrew V. McMahon: Is anything wrong?
- Robert P. Chesley - Uncle Robby: Oh, yes. Something is very wrong. I must get to my lawyer and change my will! Thank you, thank you for everything.
- [Chesley leaves McMahon's office]
- Andrew V. McMahon: [Calling after Chesley] Good luck and take care of yourself.
- Michael Anthony: [to the viewers. Opens a case history] This is a case of Robert P. Chesley. It could be called the Case History of the Unexpected.