The poem that Lucia reads part of, starting with "Straightway I was 'ware", is Elizabeth Barrett Browning's first of her "Sonnets from the Portuguese".
Gertrude Atherton's short story, "The Foghorn", is from the November 1933 issue of "Good Housekeeping". Frank Gabrielson's teleplay follows Atherton's plot closely but not exactly. The magazine introduces "The Foghorn" with "A Story That Will Make You Exclaim, 'Have You Read Gertrude Atherton's Story in Good Housekeeping ?'"
Allen Bliss tells Lucia Clay about the legend of the Fortunate Isles, also known as the Isles of the Blessed, which was an earthly island paradise in the Atlantic Ocean inhabited by the heroes of Greek mythology.
Lucia Clay is 26 at the time of her engagement to John St. Rogers.
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