the club instead. Mrs Foster enjoys her time in Paris, at last meeting and getting to know her grandchildren, and writing to her husband weekly. The visit concludes, and Mrs Foster flies back to New York. Upon her arrival at the airport, Mrs Foster notes that her husband has not sent a car to meet her. After arriving at home, she enters and notices a large pile of mail under the letterbox, as well as a strange smell. She does a quick lap around the first floor and, seemingly satisfied, calls the elevator company to report the home's apparently broken lift. The story closes with Mrs Foster waiting for the arrival of the lift repair man. (The implication is that Mrs Foster deliberately left her husband to die trapped in the broken elevator.) Adaptations "The Way Up to Heaven" was dramatized in a 1957 episode of Alfred Hitchcock's television show Suspicion (Season 1, Episode 29), and subsequently in a 1979 episode of Tales of the Unexpected (Season 1, Episode 9). In the Tales of the Unexpected episode, the Fosters' home is moved to Hampstead, London and Mr Foster becomes an Englishman, but Mrs Foster is depicted as an American expatriate (played by Julie Harris) returning to New York by air. References Short stories by Roald Dahl 1954 short stories Works originally published in The New Yorker