Just as he is about to give Leila her poisoned drink, she reveals—by showing him baby booties which she is knitting—that she is pregnant; Roger is shocked and drops both glasses.

On Roger and Leila's terrace, Daemon relaxes with a cigar, and after puffing a smoke ring that turns into a heart, disappears.

Mr. Roger Shackelforth, who has discovered at this late date that love can be as sticky as a vat of molasses, as unpalatable as a hunk of spoiled yeast, and as all-consuming as a six-alarm fire in a bamboo and canvas tent.

Case history of a lover boy, who should never have entered the Twilight Zone.This episode was adapted by Robert Presnell, Jr. from the short story "The Chaser" by John Collier.

I remember one episode, 'The Chaser', in which I devised a huge bookcase that must have doubled the budget, but [Serling and producer Buck Houghton] never blinked an eye.

This was adapted in 1991 as "Loved to Death" (no exclamation points) for the HBO adult-horror anthology series Tales from the Crypt.