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I don't care why you did it.

I want to know exactly what you did.

I've had three calls already about you from the operating floor. I just want to

know.

I just went up there.

I thought maybe someone there could tell me how it was going.

And they told you he died on the table.

He was just a child.

I'm sorry I cried.

That wasn't it.

You ran out into the waiting room crying.

The child's parents were there.

And that's how they heard the news. From a running, crying nurse.

I'm sorry, Mrs. Faye.

You do your job here.

Don't go looking for grief.

And when you have to cry, be careful who sees you do it.

Go wash your face.

Laurie?

We're having a picnic the afternoon tomorrow. Can I just tell you?

You're off then. You want to come with me?

Bane, I just saw Laurie Palmer. What happened?

The little boy died.

Little boy, he died.

Kid didn't make it.

It's too bad. I'm sorry.

Eddie, I...

Eddie,

he was so helpless, so pathetic.

I know, baby, I know.

I don't even know why I went up there. I just wanted to do something.

I goofed again, and now Mrs. Fane's after me again. Fane, you ought to get

to her.

Eddie, I just can't.

Just let me hang on to you for a second.

Sure, sure.

We'll be off duty in 20 minutes.

Do you want me to take you home?

I want to.

I have to.

Baby, listen to me now.

If you let Thane bug you, she'll just keep on.

Don't you know why she does it?

Because you're young and she's beat up.

That's how she gets her kick. She's a dragon.

You're on duty, both of you.

And if you finish talking, there's a cardiac who just came in and he needs

attention.

Heart trouble sport.

You understand heart trouble?

Digitalis fix you up.

Give him 0 .3 grams.

Betty, shouldn't you take his case history? I mean to see if he's taking

digitalis already.

Baby, please.

You have heart trouble before?

Is this your first time?

We'll fix you. We'll fix you right up.

What do you have?

What?

What drug?

Did you tell him?

How do you know?

Did you read the label?

Well, it's always on that side.

Always read labels.

Someday you'll scuttle yourself.

Yes, Mrs. Fain.

Mrs. Fain.

Laurie, uh, Miss Palmer's a... She's a good nurse, isn't she? Best we've had in

three years.

Why do you keep after her like that?

What?

I want her to read labels.

Is Jim Kildare here yet? He's at the desk.

Well, it's quitting time.

I think I'll let him finish this.

Well, Eddie, shouldn't you?

It could take another half hour.

Do you want to go home alone?

You checked and it's off.

Well, point me around.

Hey, Jimbo, will you do me a favor?

Take this one over for me now. What? Yeah, it's perfectly routine.

EKG shows slow fibrillation.

I left the tracing there in the room for you to look at. The rest you can see

for yourself.

I started him on digitalis. Give him another swag in six hours, okay?

Eddie, you don't even have a case history.

Oh, for a very sound reason, sport.

He don't speak a no English.

Well, couldn't you get an interpreter?

Look, he just came in, and it's my quitting time. Now you play doctor, huh?

What's your hurry?

There's my hurry.

Laurie?

Yeah, Pookie got kind of shook up tonight.

We're going to go over to a place and talk, you know.

Talk? Oh, come on. Don't be envious.

I put a lot of man hours working on this thing.

Hey, thanks, Jimbo. I'll do the same for you sometimes.

I've been sitting here three hours, waiting.

I found you in the phone book.

Don't ask me in.

B, I'm tired and I'm hungry.

I got no other place to go.

Won't you let me in?

What is it, 17 years?

Excuse me.

I wrote you a letter a couple of years back.

Did you get it?

How's Alan?

He's graduating this June.

He may go on into graduate work.

Geology. He hasn't decided that yet.

Gee, I'd like to see that.

No, no, no. I only mean that if you never amounted to much yourself, it's

to think your son has.

You did it all alone, Bea. You got no help from me.

No.

Why did you come here, Carrie?

I don't know why.

All my life, I don't know why.

All the little girls.

Born, she died.

And that was the time I turned my back on you.

One more terrible thing could a man do be, why didn't you divorce me then?

Maybe the truth is, when I was younger, I could sleep pretty good in a box car,

and I was a slick talker, and I could get around people all right.

Now I'm just a little older, stiffer.

More scared nothing more than that be You

want something to eat Carrie

You

roommate

in there

Hey, tell her I'll give her a quarter to go out and get a newspaper.

Eddie, I'm sorry.

About what?

All the way. I have to grab for help.

Grab for you.

Hey, am I complaining?

Why can't I face up to things?

And Mrs. Fane, why can't I face her?

I want so much to be a good nurse, but I can't seem to do anything to please

her.

Didn't I give you the word on Mrs. Fane?

She is a natural old maid.

Why couldn't they assign me to Miss Weber or Mrs. Castellano and obstetrics?

They're so easygoing.

Going around in a circle, Eddie. I get so scared.

All I can think of is Eddie.

I want to be with Eddie.

I understand.

You're so strong.

I love you so much.

Eddie, please. I'm just not sure.

All right.

I'll shove off.

You're tired. You go to bed.

You don't have to go.

It's just self -preservation, baby.

You know, it's a little rough on me, feeling the way I do about you.

You keep me dancing on the needlepoint all this time.

It's just that...

You said there was no chance of us getting married.

Not soon, you said.

Well, that is just pure mathematics, baby.

Look, I want to be a surgeon.

I have spent four years pre -med, four years medical school. I have this year

internship. I have four more years of surgical residency.

Now, that makes 13 years in this thing without having clear descent.

I'm in debt already.

Would that be fair to either of us?

It's not that I don't... No, look.

I can't just keep being a pillow for you to cry into.

You go ahead. Get some sleep.

Eddie.

Don't go.

He's about an inch taller than you.

Thicker set.

He's rather quiet.

A mathematician, not a talker.

Dad's a good sense of humor. People like him.

And he's very steady, Carrie.

Steady as a rock.

Now, never mind.

Never mind that. You have no right to do that. I'm sorry, Bea. Then stop.

Stop it. You stop that.

I'm sorry, Bea.

How does that happen?

Why did you ever come back, Carrie?

I told you before, Bea, I don't know why.

You can't stay here.

Alan may be coming home this weekend, and I don't want him to see you.

I may not even tell him you've been here.

You can't stay.

I'm not asking to be. All I want is a place for one night.

Why should I?

All right. If you won't let me stay here, at least let me panhandle a couple

dollars, and I'll find someplace else.

The couch in the living room folds down.

That's where Alan sleeps.

I'll get the bedding.

Dr. Kildare! Dr. Kildare!

Set up some 5 % glucose with one amp of levophed. And give me the EKG machine.

Yell for it if you have to. Stat.

Oh, and have some procaine amide ready.

The

man's

third mate on a Swedish ship. I had a call from his captain already.

Actually, he's a Yugoslav himself. That's one reason for the confusion.

Don't tell me about the confusion.

I want to know why he was given the overdose.

He was on digitalis already.

I found that out after I got the interpreter.

So he should have gotten a maintenance dose instead of the three -tenths gram.

But on top of that, he'd given himself an overdose already.

So all in all, he got six times the proper dosage.

Yes, sir.

When you first saw him, I suppose he was frightened, seemed in a critical

condition. Well, yes.

So it was natural that you should want to get him digitalized.

But with the case history, and if you knew he was on digitalis... Dr.

he was given digitalis before the case history.

You mean a patient was given specific medication before the case history was

taken? Yes, sir.

You know the rules.

Well, I... Well, actually, sir, there is some confusion in this case.

Yes, there seems to be.

Doctor, I find it difficult to believe that with your record you could be

of such negligence.

Well, unless there are other facts with which I am unacquainted, unless you

inform me of them before Tuesday, I am going to bring this case before the

medical board.

And you, Doctor, will present it.

Are there any questions?

Hi, Betty.

Hi.

How do you look so cheerful coming on, Judy?

Any special notes?

Well, Miss Dutton's got bath privileges now, and drop in on that little boy,

Billy Casey. He needs some cheering up.

I will. Ruth Vizagic, or however you pronounce it. He's near the edge.

What happened?

Congestive failure and digitalis intoxication.

Where's Eddie?

Dr. Moore.

He's there now.

Can I help you with that?

No.

What happened?

He was already carrying digitalis from his own doctor.

Jim Pildare found a bottle in his clothing.

He'd already given himself an overdose before we even saw him.

What's going to happen?

Well, I don't know if Gillespie knows about it yet.

But if he does, he's going to lay into me.

He's got one on me from before.

That toxemia deal last month.

I mean to this man.

I don't know.

a luck, a rotten luck.

Seems like a judgment on us.

Come in. Good morning, Doctor.

Sit down, Beatrice.

Thank you.

Now, what's this about? I didn't quite understand on the phone.

Well, I'm afraid I didn't make myself clear.

My husband...

Kerry came home last night.

Funny to see him middle -aged.

I should think it would be.

Is he back for good?

I mean, how long is it?

17 years.

Oh, I know, Doctor.

Maybe I shouldn't even tolerate him, but... I have a sort of feeling he's

older now.

Is it his idea?

I don't know why I ever married him in the first place.

In 20 years, I haven't figured that one out.

I knew he was wild, but it was, I don't know, wanting to help

someone, wanting to comfort.

To give?

I suppose.

Well?

Do you think you could offer him a job here?

It would be awkward for me to ask anyone else, but you knew about us. You knew

him then.

He's a clever enough man.

Yes, I remember that.

And I thought if he really wanted to stay, and I could tell him that there

chance of a job here.

If you really wanted, Beatrice, I'll talk to the administrator.

Yes.

I think I really want it.

I can't even find his record.

How Kildare wrote it up. Eddie, please. I've never seen you like this. This

thing can be handled.

I can just get to Kildare before he gets to Gillespie. There's no handle about

it. Eddie, it's happened.

The only thing to do now is to take it straight on the... You let me be the

judge of that.

Look at these, Eddie.

This has been with Gillespie.

Hey, I've got friends all over, haven't I?

Does he know all about it?

I'd like to talk to you, Eddie.

What about?

Not here.

Tim, what's happening?

What's happening is that I'd like to talk to Eddie.

Well, what about? I want to know.

Baby, please.

Sure, why not?

All right, what did Gillespie say?

What did you tell him?

And what was his attitude? I want to know everything.

I didn't tell him much. Well, his attitude. Did he say anything about me

specifically? Did he mention that deal he had with me when I was on obstetrics?

No. Well, did he say he wanted to see me?

Eddie, he says he'll make this one of the cases for the medical board on

Tuesday.

And it just happens that it looks like Zajic was my patient.

Like I'm the one who gave him the overdose.

You?

And you didn't tell him otherwise?

I started to, but I thought it would look better coming from you.

So will you go there now, Eddie, and tell him yourself?

Because I don't much like being under the gun for you.

Jimbo, this kind of embarrasses me.

Look, I've worked eight years to get this far.

I want to get my residency here next year.

Now, you should understand that.

All right, what I'm getting at is this.

I hate the idea of right now getting knocked for a row of pins.

Washed out, possibly.

Well, I'm sorry, Eddie, but I can't help that.

But you can.

You could take the case through for me. It's your case.

You're out of your head.

Now, look, Gillespie's very high on you. You know that.

You could take the case through for me, and in a couple of months, it'll be

forgotten. Whereas if I... Eddie, knock it off.

You don't like me much, do you?

Personally.

Well, that's got nothing to do with it. It's because of Laurie, because you'd

like to make time and I beat you to it. Laurie's got nothing to do with this.

Look, I'm asking you to put personal feelings aside.

Eddie, my personal feelings have not... I am asking you not to wreck me.

Now, you can get me washed out or you cannot.

I'm asking you for help.

Wait, Jim, wait.

I'm trying to think clearly.

Don't do anything right now.

Just give me a day to think, and you think.

Now, that won't make any practical difference, will it? 24 hours?

Just give me 24 hours, okay?

What

happened?

What did Jim say?

A very peculiar thing.

Gillespie thinks that Zodjic is his patient. Kildare.

And his fault.

He wasn't.

It was ours.

No, mine.

You know something, Laurie?

He could take it through for me.

How could he?

The records are mostly in his handwriting. No one looks too close.

Sergeant could just as easily have been his patient.

Did he say that?

Did he say he'd do it?

No. He's thinking about it.

I asked him to.

Eddie. There's more, baby.

I want you to talk to Jim.

He likes you.

You know, he invited you on that picnic.

I want you to help him make up his mind.

Could I?

I just know you could, baby.

People do things for all sorts of different reasons.

What is happening to you?

I am scared, baby.

I am scared.

It's never been this way.

You're always the one who... The one who helps you?

That's right.

And I've never held back on you, have I?

No. No.

And I'm the one that's scared.

And I'm the one that's asking you for help.

I love you.

I love you, Laurie.

And I'm asking you to help me.

What are you going to tell me, Laurie?

Okay. Okay, but if the nurses are more than ten runs ahead of us at the end of

the seventh inning, we quit and go to the movies, right?

Hey, Jim, you want to play second base?

Uh, no thanks.

You don't want...

Oh, you're trying to get the first base, is that it?

I know Gillespie says in his day the interns used to win.

It's been a nice day.

I'm glad you came along.

Who made the sandwiches?

Cabbage.

They were good.

Don't tell him that.

I telephoned the hospital before I left.

Sarge, it's better.

Good.

Jim, Eddie told me what he talked to you about yesterday.

Why'd he drag you into it?

I am in it, sort of.

I'm the one that gave Zodget the digitalis.

Well, on Eddie's order, it wasn't your mistake.

No, but I've made mistakes.

I know what they feel like.

Don't you?

Sure.

Jim, Eddie says that...

You might help him out.

That was his idea, not mine.

And that you really haven't decided yet. And since you haven't, I

was just wondering if maybe I asked you.

Since I like Eddie and I like you.

Really, I do, Jim.

You make it sound as if it took effort.

I just wondered if maybe there was something I could say or something I

do.

Learn?

Is it so wrong, Jim, to want to do something for someone?

Eddie sent you here to try me out, didn't he?

He did, didn't he?

He said, Laurie, baby, do me a little favor.

Do me a little favor, Rooney.

Jim.

What is the matter with him?

What's the matter with you? How could you do it?

He's suffering.

I can't stand to see anyone suffer.

Then how can you be a nurse?

How can I be anything but a nurse?

Do you want to know, Jim, about me?

About me and nursing? About me and Eddie?

Or would you just rather have me to whistle at in the hallway?

Your choice.

It just never occurred to me that it was... Oh, I bet a lot of things never

occurred to you.

I want to be a nurse just as much as you want to be a doctor.

Worse, maybe.

I had a sister who died when I was very young.

A child never quite understands a thing like that.

They felt a kind of a responsibility for it.

Kind of a guilt, maybe.

If I had to help anyone, any way I could.

That childish and simple.

I don't think it's childish, Laurie.

Not very simple, either.

Sometimes things just break me up.

See a child in pain?

That happened to me just the other day.

Some of the operations.

When I first came here a few months ago, I was watching a gastrectomy.

These big girls around me, they weren't blinking an eye.

And I had to run suddenly, right out of that room.

That's when I met Eddie.

He got me through it.

So we're back to Eddie.

But he's... part of it, Jim.

He's got me through everything.

All the suffering I've had to watch, all my tangles with Mrs. Fane.

Times I thought I couldn't stand it a minute longer, Jim. I've had Eddie to go

to. He keeps steady.

I have an idea about that, Laurie.

Suppose Eddie doesn't much care about what happens to other people.

Oh, that's a vicious thing to say.

And it's not so. He's strong.

How strong is he being now, sending you on his errands? I don't care. I love

him.

Maybe right now he does have more than he can handle, but for once he's

depending on me.

And I owe him that, Jim. I don't think so. Well, I do. I don't think there's

way you can help him except... Well, I'm sure going to try.

Whatever Eddie asks me to do, I'll do.

Laurie, that just isn't rational.

Don't you hurt him, Jim.

Because if you do, I'll hate you.

I'll hate you forever.

Whoa.

Whoa!

Oh, I bought a lot of groceries, but not for tonight.

We're going out. Would you like that?

Well... I got a new dress.

Guess I'll try it on. Then you can give me your judgment.

You know, whether I should keep it or take it back.

I just took $40, that's all.

Well, you came home earlier than I expected. Otherwise, I'd have been gone.

Look, B, you're better off this way. You've made your own life.

Well, you've been swell, but the fact is... Oh, Carrie, maybe if you stayed a

couple of more days.

I just thought it might work out.

I just want to help.

Oh, B, you're a fool.

All this softness and love and just yearning to get yourself kicked in the

again.

All these years and you still haven't got wise to yourself.

Carrie.

I don't know.

I'm doing you a favor, really.

Well, I messed it up.

Jim didn't go for it?

I tried. I explained everything, what it meant.

I just made him angry, and I got angry.

Is he going to Gillespie?

I think so.

Noble Jim.

What can I do? I tried.

Well, forget that.

Eddie?

Laurie?

Do you really want to help me?

I mean, really want to.

Jim, what's this about a ship's captain named Zajac?

He's in there now, talking about lawyers.

Gillespie's here, too.

Did you send for him, pal?

I didn't have to.

No, but you were going to.

Eddie, Gillespie says he wants to see me in his office.

Do you want me to go there alone, or would you like to come along, too?

Jim, I asked you if you could... Not a chance, Eddie.

Haven't you got the message?

You've asked me, Laurie's asked me.

That's the part that stinks. You're dragging her into this.

All right, when Gillespie calls, you call me.

I'll go in and straighten this thing out.

Eddie, when we get there, maybe I can say something about the circumstances.

No, save it, Jimbo.

I apologize for asking you for anything.

From now on, let's just play it like it happened straight, huh?

Fair enough?

Fair enough.

Sorry, I'm late, Laurie.

That's all right, Mr. Thane.

Mrs. Fane, could I please speak to you?

Couldn't wait, Laurie. I don't feel up to it right now.

It's something I did, a confession.

I'm not in the best shape to hear confessions.

Please, Mrs. Fane.

Well, about Mr. Zajic, the overdose of digitalis, you know about that?

Yes, of course I do.

Dr. Gillespie's going to talk to Dr.

Moore and Dr. Kildare about it, and I'm afraid Dr. Moore will take the blame for

me.

Blame? What?

It was my fault, the overdose.

Dr. Moore's been covering up for me.

Didn't you have a written order?

Yes.

Well, no.

Dr.

Moore thought that Mr. Zajic might already be on digitalis, so he asked me

check before I actually gave it.

Well, that's not your responsibility.

Well, he was talking to Mr. Zajic about it when he was called out of the room.

For what? What? Called out of the room for what?

Oh, I don't know.

but he asked me to find out, and, well, I botched it, and when he came back in

the room, I'd already given the digitalis and told him Mr. Zodrick

before. Laurie.

So, you see, except for taking my word, Dr.

Morse done nothing wrong.

Laurie, will you be quiet for a minute?

Well, they're talking about it right now, Mrs. Payne.

Couldn't you just call Dr. Gillespie and tell him about it before it's too late?

You better check on Billy Keith.

Yes, Mrs. Vane.

As I say, I'm sorry about the confusion in the case, sir.

I didn't realize there was a confusion at first.

Whether Mr. Zodrick was my patient or Jim's.

Well, Jim's brought it to my attention that... Kildare, why didn't you bring

this to my attention when I first spoke to you?

Were you being a good guy?

Mr. Zodjic was my patient, and I wish to take full responsibility in the matter.

Yes?

Yes, Mr. Sam.

Oh, yeah?

Go on.

I see.

I understand.

In other words, the girl's story contradicts the chart.

That's what you think.

All right.

Thank you, Mrs. Vane.

Mrs. Vane says that Miss Palmer... Laurie Palmer, yes, sir.

That Miss Palmer claims to be at fault in this, and that you are protecting

I think is the phrase.

What? Well, uh... I was hoping that wouldn't come up, sir.

Now, Miss Palmer's really a very fine nurse, and I think she just feels

needlessly guilty about her share in the mistake.

Wait a minute, what is it? This happened before you got there that night, Jim,

so perhaps it explains a few things to you.

You see, sir, I thought it would be better that Miss Palmer were kept out of

situation and just that it be settled simply on the record.

I mean, if she made a mistake, it was the first time to my knowledge that she

had. And the mistake itself, the mistake itself, taken in itself, showed no real

incompetence on Miss Palmer's part. There's something I've got to say here.

Don't.

Don't say anything, Doctor.

Mrs. Fane has already said it.

Mrs. Fane thinks that Miss Palmer's story is a lot of nonsense, and that's

I think.

What do you think, Doctor?

Why would the girl lie if she weren't guilty?

Regardless of what Miss Palmer says, accurate or not, you have no conceivable

way of shifting your responsibility.

A doctor is responsible for his orders. He is responsible for seeing that they

are carried out.

Now, I think Dr. Kildare would admit there was a great deal of confusion in

case, sir. Now, isn't that right, Jim? Eddie, you know... No, isn't it?

Sir, I...

Dr. Kildare, I would like to talk to Dr. Moore alone.

Thank you.

A great man of medicine, Maimonides, wrote this many centuries ago.

The prayer of a physician every day before he went to work.

Read those four lines, doctor.

Out loud, please.

Grant that I may be able to devote myself, body and soul, to thy children

suffer from pain.

The good and the bad, the friend and the foe, let me see in the sufferer, the

man alone.

You didn't read that with much conviction.

I'm always skeptical of idealism, sir, in anybody, including doctors.

Medicine is a profession practiced by human beings.

No doctor.

It's far more than that.

And that is what this term of internship is all about.

It is medicine's annealing process.

The testing of the metal.

If a young doctor makes a medical error, if he breaks a hospital rule, that's

regrettable, but it's part of his learning.

But if he shows a lack of character, lack of integrity, that's a far

matter.

Human lives will depend on the strength of his moral fiber when he gets his

license to practice.

You tried to involve another doctor in this case.

You tried to shift the blame on a young nurse.

We can't shut our eyes to that.

All right.

I did it. I was desperate. Now that is human.

A nurse can always get another job.

Sir.

You know, I hope to be a surgeon.

I hope to be of some use to society.

Being of use to society, Doctor, is being of use to people, starting with

around you.

I am going to recommend to the medical board that you be dropped as an intern

Blair Hospital.

That's not fair!

I think you're getting off easily.

Mr. Dragic might well have died.

Dr. Kildare saved you from that.

I know all the years, all the work you've put in.

And as a human being, I regret this.

But as chief of staff, I have no compunctions and no doubts.

That is all.

Is there anything else?

Yes, there is.

Now, you made yourself clear. Now, let me make myself equally clear.

If you think I'm going to crawl out of here, you're wrong.

I am going to walk out of this hospital.

And do you know what else, Doctor?

I'm going to take with me the only thing I want. That fine young nurse you're

all so worried about.

Now, don't you believe I can do that, Doctor?

Well, don't you?

I hope not.

You need help, Doctor.

I hope you're smart enough to get...

Mrs. Fain, did you get a chance to speak to Dr. Gillespie?

Yes, I called.

Laurie, you didn't expect me to believe that stupid story, did you?

You're a nurse.

A good nurse. You didn't make any mistake with Mr. Zajic.

You're just making a fool of yourself over a selfish, weak man.

Don't you know that nurses are the...

Greatest fall guys in the world.

The biggest, softest dopes.

I just wanted to help him, Mrs. Fang.

You can't.

You've got to see that.

I didn't expect you to understand about Eddie and me, Mrs. Fang.

I guess you've had a... a more careful life.

Why do younger people never give older people the credit for being as stupid as

they are?

Yesterday, a man, my husband, left me for the second time.

First time was 17 years ago, just after I'd had a little baby girl that died.

I haven't seen him from then until now.

Not a very nice man, you see, Laurie.

But I almost crawled down the street after him, begging him to stay.

He told me a few things before he left.

I'd like to tell you.

It might be helpful.

Oh, Mrs. Fane, I... Please, Laurie, just listen.

I'm not trying to compare you and me.

It's just that I think there's a certain type of woman who has a great need to

help, to love, to help cure, to suffer even, to

give.

Yes, Mrs. Fane.

Then there's the type of man who sometimes does wrong.

He hurts himself and he hurts other people.

But we make excuses for him. We say, he needs me.

Or I need him. Or a funny mixture of both.

I've got to love him.

There are men and women like that, aren't there, Laurie?

Oh, yes, Mrs. Bain.

I was reminded of two things yesterday.

One was the duty a woman has about giving.

Not just a nurse, any woman.

To give wisely.

To do good, not uselessly.

Not to be hurt, not to pay old debts.

To give, but keep yourself fit to give more.

Second thing is a kind of guide rule, I guess.

Not to love anyone you don't really like.

I'm at a pretty awkward age to be finally finding out those things.

Mrs. Vane, you said something before that I was a good nurse.

Yes, you are.

You've never done anything but scold me.

That's why they assigned you to me. So I could tell you what you do wrong so you

could do it right.

Oh, Laurie, I turn out some of the best young nurses in this country.

Oh, that's Mr. Zajic ringing for someone.

Yes, Mrs. Zane.

There. Now you'll be much more comfortable.

Well, I got big news.

It didn't work.

I'm washed out.

Not for good, Eddie.

For the year, that's good enough. And out of this sweet hospital.

Eddie.

What, the patient?

Don't disturb the patient?

Why not?

He's part and parcel in it, aren't you, sport?

Eddie, how could you? He's sick.

That's just too bad.

Look, I'm going away. Do you want to come with me?

Where? I don't know to where.

It doesn't matter, does it?

A nurse can get work anywhere.

Yeah? We can get married if you want.

Maybe we should have long ago.

I just want to clear out of here.

It's only for the year, Eddie.

You can wait and apply somewhere else.

Look, I'm talking about clearing out and getting married.

And that's what you wanted, isn't it?

I'm sorry that it lacks the hearts and flowers.

But here it is.

Do you want it or not?

I guess not.

Sorry, Eddie.

It's all right.

It's all right.

You stay in the sweet hospital if you want.

And you look out for yourself, Laurie, because I sure can't anymore.

Eddie, please.

I don't want it to be like this.

Which way is it, then?

Is it yes or no?

No, I thought I heard you say no.

If you want to change your mind, then change it now, because I can't stand

and wait anymore.

I can't answer you now.

Not here, not like this, not when you're... You say it, Laurie.

Not a little of both, but yes or no.

I don't know.

We better find out.

You better get up now.

Come on.

It's all right. Come on.

Go along.

Go along.

Laurie, my son is coming home for this weekend with his girl.

And we'd like you to have dinner with us.

If you can think of anybody worth inviting.

I'm an awful cook.

Now, don't spend all your time with Mr. Zodget. There are other people who need

your attention.