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Good evening.

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This is the most difficult
and frustrating game

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of croquet I've ever played.

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I seem to be able to
drive the ball quite well,

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but my shoulders keep
getting stuck in the wickets.

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It's all very trying.

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Actually, I've consented to
stand here like a watch fob

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in order to dramatize the
subject of tonight's story.

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It concerns one of our
oldest institutions.

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An institution which
seeks to rehabilitate men

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by keeping them
shut up for years.

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Marriage.

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But first, we have another
equally revered institution.

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The television commercial.

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(dog barking)

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(dog barking)

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Oh, I hope you like me.

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When I show you
how much I love him,

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you'll just
have to like me.

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It seems so strange.

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I'll meet you for
the first time today,

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and I've wanted
to for so long,

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for almost five years.

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Okay if I hang my
slip over the heater?

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Oh, Pat.

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For a minute, I thought
you were serious.

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Oh, from the looks
of the place,

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I'd say Philip
and his mother

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were coming to dinner.

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Do you think everything
looks all right?

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It looks wonderful,
just wonderful.

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You're sure, now?

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Well, I would make just
one small suggestion.

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Well, what?

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Put your shoes on.

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Oh, Pat.

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If you hadn't been here,
I would have forgotten

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them for sure.

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Wouldn't that
have been awful?

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Oh, I think it would have
made a nice, informal touch.

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But to meet Mrs. Pryor
without my shoes on.

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Oh, I would have just died.

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You don't need shoes when
you're walking on air.

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It shows, doesn't it?

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Oh, it glows.

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Yes, but not too much.

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I mean, not so much that
it'll frighten him away.

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Well, it hasn't yet.

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Don't worry about it.

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On you, it looks wonderful.

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(knocking)

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I'm gonna dress now and
scoot out the back way.

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Relax now.

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I'll punch you
right in the nose.

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Oh, Pat.

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-Hello, darling.
-Hello, Philip.

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Philip, your mother.

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Oh, I'm sorry, Helen,
Mother couldn't come.

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-Oh.
-She sent her apologies.

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Well, of course, but
she's not ill, is she?

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Oh, she's never very well,

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but she did look forward
to this evening so much,

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to meeting you.

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Oh, I wanted to
meet her, too.

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Philip, if she's ill,
shouldn't you be with her?

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Well, it's all
my fault, really.

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I knew she'd be upset,
but I had to tell her.

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Just the way I
have to tell you.

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Tell me what?

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I got my orders
this afternoon.

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I leave for Korea tonight.

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Oh, Philip.

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Oh, Philip.

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I know, darling, I know.

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We didn't think it would
happen so soon, did we?

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Oh, I hoped it never would.

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Well, maybe it's a good thing
it's happening fast, then.

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Because all I really have
time for is to tell you

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that I love you.

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Oh, and I love you.

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And all the time I'm gone,
I'll be loving you more.

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Oh, I don't think I
could love you any more.

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Well, you could try.

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Oh, I don't have to try.

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It won't be so bad, waiting.

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As long as we know
we're both waiting.

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Oh, Philip, I don't
want you to worry.

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It's just awful worrying
about somebody you love.

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No, we're not going
to worry, either of us.

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Besides, you won't have time.

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You'll be too busy
writing to me.

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Oh, of course I will.

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I know, Philip, I'll go and
see your mother some Sunday.

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I'll take the
afternoon train out

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and I'll introduce myself

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and we can get to know each
other while you're gone.

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Hey, that'd be great.

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Do you think she'd
really like it?

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She'd love it.

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Only trouble is, she's
going up to Boston,

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to stay with my
aunt while I'm gone.

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Oh.

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Well, that'll make
you feel better,

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having somebody
to look after her.

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Yeah, it sure will.

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I'd hate to think of her all
alone in that big old house.

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I know.

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We won't say any more.

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Just know that someday soon,

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you'll answer the door
and I'll be there.

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Philip.

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Helen, I'm sorry.

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Oh, I'm all right, Pat.

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I wish I could
do something.

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I've only known
him four months.

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Four months.

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Maybe he won't be long.

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The papers say the war
can't go on much longer.

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You know, I--I guess it
sounds funny to say it,

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but I never thought
I could love.

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Really love, I mean.

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Until Philip.

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When you don't have a family
of your own to begin with,

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it's like a part
that's left out of you.

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You grow up knowing
people a little

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and getting to like them

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and maybe getting
some affection,

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but love, that's
always something

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that happens to
somebody else.

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Until Philip.

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Until Philip.

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You know, Pat,

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it bothers me,
a little of me,

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me being older
than Philip.

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Sometimes he seems
just like a little boy.

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Little boys grow up.

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I know, and I
guess he needs me.

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Of course he needs you.

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And you need to be loved.

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It's a nice arrangement.

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It's a nice feeling.

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But, sometimes I'm--I'm just
afraid I don't deserve him.

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Now, that's a lot
of nonsense.

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Listen, I like Philip fine,

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but when you get married,
I'm gonna make it a point

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to be around to remind him
that he's the lucky one.

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Oh, I missed him so.

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I know you must have, too.

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If only we'd
met that night,

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I could have comforted
you while Philip was away.

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Remember how it was
when he came back?

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Just to see him
and touch him

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and hear his voice.

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Then you're proud of me?

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You know I am.

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I feel like a kid with
a good report card.

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I want my head patted.

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You mean, like this?

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Just like that.

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I have a whole box
of gold stars waiting

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for when they make you a
vice president or something.

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Oh, I don't think either
of us will live that long.

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It's just a small
publishing house, Helen.

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I don't think you get
promoted unless someone dies.

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Well, maybe they'll
retire somebody, then.

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Oh, not from the
looks of Mr. Pearson.

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I'll bet he's 75, at least.

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He was your father's
friend, wasn't he?

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Mmm.

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And Mother's.

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For years, Mr. Pearson
wouldn't publish a book

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unless Mother read it first.

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She gets a kick
out of my job.

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All the reading
I have to do.

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I know she's
proud of you, too.

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And of you.

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I almost forgot, I told her
you're going to night school.

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Hmm.

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To improve myself?

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Silly.

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Mother knows you weren't
able to go to college.

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She thinks it's wonderful
that you want to go on

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with your studies.

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Well, I'm glad if she does.

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It's all your fault,
you know, I mean,

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I didn't mind not
being well-read

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and things like
that, until you.

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Darling, I like you
just the way you are.

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Philip, have you
told her about us?

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Well, sure, I've told
her all about you.

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I said "about us," Philip.

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Well, of course.

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Philip, you're home again
and you've got a good job,

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and if we're going
to get married soon,

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we ought to tell her.

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I know, I know.

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Just a little longer, Helen.

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A couple more months.

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She's just getting
used to having me

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around the house
again, you understand.

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She needs me.

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After all, I'm all she's got.

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A couple of months.

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That's all.

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Hey, I'm gonna have to
run all the way back.

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We're very punctual
at the Pearson Company.

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Philip?

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I couldn't shake the
thought from my mind

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that you and I, the
ones who loved him most,

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were pulling him apart.

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I knew I had to meet you.

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So, one day last
spring, after work,

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I took the train
out from town.

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I felt we had to talk,

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to get to know each
other, for Philip's sake.

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Mrs. Pryor!

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Mrs. Pryor, I'm
Helen Brewster.

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There's no one home.

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No one home at all.

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I felt so frustrated,

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so ashamed to think that
you wouldn't even see me.

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I thought I could
never tell Philip.

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But that Wednesday, when
we had dinner together...

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And the reason I think
it's going to be good

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is because you
never really know

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until the last sentence
in the manuscript

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that he's going to
go back to his wife.

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Sounds like one of
those sudden endings.

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They always leave me
dangling, somehow.

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Well, how would
you have it end?

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"And they lived
happily ever after"?

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Oh, Philip, there's nothing
wrong with a happy ending.

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Well, now, did I
say there was?

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I'm all for them, myself.

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Well, it just seems to me

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that there's enough
realism in life.

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You don't have
to face up to it

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every time you read a book.

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Something's wrong, Helen,

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and I don't know
exactly what it is.

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We were just
talking about a book.

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I just don't think I'd
like it, that's all.

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No, before the
book, all evening.

267
00:14:15,220 --> 00:14:17,690
Don't you feel well?

268
00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:21,160
Oh, of course I feel well.

269
00:14:21,190 --> 00:14:23,220
All right, darling,
we'll forget it, huh?

270
00:14:23,260 --> 00:14:24,630
Oh!

271
00:14:24,660 --> 00:14:26,830
Maybe this will make
you feel better.

272
00:14:29,330 --> 00:14:31,830
Mother sent it.

273
00:14:31,870 --> 00:14:33,070
Your mother?

274
00:14:33,070 --> 00:14:34,770
Mmhmm.

275
00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:37,140
I think she felt a
little sorry for you.

276
00:14:37,170 --> 00:14:38,610
I told her that
you were struggling

277
00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:41,280
through War and Peace.

278
00:14:41,310 --> 00:14:42,910
David Copperfield.

279
00:14:42,940 --> 00:14:43,510
Mmm.

280
00:14:43,550 --> 00:14:44,480
Mother loves Dickens.

281
00:14:44,510 --> 00:14:46,350
That's one of her favorites.

282
00:14:46,380 --> 00:14:49,080
She wanted you to have it.

283
00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:51,920
Philip, I just
don't understand.

284
00:14:51,950 --> 00:14:53,720
Well, what's there
to understand?

285
00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:55,360
She just sent you a book.

286
00:14:55,390 --> 00:14:56,860
I know, but...

287
00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:01,030
Philip, I wasn't going
to tell you this,

288
00:15:01,060 --> 00:15:03,800
but Monday, after work,
you stayed in town

289
00:15:03,830 --> 00:15:06,170
to have dinner with
Mr. Pearson, remember?

290
00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:07,340
Mmhmm.

291
00:15:07,370 --> 00:15:11,110
Well, I took the train to
go out and see your mother.

292
00:15:13,040 --> 00:15:16,780
Oh, well, that was
a nice thing to do.

293
00:15:16,810 --> 00:15:18,510
But, she didn't
tell me about it.

294
00:15:18,550 --> 00:15:20,350
Because she
didn't see me.

295
00:15:20,380 --> 00:15:23,920
That is, she
wouldn't see me.

296
00:15:23,950 --> 00:15:25,450
She wouldn't?

297
00:15:25,490 --> 00:15:27,960
Philip, she ran
from the house.

298
00:15:28,060 --> 00:15:31,060
And I called to her and
I told her who I was,

299
00:15:31,060 --> 00:15:33,760
and then she
just ran away.

300
00:15:36,230 --> 00:15:37,970
She ran from the house?

301
00:15:38,070 --> 00:15:40,300
Well, she stopped for a
minute when I called to her,

302
00:15:40,340 --> 00:15:43,240
and then she said,
"There's no one home.

303
00:15:43,270 --> 00:15:44,410
There's no one
home at all."

304
00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:47,080
And then she
just ran off.

305
00:15:47,110 --> 00:15:51,210
But Mother wouldn't
do that, she couldn't.

306
00:15:51,250 --> 00:15:52,580
Well, it was so obvious

307
00:15:52,610 --> 00:15:55,080
that she just doesn't
want to meet me.

308
00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:56,150
Oh, it couldn't
be that, Helen.

309
00:15:56,180 --> 00:15:57,720
Mother's very
anxious to meet you.

310
00:15:57,750 --> 00:15:59,420
You must know that.

311
00:16:01,260 --> 00:16:02,860
I can't understand.

312
00:16:02,890 --> 00:16:06,390
And you can't make me
understand it, Philip.

313
00:16:06,430 --> 00:16:10,170
I never felt so rejected.

314
00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:11,800
Helen, listen to me.

315
00:16:11,830 --> 00:16:14,040
It couldn't
have been Mother.

316
00:16:14,070 --> 00:16:17,140
You say this woman
ran from the house.

317
00:16:17,170 --> 00:16:19,310
Mother's practically bed-ridden.

318
00:16:19,340 --> 00:16:22,340
She can't walk without
support, let alone run.

319
00:16:22,380 --> 00:16:23,380
Well, I wouldn't know.

320
00:16:23,410 --> 00:16:25,850
I've never met her.

321
00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:28,750
I'll bet it was
Mrs. Beasley.

322
00:16:28,780 --> 00:16:30,190
It must have been
Mrs. Beasley.

323
00:16:30,220 --> 00:16:31,720
She comes to clean
three days a week.

324
00:16:31,750 --> 00:16:34,360
But the woman said
there was nobody at home.

325
00:16:34,390 --> 00:16:35,290
If your mother can't walk

326
00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:36,560
without support,
how could she--

327
00:16:36,590 --> 00:16:38,690
Wait a minute, you
said this was Monday?

328
00:16:38,730 --> 00:16:41,900
Yes, this past Monday.

329
00:16:41,930 --> 00:16:43,370
Well, that explains it.

330
00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:45,130
Mrs. Fairbain and
Connie came over

331
00:16:45,170 --> 00:16:46,530
to take Mother
for a drive.

332
00:16:46,570 --> 00:16:49,070
She's an old friend
and her daughter.

333
00:16:49,070 --> 00:16:52,140
Connie can manage Mother
almost as well as I can.

334
00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:56,480
I'm sorry, darling,
after that long train ride.

335
00:16:57,850 --> 00:17:00,150
You're sure she wasn't home?

336
00:17:00,180 --> 00:17:02,250
She really wasn't
home on Monday?

337
00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:03,790
I just told you.

338
00:17:05,390 --> 00:17:06,550
Here.

339
00:17:07,820 --> 00:17:09,120
That's Mother.

340
00:17:11,430 --> 00:17:13,630
Is she the one you saw?

341
00:17:15,660 --> 00:17:17,070
No.

342
00:17:17,100 --> 00:17:18,600
Oh, Philip.

343
00:17:18,630 --> 00:17:22,140
Oh, of course it
isn't your mother.

344
00:17:22,170 --> 00:17:24,640
Oh, how silly I've been.

345
00:17:26,310 --> 00:17:28,380
She wouldn't run
away from you.

346
00:17:28,410 --> 00:17:29,910
No one would.

347
00:17:32,450 --> 00:17:35,920
Oh, about Mother,
I've had some bad news.

348
00:17:37,290 --> 00:17:40,120
I spoke to her
doctor yesterday.

349
00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:43,190
He told me her
heart isn't so good.

350
00:17:43,220 --> 00:17:45,360
But he warned
me, any shock--

351
00:17:45,390 --> 00:17:48,860
Well, it's my duty to guard
her against them if I can.

352
00:17:48,900 --> 00:17:55,300
*

353
00:17:57,570 --> 00:18:00,140
(water trickling)

354
00:18:02,710 --> 00:18:04,050
I don't know what
makes this a holiday.

355
00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:06,610
I never work this
hard at the office.

356
00:18:06,650 --> 00:18:08,150
It's a change.

357
00:18:08,180 --> 00:18:09,450
It's supposed
to be diverting.

358
00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:11,450
Oh, keen.

359
00:18:11,490 --> 00:18:13,250
Helen, this is a
furnished apartment.

360
00:18:13,290 --> 00:18:15,090
Save your energies
for when you take over

361
00:18:15,120 --> 00:18:17,360
the Pryor mansion.

362
00:18:17,390 --> 00:18:20,600
The thought's never
crossed your mind?

363
00:18:20,630 --> 00:18:22,100
Well, I never thought
of "taking over,"

364
00:18:22,130 --> 00:18:23,770
if that's what you mean.

365
00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:26,500
All right, marrying
Philip, then.

366
00:18:26,530 --> 00:18:28,600
Well, of course I
think of it, but--

367
00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:30,210
But hooey.

368
00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:32,140
Listen, there's a
trite old expression

369
00:18:32,170 --> 00:18:34,340
that fits like
a you-know-what.

370
00:18:34,380 --> 00:18:37,280
"You're not
getting any younger."

371
00:18:37,310 --> 00:18:39,250
Well, do you know
anybody that is?

372
00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:41,820
All right, I'm not getting
any younger, either.

373
00:18:41,850 --> 00:18:43,590
But at least I'm
playing the field,

374
00:18:43,620 --> 00:18:47,120
keeping the old eye peeled
for somebody really eligible.

375
00:18:48,290 --> 00:18:49,820
Well, Philip's
really eligible,

376
00:18:49,860 --> 00:18:50,930
it's just that he--

377
00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:54,060
It's just that he's
all his mother's got.

378
00:18:54,100 --> 00:18:55,830
Listen, I'm all for mothers.

379
00:18:55,860 --> 00:18:58,930
But there's a special breed
of women with only sons

380
00:18:58,970 --> 00:19:01,070
that lingers on for years.

381
00:19:01,100 --> 00:19:04,110
If I were you, I'd give
that a little thought.

382
00:19:04,140 --> 00:19:06,540
I've given it
a lot of thought.

383
00:19:06,570 --> 00:19:08,640
But I just don't
know what to do.

384
00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:10,410
Lay it on the line.

385
00:19:10,450 --> 00:19:15,020
You get married right
away, or farewell Philip.

386
00:19:15,050 --> 00:19:18,490
*

387
00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:20,920
It's just no good
anymore, Philip.

388
00:19:21,020 --> 00:19:22,390
Just these few
evenings together,

389
00:19:22,420 --> 00:19:23,730
Saturday afternoons.

390
00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:27,700
Do you realize that this has
been going on for four years?

391
00:19:27,730 --> 00:19:30,600
I know I can't
remember not knowing you.

392
00:19:30,630 --> 00:19:31,870
I don't want to.

393
00:19:31,900 --> 00:19:33,340
Soon it'll be five years,

394
00:19:33,370 --> 00:19:36,940
and that's a long time
to wait for something.

395
00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:39,340
Well, there was the war.

396
00:19:39,370 --> 00:19:43,610
Oh, Philip, that was
a long time ago.

397
00:19:43,650 --> 00:19:46,380
Well, all right,
there's Mother.

398
00:19:46,410 --> 00:19:49,250
You've always
understood about her.

399
00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:51,420
I can't change that, Helen.

400
00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:55,260
Well, you don't have to.

401
00:19:55,290 --> 00:19:58,330
That's what I'm trying
to tell you, I guess.

402
00:19:58,360 --> 00:20:02,000
You don't have to
change, but I do.

403
00:20:03,260 --> 00:20:07,900
You mean, you don't
want to see me anymore?

404
00:20:07,940 --> 00:20:11,270
Well, the way
it is now, no.

405
00:20:11,310 --> 00:20:13,310
No, I don't.

406
00:20:13,340 --> 00:20:15,340
Oh, Helen, it won't
be much longer.

407
00:20:15,380 --> 00:20:16,980
I promise you, it won't.

408
00:20:17,010 --> 00:20:19,950
Mother's beginning
to perk up now.

409
00:20:19,980 --> 00:20:22,380
It won't be any
longer, Philip.

410
00:20:22,420 --> 00:20:26,050
I'm not gonna be
seeing you anymore.

411
00:20:26,090 --> 00:20:30,230
But, I don't know what
I'd do without you.

412
00:20:30,260 --> 00:20:33,700
I mean it, I don't know
what I'd do without you.

413
00:20:37,030 --> 00:20:41,670
*

414
00:20:41,700 --> 00:20:43,910
Helen, Helen!

415
00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:46,470
We won't wait any longer.

416
00:20:46,510 --> 00:20:48,110
We'll get married tonight.

417
00:20:48,140 --> 00:20:48,840
Tonight?

418
00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:50,550
Yes, right now, tonight.

419
00:20:50,580 --> 00:20:52,680
People drive across the
state line all the time.

420
00:20:52,710 --> 00:20:53,950
There aren't any delays.

421
00:20:53,980 --> 00:20:55,450
And we don't want any.

422
00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:57,220
Oh, Philip.

423
00:20:57,250 --> 00:21:07,260
*

424
00:21:07,300 --> 00:21:15,970
*

425
00:21:16,070 --> 00:21:17,470
Mother's room.

426
00:21:17,510 --> 00:21:18,470
She's sure to be sleeping,

427
00:21:18,510 --> 00:21:20,910
I don't think we ought
to bother her tonight.

428
00:21:20,940 --> 00:21:22,780
Unless, of course,
you insist, darling.

429
00:21:22,810 --> 00:21:24,550
After all, you're
the boss now.

430
00:21:24,580 --> 00:21:25,280
No.

431
00:21:25,310 --> 00:21:26,550
No, tomorrow will be fine.

432
00:21:26,580 --> 00:21:28,520
We'll tell her tomorrow.

433
00:21:28,550 --> 00:21:32,750
*

434
00:21:32,790 --> 00:21:35,390
Tomorrow is here, Mrs. Pryor.

435
00:21:35,420 --> 00:21:37,190
Perhaps Philip's
already told you,

436
00:21:37,230 --> 00:21:41,560
but I know that I
can't wait any longer.

437
00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:51,610
*

438
00:21:51,640 --> 00:22:03,180
*

439
00:22:03,220 --> 00:22:04,950
Mrs. Pryor?

440
00:22:05,050 --> 00:22:07,920
*

441
00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:09,590
Mrs. Pryor?

442
00:22:09,620 --> 00:22:19,630
*

443
00:22:19,670 --> 00:22:29,710
*

444
00:22:29,710 --> 00:22:39,650
*

445
00:22:39,690 --> 00:22:43,190
"Mrs. Mary Langley Pryor died

446
00:22:43,220 --> 00:22:46,860
at her Elmville Lane
residence early today.

447
00:22:46,900 --> 00:22:48,800
Native of Boston,

448
00:22:48,830 --> 00:22:50,930
widowed three years ago.

449
00:22:50,970 --> 00:22:55,870
Only survivor, a son,
Philip, of the home."

450
00:22:55,900 --> 00:23:01,840
*

451
00:23:21,060 --> 00:23:22,060
Philip.

452
00:23:23,900 --> 00:23:26,170
Philip, I don't understand.

453
00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:29,570
She--she's been dead
for seven years.

454
00:23:43,850 --> 00:23:46,550
You never remember
to keep warm, Mother.

455
00:23:46,590 --> 00:23:47,660
You'll get another chill

456
00:23:47,690 --> 00:23:49,860
if I don't watch
over you every minute.

457
00:23:49,890 --> 00:23:58,100
*

458
00:23:58,130 --> 00:23:59,100
Oh.

459
00:24:00,540 --> 00:24:02,940
Oh, no.

460
00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:04,140
No.

461
00:24:04,170 --> 00:24:06,040
No, no.

462
00:24:06,070 --> 00:24:11,250
*

463
00:24:14,220 --> 00:24:15,920
Ah, there you are again.

464
00:24:15,950 --> 00:24:18,220
These may look
like rocks to you,

465
00:24:18,250 --> 00:24:20,820
but they're really
clusters of atoms.

466
00:24:20,860 --> 00:24:23,360
This is a very
important job.

467
00:24:23,390 --> 00:24:27,230
And now, here's a scene
from next week's show.

468
00:24:27,260 --> 00:24:31,800
After which, you will find me
still firmly anchored here.

469
00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:37,070
If you liked that sample,

470
00:24:37,110 --> 00:24:39,410
you will love
next week's show,

471
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:42,980
for it will contain
three such scenes.

472
00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:45,080
After seeing
that one, however,

473
00:24:45,110 --> 00:24:48,220
I've put in an order
for a set of these

474
00:24:48,250 --> 00:24:50,390
for each of our viewers.

475
00:24:50,420 --> 00:24:52,420
Good night.