"[ Door opens ] Oh, hello." "I thought you weren't coming." "Well you were wrong." "Where's Blackie?" "Bert." "You call him Bert." "I'll call him Blackie." " Oh, he'll be along." "Hm." "I'll put these in the water jug in the meantime." "Shall I?" " You never know." "I may be up when you come one day." "I'm sure you will." "Before I am I want you to be the first to see me." "Oh, why?" "I want to do Nora's trick for you." "Ohh, that trick." "I've got legs too." "You used to think they were rather nice ones." "All of you was nice." "Oh don't say that." "I think I shall cry if you say that." "You were very nice." "You were the first." "Don't reproach me." "I can't bear it if you reproach me." "[ Door opens ]" "Oh." " Blackie." "[ Closes door ]" " Mr. Richardson." " Bert." " Miss Aspen." "Snap." " Hm?" "Same flowers." "December." " What?" "There's not a lot to choose from this time of year." " Oh, all the same..." " Quit boring conversation." "Yes, I'll just put these in water." "[ Edward clears throat ]" "[ Blackie rustles flower wrappers ]" " There we are." " Well done." "[ Blackie's chair creaks ]" "[ Sigh ]" "[ Long sigh ] Oh, for heaven's sake, Bert, stop playing with your hat and gloves." " Drives me mad to have to lie here and watch your fidgeting." "Sorry, Miss Aspen." "Oh...take off that rain coat if you're staying." " Well now don't fold it like that, you'll crease it." "Hang it over there behind the door." "Now, put your gloves in the pocket and your cap on the hook." " Well done." "[ Chair creaks;" "Lydia sighs ]" "Why don't you take your collar off." "Looks as if it's choking you." "Oh, I'm all right." "I'm all right." "Why don't you dress sensibly, like that." "You wouldn't look like an undertaker's assistant." "You'd be far more comfortable." "Oh, I'm comfortable." "Quite comfortable." "Oh, you're so stubborn!" "You just irritate me so." "For God's sake, leave the man alone." "I'm sure I don't need you to tell me how to treat my friends." "But it's all right, Mr. Richardson." "[ Sigh ]" "[ Door opens ]" "Now, tea for three, was it?" " Yes, thank you." " There you are, then." "You'll have to help yourselves." "I'm all behind." " Heh, come on now, Bert." " You can make yourself useful." " You can pour." "Yes, Miss Aspen." "[ Dishes rattle ]" "[ Sound of pouring tea ]" "[ Sigh ]" "That two lumps, was it?" "You ought to know by now." "And you, Mr. Richardson?" "Just one." "I'm surprised you like to read when you come for tea." "I'm sorry." "The least you can do is tell us what it is." "It's the registration receipt from the post office." " For my manuscript." "You've finished it?" "I've sent it to Max Stirling, my publisher." "But that's tremendous." " I still haven't heard from him." "When did you send it?" "At least three days ago." "[ Laughing ] Oh, honestly, probably hasn't even arrived yet." "Here we are." "Thank you." "There's bread and butter, jam, biscuits and a cake." "Uh no, just tea for me." "You go ahead then." "Oh, but not if anyone else." "Oh I'll have one of those just to keep company." "All right then." "When can I read it?" " Which?" " [ Sigh ] Your manuscript of course." " When it's in print." " Oh, don't be mean." " I'll let you have an advanced copy." " But, I want to read it now." " Well, what you want and what you get, Miss Aspen." "Don't, please." " All right, I'll let you see it when it's accepted." " If it's accepted." " But it's what he told you to write, isn't it?" " Yes, I think so." " Then why the "if"?" " Well, you know, (slip string, cup a lift)." "Well, can't you put your cup on the trolley?" "You poor man!" "Oh, yes." "Put some more milk in that for me, would you?" "Well, there you are!" "That's more like it." " That's something like service." " Yes, miss." "[ Whispering ] Thank you." "You're very sweet to me." " Um, certainly, ma'am." " Does madam wish for anything else?" "Yes, you could put my pillow straight." " Yes, certainly." "And, sit me up a little higher." "[ Lydia giggles;" "Edward pats pillow ]" "[ Lydia gasps ] Well, now look at my hair." "I need my brush and comb to get it untangled." "Well, and a mirror." "I can't manage without a mirror, can I?" "You'll have to hold it for me." "I need both hands." "[ Edward clears throat ]" "Higher." "Be still. [ Giggles ] I can't see myself." "Well hold it still. [ Slap ] I shall hate you." "Hold it still." "[ Both laughing ]" "Now, hate me if thou wilt." "Oh, you're an awful torment." "You always did torment me so, didn't you?" "I believe you love to torment me." "I can't hold it now." "How can I if I'm trembling with fright?" "[ Lydia laughs ] You idiot!" "Hold it still so I can see myself." "I can only see [ Laughing ] one side of myself." "Let's hope it's the right side." "The nice, kind, true right side." "[ Lydia laughs ]" "There was a time when I thought I'd never be able to look at my own face again." " The first time they gave me a mirror" " after I came in here." " Someone else stared back at me." "It's a terrible thing when you look in a mirror and you see someone you don't know." "Yes." "I can imagine." "[ Sigh ] Come on, hold it still." "[ Telephone rings ]" "Hello." "Yeah." "What's that?" "No, this is Mr. Richardson senior." "Would you hold on for a minute, please." "Seems to be for you." "Some firm called Stirling from London." "Max Stirling?" " I think that's the name, yeah." " That's the publisher, isn't it?" " Yeah, it's a woman, though." "Hello." "Yes, speaking." "Yes, I could manage that, yes." "Yes, uh, I'll be there." "Goodbye." "Well?" "That was his secretary." "They want me to go down to London next Friday at three o'clock." "[ Door opens ]" "[ Closes door ]" "Mr. Stirling knows you're here." "If you'd like to make yourself comfortable, he'll be with you just as soon as he's able." " I don't suppose you know why..." " I'd suggest it would save time if you'd look over this memoir." "What's this?" "A note of the revisions he requires." "I see." "[ Door opens ]" "Well you know, Max, I never heard of anyone else would talk to me like that." "You always were a belligerent old devil." "Well I don't see why I should let you get away with it, I'm sure." "Because, you know, history's proved me right and made you rich." "[ Laughing ] Not as rich as you are." "Oh yes, but then you don't have my responsibilities, do you?" " Such as...?" "Having to deal with people like you." "[ Laughing ] I'll leave it as it is." "I'll see you at the club." "Ah, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting." "How are you?" "Was there anything about my manuscript you did like?" "What?" "Oh, huh, yes or course." "I forget." "You don't have a high liking elephant yet, do you?" "Ha-ha, come on, man." "You really think I would have gone to all that trouble if I hadn't though it was extraordinarily good." " Well, pride apart, is there anything in particular that sticks in your craw?" " I'm not sure." " Well, you better be." "Because you're going to have to do what's wanted fast if I'm to get it into my spring issue." "Come on." " Some tea, Miss Bessel." "[ Rustling of papers sound ]" "[ Cock crowing ]" "[ Typewriter roller sound ]" "[ Typing sound ]" "[ Car door closes ]" "Glad you could come." "Glad you could come." "A bit queer without you last week." "She didn't talk much." "We had a job finding something to talk about." "She always seems brighter somehow when you're there." "You know what to say to her." "What, no flowers this week?" "No, I couldn't seem to find any." "That's what I thought." "I went all over the place trying to find something for her." "Well, I couldn't think of coming up without a flower or two." "[ Closes door ]" "Not today." "Not today." "Well, not the both of you anyway." "Just one if you like, but then only for three minutes, that's all." "What is it?" "There's no need for alarm." "She was foolish, that's all, the day before yesterday." "She put herself back a week or two." " Don't worry." " We expect these things." "They can't always get on." "Well, which one of you would like to go?" "He'll go." "He's got the flowers." "Oh no, I'll wait." "I'll go sit down for awhile." "You know, I don't like to see her if..." "well, it upsets me." "Very well." "[ Door opens ]" "It was nice of you to bring the flowers." "Blackie sent them." "Didn't you bring any?" "No, I forgot." "Blackie always remembers, doesn't he?" "He's rather die than not remember." "Oh!" " Oh." "I expected this." "Stop crying now." "Come on, we've had enough tears." " I'm very sorry." "I think you'd better go." "[ Lydia sobbing ]" " Sorry." " Dry your eyes, now." "There's a good girl." "[ Lydia sobbing;" "nurse whispering ]" " [ Sniff ]" " Shh, shh, shh." "[ Lydia quietly sobbing ]" "[ Flowers crash on floor then slap down on bed ]" "[ Closes door ]" "Will she be all right now?" "She's had a relapse." "You should never have come." "Dr. Baird should never have permitted it." "I'm most terribly sorry if I did..." "If you had been sorry before it wouldn't have happened, would it?" " I expect you wouldn't understand what I mean by that." "No." "Look, she worried herself sick because you didn't come Sunday." "That's what I meant." "Now you turn up just like that and start it all over again." "[ Typing sound ]" "Stop thinking about your book." "Sorry." "You must have finished those revisions by now." " If I can't think about it you can't ask about it." " Don't tease." " Well, have you finished?" " Nearly." " Are you satisfied?" " Nearly." "Writers don't do much to encourage a person's interest, do they?" "I couldn't rightly say, Miss Aspen." "Oh really, Bert, you're hopeless." "You're quite hopeless." "I didn't happen to see the Lincoln, today." "Oh no, I've been taking it down." "I beg your pardon?" "Wanted to decoat." "New rings, new shock absorbers, reseating the crankshaft, you know." "No, I'm afraid I don't." "Even less mechanically minded than I am." "Well, general overhaul, you might say." " I see." "Oh, I've treated the upholstery, too." "This new patent cleanser." "And I put new tires on it." " I've resprayed it, too." " That's why I left it today." "To set, see." " It's come up like new." " Very nice." " Oh I think so." "I wish you'd see to the windows." "Oh I have, too..." "so's it won't be so drafty." "Uh..." "You must come down and see it, Mr. Richardson." " I might have it photographed, you know, for the higher work." " You must come down and see it." "Yes, do." "He's so proud of it." "You'd never know it, would you?" "No!" "Never know it." "Here take a look at the inside, Mr. Richardson. [ Opens door ]" "It's like new, isn't it?" " Yeah, just like new." "Never know it." "No." "I'd like the old dad to see it." "Yes." "He'd never know." "He'd have a shock." "He would, wouldn't he?" "Oh there's something I've got to show you, Mr. Richardson." "[ Opens door ]" "Put flowers." " I thought for a moment,..." "uneasy and a little troubled, that she was going to ask me if I loved her." "And I knew if she did so,..." "that I should not know the answer." " Very good." "I'm listening." "Well, that's it." "That's the end." " [ Rustles manuscript ]" " Oh." "What is it?" "What's wrong?" "Oh, I'm not criticizing." "I like it." "I like it very much." "You just didn't realize that that was the end?" "Yeah, it's just that that..." "Oh, perhaps, I'm being old fashioned." "No, go on." "Say what you were going to say." "Well I thought he was..." "Oh going to get somewhere." "He does." " Somewhere more definite, I think your mother means." "Yes, that's right." "More of an ending." "But that was Max's whole point." "Life just doesn't tie up all the loose ends." "Oh, well." "Well, I'm sure he knows best, dear." " After all, he's the expert, isn't he?" "But I should know better than to read to you two the next one." "If there is a next one." "But we liked it." "You could have fooled me." " All I said was..." " It's going in the post tomorrow, anyway." "[ Slams door ]" "' Yes, the Lord God (close to me) Oh, Lord, most mighty'" "'Oh, Holy and most merciful Savior Deliver us not into the bitter'" "'Pains of eternity.'" "'Thou knowest, Lord, The secrets of our hearts'" "'Shut not thy merciful ears to our prayer But spare us, Lord most holy,'" "'Oh, God most mighty, Oh, Holy and merciful Savior'" "'Thou most worthy judge eternal Suffer us not at our last hour'" "'For any pains of death To fall from Thee'" "'Or as much as it has pleased Almighty God of His great mercy'" "'To take unto Himself the soul Of our dear sister, here departed'" "'We therefore commit her body to the ground'" " [ Lydia ] When Julie died it was only a question of time." " She and Bertie lie between two trees overshadowing, protecting." " Whichever of them had died first, ...the other would have lost" " the one person that propped her up." "Bertie couldn't have lasted long." "Oh, she had a good long innings." "You know what I mean." "Anyway." "Now there's only me and Rollo." " It very nearly wasn't you." "By all accounts there won't be Rollo for very long either." "You'll never guess what happened to the Lincoln today." "Mr. Richardson." "No, I can't imagine." "Well, after all that work when I started it up this afternoon" "I couldn't believe my ears." "Pop, pop, pop it went." "Well, you know what that means." "No, I'm afraid not." "Well, means you've blown your main gasket nine times out of ten." "So I had the plugs out, but no, the main gasket was right as rain." "And there she was still popping, pop, popping." "You know what it was?" "Well, where the exhaust pipe joins the manifold is a kind of copper gasket, see, should last a lifetime." "With that gone...it was the smell that put me on to it at the end." "See, it's like a seal, you see, between the exhaust pipe and manifold." "If it goes, why you get all these exhaust fumes coming in through the bonnet, don't you?" "Carbon monoxide, isn't it?" "It'd be dangerous." "Still, it's all put to rights, now." "Good as new." "You wouldn't know it, ...would you?" "No." "I hope you'll be able to come for a drive again soon." "I'm afraid you'll have to go now, Bert." "I'm getting awfully tired." "Oh, I'm a-I'm a terrible fool." "No, you're sweet, and now really I'm very tired." "Oh, I shouldn't of..." "I shouldn't of bare that go on like that tiring you out." "I'm really terribly sorry." "Wearing you out." "[ Opened; closed door ]" "I must go, too." "No." "Stay with me for a little while." "I don't get on very fast, do I?" "Not like Nora." "Dr. Baird's been wonderful with Nora." "They'll probably be engaged, too." "Did you know?" "No." "Nobody knows but Nora and me." "Not even Dr. Baird, I take it." "Oh, he knows in a vague sort of way." "He has a vague idea." "Sit down again." "Don't go." "I don't want you to go." "I must go." "Blackie will be waiting for me." "Yes, I know, but don't go yet." "Not for a bit." "Do you think he'll always come up here to see me?" "Every Sunday as long as I'm here?" "Yes,...as long as you're here." "Do you...?" " What is it?" "Nothing." " Your book." "How did you know?" "You get a special sort of look when you're thinking about it." "How?" "Not exactly pleased with yourself." "(More power.)" " I'm sorry." "You can't still be tinkering with it." "Only in my mind." "I sent the revisions down to London the other day." " You didn't tell me." " You didn't ask." "Oh, but you're difficult." " I must go." " No, must you?" "I can't keep Blackie waiting indefinitely." "Won't you please kiss me before you go." "[ Kiss ]" "[ Breathing deeply ] That makes me feel much better." " You'd better go." "You haven't changed." "You were never in one place for five minutes before you wanted to be in another." "Goodbye." "Goodbye." "You're early away, aren't you?" "Someone's waiting for me." "Oh, that taxi fellow." "No, he's not you know." "I sent him away." "That was a bit high-handed wasn't it?" "You could come up everyday if you felt inclined to." "Every afternoon." " Aren't you pleased with her?" "You don't seem to understand what's the matter with her." "That's if you care." "Of course I care." " You don't seem to grasp that she's terribly lonely, do you?" "Yes, I think so." "You think so, man?" "You ought to know." "You ought to know that she's..." "she's been down the bottom." "God, man!" "You ought to know that she's got nobody but you and that taxi fellow." " Don't you grasp that?" " Nobody else in the world." " Now look, I'll tell you this...." "I'll warn you clearly and plainly." "If she doesn't get what she wants..." "if something doesn't happen soon... then she won't be here when you come up one day." " Good God, man, can't you see that this isn't simply a case" " of some bloody organic adjustment?" "For me neither." "No." "I'm sorry." "(We'll all please easily in five or six.)" "You've lost a certain half of yourself, I'm sure." "It's just she..." "Well you can come and go." "I'll tell the nurses." "Come when you like and stay for as long as you like." "Will you?" "Yes..." "I'll come as often as I can." "[ Sigh ]" "Well I'm glad we had this talk." "Well there's a big dance they have here on New Year's eve." "Let's see if we can work her back, shall we?" "Make that a sort of goal, deadline." "Well you used to be awful fond of dancing yourself, I believe." "Didn't you?" " Yes." " Hm." "Well, I think it sounds like a good idea to work her back to that, don't you?" "Probably." " Well.." " Oh, uh..." "Do you think it would be a good idea to take her for a drive?" " Drive?" " Yes." "Blackie's got his Lincoln." "It's quite warm." "I think just to get her to go out and about for a bit might do her good." "[ Sniff ] Of course." "We'll aim for the drive first and then the dance." "Anything that's real and positive." "Anything that makes the future real and living for her." "Future." " That's what we have to have in mind." " Steady." " I stumbled, that's all." " Gotta go careful." " I tell you I stumbled on this stupid gown." "I'm surprised." "This is the longest one I've ever seen." "Like my legs." "They're hideous." "Like matchsticks." "I can't bear anyone to see me anymore." "You'll get stronger as you get better." " Oh, I hope so." " You will, Miss Aspen You'll see." "Come on." "One more time." "[ Closes door ]" " We are in receipt of your manuscript." " You should hear from us in the near future." "[ Some time passes ]" "[ Car door opens ]" "No no, you, too, Mr. Richardson." " Are you sure you're all right?" " Yes." " I hope you aren't any cold?" " No." " You tell me if you get any cold." " Ah." "You'll make her tell me won't you, Mr. Richardson?" "The one thing she mustn't do is get cold." "[ Door closes ]" "[ Front door closes ]" "[ Sigh ] I feel the sun through the glass already." "Oh, look!" " Wild violets." "Where did you find them?" "Aw, it's lucky you know." "Just lucky." " You must have hunted high and low." "Now where would you like to go?" " You tell me where." "Just anywhere." "Just...drive anywhere." " If we see something we like we can stop." "All right." "Why don't we start to steady out in the country." "Don't you worry." "Don't get cold." "[ Closes door ]" "You sure you've got enough rugs?" " Yes." " Don't get cold." " [ Laughing ]" "[ Car drives off ]" "[ Noisy gear shifting ]" "Not feeling the cold, Mr. Richardson, is she?" " You're not feeling cold, are you?" " Yes." "She's melting already." "What made you say that?" "That's just how I feel." "Melting and warm after being frozen up." "Thawing out and living again." " You don't feel like that, do you?" "No." "All we really need to make it perfect... is a sleigh with horses and bells." " You'll tell me if you get tired, won't you?" "Oh, we've hardly started." " You mustn't overdo it." "There'll be skating!" "Skating for Christmas." "Everybody loves the idea of skating for Christmas." "Everybody hopes for it." "It hardly ever comes." "Oh that's so lovely." "Oh, stop." "Let's stop here." "[ Brakes squeal to a stop ]" "Nothing wrong is there?" "The ice down by the river." "We ought to go and see if it bears." "We really ought to go and see." "I'll go." "[ Stops engine; opens door ]" "[ Closes door ]" "I'll go, too." "Are you happy?" "Yes." "Terribly happy?" " Happy as you ever were or could be or wanted to be." " Happy in that way?" "I wanted to ask you because... you seem a little strange or something." "I can't explain." "It's lovely." "I keep having this queer feeling that some part of you isn't here." "Do you understand?" "I think it bears." "I'm coming too." "Don't go without me." "I know it..." "Let me go alone." "I want to do it alone." " Mr. Richardson, I..." " Let me help you." " No." "No, I want to do it alone." " Ah!" " Well, come fetch me, somebody." " [ Lydia laughs ] Come on, hold hands." " All right." " Aw!" "[ Laughing ]" "Oh, come on, you too, Bert." "It's wonderful." " I don't think it'll bear the three of us." " Oh, of course." "It cracks too much." "Cracks all over." "If it cracks, it bears." "If it bends, it breaks." "Oh, you and your great tastes." "Isn't it?" "I don't know." "You see the bend of it in the hole." " [ Laughing ] Come, come on." " There, you see?" " Now, now turn around." " Off we go!" " Whee!" "[ Laughing ] Come on, faster." " [ Lydia laughing ] Oh!" " I can do it." " Whee." "[ Laughing ]" " Now, you're overdoing." " Don't get tired." " Now just once more." "I'm there, and then we'll go." " [ Lydia laughing ] Oh, it's wonderful." " Oh, here I come Somebody catch me." "Oh!" "My legs are like jelly." "They won't hold me." "I think I'm going to fall." "You'd better carry her, Blackie." "Skating." "That's something, isn't it?" "That means I'm coming on, doesn't it?" "Soon I'll be dancing, too." "You're coming to the dance, aren't you?" "If you want me to." "Of course I want you to." "I want it more than anything." "And you'll dance with me a lot, won't you?" "Say you will." " I will." " A lot." "All evening." "As long as my poor legs will hold me." "What about Blackie?" " Oh what about him?" "I think you should ask him, too." "Very well." "I'll ask him...." "Yes of course I'll ask him." "[ Closes door ]" "A telegram for you." "You open it." "Well..." ""Revision splendid." "You lead spring list." ""Further three-book contract to follow." ""Happy New Year, Max."" "[ Lydia screams when cork pops ]" "[ Orchestra playing loudly ]" "It's snowing outside." "What have you been doing?" "Just seeing the car." "I believe you're frightened that car will run away." "That would be all right." "I took the bearings out and put in a new head." "You and that car." "I'd bet you think what would happen if it did run away." "Here we are....oops!" "I don't think I ought." "I guess it'll be another year before you drive again." "I see." "[ Edward laughs ]" "Here's to your health, Miss Aspen." " Yours, too, Mr. Richardson." " Dear Bert." " [ Edward ] Good luck." " Nora!" " Is she behaving herself?" " She is indeed." " Not more than half-a-dozen dances, mind." " Not now till midnight." "I shall do exactly as I like." "[ Nora indistinct ]" "[ Lydia ] That's why you'll be safe if she admires you." "You'll never know." "My spies will be watching." "How's the champagne?" "Oh, very good." "Yes, we were late." "This is a great occasion." "Well when is it to be?" "In the supper interval." " Good....that gives us time for one more dance." "Hey, don't overdo it, now." "You know why." " Excuse us." " Yes, of course." "Our turn." "Couldn't you look at me sometimes?" "That's better." " (Could you always keep our cover for?" ")" "Why?" "Don't you know why?" "Why what?" "Come now that's why I'm glad I'm in here." " Just to hold me." "Don't you know why I have to behave?" "Why I promised I would?" "Because if I'm good I can go out of here." "Perhaps in a month." "Anyway very soon." "Well, aren't you glad?" "Don't you think it's wonderful?" "Yes." "I'm very glad." "I think it's wonderful." "Then act as if you were glad." "What is it with you, tonight?" "I was just wondering how you'd get on back at the house." "With no one there but you and Rollo." "Oh, I'm not going back there." "I'm never going back there again." "How do I want that big house with all that goes with it." "I don't want it anymore than you do." "Where will you go?" "I wanted to ask you that." "I thought of that." "I would have thought a change and a rest." "Convalescence, you know." "And then by the sea perhaps." "I've never been to the sea." "Neither have I." "Will you come with me if I went to the sea?" "[ Applause ] Oh." "They'll make the announcement." "(Let's step aside.)" "[ Cheers and applause ]" "[ Dr. Baird speaking from the dais ]" "[ General laughter ]" " Well, ah..." " I'm not very good at this sort of thing." "[ Crowd encourages him ]" " Well, some of you may know that Nora and I..." " Not yet, Miss Jepson and I, ha, ha." " What I mean is, that..." "That the thing is that I'm..." "Well, I'm very proud and happy to tell you... that she's agreed to become my wife." "[ Cheering and applause ]" " Ladies and gentlemen." "Ladies and gentlemen." "I give you Dr. Baird and Nora." "[ All ] Dr. Baird and Nora." " # For they are jolly good fellows For they are jolly good fellows" " [ Lydia ] She lived for that." " # For they are jolly good fellows" " [ Lydia ] All the time that's what she lived for." " # And so say all of us." "[ Applause and cheering ]" "Nora!" "[ Laughter ]" "Well, here's to you!" "[ Blackie ] I hope you both will be very happy." "[ Dr. ] I'm sure." "[ Nora ] I hope you both will come and stay with us, you two." "Thank you." "Well, she means us." "You're not listening again." "Yes, I am listening." "Thank you very much." "It'll be open house for you two, anytime." "Thank you." "We haven't kissed Nora." "[ Kiss ]" "I want to kiss all of you," "You, too." "Oh, it's so nice to feel so happy." "[ Door closes ]" "I thought somehow you'd be out here." "What do you think about that?" "A telegram." "[ Lydia sighs ]" "That's wonderfu!" "I'm so glad for you." "No wonder you been such miles away all evening." "Aren't you cold?" "No, it's quite warm with the snow." "You're hands are cold." "Come into my shawl." "How do you find me?" "Smaller than I was." "Not so much of me." "Your waist is smaller." "You say nice things sometimes." "You haven't answerd my question." "What question?" "The question about the sea." "Would you come with me to the sea?" "Well, would you?" "Come with me will you, please?" "You will come with me, won't you?" "I don't think that I can." "You mean you don't want to?" "You don't want me?" "You do love me, don't you?" "If you don't love me, please say so." "I could understand it." "How could you understand?" "But that was how I got you into here!" "Because I understood." "Myself...you..." "all the things I did." "[ Dogs barking ]" "Can you hear the dogs?" "It's Rollo." "He lets them out every night." "You can hear them all across the fields." "I listen to them sometimes when I'm lying awake." "You can't go back there." "If you can't take me away." "Not from lack of love." "I want that." "Do you hear?" "Then you do understand?" "[ Sigh ]" "You were growing up, too." "Oh, yes." "I might not have understood." "The pain of love might be part of it." "Can you forgive me?" "For all the awful, terrible things I did?" "You." "Tom." "Alex." "Blackie." "Can you forgive me?" "I was even wrong about Bretherton." "I thought of you every night." "When I lay there at the bottom." "After Tom had died." "There was no one there." "And I wanted you." "Oh, you know there's nothing to forgive." "Except the things that I did." "And could not do." "Oh!" "[ Lydia sobs ]" "It took me a long time to know how you felt." "But I know now." "And I know what it meant for you." "I remember the snow last time." "Yes." "And now I can feel the warmth of the spring beyond." "The sound of the blackbird." "And the lovely April weather." "And...and will you come with me to the sea?" "Yes, my love."