Second Chance (1950) - full transcript

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I'll catch the 3:30 plane tomorrow that

ought to get me in st. Louis about five

if you want me I'll be at the Plaza

Hotel em hmm I heard you he'll be at the

plantain for a moment I thought I was

talking to myself don't forget you have

an appointment to see dr. Matthews at

two o'clock tomorrow afternoon oh well I

don't know I don't like that pain you've

been getting in your side probably



nothing

probably but it's much better to be sure

now don't you try to run out on it two

o'clock and dr. Matthews office all

right all right all right

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she's still in there doctor you better

see if she's all right

mrs. Dean Cassie are you alright if I'm

alrighty

shall I call your husband so he can pick

you up

thank you but he's not in town you had

to make a trip to st. Louis I'm just as



glad and away brother tell him this sort

of thing myself

you know our husbands are no I guess you

don't do you shall I call you a taxi I

supposed oh all right but no Eva wait

wait dear I've so much to think about

nice day I I think I'd rather walk that

might be too much exertion I'd better

ask the doctor no no don't bother him

please Eva I've known you ever since you

were gods oh hi haven't I

yeah I have grown up graduate nurse the

thing to other people's troubles I

suppose you heard everything dr.

Matthews said to me didn't you yeah

she's funny thing nobody expects to live

forever your doctor tells you at the end

of the road it's very far ahead could be

any time at all just can't believe it

not one atom of your body belief

well oh you talking about it again I'm

sorry that's all right mrs. Dean I'll be

careful

I should get tired I'll call a cab I

would if I were you

bye bye

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Emily Dean had known these streets for

years without really seeing them

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now well it seems she might never see

them again they were suddenly very dear

to her her eyes clung to every familiar

detail she began to remember things the

small odds of Em's of fifty years of

living

50 years

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there were milepost along the years of

her life pointing like accusing fingers

she had long known they were there but

it had been easier not to see certain

things the things she had left undone

and things she had intended to do but

never quite got around to she and Ed

it didn't seem so long ago that shianet

had walked through this park

hand-in-hand and sat on that same edge

Oh where'd I'm so excited just by this

time tomorrow D poor head perhaps she

had taken him a little too much for

granted these last few years was it so

long ago it didn't seem so and so time

in reaching for eternity paused for a

moment to look back this ring I give

thee this ring I give thee in token and

pledge in token and pledge of our

constant faith of our constant faith and

abiding love and abiding love I now

pronounce the man and wife in the name

of the Father and the Son and the Holy

Ghost amen

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oh and the banks

Oh

it's a wonderful let's keep it this way

always

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he doesn't look too bad for my first

dinner does it

terrific mrs. Dean oh I'm so full of

thanks for everything yeah me too

saying it's just words we have to do

better than that

I think we have to live it every single

day I'm with you in

it's also beautiful

I guess a lot of people have the idea

that about all of minister does is

preach and visit the sick well what else

does he do well I try to visit people

when they're not sick I often find that

people need help and don't know it

take take you too for instance you found

something wonderful together it's not

not just your love or your home

something deeper than that it's a

quality of life we'd like to keep it

cost you it and you can too but it won't

be easy I think there are two or three

things you need to remember one is don't

try to go out alone there are too many

forces at work in the world trying to

tear down your ideals your sense of

values you need the strength that comes

from working in the Fellowship of a

church second remember that there are

three of you and a partnership Edie

Emily and God don't forget to talk to

that third partner regularly last and I

guess if you don't remember anything

else I say today and remember this our

visit will have been worthwhile

if you want to keep that quality of life

you've got to share it you can't just

live for yourselves alone you've got to

work and pray and give not just for

people you know but for people whom you

don't know whom you'll never see that's

one of the functions of the church it

can serve as the medium through which

you express this well this matter of

sharing

we both used to be active in church work

I think I'd like to be again oh I'd like

nothing better than to see you both in

church every Sunday morning we'll find

lots of work for you to do but first why

don't you join the couples club that's a

group of young people young married

people like yourselves they're active

workers in the community trying to make

a better community in a better world for

that matter there's a meeting this uh

this next Friday night can you make it

what yes we'd be glad to wouldn't we it

thanks for coming over this evening

doctor well thank you for letting me

come it's been a real pleasure thanks

for the cookie

I just came home a little early that's

all I washed the windows cleaned all the

woodwork did the shopping had to bake a

cake in the middle of it all for the

church and then I shuffle wait a minute

wait hold everything look I just came

home to tell you something I got a raise

hmm five dollars more a week oh oh I

know it isn't much but it means they

like me down to the bank and maybe

someday I'll even get to be an assistant

cashier or cashier even I'll get a real

raise then what she wrote darling

you think you got a real raise when

you're president okay you bet your life

I will mm-hmm

oh why haven't any time for you get away

from me we got a hurry many many the cup

of club remember oh yeah we've enjoyed

getting to know you mr. Saunders and

thanks for signing the card well see you

in church next Sunday yes indeed mr.

Saunders I'm looking forward to meeting

mrs. Saunders

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oh that's a fine demonstration thank you

very much

I wonder if you people realize what a

great work you're doing calling on new

people and inactive members of the

church you see some of us are called to

the Christian ministry here or as

missionaries but most of us are

laypeople that means our work is right

here another thing as laypeople you have

a great many opportunities that aren't

even open to me for instance there's a

minister I mean the people you live with

and work with if they're going to see

God they're probably going to have to

see him in you you can live so that

Christ has a living witness in you

wherever you are day or night and what

you say and what you do and then what

you are dr. Emory when we talk to these

people how much emphasis should we put

on giving well I'm sure of one thing

giving is essential to Christian growth

giving is essential to life life is more

than just a matter of all intake and no

out goal

otherwise we've become like the Dead Sea

no sir you show me at either a man who

gives a tenth and I'll show you a life

in which the power of God is at work the

person who doesn't give or who gives

grudgingly is almost sure to be

spiritually anemic

this pledge card that's more than just

an ordinary pledge card it's more than a

request for money it's a passport to a

whole new way of life it's a symbol of

dedication to Christ and that kind of

dedication means change lives and change

lives mean a changed community and maybe

even a changed world ah

now about this card well we feel when

you realize how much the church means to

you that you want to become active

members of it give regularly to its

support oh we used to be very active in

church work but just like we've been

terribly busy you have no idea

sure I know how it is but this is

important

oh it isn't that we aren't interested we

are we try to be good Christians but

it's just we thought we were Christians

too we found it it isn't easy outside

the church we need help

oh I'm for the church it's a great

institution the church is a great

institution it's a world institution and

if we don't want to have another war

we've got to think about the whole world

and the people in China and Africa and

India and do something to help them find

a better way to live now by ourselves we

can't do much but through the church we

can do a lot if we all pitch in and help

well I don't know what we can do right

now maybe later on we can help out well

what my husband's trying to say is that

it isn't that the church needs us it's

that we need the church I don't know how

to say this very well but it's made a

big difference to adding me to put

Christ at the center of our lives and

and to be with other people who are

trying to do the same thing we haven't

been married very long we think we've

found something and we want to keep it

we want others to have it too

well anyway we'll let when we see you in

church next Sunday if we possibly can

yes now well about this card

oh let's not decide this tonight Sara

you know how things been this year we'll

talk it over and see what we can do

we'll let you know

sure that'll be fine

well it's been very nice meeting you

good Oh wedding

but in spite of discouragement and and

Emily plunged wholeheartedly into the

life and work of the church

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listen that guy have any morning to talk

to you I could so much about that

neighborhood house tell me what kind of

work do you do down there

oh we serve the people who don't have

any other place to get together some of

the need food and clothing and jobs but

even more than that we try to give them

a new spirit in their lives so they can

do more for themselves oh well that

sounds wonderful mr. Decker

I'd give a lot if I could get you and Ed

to come down and give us a hand one

night a week Oh what could we do we've

never done anything like that oh you can

help with the games and the crap work

lots of things but above everything else

you'll be helping by just being there

really yes you see if they can just feel

that somebody likes them or cares a

little bit about their problems they

need that like all the rest of us I see

with that wonderful yes it is it's

really wonderful what you're doing

I wish ed and I went so binti with a lot

of other things but I don't see how we

could take on anything else just now

maybe later think about it when Emily

we're trying to get Christianity across

to these people but words don't mean

very much to them but they really

understand are things that happen things

that they can see well think about it

really Emily suppose we didn't have a

nice house to give parties in the birth

we had to depend on the neighborhood

house sounds like you've been talking to

Harry Dekker

I suddenly have Lazard to turn him down

I don't see how we could go down there

one night a week way too busy that's

what I told him so don't worry about it

he'll find somebody to help him out yes

I guess so

only Rosie doesn't forget it I wish I

could but I keep thinking about those

people he was talking about we think

we're pretty good Christians but maybe

we need to put it into practice more mr.

Decker says those people don't

understand words just there's things

that happen things they can see Edie and

you know who those people really are no

there are our neighbors

yeah yeah that's right they are

and it would only take one night a week

wouldn't it why don't we try it alright

let's try it okay she and dad had

something in those days something fine

why haven't they been able to keep it

young lady young lady drop you

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Emme away

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did you feel oh you bet I saw it what a

guy

his eyes were open - I got a good look

at him they're gonna be just like yours

yeah but he's got your nose uh he's as

bright as the dollar he's the

best-looking one of the bunch - I looked

at them all that must be it doesn't

happen he's a stand-up anti Richard

Richard do you decide on that what in 19

no Richard

Elwood Dean after my father oh that's

nice

Richard Dean day Dickie Dickie Dean

Dickie diamond that's good innit

do you accept for yourself and for your

son the Covenant of God and there in

consecrate your son to him I do I

and do you promise to instruct him in

the principles of our holy religion as

contained in the scriptures to pray with

him and for him and to bring him up in

the nurture and the admonition of the

Lord

I do I do

Richard Elwood Dean and so after Emily

dedicated a new life and accepted the

responsibility that goes with it but he

was never anything but Dicky - Adam

Emily of course he had become the center

of their lives in fact the center of

everything sound asleep

only time I get any rest are here won't

you sit down

thank you no Emily we're trying to get a

nursery started a day nursery for the

children of working mothers I think

that's a wonderful idea doctor how'd you

like to help you know perhaps one day a

week you can take your own baby with you

it wouldn't be much different from

sitting here oh I'm afraid I have my

hands full right now dr. Emory dick he's

been off his diet the last few weeks and

but since ed took on my work at the bank

I've had a lot of extra entertaining -

June we even had to give up our work at

the neighborhood house yes I know Emily

but this is a way for you to help

yourself when children come so many

mothers narrow their lives down to the

horizon of their homes you are to your

family to keep your personality growing

one way to do that is through service to

others

you and that have something very fine in

your lives Emmeline you must never lose

it no no we don't want to nobody does it

just happens sometimes

I don't know he isn't even paid for yes

Oh give me time honey oh wait I eat all

so many bills doctor bills hospital

bills all the things for the baby and I

had to get some clothes for myself hey

did you have to join the country club

right now well that's business

you want me to be president of the bank

someday don't you all right I've got to

meet the big shots yeah but where you

know we haven't kept up our pledge to

the church either yeah that's right

we'll just have to wait a while I guess

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Emily tried to manage the details of

living but as sometimes happens the

details of living began to manage Emily

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you're robbing my good interest that

belong to your great-grandmother Elwood

until you learn to behave it was a daily

round of the butcher the baker the

candlestick maker

dozens of household frustrations

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hello hello a.m. listen honey I just now

let me tell you something if you ever

leave those shaving materials on that

washed and again but I know I M yes the

plum has been here all day the waters

turned off it I'm going crazy now wait a

minute listen I'm trying to tell you

something I've got to run up to Chicago

this afternoon and testify in a Czech

case why don't you come along come along

how can I come along who's gonna take

care of deke bring deke we can have

dinner there catch a train back in the

morning you know tomorrow's the day that

I'm entertaining those wives of your

bank officials how can I go gallivanting

off to Chicago I've got to clean the

house thoroughly bake a cake it I don't

know what I'm gonna get it all done as

it is all right all right oh I won't be

home for dinner M see you later honey

bye bye take no thought for your life

what you shall eat or what ye shall

drink Oh yet for your body what ye shall

put on is not the life more than food

and the body than raiment your heavenly

Father knoweth that you have need of all

these things therefore seek ye first the

kingdom of God and His righteousness and

all these things shall be added unto you

the Sermon on the Mount

but it had been easier not to listen too

closely to those great words

there was a faraway look in her eyes as

she looked across toward the pond

somewhere she had read that swans sing

when they were going to die

she thought of it now she didn't feel a

bit like singing all she could think of

was a line of a prayer she used to say

when she was a little girl if I should

die before I wake

why should children be taught to say

things like that now I lay me down to

sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep if

I should die before I wake I pray the

Lord my soul to take

god bless mommy and daddy that's right

and a-one amen

mm-hmm amen that's a good boy to keep Oh

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Emma you alright

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hey say you'd better go see dr. Matthews

in the morning happy right

I'd like to introduce you to a new

brother Jimmy Dickie this is Jimmy and

vice versa we have the most wonderful

family in the whole world

you bet at least it's a nice beginning

Oh Edward Elwood Dean do you expect to

go to church in your pajamas Oh golly

it's almost 10:30 mm-hmm I didn't

realize it was so late you see honey out

well

what about yourself what well I haven't

had time to do anything but get Jimmy

and Dickie off to sunny school and wash

the breakfast dishes I've got to read

these financial pages sometime today

besides I've brought home a lot of work

from the bank Oh ed I think we ought to

go in helmand I know we should honey

we'll make it next Sunday huh but you

that's a promise okay okay but next

Sunday

you know I wouldn't want to say a word

about Judy Morrison that day did you

hear that her husband had left her oh no

I heard he'd been drinking pretty

heavily terrible hmm well just between

us of course I'm not too surprised oh I

feel so sorry for that little girl of

hers she's such a bad mannered child I

do oh oh I really shouldn't Casablanca

you're playin I forgot you were having a

party

you know everyone oh yes of course hello

mrs. Gordon forgive me for breaking in

like this come here you'll excuse me

girls I'm dummy anyway please go right

ahead

well I got it you got what I've just

been made cashier really oh and that's

wonderful I'll play golf for the

officers the bank and you play bridge

with their wives and maybe we'll get

some play oh and guess what what I've

just been asked to join the Garden Club

oh that's fine you go ahead and do it it

won't do us a bit of harm that's what I

thought

things began to look up for Anton Emily

with Ed's promotion they move from the

old house where they had lived when they

were first married to a new house and

what was called the better part of town

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awfully good of you to stop by and give

me a hand at this doctor Emily where's

your Emily I like to do a little

gardening when I have the chance but

your green thumb probably win a prize at

the Garden Club this year nothing ensued

me better unless it would be to get you

to chair a committee for me Oh what kind

of a committee

well the factories have laid the workers

off again some of them have been able to

find jobs others are sick and need our

help

you know clothing medical care proper

food for the children I see there's

going to be a meeting this this next

Tuesday night well got in the city take

care of that sort of thing either the

county leave this to the city or the

county these people need help it's our

Christian responsibility oh yes we

should do something about it shouldn't

we then you'll be there Tuesday Tuesday

well there's something I have to do on

Tuesday I can't just think what is it

oh that's Ed's night at the club that

just don't seem to be enough days

we'll come if we can alright Emily

good to see you again anyway it's always

good to see you dr. Henry you give that

my best I'll do that

how do you need to tell me this table

has been dusted well I thought I dusted

it well it doesn't look it so we're

having guests but dinner tonight and I

want this room absolutely perfect yes

ma'am Sarah what's wrong she just went

upstairs the Sun set

did you see the Sun set is this your cap

young man sure mom

what's it doing hanging over there I'm

sorry you're sorry how do you expect me

to have time to look at sons that's what

I have to pick up after you all over the

house now put it in your room where it

belongs

okay mom no father never gonna pick up

after himself either tons it

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hello yes this is indeed Oh

Farren Teachers Association oh yes well

we'll try to come if we can but but

don't count on us oh no I couldn't

possibly serve on any committee no it's

not that I'm not interested but well

we're just too busy this is the last

straw your father's going to hear this

ed you've got to do something about this

son of yours oh when he's bad he's my

son and when he's good he's yours is

that I warned you not to buy in that

chemistry set

he's almost set fire to the house twice

now he's splattered some blue stuff all

over that wall upstairs me mama and hurt

nursing you should see that didn't hurt

anything you should see that war little

past week it was frogs in the bathtub I

don't care so much what they do what

they just wouldn't do it here in the

house why can't you collect stamps Oh

something civilized like that

Oh get on up there and clean up that

mess go on now and Richard how many

times must I tell you not to put your

feet on the furniture huh

young man I spent my whole time trying

to keep this house looking decent in

case somebody drops in and you you sit

there and you it will you please put out

that smelly pipe

hello dear hiya boy I was Church all

right

what was the sermon about something

about what powerful man if he gain the

whole world and lose lose his own soul

that's right Oh Jimmy do you have to

play the radio on Sunday morning well I

don't mind I don't want to listen to it

go upstairs and play your own video okay

MA

you heard what your mother said doesn't

there I'm going up gentlemen I interrupt

the program to tell you that word has

just come that pearl harbors been bombed

by the Japanese stay tuned to this

station for further details war

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ah you look mighty fine let's see how

they took care of it down there that's

pretty good fit

hey take it easy well I can still take

care of you you know it's a bet next

time I come in take take it easy mom

look it's getting kind of late I have to

get back to the base you know

yes well I'm away I guess right let's go

look I want something here yes sure

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gee dad I don't see why he won't let me

do it Jimmy

there are lots of other jobs besides

that of being a soldier why you're not

even 18 yet but a lot of the guys have

already joined us never mind about a lot

of guys look mom can't you talk to dad

do some James the matter is settled I

want to hear no more about it what is it

in our department

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missing in action

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that doesn't mean it

that just means that he's missing

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how could God do this to us

oh goody Oh Wars are born in the hearts

of men not in the love of God you've got

to try to understand that without

bitterness in times like these we've got

to cling tighter to our faith in God

than ever before because what a personal

disaster of this sort comes it can sweep

us away

we are to blame for the Wars of this

world and because we've tried to settle

our problems and this way we've got to

be prepared to pay the penalty to the

last farthing

Christ came to tell us this but we won't

listen

you've got to put your hand in God's

Emily and walk with him like a little

child if you do that you'll find

strength and remember Jesus said

to him who hath shall be given from him

who hath not shall be taken away

even that which he had

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the wounds of the world were deep they

were spiritual as well as physical there

was need for a renewal of faith and the

healing touch of time what is there for

the heads in the emily's of the world

when the spiritual well runs dry

Emily suspected that something was wrong

she and Ed were drifting apart but she

refused to believe such a thing or that

it could be her fault

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yes

hello-hello em I won't be home for

dinner tonight

yes I've got to fly down to st. Louis

don't suppose you'd like to come along

would you well in the first place have

Garden Club meeting tomorrow and all the

weekend shopping to do not to mention

the fact that the house has to be

cleaned from top to bottom the laundress

ordered the dry cleaning picked up and

when you remember that the car has to be

serviced today then I thought I'd why

don't you stop fussing you'll get

everything done yes I may be gone the

weekend too no you can reach me at the

Plaza Hotel bye

goodbye and where do you think you're

going young man to Hilldale I've been

offered a job over there

Hilary hmm he'll march right back

upstairs a little bit the job you want

your father I'll get you one right here

where I can keep an eye on you that's

just what I'm trying to avoid my hot

don't get upset

it's just that I want to stand on my own

two feet once in the heart I intend to

do it wait this is your home mm-hmm BYE

MOM

you come back here I'm not finished

talking to you

yes life was slipping away from Emily

and Ed years strewn with good intentions

and lost opportunities

what had happened to them they had

started out so beautifully why was it

that things hadn't worked out the way

they had planned

and now Jimmy was gone too

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it's a very undesirable family just

moved in down the block I think they're

foreigners oh Emily so what after all

we have our position to maintain Edie I

do we should take a look at that new

house I've been telling her about by the

way have you heard from Jimmy is he

coming home for Thanksgiving don't try

to change the subject I'm not trying to

change the subject I just want to know

if you've heard from Jim you know

perfectly well I hadn't um there's a

phone

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hello Oh Jimmy well it's about time you

called your mother you want yeah we got

married last week

well we better very suddenly we decided

it was better that way married but Jimmy

you can't do that I haven't even met the

girl what's her name

Irene well Irene who well Irene Dean of

course I'll tell you all about it when I

see you mom

you're gonna love her well you're coming

over tonight oh well we were just going

out look oh no no that that's all right

we'll wait of course

okay

Jimmy married no

I named Irene

well what do you know we don't even know

the girl

so what it'll be alright just wait and

see

hello hello jimmy-boy mother

dad this is I ring how do you do how do

you do

welcome home Irene say Jimmy I admire

your taste May I kiss the bride well I

guess there isn't very much I can say

mrs. Dean except that I love Jimmy very

much I see oh come on mom

breakdown we've just have to make the

best of it I presume

Oh Jimmy uh what I think well your

mother means perhaps is that well she

would have preferred to have a big

church wedding you know with all the

trimmings but that's just what we didn't

want of course it's all right mom

wait'll you get acquainted well let's go

out in the kitchen and make some coffee

come on

give me you your mother doesn't like me

oh sure she does

you just don't know mom yet give her a

chance huh I didn't know she was gonna

be like that come on snap out of it come

on

why did you have to give them the deep

freeze after all he's our son and he

married the girl he loved why do you

have to make it so difficult for them I

don't even know the girl

anything about her family it's just that

you're hurt and jealous that's all well

of course I resent my son being whisked

away from me by that girl listen Emily

whether you know it or not you've grown

very dictatorial these past few years

you drove your son away from home to

begin with and you'll never get him back

if you go on like this

you're so wrapped up in your your home

and yourself you can't see anything

beyond it how dare you talk that way to

me

it's about time somebody told you of

course we expect you and Jimmy to make

your home address you may have the front

bedroom upstairs Oh that'll be fine mom

Oh more coffee for you my dear No thank

you mrs. Dean well Irene we may as well

understand each other from the beginning

there are certain things that I expect

in this household and I must ask you to

comply with whatever I may

well mother I'm afraid it won't do it

for us to stay here what where you do

well I suppose I could drive back and

forth to Hilldale it's only 15 miles but

I think it's better we have our own

place near my job sorry dad so long

Emily remember that first dinner you

cook for us you didn't talk like that in

those days I wonder what's happened to

us

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with terrifying clarity emily was

beginning to see the sort of person she

had become

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we are from the couples Club at the

church dr. emre said you used to be

members of it yes we used to be quite

active but for some reason we just

couldn't seem to find time to keep it up

there so many demands on our time now

you understand but don't you see mrs.

Dean Christianity isn't something that

you keep to yourself it's well you've

got to share it if you want to keep it

as soon as I've heard that somewhere

before a long time ago

it isn't that we're not interested

because we are it's just a bit well but

don't you see it isn't so much that the

church needs us it's that we need the

church how it's meant so much to us

calling on people and getting to know

them in their own homes and really

trying to do something for Christ every

day you see mrs. Dean we think we found

something we want to keep it always

until we want others to have it too I've

heard that somewhere before too

I hope you can keep it perhaps mrs. Dean

you'd like to sign one of these cards oh

well I couldn't sign it just now mr.

Dean and I'll have to talk it over first

all right mrs. Dean it's been very nice

to see you young folk yes thank you for

coming both of you

oh that's all right we'll look for you

Sunday at church

well uh maybe you can bring the card

with you good night good night good

night good night I'll show you to the

door

nice kids like we used to be I hope

nobody tells him what they have to look

forward to maybe he doesn't want to be

just a bank president how long is it

since you've been to church what does

that got to do with it I've always tried

to lead a good Christian life yes your

Christianity isn't you get it out like a

guest towel when somebody comes then you

fold it up and put it away back on the

shelf how can you say those things to me

do you think you are any better yourself

at least I have raised our two children

and taken care of your home I cooked and

cleaned and washed and ironed and

scrubbed and entertained also you could

be president of your little piggy bank

what have you ever done to help nothing

not one thing you've always been too

fiddly

Oh wham what's happened to us

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I'm sorry

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I never meant to die

I never meant to be unfriendly

intolerant

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all the things she had seen and had

denied through the years were coming

back to her one by one

the tenderness that she had without the

impatience over trivialities

the Sun was setting she remembered the

time when Dicky had wanted to show her

the sunset

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why had she closed her life to all this

why had she closed her life to God

if only she could find him again if only

there were still time

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it would be that bit

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thank you

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what's the matter

ed what are you doing here hmm Oh who's

a better right

what's the matter and we have a bad

dream

you whippet Alafia sleep last night

thrashed around - I almost had to wake

you no I have to fly down to st. Louis

this afternoon but you went yesterday M

of you slipped a cog I was right here

last night remember the nice young

couple that called on us we've had last

night

but then what day is this Wednesday Oh

yesterday was Wednesday I had an

appointment with dr. Matthew as a 2

o'clock no honey

today is Wednesday then today's the day

I see dr. madness yeah I wouldn't be the

least bit surprised what's the joke oh I

guess I dreamed it went away and I

thought today was Thursday only it isn't

tonight and I still have to see dr. mash

yep

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edie call me this afternoon before you

leave the bank okay

that's why well I I think I know what

dr. Matthews is going to say to me

that's all right

don't forget it

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look em there's nothing wrong with you

with a little exercise and a proper diet

won't take care of that cartograph was

quite unnecessary I suppose you feel

better now you've seen it yes I do

doctor you've got a lot of good years

ahead of you now run along behave

yourself and give my best to it thank

you doctor man thank you I'll do that

goodbye goodbye

hello hello and I'm glad at you yeah

just walked in the front door this

minute I could man who says I'm gonna

live just what I thought well I just

called to say goodbye I'm taking off for

st. Louis in a couple of hours don't

suppose it's much Houston asking if

you'd like to change your mind and come

along oh I've got those curtains to hem

up and the painters coming you remember

how to do the back porch I've been

having trouble with that maid again

she's it wait a minute

Edie and did you ask me to go to st.

Louis with you do you really want me

well I wouldn't ask you if I didn't mean

it

we haven't been anywhere together for a

long time have we yet why am what's come

over you

we'll take a car drive down make a

weekend of it oh that would be wonderful

we've got so much to talk about so much

Edie and could we well there I'd like to

stop and see Irene and Jimmy and the

baby yeah that's on the way could we

on Edie

I'd let the plan to be back Sunday

morning I've got an appointment I'd like

to keep alright honey

we will

thank you

thank you

for a second chance

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you