A Place in the Sun Page #3

why I invited you here tonight.

I tell you why. I love...

Are they watching us?

I love you, too! It scares me.

- But it is a wonderful feeling.

- It's wonderful when you're here.

I can hold you, I can see you.

I can hold you next to me.

But what's it going to be like

next week?

I'll still be as much in love

with you. You'll be gone!

But I'll be at the lake!

You'll come and see me.

It's so beautiful. You must come.

I know my parents will be a problem.

But you can come the weekends

when the kids are there.

You don't have to work weekends.

That's the best time.

If you don't come,

I'll drive down here to see you.

I'll pick you up outside the factory.

You'll be my pick-up! We'll arrange

it somehow, whatever way we can.

We'll have such wonderful times

together, just the two of us.

- I'd be the happiest person alive.

- The second happiest.

Angela, if I could only tell you

how much I love you.

- If I could only tell you all.

- Tell Mama.

Tell Mama all.

- Your age, Mrs Hamilton?

- Twenty-two.

How long married?

Three months.

Well, now... Sit down.

What seems to be the trouble,

Mrs Hamilton?

You needn't be afraid to tell me.

That's my business,

listening to other people's troubles.

It's like this.

My husband hasn't much money.

I have to work

to help pay the expenses.

Yes?

When I found out I was going

to have a baby...

...we didn't see...

We didn't know any doctors.

What business is your husband in?

Electrician.

That's not such a bad business.

At least they charge enough!

- We can't afford to...

- There are free hospitals, you know?

I know.

Free hospitals

don't solve everything.

Tell me, how did you happen

to come to me, anyhow?

I heard people say

you were a good doctor.

I see.

Mrs Hamilton, when you went

to the altar three months ago,

you must have realised you might

have to face a situation like this.

Once you make up your mind

to face this bravely,

you'll find all the problems

have a way of sorting themselves out.

Medical bills, clothes. I know.

I know my wife and I

worried at first.

- But now we can look back...

- It's not like that!

I'm not married.

I haven't got a husband.

All right, that won't do any good.

- Where's the young man?

- He deserted me. What'll I do?

Somebody's gotta help me.

Miss Hamilton, my advice is go home

and see your parents and tell them.

It'll be much better that way,

I assure you.

If you've come to place yourself

under my care during your pregnancy,

I'll do everything to ensure

your health and that of your child.

On the other hand,

if you've just come for free advice

on material and financial problems...

...with which I can't help you...

No, I cannot help you.

What did he say?

He said he thought I ought

to make a very healthy mother.

Gee, Al.

That's all you've said for weeks.

I'm trying to think.

You just gotta marry me.

Family or no family.

This future of yours or no future.

Just looking at it that way

settles everything.

But we haven't got any money.

This thing comes out, I'm through.

I won't even have the job I got now.

- You're just stalling.

- I'm not! I'm trying to think.

I want to figure out some way.

I was thinking maybe when I get

my vacation, first week of September.

All right, that's when we'll do it.

When you get your vacation,

we'll go out of town and get married.

- You understand?

- Yeah, I understand.

Now back again to the news.

It seems the fine weather has been

too fine in parts of the country.

In New York City, seven persons

are reported as having succumbed

from the high temperature.

Nearer home, fine weather

had its darker aspects, too.

The State Highway Patrol says that

fatalities from weekend accidents

exceeded by four the figure for the

corresponding weekend last summer.

Some 14 persons lost their lives.

At least five were drowned.

Several others received emergency

first aid at crowded lake resorts.

So be careful.

It may be your turn next or

the turn of those dearest to you.

Drive carefully, and don't swim

from unpatrolled beaches.

Make your holiday

death's holiday, too.

George!

Hello, you.

- I've missed you so!

- Me, too. I can't tell you how much.

I've wonderful news.

I had to drive down to tell you.

Mother and Dad want you to spend

your vacation with us up at the lake.

- You'll come, won't you?

- I don't think I can.

George, no! This is my one chance

to show you off to Mother and Dad.

Take my word for it, I've got to!

I promised my uncle

I'd spend some time with him.

That's perfect! Your aunt and uncle

are both coming up on 3rd September.

That's when you're coming.

Darling, I love you so much,

so very much.

Just think of it.

We'll go swimming together,

lie in the sun together,

go horseback riding

through the pine woods.

I'll make breakfast for you every

morning, and you can sleep late.

I'll bring it in to you in your room.

- And you love me.

- Yes.

- Hello?

- I've gotta ask you a favour.

Don't get angry at me.

I've gotta ask you for an extra week.

- I don't have to give you anything.

- You just got to!

I talked to my uncle and

he wants me to come up to the lake

and spend the first week

of my vacation with them.

- It's important to both of us.

- Why?

I figure from the way he's been

talking that if I go up there

he's gonna give me a bonus.

It might be a lot of money,

I don't know, $300.

We could sure use that.

All right, you go up there

for a week. I'll wait here.

I want to talk to you about that.

I'm not sure I approve

of young Mr Eastman.

- I don't know what he's doing here.

- He's here because I invited him.

Why do you encourage this?

You can be very unperceptive

at times.

Opposition only makes a boy

of that type more attractive.

I invited him,

because I wanted to see him

among people Angela really knows.

She'll see whether he belongs or not.

Come on! It's freezing!

It's just like ice!

Hurry up!

I've never been so cold in my life!

- Aren't you going in?

- Sure.

George, put me down!

- It happens every single time!

- What does?

I freeze to death.

It's the coldest lake ever!

- What did you go in for, then?

- 'Cause it's my lake.

- Yours?

- Uh-huh.

I found this trail when I was 14.

Nobody lives here,

not on this part of it.

It's in two parts

with a little channel in between.

There's a crumbly old lodge down at

the end and some crumbly old boats.

Come closer.

- What do they call this lake?

- Loon Lake. It's nice now.

But sometimes it's weird,

especially at sundown.

I've never been able to feel

the same about it since the drowning.

- What drowning?

- A man and a girl last summer.

Nobody knows what happened. It was

five days before they found the girl.

- And the man?

- They never found him.

- What was that?

- A loon.

- What are you thinking about?

- Nothing, nothing at all.

- Hi.

- Hi.

And I used to think

I was complicated!

- Are you worried about my family?

- I suppose I am.

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