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You're making love to me.

Aren't you?

You invited me to talk to you

as a man, didn't you?

- Yes.

- I'm as good as some of them...

that's been playing with you.

They're all afraid of you.

I've heard them talking.

They'd go after you, but they're afraid.

I wish to heaven I was in their boots.

What then, Michael?

The nights I've laid awake

thinking of you.

The things I've wanted to say to you

ever since I first laid eyes on you.

- You're afraid.

- No.

- Is it because I'm a stable hand, is it?

- No, Michael, it isn't that.

I just can't go on this way.

First, it's this.

Then it's something else.

Michael, I just can't die like this.

Die?

Yes.

I'm going to die

in a few months, Michael.

Oh, heaven forgive you

for saying a thing like that.

Yes.

Heaven forgive me.

When it comes...

it must be met beautifully and finely.

That's what he said.

Oh, I'm all shot, Michael.

Murray Hill 7-7340.

Ann, you should be asleep.

Poor Ann, you've had so little sleep.

Where did you go after you left the club?

I've been worried about you.

To the stables, with Michael.

- Judith.

- Don't worry, darling, I was saved.

Of course, for what I was saved

isn't quite clear.

Was that Steele you were calling up?

It doesn't matter. Wasn't any answer.

This business of apologizing to a man.

It really doesn't matter.

Ann, I'm tired.

So tired.

Come along.

Let me put you to bed.

Why?

I'll read you to sleep.

Why? So I can dream?

Oh, Judith, my darling,

please don't talk like that. Please don't.

Ann, I don't know what to do.

It's the waiting. Day and night.

Would I be wrong if I made it happen?

Now, would I?

Judith, please don't talk like that.

Don't. Please.

Don't. Please don't.

I see the dawn come up about four days

out of seven in this place.

Something always seems to happen.

- Say, can I fix you another drink?

- No, thanks.

Who can be calling

at this hour in the morning?

Hello?

Judy!

Yes, he's here.

Come on up. You know,

push the 10th button in the elevator.

- Judy?

- Yeah, it's Judy.

I've loved her for a long time,

but I can't help her now, because...

You're the one man,

so be nice to her, will you?

All right.

- Hello, Alec.

- Hello, Judy.

Hello, doctor.

Hello, Judy.

Nice time to come calling, isn't it?

Come in.

You know, I searched

half the town for you two.

I even rang your night bell.

- I thought doctors were on 24-hour duty.

- Alec kindly asked me to come around...

and we've been talking.

- Did I interrupt something?

- Oh, to the contrary.

The dawn's well up, and I was gonna

cook eggs and bacon.

Wouldn't you like some?

I just thought of it as a way to

get me out. I'm kind of bright that way.

Glad you dropped in, Judy.

Fix her a drink, doc.

Shall I make one?

No, thank you.

You could do something for me, though.

What?

Forgive me.

There's nothing to forgive.

Oh, but...

The things I said to you.

Darling...

it's good to say things.

Gets them off your chest.

I understood.

Did you?

- Do you?

- Yes.

You said you wanted me to have peace.

Where is peace?

Within yourself.

Judy, come here.

I tried to do all the things

I said I would.

Tonight, I...

Darling, there's been no one but you.

Darling.

How good it is to call you that again.

I had to come and tell you no one.

See, I couldn't go on with the thought

that you might be bitter toward me.

I didn't want you

to think of me like that.

But I love you, Judy.

I know you do.

May I take back every rotten thing

I ever said to you?

Oh, darling, help me.

I've been so stupid.

I've crammed every minute

so full of waste, and...

Now there's so little time left...

and I don't know what to do.

I'm afraid.

You're so right and strong.

It's all right now, Judy.

It's all right.

May I see you sometimes?

You're going to see me every day.

You're coming to Vermont with me.

- Am I?

- Yes.

Maybe we'll find that peace

there together.

No.

No, that wouldn't be fair to you.

- We'd have so little...

- Forever, Judy?

Will you marry me?

Marry?

Oh, wouldn't it be marvelous

if we could?

Have a real wedding

and be given away and...

With church bells and champagne...

and a white frock, orange blossoms...

and a wedding cake.

That's one thing I won't have missed.

And you're giving it to me.

I can never love you enough.

Judy.

Good morning, Elmer. Blowy, isn't it?

Sure is, Mrs. Steele.

- How's the sciatica?

- Fine, Mrs. Steele.

- Martha.

- Yes, Miss Judith?

- Here's a letter from Miss Ann.

- Is she coming up?

Not yet, but soon, I think.

"I'm still trying to rent the house,

but no one has any money...

and I'm not going

to let tramps have it."

Why do people

complicate their lives so, Martha?

All those horses and that house.

Here we have nothing,

and yet we have everything.

- Haven't we?

- I think you have, Miss Judith.

A wonder she hasn't come to see you.

You haven't seen her for three months.

Oh, she'll be up soon.

She wants to finish her work first.

- What's that?

- The doctor's lunch.

- Hasn't he had it yet?

- No.

- Why not?

- I knocked on his door twice.

When he's busy with his bugs,

he's like a bear with a sore head.

- I wouldn't disturb him for...

- Well, I'll disturb him.

Am I afraid?

Thank you, Martha.

Hey. Your lunch, doctor.

- Judy, I've told you...

- You were rude to Martha.

I was not rude to Martha. Martha

knows, as you should know, that...

Well, Henry, the damage is done.

What damage? Me?

I've told you never to come in

when I'm working.

This joint is aseptic.

You're crawling with microbes.

- Bugs.

- Me?

- Yes, you.

- That's a fine way to talk to your wife.

Coming in here with all this food.

We got too many bugs here now.

And just as I was about to discover

the secret of life.

Well, maybe not

at this particular moment.

Oh, but you will.

And you might have.

Guess it is my fault.

Judy, darling.

- I am sorry.

- There's nothing to be sorry for.

Your bugs met my bugs

and the food's bugs...

and they had a party,

and they're gonna get so drunk...

they won't be any use to anybody.

- You're mad.

- Yeah. Henry.

- Yes?

- Get that food out of there.

Prepare for another experiment.

If at first you don't succeed,

then try, try...

I'm hungry.

Do you realize it's almost 2:00?

Don't you touch that.

It's probably got bugs in it.

If the sandwiches' bugs

got into your bugs...

your bugs got into the sandwiches'.

- Just a minute.

- No.

- All right. All right, toughie.

- It's cold.

- What's new in the world?

- Guess what.

I got a letter from Ann.

She's coming to visit us. Read it.

- What did you do this morning?

- Big things.

- What?

- I walked.

Here. Can't have that,

it's got bugs in it.

- Where did you walk?

- To the village.

May we use your table, Martha?

- Why, of course, Miss Judith.

- Sit down.

- What's new in the village?

- There's a well-founded rumor...

that it'll be twins for Mrs. Dibble.

This is great. We'll show her

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