Next Time We Love Page #7

reasonable? Some such thing.

Well, I guess I'd better hurry

if I'm going to catch that train.

Cicely, I wonder if...

You know, I'd like to see Kit once more.

Certainly. Come on.

Oh, this is nice.

That's my room.

Do you think it will wake him

if I kiss him goodbye?

It doesn't matter.

Good night.

I guess he thought

it was you.

No. He knows you by now.

I'm sorry I can't send you back in

the car, but it's William's night off.

That's all right. I am pretty

used to trains. Yes, I know.

I'll be in town in a few days. It'll

be fun showing you all the new places.

I'll look forward to that.

You'll call me tomorrow, then? Yes.

I'd better hurry

or I'll miss that train.

Chris, what would happen

if you didn't take that train?

...that he expected...

Mother, I thought you told me this morning

Daddy didn't know where he was going?

But I don't know

the word for "expected. "

Mother,

what time is Tommy coming?

Kit, if you don't pay

attention to Professor Dindet,

you're never going to learn enough French

to be able to be a foreign correspondent.

Good.

I'm afraid we were both very

bad pupils today, Professor.

Goodbye.

I saw a car down the road,

but it wasn't Tommy.

Come here to me, young man.

What's the matter with you today?

You weren't very nice to the

Professor. I'm sorry, Mother.

Mother?

Hmm?

Where is Daddy going next?

He isn't quite sure, darling.

Oh. Didn't he say in that letter

you got from him this morning?

No.

There's Tommy.

Hello, Tommy.

Hello, Kit. How are you?

Gee, I thought you were

never coming. Did you?

Hello, Tommy.

Hello, Cicely.

Did you find out about

that lasso? Lasso?

You said you were going to find out

where I could get a horse-hair lasso.

Darling, you can wait till

you get to California for that.

But I need one

to practice with.

It's only 26, I mean 27 days

till I go to Tommy's ranch.

The minute I get off the plane

in California I'll see about it.

When will that be?

Well, I leave tonight at 9:00

from Newark, and it takes 18 hours.

Oh, gee, that means I'll

have to wait a whole day more.

There's the younger

generation for you.

But be sure

it's a horse-hair lasso.

That's the only kind

rattlesnakes won't crawl over.

Darling, you've got to

get ready for your supper.

Yes, Mother.

Hurry now. It's late.

Yes.

How about my hat?

I'm almost as excited

about your ranch as Kit is.

Well, you could see it with

him if you'd come to California

and do that picture

they want you for.

No. No Hollywood for me

this summer, I'm afraid.

Is it a real ranch?

Well, don't tell Kit,

but I grow asparagus on it.

Are you ready to go? No, I have

to get dressed. I won't be long.

Had a letter from Chris

this morning.

Did you?

Good evening, Mrs. Tyler. Mr.

Abbott. Good evening, George.

Everything packed, George?

Yes, sir.

Well, look, you better get a car

around here in a couple of hours.

But it takes an hour and a

quarter to get to the airport, sir.

Well, make it an hour.

Yes, sir.

Oh, I like it better here.

It was so noisy at Pierre's.

Want a brandy?

No, thank you.

Tommy, what is this?

Well, it's a remote control

to that radio.

Very handy, too, when you

can't get away from the bar.

You've managed to surround

yourself with more gadgets.

Well, I guess

it's the same reason

that I keep this apartment

in New York.

Something to do

with my money.

What about that

beautiful blond?

Oh, you've been reading

Winchell, huh? Mmm-hmm.

That the same one I met in

California last summer? Mmm-hmm.

Yes, she's very nice.

Well, was Winchell right?

What? About my marrying her?

Mmm-hmm.

We've talked about it.

Yes.

Chris wrote me that he thought he might go

to Switzerland. Are you going to join him?

I don't know.

It depends on whether I open my

play in the fall or in the summer.

Yeah. It's pretty funny about

his resigning from his job.

Unless he feels he's done

everything he started out to do.

He's come a long way,

hasn't he? Yes, he has.

What's this book

he's going to write?

Did he tell you about it?

Yeah.

I don't know. He always

said he'd never write a book.

Tell me more about your

beautiful blond. What's her name?

Her name's Elaine.

Elaine Martin.

Are you in love with her?

Well, I wouldn't exactly call it a

love match. We just like each other.

It might work out.

What are you waiting for?

You.

Tommy.

Yeah, I know. Even after nine

years, it may sound a little sudden.

Would you divorce Christopher

and marry me?

Because we just like each

other, like you and Elaine?

No, it isn't quite the same.

At least with me.

You see, I happen to be

in love with you.

I didn't know, Tommy.

I didn't intend you should, but I've

been in love with you ever since...

Ever since I can remember.

I always took everything

you did for me for granted.

The money you lent me when

I was a shabby little girl

and didn't have enough

to buy a baby carriage.

All the thousands of

little kindnesses.

I never thought of you at all,

except as someone I could turn to.

It wasn't very nice of me,

was it?

You always loved Christopher.

Do you still?

Yes. I know you do, even if he would

rather write a book than come back to you.

How many times

have you two been together

in the last four years since

you came back from China?

Once in Paris.

Two weeks in Saint Anton.

Four times altogether.

But never for very long.

Since China there was always

either my work or his.

What's in the way now

except the book?

Evidently,

he doesn't want to see me.

Well, then will you, Cicely?

Marry you?

Yes.

Tommy, you make me

very proud.

Perhaps we could be

happy together.

Only...

Even that much coming from you makes me

feel happier than I know what to do about.

Well, I suppose I...

Just another gadget.

And now, friends, as we go

back through the years,

see if you can remember

this one, the hit of 1926.

Music by request.

Tommy, let's sit down.

Chris has asked me

if I wanted a divorce.

He's done and said everything he could

to tell me he doesn't love me anymore.

Still, I feel

I must wait.

I don't know what for,

but I must wait, Tommy.

No matter how

lonely I am.

And now, we give you the

hit of 1927. Remember?

The night before I was married and

thought I was going back to college,

they played that piece

at the Biltmore.

Hello, Mr. Carteret.

Hello, Chris.

How do you do, Mr. Tyler?

Good evening.

Well, Geneva, June 14th,

at 8:
00. Now let's see.

One minute of 8:
00.

When I got your cable, I felt as

though I was right back in the city room

receiving one of

your assignments.

You forget the rest.

I said "as a personal favor. "

I don't think I ever put that

in any of my assignments.

No.

I hear you've resigned

as managing editor.

Yes, Chris, they gave me a dinner

and presented me with a gold watch.

Pretty hard to imagine

you on a vacation. I'm not.

After 30 years,

I am, at my own request,

back to being

a foreign correspondent.

Now I can find things

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