08x30 - The Forbidden Guests

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Mrs. Collier. Are you all right?

Yes.

Let me help you with your coat.

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Porter.

Yeah.

There were so many flowers at the funeral.

Did you take those away?

Of course.

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Sun is shining.

Like it did at the cemetery.

I have a loved husband now.

It's nice, warm and comfortable here by the fire.

I'm not cold. I'm warm. I'm just very warm.

I know but.

You sit down here.

I take off your hat.

You feel a lot better.

Thank you.

Oh.

I'm so.

Your hand feels so cool.

All the long weeks that you took care of James.

You are so good to him, so good.

I came to think of you as a third member that family.

Now that it's over.

I hope your stay with me for a while.

Course if you wish me to.

Dr. Webb said he thought it might be a good

idea if I'd stay on a few days, anyway.

Do you remember when you first came home from the hospital?

How he we talking about portrait on the wall?

Dreadful things he said to it for not taking care of him.

Now you must be still.

I'm still out of myself so long.

I still am thinking.

If I can talk, is it better?

I hope this is one way of keeping folks quiet.

Oh.

Hm.

Porter.

This room seems very strange to me now.

All the months that he was ill, I hardly stepped in here at all.

Right now.

I seem to feel his presence here.

Perhaps that's because he planned this room every last detail of it.

He planned it as a background for me.

Place where I could

work as the brilliant sculptress that you are.

Those were his very words. That's what he said to me

He's gone now.

Beginning to realize.

The room doesn't express me.

Expresses him.

Is wonderfully thoughtful love of me.

This room haunt's me.

Like a ghost.

I have some things I should do. Would

you rather be alone a few minutes?

Oh, no.

No I can't be alone.

Not yet.

alright.

I will leaave tou later.

You know what they said.

Both women at the funeral.

That, that they said it.

It's going to be harder on her because women who have children.

They never quite alone.

And I haven't got children.

But how could they say that huh?

When one loses one husband, one is alone? No matter

how many children you have or you don't have.

Colli, you must be quiet.

The doctor will be hereby and by.

Why?

You think I'm ill?

Of course not.

You're just worn out.

Come along. A nice, warm bath will be good.

No, I don't want to.

Well, at least come and change into something more comfortable.

Come on.

Alright.

You know what?

I don't care if I am.

. I can't live my life out alone.

I know I can.

Do you think it was wrong that there were no children?

I couldn't have children.

It was my work. It took all my time.

James understood that.

He knew how important my work was to me.

Yet I remember the night that he d*ed. I

was sitting right there on the bed, trying

to comfort him, and he was looking at me

so strangely. And then all of a sudden,



he looked at my portrait.

and he started talking to it again. And he said

how little you loved.

Although I told him over and over again how much I loved

him and didn't pay any attention to me, he went right on.

You loved me so much, but you k*lled our life.

You never understood. You wouldn't.

Our happiness was shallow, in vain.

You were a coward in love.

There will be nothing if either of us lived in this world.

And when I pleaded with him to stop saying those thing.

he turned to me. But he looked right

through me, and all I said was,

my son, my daughter, you can come to me now at last.

then he d*ed without one word of love to me. Not one word.

I told you he was delirious. He didn't know what he was saying.

I know.

I keep remembering.

Strangely interested he was in all of our friends children.

And whenever we were with him, he always looked at me so thoughtfully.

When I'd ask him what was the matter he. He just say,

Nothing.

But as I'd watch him with him, giving them all of his attention.

I'd feel cheated and hurt.

No, Mr. Jim, I'm going to marry you when I grow up.

[laugh]

Well, that's the most flattering proposal I've had in a long time.

Hey, jim here it is.

My new store was a gold handle.

Tommy, that's great. Now, we call this the Hilton.

Honestly, I don't know where Mrs. Highland is. These

children should have been in bed a half hour ago.

Now, you run along and find Mrs. Highland.

But say good night properly before you go.

Okay.

Good night, Mrs. Highland.

-Good night Darling. -Good night dear.

Good night and be happy.

-Good night. -Good night darling.

Good night, Queen Guinevere.

You know, Peg, those kids are just great. You must be proud of him.

Oh, I am, that's for sure.

And you have every right to be. They're just wonderful

aren't they, Ms?

Oh, yes, they're charming.

But he didn't seem to believe me.

He seemed to be saying to himself that

I was something a woman ought not to be.

And as much as that hurt me, I made light of it.

laughingly, I asked him what was going on

in that deliciously, mysterious mind of his,

Again, he says

Nothing.

I believed him.

I wanted to.

Oh, my head. It just stopped hanging.

Porter.

Mrs. Porter.

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Can you here me?

Yes sure, I can hear you.

Will you see the doctor? Get the messages?

You know, you're the

Only person in the world I could tell this to.

You sure, she'd understand.

You do understand, don't you? You do. You

were here with him. You know what he was like.

Yes I do.

Porter.

Yes.

Those statues.

Do you like them? Do you think they're pretty?

Yes I do.

You see the idea.

The boy is youth and the girl is love.

Strength and affection and hope that.

Home together.

And.

Everybody thinks they're very good.

Don't care much for the anymore.

Family of my work.

It all seems so much like the work of a woman.

Except that.

His portraits.

That seems to me the one thing I have done that is worthwhile.

it's strong. It's alive. It is Jim.

Remember the night before we sent it

to the gallery for its first exhibit?

I can still see him standing a little apart from the rest of us.

It was a dinner party we'd given to shoulder.

Before it went to the gallery for its first exhibit.

Pay along with all the rest of our guess.

With admiring my handiwork.

You know what I mean? I mean, it's great. Somehow

there's something around the eyes that isn't, Jim

What do you mean?

I know what it is. The eyes look sad. They look too sad.

Jim, with sad eyes? Oh, never.

Yes, they are. Look at

-them. -Don't you think so?



No, I don't think so, honey. I think it's great.

I like it better than the prize winners over there.

Well, as long as we're all being absolutely

honest, those two are my first love.

That's right, honey. You stick with the critics.

Oh, honey, it isn't that at all. [laugh]

Anyway, the critics are going to have their chance

tomorrow with this one, so we'll see what they say.

Hey, Jim, you haven't even opened your mouth. What do you think of it?

I'm flattered.

If you either I'm glad because

everything you see in there I see of you

How many prizes of those two received?

Well, as a pair, I think. It was true, wasn't it, Liz?

Yes. Yes, it was.

And Youth, the boy, he took first prize at the

North American Sculpture Society exhibition in .

know I remember that night. I was there.

-Hmm. -Oh, it's really thrilling

wasn't it.

Liz, I don't think I've ever seen you so excited.

I was indeed.

Also we had a very special reason to that excitement.

What do you mean?

Well, it's rather personal, but

Since honesty is the policy tonight.

jim and I have always played the kind of game but those statues have.

The boys are his son and the girls our daughter.

You silly. Don't get any back talk out of them.

In spite of all the fun we were

having, in the back of my mind I kept

hearing Pegs saying that his eyes were too sad. That bothered me.

Must have seen that expression.

Cause why would I have put it there?

You suppose? He looked at me so sadly because there was that

One thing.

after I fell short.

It must be it.

That is it.

Oh.

I'd only known.

Or,

Perhaps I did know.

Perhaps in my heart I did. Because I did try to justify myself.

I told myself the children.

the mere duty toward children, the mere

love of them would make me less to him.

Oh, I've seen that happen so often to people.

Those who are fond to see each other, too.

I was always jealous of the mere idea

Do things that are strange.

But I was.

I jealous.

And then also I might have d*ed, you know.

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He thought I was just selfish and afraid.

Do you suppose he's on that?

Come to bed now.

No.

No.

I'm not that ill, it is just my headache.

Oh, please let me put you to bed

No.

not to bed. Not in there. Not yet

again.

When the doctor gets here, we'll do what he says.

In the meantime.

Just try to relax on the couch.

come on.

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Instead of trying to show me how wrong

I was, he used to just make fun of me.

And when I questioned him about it.

He just laughed and.

Instead it will be less trouble to have a child.

Like other people did.

He taught me so dreadfully wrong

he couldn't have laughed could have.

He even made a joke pretending it had already

been born. And so I called the baby by his name

In by and by.

He said he wished for girl.

I invented a girl.

And he called her my name,

Elizabeth.

You know.

children were almost as real to us as if they had been born.

Suppose they're dead now too, do you? I mean, they

were born in his heart and they lived there.

They didn't die too, did they?

Am I all alone now?

[crying]

Oh, my god.

There is so

[crying]

Oh.

Your hand is so cold.

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Is it you?

Yes, It's I.



Not, not you.

My headache. That makes me think of you.

Go away.

Please go away. It can't be you.

Mrs.Porter.

Mrs.Porter.

What is it.

You don't see something there?

No, dear, there's nothing there.

It is I. I have never been born

And I.

Elizabeth.

Father, where is he?

father.

He dead.

-Dead? -Oh, no.

Oh, you loved him, too.

I'm so glad.

Believe me, dear, there's nothing there. It's just your imagination.

Oh, no. They're right there. His children right there.

And they've come to comfort me.

now

now and always.

No.

No, we didn't love him.

No.

Didn't?

You hated him?

You don't understand.

We can neither love nor hate.

All we can do is want him and want you.

Oh, mother, we wanted you so much.

Why couldn't we be born?

Well.

I had my work.

I'm a sculptor.

I make statues.

Are they why you could not have us?

What good are they?

He meant to be Beautiful.

Can they walk and run?

No.

Are they warm?

No.

Then, they have never been born either.

If they had been born, he might have been very.

How beautiful Father was?

You know?

even though I've not been born, I looked like him.

Yes, you do.

Even we are better than they are. We can move about.

Mother.

Mother, do you remember. During the w*r when

Father was in the army. And once you watched him

marching away with his company and you wondered

how you would feel if I were going with him.

Yes, I felt that.

While I was there. I marched all the way.

That is I went with him.

I did all I could to help, but it was nothing.

I couldn't march, I couldn't fight.

You know.

if I could even have d*ed

it wouldn't matter so much that I've never been born.

Maybe.

And there was that dark bizarre.

I might have loved it so hard.

It's name was Elisabeth too.

Daughter.

I've never dreamed of anything so sweet as you are ever.

Mother, you know, rolling?

Roland blake.

Oh, yes. He's the son of the robert Blakes.

He's the shy one, the unhappy one.

If I have been born.

You have let me love him. I was meant to be his.

That's why he's so shy to such dreadful things.

He hasn't anyone to love him.

Often I am with him.

But he can see me.

Mother.

Do you think I might ask him to be good.

for me even though I have not been born?

It is the same with me.

I should have loved Willamea.

Who?

Wilhamena Converse

Willamer is the daughter of one of my best friends.

She was meant for me.

But I was not born.

so I had to stand by and let her marry Jordan.

I tried so hard to tell her that she was mine.

[crying]

And all day she sobs just as you are sobbing

Poor wilhelmina.

[crying]

Poor mother.

[crying]

Yor eyes are sad.

Just like your father's.



I know each I always felt what I'm having now.

I just ignored.

Why mother?

Why.

Because I was jealous of the Children.

Jealous of you.

who had so much deed of the world

And whom the world need so much.

But now.

Now I want you too.

I want you to stay here with me now and always.

It could have been,

but now it's impossible.

it's could have been.

Don't go.

Oh, please, I'm begging you, don't go.

It could have been.

Stay with me.

Don't go. Stay with me. Please stay with me.

Oh, please don't leave me.

[crying]

My dear, come on.

Oh, my God.

The doctor will be here very soon.

They've gone and I know I'll never see them again.

It's so awful because it.

It could have been, it could have been.

Come on, let's get some rest before the doctor gets here.

For all of the sad words of tongue and pen,

the saddest of these it might have been.

Well, Goodnight.