Episode 226, scene 6. Constance tells a story to Rodney: CM: Come in Rod. RH: Hello, Mrs. Carson. How are you? CM: Fine. Come on in and sit down. Allison will be ready in a minute. RH: I don't want to keep you, if you are busy. CM: No, No. Mr. Carson's gone sailing. We're not going to have dinner til late tonight. I suppose the garage has been keeping you pretty busy. RH: Yes it has. CM: I've always been in awe of people who could understand the inside of cars. I have no idea what makes them run. I take it all on faith. RH: You know, it used to be very easy for me to come here. What happened? CM: It's hard for you and Allison right now. RH: Yeah, I wish I knew when it was going to get easy. I'd like to be comfortable again. CM: You aren't. RH: No. I'm not. It should be like courting the girl next door. Allison and I have known each other all our lives. CM: I remember when Allison was Norman's playmate. He used to tag after you all the time. RH: Yeah. And I'd get sore. You'd think that would help. But it doesn't. We've just known each other too well and too long. CM: Maybe that's a part of the problem. RH: It should be like a bridge between us. But lately its been more like a mountain. CM: That can happen to people. CM: You know the little girl next door isn't always the one you marry. When I was little there was a boy named Roy Barlow. who lived around the corner. He and his little girl next door announced their engagement on his fourth birthday. RH: Fourth? CM: They announced it at a party and for a present he gave her all the strawberries from another girl's birthday cake. RH: That must have caused a lot of gossip in the four year old set. CM: They were still teasing him about it when he reached high school RH: It lasted that long? That's not Congressman Barlow is it? CM: Of course, that was a quite a bit of time ago. RH: Well, what happened? CM: They always knew they would be married some day. But then Roy suddenly fell head over heels in love with a little red-headed girl he met at a dance in Boston. He and Patsy have been very happy. RH: And his strawberry sweetheart, what happened to her? CM: She met a man named Elliot Carson. RH: You know, I almost asked Allison to marry me after my trial was over. CM: I think she expected it. RH: I know. I thought about taking the money that my mother had left me instead of putting it into a garage put it into a wild honeymoon. Go around the world, see everything, for one glorious year. And what do you come back to? CM: Rita and Norman are very happy. RH: Oh but they are two different people. I just want Allison to wait until I can give her the kind of things she deserves. CM: You and Allison have always wanted something better. Maybe that's what makes you special people Special people are lonely people. But Rod, special people get to be lonely people. AM: Mother. CM: Well, don't you look lovely. AM: Thank you. I guess you want to go. RH: Well, It was nice talking to you Mrs. Carson. AM: Well, goodbye mother. Episode 226, scene 6 HOME