Not Rated | 30min | Comedy, Crime, Drama, TV Series | Episode aired 1 March 1956
At a particularly vulnerable time in her life, Carol is wooed by charming David. They fall in love, but Carol then learns that David is married. He says that he will get divorced for her, but Carol is visited by David's wife.
Director: Anton Leader
Writers: Leo Trefzger
Stars: Teresa Wright, Arthur Franz, Phyllis Coates
At a particularly vulnerable time in her life, Carol is wooed by charming David. They fall in love, but Carol then learns that David is married. He says that he will get divorced for her, but Carol is visited by David's wife.
Director: Anton Leader
Writers: Leo Trefzger
Stars: Teresa Wright, Arthur Franz, Phyllis Coates
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00:00♪♪
00:13♪♪
00:32♪♪
00:39Oh, hi. You still there?
00:40Hi.
00:41Are you going straight home?
00:42Of course.
00:44Well, it isn't of course, of course on a day like this.
00:46Why, what's so special about today?
00:48Can't you smell the lilacs all over town?
00:50Can't you feel the sap in the trees running around like crazy?
00:52Can't you hear the buds pop?
00:54Spring is here, my girl.
00:55Don't let anybody fool you.
00:58All right, I'm not getting the message across.
01:00How's mother?
01:01Fine, thanks.
01:02That's good.
01:03Look, if you're going home anyway,
01:04would you drop this by my house?
01:05I've got a little shop if you do.
01:06Keys in the usual place?
01:07Sure.
01:08Good luck.
01:08Thanks.
01:09And thanks for the favor.
01:10We always have a plate at our dinner table.
01:12♪♪♪
01:22Hello, mother.
01:23Hello, darling.
01:25Oh, I'm sorry to be late.
01:28I had to stop at Marge's for a minute.
01:30It's all right now, dear, now that you're here.
01:32Feeling all right?
01:33Yes, dear.
01:35Just a little pressure.
01:38It's a little stuffy in here.
01:41Mother, you haven't opened the windows again.
01:43Well, it's chilly.
01:46Because it's damp in here.
01:48Look, mother, it's beautiful outside.
01:51Warm and beautiful.
01:53Take a deep breath.
01:55Mmm, spring, mother.
01:58♪♪♪
02:02Hello?
02:04Oh, hello, Marge.
02:06Look, Carol, could you possibly help me out?
02:08Well, I told you I had a date with John,
02:10and now he's showing up with this friend of his.
02:12Out-of-town guest, you know.
02:14And I thought maybe you could...
02:16Oh, my God, couldn't possibly.
02:18What is it, dear?
02:19It's Marge.
02:21Well, Marge, you know I never...
02:24You gotta start sometime, girl.
02:26He's really lots of fun.
02:28You'd like him.
02:30So what do you say, huh?
02:32Well, I...
02:33Well, I don't know.
02:35What does she want, dear?
02:37Wait a minute.
02:38She wants me to go out with him.
02:41Well, wouldn't you like to?
02:43Well, if you wouldn't mind, yes, I would.
02:47Of course I wouldn't mind.
02:49All right.
02:51Marge, I'll go.
02:52Oh, well, about a half hour?
02:55Oh, fine.
02:56We'll pick you up then.
02:58Good. Bye.
03:01Oh, Marge.
03:03I have a feeling I shouldn't have accepted.
03:06My hair's a mess, and I haven't anything to wear.
03:11Do you think the purple dress will do?
03:14Hmm?
03:15Mother?
03:16Mother!
03:18Oh, Mother!
03:19Mother.
03:20Mother, please.
03:22The green dress.
03:24Oh, Marge.
03:25Just a minute.
03:27Just a minute.
03:28All right.
03:30Just a minute.
03:31Just a minute.
03:32Here.
03:38I'll call Dr. Bradford.
03:45Stop worrying, Carol.
03:47It's just the old asthma.
03:49You ought to recognize it by now.
03:58Good night.
04:13Marge, just...
04:15Oh, I'm sorry.
04:17I can't go.
04:19I understand.
04:20It's too bad.
04:21I hope it's nothing serious.
04:28All right, Carol, let's have this prescription filled right away.
04:38I can't leave her now.
04:40Don't worry about her.
04:41I gave her a sedative.
04:42She'll sleep.
04:43Now, stick around for a while.
04:45Just get that filled.
04:46A little walk will do you good.
04:47All right.
04:48Well?
04:49Oh, good old Carol.
04:50Well, this will take a half an hour.
05:01Want to wait for her to come back?
05:03Oh, well, I'll go for a walk.
05:06It's a nice night for it.
05:07Be ready in a half an hour.
05:08Thanks.
05:09I think we'd better go, darling.
06:07Excuse me.
06:14What do you want?
06:21I heard you crying.
06:22Anything I can do?
06:23Why should you?
06:24I don't mean anything to you.
06:26Well, that's utter nonsense.
06:29People always mean something to each other.
06:32Look, I was about to leave when I saw you.
06:35Do you hear that?
06:38That truck could have hit me if I'd left.
06:41You see how it works?
06:42You cried, I stayed.
06:44You saved my life. Now what can I do for you?
06:49Nothing, thanks.
06:50It's too personal and...
06:52I don't know you.
06:54All right, then.
06:56I'll become a person.
06:58Here's my face.
07:00The name is Greer.
07:01David Greer.
07:04Carol Stewart.
07:06How do you do?
07:07How do you do?
07:10Well, aren't you going to exclaim,
07:12Not thee, David Greer?
07:16Why, of course.
07:18The writer?
07:19Oh, I...
07:21Well, I've read most of your articles, and I...
07:24I just bought your last book.
07:26Well, thank you kindly.
07:28Well...
07:30Who are you?
07:32Nobody.
07:34Schoolteacher.
07:35Just the most important job in the world.
07:37What's your subject?
07:39English.
07:40Yeah, same as mine.
07:41You see, we have something in common.
07:44Cigarette?
07:46I don't smoke, thanks.
07:48Can I take you someplace for a drink?
07:50I don't drink, thanks.
07:52Would you like me to kiss you?
07:55Now, if you say, I don't kiss, thanks,
07:58Then I'll know why you were crying.
08:03Tell me about it.
08:08When I was a little girl, there was a riddle.
08:11How far can you walk into the forest?
08:15And the answer was, as far as the middle.
08:18Because from then on, you're walking out of it.
08:24I'm 35, Mr. Greer.
08:26I'm walking out of the forest alone.
08:29I'm walking out of the forest alone.
08:32Why alone?
08:33Why?
08:35Why? I don't know why.
08:39I didn't even know how alone I was until tonight.
08:44Maybe it's this beautiful spring.
08:48All the springs that pile up on you.
08:53Why am I telling you all this?
08:56Because I'm listening.
08:59But why are you listening?
09:02Don't you know? Because I'm alone, too.
09:05I need someone, too.
09:10I have to be going.
09:12Please don't.
09:13I have to. I have to pick up a prescription at the druggist.
09:17Oh.
09:18It's for my mother.
09:20I'm sorry. Nothing serious, I hope?
09:24She has asthma.
09:26She's had it ever since my father died when I was 16.
09:30Oh, I see.
09:32You're her sole support.
09:35The apple of her eye.
09:36The only bright spot in her life.
09:38And you go on taking care of her dutifully.
09:40And crying in the park when spring gets too much for you.
09:43Please.
09:44You're the most destructive man.
09:46I'm sorry.
09:49Look, my car is just outside.
09:51Can I take you?
09:56No.
10:02Well, uh...
10:03Can I see you again?
10:05No.
10:06Why not?
10:09This is all new to me.
10:11A chance meeting in the park.
10:13I'm not quite sure of the etiquette of this sort of thing.
10:15I'm sure the etiquette would say you shouldn't see me.
10:18But what do you say?
10:21No.
10:24What time is school out tomorrow?
10:26Five.
10:28I'm...
10:29No.
10:30There's a little cafe in the corner of South and Elm.
10:33Shortly after five?
10:37Shortly after five.
10:53Is she all right?
10:55She's asleep.
10:56When she wakes up, give her some of that.
10:58Instructions on the bottle.
11:00Thank you, Doctor.
11:01Good night, Carol.
11:03And don't worry.
11:07You know what?
11:09You're looking exceptionally pretty.
11:11I told you a little walk would do you good.
11:14It did.
11:16Well, be seeing you.
11:18Good night, Doctor.
11:19Good night.
11:23Good night.
11:45David Behar graduated at Duke University.
11:48He's the author of many books, including New Horizons.
11:52He was a naval officer serving in China and India.
11:58Mr. Greer is married and has two children.
12:22David Behar graduated at Duke University.
12:38Still at home?
12:39If you don't hurry, you'll be late for your five o'clock date.
12:42I'm sorry, I couldn't make it.
12:44Did you try?
12:46May I come in?
12:48No.
12:49My mother's asleep.
12:51I'll be very, very quiet.
12:59Mr. Greer, this is dinner time in most households.
13:03Shouldn't you be home with your wife?
13:07Oh, I...
13:09I see.
13:11Miss Stewart, I'm not living at home.
13:15I'm separated from my wife, and I didn't mean to deceive you.
13:21I know.
13:23I'm a fool.
13:25Just because you were nice to me didn't mean you had to be single.
13:28No.
13:30Only very, very lonely.
13:35But you don't have to be lonely.
13:37You have a marriage.
13:41Miss Stewart, you're romantic.
13:43Life is not an arrangement in black and white.
13:45Unmarried people are unhappy.
13:47Married people shriek with joy day and night.
13:50It's not like it is in the movies where the story ends with a wedding
13:53because nothing could possibly happen to the marriage.
13:55But something can.
13:57Sometimes does.
13:59It happened to mine.
14:00What?
14:02Stagnation.
14:06A wife whose life ceased to be an adventure once she was married.
14:10I was still reaching out for new experience, change.
14:14She dropped behind, stalled in the rut of contentment.
14:19I can't stay in one place.
14:21That growing is death.
14:23I'm still thirsty for life, and so are you.
14:25When I heard your cry last night, I recognized that cry because it was my own.
14:30For something to happen, that was what you were crying for, wasn't it?
14:34Yes.
14:36But I didn't want you to happen to me.
14:38Not you.
14:40It was me.
14:41Why don't you admit it?
14:44All right, it was you.
14:47Not with a wife.
14:49Not with a wife.
14:52Please go away.
14:54Don't send me away.
14:56What happened to us last night doesn't happen very often.
15:00If you send me away, I'll never be able to come back.
15:05What's wrong? I know it's wrong.
15:09I don't care.
15:12Tomorrow I will, but now there's only now.
15:16Tomorrow I'll wake up, but I'll remember.
15:21Let me look at your face so I can remember.
15:26I'll remember.
15:29Let me look at your face so I can remember.
16:00Have you looked in your mirror lately?
16:02Why?
16:05Do you recognize the girl who looks back at you?
16:07Have I changed?
16:09You have, because you're alive.
16:13It's not wrong, is it, David?
16:15People have a right to be happy, to be alive.
16:18Of course they do, darling.
16:19You know, you have the most indestructible conscience I've ever seen.
16:23I know.
16:25Yet I'm hopelessly in love with you.
16:27I'm the most hopelessly in love teacher in the school district.
16:31Do you want to quit?
16:32No, I want to go on suffering.
16:36School's out tomorrow, isn't it?
16:38And I don't like it.
16:40Why?
16:42It'll mean more free time without you.
16:46I've got something to tell you.
16:48That?
16:49It's up to you. I talked to Marsha today.
16:54That's the first time you mentioned her by name.
16:58I told her I'm going to leave her.
17:01Leave her?
17:03I'm going down into Mexico.
17:05Guadalajara, Mexico City, Acapulco.
17:08I told her I'm not coming back.
17:11What did she say?
17:12She said no, she won't divorce me.
17:14But I'm going anyway.
17:17Why did you have to tell me now?
17:20Why couldn't you have just disappeared?
17:23You want me to get down on my knees and beg,
17:25please don't go away?
17:27I want you to come with me.
17:30You can't mean it.
17:31I do.
17:32You're going on vacation anyway.
17:34So you're taking a trip.
17:36What if Marsha found out?
17:38I told her about you.
17:40You didn't.
17:41I couldn't lie to her, Carol.
17:42And I'm sure if we go through with it, she'll give me a divorce.
17:45We could be married in Mexico.
17:48Married?
17:49Well, marriage is what you want, isn't it?
17:52It's what I've wanted all my life.
17:54Then this is our chance.
17:58I don't know.
18:00Oh, I'm so confused.
18:03I can't talk about it here.
18:04Let's go.
18:13Guilt, guilt, guilt.
18:15It's the strongest emotion you have.
18:19Don't you love me?
18:22I sit with you in parked cars in dark places.
18:26I go with you into dim little cafes with all this guilt in my heart.
18:30Do you have to ask if I love you?
18:32Then get rid of that guilt.
18:34This is our chance.
18:36If we let it slip away now, we may have lost it forever.
18:38Please, Carol, come with me.
18:42If I didn't, darling, my heart would leave me and follow you anyway.
18:48I'll go.
18:53Shouldn't you call for a cab, dear?
18:56I just did.
18:57He said he'd be here in a few moments.
19:00It's going to be lonely without you.
19:02No, it won't.
19:04Aunt Celia will be here before supper time.
19:06You like her, don't you?
19:08Yes, dear, but that's different.
19:12A whole week without you.
19:14That isn't long.
19:16But I don't see why you're taking all these suitcases.
19:20You've packed practically everything you own.
19:25Mother, I have something to tell you.
19:30That must be the cab.
19:36Miss Stewart?
19:37Yes.
19:38I'm Marcia Greer.
19:40I'd like to talk to you.
19:44Please come in.
19:51Your mother?
19:53Yes.
19:54Mother, would you mind?
19:56I don't care if Mrs. Stewart hears it.
19:59I do.
20:01Please, Mother.
20:05Won't you sit down?
20:08Don't be nervous, Miss Stewart.
20:10Why should I be nervous?
20:12And don't be on the defensive, either.
20:14Why did you come here?
20:15Perhaps to hear it from you, so I can believe it.
20:18Are you going with him?
20:21Yes.
20:26That's what I came to hear.
20:28That's why we go to funerals.
20:30To see if the person we loved is really dead.
20:32I'm awfully sorry.
20:34You're not, but that's beside the point.
20:38He never told me you were so lovely.
20:41Because he doesn't know it anymore.
20:43Do you mind if I ask you a question?
20:46Of course not.
20:48Do you still love him?
20:52In my old, dull way, Miss Stewart.
20:56Look.
20:57Look at them.
21:00They're beautiful children.
21:02They're the reasons for being stalled and erupt, as David puts it.
21:06To him, nothing ever happens in our marriage.
21:09They aren't change enough for him.
21:12You're the change.
21:18Excuse me, that must be my cab.
21:22I'll be right out.
21:26I won't keep you any longer.
21:28I'm sorry I came now, because I approve of you.
21:31I hate you, but I approve of you.
21:33You seem to be a real person.
21:35A person David could love.
21:38Give him the things he needs.
21:40You know that.
21:41Why didn't you?
21:43I didn't always know it.
21:46I forgot that marriage requires a woman to be a wife as well as a mother.
21:51Now it's too late.
21:53Your picture.
21:56Keep it.
21:57To remind you not to make the same mistake.
22:06Here, darling.
22:08Come on, this way.
22:09We've only a few minutes.
22:10Wait a minute.
22:11What's the matter?
22:12I'm not going with you, Dave.
22:14Not going?
22:15No, darling.
22:16I can't go through with it.
22:17What happened?
22:18What made you change your mind?
22:19I saw Marsha.
22:21Did you go?
22:22No, no.
22:23No, she came to see me.
22:25I see.
22:26Did she cry and show you the picture of her two children?
22:28Your two children, Dave.
22:30All right.
22:31And she didn't cry.
22:32All right, our two children.
22:34What's more, she showed me another picture.
22:38A picture of us.
22:39And it wasn't very pretty.
22:42Dave, I suddenly realized what we were doing.
22:45The important thing is whether or not you still love me.
22:48I suppose I always will.
22:50Then come with me.
22:51We could be happy.
22:53Darling, I love you.
22:55I want to come with you.
22:57But I can't.
22:59Why?
23:01If you were free, really free.
23:04But you're not.
23:07Then it's...
23:10It's all over.
23:11Nothing's all over.
23:14What was it you said that first night we met?
23:18People always mean something to each other.
23:21You'll always mean everything to me, Dave.
23:25Thank you for giving me your love.
23:28My first.
23:31I hope it won't be your last.
23:34No, I...
23:36I'm free now.
23:38Flight number 453 at gate 5 is ready to take off.
23:42All aboard.
23:43Now you play.
23:44Goodbye.
23:51Goodbye.
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