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Page 24
MARGARET
I thank heaven I really did that!--And when I looked out the window and
saw you standing here, I had to come over. I knew it wasn't your mother's
death that was hurting you, but--but your brother's.
ROGER
Arthur ... I'm glad the accident happened after _she_ died.
MARGARET
Yes. But there's something else. Something that hurts. You've got to tell
me. Everything. Don't be afraid. Face it.
ROGER
I have faced it. I--I've made up my mind.
MARGARET
There's still pain somewhere. Is it in the way you have made up your mind?
ROGER
How could that be?
MARGARET
It depends. But tell me what you thought--I mean during this last year or
so. It didn't come to you all at once.
ROGER
Well.... Of course, I always took it for granted about his music. He
seemed to be wonderful at that. And mother believed so in him. It really
began when he left college, I found he had debts.
MARGARET
Debts?
ROGER
Yes. Not just clothes and living--other things. I paid up, but I didn't
like it. I didn't like the things. But I thought it was just a boy's
foolishness. I thought he would be all right after that, but--he wasn't.
MARGARET
He wasn't....
ROGER
No. After a couple of years I had to straighten it out again. I came down
on him flat. He promised to cut it.
MARGARET
But he was doing such wonderful work!
ROGER
Yes, everybody began to say so. If he had only been that alone, the
musician! But--
MARGARET
But afterward?
ROGER
Well, a year ago I began to hear things said again. And then I found
letters and bills. It was the same thing all over. He hadn't kept his
word.
MARGARET
But what did _he_ say?
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