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« on: June 26, 2017, 12:44:01 AM »
I'm sharing the novelization of Scene 122 because the version of the scene in the script used for the novel is a bit different and longer than what appears in DC's script:
It was around dusk when Maggie came along the ground floor corridor of Collinwood toward the dining room. As she passed the stairs she happened to see Roger Collins descending. Roger said, "Maggie, we'll be having dinner in a few minutes. Everyone else is in the gallery. Have you seen David?" "No," she said. "He was terribly upset about the funeral." David's father nodded bleakly. "I sensed that." "I told him he could take a nap." "Sound idea." "I'll go and get him," she suggested. Roger Collins cleared his throat. "No, never mind. Let him be. This has been a shattering experience for him." "It really has." Roger looked sad. "Somehow children think that only old people die. Never someone like Carolyn." "I think that's true," she agreed. "Carolyn was young and so close to him." "My son is better off sleeping," he said with emotion in his voice. Maggie couldn't help staring at him in surprise. She had never believed him capable of much deep feeling and his present sorrowful state came as a shock. She saw him glance at her rather guiltily as if ashamed he had revealed himself as an ordinary human subject to all the ordinary emotions. Roger turned from the girl and hurried off into the card room. |