And now here's the final three scenes in DC's script's March 25th rewrite (two of which have no quotes taken from them):
68A Roger exits. She turns to them. X back to Maggie CAROLYN He'll feel differently in the morning, Maggie.
Maggie turns away. Jeff looks at Carolyn.
Leave it to him.
Carolyn nods. Exits.
68B Jeff crosses to her. She does not turn to him.
MAGGIE It's an impossible situation.
JEFF Don't go, Maggie.
She crosses away.
68C. (CONT'D)
go | v MAGGIE I have to, Jeff. I'm not doing any good here.
He follows her.
JEFF Maggie I want you to stay. I need you here
He turns her to him. They look at each other.
JEFF I wouldn't like it in Collinsport without you. Sooner or later I've got to start selling my paintings. Then you can worry fulltime about me.
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And that's when March 4th's quote -
Page 23/Scene 68C - Maggie: 'Oh, Jeff! I just can't stay here any longer.'
- comes up, followed in the script by:
JEFF Well, at least I've got two weeks to change your mind.
He kisses her. Well, what if I ever gave two weeks! notice when I couldn't finish a even I had trouble painting. I'll change your mind.
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End of the main part of the scene as typed and also added to. But after the bit of typed dialogue added just above but also crossed out, there's quite a bit of handwritten dialogue. Most of it I can decipher - but parts are questionable. So once again I'm scanning a notation to present for our resident handwriting deciphering expert to see if he can make out what it all says:
(The part that I can decipher seems to say:
"Look what if I
always gave notice
every time I had a little trouble with
a painting.
You know actually I'm pretty good
you know - I might even sell one
some day then you can take care
of me."
But I really have no idea what the written part that's crossed out says...)
But, of course, we'll never know if things actually played out as changed because those three scenes are among the many that ended up on the cutting room floor and whose footage was subsequently destroyed...
And actually, I wonder if they were only supposed to be two scenes (68A and 68B) and someone mistakenly turned the second page of Scene 68B into Scene 68C? (How could 68C be continued when there was no previous part to it?) But I suppose we'll never really know...