Maggie is wearing a red skirt and vest with a yellow blouse and red “mod” necktie. This outfit would have been the height of fashion--in 1964. I guess the Summer of Love didn't happen in Collinsport.
When Maggie and Vicki get to the hospital, they find Joe wearing a picturesque bandage on his forehead. He assures Maggie that he’ll be all right. I guess I owe my life to Barnabas, he muses, little suspecting how right he is.
Barnabas and Cassangelique have their big scene (nice job by JF). At least she isn't wearing the awful butterfly-print robe. With great dignity he tells her, Just give me a chance to speak, and then I will leave quietly. You probably know that Vicki has had the dream. But you don’t know her as I do. She won’t come running to me and tell me the dream. Her strength of character and her feeling for me will not allow it. [Here Cassandra lowers her eyes in disappointment.] Therefore she will probably go on suffering the effects of the dream day after day and night after night--and I will not allow that to happen to her. Cassandra draws near as he continues with even greater dignity: So I am willing to submit to you. It is I you have always wanted: You may have me. I give you my solemn word that I will always try to be what I was to you in the beginning, in Martinique. If you stop Vicki’s suffering, I will do everything in my power to love you and to be faithful to you for all time. Cassandra finds it necessary to walk away and turn away from him as he finishes: Now please give every consideration to what I have said. If and when you’ve reached a decision, you will find me at the Old House. [Jonathan actually says, You will find me at Collinwood--at the Old House.] Without waiting for her to answer, he leaves. Cassandra is taken completely by surprise. She begins to smile--perhaps at memories of Martinique? Could you every really love me, Barnabas? she asks, her eyes bright with tears (!). I wish I could believe that. You don’t know how much I wish I could believe that!
Maggie brings the terrified Vicki back to Collinwood. Nicholas comes from the back of the house (via the door under the stairs) to find them both (nice work by HAA). Vicki rushes upstairs immediately, but Nicholas is struck motionless--and quite uncharacteristically speechless--when he sees Maggie for the first time. Her innate sweetness and innocence are impossible for him to resist. He stares at her so intently--though not actually boldly or rudely--that she looks away. He introduces himself and says, Cassandra told me about you, but I expected to find you just an average, though attractive, young woman. I hope you aren’t disappointed by what you see, Maggie replies modestly. You’re far more beautiful than I could have imagined, he replies gravely. Utterly unable to tear himself from her presence, he offers her coffee or even a drink. She turns him down gently, explaining, I have to leave right away to go to the hospital to see my fiancé. Nicholas almost certainly did not include a fiancé in his calculations, but he takes the news in stride, offering to drive Maggie back to the hospital.
When Nicholas returns, though, he's furious with Cassange for not speaking to Vicki. Cass is still starry-eyed with hope and sullenly agrees to obey. But when she does, Vicki gives her the dressing-down of several lifetimes, declaring she would rather die than tell Barnabas the dream.
But Nicholas has a way around this roadblock too....
