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Simon: Are you awake?

Ann: Yeah.

Simon: I can’t believe the stars here. The sky’s just full of them.

Ann: You see that set there? With the line and the twist? That’s Virgo.

Simon: Really?

Ann: No, I just made it up!

Simon:  I missed you. I’m spending all this time on the house and I don’t know who I’m doing it for.

Ann: Jackie?

Simon: Ann, I’m sorry. I never would have gone off with her if you hadn’t left.

Ann: It just got to be too much. You were crazy-- buying stuff, taking off—I felt like I’d lost you. And England looked so familiar and yet was so very, very different.

Simon: It was confusing for me too. Coming back and feeling like a stranger, being in the big house and everyone in the village thinking I was important. And then dad arriving and treating me like I was still his idiot son.

Ann: Well at least you had people like Phil around. All I had was Amy, miles away, and a village full of people thinking of me as the "ugly American" buying up their heritage.

Simon: Ann, that’s not true. How could anyone think you were ugly? You’re beautiful.

Ann: So what do we do now?

Simon: Come back to England with me?