In This Our Life Page #5

It's... It's about Stanley.

Stanley? What about her?

Asa, don't stand there like a dumb statue.

What about her?

Well, she's gone. She's not at home.

Well, where is she?

She's got to be somewhere.

Of course she's somewhere.

She can't possibly be lost.

If she'd had an accident,

we would've heard from the hospital.

Who saw her last? Where was she?

After you left last night,

she went to her room.

This morning she was gone with most of

her things. She hadn't slept in her bed.

- Lf anything's happened to that girl...

- William, nothing's happened.

You know how impulsive Stanley is.

She probably thought of someone to visit,

and everyone was asleep when she left.

Good gracious, she's able

to take care of herself, isn't she, Asa?

What about Craig? Maybe she's with him.

No, no. Craig drove me over here.

He's waiting outside in his car.

This beats anything I ever heard.

Poor Lavinia,

she must be in a dreadful state.

We've got her under drugs.

I'm not worried about Lavinia.

I'm not even worried about Stanley.

It's Roy I'm thinking about.

Roy? What's she got to do with it?

There's something you're not telling us.

I knew that.

Yes, that's true.

I didn't even want to say it to myself.

Peter left last night too.

What's that? What do you mean?

He said that he had to go to the hospital

at Lynchburg, for a consultation.

We called the hospital

and they knew nothing at all about it.

Oh, so that's how it is.

But... But you can't think they're together.

You... You can't think

that she's gone off with Peter.

I've stopped thinking.

But Stanley couldn't.

She... She isn't like that.

I don't know what she's like.

I don't know what anybody's like.

She's like all the others, I suppose.

The rest of her generation.

No scruples, no religion, nothing. By

heaven, Charlotte, if a niece of mine...

You mustn't get excited,

you'll make yourself sick.

After what I've done for that girl.

After what I've done.

It doesn't make much difference,

does it...

...when a person wants something else.

She's not there.

They don't know anything.

We'd better drive straight home.

It's almost an hour since we left.

She may be back by now.

You know,

anything could have happened.

She might suddenly have taken it

into her mind to visit somebody.

Peter may have gone someplace else.

It's conceivable that two people

could leave a house on the same night...

...and not necessarily go together.

- Aren't you coming in?

- What for?

I guess you're right.

But don't do anything foolish, Craig.

You're young, you've got work to do.

- You've got your whole life ahead of you.

- Yeah.

Stanley.

You too, Father?

Oh, I'm sorry, Roy.

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