Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo Page #4

- Here.

What are you hiding out...

- Ellen, when did you get here?

- Five minutes ago. How's my bridesmaid?

Great. Only I'm going

to have to break this up.

Doolittle came out to watch us take off.

Okay. I'll see you for dinner.

There's a hotel about a mile

and a half down the road.

I haven't seen it yet, but

they tell me you can't miss it.

- I'll find it.

- I'm sorry to have to rush off like this.

Don't forget dinner.

Say, did anybody pick up a letter for me?

Yes, sir. I did this morning.

I forgot all about it.

- Well, bring it up.

- Yes, sir.

I'm sorry, sir.

Okay. Thanks. Take over, will you, Davenport.

Sure.

Hey! I'm going to have a baby!

Hey, it's from Ellen.

She's going to be... I mean,

I'm going to be a father.

Hello, flyer.

Oh, I'm sorry I woke you up.

I wasn't sleeping, really. I

was just dozing and thinking.

I'm sorry I didn't get back for

dinner. We had a lot of checking to do.

You must've thought I was

an awful dope this morning.

But I didn't get your letter

until later, so I didn't know.

I know. Sit down.

- I think it's swell about the baby.

- I knew you would. I wasn't a bit worried.

You know, it's going to seem funny.

I don't care whether it's a

boy or a girl. Not that much.

I just want you to be

okay. It's pretty serious.

- Well, what's so funny?

- I was just thinking.

Here you're getting ready to go

off on something really tough,

and you're worrying about me.

If I were in your spot,

I'd be scared to death.

- But I guess I am anyhow.

- Purely routine stuff, flyer.

The kind of job every girl takes

on once or twice in her life.

Why don't you lie down?

You know, Ellen,

I'm kind of glad I got you.

I guess that's what I was

thinking about in my sleep.

It almost frightened me.

It seemed that I was thinking,

"What if I'd never met him?"

Well, for one thing

you wouldn't be traipsing around the country

from one airfield to another

trying to catch up with me.

And for another,

you wouldn't be having a baby

right in the middle of a war.

Oh, no, it wasn't that.

I was thinking that if I hadn't met you,

I'd never have felt really close

to anybody, never in my whole life.

Married six months and

together less than two weeks.

That's not being as close as I'd figured on.

Don't you see, Ted, that's just it.

If people can be close when

they're far away from each other,

well, that's what it should be.

Yeah, yeah, I guess so.

Cuddle me.

I was thinking about last Christmas.

The tree we set up in

that Portland auto court.

- Wasn't it an awful little room?

- Yeah.

And the Christmas dinner we were planning on.

And then you ran out of gas and

landed in the mud up in lllwaco,

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