:46:03
Well ...
:46:05
He certainly was the best
of all of us. wasn't he?
:46:15
Goodnight.
:46:18
Goodnight, Father.
:46:25
Alfred ...
:46:31
What you sawthat night
before Samuel left ...
:46:36
- Please. don't ...
- No. l want to.
:46:46
- lt was Samuel l loved.
-All right.
:46:58
Tristan will be back someday.
:47:03
Your father will be pleased.
:47:11
Susannah was to retum to Boston
on the moming train.
:47:15
But a norther blew for three days,
and snow drifted over the tracks.
:47:20
The Colonel insisted
she stay on until spring.
:47:26
The house was too empty, he said.
:47:30
This was still her home.
he told her.
:47:36
He should have let her go.
:47:39
But how could he have known
what would happen?
:47:46
She was not to blame.
:47:49
She was like the water that freezes
in the rock and splits it apart
:47:57
lt was no more her fault
than it is of the water-