[wind howling]
[long, melodic whistle]
[woman humming]
[wind blowing, insects buzzing]
[humming continues]
[wind howling]
[down-tempo music plays]
[humming continues]
[owl hoots]
[humming continues]
Ah.
[music intensifies]
[music stops, wind blowing]
Hmm.
He's coming home from the train station,
where he got off round about noon.
Travel from there is only by buggy or foot.
Well, it makes it sound like we live in the past.
Don't we?
You sure he ain't wantin' to boot us?
- [Marion] No. - [Cate] He knows she been
stitching for him while he been fighting for us?
[Marion] He knows.
- He just ain't met Peggie. - Hmm.
I figure dinner with the four of us
just about the least I can do
and the most I can get away with.
I'm betting towards he'll wanna get you alone.
I ain't soap-boxin' ya.
When Andrew came home... whoo!
I don't know if a party could a stopped him, the way he took me.
[sighs] Mm.
I don't know if there's a way...
Oh, Peggie, that's perfect.
- [knock on door] - [gasps]
Don't get skittered, dear.
It's my husband.
[suspenseful music plays]
I got it.
[door opens]
Welcome home, Teddy.
[door closes]
[Teddy breathing shakily]
You got glasses.
Only good thing the military gave me.
- It's good to see ya. - You're telling me.
- Where's... - Dinner?
Where's Andrew?
Sick.
Oh, no. When'd he take sick?
Homecoming, the whole while. Musta caught it overseas.
What do you reckon it is?
Probably the same thing to keep your sick ol' mama
from leavin' the house.
Cancer.
Not that.
- Peggie's... - Reach me that pitcher would ya?
Yes, sir.
No "sir."
No "Mr. Henry." No "Private Henry."
Just... Teddy.
So you're the one that's played tailor with me gone, then?
[Marion] Oh, Peggie's helped a long spell
and done our business proud.
She's the one done most all of Claudette's wedding gown.
[laughs] Is that what that is?
I thought we had a haint in the house.
[laughs]
- Well, she's... - Marion's being modest.
I'm knowin' you of all people got how good she is, Teddy.
- Yeah. - It's you being modest.
I mean, she has a God-given hand.
My mama taught me how to sew when I was a girl.
Yeah, me, too. As a boy.
I was lucky it was just about the only thing I was minded at.
I was blind as a bat, so it was nice
to do something I could feel.
[Cate] Hmm. Marion's a lucky girl.
How's it bein' able to see?
Oh, I feel like I left a mole and came home a... hawk.
[laughs]
Or whatever sees good.
Makes being home kinda different.
And I put God's gold on that it's different enough
without new eyes.
Is this, um... [clears throat]
Is this your first time being able to really see Marion?
Ah, I, ah...
I knowed her with my heart so I all but seen her with my eyes.
Well, ain't that the truest heart hug I've ever heard?
Gettin' to see your pretty wife's a pretty good reward
for fighting, I'd say, but can you imagine
if Marion weren't a looker?
[Marion] Teddy, you all right?
Yeah.
[Cate] You know, I still can't reckon
with Claudette's gettin' married.
She been back and forth with Kev
so long as I've been tied with Andrew.
What the hell they been doin' the last 10 years
with Kev' leg all mangled up, and he was never called up.
So what rug have they been cuttin' the last five?
[sighs] They only got each other anyway.
You know? I mean, half the tragedy of war
is that it keeps green couples apart.
To be Claudette and single all this time?
What the hell does one do with youth, then?
- [gasps] What's the matter? - [Teddy] Nothin'.
W-When you make that dress?
Last week.
Uh, I dyed the lace.
It was, uh, my grand mama's tablecloth.
Yeah, but I got a hole worn in the center, so I cut it up.
Thrifty.
[Marion] You know, Peggie made her own dress, too.
Velvet's spendy.
Well, it was pieced together with cut-offs.
You know, this jacket of mine used to belong to my grand mommy.
And these things come back in style
just so long as they've been out.
It's airish in here.
It's pretty good work workin' jacket, too.
Looks just as good on the farm as it does with a dinner dress.
It's plum-purty.
What are you eye in' for, Teddy?
No, it's nothing.
So, Peggie...
Oh! Uh...
Pardon. Uh...
[gasps] My apologies on him.
- Ain't you tell him that... - He just stepped in the door.
What, do you reckon I'da wrote it to him?
- What? - [footsteps clomping]
[Teddy] Where's she?
[door opens, slams]
[whistles]
[whistles and claps]
[whistles]
I oughta get going.
No, no, no, no.
You can let her hop away, Marion.
I'll help clean up.
Quiet out there.
Shall we?
Ain't the sound of varmint, either.
Just quiet wind as every one of God's creatures
is holed up into a hole tonight like us.
[Marion] Teddy. Peggie's gotta get a-runnin'.
Oh?
I'll see her out.
Mm...
Make sure this quiet's as good as it makes believe.
I'm just down the way I ain't how far.
Um, your glasses.
May I?
They've gone a bit smudged.
You gotta keep up with them now.
Let me.
Oof. [chuckles]
Lord, you must be about as blind as my old mama.
How's that now?
Like a fish in clear water.
Good.
Well, I'll see ya at sun-up.
Oh?
Peggie.
If you could do anything else you wanted to
in the world, what'd it be?
I do what the Lord
and my mama gave me the talent for.
What I want don't matter too much after that.
God knows.
I better get on home to Andrew then,
and let you two... well.
Good night, dear.
I go out keeping an eye on her,
and it looks like I shoulda kept two on you.
How'd that happen?
I'll fix it right on up for you.
Oh, Teddy, you ain't have to do...
I do. If I tore it, I sew it.
- I don't care... - Besides, I'm home now.
Time for me to get back to work.
"I don't care."
Just let me find that thread.
It'll only be a minute.
I can go now and come back tomorrow mornin' for it.
No, no.
[Teddy] It's always everywhere you need it.
I'll go check the bedroom for it.
Okay.
[breathing shakily]
He must a found that thread then.
Yes. Must have.
[dramatic music plays]
- I'll go and peek on him. - No, I'll do it.
He's liked to have finished by now.
- What's going on? - Can you get the jacket gone?
Yes, yes.
What happened?
[Teddy] My hand.
Oh.
Here is this shawl of mine you can borry.
And we'll have your coat fixed up, um...
by the moon tomorrow.
Is everything all right?
Yes.
And give Andrew our prayers.
[sighs]
[dramatic music continues]
All right, so...
you'll work the book.
Peggie teached me well,
so I'll do the sewin' till your hand stops.
"Do the sewin'." It ain't a crossword.
The Henrys have been tailors. We've always been tailors,
- ever since my grandma... - We are the only tailors around.
So what if I'm not as skilled?
Who they gonna go on over to?
Now, look, I'll teach you what you need to know.
Here are the accounts.
You do the receipts.
And then you just copy 'em right into here.
[chuckles] It's only numbers.
It ain't that hard to learn.
I learned some of it when I was away. I can.
[chuckles]
That your pen?
It's cute.
Oh, it'll do me good to focus on some sewin'.
Peggie teached me well, but I let her do the more of it.
- This her pen? - Hmm?
[Marion] Mm-hmm.
- That's a young person's pen. - It's got better.
Hard to believe she's a good sewer with that pen hand.
All right.
Let's jump into bed.
- Hi. - Hi.
Cold.
Yeah.
A little. [sighs]
It's good to have you home.
You miss us?
Tomorrow I better start on the books
so I can... work
and not have to count on my fingers.
- Teddy... - Where's the dog?
I tried looking for her, but I couldn't find her nowhere.
She died.
Oh.
You haven't kissed me since you been home.
- Sure, I have. - No.
Okay.
Close your eyes.
- I love you, Teddy. - Love you.
Good night.
I wish you'd have told me.
Never mind.
[insects buzzing loudly]
[Teddy] See, I hired her in February,
and in July, prices soared.
Just... Just get a close peep at Claudette's.
She's done most of it.
Done she is. Gotta cut prices.
Let Little Miss Velvet Dress go now that I'm back.
What?
You didn't think we'd keep her?
We were two people before.
But you were needle, and I was books.
Well, now I'm books, and I'm telling you.
- You can't. - What?
Teddy, she...
I mean, what am I looking at here?
We can cut these prices. They've increased at least,
what, three times since I've been gone?
- You can't. - "Can't."
Oh, Marion, we don't need Peggie.
Teddy, it is not Peggie's fault.
But it's a dime an hour to hire her.
We ain't gonna charge people a tree for the cone.
I ain't gotta support two households no more.
- It's still two people. - Two people, one household.
I ain't gotta pay for Peggie's milk, just my own.
I can't fire Peggie.
Can't afford to keep charging people these prices.
Prices are not 'cause of Peggie.
[knock on door]
Just hold it. Keep it.
[rhythmic knocking]
- This a bad time? - Just...
[Cate] This bad time? What happened, hon?
What do you need?
Just get my jacket and give this back.
Oh. [sighs]
We have it.
Um...
Teddy's gonna be moving to the books now.
Busy last night? What'd you two do?
Nothing.
- That dog spoil the mood? - No!
- Well, then what'd you do? - Here!
Pricin' sheet from '41 before I left.
- Okay. - You look swell, Teddy.
I'll just leave it over here for you to take a gander at.
Mm-hmm.
Afternoon, Cate.
[whispering] What'd you two do?
Nothing!
[normal voice] Nothing's the hitch in your gate.
Try something. Nothing will get you nothing.
Throw on a satin slip or take him down to the river.
No one goes down there at this time of year.
What'd you do when Andrew stepped home?
Well...
[scoffs] I didn't really have to do much a nothin'.
He was already loaded with his finger on the trigger.
You know how some men can be.
Ain't no shame in any of it.
Just put on a hair of effort,
make him feel like he's welcomed and back in charge.
If he keeps soldiering about pricing sheets,
he ain't gonna wanna throw you down so much
as he is gonna wanna step over ya.
Don't let him over ya.
Let him into ya.
Cate.
- Ugh. - What?
The cash is all there, hon.
You ain't gotta count.
There's too much there. I ain't seen a box so full.
Peggie don't cause none of them prices, all right?
If she did, it... it would be up her skirt instead of in my box.
Okay, so just... don't stub up.
Prices are 'cause of inflation, Teddy.
War increased the cost of livin'.
Cost... of course.
I ain't gonna line my pockets like the fat cat.
- I ain't telling you a story. - But it's made-up, yeah?
We choose.
It's inflated if we charge people more,
but we ain't have to. I ain't fight
to have people at home sufferin'
to pay $2 for a hemline alteration.
It ain't only us.
Cate is charging more for milk, eggs, beans.
Cate's got a sick husband.
Well, I've got one whose hands don't work.
Oh, they work just fine.
- Teddy... - No.
You're right.
They don't work.
I can't sew.
Gotta do the books, so...
I'm telling you, Marion,
I'm gonna do my job.
Fire Peggie.
[wind whistling]
[Peggie humming]
[sighs]
[humming continues]
[door opens, closes]
Peggie? I need something from you.
[breathing shakily]
[humming]
[wind howling]
[Teddy] Come back.
[sighs]
[high-pitched whistling]
[wind howling]
[bird chirping]
[low rumbling]
[gasping and sighing]
[wind whistling]
[chuckles and gasps]
[dramatic music plays]
[gasping louder]
[water rushing]
[gasping]
[cracking]
[glasses thud]
[insects buzzing]
[dramatic music plays]
[owl hoots]
Thank you two lovebirds for having me in your nest.
- Mm-hmm. - Hope you like the drinks.
Was my grandmommy's recipe.
Mm. [spits]
- Mmm. - [coughs]
- Where's your... - Mm.
- [coughs] - It looks grand.
Back like I'm used to seeing you in days of old.
It's my fault.
It ain't no one's fault, Marion.
- It's mine. - If I say it's no one's,
- then that's whose it is. - Okay.
How's your back?
Oh, I threw it out working and now my spine's a-gogglin'.
- Hmm. - Took on Andrew's bit during the war,
and now he's back but sick, so I'm...
- Liftin'. - That's what hit it.
I can lift.
How's Andrew?
Holed up and hibernating.
He won't be coming around getting you'n sick.
Wouldn't make no difference to me if he did.
I'm probably gosh-darn more near a cripple than he is.
I can't read, can't sew.
I've chopped up our whole work life twice now.
Don't know how I'm gonna fix it a third time.
If Angel Gabriel is ever lookin' to hand out miracles,
you just send him my way.
- [laughs] - Teddy, don't be...
Marion!
- [sighs] - I can't remember the last time
I saw you smoke, Teddy.
Oh, I'm back to smoking.
'Cept in the house... all the fabric.
I figure people don't need their garments pre-smoked.
They can do it themselves. I know I find my own joy in it.
- Mm. A gentleman. - A businessman.
Teddy, you missed a button on your shirt.
- Hmm? - Marion, hon, how'd you miss that?
Come here. Let me...
- Hmm. - fix this for you.
[owl hoots]
- [sighs] - There.
- Better. - Hmm.
I can't see what I look like.
You looks good. Cate, this poke's for you.
Ah! Good as perfect. Thank you, Teddy.
- Peggie mended it. - Mm.
- As a favor. - [hums]
Mm.
Liftin'.
What?
I can do it... dirt work.
No. Teddy, no.
Well, what else am I gonna do?
Uh...
I...
Oh, there's a bug in my drink.
- Teddy... - I know, I know.
I ain't to do it. It's lame to leave you
with the sewing and the books.
Chunk that idea.
I'll just go tell her that...
Honey, you need something.
Ah...
And you not helping her... it ain't gonna mend you to help me.
You might as well lift tow sacks for four-leggeds.
Cate ain't so bad.
[chuckles] I meant the farm animals.
- I know. - [laughs]
What about you?
I don't know.
[owl hoots]
Bring Peggie back.
Teddy.
It's what you have to do. Don't get skittish now.
You ain't gonna raise prices to pay her.
I'm still working, so you ain't gotta do that.
- Teddy... - Don't.
I might not be able to work plum well for us,
but that don't mean I don't get a say in the business
my grand mama started.
Peggie ain't my enemy. She's...
the reserves, and it's time to call 'em in.
You're sweet.
- It's still our business. - Mm-hmm.
I'd like to believe
what I say. The choice is I fix them for us...
I know.
So then you'll be there.
I promise.
Wasn't no bug at all. Just a tiny, little feather.
Make a wish.
[goat bleating]
[Cate] Follow the sound of my voice.
I'm just going towards a girly, blurry shape.
You haul all these yourself? You're a regular strong woman.
[chuckles]
[Marion] [chuckles] That's perfect.
If I get married,
I'm gonna want a wedding dress like you had.
No, you don't. [laughs]
You're gonna want something more fairytale
if you get married.
Hold on.
1941 prices.
Hmm.
Don't tell me it ain't right
when Teddy ain't bein' realistic.
Could be I want fairytale.
Would it be a sign?
[bird chirping]
[goat bleats]
[dramatic music plays]
[goat bleats]
[shoveling]
[chuckles] Well...
I ain't used to such fine service.
- I feel under dressed. - Well, I wouldn't have taken
you for such a sturdy farmhand, but you've turned out just fine.
So, a good new change of scene?
Andrew don't smoke.
Do you?
Yeah.
Light up.
[breathing heavily]
[goats bleating]
Wedding dress right before my eyes,
and I'm still shocked Claudette got a ring out of Kev.
Oh!
He always felt out a bit... wishy-washy,
like a jasper without bein' one.
- [laughs] - I shouldn't say that.
Maybe it's just his rotten leg.
- Oh. - Mm.
Must be cold around Claudette.
Well, whose idea do you reckon it was?
- Kev. It's... - Man says proposal.
Man don't have to admit the idea.
Some men are...
Wishy-washy.
agreeable,
moldable.
What was Teddy?
[owl hooting]
[Peggie humming]
[down-tempo music plays]
[humming continues]
[wind howling]
[humming continues]
[dramatic music plays]
[Cate] Hon, do you mind if I freshen up?
I know my hair's a mess.
- Yeah, go on. - Okay.
Well, I don't know what I'd do without ya.
- [laughs] - Want more shine?
[Peggie humming]
Nice tune ya got.
Can't catch a tune, just follow it.
You should sing more. I like it.
[chuckles] If the Lord wanted me to sing,
he'd a made me a bird.
Well, God has other wingin', singin' creatures.
[insects chirping]
[clicking]
[static crackling]
[fiddle music plays]
[Claudette] You are a pure angel.
[Marion] It's all Peggie,
and I'll go and polish her wings.
Now, you just give Kev our best.
[music continues]
- [chuckles] - Careful with that.
- Yep. - Here. It was my ma's.
Mm.
You know, I wish my [Marion]...
I know. But it's gonna be a happy day,
and next time you see me, you'll be holding your dress.
- Oh! - [both laugh]
One day! [laughs]
One day.
All my life...
and then this one day.
I wish all my life could be within it.
Mm.
[music continues]
Hmm.
There it is.
[grumbles]
[down-tempo music plays]
[music continues]
[wind blowing]
[sentimental music plays]
Thank you.
[Teddy sighs]
Who's that?
I reckon he's gettin' sharper, then.
No. Smoke?
Him and I ain't talk much.
I thought when he came home,
it'd be like it was.
It ain't, Teddy.
[bird cries]
Andrew'd be here, wouldn't he?
If he wasn't sick.
Maybe he always was.
I don't know.
It's hard comin' home.
Well, you're strong enough, though, doing all this.
I didn't have a choice.
I'm just lucky I felled into doing somethin' good.
Look, Teddy...
don't think I don't take care of him. I do.
It's just some men don't like being looked after,
don't like being made to feel like they're being looked after.
So you just have to find your own make ways to make do.
Andrew's best left lonesome is what I mean.
It's good for him.
And you?
I just want my life back.
Finish this for me, will ya? It's lowing me down.
[clears throat]
It's stupid, but...
when I get to working with you, I feel like
for a blink, it's all normal again.
[bird squawking]
I'll run and drop it on in the morning.
[gasps] Oh, no, honey, I'll do it.
I can't lie, I'm tickled It turned out
like a saint's gown.
Teddy and I could never.
[laughs]
How is he?
Teddy? Oh, he's plum perfect.
We both are.
Do you want a drink?
No one's pressing us for needles and pins.
And so we... we gotta toast to our hard work done.
Your hard work done.
All right.
[down-tempo music plays]
Ah, here. We can just share a glass.
That way no one's gonna sniff us out, and...
eh, you can just blame the party on me.
You want to try it on?
What?
You and Claudette are about the same size.
- Hardly. - Don't you want to?
Honey, that is most of your hard work done.
Look at that.
- No. No, no. - Peggie.
- No. - Why? Why?
What, are you scared?
Honey, you would make the most beautiful bride.
But it ain't my dress.
Uh, it feels gun-wrong.
Try mine.
- What? What? - Yes! Yes, dear.
[footsteps clomping]
I'm telling you, it ain't doing nothin'
just sittin' around like it is.
Hell, you could just home it if you wanted to.
Teddy wouldn't cry against it?
Teddy?
It's my dress. [laughs]
That... you married him in.
Well, it's just a dress. It's...
[music continues]
I feel no, Marion.
Peggie.
I'm sorry. I am bein' empty-headed.
No, no.
No.
I can't see through ear to ear.
Okay.
Thank you.
I see you got some of my lipstick on ya.
Do you want a drink?
I think I had enough.
Teddy told me that [chuckles]
I had to bring him an extra pair of socks today.
Oh, I have to go.
Um, can you just see yourself home?
- What? - It's just, my mind went right up on it.
Um, yeah, just take the day off. Head on home.
Um, and I gotta get my...
deliver these extra pair of socks to my husband.
[dramatic music plays]
[door opens, closes]
[bird squawks]
[indistinct conversation]
Teddy!
Whoo!
- Marion? - Marion.
It's airish out here, isn't it,
like yesterday or the day before?
[sighs] I think the days just blend together now.
Uh, it's warm when the work's goin'.
Oh! Work's goin'?
Let me make it easier.
[exhales and sniffs]
Here.
- What? - Well, you had sweat down through to the bone
yesterday, or... the days are just blending together now.
So I just thought you could use a change of socks. [chuckles]
Thank you.
Don't you want them?
Okay. Yeah. I-I-I before I go home.
Okay.
So he's been helpful, then?
Yeah.
Your lipstick's a little smudged.
You got some cigarette ash in your hair.
Well, we better get on with...
Lord, I feel like it has just been forever since I seen you.
I think, um, you know, days just blending together.
Oh, you know what?
You're just lookin' a little put out right now.
You know what? You just go ahead and put them socks on.
- [chuckles] - [Marion] What?
You are just... You look like you been...
You're lookin' a mess, Teddy.
I'm not getting ready for a portrait sittin'.
Well, you would work better if you just changed.
I'm not gonna change, Marion. I'm working.
Aren't you?
Where on God's Earth are your socks?
Where's Peggie?
Sick. She got sick.
- Oh, no. - Everyone's sick suddenly.
Not us, eh? People get sick.
You will, too, with no socks.
Just... I brought you socks, Teddy.
Just put 'em on.
[wind whistling]
It's got a hole in it.
[door opens, closes]
- What's that? - Your sock.
- What are you leapin' for? - Stitch it.
- I just wanna see. - Why.
Your hand looked fair steady working over there at Cate's.
And I just want to see if we can have you back.
You don't wanna come back?
I don't want to make a cow's round outta myself
trying to stitch when you fair know that...
You can't be nothin' with me, Teddy.
Sock's too screwy to start with.
And I sweat buckets in it the two seconds that I had it on.
[Marion] Well...
Try this, on that bit right there.
Not an ounce of pressure, Teddy.
Just see.
[dramatic music plays]
You gone and done it.
What?
She's perfect.
But...
[Marion] Teddy. [chuckles]
That is God's miracle.
You can come back now.
We can be... We...
It'll be like it was before all this.
Well...
then Peggie has to... we can't afford her.
She's better than I am. There, I said it, Marion.
Plain-spoken better.
And then she gonna be winded, or worse, fumin'.
You think I smoke, but anybody'd be a chimney
after being fired a second time. That ain't God's miracle.
That's like we're lions playin' with our food before eating it.
Ain't nobody eatin' Peggie.
You are my husband.
That's God's first work.
And this is his second.
I'm gonna go over there and show her.
That way she will see for herself.
[chuckles]
[door opens, closes]
[knock on door]
- Marion. - Hello.
Uh...
My mama's finally asleep. I don't want her wakin'.
I have got God's news, Peggie.
In fact, I'm sure your mama gonna love it.
Can it wait till light-up?
He's all better.
His hands are steady.
Ah.
So then I'm...
Fired? Angel, no, no, no, no, no.
You couldn't fly away that fast. [laughs]
[woman coughing in house]
Oh.
Come here. Come on.
She's not doin' well. She needs her rest.
Right. So the new figure is,
I'm gonna move entirely over to the books,
and then Teddy... he's gonna do the sewing,
but there's still plenty to go around.
But what's Teddy gonna say about the price stuff?
What? His hands are better, not his eyes.
Here. Let's see. Where is it? Where is it?
Oh, so this is Miss Addel's. As you can see,
she tried to repair it herself, poor old biddy.
So I just need you to take that stitchin' out
and just work your magic.
Oh.
I still need you, Peggie.
Well, what's my mama supposed to love about this?
Huh?
You came here singing about news my mama'll love.
Oh, yes! Yes. Oh, um...
you'll be workin' from home.
More time around her, you know?
It's just, you know, with Teddy home...
I mean, you know how it is. It's just...
I think he needs more time to nest and whatnot,
and it'd just be better if you...
you worked from your home, I think.
You know, he just... he needs air.
He does?
I can do this by now light-up.
I'll bring it up to you tomorrow.
You know what? I'll just come get it.
All right?
Good night, Marion.
[insects chirping]
[down-tempo music plays]
[woman gasps and screams]
[Marion] You just keep workin'. I'm gonna go get the laundry.
Yep.
Marion.
Hmm? What?
Ah...
We gotta...
I have to tell you somethin'.
[Marion] Yes, dear. Just... Just later.
[dramatic music plays]
All right, here's the week's worth, Ted.
[music continues]
It's been a long spell since anyone's paid us a visit.
I figure Cate's pretty busy on her own some.
How do you mean?
Andrew's inside.
Cate's outside doing the work of two people
as a one person.
Only gets a keyhole peek at her own husband,
and you itching to work with yours is probably
a plum reminder now. She must get...
Pay me no mind.
You're her friend.
You'd know her feelings quicker than I would.
I only know how to tote farm equipment and...
sew.
[Marion] I should...
You are plum right.
She's my dear. I'll go pay her a visit.
It's the right thing to do, seeing as how I stole ya.
[Teddy] Can't steal what's already yours.
Ain't it be?
Ain't it be.
[door opens, closes]
[music continues]
Cate.
Hi.
[sighs]
[wind blowing]
[music continues]
I'm sorry 'bout Teddy.
You know how it is. I just...
He has got so much better.
His hands, I mean.
- Oh. - Yeah.
So...
So, looks like back to the ol' one-two of ya.
Sounds to be sweet.
[Marion] It is, it is.
I got used to not having' him, but now that he's here,
I guess I was really missin' him.
I just didn't know 'cause he wasn't here before.
- And now he is. - And now he is.
[Marion] You surely experienced somethin' similar with Andrew.
- [Peggie] Teddy? - Oh. Oh.
Hi.
- Hi. - You scared me.
I prayed Marion would be in.
She's off to Cate.
Oh. I'll just...
I'll take this to Claudette later.
Oh, you ain't have to do that, Peggie.
You ain't gotta do us any favors.
Kindness is one thing, but...
you know, if we had the gold for ya,
we'd still have ya on. I do like you.
What?
I don't mean nothin' by it. I just...
I'm gettin' back on the horse.
- Pardon? - The clothes, I mean, sewing.
Oh. Right.
You did that one, then?
Uh... yeah.
I don't want you to be grim at Marion.
That's what I'm gettin' at.
You know, it was my idea to... let you go.
Not hers. I would have you on if I could.
Right.
Oh.
Is this what you've been sewin' on?
You ain't have to look at that.
[wind whistlng]
No.
I'm sorry.
I just wish you could see how you were doin'.
Good evening, Teddy.
My mama passed on last night.
Ah...
I didn't know what to do.
But I feel right in thinking you're the only soul I know
who feels what losing somethin' is.
[breathing shakily]
[wind howling]
[door opens, closes]
[down-tempo music plays]
You must miss Peggie.
I still see Peggie. I still see her.
Does Teddy know?
We're friends.
Like Teddy and I are friends?
Right.
I've got work to do, Marion, alone.
I'm sorry, Cate. I just wanted my husband back.
Be grateful you can get your husband back.
What?
[wind howling]
[both gasp]
I wanna be you.
[voice breaking] I don't wanna be me anymore.
[water lapping]
[wind whistling]
[Teddy] There ya are.
[Marion] Hello.
[Teddy] I ain't never seen a more welcome face.
- Yeah? - I have been spinnin'
all day like a spider, and look.
What? What is that?
That's the work for the week. Finished.
All the week's work?
Okay.
And you just give your mama my prayers.
- Marion. - Huh?
These will be good for collect first thing tomorrow.
[dramatic music plays]
[owl hooting ]
[birds chirping]
[can clatters]
Mornin'.
[clears throat] Just about go get laundry.
[door slams]
[dramatic music plays]
[Marion speaks indistinctly]
- Ah. - [sighs]
Yeah. Coffee?
Oh, good, good.
How long you been up?
Let's just take four tocks, silly. I ain't even dressed.
Mm.
[sighs]
Fair weather?
- Yeah. Not too airish. - Mm.
I think I might go for a walk today.
Why?
Can get a week's worth of smokin' in.
I did all the work for the week.
Anything comes in, I'll do it this evening.
Where will you go?
- Go see the animals... - Not Cate's.
What?
She's just a bit stub-up about me stealin' ya.
We don't wanna taunt her,
and she's got her hands full with the farm and...
and Andrew.
[dramatic music plays]
[Peggie humming]
[fiddle music plays]
[Marion] What are you doin' here?
Marion, what are you doing here?
- Bethany, where's Claudette? - [Claudette] Marion?
Is everything all right?
Claudette called on me
to help her into her wedding dress.
- Oh. Oh. - [chuckles]
And it's fixin' to be the best frock that ever touched skin.
Peggie dropped it off bright and early this morn.
'Bout to go slip it on.
Uh-huh.
Okay, good.
- That's all, Marion? - Of course it is!
I don't know what you're throwin'.
D-Do you know where she went afterward?
Only Peggie ain't home.
Don't know, but it's certainly looked like
she had someplace to be.
[dramatic music plays]
[shoveling]
[Teddy] Andrew.
You got past the dragon.
[Teddy] What are you doin' here?
I knew you ain't sick.
Yeah. I'm not dyin'.
Not today. Maybe tomorrow.
Don't sing to me, Andrew.
I gotta certain I'm the only person who knows
some of what you been through.
Some? Yeah.
What about what you been through?
- I ain't here for me. - Liar.
You couldn't never find any before time.
Come and try sneak here.
You worked here, Teddy.
Something ain't right.
And I think you might know about how things are
when they ain't right.
Yeah, I see.
I'm just tired, Teddy.
Tired.
I can't pretend all of this was like it was.
It's not.
I'm not.
What happened?
Andrew.
Gabriel.
Always stationed with Gabriel.
Always went well.
Always made it through the night with Gabriel.
June '44, I made it through the night
and he dead.
You have any Army friends?
Yeah.
Saw the light go clean out of his eyes.
Evaporate.
You feel that?
When you're holding someone and you're feelin' the weight.
And all of a sudden, they get a whole lot heavier.
And you wonder why.
Because if the soldier's left, then shouldn't you be lighter?
But that's the soul that makes you able to bear the day.
Think.
Funny thing about it is,
when he died,
I noticed how light I felt.
I felt sad,
but I realized how I could stand up tall.
Here.
Yeah, I-I knew it then looking at Gabriel.
Heavy. Empty.
I knew I was full.
I maybe for the first time was.
Losin' someone made me feel full.
And I realized that wasn't somethin'
I ever felt like before.
They couldn't pry me away from Gabriel the whole night.
The next day, I was discharged.
I ain't see the end of the war like you, Teddy.
They shoved me out right at the moment
I finally felt like I knew what I was fightin' for.
I wasn't fightin' for anything I had before.
I was fighting so I could be a little bit freer
than I ever felt.
'Cause in that moment,
holding what I lost...
I was.
I'm fightin'.
But for what now I don't know.
[object thuds]
Sorry.
I thought you felt the same way I did.
No.
[dramatic music plays]
[Andrew] We don't come back to anything that's the same.
Why should we?
We aren't.
[music continues]
[bird cawing]
[faint fiddle music plays]
[bird cawing]
[dramatic music plays]
[bird cawing]
[music continues]
[wind howling, bird cawing]
[music stops]
[Peggie] Teddy?
Lots of time just us two, huh?
Marion must be off somewhere.
[Peggie] Yes.
I hoped you'd come in first.
What can I do for you?
I wanted to give you a gift.
[Teddy] Oh, you ain't gotta do that, Peggie.
- You... no, no, no. - You don't know a slice of it.
Pardon?
My mama raised me to be honest.
I've tried. I've done my best.
But I've been a-rampant in dishonesty.
They're probably not plum, your eyes,
but they're better than nothin'.
[Peggie sighs]
This I didn't touch.
I wasn't fired, Teddy.
And she never lowered prices for ya.
[breathing shakily]
[Peggie] Marion just didn't let us see what was goin' on.
[door slams]
[Marion breathing heavily]
I just dawned on we two do deserve each other.
[door slams]
Peggie?
You...
I'm sorry about all this.
[scoffs] You ain't have to get him glasses.
You shouldn't have gotten him anything.
I didn't.
But they cost me.
They were my mama's.
I'm sorry, Peggie.
I did what I had to do.
My mama raised up a girl to tell the truth, Marion.
I ain't to lie to that man. He ain't done nothin' to me.
- What about me? - What about you?!
You lied to him and you lied to me.
- No! - You told him
you fired me, Marion.
- Am I that washable? - I didn't. I did not fire you.
No, you used me to cure your husband's hands.
You lied to him, made him believe that it was all normal,
like it all is what it was.
That's because I tied my wagon to a blind horse!
Then you lead him down the path!
That's what marriage is, Marion.
You help him see that what he's wantin' isn't realistic.
Help him feel that the world he's livin' in
isn't the one it used to be.
[crying]
That he's making the wrong choices.
I couldn't. I couldn't!
Yes, you could.
It wouldn't be easy, but you could.
I'm doin' it right now with you.
I just wanted us to be happy.
Who?
[softly] You can't have all of us, Marion.
I love him.
And he wants it to be like it was.
And I want that for him.
And you?
[crying] I know it can't be that way.
I know he experienced war,
- and I experienced you. - Marion.
What? Tell the truth,
since you're so good at it.
No, don't.
Us isn't him.
Don't!
[panting]
Not because I don't feel that way.
[sighs]
I love you, Marion Henry.
But if this is how you love, God damn it,
I don't want any part of it.
- [door slams] - [gasps]
[sobbing]
[sobbing louder]
[wails and screams]
[high-pitched whistling]
[wind howling]
[Marion] I didn't want it to be like this.
[Teddy] We're both red-handed.
I could sew.
Not at first, then I could. Didn't want to, so I...
- Lied. - Yeah.
- Funny. - Now it is.
I didn't figure it'd be so hard.
No.
If we did, do you think we'd a done it?
Yeah.
I do.
We were in love.
Yeah.
We were.
[down-tempo music plays]
[crying] I'm just still lookin' for that damn dog.
[wind howling]
[Teddy breathing heavily]
[Peggie humming]
[humming stops]
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