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You should not have come.
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I had to.
I had to see you, Catherine.
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- May we not sit down?
- I think we had better not.
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Can't we be friends again?
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We aren't enemies.
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You don't know how happy it makes me
to hear you say that.
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I've never ceased to think of you.
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If you cannot be honest with me,
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we shall have nothing more to say
to each other.
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But it's true, Catherine.
Ever since... the night I left,
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it's been the desire of my life that
you should understand my motives.
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I have had years
to think about them, Morris.
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And I understand them. So we have
nothing further to discuss.
1:34:48
I will bid you good night.
1:34:50
But I've come all the way
from California to see you.
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To explain this to you.
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- It is late for explanations.
- No, Catherine.
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I would have been back long since
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but I had to beg and borrow
the passage money.
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It's been a real struggle for me
to get back here.
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Why, between New Orleans
and Charleston I worked as a hand,
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a common seaman.
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Now that I'm here, you will give me
the chance to vindicate myself.
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You must hear me out, Catherine.
You must.
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For the sake of what we have been
to each other.
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What is it you want to explain?
1:35:29
Many things, Catherine.
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May we not sit down now?
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Catherine, it was because I loved you
that I disappeared that night.
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I know how it looked.
I behaved abominably.
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But I knew that if I returned
that night,
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I might have done you great harm.