:53:00
Yes, it's very pleasant here.
:53:03
Very pleasant indeed.
:53:06
Tell me, Mr. Wills,
weren't you a little surprised...
:53:09
when I agreed to see you?
:53:11
After all, you must've been told
that I don't normally receive visitors.
:53:15
Well, yes. But then,
I found the hospitality...
:53:18
of this part of the country extraordinary.
:53:21
Besides, I imagine
you had your reasons.
:53:23
Would you have
anything else, ma'am?
:53:25
Um, no.
:53:29
- Thank you, Lewis.
- Thank you, ma'am.
:53:32
I did have my reasons, Mr. Wills.
:53:36
- I did.
- I hope you won't regret it...
:53:39
but I did warn you I'd have to touch
on some painful subjects.
:53:44
Which leads me to confess...
:53:46
to my own reasons for this meetin'.
:53:50
I have a particular need
for a stranger now.
:53:54
Yes, they...
they have their uses, don't they?
:53:59
Well, in this little town...
:54:01
our interests are all too, uh...
too tightly interlocked.
:54:06
If you confide in one person,
you confide in the whole community.
:54:11
You mean you'd like
somebody to talk to?
:54:14
Only in a sense.
:54:17
I'm not a well woman.
:54:19
You can see that much for yourself.
:54:22
Who was it said,
"This long disease, my life"?
:54:26
Well, it's... it's comin' to an end.
:54:30
Perhaps a month, a few weeks.
Who knows?
:54:35
I'm terribly sorry.
:54:37
Oh, no, no.
Don't be, not for me.
:54:41
I think I'm even glad.
:54:44
But never mind that.
I take it you're no stranger...
:54:46
to the unhappier aspects
of people's lives.
:54:50
In fact, the only way to trust someone
is on instinct alone.
:54:55
I want you to have this.
:54:57
I only ask that you don't open it
until after I'm gone.