:07:01
except Ed was waiting
at the end of every day...
:07:04
and a paycheck
at the end of every week.
:07:06
Government do take a bite,
don't she?
:07:10
HI: These were the happy days--
:07:12
the salad days, as they say.
:07:14
Ed felt that having a critter
was the next logical step.
:07:18
It was all she thought about.
:07:21
Her point was that there was
too much love and beauty...
:07:24
for just the two of us...
:07:26
and every day we kept a child
out of the world...
:07:29
was a day he might later regret
having missed.
:07:35
ED: That was beautiful.
:07:36
HI: So we worked at it
on the days we calculated...
:07:38
most likely to be fruitful...
:07:41
and we worked at it most
other days, just to be sure.
:07:45
Ed rejoiced that my lawless
years were behind me...
:07:48
and that our child-rearing years
lay ahead.
:07:50
[ Siren ]
:07:51
And then the roof caved in.
:07:59
ED: Hi...
:08:02
I'm barren!
:08:04
HI:
At first I didn't believe it...
:08:06
that this woman
who looked as fertile...
:08:09
as the Tennessee Valley...
:08:10
could not bear children.
:08:13
But the doctor explained
that her insides...
:08:15
were a rocky place where my seed
could find no purchase.
:08:21
Ed was inconsolable.
:08:25
We tried an adoption agency.
:08:28
ED: It's true that Hi
has had a checkered past.
:08:31
HI: But Ed here is an officer
of the law twice decorated...
:08:35
so we figure
it kind of evens out.
:08:40
HI: But biology
and the prejudices of others...
:08:43
conspired to keep us childless.
:08:48
Our love for each other
was stronger than ever...
:08:52
but I premonised no return
of the salad days.
:08:57
The pizzazz
had gone out of our lives.