I'll Be Seeing You1944

Zachary Morgan:
Mary, I want to tell you why I got mad at that guy in the coffee shop last night, and why I walked away from you after I threw that rock at the lamppost and missed it.

Mary Marshall:
I knew there must be some reason, but you don't have to tell me.

Zachary Morgan:
Look, I was brought up in a home, an orphan's home.

Mary Marshall:
That's nothing to be ashamed of.

Zachary Morgan:
I'm not. It's not like being in prison, or anything like that.

Mary Marshall:
No.

Zachary Morgan:
Well, in the home there was a janitor. This fellow had been in the last war. A young guy. He was a shell shock case. Whenever we could get our hands on any firecrackers, we'd bang them off and laugh at him when he jumped. Well, that fellow in the coffee shop reminded me of the janitor, and they both made me think of myself and what I'd be like in a few years. Only difference is, that now in the hospital, they have a fancy name for it: neuropsychiatric.

Mary Marshall:
The doctors must know a lot more about it now than they did during the last war.

Zachary Morgan:
Maybe. They don't know something about me that I know. You see, before I became an engineer, I was an athlete, a pretty good one. I know what my timing used to be, they don't, and it's gone, Mary. Before this happened to me, I could have hit that lamppost all day. I don't know why I'm bothering you with all this. Yes, I do. I know why I'm bothering you. Because I feel so much better when I talk to you. I like to be with you.