Since You Went Away1944

Jane Deborah Hilton:
How are things out at the field?

Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II:
Oh, they're fine, thank you. How's everything with you?

Jane Deborah Hilton:
Oh, just fine. I want to get a war job, but Mother won't let me.

Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II:
Well, I think she's right. You ought to stay home -

Jane Deborah Hilton:
No, it isn't that at all. Mother wants me to go to college.

Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II:
Oh. Oh, gee. That would take four years, wouldn't it?

Jane Deborah Hilton:
If I go.

Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II:
You don't want to go?

Jane Deborah Hilton:
No, it's so silly. If I were three or four years older, I could be a Wave.

Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II:
Or a Wac.

Jane Deborah Hilton:
Or a nurse. That's what I'd rather be most. A nurse.

Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II:
That would be swell if I was wounded.

Jane Deborah Hilton:
You shouldn't say such things.

Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II:
Oh. I won't be wounded. I'll be killed.

Jane Deborah Hilton:
Bill!

Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II:
Oh, Jane would you care?

Jane Deborah Hilton:
Well, of course I'd care, silly.

Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II:
Well, gee, that'd be fine.

Jane Deborah Hilton:
What would be fine about it?

Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II:
Well, I thought that if - Well, what I mean is I would be glad if you were sorry if I were killed.

Jane Deborah Hilton:
What good would that do if you were dead?

Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II:
Yeah, I guess you're right.

Jane Deborah Hilton:
I don't ever want to hear you talk like that again.

Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II:
Okay. I'm sure sorry I missed your graduation.