An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving2008

Gad Hopkins:
[dusting off the statue Tilly threw into the snow] Did you really dislike it that much? Everyone is looking for you. I knew where to find you.

Mathilda Bassett:
What possessed me?

Gad Hopkins:
You were angry.

Mathilda Bassett:
I shouldn't have taken Grandmother's part. It wasn't right.

Gad Hopkins:
Your mother was humiliating her.

Mathilda Bassett:
That isn't why. I want to go.

Gad Hopkins:
Go where?

Mathilda Bassett:
Anywhere. I've been wanting to go ever since my father died.

Gad Hopkins:
The world is not quite so grand a place as your grandmother claims.

Mathilda Bassett:
My father used to say I was born for adventure. Do you remember how the three of us would go to the woods? And he'd get us to imagine what it would be like, to be a mackerel in a lake or a bee in a hive?

Gad Hopkins:
[he kisses her] Don't go.

Mathilda Bassett:
Oh, Gad, I do love you.

Gad Hopkins:
Marry me.

Mathilda Bassett:
I'm not ready. I'm only at the beginning.