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After Margaret and Michael apparently come to a meaningful understanding (second scene), and Margaret decides to be with Michael, there’s a fade to a new scene. Margaret is home with Edwin, having a cup of tea while Edwin listens to an upbeat song on the radio; there’s a cross-cut to Michael’s home with his daughter Barbara getting ready for school; Barbara asks her father if Mrs. Porter (Margaret) doesn’t like him anymore; “she doesn’t come here anymore, for weeks and weeks!” Obviously, a couple of months have passed. Michael decides to end the gambit by insisting she get ready to go to school (“Don’t forget your gas-mask!). These two scenes together take 45 seconds. The latter scene sets up the “pregnant” drama to come.<br><div><br></div><div>In the Acorn set, the second scene cuts to the dialogue between Jean and Margaret, where Jean comments that Margaret hasn’t gone to a concert in a while with Margaret.</div><div><br></div><div>Lesley Nunnerly and John McKelvey are particularly masterly in this hour.</div>
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