She hands the photo to Tom.

Tom (looking, smiling) Gee, you’re pretty, Kitty.

Joe reaches up for the photograph, which Tom hands to him. Tom returns to Kitty, whom he finds as pretty now as she was at seven. Joe studies the photograph. Kitty looks up at Tom. There is no doubt that they really love one another. Joe looks up at them.

Kitty Tom?

Tom (eagerly) Yeah, Kitty.

Kitty Tom, when you were a little boy what did you want to be?

Tom (a little bewildered, but eager to please her) What, Kitty?

Kitty Do you remember when you were a little boy?

Tom (thoughtfully) Yeah, I remember sometimes, Kitty.

Kitty What did you want to be?

Tom looks at Joe. Joe holds Tom’s eyes a moment. Then Tom is able to speak.

Tom Sometimes I wanted to be locomotive engineer. Sometimes I wanted to be a policeman.

Kitty I wanted to be a great actress. (She looks up into Tom’s face.) Tom, didn’t you ever want to be a doctor?

Tom looks at Joe. Joe holds Tom’s eyes again, encouraging Tom by his serious expression to go on talking.

Tom Yeah, now I remember. Sure, Kitty. I wanted to be a doctor – once.

Kitty (smiling sadly) I’m so glad. Because I wanted to be an actress and have a young doctor come to the theatre and see me and fall in love with me and send me flowers.

Joe pantomimes to Tom, demanding that he go on talking.

Tom I would do that, Kitty.

Kitty I wouldn’t know who it was, and then one day I’d see him in the street and fall in love with him. I wouldn’t know he was the one who was in love with me. I’d think about him all the time. I’d dream about him. I’d dream of being near him the rest of my life. I’d dream of having children that looked like him. I wouldn’t be an actress all the time. Only until I found him and fell in love with him. After that we’d take a train and go to beautiful cities and see the wonderful people everywhere and give money to the poor and whenever people were sick he’d go to them and make them well again.

Tom looks at Joe, bewildered, confused and full of sorrow. Kitty is deep in memory, almost in a trance.

Joe (gently) Talk to her, Tom. Be the wonderful young doctor she dreamed about and never found. Go ahead. Correct the errors of the world.

Tom Joe. (Pathetically.) I don’t know what to say.

There is a rowdy singing in the hall. A loud young Voice sings, ‘Sailing, sailing, over the bounding main.’

Voice Kitty. Oh, Kitty!

Kitty stirs, shocked coming out of the trance.

Voice Where the hell are you? Oh, Kitty.

Tom jumps up, furiously.

Woman’s voice (in the hall) Who you looking for, Sailor Boy?

Voice The most beautiful lady in the world.

Woman’s voice Don’t go any further.