I missed the last scene!
Could someone please tell me what they said to each other?
"Martha is 108... years old. She weighs somewhat more than that". - Georgeshare
Basically that she (Deborah Kerr) would wait for him (William Holden).
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He came back from a battle with slight brain damage, mumbling, "Forgive me, forgive me," fixated on her. She's told it will be months before he's well again and she says she'll wait. (Why, I don't know!)
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I just saw this movie on Grit TV just now. Deborah Kerr's character had a heated argument with William Holden's character earlier and she was shoved into a rock and received a concussion and later lost her baby. She wanted no more of him and thought that he was just using her as a "trophy". She went to the cemetery to visit her husband's grave site and heard personal comments from a man who served with her husband. The man told her about her husband's secret feelings about her. When she said "thank you" to the man for his information, I thought that she had a change of heart about "second chances" and stopped feeling sorry for herself. Her demeanor changed and she became more committed to helping the wounded soldiers. When she found William Holden with his brain injury, she finally had a change of heart to forgive him.
I thought Thelma Ritter's speech to her when she was drowning in her sorrow to also contribute to her change of heart when Thelma told her to stop feeling sorry for herself because she was still young enough to have children while many other women could never have children or could no longer have children. This is quite true of many single women.