Lady Diana Foxley leans back against her husband, Lord Charles Foxley, as they watch their American guests drive out of sight."Well that was an eventful summer. What are we going to do now?" She asks as they continue to stand on the front drive.
"I don't know." Lord Charles says quietly. "I feel like I could sleep for a month, though."
"I miss them already," Diana says as they begin to walk towards the house. "They livened up the house so much."
"They certainly did. They sometimes livened the house up a little too much." Charles says as he holds the door open for his wife. His house looks like a disaster zone and smells like stale booze and pot smoke which are two smells he never thought he'd encounter.
"Oh, Charles, you're so old fashioned. It was lovely to have them here. It wouldn't have been any different if we'd had children of our own." Diana says as she bustles around the kitchen and makes tea. "Let's have a cup of tea and then we can go have a nap."
"That sounds wonderful. I've been watching you since our guests came and I realized that I don't really know you anymore. It made me very sad, but I did gain some insight with your story about Lady Foxley and how she felt when she found out she couldn't have children. I wish you'd told me earlier." Charles says as Diana pours him a cup of tea.
"I couldn't have told you. You seemed so unaffected. I didn't want to bring you down with my misery." Diana says as she pours herself a cup of tea.
"I'm your husband. I'm supposed to help you through moments like that, but you never said a word. You just went on your merry way and left me to think that you didn't care that you'd lost our child. I may not have shown it, Diana, but I was crushed when the doctor told me you'd lost the baby and that you wouldn't be able to have more children. All I could hope was that you were okay. I was heartbroken when you seemed not to care. I thought we could have gotten through that together." Charles says as he places his hand over Diana's.
"Maybe we don't know each other as well as we should, but that doesn't mean we can't start now. Is there anything you'd like to talk about in regards to the baby? We can talk about it now. I don't mind. I got emotional talking to the kids about it, but you and I should talk about it. Can we get to know each other again?" Diana asks as she moves her chair closer to Charles'.
"Of course we can talk and we will certainly get to know each other again. I knew you once, but we lost touch after the baby. I should have clung to our relationship harder. I shouldn't have let you go and pull back from me. I just thought it was inevitable. The same thing had happened to my parents and so I thought it was natural. I was wrong. Forgive me?" Charles asks quietly.
"Of course I forgive you. I didn't exactly fight for you, either, now did I? We can both accuse the other of being foolish for not seeing what the other was going through, but in truth we've just been blind. Let's never go back to the way things were."Diana says as she sets her teacup down.