Previously:
Henry and Betty had just settled on the couch with mugs of hot apple cider when the doorbell rang. "That must be our first trick-or-treater," Betty said, getting up and going toward the door. She opened the door, expecting to see youngsters dressed up as ghouls and goblins begging for candy. What she saw instead truly shocked and frightened her.
"Walter!"
"Betty, don't get upset, I just came to say goodbye, and to apologize." Walter said in a rush. "I realized today what I was doing to you. Following you around and trying to get you to love me was only hurting you, and that's the last thing I ever wanted. I'm sorry Betty."
"Thank you, Walter,"
"I've been offered an assistant manager position in a new ProBuy in Maryland. I wasn't going to take it, because I wanted to stay here for you, but now I am going to. It's ironic, really, that you dressed as a butterfly today," Walter said. "I almost made that cliché about butterflies true. I tried to hold you in my hand, Betty, but I would have killed you. And I know that you'll never be coming back to me now, because you were never really mine. I hope that some day you can find it in your heart to forgive me and we can be friends again."
Walter turned and walked to the door. "Goodbye, Betty," he said, closing the door behind him, this time for good.
"That was him?" Henry asked. While Walter was talking, Henry had come quietly to stand nearby, just in case.
"Yeah," Betty said. "I think the breakup finally set in."
"So, did you want to stay and hand out candy?"