ALLY: You just didn't love each other the right way. It's nobody's fault. Billy and I
weren't meant to be married, that doesn't mean we didn't love each other, and it
didn't mean we couldn't be friends. We didn't fail each other. Sure, he could have
done it better. He could have told me he'd met Georgia, but he didn't fail. You didn't fail as a husband. It just wasn't right. This is right. Why can't you see that?

LARRY: I'm not being obstinate. You know I want to just say, I love you, marry me, but I
can't.

ALLY: If that waiter had given me the right dessert, you would have. If you hadn't started
interpreting signs--

LARRY: I would still have been afraid.

ALLY: I know. But Larry, if you'd just said something to me, instead of pulling away, I could
have maybe, helped you. I know we already did this, but I'm still not clear, why
wouldn't let me help you?

LARRY: I didn't know I was afraid, and I didn't know I was pushing you away. Unitl came to
see me on your birthday, I didn't even realize I was staying away. I thought I was
just working with Sting.

ALLY: Richard came to see you on my birthday?

LARRY: He told me that we both liked to swim in the shallow end of the pool, but I had to
be there for you.

ALLY: Neither of you swim in the shallow end of the pool.

LARRY: We don't?

ALLY: Richard Fish is terrified of really loving someone. You're terrified that you're stuck. That as much as you love me, the person you are today is the person you were
yesterday, and that you can never change. That's what we've been arguing about.
You were staying away from me, because you're afraid you can't change, or maybe
because you're afraid you can.

LARRY: Why would I be afraid of changing?

ALLY:You don't know where you'll end up, what you'll be. Maybe you'd rather stay who you are with what you know.

LARRY:I want to change.

ALLY:Do you? Saying it's impossible means you don't have to try. It makes it really easy
doesn't it?

LARRY:You think I'm saying it's impossible, because I don't want to change.

ALLY:Not consciously, but yes. Did I ever tell you about my deep-sea swimming?

LARRY: I don't think so. I'd probably remember that.

ALLY: I used to imagine the office was full of water, and I would dive deep down into the
water and swim.

LARRY: You wanted to escape.

ALLY: I didn't want to deal with my problems.

LARRY: You think I've been swimming away.

ALLY: I know you can change. I think it's stange that you don't know that.

LARRY: You think I'm afraid.

ALLY: What do you think? When Richard called you shallow, you brought Sting to sing to
me.

LARRY:It wasn't striaight cause-and-effrect. I told you, he just made me see how missing I I'd been, but you said I wasn't really there when I came.

ALLY: I said. What were you thinking?

LARRY: I wanted to be with you. I didn't think I was staying away. I had, however, started
thinking about marriage.

ALLY: We've already gone through this part.

LARRY: What's left?

ALLY:I still can't understand why we can't work through your fear.

LARRY: You can't work through all fear.

ALLY:That's what we let ourselves believe. You're holding on to it.

LARRY: Maybe, but I can't let it go.

ALLY: Why don't you want to let it go?

LARRY: It's not about what I want. It's about what I can do.

ALLY: Do you still want me to leave?

LARRY: Yes.

ALLY: Fine, I give up. Don't forget I love you.

LARRY: How could I.

ALLY: And sell the ring.

LARRY: I guess I should do that.

ALLY: Sell it, baby, and let me go. Don't be alone.

LARRY: Ally.

ALLY: What's left to say?

LARRY: I love you, too.

ALLY: I wish you hadn't said that. Goodbye.

(ALLY exits.)