But it--it was so sudden.

And you're older--different somehow.

Mel, you're sweeter--why you're beautiful." He clasped her hands and held on to them, until he felt her rather nervously trying to withdraw them.
"Oh, Daren, I'm glad to see you home--alive--whole," she said, almost in a whisper.

"Are you--well ?" "No, Mel.

I'm in pretty bad shape," he replied.