Joy Street IX

Emily is devastated by Roger's death, just when their marriage was so happy and they were having a baby. She doesn't want to go out, and avoids her friends. Brian gets leave and comes back to Boston, and he tells her that he feels guilty for being in the Navy where he felt he was doing no good, and leaving Roger to become a war casualty, dying from overwork. He encourages Emily to look foward to her baby.. Then when she's about 6 months pregnant, she is looking after Archie, Elizabeth's son and has a fall and goes into labour. The baby dies, and she is very ill. Brian writes to her to try and console her but she is very depressed. Pell plans to marry Simonetta once he gets back from the war, and Emily learns that Carmela is staying in Lynn with her family who have reclaimed her... She is concerned that her grandmother is getting very old and frail and may not live much longer. Then David returns on leave. She has been expecting him to come and tell her again that he loves her, but instead he tells her that he is sorry but he has fallen in love with Priscilla and wants him to release her so that he can marry her. Emily is shaken; he tells her that Priscilla was in love with him for a long time - and that when he met her in Germany at the end of the war, he began to return her love. He tells her that when 2 people have been in a war together, it creates a special bond. He has been asked to go to Germany as a lawyer, to take part in the Nuremberg trials, and he wants to take Priscilla with him. When Mrs Forbes hears the news, she tells Emily she should fight for David, that Priscilla is young and will get over it. But Emily refuses. She helps organise the wedding and the couple get married. Emily's grandmother dies soon after and she is depressed again but she finds that there are people who care for her and whom she can help.. and she begins to get on with her life. The war is over and Brian is leaving the Navy. He wants to run for office and give up being a full time lawyer. Emily's uncle Russell is in the Senate and Brian is running against him... so she tells Russell she wont support Brian because she feels she owes it to her grandmother to show support for her son, in public. Brian asks Emily to marry him but she at first refuses... saying that she has been in love with someone else... However she does love Brian as a good friend and they are comfortable together. He is surprised to hear of her love for David, but he accepts it, and she tells him that she would never have been happy if she had betrayed Roger's faith in her.. and that David realised that as well. Brian is busy with his senatorial campaign and Emily sees him occasionally. She is surprised when he tells her that he and Pell are thinking of leaving Cutter Mills and Swan law firm, and setting up on their own, so that there will be a new law firm which represents what Roger had hoped for, a uniting of different social groups in Boston. Pell will be head of the firm as Brian will be in Washington some of the time. On Election night, Brian turns up, having eluded his handlers. He tells Emily that he thinks he will win, but he wants to ask her to marry him before he knows for sure. He says that he knows she does not love him the way she loved Roger or David, but he feels that she does care and he wants her to marry him. Emily is startled but she eagerly accepts him. He has to go back to headquarters but a bit later, he turns up again and says that they are going to be going to Washington. He has won the election and he asks her to go with him. They drive off together...