Joy Street Pt V

David makes a pass at Emily, and she is angry and rebuffs him.. But she does feel an attraction to him that scares her. He tells her that he's not a man to make friends with a woman and he thinks in time she will come to want him as her lover. At New Year, Priscilla suggests that she Roger and Emily go to Elizabeth Forbes's farmhouse in New England, for a holiday, as she is bored with society events. David and Brian are also invited and Elizabeth who is still teaching at a posh girls school, invites a middle aged admirer who is a lecturer. Emily goes skating, and enjoys the break, but Roger is worried that he may have trouble getting back to Boston for a trial, in the early New Year, so he thinks he ought to go back home in case they are snowed in. Then Emily races on the ice with David, falls and hurts her ankle. Elizabeth bandages it up and she rests in bed, while Roger prepares to get a train back to Boston. Left to herself, she begins to muse about David and realises that she is thinking about him too much. She is sleeping in the next room to his, and a door begins to bang in the wind. Feeling afraid of her own desires, she gets up and decides to limp into Elizabeth's room to get away from her sinful thoughts, but David appears in the doorway, trying to shut it. The New Year starts well but the Americans are aware that war is coming. David, as a Jew is eager for America to enter the war, but Brian refers to it as Englands war. David decides that he should offer his services as a lawyer to the US army's legal department, and tells his bosses he will be going to Washington and that if he has to resign from his job at the law firm he will do so. His boss is furious at his decision to leave, but feels he can't back down so he tells David if he leaves, he wont be welcome back. Roger has been in the National Guard for sometime but he now finds that his health problems mean that he is not strong enough to join the regular army. He is upset and feels emasculated, and Emily does her best to support him through the stress of taking on more work at the office, and not beign able to serve his country.