Joy Street Pt VI

Roger realises as things get worse, that the other lawyers will probably join up and he will be landed with all extra work in the office. David prepares to go to Washington, and is dismayed when Priscilla makes a proposal to him. She says that she loves him and she believes he loves her too, and that in time he would get around to proposing. He tells her that he is not in love with her and he's in love with someone else. Angrily, she retorts that she knows he has feelings for someone else and she knows who it is too. She lets him go and David goes to Emily's house to say goodbye before he leaves. He reminds her of what had happened on New Year, how they both realised that they had to shut the door, and he was tempted to try to seduce her when he found her out of bed. However he realised that he could not do it, because Emily is an honourable married woman and not someone who has casual affairs... and that he would be very wrong to sleep with her, knowing that she would regret it and that it would damage her marriage. She says that she thinks she understands, and he says that he realised over the past months that he loved her and he couldnt do anything that would cause her pain, even if there was a brief period of pleasure. He tells her that Roger is a great guy and that Emily knows that and that she would not be happy if she did anything to hurt her husband or break up the marriage. Emily realises that he's right and when he leaves she commits herself to looking after Roger and trying hard to be a support to him. Brian is called up but then let back into civilian life, and he and Roger try to clear up a lot of work that is piling up. Then Pearl Harbor happens and Brian is recalled to the Navy.