Robert (leading her to the couch): "I don’t see anything wrong with that."
Anna: "All
right."Robert: "What’s up?"
Robin: "Do you know that game that we played today? Could it ever become real?"
Robert: "How do you mean?"
Robin: "Could I ever be taken away from you, luv or Grandma?"
Robert and Anna: "No..Never." (Robert has pulled Robin into his arms.)
Robin: "Why am I getting all these hugs and kisses?"
Anna: "You’re huggable."
Robert: Well you see, there are just some children in this world that get lost of hugs and kisses, and you’re one of them."
Robin: "Like in stories?"
Robert: "Yep."
Robin: "Could you tell me one?"
Robert: "Okay, hang on, one’s coming. Alright, it goes something like this. Once upon a time there was a little girl just about your age, and this little girl was loved by everyone who met her."
Robin: "What’s her name?"
Robert (Stuttering): "Her name...her name...well..."
Anna: "Betina."
Robert: "Betin...Rob...Betina...right Betina. How could I forget a name like Betina?"
Robin: "Did she have a mother and father?"
Robert (stuttering): "Oh, yes."
Anna: "But she was loved by a great many other people too."
Robert: "She had lots of god-mothers and god-fathers, if memory serves me correctly."
Robin (putting her head on Robert’s shoulder and looking up at him): "It’s nice she had a mother and a father."
Robert and Anna look at each other and sigh. Anna: "I think..."
Robert (stroking Robin’s hair): "The sleep of the innocent."
Anna: "Yes, I think she’s sleeping."
Robert: "My God, when’s this horror going to be over?"