Try to stop crying. Everything's going to be all right.

Nothing will ever be all right.

I'm sure that we're gonna be very happy - you and I.

But everything is changed all of a sudden. Everything was so, oh, I don't know, normal.

Lolita, please, please stop crying. We'll do things, we'll go places.

But there's no place to go back to.

We'll find a new home.

Where?

Beardsley. My lectureship. It starts in September. It's in Ohio, you'll like it there.

I'll hate it, I know I will.

No you won't. It's a wonderful place.

But what about all my things back in Ramsdale? And our house?

We'll take care of all those things.

[curling up in his lap]

Promise you'll never leave me. I don't want to ever be in one of those horrible places for juvenile delinquents...And anyway, I'd rather be with you. You're a lot better than one of those places. You will promise, won't you?

Cross my heart and hope to die. Cross my heart and hope to die. Cross my heart and hope to die.