Carol Lawrence: Evelyn Denner

Quotes 

• Dr. McKinley Thompson : I want to help you.

  Evelyn Denner : Help me? You couldn't help Evan, and he wanted your help.

• Dr. McKinley Thompson : Now, let's go back to this interest you had in dancing.

  Evelyn Denner : You think maybe I ought to try and revive it?

  Dr. McKinley Thompson : You want to?

  Evelyn Denner : It would be a good therapy, wouldn't it?

• Evelyn Denner : I'm a coward, Doctor. If I could kill myself I would have done it long ago.

  Dr. McKinley Thompson : You're not a coward. Suicide is neither cowardice nor courage. It's just a break with reality.

• Evelyn Denner : Well, once when I was nine I was farmed out to a family that was different.

  Dr. McKinley Thompson : In what way?

  Evelyn Denner : The wife came home one day with some old tights and leotards. Oh, just cheap ones, probably used, I guess. And she put 'em on me, and I started dancing around like some nut. Anyway, she enrolled me in a class the next week. A regular class, with a bar and all that other jazz. And I guess I was pretty good. All week long I'd look forward to the next lesson

  [trails off and retreats into her own thoughts] 

  Evelyn Denner : .

  Dr. McKinley Thompson : Evelyn, you were saying that all week long you looked forward to the next lesson?

  Evelyn Denner : Yeah, uh, well, her husband got a better job in another state and I was sent someplace else.