Avonlea (TV Series)

Return to Me (1996)

Jackie Richardson: Megget Lydie

Quotes 

• Felicity King : [about Gus's outburst, shocked]  Of all the things I imagined... I never expected this.

  Odelia : [gardening with Miss Lydie]  No one thought he'd even live. But I wouldn't leave his side. We all knew, what he tried to do to save the others. After the explosion, a trawler pulled him from floating wreckage--barely conscious.

  Megget Lydie : Child, go on and set. I can finish here. Go on.

  Odelia : [does so, sits on the porch with Felicity, Hetty and Horace]  When he found out he was blinded, and that all but six had died just the same... Well, he went deep inside himself, he wouldn't come out.

  Hetty King : But was no one told he was alive? No authority? No one?

  Odelia : He was found separate from the others. At first, in the confusion, the world thought he was dead. Gus wanted it kept that way. The boys who lived, they knew it was only because of Gus. Gus wanted us to swear to his secret. We did.

  Hetty King : And can he see nothing? Nothing at all?

  Odelia : Light, and shadow. He couldn't stay at the home; the mission needed the bed. That's when Granny asked him here.

  Megget Lydie : Well, that boy has a powerful light inside. If only he'd just let it shine again.

  Odelia : He won't go to the doctor's no more. I got upset and I tried to call you, but he made me swear not to try again, you of all people.

  Felicity King : Why?

  Megget Lydie : Well, that, child, you're going to have to ask him yourself.