Cody re-emerges into the outer room from the bedroom and barks: "What""re ya all gapin"" at?"Under the cover of an approaching storm, they start packin"" to leave for Los Angeles after Happy announces that he has heard a weather report on the radio.Exasperated, he exclaims to his fiancee that he is reluctant to be "hooked" while she patiently listens o his outburst:Mortimer: Don""t you understand? How can I marry you? Me! The symbol of bachelorhood.Dad was a Yankees fan then, so, of course, I rooted for Brooklyn.But in ""58, the Dodgers moved away, so we had to find other things to fight about.We did.And when it came time to go to college, I picked the farthest one from home I could find.This, of course, drove him right up the wall, which, I suppose, was the point.Officially, my major was English, but really, it was the Sixties.I marched, I smoked some grass, I tried to like sitar music, and I met Annie.The only thing we had in common was that she came from Iowa, and I had once heard of Iowa.After graduation, we moved to the Midwest and stayed with her family as long as we could, almost a full afternoon.Afterwards, lone survivor Alice took a canoe ride out to the middle of the lake and fell asleep, an idyllic scene (possibly an hallucinatory dream?).The lights in the interior of the modernistic, Art Deco mansion are turned on in response to the ringing doorbell.