I really liked the build-up in this one but I was a bit disappointed with the third act. Even though E.G. says in the epilog that as long as there is hope, who's to say there isn't a happy ending, but I was hoping (eternally, I guess) for some sort of physical reunion. If Scotty could beam up the Mister, why not the Missus? :twisted: I dunno. Maybe if I wrote it, the old man would get there with the diary and find that Mrs. P had disappeared mysteriously some years ago; and there was no record of the phone calls that he'd been getting every afternoon; that the old man (Ruben) had only imagined that she was calling him every day because he still loved her himself; and then the folklorist would find a diary in a loose floorboard and discover that Mrs. P had been beamed back into time, and was actually Ruben's great-great grandmother ... or that Ruben had actually been a German spy and knew all along that Mr. P had been accidentally transported through time by an errant ray from an experimental weapon used by U-boats... ops: Sorry, I got carried away.

From a romantic perspective, this was very nice. I thought it was well set up, but sort of weakened at the end. I guess I just like the plays more when the twist is in Act III instead of Act II.