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Who knows what he'll say Jim!
Let him, he's come too late that's all!
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He couldn't come before, I'm frightened.
He was fond of me.
And I'm not fond of you?
I should have waited Jim, with him in some strange country fighting.
What about me! I've been up to my ears in blood.
I learned what it can get. Jim!
Did you?
Not like you Jim, not like you.
Then there's nothing to fear.
I promised him. One man's luck is
another man's poison.
I should have have waited but at some point I thought
He'll never come back.
Maybe it would have been better if he hadn’t!
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I wonder
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I wonder if he'll be the same?
Em, don't you ever change on me!
Don't you, or I'll, I'll kill you and him too!
I never will.
Why not ditch this place?
He never find us!
Oh, what's the point of staying!
The world's wide.
I'd rather have it off my mind now! Now, that he's back.
It can only mean trouble. What's the time Jim?
Half past four. He said four o'clock.
Jimmy, you'd better go! No! I'm worried...
I've seen just as much a hell as he has any day.
What's he like?
I don't remember.
I haven't seen him in three years.
Since I've known you I don't know what I remember
Big or little guy?
He's about your size.
Jim go home!
No fear!
What's a rube like him compared to an Al Qaeda sniper.
I don't woose in face of that.
If you go. I'll go! Nothing else.
Jim do you love me, truly?
There's nothing wrong with me loving you.
If he could see my heart.
Em, if I had know you out there...
I would never have finished my tour. MP's would have gotten me
for desertion! That's how I love you.
Jim don't lift your hand to him. Promise!
That depends. Promise!
If he stays quiet I won't.
But I'm not reasonable, not always.
Honestly, not since Afghanistan.
Just as likely he may be the same.
Likely or not. It's a slippery slope.
God help us.
That's said a bit too often.
What we want we take. There's no hoping for good!
Besides I don't fear him.
I've seen worse. Perhaps he'll say that too.
Then it'll be him or me.
I'm frightened! No Em, no.
It's a quiet place, what's one more or less.
He won't hurt you or me.
Oh no, give it to me Jim. Don't worry.
I won't have any real reason to use it.
I'm sure.
My little Em can't be expected to see things the way we do.
What's life anyways.
Six thousand men killed in minutes.
Men scattered on a minefield like hunks of meat.
I've seen the white light a hundred times.
I've killed dozens...
Nothing. He's safe safe.
Safe!
As long he doesn't get on the wrong side of me.
If he does, nobodies safe.
Not him not anyone. Not even you!
Jim this is not that type of day.
You can't... That depends on him.
I'm not looking for it
Em I love you. I love your hair.
I love your eyes.
I love you! I love you Jim.
All the world I don't want anything more then you!
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It's him. Don't be frightened,
I'm right here.
[Whistling Happy Tune]
Lucky day!
It's, Emma.
It's my Em.
Hello Jack.
Em, Em, hello my sweet.
I have something to tell you
Oh yeah, what sort of thing this lovely day.
Why I got things that would take me years to tell.
Have you missed me Em?
You've been so long.
So I have. So I have.
It's the way they have in the Army, you know.
But with each day,
With each sun, I think of you my Em.
Because at any moment a sniper could pop!
You know, I said then if I could get out of this
I'd laugh.
And here you are.
Brighter than any Sun.
Do you remember that last night in the woods?
You said come back quick and marry me Jack!
Well I'm here.
I've got my pass to paradise.
No more landmines no more body bags,
no more sleeping roughs.
We can get married now Em.
We can live soft and happy.
Come give me a kiss my love.
No! No? No! Why not?
This is why soldier!
Who are you Biff? The Sun doesn't shine for you.
Does it.
Who is the Em? My man.
Your man! Bloody hell!
And thus you see by fates decree,
or rather nurse's whim my brother John
got christened me and I got christened him.
And this morning, I was thinking, you know
I've been lucky, I mean. Now! I can laugh freely.
And you Bro, you've a knife.
So you've had your taste
of the scorched earth and the stench.
Don't you make fun of me or else!
No not at you Bro, not at you.
I'm just laughing at things in general. Relax.
So where did you get it, my friend?
Thru the lung.
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Think of that. And I've never been touched.
Four years and not a scratch!
So you've taken my girl!
Nothing doing!
Ha! The world is before me.
Well Em, here's a thought if it's what you want,
Then you be his lung protector.
Em doesn't need your thought. She's made her choice.
Well let it be then. I've got a laugh in me,
that you can't put out, as mean as you look!
Good by, little Em
Don't touch him!
Look Bro, let's just shake, hands alright!
Alright!
'Cause I don't want to see someone
I care for, cry like that, not on any day.
Not less one with the Sun is so bright.
I've seen too much sorrow, man!
You and me, been against the wind, we've had our whack!
Shake!
Who you kiddin, you never loved her!
Well I thought I did...
I'll fight you for her.
Look Bro!
You've done your bit alright and I've done mine.
It's taken us down seemingly different paths, relax.
Jim!
I don't want his charity I only want what I can take!
Em which of us do you want?
Him.
You see Biff, put away your knife man, alright!
Put away your knife.
There's nothing here but laughs man, we both know that.
Laughs my friend, laugh!
You... JIM!
Look, it's no use Bro, I can't do it.
Alright, I said that I would laugh today,
and laugh I will.
I've been through a war machine man.
And all the sorrow and stench that goes along with it.
But never again.
As long as the Sun is still shining.
Hang five Bro.
Don't hate me too much, Jack.
I could never hate my sweet Em. Enjoy your fancy,
So long Em, may the gods be with you.
[Whistling Happy Tune]
He's mad. The sun has touched him, Jim!
[Whistling Happy Tune]
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Come on in ladies.
It's abandoned, but not scary.
Of course it's abandoned!
Mr. Hale boy move things about,
you explained to Mr. Henderson just what you
saw when he came in yesterday morning.
By the way has anything been moved?
Are things just as you left them yesterday?
It's just the same.
Sent Frank out this morning to check, but, uh,
told him not to touch anything.
Uh, you know Frank!
Somebody should have been left here yesterday.
Yesterday!
When I sent Frank out to Morris Center,
for that man who went crazy!
Want you know I had my hands full yesterday.
I knew you'd get back from Sacramento by today,
as long as I went over everything here myself... Well,
Mr. Hale please tell me just what happened
when you got to the house yesterday morning?
Harry and I had started to town with a load of oranges.
We came along the road from my place and as I got here I said,
I'm going to see if John Wright wants to join us.
I thought he might join us selling his produce with ours at the
farmers market.
I’d spoken to Wright about it once before and he put me off,
saying dealing with people face to face
is more trouble then its worth.
I guess you know about how much he liked people himself;
but I thought maybe if I went to the house,
and talked about it before his wife
though I said to Harry
that I didn't think what his wife wanted
made much difference to John Wright.
Let's talk about that later Mr. Hale I
do want to first tell me just what
happened when you got to the house.
I didn't hear or see anything;
I knocked at the door,
and still it was all quiet inside.
I knew they must be up, it was past eight o'clock.
So I knocked again, and I thought I heard somebody say,
'Come in.' I wasn't sure, I'm not sure yet,
I opened the door, that door. I wandered into the dining room
there in that chair sat Mrs Wright.
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What... was she doing?
She was rockin' back and forth.
She had her apron in her hand
and was kind of... pleating it.
And how did she look?
Well, she looked queer.
How do you mean for you had she seemed
Well, as if she didn't know what she was going to do next
And kind of done up.
How did she seem to feel about your coming in?
Why, I don't think she minded... one way or other.
She didn't pay much attention.
I said, 'How do, Mrs Wright it's warm, ain't it?'
she said, 'Is it?'
went on kind of pleating at her apron.
I was surprised; she didn't ask me to come in, or to set
she sat there, not even looking at me,
I said, 'I want to see John. And then she...
laughed. I guess you would call it a laugh.
I thought of Harry outside, so I said a little sharp:
Can't I see John?
No', she says, kind o' dull like.
Ain't he home?' says I. Yes', says she, 'he's home
Then why can't I see him?' I asked her, out of patience.
Cause he's dead', says she.
'Dead?' says I.
She just nodded her head, not getting a bit excited
but rockin' back and forth.
But, why... where is he?' Not knowing what to say.
She just pointed... like that
I got up, with the idea of going there.
I walked from there to here, then I asked,
'What did he die of?
Died of a rope round his neck says she,
just went on pleatin' at her apron.
Well, I went out and called Harry.
Thought I might... need help.
We went there he was lyin'...
I almost think I'd rather have you
go over that in the bedroom you can point
out just go on now the rest to your story.
Well, my first thought was to get that rope off.
It looked...
But Harry, he went up to him, and he said,
'No, he's dead all right, and we'd better not touch anything.'
We went back. She was still sitting that same way.
'Has anybody been notified?' I asked.
'No', says she unconcerned.
'Who did this, Mrs Wright?' said Harry.
He said it business-like.
She stopped pleatin' of her apron.
'I don't know', she says.
'You don't know?' says Harry.
'No', says she.
'Weren't you sleepin' in the bed with him?' says Harry.
'Yes', says she, 'but I was on the inside'.
'Somebody slipped a rope round his neck
and you didn't wake up?'says Harry.
'I didn't wake up', she said after him.
We must 'a looked as if we didn't see how that could be,
for after a minute she said,
'I sleep sound'.
Well Harry was going to ask her more questions
but I said maybe we ought to let her tell her story
first to the coroner, or the Sheriff.
So Harry went fast as he could to get Sheriff Peters.
And what did Mrs. Wright do when she knew
you'd gone for the corner?
She moved from that chair to this chair over here.
And just sat there with her hands held together and looking down.
I got a feeling that I should make conversation,
so I told her I had come to ask John if he wanted to join me and Harry
selling produce at the Farmers Market in Riverside
at that she started to laugh,
and then she stopped and looked at me... scared
I don't know maybe it wasn't scared I
wouldn't like to say that it was.
Soon Harry got back and Dr. Lloyd came
And you Mr. Peters I guess that's all
I know you don't
I guess we'll go up to the
bedroom then out to the barn and around there.
You're convinced that there's
nothing of employees here nothing that
can point to any moment
Nothing here but kitchen things.
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Well, here's a nice mess.
Oh, her fruit; it did freeze,
She worried, cause it turns so cold at night.
That her jars would break.
Can you beat woman! Held for murder and worried,
about her preserves.
I guess before we're through she may have something more serious
to worry about.
Well, women are used to worrying over trifles.
And yet, for all their worrying,
what would we do without the ladies?
Dirty towel!
Not much of a housekeeper, would you say, ladies?
There's a great deal of work to be done on a place this big.
To be sure. And yet
I know there are some county houses which do not have such
dirty towels.
Those towels get dirty awful quick, Mr Henderson.
Men's hands aren't always as clean as they might be.
Ah, loyal to your sex, I see.
But you and Mrs Wright were neighbors.
I suppose you were friends, too.
I've not seen much of her of late years.
I've not been in this house...
It's more than a year.
And why was that?
You didn't like her very much, did you?
I liked her all well enough.
Farmers' wives have their hands full. And then...
Yes?
It never seemed a very cheerful place.
No... it's not cheerful.
I wouldn't say she had the homemaking instinct.
Well, I don't know as Wright had, either. But...
You mean that they didn't get on very well?
No, I don't mean anything. But...
I don't think a place'd be any more cheerfuller
for John Wright's being in it.
I'd like to talk more of that a little later.
I want to get the lay of things now.
I suppose anything Mrs. Peters does'll be all right.
She was to take in some clothes for her
and a few little things.
We left in such a hurry yesterday.
Yes, but
I do want to see what you bring, Mrs Peters,
and do keep an eye out for
anything that might be of use to us.
Yes Mr Henderson.
I'd hate to have men coming into my kitchen, snooping around
and criticizing.
Course, it's no more than their duty.
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Duties alright but I guess
that Deputy Sheriff that came out to check on the
place might have gotten a little of this on.
I wish I'd thought of that
Seems mean to talk about her for not having the
place nice and tidy when she had to come
away in such a hurry.
She had a bread set.
It's a shame about her fruit.
I wonder if it's all gone?
I think there's so here.
Yes, it's here!
This is cherries too.
I believe that's the only one.
She'll feel awful bad after all her hard work in the hot weather.
I remember the afternoon last summer I
put up my cherries.
Well, I must get those things from the
closet for Mrs. Wright.
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it's lonely in there
Wright was closed.
I think maybe that's why she kept so much to herself.
She didn't even belong to any community groups.
I suppose she thought she couldn't do a part and then..
You don't enjoy things much when you feel shabby.
She used to wear pretty clothes and be
so lively when she was Minnie Foster
one of the town girls singing in the choir.
But that was long ago.
Was this all she wanted?
She said she wanted an apron.
Funny thing to want, cuz
There isn't much to get you dirty in jail, but...
Guess it'll make her feel more natural.
She said it was over there on the top cupboard.
[Sound of Men walking around upstairs]
Mrs. Peters.
Yes, Mrs. Hale.
Do you think she did it?
Oh, I don't know.
Well!
I don't think she did.
Asking for an apron,
worrying about her fruit.
Mr. Peters says it looks bad for her.
Mr. Henderson is awful sarcastic and...
In court he'll make fun of her saying she
didn't wake up.
Well, I guess John Wright didn't wake up
when the rope went round his neck.
That's the strange part
it must have been done awful crafty and still.
They say it was such a...
funny way to kill a man.
Riging it all up like that!
That's what Mr. Hale said.
But,
what he really doesn't understand is,
There was a gun in the house.
Coming out here Mr. Henderson said
what was needed for the case was
a motive!
Something to show, anger or sudden feeling.
I don't see any sign of anger around here.
One side of the table is clean, the other...
As if she'd been interrupted.
[Sound of Men upstairs]
I wonder how they're finding things upstairs?
I hope she had it a little more ready up there.
Yes...
You know...
It seems kind of sneaking
locking her up in town and then
coming out here and trying to get her
own house to turn against her.
But Mrs. Hale the law is the law.
I guess it is.
Whew, California Sun.
Only gonna get warmer.
That's for sure!
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She was piecing a quilt.
Oh, log-cabin pattern.
Pretty isn't it.
I wonder if she was gonna quilt it or knot it?
They wonder if she was going to quilt it or just knot it!
Well, looks like the ladies have everything under control, here.
Let's go out to the barn and get that cleared up.
I don't think there's anything strange our sharing her pleasure,
in the things she made while they're doing the evidence thing!
Certainly nothing to laugh about.
Well, they certainly have awful important
things on their minds.
Mrs. Peters look at this.
Here this is the one she was working on,
all nice and neat.
But look at this!
It's all over the place.
Why it looks as if she don't know what she was about.
Mrs. Hale what are you doing?
Just pulling out a stitch or two that's not sewed well.
Bad sewing always makes me nervous.
I don't know if we should touch things.
I'll just finish up this end.
Mrs. Peters.
Yes, Mrs. Hale.
What do you suppose she was so nervous about?
Oh, I don't know if she was nervous.
Sometimes I sew awful queer when I'm just tired.
Well I must get these things wrapped up.
They may be through sooner than we think.
I wonder where I can find a
shopping bag or something to bundle these things?
In that cupboard, maybe.
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Did, did she have a bird Mrs. Hale?
I don't know whether she did or not.
I've not been here for so long...
There was a man around last year selling Canaries cheap.
But, I don't know if she took one.
Maybe she did.
She used to sing such a beautiful voice.
It seems funny...
think of a bird around here. But,
she must have had one or why have a cage?
I wonder what happened to it
I don't know.
Maybe the cat got it.
No I don't think she had a cat.
I don't think she likes them.
My cat got in her room and she got real
upset and asked me to take it out.
My sister's like that with dogs.
To each their own.
Why look at the door...
It's broke!
One hinge is pulled apart.
Look as if someone must have been rough with it.
Why yes.
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I wish if they were gonna find any evidence they'd get on with it.
I don't like this place.
But,
I'm awful glad you came with me Mrs. Hale.
It'd be real lonesome for me sitting here all alone.
It would wouldn't it.
But, I tell you what I do wish Mrs. Peters.
I wish I'd come over sometime when she was here.
I can see now... Of course you were awful busy,
your house and your children.
I could have come.
I stayed away because it...
it wasn't cheerful and...
that's why I should have!
I've never liked the place.
I don't know if it's because it's,
down in a hollow and you can't see the road.
I don't know what it is but...
It's a lonesome place.
Always has been.
I really wish I'd come and seen Minnie.
I wish I had.
Well,
you mustn't reproach yourself Mrs. Hale.
Sometimes we just...
don't see how it is for others until something happens.
Not having children...
makes less work, but...
it makes a quiet house.
And Wright out to work all day, and
no company when he did come in.
Did you know John Wright Mrs. Peters?
Knew of him. Seen him around town.
They say he was a good man.
Yes. Good.
He didn't drink and...
kept his word as well as most I guess.
And he paid his bills.
But he was a hard man, Mrs. Peters!
Just past the time of day with him...
like a raw wind that gets to the bone.
I should think she would have liked to have a bird.
I wonder what happened to it?
I don't know, it must have got sick and died.
You weren't raised round here, were you?
You didn't know her?
Not till they brought her yesterday.
She...
come to think of it,
she was kind of like a bird herself.
Real sweet pretty but
timid and fluttery.
How she did change.
Tell you what Mrs. Peters,
Why don't you take the quilt with you. It might take up her mind.
Why, I think that's a real nice idea Mrs. Hale.
There couldn't possibly be any objection to it, could there?
Now just what would I take?
Wonder if all our patches and things are in the basket?
Here's some red.
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What a pretty box.
Looks like something somebody might give you.
Maybe her scissors are in here.
Why!
There's something wrapped up in here.
This isn't her scissors.
Mrs. Peters!
It's...
It's the bird.
But look at it Mrs. Peters!
Its neck!
Look at its neck.
It's all to the other side.
Somebody...
wrung its neck.
[Men entering from outside]
Well ladies...
have you decided whether she was going to
quilt it or knot it?
We think she was going to... knot it.
That's interesting, I'm sure.
Has the bird flown?
We think the... cat got it.
Is there a cat?
Well, not any more.
They're superstitious, you know. They leave.
Wll, no sign at all of anyone having come from the outside.
Their own rope. Now let's go up again and go
over it piece by piece.
It would have to have been someone who knew just the exact time...
She liked the bird.
She was going to bury it in that pretty box.
When I was a girl my kitten...
there was a boy took a hatchet and
before my eyes and
before I could get there.
They wouldn't have come to got me I would have...
[Men upstairs]
hurt him.
I wonder how it seemed never to have had children around.
No, Wright wouldn't like a bird a thing that sang.
She used to sing.
He killed that too!
We don't know who killed the bird.
I knew John Wright.
It was an awful thing done in that house,
That night Mrs. Hale.
Killing a man while he slept,
Slipping a rope around his neck that choked the life out of him.
His neck?
Choked the life out of him?
If there'd been years and years of nothing,
and then bird to sing to you,
It'd be awful still,
after the bird, still.
I know what stillness is.
When we were in Dakota,
and my first baby died.
After he was 2 years old, then,
I had no other then.
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How soon do you suppose they'll be through looking for the evidence?
I know what's stillness is.
The law has got to punish crime Mrs. Hale.
I wish you'd see Minnie Foster,
when she wore a white dress with a blue ribbon,
and stood up there in the choir and sang.
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Wish I'd come over to see her once in a while!
That was a crime!
Who's gonna punish that! You...
take it on you should not take it on.
I should have known she needed help!
I know how things can be for women.
You know it's queer Mrs. Peters,
we live close together,
but we live far apart.
We all go through the same things,
it's just different kinda the same thing.
If I were you Mrs. Peters,
I wouldn't tell her that her fruit was gone.
I'd say it was all right.
Take this to prove it to her.
She may never know.
My,
it's a good thing the men couldn't hear us,
wouldn't they just laugh,
getting all stirred up over a little thing like a dead Canary.
As if that could have to do with,
with,
wouldn't they laugh.
[Men coming down stairs]
Maybe they would maybe they wouldn't.
No Peters, it's all clear except a reason.
But, you know jurors when it comes to women.
But, if I could find some definite thing, something...
to make a story about.
A thing to connect up with this
strange way of doing it. If I could find that, I sure...
Are you ready to go back?
I'm going to stay here a while by myself,
You can send a car out for me, can't you?
I want to go over everything.
I'm not satisfied that we can't do better.
You want to see what Mrs Peters is going to take in?
Yea.
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Well, I guess they're not very dangerous things the
ladies have picked out.
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Now.
Mrs Peters doesn't need supervising.
In fact, being a sheriff's wife,
is like being married to the law.
You, ever think of it that way, Mrs Peters?
Not... just that way.
Married to the law.
I just want you to come in here a minute, George.
We got to check out these windows.
Windows!
We'll be right back Mr Hale.
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[Men voices]
Ahhh, Well, Henry,
at least we found out that she was not going to quilt it.
She was going to,
what is it you call it, ladies?
We call it... knot it, Mr Henderson.
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Vincent! Vincent,
you needn't pretend you're asleep.
[Train on overpass]
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Vincent?
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Vincent?
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I knew it
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Vincent! Vincent!
Don't you think it's about time you got up!
Do you want to stay in bed all day?
Not that I have any doubts about you being
lazy enough to stay in bed forever.
Goodness knows what time it is.
We haven't even got any way of telling the
time since you've pawned everything.
All the valuable things we had. And you knew it!
It's been nothing but pawn pawn pawn with you,
anything to put off getting a job.
Anything to get out of going to work, like, a Man!
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Get up! Do you hear me?
I want to make that bed before I go out.
I'm sick of having this place a continual mess of your account.
Not that we'll be here much longer,
unless you can find some money someplace.
Heaven knows I do my part.
Going to work every day while,
you...
play the gentleman and loaf around in bar rooms,
with that good-for-nothing lot of artists,
from the square!
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And where are you going to get the money, I'd like to know?
The rents due, this week
and you know, what the landlord is, he won't let us stay a
minute over our time.
You say, you can't get a job.
That's a lie and you know it.
You never even look for one.
All you do is...
moon around all day,
writing silly poetry and stories that no one will buy.
Eh, no wonder they won't it.
It seems that I can always get a position,
such as it is.
And it's only that, which keeps us, from starving to death.
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You've got to get the money, today! Someplace!
I can't do it all and I won't do it all!
You've got to come to your senses, you've got..
Beg borrow or steal it somewhere.
But where I'd like to know.
You're too proud to beg.
You've already borrowed the limit.
You haven't the nerve to steal.
Aren't you up yet for heaven's sake.
Oh you are up!
Well it's about time.
You needn't look at me like that.
Your superior airs don't fool me any longer.
I know you too well
You and your goings on.
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I know a lot of things my dear.
But never mind what I know now,
I'll tell you before I go don't you worry.
I suppose I might as well get breakfast ready.
Not that there's anything much to get.
Unless you've got some money?
Foolish question.
I ought to know you better than that by now.
When you left in such a huff, last night,
I knew what would happen.
You can't be trusted for one minute!
And the state you came home and mmm!
The fight we had was only an excuse for you to go make a
beast of yourself.
What was the point in pawning
anything if all you wanted was to waste the money in buying drink.
Hurry up!
I suppose I should get breakfast ready.
Not that there's anything much to get.
All we have this morning is, bread
and butter and coffee.
And we wouldn't have that if it wasn't for me working myself to death.
The breads stale!
Hope you like it.
You don't deserve any better but I don't see why I should have to suffer.
The coffee will be ready in a minute.
You needn't expect me to wait for you.
What on earth are you doing in there all this time?
Well you're almost dressed at any rate.
I almost expected to find you back in bed that would be just like you.
How awful, you look this morning...
For heaven's sake shave.
You're disgusting you look like a tramp.
It's no wonder no one will give you a job,
when you don't even look halfway decent.
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There's plenty of hot water here and your razor,
You've got no excuse.
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Here!
Look at your hands shake!
You've got to stop drinking!
It's just your kind that get the DTS and that'll be the last straw!
Look at the mess you've made of the floor!
Cigarette butts and ashes all over the place.
Couldn't you just put it on a plate?
But no, that would be to consider of you.
You never think of me!
You're not the one who has to sweep the floor
and that's all you care about.
Hurry up!
It's about time for me to go!
I'm late I'm liable to lose my position
and that I wouldn't be able to support you any longer.
And then you'd have to get a job or something terrible like that.
What I want to know is,
are you going to look for a job today or not?
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You know your family won't help us either,
they've had enough of you too.
I'm about sick of all this life.
I have a mind to go home if I weren't too proud
to admit what a failure you've been.
You, the millionaire Rowland's only son,
the Harvard Graduate, the poet's,
the catch of the town, haaa!
There wouldn't be many that envy my catch now if they knew the truth.
What has our marriage been I'd like to know?
I suppose you thought I ought to have been,
glad, that you were, enough to marry me after getting me pregnant.
You were ashamed of me with your fine friends,
because my father's only a grocer.
But at least he's honorable,
that's more than anyone can say about yours!
You hoped everyone would think
that you've been forced to marry me and pity you.
Didn't you!
You didn't hesitate much and
telling me you loved me,
making me believe your lies.
Before it happened.
Did you!
You made me believe, that you didn't want your father, to buy
me off as he had tried to.
But I know better than that now
I haven't lived with you all this time for nothing.
It's a good thing that,
the poor thing was born dead after all.
What a father you'd have been.
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And I'm not the only one who has you to thank for being unhappy.
There's at least one other.
She can't hope to marry you now.
How about Helen?
Don't look at me like that!
Yes I read her letter I have a right to!
I am your wife and I know everything there is to know, so
don't bother lying.
You needn't look at me like that.
You can't bully me with your superior airs any longer.
If only for me you'd be going
without breakfast this very morning!
You never did have any gratitude for what I've done.
Coffee's almost ready.
Don't expect me to wait for you.
My head aches so this morning.
It's a shame I have to go to work in a stuffy room all day.
And in my condition!
I wouldn't have to if you were half a man.
By rights, I ought to be lying on my back, instead of you.
You know how sick I've been this last year.
And yet you object,
when I take just a little something, to lift my spirits.
You didn't even want me to take, that tonic, I got at the drugstore.
I know, you'd be glad to have me dead and out of your way.
Then you'd be free, to chase after all these silly girls,
who think you're such a wonderful misunderstood person.
This Helen, and the others!
Ow!
There, huh!
I knew you'd cut yourself.
It'll be a lesson to you. You know you oughtn't
be runnin around nights drinking with your nerves in such a state.
Why do you look so pale?
What are you staring at yourself in the mirror that for?
For heaven's sakes, wipe that blood off your face, it's horrible!
I never could stand the sight of blood.
You better, just give up shaving and go to a barbershop.
You're hand shakes dreadfully!
What are you staring at me, that way for?
I'll give you a couple of bucks if you
only promise me not to go buy a drink with it.
Are you still mad at me about that letter?
Well, I had a right to read it, I am your wife.
I always knew you were running around with someone.
Your lame excuses about spending time at the library didn't fool me.
So who is this Helen anyway?
Is she one of those artists or does she write poetry too!
Her letter sounds that way.
I'll bet she told you that your things
were the best ever and you believed her like a fool.
Is she young and pretty I was young and pretty?
I was young and pretty when you fooled me with your fine poetic talk.
But life with you would soon wear anyone down.
What I've been through.
Breakfast is ready.
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Your coffee will be cold.
What are you doing, still shaving for heaven's sake.
You're gonna have to give it up or one of these days you'll get
a serious cut.
I'm going to have to run as soon as I'm done eating.
One of us has to go work.
Are you going to look for a job today or aren't you?
I should think that some of your fine friends
should be able to help you if they really think you so much.
But I guess they just like to hear you talk.
I'm sorry for this Helen whoever she is...
Haven't you got,
any feelings for other people?
What will her family say?
I see she mentions them in her letter.
What is she going to do?
Will she keep the child or will she go to one of those doctors?
That's a nice thing isn't it.
Well where will she get the money?
Is she rich?
You won't tell me anything about her, will you?
Tch! Much I care.
Come to think of it,
I'm not sorry for her after all.
She knew what she was doing she isn't any,
school girl, like I was, from the looks of her letter.
Does she know you're married?
Haha!
Of course she does.
All of your friends know, about your unhappy marriage.
I know they pity you
But they don't know my half of it.
They'd talk different if they did.
Well I've got to run.
Ahs!
This is a fine life for me to be leading.
I won't stand for your loafing any longer.
[Water splashing on the floor]
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You've overturned the water, all over everything!
Don't say you haven't I can hear the water dripping.
[Object hits the floor]
Vincent! Vincent!
Why don't you answer me??
Are you still drunk?
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Scream!
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