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What I find most astonishing... 8 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:33,476 [laughs] 9 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:37,480 ...aside from that belief of mine, 10 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:40,313 which never ceases to surprise me 11 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:44,439 by the very fact of its surprising lack of unpleasantness, 12 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:48,430 the belief that I might very easily, as they say, 13 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:50,511 lose my mind one day. 14 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:55,115 Not that I suspect I am about to or am even nearby. 15 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:57,755 There is no saner woman on Earth, Agnes. 16 00:03:57,760 --> 00:03:59,910 [laughs] For I'm not that sort. 17 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:03,750 Merely that it is not beyond happening, some gentle 18 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:06,239 loosening of the moorings 19 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:08,752 sending the balloon adrift. 20 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:13,879 And I think that is the only outweighing thing. 21 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:17,115 Adrift. [sighs] 22 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:19,997 I'm becoming a stranger in the world. 23 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:22,836 Quite uninvolved. 24 00:04:22,840 --> 00:04:25,275 But I never see It as violent. 25 00:04:25,280 --> 00:04:26,554 Only a drifting. 26 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:28,437 What are you looking for, Tobias? 27 00:04:28,840 --> 00:04:30,353 We'll all go mad before you. 28 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:31,680 [laughs] Me and the staff, 29 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:33,000 [laughs] 30 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:35,275 Thank you, darling. 31 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:43,995 What I find most astonishing, aside, as I said, from that speculation... 32 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:49,270 [laughs] And I wonder, too, sometimes, if I'm the only one of you to admit it, 33 00:04:49,280 --> 00:04:50,554 not that I may go mad, 34 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:53,359 but that each of you wonders if each of you might not. 35 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:55,473 Why on earth do you want the anisette? 36 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:56,954 [Tobias] I thought it might be nice. 37 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:00,080 Sticky. I'll do cognac. It's supposed to be healthy. 38 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:01,479 The speculation... 39 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:05,274 or, the assumption, I suppose, 40 00:05:05,280 --> 00:05:07,874 that if it occurs to you that you might be, then you're not. 41 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:10,396 But I've never been much comforted by it. 42 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:12,789 Follows, to my mind, that since I speculate, 43 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:14,950 I might, someday, 44 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:17,311 or early evening, I think more likely, 45 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:20,836 some autumn dusk, go quite mad, then I very well might. 46 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:22,630 Some autumn dusk. 47 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:27,438 Tobias, at his desk, looks up from all those awful bills 48 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:30,876 and sees his Agnes mad as a hatter. 49 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:33,269 [laughs] Chewing the ribbons on her chest. 50 00:05:33,280 --> 00:05:34,429 - Cognac. - Yes. 51 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:38,229 Agnes, sitting by the fire, her mouth full of ribbons, 52 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:40,117 her mind aloft, adrift. 53 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:43,875 Nothing to do with the poor old thing but put her in a bin somewhere. 54 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:46,235 Sell the house, move to Tucson, say, 55 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:49,198 and pine in the good sun, and live to be 104, 56 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:50,431 Thank you, darling. 57 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:52,753 Tobias) Cognac is sticky, too. 58 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:55,479 Mm, but it's nicer. Sit by me, hmm? 59 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:00,951 To my mad lady, ribbons dangling. 60 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:02,758 [Agnes laughs] 61 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:03,830 And, of course, 62 00:06:03,840 --> 00:06:06,958 I haven't worn the ribbon dress since Julia's remarried. 63 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:07,916 Second? 64 00:06:09,280 --> 00:06:11,157 No, no, no, first. 65 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:12,594 Tom, not, uh... 66 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:15,678 Not, uh, uh, Charlie. 67 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:22,196 Comfortable? 68 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:23,996 For a little. 69 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:28,672 What astonishes me most... 70 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:34,517 aside from my theoretically healthy fear-- 71 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:36,318 No, not fear. How silly of me. 72 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:41,349 Healthy speculation that I might someday become an embarrassment to you. 73 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:45,920 What I find most astonishing 74 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:48,114 in this world 75 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:52,396 and with all my years is Claire. 76 00:06:52,840 --> 00:06:53,989 - Claire? Why? - That anyone, 77 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:57,392 be they one's sister or not, could be so, well, 78 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:00,919 I don't want to use an unkind word, 'cause we're, we're, we're, 79 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:02,558 we're cozy here, aren't we? 80 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:03,391 Maybe. 81 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:05,719 As the saying has it, 82 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:08,953 the one thing sharper than a serpent's tooth 83 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:11,315 is a sister's ingratitude. 84 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:14,119 - The saying does not have it that way. - It should. 85 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:16,356 Why are you moving? 86 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:19,157 - It's getting uncomfortable. - [laughs] 87 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:21,231 Things get hot, move off, huh? 88 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:22,036 Yes? 89 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:26,030 I'm not as young as either of us once was. 90 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:29,157 [Agnes] I'm as young as the day I married you. 91 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:30,912 Though I'm certain I don't look it. 92 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:33,716 'Cause you're a very good husband... 93 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:36,674 most of the time. 94 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:40,159 But [ was talking about Claire, or was beginning to. 95 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:41,070 Yes, you were. 96 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:43,117 161 were to list the mountain of my burdens, 97 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:46,351 if I had a thick pad and a month to spare, 98 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:48,957 that bending my shoulders most, 99 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:52,671 with 3, with a possible exception of Julia's trouble with marriage, 100 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:53,670 would be your... 101 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:55,110 [sighs] 102 00:07:55,760 --> 00:08:00,789 It must be instinctive, I think, or reflex, that's more like it. 103 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:04,156 Your reflex defense of everything that Claire-- 104 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:05,195 Stop it, Agnes. 105 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:07,831 You gonna throw something at me? A glass? 106 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:09,952 My goodness, I hope not. [snorts] 107 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:12,952 That's awful anisette all over everything. 108 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:14,553 - No. - What then? 109 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:17,238 I shall sit very quietly. 110 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:18,992 - As always? - Yes. 111 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:22,353 And I shall will you to apologize to your sister 112 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:25,000 -for what I must in truth tell you-- - Apologize? To Claire? 113 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:25,876 To Claire? 114 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:28,953 I've spent my adult life apologizing for her. 115 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:32,430 I will not double the humiliation by apologizing to her. 116 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:35,831 One does not apologize to those for whom one must. 117 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:37,558 Ha ha. Neat. 118 00:08:37,560 --> 00:08:41,235 Ha ha, succinct, but one of the rules of an aphorism. 119 00:08:41,680 --> 00:08:43,830 An epigram, I thought. 120 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:46,999 An epigram is usually satiric, and you-- 121 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:49,719 And I am grimly serious, yes. 122 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:50,910 I fear so. 123 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:53,032 [both laugh] 124 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:54,590 To revert. 125 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:56,799 Specifically... 126 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:01,037 from Claire to her effect. 127 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:06,311 What would you do were 110 spill my marbles? 128 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:10,436 Put you in 2 bin somewhere, sell the house, and move to Tucson. 129 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:13,549 Pine in the hot sun and live forever, 130 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:16,680 [laughs] I bet you would. 131 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:19,596 - Hurry, though. - Oh, I'll try. 132 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:22,110 Won't be a simple paranoia, though, I know that. 133 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:24,589 I've tried so hard to. You know how little I've dared it. 134 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:29,800 Goodness. I can't even raise my voice except in the most spectacular of events. 135 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:31,679 And I find that, uh... 136 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:33,916 I find that both... 137 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:38,190 joy and sorrow work their wonders on me... 138 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:41,670 more evenly, slowly, 139 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:44,072 within, than most. 140 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:47,835 A suntan rather than a scalding. 141 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:54,873 There are no mountains in my life, no chasms. 142 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:57,675 It is a rolling... 143 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:00,754 pleasant land. 144 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:02,754 Verdant, my darling. 145 00:10:04,680 --> 00:10:05,715 Thank you. 146 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:11,194 We do what we can. 147 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:13,472 [laughs] Our motto. 148 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:16,954 If we should ever go downhill, join things, 149 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:18,837 we must have that put in Latin. 150 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:22,518 Our motto: "We do what we can." 151 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:26,798 On your blazers, over the mantel. Maybe we can do it in the linen as well. 152 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:30,597 Do you think I should go to Claire's room? 153 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:35,556 No. 154 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:38,913 Either she will be down or not. 155 00:10:39,680 --> 00:10:41,717 I thought Claire was much better tonight. 156 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:45,873 I didn't see any need for you to give her such a going over. 157 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:49,752 [Agnes] Claire was not better tonight, honestly, Tobias. 158 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:53,919 I thought she was. 159 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:56,391 [Agnes] Well, she was not. 160 00:10:58,360 --> 00:10:59,270 [Tobias] Still... 161 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:01,275 I've decided... 162 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:03,754 all things considered... 163 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:06,719 that I shall not induce 164 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:10,916 that all the years we've put up with each other's wiles and crotchets 165 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:12,877 have earned us each other's company. 166 00:11:15,560 --> 00:11:18,359 And I promise you as well that I shall think good thoughts, 167 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:20,351 healthy ones, positive, 168 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:24,516 to ward off madness should it come by uninvited. 169 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:27,557 You mean I have no hope of Tucson? 170 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:29,190 [chuckles] 171 00:11:30,560 --> 00:11:32,073 - None. - Alas. 172 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:35,513 You have the hope only of 173 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:40,115 growing even older than you are in the company of your steady wife, 174 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:42,953 your alcoholic sister-in-law, 175 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:46,590 and occasional visits from our melancholy Julia. 176 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:52,715 That is what you'll have, my dear Tobias. 177 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:57,390 Will it do? 178 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:00,270 It will do. 179 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:04,677 I've never doubted that it would. 180 00:12:04,680 --> 00:12:05,954 [door opens] 181 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:07,596 Hark. 182 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:10,878 Did I hear someone? 183 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:12,553 [footsteps approaching] 184 00:12:12,560 --> 00:12:13,834 [Tobias] Ah, there you are. 185 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:17,199 I said to Agnes just a moment ago that... 186 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:27,798 I must apologize, Agnes. 187 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:30,839 I'm very sorry. 188 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:35,592 [Agnes] But, uh, what are you sorry for, Claire? 189 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:42,918 That my nature is such as to bring out the full force of your brutality. 190 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:44,879 Look now, I think we can do without-- 191 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:46,632 If you come to the dinner table unsteady, 192 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:48,438 if when you try to say, "Good evening, 193 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:50,511 and weren't the autumn colors lovely today?" 194 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:52,079 you are nothing but vowels; 195 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:55,630 if one smells the vodka on you from across the room, 196 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:57,513 and don't tell me again, either of you, 197 00:12:57,520 --> 00:12:59,318 that vodka leaves nothing on the breath, 198 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:01,119 if you're expecting it, 199 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:05,434 if you are sadly and wearily expecting it, it does. 200 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:07,909 If these conditions exist, persist, 201 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:11,279 then the reaction of one who is burdened by her love 202 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:12,839 is not brutality, 203 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:15,351 though it would be excused, believe me. 204 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:19,797 Not brutality at all but the souring side of love. 205 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:23,511 If I scold, it is because I wish I needn't. 206 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:24,874 11 am sharp, 207 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:27,713 it is because I'm neither less nor more than human. 208 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:32,397 And if I am to be accused, once again, of making too much of things, 209 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:36,270 let me remind you that it is my manner and not the matter. 210 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:39,793 I apologize for being articulate. 211 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:43,039 Tobias, I'm going to call Julia, I think. 212 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:45,839 Ts it one or two hours difference? I can never recall. 213 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:46,750 [Tobias] Three. 214 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:51,909 Ah, yes, well, be kind to Claire, dear. 215 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:53,319 She is injured. 216 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:55,669 [Tobias] Ah, well. 217 00:13:57,040 --> 00:13:57,996 [door closes] 218 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:01,840 I never know whether to applaud or cry. 219 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:05,629 Or, rather, which would be more appreciated. 220 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:07,316 Expected. 221 00:14:09,560 --> 00:14:11,995 You are a great damn fool. 222 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:15,152 Mm. Yes. Why is she calling Julia? 223 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:18,390 Do you want a quick brandy before she comes back? 224 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:19,470 Not at all. 225 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:21,195 A public one. 226 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:25,677 Fill the balloon half full, and I shall sip it ladylike. 227 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:28,038 And when she comes gliding in, 228 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:31,552 I shall lie on the floor, balance the glass on my head, 229 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:35,119 which will give her occasion for another paragraph, 230 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:38,592 and you, your ineffectual "Stop it now!" 231 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:41,117 You are a great damn fool. 232 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:43,917 [Claire] Is Julia having another divorce? 233 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:45,194 Hell, I don't know. 234 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:46,474 She's only your daughter. 235 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:48,510 Thank you. 236 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:55,752 I imagine, from what I have watched, that it is come home time. 237 00:14:59,960 --> 00:15:01,439 Why don't you kill Agnes? 238 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:05,791 Oh-ho-ho, no. I couldn't do that. 239 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:07,598 [both laugh] 240 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:11,116 Well, better still, why don't you wait till Julia separates 241 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:13,316 and comes home all confused and sullen 242 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:16,119 and take a gun and blow all our heads off. 243 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:18,877 Agnes first, through respect, of course. 244 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:23,796 Then poor Julia, and, if you have the kindness for it, me. 245 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:25,878 You really want me to shoot you? 246 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:30,511 Shoot Agnes first and I'll think about it. 247 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:33,270 But it would have to be an act of passion. 248 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:35,871 Out of my head and all that. 249 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:38,994 I doubt I could stand around with a gun smoking, 250 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:41,116 Julia locked in her room screaming, 251 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:43,794 and wait for you to decide if you wanted it or not. 252 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:48,234 But if you don't shoot Agnes, how do I know whether I want to live? 253 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:50,918 An act of passion. 254 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:53,916 [laughs] 255 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:55,036 Well, yes. 256 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:59,033 Oh, that is funny. [laughs] 257 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:00,830 I'm sorry. 258 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:07,320 No, I'm sorry, darling Tobias. 259 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:10,640 I just can't see you playing the role, that's all. 260 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:13,840 Outraged, maddened into action. 261 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:16,350 Proceeding by reflex. 262 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:19,191 Standing there in front of the judge. 263 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:22,110 Stolid, predictable Tobias. 264 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:25,112 "It all went blank, Your Honor. 265 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:28,479 There I was, sitting deep in my chair, sipping my..." 266 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:30,115 What is that? 267 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:31,955 Anisette. 268 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:33,712 Anisette? Really? Anisette? 269 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:35,393 -I like it. - Sticky. 270 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:40,998 "There I was, Your Honor, sitting in my chair, sipping my anisette, 271 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:44,672 and the next thing I know they're all lying in separate rooms 272 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:46,114 with their heads blown off. 273 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:49,800 I have absolutely no recollection of it." 274 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:52,800 [laughs] Can you imagine that, Tobias? 275 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:56,680 Of course, if you were all dead, your brains lying around in the rugs, 276 00:16:56,680 --> 00:16:59,957 there would be no one to say that it wasn't an act of passion. 277 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:01,879 Leave me to last. 278 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:05,912 A breeze may rise and stir the ashes. 279 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:08,870 Who Is that? 280 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:14,038 No one, I think, though it should be. 281 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:17,200 Why don't you go back to your... 282 00:17:18,320 --> 00:17:20,118 thing, your alcoholics thing. 283 00:17:22,360 --> 00:17:23,919 Because I didn't like the people. 284 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:24,990 What's it called? 285 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:30,116 - Anonymous. - Yes, that. Why don't you go back? 286 00:17:30,120 --> 00:17:32,157 Why don't you mind your own hooting business? 287 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:34,714 I'm sorry, Claire. 288 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:41,515 Because. 289 00:17:42,360 --> 00:17:43,475 It was better. 290 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:46,200 Be 2 good brother-in-law. 291 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:49,716 It's only the first one I'm not supposed to have. 292 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:51,879 I thought it was better. 293 00:17:52,360 --> 00:17:53,395 Thank you. 294 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:56,875 You mean Agnes thought it was better. 295 00:17:57,880 --> 00:18:01,236 No, I thought so, too, that it would be. 296 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:05,120 I told you, not our type, nothing in common with them. 297 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:11,115 Do you remember when you used to go off to business 298 00:18:11,120 --> 00:18:14,511 before you became a squire parading around in your jodhpurs, 299 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:18,275 -confusing the gardener-- -I have never done any such thing. 300 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:19,429 Before all that, 301 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:23,320 when you used to spend all your time in town with your business friends, 302 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:27,359 your indistinguishable, if not necessarily similar, friends. 303 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:30,357 What did you have in common with them? 304 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:32,109 Well, everything. 305 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:37,037 Our business, we all mixed well, we're friends away from the office, too. 306 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:40,796 Clubs, our-- And environment, I guess. 307 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:41,915 Mm-hmm. 308 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:44,678 But what did you have in common with them? 309 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:46,954 Even Harry. 310 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:50,754 Your best friend in all the world, as far as you know, 311 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:52,433 because you haven't met everyone. 312 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:53,919 You switching from anisette? 313 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:55,672 It doesn't go for a long time. 314 00:18:56,920 --> 00:18:59,753 - All right? - Doesn't matter to me. 315 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:04,189 Even your dearest friend, Harry. 316 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:08,038 Tell me, dear Tobias... 317 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:11,756 what did you have in common with him? 318 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:15,469 - Please, Claire. - What do you have in common with him? 319 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:17,634 Outside of the coincidence 320 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:21,429 of having cheated on your wives in the same summer with the same woman. 321 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:23,477 Girl? Woman? 322 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:25,235 What except that? 323 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:27,238 Hardly a distinction. 324 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:30,873 I believe she was upended the whole of July. 325 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:33,429 If you'll forgive me, Claire, common practice is hardly my-- 326 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:35,750 Ah, that poor girl, whatever she was, 327 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:40,516 upended the whole of that very hot, wet July. 328 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:45,398 The distinction would have been to have not... 329 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:48,590 to have been the one or two 330 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:53,592 of the very, very, oh, God, many similar... 331 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:58,918 who did not upend that poor unfamiliar thing 332 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:02,198 that dry, very wet July-- 333 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:03,679 Please, Agnes. 334 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:07,560 Of course, you only had the wanton once, while dear friend Harry, 335 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:09,551 I have it from the horse's mouth, 336 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:12,314 was on top for good and keeps twice. 337 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:16,716 And a third try that wasn't so hot in the gardener's shed 338 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:20,315 -amongst the mulch and whatever it is-- - Shut your mouth! 339 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:29,190 All right. 340 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:39,915 What was her name? 341 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:43,840 I don't remember. 342 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:49,670 Doesn't matter. 343 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:52,675 She's gone. 344 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:13,470 Would you give dear friend Harry the shirt off your back? 345 00:21:14,120 --> 00:21:15,918 I suppose I would. 346 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:17,638 He is my best friend. 347 00:21:18,360 --> 00:21:20,192 How sad does that make you? 348 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:23,915 Not much. Some. 349 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:26,036 Not much. 350 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:29,916 No one to listen to Bruckner with, no one to tell you that your sick of golf. 351 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:32,955 No one to tell you that, at times... 352 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:35,389 you're suddenly... 353 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:38,869 frightened and you don't know why. 354 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:40,236 Frightened? 355 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:42,151 No. 356 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:45,709 All right. 357 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:50,951 Shall I tell you [sighs] what happened 358 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:55,511 the last time I... climbed the steps to that fancy alky club? 359 00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:57,758 Why I have not gone back 360 00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:01,432 and what I have not in common with those people? 361 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:03,909 -[Tobias] Sure. - Oh, poor Tobias. 362 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:06,355 Sure. Light me a cigarette. 363 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:09,836 And then I shall have everything I need. 364 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:16,319 A sip, a smoke, and a good hard surface. 365 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:27,949 [Tobias] Comfy? 366 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:29,750 Very. 367 00:22:40,120 --> 00:22:42,236 Do you remember the spring I moved out? 368 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:46,474 When I was so sick with this stuff? 369 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:49,433 Drinking like the familiar fish, 370 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:52,114 which was such an embarrassment to everyone, 371 00:22:52,120 --> 00:22:56,398 and you and Agnes moved me to that apartment near the station? 372 00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:00,551 And Agnes was so very good about coming to see me? 373 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:04,239 -[exhales sharply] - Sorry. 374 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:08,715 When will it all just go in the past, forget itself? 375 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:12,634 When all the defeats are done, admitted. 376 00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:17,229 When memory takes over and corrects fact, makes it all tolerable. 377 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:21,149 When Agnes lies on her deathbed. 378 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:24,596 [Tobias] [scoffs] Do you know Agnes has such wonderful control? 379 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:29,834 I haven't seen her cry in... for the longest time. No matter what. 380 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:33,310 Warn me when she's coming and I'll act drunk. 381 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:39,475 Pretend you're very sick, Tobias, like you were with that stomach business. 382 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:43,593 But pretend your insides feel all green 383 00:23:44,120 --> 00:23:46,555 and stink and mixed up 384 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:50,870 and your eyes hurt and you're half deaf. 385 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:54,030 And your brain keeps turning off. 386 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:57,639 And you have peripheral neuritis. 387 00:23:58,120 --> 00:23:59,793 And you can hardly walk. 388 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:01,554 And you hate... 389 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:05,355 you hate with the same stinking 390 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:07,799 green sickness. 391 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:11,480 You think your bowels have turned into... 392 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:14,352 yourself and everybody. 393 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:16,916 Hate. 394 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:20,634 But, oh, God, you want love. 395 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:24,312 L-0-V-E, so badly. 396 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:29,554 Comfort. It's-- Snuggling is what you really mean, of course. 397 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:32,279 But you hate. 398 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:35,319 And you notice with... 399 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:40,076 a sort of detachment that amuses you, you think... 400 00:24:41,120 --> 00:24:43,270 that you're more of an animal every day. 401 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:45,189 You snarl. 402 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:47,514 You grab for things. 403 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:49,635 Hide them. 404 00:24:50,120 --> 00:24:51,633 Can't remember where you've hid them, 405 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:54,037 like not very bright dogs. 406 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:57,910 You wash less, prefer to be washed. 407 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:03,595 And, once or twice, you've even soiled your bed. 408 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:05,554 And you lie in it... 409 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:08,193 because you can't move. 410 00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:11,153 Pretend all that. 411 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:13,999 You don't like that, do you, Tobias? 412 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:15,834 I don't know why you want-- 413 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:19,356 You want to know what it's like to be an alky, don't you, boy? 414 00:25:19,360 --> 00:25:21,556 - Sure. - Well, then you pretend all that. 415 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:29,196 So... 416 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:33,755 the guy you're spending your bottles with [sighs] 417 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,394 Starts you going to old AA. 418 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:40,750 And you sit there in the alky club 419 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,832 listening to the better ones, not recovered. 420 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:47,798 'Cause once an alky, always. You better remember that. 421 00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:50,960 Or you're gone the first time you pass a saloon. 422 00:25:55,840 --> 00:26:00,152 You watch the better ones get up and tell their stories. 423 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:05,476 Once you drop, you can come back up partway 424 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:07,710 but never really back again. 425 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:09,794 Always descend. 426 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:12,713 [Claire] Well, that's life, baby. 427 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:14,959 You are a great damn fool. 428 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:17,110 But I am not an alcoholic! 429 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:19,278 Tam not now and I never wast! 430 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:21,271 [Tobias] All the promise, all the chance. 431 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,715 It would be so much simpler if I were... 432 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:26,240 an alcoholic. 433 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:34,634 So, one night, one month sometime... 434 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:37,473 I'd had one martini. 435 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:39,519 It was a test to see if I could. 436 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:45,279 Which, given my... stunning self-discipline... 437 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:47,754 had become three. 438 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:51,078 And I felt rather daring. 439 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:55,350 Nicely detached, a little bigger than life. 440 00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:57,309 Not snarling yet. 441 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,800 And [ marched... 442 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,236 more or less straight... 443 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:10,955 straight to the front of the room, the hall... 444 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,031 and faced my peers. 445 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:19,716 I looked them... 446 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:22,555 all over... 447 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:25,710 trying... 448 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:29,079 50 hard... 449 00:27:31,360 --> 00:27:33,920 grit and guilt failing. 450 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:36,711 Trying again and lost. 451 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:40,514 And [ had a moment's... 452 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:43,109 sweeping... 453 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:46,438 pity and disgust. 454 00:27:47,120 --> 00:27:49,157 And I almost cried, but I didn't. 455 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,800 Like sister like sister, by God! 456 00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:58,999 And I heard myself say in my little-girl voice-- 457 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,435 there were a lot of different me's by then-- 458 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:06,835 "I am a alcoholic. 459 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:13,038 My name is Claire, and I am a alcoholic.” 460 00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:13,916 You try it. 461 00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:18,030 My name is... 462 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:21,429 My name is Claire, and I am an alcoholic. 463 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:23,234 A alcoholic! 464 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:28,272 A alcoholic. 465 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:34,040 My name is Claire... 466 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:37,198 and I am a alcoholic. 467 00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:44,478 Now, I am supposed to go on, you know, and tell them how bad I was 468 00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:46,039 and didn't want to be 469 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:50,318 and how it happened and what I wanted to happen, 470 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:55,755 and would they help me to help myself? 471 00:28:57,720 --> 00:28:59,040 But I stood there... 472 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:01,920 for ten seconds, maybe. 473 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:05,715 And then I curtsied. 474 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:10,151 I made my little-girl curtsy, 475 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:14,238 and then, on my little-girl feet... 476 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:19,472 I padded back to my chair. 477 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:26,434 Did they... laugh at you? 478 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:31,269 An agnostic in the holy of holies doesn't get much camaraderie. 479 00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:33,712 A little patronizing, maybe. 480 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:36,394 Oh, they were taken by the vaudeville, don't misunderstand me. 481 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:39,159 One lady was nice. 482 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:43,119 She came up to me later and she said, 483 00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:46,559 "Well, you've taken the first step, dear.” 484 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:47,709 Well, that was nice of her. 485 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:49,757 Ah, but she didn't say the first step towards what. 486 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,710 Sanity? Insanity? 487 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:54,877 Revelation? Self-deception? 488 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:57,634 Change, sometimes, no matter what. 489 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:02,198 Count on you, Tobias. Snappy phrase every time. 490 00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:04,589 But it hooked me. 491 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:07,550 The applause, the stage presence. 492 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:09,959 That beginning. 493 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:15,712 No school tart had more gold stars for never missing class. 494 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:19,314 I went. Oh, God, I did. 495 00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:21,470 -[Tobias] But stopped. - Until I learned... 496 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:28,710 being a slow student in my young old middle age... 497 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:35,514 slowly, that I was not, nor ever had been, a alcoholic, 498 00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:38,558 or "an," either. 499 00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:41,720 What I did not have in common with those people 500 00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:43,949 that they were sick... 501 00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:47,078 and I was merely willful. 502 00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:48,115 [Agnes laughs] 503 00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:52,114 -[Agnes] I've talked to Julia. -[Tobias] Ah, how is she? 504 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:56,195 My, what an odd glass to put a soft drink in. 505 00:30:56,520 --> 00:31:00,309 Tobias, you have a quiet sense of humor after all. 506 00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:02,152 - Now, Agnes. - He has not. 507 00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:05,152 Well, it can't be brandy. Tobias is a grown-up, not-- 508 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,197 Ah, here's to you, sweet sister. 509 00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:10,150 Not health, persistence. 510 00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:14,959 In good, hard brandy, age inconnu. 511 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:18,396 Serve you right, my dear Tobias, if I were to go away, drift off. 512 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:23,118 You wouldn't have a woman left about you, only Claire and Julia, not even people. 513 00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:24,599 Would serve you right. 514 00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:26,353 But I'm not an alcoholic! 515 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:28,513 [Tobias] She can drink a little. 516 00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:31,114 I will not tolerate it! 517 00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,957 I will not have you-- Oh, God! 518 00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:38,359 I wouldn't mind for a moment if you filled your bathtub with it, 519 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:40,271 lowered yourself in it, and drowned. 520 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:41,509 I rather wish you would. 521 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:44,956 Give me the peace of mind to know you can do something well, thoroughly. 522 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:47,110 If you want to kill yourself, then do it right! 523 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:50,158 - Please, Agnes-- - What I can't stand is the selfishness. 524 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:53,478 Those of you who want to die and take your whole lives doing it. 525 00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:54,754 Your wife is a perfectionist. 526 00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:57,070 They're very difficult to live with, those people. 527 00:31:57,080 --> 00:32:00,277 She is not an alcoholic. She says she can drink some. 528 00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:01,509 I'm not an alcoholic! 529 00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:03,830 Well, we think that's very nice. 530 00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:07,910 [laughs] We shall all rest easier to know that it is willful. 531 00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:12,319 That the vomit and the tears, the muddy mind, 532 00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:16,712 the falls and the absences, the cigarettes out on the tabletops, 533 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:19,394 the calls from the club to come and get you, please, 534 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:20,913 that it is all willful. 535 00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:25,438 If you are not an alcoholic, you are beyond forgiveness. 536 00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:27,272 But I've been there for a long time, haven't I, sweetheart? 537 00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:31,114 If we change for the worse with drink, we are an alcoholic, 538 00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:32,394 it is as simple as that. 539 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:34,118 - Who is to say? -1l 540 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:37,831 [laughs] If we are to live on Tobias's charity, 541 00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:40,870 we are subject to the will of his wife. 542 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:43,589 If we were asked at our father's dying-- 543 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:45,591 Those are the ground rules. 544 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:48,395 Tobias? Nothing? 545 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:51,710 Are those the ground rules? Nothing? 546 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:54,598 Too dried up? Too settled? 547 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:56,436 All right. 548 00:32:57,920 --> 00:32:59,911 Very well, Agnes, you win. 549 00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:02,117 I shall be an alcoholic. 550 00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:05,117 And what are you gonna do about it? 551 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:09,715 Tobias? 552 00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:16,672 You will be unhappy to know it, I suppose, or... 553 00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:20,280 or have mixed emotions, certainly, but... 554 00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:22,919 Julia is coming home. 555 00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:24,354 -[Claire] Naturally. -[Tobias] Yes? 556 00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:27,034 She is leaving Doug, which is no surprise to me. 557 00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:29,719 [Tobias] But wasn't Julia happy? 558 00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:31,313 - You never told me-- - If Julia were happy, 559 00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:32,674 she would not be coming home. 560 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:34,637 I don't want her here, God knows. 561 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:36,790 -I mean, she's welcome, of course-- - Here we go. 562 00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:38,359 Right on schedule, every three years. 563 00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:40,670 This is her home. We are her parents, the two of us. 564 00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:42,239 We have our obligations to her. 565 00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:47,990 And I have reached an age, Tobias, when I wish we were always alone, 566 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:49,638 just you and [, 567 00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:51,916 without hangers-on or anyone. 568 00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:53,399 Well, I'm not going. 569 00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:55,398 But if she and Doug are through, 570 00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:57,910 and I'm not suggesting that she is in the right, 571 00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:00,639 then her place is properly here, as for some, it is not. 572 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:02,597 Mm-hmm, one, two, three, four, down they go. 573 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:05,513 - Well, I would like to talk to Doug. -I wish you would. 574 00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:07,552 If you had talked to Tom or Charlie-- 575 00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:10,434 - Yes, even Charlie, or-- - Phil. 576 00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:12,511 Uh, Phil, might have done some good. 577 00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:16,631 If you've decided to assert yourself finally, 578 00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:18,119 too late, I imagine. 579 00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:19,838 Damned if you do, damned if you don't. 580 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:23,435 Julia might, at the very least, come to think her father cares. 581 00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:27,031 And that might be a help, if not a consolation. 582 00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:29,395 Well, Tl... 583 00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:33,040 - I'll talk to Doug. - Why don't you invite him here? 584 00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,759 And while you're at it, why don't you bring all the others along. 585 00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:39,550 You might talk to Julia, too. You don't very much. 586 00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:40,911 Yes. 587 00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:44,996 Phillip loved to gamble, Charlie loved the boys. 588 00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:48,473 Tommy went for women, Douglas-- 589 00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:49,550 Will you stop that! 590 00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:52,712 Ah, I am here after all. I do exist! 591 00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:57,233 Why don't you go off on a vacation, Claire, 592 00:34:57,240 --> 00:34:59,231 now that Julia's coming home again. 593 00:34:59,880 --> 00:35:03,669 Why don't you go to Kentucky or Tennessee 594 00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:06,194 and visit the distilleries. 595 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,276 Or why don't you lock yourself in your room 596 00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:12,272 or find yourself a bar with an apartment in the back. 597 00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:15,357 Or, Agnes, why don't you die? 598 00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:22,796 If I saw some point to it, some reason, chance, 599 00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:25,760 if I thought I might break through to her and say, "Julia." 600 00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:28,390 But then what would I say? "Julia," then nothing. 601 00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:33,917 If we do not love someone... 602 00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:37,034 never have loved them. 603 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:38,310 No. 604 00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:41,714 There can be silence, even having... 605 00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:47,677 Do you really want me dead, Claire? 606 00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:51,079 Wish, yes. 607 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:54,551 Wank? I don't know. Probably. 608 00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:58,197 Although, I might regret it if I had it. 609 00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:07,357 Remember the serpent's tooth, Tobias. 610 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:09,674 The cat that I had. 611 00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:10,954 -[Claire] Huh? - Hmm? . 612 00:36:13,240 --> 00:36:15,231 The cat that I had when I was-- 613 00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:18,357 a year or so before I met you. 614 00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:23,796 She was very old. I'd had her since I was a kid. 615 00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:27,720 She must have been 15 or more. An alley cat. 616 00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:31,949 She didn't like people very much, I think. 617 00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:35,398 When people came, she'd pick up and walk away. 618 00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:38,400 She liked me, 619 00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:41,392 or, rather, I could see that when I was alone with her she was content. 620 00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:44,999 I don't know if she was happy, but she was content. 621 00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:46,390 Yes? 622 00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:51,878 And how the thing happened I don't really know. 623 00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:54,877 She-- One day, she... 624 00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:00,077 One day, [ realized that she no longer liked me. 625 00:37:00,720 --> 00:37:01,790 No, that's not right. 626 00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:06,192 One day, I realized that she must have stopped liking me some time before. 627 00:37:08,240 --> 00:37:10,390 And one evening... 628 00:37:12,240 --> 00:37:15,278 Twas sitting alone, home... 629 00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:19,636 and I was suddenly aware of her absence. 630 00:37:21,720 --> 00:37:24,030 Not just that she wasn't in the room with me, 631 00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:28,079 but that she hadn't been in rooms with me, watching me shave, just about for... 632 00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:30,915 And I couldn't place how long. 633 00:37:31,240 --> 00:37:33,550 She hadn't gone away, you understand, 634 00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:36,029 or, rather, she had, but she hadn't run off. 635 00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:37,960 I knew she was around. 636 00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:42,158 I remember I'd caught sight of her 637 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:44,354 from time to time, 638 00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:46,637 under a chair, moving out of a room. 639 00:37:49,240 --> 00:37:51,356 And it was only when I realized something had happened 640 00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:53,920 that I could give any pattern to the things that had-- 641 00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:58,149 that I'd noticed. 642 00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:03,909 She didn't like me anymore. It was that simple. 643 00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:06,909 But she was old. 644 00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:09,915 [Tobias] No, it wasn't that. She didn't like me anymore. 645 00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:14,270 I tried to force myself on her. 646 00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:18,479 Well, what, what, whatever do you mean? [laughs] 647 00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:20,598 Tobias) Well, I closed her in a room with me. 648 00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:23,949 I'd pick her up. I'd make her sit in my lap. 649 00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:26,349 I would make her stay there when she didn't want to. 650 00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:27,995 It didn't work. 651 00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:31,598 She'd abide it, but she'd get down when she could. 652 00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:32,876 Go away. 653 00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:34,789 [Claire] Maybe she was ll. 654 00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:38,676 No, she wasn't. I had her to the vet. She didn't like me anymore. 655 00:38:41,720 --> 00:38:43,711 And one night, I was fixed on it now. 656 00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:47,755 I had her in the room with me sitting on my lap, 657 00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:50,554 for the what, the fifth time the same evening? 658 00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:52,917 She lay there with her back to me, 659 00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:55,951 and she wouldn't purr. 660 00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:58,593 And [ knew... 661 00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:02,480 I knew that she was just waiting till she could get down, 662 00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:05,120 and I said to her, "Damn you, you like me! 663 00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:08,750 Goddamn it, you stop this. I haven't done anything to you." 664 00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:12,155 And I shook her. 665 00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:17,198 Thad my hands around her shoulders and I shook her. 666 00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:21,920 And she bit me, hard. And she hissed at me. 667 00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:25,789 And so I hit her. 668 00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:31,355 With my open hand, I hit her smack right across the head. 669 00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:33,675 I hated her. 670 00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:37,876 [Agnes] Did you, did you, uh, hurt her badly? 671 00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:41,353 Yes, well, no, not badly. She... 672 00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:46,518 I must have hurt her ear some. She shook her head for a day or so. 673 00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:47,999 And, you see, there was no reason. 674 00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:51,997 She and I had lived together, we'd been, well, you know, friends. 675 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,356 And there was no reason, and I hated her for that. 676 00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:56,430 I hated her, 677 00:39:57,080 --> 00:39:59,549 I suppose, because I was being accused of something. 678 00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:02,350 Of failing. 679 00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:07,030 I hadn't been cruel to her by design. 680 00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:12,234 And if I'd neglected her, well, my whole life was... 681 00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:14,390 And I resented it. 682 00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:17,837 I resented having a... 683 00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:21,674 being judged. 684 00:40:25,240 --> 00:40:26,389 Being betrayed. 685 00:40:27,720 --> 00:40:28,755 What did you do? 686 00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:33,510 Thad her Killed. 687 00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:37,398 [Agnes] Well-- [stammers] You had her put to sleep. 688 00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:39,118 She was-- She was old. 689 00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:40,838 You had her put to sleep. 690 00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:42,195 Thad her Killed. 691 00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:47,154 I took her to the vet. 692 00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:49,789 And he took her... 693 00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:55,433 he took her in the back, and he gave her an injection, 694 00:40:56,160 --> 00:40:57,389 and he killed her. 695 00:40:57,400 --> 00:40:58,913 Thad her Killed. 696 00:41:01,720 --> 00:41:04,519 Well, what else could you have done? 697 00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:07,116 There, there, there was nothing to be done. 698 00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:09,991 I might have tried longer. 699 00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:15,074 I might have gone on as long as cats live the same way. 700 00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:18,153 I might have worn a hair shirt, 701 00:41:18,720 --> 00:41:21,838 locked myself in the house with her, done penance for something. 702 00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:24,990 For what? God knows. 703 00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:31,717 You probably did the right thing. 704 00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:35,157 Distasteful alternatives. 705 00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:38,397 The less ugly choice. 706 00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:40,995 Was it? 707 00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:49,673 [car approaching] 708 00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:50,875 [engine stops] 709 00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:55,712 Is that a car on the drive? 710 00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:03,118 If we do not love someone... 711 00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:06,353 never have loved someone-- 712 00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:07,919 [Claire] Oh, stop that. 713 00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:13,511 Love is not the problem. 714 00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:18,795 You love Agnes, Agnes loves Julia, Julia loves me, and I... 715 00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:21,275 love you. 716 00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:23,349 We love each other. 717 00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:25,952 We do. We all love each other. 718 00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:29,111 - Yes. - Yes. 719 00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:33,910 To the depths of our... [sighs] 720 00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:37,716 Self-pity and our greed. 721 00:42:39,720 --> 00:42:40,949 What else but love? 722 00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:43,594 [doorbell rings] 723 00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:46,230 - Error? - Hmm. 724 00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:49,114 Quite possibly. 725 00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:52,673 Love and error. 726 00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:56,480 [Agnes] Edna! Harry! 727 00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:58,198 What a surprise! 728 00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:01,114 Why don't you take off your things. Come in. 729 00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:05,036 Tobias, it's, uh, it's Harry and Edna. 730 00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:16,595 Harry and Edna. 731 00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:20,754 - Why, Edna! -[Edna] Hello, Tobias. 732 00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:24,000 - Well, now. - Harry. 733 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:26,879 - Hello, Edna. - Hello there, Claire. 734 00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:29,440 - Hello, Harry. - Good evening, Claire. 735 00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:32,676 We were just having a cordial. Sit down. 736 00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:35,191 Have you been out to the club? 737 00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:36,952 I like this room. 738 00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:37,916 To the club? 739 00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:39,913 How are you, Harry? 740 00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:41,115 Pretty well, Claire. 741 00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:43,111 Not as good as I'd like, but-- 742 00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:45,714 Harry's been having his shortness of breath again. 743 00:43:45,720 --> 00:43:47,916 I can't breathe sometimes for just a bit. 744 00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:49,752 Well, two sets of tennis, you know. 745 00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:50,909 [laughs] 746 00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:53,434 What have you done to the room, Agnes? 747 00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:56,437 Oh, the summer things are out. 748 00:43:56,440 --> 00:43:57,475 Of course. 749 00:43:57,480 --> 00:43:58,709 Have you been to the club? 750 00:43:58,720 --> 00:44:03,078 I was talking to Edna about having our books done in leather bound. 751 00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:04,755 Oh, yeah, yeah. 752 00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:05,955 Uh, the question, 753 00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:09,351 unless I'm going deaf from all the alcohol, 754 00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:12,034 was have you all been to the club? 755 00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:13,633 I'd wondered. [laughs] 756 00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:16,473 - Why, no, no. - Why, no-- 757 00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:17,595 But I thought, perhaps, 758 00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:20,911 you do drop by here on your way from there. 759 00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:22,194 - No, no. -[Agnes laughs] 760 00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:25,397 Or, perhaps, that we were having a party and I'd lost a day. 761 00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:28,074 [laughs] No. We were just sitting home. 762 00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:30,756 - Agnes-- - Just sitting home. 763 00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:35,073 Ha! Well... 764 00:44:35,720 --> 00:44:39,031 [laughs] Well, glad you're here, party or not. 765 00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:40,917 Good to see you, Tobias. 766 00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:43,230 - How's Julia? - Wrong question. 767 00:44:43,240 --> 00:44:46,756 [chuckles] May I have some brandy, please, Tobias? 768 00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:53,196 She's, uh, she's coming home, I'm afraid. 769 00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:54,270 Oh, not again. 770 00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:56,032 Just can't keep that one married, I guess. 771 00:44:56,200 --> 00:44:58,476 - Oh, Agnes, what a shame. - Yeah, that's too bad. 772 00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:00,234 Why'd you come, Harry? 773 00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:02,314 Please, Claire. 774 00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:07,758 We're glad you're here. We're glad you came to surprise us. 775 00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:08,750 Yes. 776 00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:10,398 We were sitting home, 777 00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:14,795 -just sitting home-- - We're glad to see you. 778 00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:15,676 What happened, Harry? 779 00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:17,394 Claire, please. 780 00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:22,752 I don't see why people have to be questioned when they come for a friendly-- 781 00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:24,637 Harry wants to tell you, sis. 782 00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:28,311 Harry? 783 00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:31,716 We... 784 00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:33,590 Well... 785 00:45:35,240 --> 00:45:36,514 We were sitting home... 786 00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:39,351 -[Tobias] Can I get you a drink, Harry? -[stammers] 787 00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:41,435 I, uh... 788 00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:44,153 We thought of going to the club. 789 00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:47,952 But it's so crowded on a Friday night-- 790 00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:51,351 With the canasta party and getting ready for the dance tomorrow. 791 00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:54,159 We didn't want to do that, and I've been tired. 792 00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:55,871 And... 793 00:45:56,920 --> 00:46:00,675 - We didn't want to do that-- - Harry's been tired this whole week. 794 00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:03,718 So we had dinner home and thought we'd stay-- 795 00:46:03,720 --> 00:46:06,234 - Rest. - Of course. 796 00:46:06,240 --> 00:46:07,230 [Claire] Shh, shh, shh. 797 00:46:07,240 --> 00:46:08,639 Twill not shin. 798 00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:09,550 Please? 799 00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:12,749 [Tobias] Go on, Harry. 800 00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:14,872 So we were sitting... 801 00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:18,796 Edna was doing that panel she works on. 802 00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:20,474 My needlepoint. 803 00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:24,151 And I was reading my French. I've got it pretty good now. 804 00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:25,992 Not the accent, but the words. 805 00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:29,069 And then? 806 00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:31,596 Hmm? 807 00:46:32,720 --> 00:46:33,835 [Claire] And then? 808 00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:36,876 I don't know quite what happened then. 809 00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:38,231 We were... 810 00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:40,515 It was all very quiet. 811 00:46:41,720 --> 00:46:44,519 - We were all alone, and then-- -[Edna sobs] 812 00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:48,359 Nothing happened, but... 813 00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:50,190 [sobbing] 814 00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:52,831 Nothing at all happened, but... 815 00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:56,036 [Edna cries] We got frightened. 816 00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:57,470 [Harry] We got scared. 817 00:46:58,040 --> 00:46:59,189 We were frightened! 818 00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:03,596 There was nothing, but we were very scared. 819 00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:05,637 We were terrified! 820 00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:06,675 We were scared. 821 00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:10,794 It was like being lost, very young again, 822 00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:13,236 with the dark, and lost. 823 00:47:13,240 --> 00:47:15,038 [crying] 824 00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:18,679 There was no thing to be frightened of, but... 825 00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:21,720 We were frightened, and there was nothing. 826 00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:23,919 We couldn't stay there. 827 00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:27,959 So we came here. You're our very best friends. 828 00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:29,678 [crying] In the whole world. 829 00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:31,990 Now, now, Edna-- 830 00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,833 We couldn't go anywhere else, 50 we came here, 831 00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:39,593 Well, well, um, you did the right thing, of course. 832 00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:40,916 [Tobias] Sure. 833 00:47:41,240 --> 00:47:44,915 Uh, can I go to bed now? Please? 834 00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:48,676 - Bed? - We can't go back there. 835 00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:50,110 Please? 836 00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:52,269 Bed? 837 00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:55,113 -[Harry] You're our... -[Edna] I-I'm so tired. 838 00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:57,159 ...best friends in the world. 839 00:47:58,520 --> 00:47:59,510 Tobias? 840 00:48:01,240 --> 00:48:03,038 Of course we are, Harry. 841 00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:05,077 Oh, oh, please. 842 00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:07,037 Of, of course you can. 843 00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:10,351 There's, uh... There's, uh, Julia's room. 844 00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:11,714 Come with me, dear. 845 00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:16,075 Tobias? 846 00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:18,671 [Tobias] Edna. 847 00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:21,991 Harry? 848 00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:26,151 There was no one else we could go to. 849 00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:36,589 [footsteps receding] 850 00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:51,118 I was wondering when it would begin. 851 00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:54,235 When it would start. 852 00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:56,871 Start? 853 00:48:59,920 --> 00:49:00,751 Start? 854 00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:04,436 What? 855 00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:08,475 You don't know yet? 856 00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:11,150 You will. 857 00:49:46,160 --> 00:49:48,674 [Julia] Do you think I like it? Do you? 858 00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:49,909 [Agnes] Julia, please. 859 00:49:50,080 --> 00:49:52,151 Do you? Do you think [ enjoy it? 860 00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:53,195 [Agnes] Julia. 861 00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:56,029 Think it gives me some sort of martyr's pleasure? 862 00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:57,553 - Do you? - Will you be still? 863 00:49:57,560 --> 00:49:58,550 Well? 864 00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:00,153 There is a house full of people. 865 00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:01,673 Oh, yes, what about that? 866 00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:04,149 I come home, my room is full of Harry and Edna. 867 00:50:04,160 --> 00:50:05,514 I have no place to put my things. 868 00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:08,080 They'll go into Tobias's room. He'll sleep with me. 869 00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:09,912 [scoffs] That'll be different. 870 00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:15,118 What did you say, young lady? 871 00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:18,876 I said, "That would be nice." 872 00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:22,474 You did not say any such thing. 873 00:50:23,240 --> 00:50:25,800 - You said-- - What are they doing here? 874 00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:27,279 Don't they have a house anymore? 875 00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:29,430 Has the market gone bust without my knowing it? 876 00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:32,159 -I may have been out of touch, but-- -[Agnes] Just let it be. 877 00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:33,434 Why are they here? 878 00:50:34,080 --> 00:50:35,400 They are frightened. 879 00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:37,795 Haven't you heard of it? 880 00:50:39,120 --> 00:50:40,349 They're what? 881 00:50:40,360 --> 00:50:41,634 They are frightened. 882 00:50:42,040 --> 00:50:44,077 Now, will you let it be? 883 00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:46,877 What are they frightened of? 884 00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:48,917 Harry and Edna? Frightened? 885 00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:50,797 I don't, I don't know yet. 886 00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:54,318 Well, haven't you talked to them about it? I mean, for God's sake! 887 00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:55,435 No, I haven't. 888 00:50:55,440 --> 00:50:58,319 What have they done all day? Stayed up in their room, my room? 889 00:50:58,320 --> 00:50:59,833 Not come down? Locked in? 890 00:50:59,840 --> 00:51:01,911 - Yes. - Yes, what? 891 00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:05,470 [laughs] Yes, they have stayed up in their room all day. 892 00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:07,551 - My room. - Your room. 893 00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:09,073 Now, let it be. 894 00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:10,832 . -No! [Agnes] Please! 895 00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:16,312 Oh, I'm sorry, Mother. I'm sorry for screeching. 896 00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:18,960 [laughs] I am too old, as I remember, 897 00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:21,315 to remember what it is like to be a daughter. 898 00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:25,236 If my poor parents in their separate heavens will forgive me. 899 00:51:25,240 --> 00:51:28,119 But I'm sure it's simpler than being a mother. 900 00:51:28,120 --> 00:51:29,758 I said I was sorry. 901 00:51:30,680 --> 00:51:33,513 I don't recall if I asked Ty poor mother that. 902 00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:38,070 I do wish, sometimes, that I'd been born a man. 903 00:51:38,520 --> 00:51:41,194 - Not so odd. - Their concerns are so simple. 904 00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:42,429 Money and death. 905 00:51:42,960 --> 00:51:46,715 Making ends meet until they meet the end. 906 00:51:46,720 --> 00:51:52,398 [laughs] If they knew what it was like to be a wife, a mother, a lover, 907 00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:56,109 a homemaker, a nurse, a hostess, 908 00:51:56,120 --> 00:52:00,910 an agitator, a pacifier, a truth teller, a deceiver-- 909 00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:02,957 ! Da-da-de, da-da-de } 910 00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:04,917 -[Julia laughs] - There's a book out, I believe. 911 00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:06,270 Anew one. 912 00:52:07,120 --> 00:52:11,671 By one of the 30 million psychiatrists now practicing in this land of ours. 913 00:52:11,680 --> 00:52:15,514 A book which opines that the sexes are reversing. 914 00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:18,592 Or coming to resemble each other too much, at any rate. 915 00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:21,110 Simply read and disbelieved. 916 00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:27,430 But it disturbs our sense of well-being, if the book is right. [laughs] 917 00:52:27,440 --> 00:52:29,829 And I suspect it is. 918 00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:32,593 Then I would be no better off as a man, would I? 919 00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:34,079 No, not at all. 920 00:52:34,080 --> 00:52:38,711 Oh, there is nowhere to rest the weary head. 921 00:52:38,720 --> 00:52:40,199 Or whatever. 922 00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:41,998 How are you, my darling? 923 00:52:42,640 --> 00:52:43,960 What? 924 00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:46,520 How are you, my darling? 925 00:52:47,120 --> 00:52:49,589 How is your darling? 926 00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:54,837 Well, Twas trying to tell you before you shut me up with Harry and Edna 927 00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:56,399 -hiding upstairs. - You're wrong! 928 00:52:56,400 --> 00:52:58,835 I will try to tell you, Mother, once again, 929 00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:00,399 before you turned into a man. 930 00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:01,959 I shall try to hear you out. 931 00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:05,831 But if I feel my voice changing in the middle of your rant, 932 00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:08,480 you will have to forgive my male prerogative. 933 00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:12,030 If I become uncomfortable, look at my watch, or jiggle the change-- 934 00:53:12,040 --> 00:53:13,235 Where do you think you're going? 935 00:53:13,240 --> 00:53:14,514 You go straight to hell! 936 00:53:14,840 --> 00:53:16,956 Now, now, what's going on here? 937 00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:18,473 Will you shut her up? 938 00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:20,517 - Well, I-- - There you are, Julia. 939 00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:24,510 Your father can safely leave the room now, I think. 940 00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:26,554 Hello, my darling. 941 00:53:26,840 --> 00:53:28,911 Your mother has arrived. Talk to him. 942 00:53:30,200 --> 00:53:34,273 Your daughter's in need of consolation or a great cuffing around the ears. 943 00:53:34,280 --> 00:53:36,556 [laughs] I don't know which to recommend. 944 00:53:36,560 --> 00:53:38,517 [Tobias] Have Harry and Edna... 945 00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:40,958 No, they have not. 946 00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:42,434 [Tobias] Well, I thought maybe... 947 00:53:43,720 --> 00:53:46,360 Well, what was that all about? 948 00:53:46,760 --> 00:53:48,831 As they say, I haven't the faintest. 949 00:53:49,920 --> 00:53:51,718 - Oh. - Evening papers? 950 00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:55,070 - Yes, you want it? - Anything happy? 951 00:53:55,680 --> 00:53:56,909 My daughter's home? 952 00:53:57,280 --> 00:53:58,634 Any other joys? 953 00:54:00,720 --> 00:54:02,711 Sorry, no. 954 00:54:03,160 --> 00:54:05,310 Small wars, large anxieties. 955 00:54:06,240 --> 00:54:08,834 Our dear Republicans as dull as ever. 956 00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:12,758 A teenage marijuana nest, not far from here. 957 00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:17,873 I never had marijuana... 958 00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:21,036 in my entire life. 959 00:54:21,320 --> 00:54:22,390 [Julia] Want some? 960 00:54:23,840 --> 00:54:25,239 Wasn't fashionable. 961 00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:27,797 [Julia] What the hell do Harry and Edna want? 962 00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:29,636 Just let It be. 963 00:54:29,960 --> 00:54:32,190 Didn't you talk to them today about it? I mean... 964 00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:35,192 No, they weren't down when I went off to the club. 965 00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:37,598 - And-- - Good old golf. 966 00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:40,797 Don't ride me, Julia. I warn you. 967 00:54:43,440 --> 00:54:45,272 I've never had any marijuana either. 968 00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:46,918 Aren't I a good old girl. 969 00:54:47,480 --> 00:54:49,232 Either that or slow. 970 00:54:49,240 --> 00:54:51,800 Great Christ! What the hell did I come home to? 971 00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:54,076 And why? Both of you, snotty, mean-- 972 00:54:54,080 --> 00:54:54,876 Look! 973 00:54:57,200 --> 00:55:00,079 There are some times when it all gathers up too much. 974 00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:01,635 Sure, sure. 975 00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:04,317 Some times when it's gonna be Agnes and Tobias, 976 00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:06,038 not just Mother and Dad, right? 977 00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:09,997 Some times when the allowances aren't gonna be made. 978 00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:12,037 What are you doing? Biting off your fingernails now? 979 00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:12,916 It broke off, 980 00:55:14,560 --> 00:55:16,756 There are some times when it's all too much. 981 00:55:18,120 --> 00:55:20,999 I don't know what the hell Harry and Edna are doing sitting up in that bedroom. 982 00:55:21,720 --> 00:55:22,994 Claire's drinking. 983 00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:26,680 She and Agnes are at each other like a couple of, of... 984 00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:28,599 - Sisters? -[Tobias] What? 985 00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:32,634 [Tobias] The goddamn government's at me over some deductions. 986 00:55:33,160 --> 00:55:36,630 - And you... - And me, yes? 987 00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:38,673 This isn't the first time, you know? 988 00:55:38,680 --> 00:55:40,114 The first time you've come back here 989 00:55:40,120 --> 00:55:42,270 with one of your goddamn marriages on the rocks. 990 00:55:42,280 --> 00:55:43,475 Four! Count 'em! 991 00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:46,359 I know how many marriages I've gotten myself into! 992 00:55:46,360 --> 00:55:47,316 Four! 993 00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:50,191 You expect to come back here 994 00:55:50,200 --> 00:55:54,194 and nestle into being 15 and misunderstood each time. 995 00:55:55,400 --> 00:55:58,233 You're 36-years old, for God's sake! 996 00:55:58,240 --> 00:56:00,880 [Julia] And you are 100 easily! 997 00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:03,520 Thirty-six, each time dragging your-- 998 00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:05,513 I was gonna say "pride"-- 999 00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:09,749 your marriage with you, like some Raggedy Ann doll, by the foot. 1000 00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:14,435 You, you fill this house with your whining-- 1001 00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:16,829 I don't ask to come back here! 1002 00:56:16,840 --> 00:56:18,319 You belong here! 1003 00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:21,871 [laughs] 1004 00:56:23,480 --> 00:56:24,311 Well... 1005 00:56:27,640 --> 00:56:29,597 now that I've taken out on my only daughter 1006 00:56:29,600 --> 00:56:32,194 the disgust of my declining years, 1007 00:56:32,760 --> 00:56:36,435 I'll mix a very good and very strong martini. 1008 00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:47,636 -[door opens] - Join me? 1009 00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:53,235 When I was a very little girl, well, when I was a little girl, 1010 00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:57,077 after I'd gotten over my two year burn at suddenly having a brother, 1011 00:56:57,080 --> 00:56:58,354 may his soul rest. 1012 00:57:00,040 --> 00:57:03,192 When I was still a little girl, I thought you were a marvel. 1013 00:57:03,680 --> 00:57:06,399 Saint, sage, Daddy, everything. 1014 00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:09,117 And then, as the years turned 1015 00:57:09,120 --> 00:57:12,556 and I reached my somewhat angular adolescence-- 1016 00:57:12,560 --> 00:57:13,914 Five to one, or more? 1017 00:57:13,920 --> 00:57:18,790 Then, as the years turned, poor old man, you sank to cipher. 1018 00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:20,791 And you've stayed there, I'm afraid. 1019 00:57:20,800 --> 00:57:23,519 Very nice, but ineffectual. 1020 00:57:23,840 --> 00:57:27,799 Essential, but not really thought of. 1021 00:57:28,400 --> 00:57:31,074 - Gray, non-eminence. - Uh-huh. 1022 00:57:31,360 --> 00:57:32,919 And now you changed again. 1023 00:57:33,480 --> 00:57:36,711 Sea monster, ram, nasty, violent, 1024 00:57:37,520 --> 00:57:40,638 absolutely human man. 1025 00:57:42,120 --> 00:57:44,919 As you make it, five to one, or better. 1026 00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:46,752 I made it about seven, I think. 1027 00:57:46,760 --> 00:57:49,070 Your transformation's amazed me. 1028 00:57:49,440 --> 00:57:52,034 How can I have changed so much? Qr is it really you? 1029 00:57:54,680 --> 00:57:56,671 I told Agnes I'd talk to Doug. 1030 00:57:57,080 --> 00:57:58,798 If you think that would do any good. 1031 00:57:59,160 --> 00:58:01,470 By golly, Dad, that's a good martini. 1032 00:58:01,920 --> 00:58:03,911 You really want to talk to Doug? 1033 00:58:04,200 --> 00:58:05,429 You won't get anywhere. 1034 00:58:05,840 --> 00:58:07,831 The compulsives you can get somewhere with, 1035 00:58:08,040 --> 00:58:09,678 or the illusion of getting. 1036 00:58:09,680 --> 00:58:12,115 The gamblers, the fags, the lechers-- 1037 00:58:12,120 --> 00:58:13,474 - Of this world. - Yes. 1038 00:58:13,480 --> 00:58:15,835 You can have the illusion because they're after something. 1039 00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:17,239 A jackpot somehow. 1040 00:58:17,880 --> 00:58:18,915 Break the bank, 1041 00:58:19,840 --> 00:58:22,275 find the boy, climb the babe, something. 1042 00:58:22,280 --> 00:58:23,395 You do pick 'em. 1043 00:58:26,320 --> 00:58:27,151 Do? 1044 00:58:27,920 --> 00:58:28,716 [Tobias] Hmm? 1045 00:58:29,400 --> 00:58:30,720 Do I pick 'en? 1046 00:58:31,360 --> 00:58:33,670 Well, you may have been pushed on Charlie. 1047 00:58:35,080 --> 00:58:36,957 Yeah, poor old Charlie. 1048 00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:41,158 Oh, for Christ's sake, if you miss him so much... 1049 00:58:41,520 --> 00:58:42,954 I do not miss him! 1050 00:58:44,400 --> 00:58:46,789 Well, yes, I do, but not that way. 1051 00:58:48,680 --> 00:58:50,512 Because he seemed so, like... 1052 00:58:51,600 --> 00:58:52,874 what Teddy would have been. 1053 00:58:56,440 --> 00:58:58,829 Your brother would not have grown up to be a fag. 1054 00:59:01,040 --> 00:59:02,110 Who's to say? 1055 00:59:06,040 --> 00:59:06,996 I. 1056 00:59:09,200 --> 00:59:10,190 [door opens] 1057 00:59:11,040 --> 00:59:14,351 - Do I breathe gin? - Oh, darling! 1058 00:59:14,360 --> 00:59:17,239 - My sweet Claire. - Oh, Julia. 1059 00:59:17,240 --> 00:59:18,435 Julia, oh! 1060 00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:22,115 I must say, the welcome-home committee was pretty skimpy, you and Daddy gone. 1061 00:59:22,120 --> 00:59:22,916 Now. 1062 00:59:23,800 --> 00:59:26,997 I said, "Do I breathe gin?" 1063 00:59:27,880 --> 00:59:28,950 You do. 1064 00:59:30,360 --> 00:59:34,399 Well, you don't look too bad for a quadruple amputee, I must say. 1065 00:59:35,320 --> 00:59:37,470 Are you gonna make me a whatever, Tobias? 1066 00:59:39,280 --> 00:59:43,592 Besides, my darling, it's getting to be rather a habit, isn't it? 1067 00:59:44,120 --> 00:59:46,350 Yeah, I suppose so. 1068 00:59:47,720 --> 00:59:51,156 Then... [ shall make my own. 1069 00:59:51,160 --> 00:59:53,515 [Tobias] Sit down, Claire. I'll do it. 1070 00:59:53,880 --> 00:59:55,871 Well, I wouldn't want to tax you now. 1071 00:59:58,520 --> 00:59:59,430 Well... 1072 01:00:00,680 --> 01:00:02,637 Thad an adventure today. 1073 01:00:03,960 --> 01:00:05,234 I went into town. 1074 01:00:05,920 --> 01:00:08,309 Thought I'd shake 'em up a little. 1075 01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:11,992 So I tried to find me 2 topless bathing suit. 1076 01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:13,115 You didn't! 1077 01:00:13,120 --> 01:00:14,440 - Yes, I did. -[laughs] 1078 01:00:14,440 --> 01:00:17,273 I went into what's-the-name, straight up to the, uh, 1079 01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:19,556 swimwear, as they call it, department. 1080 01:00:20,040 --> 01:00:24,955 Got me an 1890 school mistress type who wondered what she could do for me. 1081 01:00:24,960 --> 01:00:27,793 And [, uh, felt like telling her, 1082 01:00:27,800 --> 01:00:29,313 "Not much, sweetheart." 1083 01:00:29,320 --> 01:00:31,311 [Tobias] Are you sure you wouldn't rather have a... 1084 01:00:31,320 --> 01:00:32,276 Very. 1085 01:00:33,480 --> 01:00:36,199 But [ said, "Hello there. 1086 01:00:36,920 --> 01:00:39,434 I'm in the market for a topless swimsuit." 1087 01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:41,433 Really, Claire. [laughs] 1088 01:00:41,440 --> 01:00:44,751 [Claire] "I don't know what you mean," she said. 1089 01:00:45,240 --> 01:00:47,231 I said, "Oh, certainly you do. 1090 01:00:47,240 --> 01:00:51,279 No top, stops at the waist, the latest thing, lots of freedom.” 1091 01:00:52,000 --> 01:00:54,674 "Oh, yes," she said. 1092 01:00:55,080 --> 01:00:58,471 "I'm afraid we don't carry those." 1093 01:00:59,200 --> 01:01:02,079 "Well, in that case," I told her, "Do you have any separates?” 1094 01:01:02,640 --> 01:01:05,029 "Ah, those we carry.” 1095 01:01:05,480 --> 01:01:07,357 Shall I bring it, or will you come for it? 1096 01:01:07,360 --> 01:01:08,316 You bring. 1097 01:01:09,000 --> 01:01:13,517 I said, "I said I'll buy the bottoms of one of those." 1098 01:01:14,640 --> 01:01:15,596 And, uh... 1099 01:01:16,640 --> 01:01:18,551 she thought for a minute, and then she said, 1100 01:01:18,560 --> 01:01:20,631 with ice in her voice, 1101 01:01:21,280 --> 01:01:24,830 "What shall we do with the tops?" 1102 01:01:25,520 --> 01:01:29,718 Well, now, "Well," I said, "Why don't you save them? 1103 01:01:29,960 --> 01:01:32,349 Maybe bottomless swimsuits will be in next year." 1104 01:01:32,360 --> 01:01:33,316 [Julia laughs] 1105 01:01:33,320 --> 01:01:35,834 And the poor sweet thing gave me a look. I couldn't tell. 1106 01:01:36,040 --> 01:01:37,758 It was either a D minus, 1107 01:01:37,760 --> 01:01:40,274 or she was gonna send me home with a letter to my mother. 1108 01:01:41,240 --> 01:01:45,029 And, uh, she said, sort of far away... 1109 01:01:46,560 --> 01:01:49,598 "I think you need the manager.” 1110 01:01:50,320 --> 01:01:51,674 And off she walked. 1111 01:01:52,160 --> 01:01:56,279 What were you doing buying a bathing suit in October anyway? 1112 01:01:56,280 --> 01:01:58,669 - Oh, Dad-- - No, no, no, no, that's a man's question. 1113 01:01:58,680 --> 01:01:59,715 That's a good martini. 1114 01:01:59,720 --> 01:02:01,916 Truth will get you nowhere, Why? 1115 01:02:02,720 --> 01:02:03,596 Why? 1116 01:02:05,280 --> 01:02:08,557 Well, maybe I'll go on a trip somewhere. 1117 01:02:08,560 --> 01:02:10,392 That would please Agnes. 1118 01:02:10,400 --> 01:02:12,710 [laughs] As few things would. 1119 01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:17,356 No, what I meant was, maybe Toby will walk in one day, 1120 01:02:17,360 --> 01:02:19,237 trailing travel folders, 1121 01:02:19,680 --> 01:02:20,636 rip his tie off 1122 01:02:20,640 --> 01:02:23,678 and announce he's fed up to there with the north, the east, 1123 01:02:23,680 --> 01:02:30,199 the suburbs, the regulated, great gray dwindling life before him, 1124 01:02:31,040 --> 01:02:34,271 and has bought him an island off Paraguay. 1125 01:02:34,280 --> 01:02:35,679 Which has no sea coast. 1126 01:02:35,680 --> 01:02:37,591 Yes. Way off. 1127 01:02:38,880 --> 01:02:41,713 Has bought him this island and is taking us all to that 1128 01:02:41,720 --> 01:02:43,836 to hack through the whatever, 1129 01:02:43,840 --> 01:02:46,559 build us an enormous lean-to, 1130 01:02:46,560 --> 01:02:47,516 all of us. 1131 01:02:48,720 --> 01:02:49,630 Take us away. 1132 01:02:51,440 --> 01:02:52,635 To where it's always... 1133 01:02:54,800 --> 01:02:56,313 good and happy. 1134 01:02:58,080 --> 01:02:59,115 Would you, Dad? 1135 01:03:00,960 --> 01:03:02,155 It's, uh... 1136 01:03:05,080 --> 01:03:06,229 it's too late. 1137 01:03:08,120 --> 01:03:09,394 Or something. 1138 01:03:11,280 --> 01:03:15,797 Well, maybe I just simply wanted 2 topless bathing suit. 1139 01:03:16,680 --> 01:03:17,476 No? 1140 01:03:18,000 --> 01:03:20,037 Well, then maybe it's more complicated yet. 1141 01:03:20,640 --> 01:03:24,076 I mean, Claire couldn't find herself a man if she tried. 1142 01:03:24,400 --> 01:03:26,710 And here comes Julia, home from the wars. 1143 01:03:26,720 --> 01:03:29,917 - You could find a man. - Oh, indeed, I have found several. 1144 01:03:30,440 --> 01:03:32,590 Briefly, and none my own. 1145 01:03:33,400 --> 01:03:36,711 Julia, don't you think Auntie Claire could find herself a man? 1146 01:03:37,040 --> 01:03:39,236 [clears throat] I don't like the subject. 1147 01:03:39,560 --> 01:03:41,790 And here comes Julia, home from the wars, 1148 01:03:41,800 --> 01:03:42,949 four purple hearts. 1149 01:03:42,960 --> 01:03:45,679 Why don't you just have another drink and stop it, Claire. 1150 01:03:46,680 --> 01:03:47,476 All right. 1151 01:03:48,560 --> 01:03:51,234 I have left Doug. We are not divorced. 1152 01:03:51,240 --> 01:03:52,071 Yet. 1153 01:03:53,680 --> 01:03:55,159 You cooking another batch, Tobias? 1154 01:03:57,800 --> 01:03:59,837 But you've come back home, haven't you? 1155 01:04:00,680 --> 01:04:03,149 - Didn't you with the others? - Where else am I supposed to go? 1156 01:04:03,160 --> 01:04:06,391 [chuckles] It's a great big world, baby. 1157 01:04:06,400 --> 01:04:07,993 Hotels, new cities. 1158 01:04:08,640 --> 01:04:11,951 Mm, home is the quickest road to Reno I know of. 1159 01:04:11,960 --> 01:04:15,157 You have such a lot of experience in these matters, Claire. 1160 01:04:15,160 --> 01:04:17,310 Sidelines, good seats, right on the 50-yard line. 1161 01:04:17,640 --> 01:04:19,153 Objective observers. 1162 01:04:19,720 --> 01:04:23,873 I swear, if I didn't love my sister so, I'd say she got you hitched 1163 01:04:24,120 --> 01:04:26,191 -or the pleasure of getting you back. - All right! 1164 01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:27,675 [Tobias] That will do now. 1165 01:04:27,680 --> 01:04:28,909 [Claire] Sorry. 1166 01:04:29,440 --> 01:04:32,956 They tell me in the kitchen, they tell me, 1167 01:04:32,960 --> 01:04:35,270 we are about to dine in a bit. 1168 01:04:35,280 --> 01:04:36,714 Are we having a drink? 1169 01:04:36,720 --> 01:04:38,313 I think one might be nice. 1170 01:04:38,320 --> 01:04:41,153 It's one of those days when everything is underneath, 1171 01:04:41,160 --> 01:04:43,231 but we are all together, which is something. 1172 01:04:43,240 --> 01:04:46,551 - Quite a few of us. -[Tobias] Any news from up there? 1173 01:04:46,560 --> 01:04:48,790 [laughs] No, no. 1174 01:04:48,800 --> 01:04:52,395 I dropped upstairs. Oh, that doesn't make much sense, does it? 1175 01:04:52,400 --> 01:04:56,030 I happened upstairs, and I knocked into Harry and Edna's, uh, 1176 01:04:56,040 --> 01:04:59,396 Julia's room door, and after a moment [ heard Harry say, 1177 01:04:59,400 --> 01:05:01,471 "It's all right. We're all right."” 1178 01:05:02,720 --> 01:05:04,836 Well, I didn't have the... [sighs] 1179 01:05:04,840 --> 01:05:08,390 [ Felt such an odd mixture of embarrassment and irritation, 1180 01:05:08,400 --> 01:05:11,233 and apprehension, [ suppose, and fatigue. 1181 01:05:11,240 --> 01:05:13,390 -I didn't persevere. - Well, haven't they been out? 1182 01:05:13,400 --> 01:05:15,038 I mean, haven't they eaten or anything? 1183 01:05:15,040 --> 01:05:17,475 [laughs] Make me a thing, will you? A martini. 1184 01:05:17,480 --> 01:05:19,869 I am told-- They tell me 1185 01:05:19,880 --> 01:05:23,589 that while we were all out on our various whatever they may be's, 1186 01:05:23,600 --> 01:05:26,274 Edna descended, asked them to make sandwiches, 1187 01:05:26,280 --> 01:05:29,113 which were brought to the closed door and handed in. 1188 01:05:29,120 --> 01:05:31,191 Well, my God, I mean, like-- 1189 01:05:31,200 --> 01:05:35,478 There is no point in pressing it. There are very dear friends. 1190 01:05:35,480 --> 01:05:37,039 They will tell us in good time. 1191 01:05:37,480 --> 01:05:39,596 I had a glimmer of it last night, thought I knew. 1192 01:05:39,960 --> 01:05:41,917 That which we see in the bottom of the glass 1193 01:05:41,920 --> 01:05:43,638 is most often dregs. 1194 01:05:44,080 --> 01:05:45,718 Really? Truly so? 1195 01:05:46,840 --> 01:05:49,036 Are we having our dividend, or are we not? 1196 01:05:52,920 --> 01:05:55,673 - All happy families are alike. -[Harry] Well! 1197 01:05:56,400 --> 01:05:57,799 Well, look who's here! 1198 01:05:57,800 --> 01:05:59,871 [Tobias] Harry, just in time for a martini. 1199 01:06:00,040 --> 01:06:02,509 No, no, we're-- Well, Julia, there you are. 1200 01:06:02,520 --> 01:06:03,635 Oh, Julia. 1201 01:06:04,000 --> 01:06:05,911 There's enough time for 2 drink before dinner, 1202 01:06:05,920 --> 01:06:07,240 if my husband will hurry some. 1203 01:06:07,240 --> 01:06:09,231 No. We're going home now. 1204 01:06:10,640 --> 01:06:13,109 Oh. Yes? 1205 01:06:13,520 --> 01:06:14,874 Uh, yes. 1206 01:06:15,560 --> 01:06:19,758 Well, if we were any help at all, I-- 1207 01:06:19,760 --> 01:06:22,229 To get our things, our clothes and things. 1208 01:06:22,240 --> 01:06:24,231 -[Edna] Yes. -[Harry] We'll be back in-- 1209 01:06:24,240 --> 01:06:26,800 Well, after dinner, so don't... 1210 01:06:26,800 --> 01:06:29,519 Uh, an hour or two. It'll take us a while. 1211 01:06:36,160 --> 01:06:39,471 We'll let ourselves out. Don't bother. 1212 01:06:42,400 --> 01:06:43,390 [door closes] 1213 01:06:47,160 --> 01:06:49,231 I want my room back. I want my room. 1214 01:06:50,920 --> 01:06:53,878 I believe that dinner is served. 1215 01:06:53,880 --> 01:06:54,790 Yes. 1216 01:06:55,760 --> 01:06:58,115 If any of you have the stomach for it. 1217 01:07:11,720 --> 01:07:15,793 That was, without question, the ugliest dinner I've ever sat through. 1218 01:07:16,680 --> 01:07:17,829 What did you say? 1219 01:07:18,800 --> 01:07:21,758 Now, what can you mean? 1220 01:07:22,240 --> 01:07:24,880 Was the ragout not to your pleasure? 1221 01:07:25,040 --> 01:07:26,838 Did the floating island sink? 1222 01:07:27,160 --> 01:07:30,596 Watch what you say to your father. He's proud of his wines. 1223 01:07:30,600 --> 01:07:34,719 No, you, sitting there like a combination pope and-- 1224 01:07:35,440 --> 01:07:36,919 "We will not discuss it." 1225 01:07:36,920 --> 01:07:38,319 "Claire, be still." 1226 01:07:38,320 --> 01:07:41,199 "No, Tobias, the table is not the proper place.” 1227 01:07:41,200 --> 01:07:42,110 "Julia?" 1228 01:07:42,120 --> 01:07:43,315 Nanny! Like a nanny! 1229 01:07:43,320 --> 01:07:44,799 When we are dealing with children-- 1230 01:07:44,800 --> 01:07:47,110 I must discover sometime who you think you are. 1231 01:07:47,120 --> 01:07:48,269 You will learn one day. 1232 01:07:48,280 --> 01:07:52,114 No, more like a drill sergeant. You will do this, you will not do that. 1233 01:07:52,120 --> 01:07:54,760 To keep in shape. Have you heard the expression? 1234 01:07:54,760 --> 01:07:56,717 Most people misunderstand it. 1235 01:07:56,720 --> 01:07:59,917 Assume it means alteration when it does not. 1236 01:08:00,360 --> 01:08:01,589 Maintenance. 1237 01:08:01,600 --> 01:08:04,672 When we keep something in shape, we maintain its shape, 1238 01:08:04,680 --> 01:08:07,752 whether we are proud of that shape or not is another matter. 1239 01:08:07,760 --> 01:08:10,070 We keep it from falling apart. 1240 01:08:10,360 --> 01:08:14,911 We do not attempt the impossible. We maintain, we hold. 1241 01:08:15,680 --> 01:08:17,637 I shall keep this family in shape. 1242 01:08:17,640 --> 01:08:19,950 I shall maintain it, hold it. 1243 01:08:19,960 --> 01:08:21,359 Yes, sir. 1244 01:08:21,720 --> 01:08:24,758 [Agnes] And if I shout, it is merely to be heard 1245 01:08:25,200 --> 01:08:28,875 above the awful din of your privacies and shouts. 1246 01:08:29,480 --> 01:08:30,550 All of you. 1247 01:08:31,200 --> 01:08:33,999 I'm not being an ogre, am I? 1248 01:08:34,400 --> 01:08:36,676 [Tobias] No. No, very reasonable. 1249 01:08:36,680 --> 01:08:41,277 If I am a stickler on certain points, a martinet, as Julia would have it-- 1250 01:08:41,560 --> 01:08:43,358 weren't you not sweet. 1251 01:08:43,360 --> 01:08:47,797 In fact, if I'm a stickler on points of manners, 1252 01:08:47,800 --> 01:08:51,509 timing, tact, the graces are most blushed to call them, 1253 01:08:51,520 --> 01:08:55,593 it is simply that I'm the one member of this reasonably happy family 1254 01:08:55,600 --> 01:08:56,590 blessed and burdened 1255 01:08:56,600 --> 01:09:00,833 with the ability to view a situation objectively while I am in it. 1256 01:09:00,840 --> 01:09:01,750 What time is it? 1257 01:09:02,360 --> 01:09:04,431 And if I must be the fulcrum... 1258 01:09:11,440 --> 01:09:13,238 I think I shall have a divorce. 1259 01:09:17,200 --> 01:09:18,918 A what? A what? 1260 01:09:19,600 --> 01:09:21,910 No fear. Merely testing. 1261 01:09:22,760 --> 01:09:25,878 Everything is taken for granted, and no one listens. 1262 01:09:26,400 --> 01:09:28,710 - Have 2 divorce. - No, no. 1263 01:09:28,720 --> 01:09:30,597 Julia has them for all of us. 1264 01:09:30,600 --> 01:09:32,238 Not even separation. 1265 01:09:33,480 --> 01:09:35,153 That is taken care of, 1266 01:09:35,160 --> 01:09:39,950 and, in life, the gradual demise of intensity. 1267 01:09:39,960 --> 01:09:43,476 The private preoccupations, the substitutions. 1268 01:09:45,240 --> 01:09:47,470 They become allegorical, my darling Tobias, 1269 01:09:47,480 --> 01:09:48,914 as we grow older. 1270 01:09:48,920 --> 01:09:53,118 The individuality we hold so dearly sinks into crotchet. 1271 01:09:54,320 --> 01:09:56,311 We see ourselves repeated 1272 01:09:56,320 --> 01:09:58,630 by those we bring into it all, 1273 01:09:58,640 --> 01:10:02,429 either by meddle or rejection, honor or fault. 1274 01:10:04,480 --> 01:10:06,994 I'm not a fool. I'm really not. 1275 01:10:08,960 --> 01:10:10,189 [Julia] What's Claire up to? 1276 01:10:11,320 --> 01:10:13,596 Really not at all. 1277 01:10:14,200 --> 01:10:15,235 [Tobias] No, really not. 1278 01:10:17,880 --> 01:10:20,076 Well, how would I know what she's up to? 1279 01:10:20,880 --> 01:10:23,349 Well, you are the fulcrum and all around here. 1280 01:10:23,360 --> 01:10:26,000 The double vision, the great balancing act. 1281 01:10:27,040 --> 01:10:29,509 I daresay... she's in her room. 1282 01:10:30,560 --> 01:10:31,959 At least she has one. 1283 01:10:32,640 --> 01:10:36,474 Why don't you run upstairs and claim your goddamn room back! 1284 01:10:37,160 --> 01:10:40,915 Barricade yourself in there, push your bureau in front of the door. 1285 01:10:41,320 --> 01:10:43,596 Take Tobias's pistol while you're at It. 1286 01:10:43,600 --> 01:10:44,874 Arm yourself. 1287 01:10:44,880 --> 01:10:45,915 [accordion music] 1288 01:10:47,360 --> 01:10:50,591 Barricades? Pistols? Really? So soon? 1289 01:10:51,080 --> 01:10:53,640 Claire, will you take off that damn thing. 1290 01:10:54,240 --> 01:10:57,312 They laughed when I sat down to the accordion. 1291 01:10:57,320 --> 01:10:59,470 Take it off? No, will not. 1292 01:10:59,920 --> 01:11:02,719 This is gonna be a festive night, by the smell of it, 1293 01:11:02,720 --> 01:11:04,836 and Sister Claire wants to do her part. 1294 01:11:04,840 --> 01:11:06,990 Pay her way, so to speak, justify. 1295 01:11:07,000 --> 01:11:10,152 [Agnes] You're not gonna play that dreadful instrument in here. 1296 01:11:10,600 --> 01:11:13,718 [lively tune] 1297 01:11:14,320 --> 01:11:17,995 - Tobias, do something about that. - Calm down, Agnes. 1298 01:11:18,840 --> 01:11:23,277 Ma used to say, "Claire girl." [chuckles] 1299 01:11:23,280 --> 01:11:26,830 She had an uncle named Claire, so she always used to call me Claire girl. 1300 01:11:26,840 --> 01:11:27,875 [laughs] 1301 01:11:27,880 --> 01:11:29,518 [Agnes] That is not so. 1302 01:11:29,960 --> 01:11:31,792 "Claire girl," she used to say, 1303 01:11:31,800 --> 01:11:35,236 "When you go out into the world, get dumped out of the nest, 1304 01:11:35,240 --> 01:11:38,392 or pushed out by your sister." 1305 01:11:38,880 --> 01:11:40,279 Lies. 1306 01:11:40,280 --> 01:11:41,634 Even in her teens, 1307 01:11:41,640 --> 01:11:44,996 your Auntie Claire had her own and very special ways. 1308 01:11:45,320 --> 01:11:46,993 Was very advanced. 1309 01:11:47,800 --> 01:11:49,393 [Claire] Thad a ball, same as you. 1310 01:11:50,240 --> 01:11:53,153 You know, your mommy got her pudenda scuffed a couple of times herself 1311 01:11:53,160 --> 01:11:55,151 'fore she met ol' Toby there, you know? 1312 01:11:55,160 --> 01:11:59,393 Only [ wasn't puce with socially proper remorse every time. 1313 01:11:59,400 --> 01:12:00,390 Your what? 1314 01:12:01,680 --> 01:12:04,035 My pudenda. 1315 01:12:05,200 --> 01:12:08,556 You can come on all forgetful in your old age, 1316 01:12:08,560 --> 01:12:10,870 if you want to, but just remember-- 1317 01:12:10,880 --> 01:12:12,712 I'm not an old woman. 1318 01:12:14,520 --> 01:12:15,669 Am I? 1319 01:12:15,680 --> 01:12:16,909 [Tobias laughs] 1320 01:12:16,920 --> 01:12:19,070 Well, you're my old lady. 1321 01:12:19,080 --> 01:12:20,479 [Claire] What'll it be? 1322 01:12:20,480 --> 01:12:23,120 [lively accordion music] 1323 01:12:24,520 --> 01:12:26,113 Save it for Harry and Edna. 1324 01:12:26,760 --> 01:12:28,797 Save it for Harry and Edna? Save it for them? 1325 01:12:28,800 --> 01:12:30,837 -[accordion music] - Please. 1326 01:12:31,360 --> 01:12:32,395 [accordion squeaks] 1327 01:12:36,440 --> 01:12:37,271 All right. 1328 01:12:39,120 --> 01:12:40,679 I'll unload. 1329 01:12:49,320 --> 01:12:50,515 We're waiting, aren't we? 1330 01:12:51,440 --> 01:12:52,316 Huh? 1331 01:12:53,360 --> 01:12:54,270 Waiting. 1332 01:12:54,640 --> 01:12:56,358 The room, the doctor's office. 1333 01:12:57,040 --> 01:12:58,235 The beautiful unconcern, 1334 01:12:58,240 --> 01:13:00,914 the intensive study of the dreadful curtains, 1335 01:13:00,920 --> 01:13:03,150 the absorption in Field & Stream. 1336 01:13:04,440 --> 01:13:06,750 Waiting for the biopsy. 1337 01:13:07,920 --> 01:13:08,796 No? 1338 01:13:09,920 --> 01:13:10,955 Don't know what [ mean? 1339 01:13:11,800 --> 01:13:14,792 - What about Harry and Edna? - We don't want to talk about it. 1340 01:13:15,240 --> 01:13:17,038 - If they come back-- - If? 1341 01:13:17,360 --> 01:13:19,317 If they come back, we will. 1342 01:13:20,800 --> 01:13:24,509 You only have two choices, Sis. Take them in or throw 'em out. 1343 01:13:26,240 --> 01:13:28,993 Ah, how simple it is from the sidelines. 1344 01:13:29,360 --> 01:13:30,873 We'll do neither, I imagine. 1345 01:13:31,440 --> 01:13:33,317 Take in, throw out. 1346 01:13:33,640 --> 01:13:34,471 Oh? 1347 01:13:35,160 --> 01:13:36,559 Well, yes, they're just... 1348 01:13:37,880 --> 01:13:39,439 -passing through. -[Claire laughs] 1349 01:13:39,440 --> 01:13:42,159 -[car approaching] - As they have been all these years. 1350 01:13:42,800 --> 01:13:44,950 Well, we shall know soon enough. 1351 01:13:45,480 --> 01:13:47,198 - They're back. -[Tobias] Yes? 1352 01:13:47,720 --> 01:13:48,835 [Julia] I think I'll go up. 1353 01:13:48,840 --> 01:13:50,751 “You'll stay right here-- -I want to go to my room. 1354 01:13:50,760 --> 01:13:52,478 It is their room for the moment. 1355 01:13:53,320 --> 01:13:55,789 Among Doug's opinions, you might like to know, 1356 01:13:55,800 --> 01:13:59,191 is that when you and your ilk are blown to pieces by a Chinese bomb, 1357 01:13:59,200 --> 01:14:00,474 the world will be 2 better place! 1358 01:14:00,480 --> 01:14:02,278 Isn't "ilk" a lovely word? 1359 01:14:02,280 --> 01:14:03,918 Oh, come on now. 1360 01:14:03,920 --> 01:14:05,593 Well, it'll be a less crowded one. 1361 01:14:05,600 --> 01:14:07,318 You choose well, Julia. 1362 01:14:07,720 --> 01:14:08,949 Well, that's what he says. 1363 01:14:08,960 --> 01:14:10,109 Have always. 1364 01:14:10,120 --> 01:14:12,794 Did he include you as ilk as well? 1365 01:14:13,160 --> 01:14:15,720 Will you be with us when the fatal mushroom comes, 1366 01:14:15,720 --> 01:14:17,950 as those dirty boys put it? 1367 01:14:17,960 --> 01:14:19,678 Are we to have the pleasure? 1368 01:14:19,680 --> 01:14:21,910 - I'll be right here. - Agnes. 1369 01:14:21,920 --> 01:14:24,230 Would you like to know something else he says? 1370 01:14:24,240 --> 01:14:25,958 - No, Julia. - Daddy? 1371 01:14:26,480 --> 01:14:28,596 Not right this minute, Julia. 1372 01:14:28,600 --> 01:14:29,749 Claire, you? 1373 01:14:29,760 --> 01:14:32,195 Oh, come on, you know I'd like to hear about it, I'd love to, 1374 01:14:32,200 --> 01:14:34,953 but Toby and Ag have got an invasion on their hands. 1375 01:14:34,960 --> 01:14:36,234 We have no such thing. 1376 01:14:36,240 --> 01:14:40,234 And maybe you'd better wait for Harry and Edna, too. 1377 01:14:40,240 --> 01:14:42,550 It does not concern Harry and Edna. 1378 01:14:42,560 --> 01:14:43,789 Best friends. 1379 01:14:43,800 --> 01:14:44,756 Tobias? 1380 01:14:45,200 --> 01:14:48,431 - Where, what will [ do with everything-- - Ch, for God's sake, I'll do it. 1381 01:14:48,440 --> 01:14:49,430 Oh. 1382 01:14:50,720 --> 01:14:53,599 What? What do they want, Harry and Edna? 1383 01:14:54,640 --> 01:14:56,756 -[Claire] Hmm? - You'll make Mother mad. 1384 01:14:56,760 --> 01:14:58,398 Harry and Edna, what do they want? 1385 01:14:59,840 --> 01:15:01,877 - Succor., - Pardon? 1386 01:15:03,040 --> 01:15:04,110 Comfort. 1387 01:15:05,520 --> 01:15:06,396 Warmth. 1388 01:15:07,400 --> 01:15:09,277 A special room with a night-light. 1389 01:15:10,080 --> 01:15:13,516 Or the door ajar so they can look down the hall from the bed 1390 01:15:13,520 --> 01:15:16,751 and see that Mummy has her door open. 1391 01:15:17,040 --> 01:15:18,235 That's my room. 1392 01:15:18,240 --> 01:15:20,197 It's their room. Happens you were in it. 1393 01:15:20,840 --> 01:15:22,877 You're a visitor as much as anyone now. 1394 01:15:23,760 --> 01:15:25,114 But I know that room. 1395 01:15:26,760 --> 01:15:27,955 You home for good now? 1396 01:15:28,560 --> 01:15:29,675 You home forever? 1397 01:15:30,240 --> 01:15:34,359 Back from the world to the sadness and reassurance of your parents. 1398 01:15:35,640 --> 01:15:37,039 You come to take my place? 1399 01:15:38,560 --> 01:15:39,914 This is my home. 1400 01:15:40,400 --> 01:15:42,789 We are not the communal nation, dear. 1401 01:15:43,720 --> 01:15:46,872 Mm, giving, but not sharing. 1402 01:15:47,040 --> 01:15:48,599 Outgoing, but not friendly. 1403 01:15:48,600 --> 01:15:49,351 Hello. 1404 01:15:50,200 --> 01:15:51,076 Hello. 1405 01:15:52,040 --> 01:15:56,796 We submerge our truths and have our sunsets on untroubled waters. 1406 01:15:57,640 --> 01:15:58,550 Come on in, Edna. 1407 01:15:59,080 --> 01:15:59,956 Yes. 1408 01:16:01,080 --> 01:16:03,117 [Claire] Do you think we can walk on the water, Edna, 1409 01:16:03,120 --> 01:16:05,316 or do you think we sink? 1410 01:16:06,160 --> 01:16:07,230 [Edna] We sink. 1411 01:16:08,240 --> 01:16:10,436 And we better develop gills, right? 1412 01:16:11,080 --> 01:16:11,990 Right. 1413 01:16:12,440 --> 01:16:13,953 I didn't see you come in. 1414 01:16:13,960 --> 01:16:15,280 Oh, we drove around the back. 1415 01:16:15,280 --> 01:16:17,920 Harry's helping Agnes and Tobias get our bags upstairs. 1416 01:16:18,480 --> 01:16:21,757 Don't you mean that Agnes and Tobias are helping Harry? 1417 01:16:21,760 --> 01:16:22,830 If you like. 1418 01:16:24,000 --> 01:16:25,434 What were you two up to? 1419 01:16:26,880 --> 01:16:30,350 [Claire] I think Julia's home for good this time. 1420 01:16:30,360 --> 01:16:31,759 I say, Claire. 1421 01:16:32,720 --> 01:16:34,358 [Edna] Oh? Is it come to that? 1422 01:16:34,360 --> 01:16:36,397 [Claire] I always said she would finally. 1423 01:16:36,400 --> 01:16:37,629 It's family business. 1424 01:16:37,640 --> 01:16:41,554 [Edna] Yes, but I don't think that Agnes and Tobias have seen it as clearly. 1425 01:16:41,800 --> 01:16:44,394 I do wish Agnes would have those chairs re-covered. 1426 01:16:44,400 --> 01:16:45,356 Perhaps now that-- 1427 01:16:45,360 --> 01:16:47,636 Why don't you call the upholsterers, now that you're living here! 1428 01:16:47,640 --> 01:16:48,755 [Claire] All in the family. 1429 01:16:48,760 --> 01:16:51,036 You're not a child anymore, Julia. 1430 01:16:51,040 --> 01:16:52,838 You're nicely on your way to 40. 1431 01:16:52,840 --> 01:16:56,390 And you've not helped wedlock's image any with your shenanigans. 1432 01:16:56,400 --> 01:16:57,913 You are a guest in this house! 1433 01:16:58,400 --> 01:17:01,313 And if you have decided to return forever, 1434 01:17:01,320 --> 01:17:04,312 then it's a matter of some concern for quite a few people-- 1435 01:17:04,320 --> 01:17:05,833 You are a guest! 1436 01:17:06,400 --> 01:17:07,799 [Claire] As you. 1437 01:17:08,240 --> 01:17:11,676 For quite a few people whose lives are... moved, 1438 01:17:11,680 --> 01:17:14,593 if not necessarily touched, by your actions. 1439 01:17:15,800 --> 01:17:18,918 Claire, where does Agnes have her upholstery done? 1440 01:17:18,920 --> 01:17:20,194 - Does she use-- - No! 1441 01:17:21,680 --> 01:17:23,000 Manners, young lady. 1442 01:17:23,880 --> 01:17:26,793 Julia, why don't you ask Edna if she'd like something? 1443 01:17:26,800 --> 01:17:27,596 No! 1444 01:17:28,640 --> 01:17:30,995 You have no right here. 1445 01:17:32,120 --> 01:17:33,679 I'll have a cognac, Julia. 1446 01:17:35,080 --> 01:17:37,720 My husband and I are your parents' best friends. 1447 01:17:37,720 --> 01:17:40,189 We are, in addition, your godparents. 1448 01:17:40,880 --> 01:17:42,712 - Does this give you rights? - Some. 1449 01:17:43,080 --> 01:17:46,357 Some. Rights and responsibilities. 1450 01:17:46,760 --> 01:17:48,637 - Some. -[footsteps approaching] 1451 01:17:48,640 --> 01:17:50,870 Hello, Harry. Come on in. 1452 01:17:51,320 --> 01:17:53,675 Julia's about to fix us something. What would you like? 1453 01:17:54,040 --> 01:17:56,270 Tl do it. Don't trouble yourself, Julia. 1454 01:17:56,680 --> 01:17:59,752 No! No, don't you come near it! Don't you take a step! 1455 01:17:59,760 --> 01:18:01,831 [Julia pants, whimpers] 1456 01:18:02,920 --> 01:18:04,991 - Julia. - No! 1457 01:18:05,600 --> 01:18:08,319 Let her do it, Harry. She wants to. 1458 01:18:08,800 --> 01:18:10,632 I don't want to! 1459 01:18:11,320 --> 01:18:13,630 Then I'll do it, Julia. 1460 01:18:14,360 --> 01:18:17,478 - Mother? Mother! - Oh, honestly. 1461 01:18:17,480 --> 01:18:18,879 Mother! 1462 01:18:19,320 --> 01:18:21,197 - Julia? -[Julia moans] 1463 01:18:21,200 --> 01:18:23,396 Will you let me do it? May I get the drinks? 1464 01:18:23,640 --> 01:18:25,517 Stay away from it. All of you! 1465 01:18:25,520 --> 01:18:26,840 Now, Julia. 1466 01:18:27,880 --> 01:18:30,235 -[Julia] Mother? - Oh, come on. 1467 01:18:30,240 --> 01:18:33,756 - Now, Julia. -[Julia moans] 1468 01:18:33,760 --> 01:18:35,398 [Edna] Let her go, Harry. 1469 01:18:35,400 --> 01:18:37,869 Mother! Father! Help me! 1470 01:18:37,880 --> 01:18:39,951 - Julia, you're shouting! -[Julia] Help me! 1471 01:18:39,960 --> 01:18:40,995 [Julia] M-Mother. 1472 01:18:41,520 --> 01:18:42,669 What is it, dear? 1473 01:18:43,320 --> 01:18:46,073 - They, they want-- - Forget it, Julia. 1474 01:18:46,080 --> 01:18:47,753 Yes, for God's sake, forget it. 1475 01:18:47,760 --> 01:18:51,355 - They want. - Perhaps you had better come upstairs. 1476 01:18:51,360 --> 01:18:52,953 [Julia] Yes, where? What room? 1477 01:18:52,960 --> 01:18:55,429 Come up to my room. Lie down. 1478 01:18:55,440 --> 01:18:56,430 Your room? 1479 01:18:56,440 --> 01:18:58,795 No, you can lie down in our room if you prefer. 1480 01:18:58,800 --> 01:19:01,155 Your room? Your room! Mine! Mine! 1481 01:19:01,160 --> 01:19:03,436 - God! - Don't you go near that! 1482 01:19:03,440 --> 01:19:05,113 - Julia! -[Julia] I want. 1483 01:19:05,120 --> 01:19:06,519 [Edna] What do you want, Julia? 1484 01:19:06,840 --> 01:19:09,559 -[Harry] Jesus. -[Julia] I want what is mine! 1485 01:19:09,560 --> 01:19:13,554 Well, then, my dear, you'll have to decide what that is, will you not? 1486 01:19:14,520 --> 01:19:16,193 Daddy? Daddy! 1487 01:19:17,960 --> 01:19:19,155 Daddy! 1488 01:19:20,600 --> 01:19:22,113 Daddy! 1489 01:19:23,840 --> 01:19:25,513 - Daddy? -[door slams] 1490 01:19:27,520 --> 01:19:32,515 I do believe that's the first time she's called on her father in... 1491 01:19:34,080 --> 01:19:35,434 since her childhood. 1492 01:19:36,160 --> 01:19:38,879 - When she used to skin her knees. - Yes. 1493 01:19:40,240 --> 01:19:42,311 And she would come home bloody. 1494 01:19:43,480 --> 01:19:45,915 I assumed she was clumsy, but... 1495 01:19:47,160 --> 01:19:51,233 it crossed my mind 3 time or two that she was religious. 1496 01:19:51,240 --> 01:19:53,880 Praying on the gravel? A penance? 1497 01:19:54,040 --> 01:19:54,996 Yes. 1498 01:19:57,680 --> 01:19:59,478 Teddy had just died, I think. 1499 01:20:00,040 --> 01:20:02,839 And it was an unreal time for a number of us. 1500 01:20:04,640 --> 01:20:05,550 For me. 1501 01:20:10,320 --> 01:20:11,230 Poor little boy. 1502 01:20:11,840 --> 01:20:13,717 -[Edna] Yes. -[log clatters] 1503 01:20:13,720 --> 01:20:15,233 It was an unreal time. 1504 01:20:15,840 --> 01:20:20,550 I thought Tobias was out of love with me. 1505 01:20:21,040 --> 01:20:25,989 Or, rather, was tired of it when Teddy died, 1506 01:20:26,840 --> 01:20:28,911 as if it had been the string. 1507 01:20:28,920 --> 01:20:30,558 [Harry] Would you like something, Edna? 1508 01:20:30,560 --> 01:20:31,709 [Edna] Mm-hmm. 1509 01:20:31,720 --> 01:20:35,076 Things I doubted then, that I was loved, 1510 01:20:35,920 --> 01:20:37,558 that I loved, for that matter... 1511 01:20:38,680 --> 01:20:40,478 Teddy had ever lived at all. 1512 01:20:40,880 --> 01:20:43,918 My mind, you see. That Julia wouldn't be with us long. 1513 01:20:45,680 --> 01:20:46,511 I think... 1514 01:20:48,280 --> 01:20:52,911 I think I thought Tobias was unfaithful to me then. 1515 01:20:53,320 --> 01:20:55,357 - Was he, Harry? -[Edna] Oh, Agnes. 1516 01:20:55,360 --> 01:20:58,239 Come on, Agnes. Of course not. No! 1517 01:20:58,960 --> 01:20:59,916 Was he, Claire? 1518 01:21:00,600 --> 01:21:04,798 That hot summer, with Julia's knees all bloody? 1519 01:21:05,480 --> 01:21:09,314 And Teddy dead. Did my husband cheat on me? 1520 01:21:11,600 --> 01:21:12,795 You got me, Sis. 1521 01:21:14,160 --> 01:21:15,389 [chuckles] 1522 01:21:16,800 --> 01:21:18,837 And that will have to do. 1523 01:21:22,640 --> 01:21:25,758 - Poor Julia. - Julia's a fool. 1524 01:21:26,760 --> 01:21:28,353 Make me a drink, will ya, Harry? 1525 01:21:28,800 --> 01:21:31,030 Since you're being Tobias. A scotch. 1526 01:21:31,040 --> 01:21:32,792 [Harry] Sure thing. Claire? 1527 01:21:32,800 --> 01:21:33,870 Why not? 1528 01:21:35,200 --> 01:21:38,716 Claire could tell us so much if she cared to, could you not, Claire? 1529 01:21:39,400 --> 01:21:43,439 Claire, who watches from the sidelines, has seen so very much. 1530 01:21:43,440 --> 01:21:47,195 Has seen us all so clearly, have you not, Claire? 1531 01:21:47,800 --> 01:21:50,633 - You were not named for nothing. - Lay off, Sis. 1532 01:21:53,880 --> 01:21:55,518 What do you want? 1533 01:21:57,160 --> 01:21:58,275 I don't know what you mean. 1534 01:21:58,760 --> 01:22:01,752 - What do you really want? -[Claire] You gonna tell her, Harry? 1535 01:22:02,360 --> 01:22:03,794 I don't know what you mean, Claire. 1536 01:22:05,280 --> 01:22:06,429 Scotch, was it, Agnes? 1537 01:22:06,440 --> 01:22:08,511 -{Agnes) I said-- “Yes, but I don't remember. 1538 01:22:08,520 --> 01:22:10,113 Don't talk to Harry like that. 1539 01:22:10,120 --> 01:22:11,076 I... 1540 01:22:12,520 --> 01:22:15,956 I-I'm so-sorry, Edna. 1541 01:22:15,960 --> 01:22:19,430 I forgot that, um, you're very frightened people. 1542 01:22:19,440 --> 01:22:22,319 - Don't you make fun of us! - My dear Edna! 1543 01:22:22,320 --> 01:22:24,072 - I'm not making-- - Yes, you are! 1544 01:22:24,080 --> 01:22:25,354 You are making fun of us! 1545 01:22:25,360 --> 01:22:26,589 -I assure you, Edna-- - Here's your drink. 1546 01:22:26,600 --> 01:22:28,318 I-I assure you! 1547 01:22:28,320 --> 01:22:30,960 Well, I think it's time for a little music, don't you, kids? 1548 01:22:30,960 --> 01:22:32,678 We don't want music, Claire. 1549 01:22:32,680 --> 01:22:34,830 I yodel a little, too, nowadays, 1550 01:22:34,840 --> 01:22:36,160 -if anybody-- - You yodel? 1551 01:22:36,560 --> 01:22:37,675 Yes! 1552 01:22:37,960 --> 01:22:40,156 -[Claire yodels] -[Harry] She yodels. 1553 01:22:40,160 --> 01:22:41,389 What would you like, Harry? 1554 01:22:41,400 --> 01:22:44,711 A chorus of "take me to the greenhouse and lay me down"? 1555 01:22:44,720 --> 01:22:46,040 -[Agnes] Claire. -I wonder if, 1556 01:22:46,440 --> 01:22:48,590 before the concert, one of you wouldn't mind telling me 1557 01:22:48,600 --> 01:22:51,353 why on earth my daughter is upstairs in hysterics? 1558 01:22:52,160 --> 01:22:55,391 Envy, baby! She don't sing or nothin'. [yodels] 1559 01:22:55,400 --> 01:22:56,993 -[Tobias] Please! -[Agnes] What was she-- 1560 01:22:57,000 --> 01:22:58,354 Now, will any of you tell me why? 1561 01:22:58,360 --> 01:23:00,590 -[Agnes] What's she doing? -I told you. She's in hysterics. 1562 01:23:00,600 --> 01:23:02,750 That is a condition. L inquired about an action. 1563 01:23:02,760 --> 01:23:04,876 -{Edna) Poor Julia. -I don't understand that girl. 1564 01:23:04,880 --> 01:23:06,279 An action? Is that what you want? Okay. 1565 01:23:06,280 --> 01:23:08,954 How about pressed against the corner of the upstairs hall. 1566 01:23:08,960 --> 01:23:11,474 Arms wide, palms back, eyes darting wide. 1567 01:23:11,480 --> 01:23:13,278 How about tearing into Harry and Edna's room, 1568 01:23:13,280 --> 01:23:15,351 ripping the clothes from closets, hangers and all on the floor. 1569 01:23:15,360 --> 01:23:16,509 The same for the bureaus. 1570 01:23:16,520 --> 01:23:17,749 -[Agnes] I see. - More? 1571 01:23:17,760 --> 01:23:18,670 [Agnes] All right. 1572 01:23:18,960 --> 01:23:20,359 Went into your room next. 1573 01:23:20,360 --> 01:23:23,000 Twisted on the bed, lots of breathing, the great wide eyes. 1574 01:23:23,920 --> 01:23:25,194 The spread gathered under her, 1575 01:23:25,200 --> 01:23:26,998 your big lace pillow in her arms like a lover. 1576 01:23:28,480 --> 01:23:30,153 Eyes wide open, no tears now. 1577 01:23:32,080 --> 01:23:33,115 Though if you go near the... 1578 01:23:33,680 --> 01:23:34,636 Sounds start, 1579 01:23:34,640 --> 01:23:36,392 and you think she'll scream if you touch her. 1580 01:23:37,400 --> 01:23:39,232 - How's that? -[Claire] Pretty good. 1581 01:23:39,240 --> 01:23:40,594 [Agnes] And accurate, I imagine. 1582 01:23:40,600 --> 01:23:42,398 You're damn right! Now, why? 1583 01:23:42,400 --> 01:23:45,153 I was making myself a drink, for God's sake. 1584 01:23:45,160 --> 01:23:47,151 I asked her to make me something. 1585 01:23:47,160 --> 01:23:48,389 [Tobias] Come on now! 1586 01:23:48,400 --> 01:23:50,391 That sounds incomplete to you, Toby? 1587 01:23:50,760 --> 01:23:51,716 Somewhat. 1588 01:23:52,240 --> 01:23:55,039 [Agnes] Julia has been through a trying time, Tobias. 1589 01:23:55,040 --> 01:23:58,158 - Suppose we did upset her some. -[Edna] Of course. 1590 01:23:58,160 --> 01:24:00,151 Don't you think you should go tend to her? 1591 01:24:01,440 --> 01:24:02,271 No. 1592 01:24:03,920 --> 01:24:06,355 She will be down, or she will not. 1593 01:24:06,360 --> 01:24:07,919 She will stop, or she will go on. 1594 01:24:07,920 --> 01:24:09,797 [Tobias] Oh, for God's sake, Agnes. 1595 01:24:09,800 --> 01:24:11,950 I haven't the time, Tobias. 1596 01:24:11,960 --> 01:24:16,079 I haven't time for the four-hour talk, the soothing recapitulation. 1597 01:24:16,080 --> 01:24:18,151 You don't go through it, my love, the history. 1598 01:24:18,440 --> 01:24:21,080 Nothing is calmed by a pat on the hand, 1599 01:24:21,080 --> 01:24:24,471 a gentle massage, or slowly, slowly combing the hair. 1600 01:24:24,480 --> 01:24:28,394 The history, Teddy's birth, and how she felt unwanted, tricked. 1601 01:24:28,400 --> 01:24:30,835 His death, and was she more relieved than lost. 1602 01:24:30,840 --> 01:24:32,319 All the schools we sent her to, 1603 01:24:32,320 --> 01:24:34,391 and did she fail in them through hate or love? 1604 01:24:34,920 --> 01:24:37,912 And when we come to marriage, dear, each one of them, 1605 01:24:37,920 --> 01:24:39,433 the fear, the happiness, 1606 01:24:39,440 --> 01:24:41,477 the sex, the stopping, the infidelities-- 1607 01:24:41,480 --> 01:24:43,790 - All right, Agnes-- - The comings-home, the new resolves, 1608 01:24:43,800 --> 01:24:45,074 departures. [laughs] 1609 01:24:45,080 --> 01:24:48,118 Oh, my dear, Tobias, my life has gone through more than hers. 1610 01:24:48,920 --> 01:24:53,198 I see myself growing old each time, my own life passing. 1611 01:24:54,040 --> 01:24:56,873 No, I haven't time for it now. 1612 01:24:57,240 --> 01:25:01,757 At midnight, maybe, when you're all in your beds, 1613 01:25:01,760 --> 01:25:03,080 safely sleeping. 1614 01:25:03,720 --> 01:25:08,590 Then I shall comfort our Julia and lose myself once more. 1615 01:25:09,760 --> 01:25:12,320 I tell you, there are so many martyrdoms here. 1616 01:25:12,720 --> 01:25:15,394 [Agnes] No, one to a person. That is the usual. 1617 01:25:15,880 --> 01:25:19,077 Though I do believe there are some with none, 1618 01:25:19,320 --> 01:25:21,550 and others who have known Job. 1619 01:25:21,880 --> 01:25:23,917 The hopeless are the cruelest lot of all. 1620 01:25:24,080 --> 01:25:26,276 They shift their burdens so. 1621 01:25:26,280 --> 01:25:29,432 You interviewed a camel, he'd admit he loved his load. 1622 01:25:29,440 --> 01:25:32,239 I wish you two would stop having at each other. 1623 01:25:32,240 --> 01:25:33,719 Hell yes, let's have a drink. 1624 01:25:33,720 --> 01:25:34,869 - Tobias? - Huh? 1625 01:25:34,880 --> 01:25:36,314 [Harry) What can I make you, buddy? 1626 01:25:36,320 --> 01:25:38,470 [Claire] Dear, you've actually spoken your mind! 1627 01:25:39,360 --> 01:25:40,589 What can you make me? 1628 01:25:41,120 --> 01:25:42,633 I do, sometimes. 1629 01:25:43,280 --> 01:25:44,429 Sure, I'm here. 1630 01:25:44,440 --> 01:25:47,432 When an environment is not all that it might be. 1631 01:25:48,120 --> 01:25:50,077 Oh, uh, yeah, scotch. 1632 01:25:51,600 --> 01:25:54,274 Is that for you to say? 1633 01:25:54,280 --> 01:25:55,429 [Claire] Here we come. 1634 01:25:55,800 --> 01:25:57,711 Stop it, Claire, dear. I said... 1635 01:25:58,760 --> 01:26:00,398 is that for you to say? 1636 01:26:00,880 --> 01:26:03,554 Oh, we must be helpful when we can, my dear. 1637 01:26:03,960 --> 01:26:06,315 That is the responsibility, 1638 01:26:06,320 --> 01:26:08,880 the double demand of friendship, is it not? 1639 01:26:09,640 --> 01:26:12,678 But... when we are asked. 1640 01:26:13,200 --> 01:26:13,996 No. 1641 01:26:14,400 --> 01:26:15,720 Not only. 1642 01:26:15,720 --> 01:26:20,157 It seemed to me, well, to us, that since we are living here... 1643 01:26:20,960 --> 01:26:21,870 Living? 1644 01:26:22,960 --> 01:26:24,359 Living here? 1645 01:26:26,480 --> 01:26:27,276 Living here? 1646 01:26:27,640 --> 01:26:28,960 - That's my cue! -[lively tune] 1647 01:26:28,960 --> 01:26:30,394 [Julia] Get them out of here, Daddy! 1648 01:26:30,400 --> 01:26:31,879 Get them out of here! Get them out of here! 1649 01:26:31,880 --> 01:26:34,076 Get them out of here! Get them out of here! 1650 01:26:34,080 --> 01:26:35,275 - Get them out of here! -[accordion squeals] 1651 01:26:36,080 --> 01:26:36,911 Julia! 1652 01:26:37,560 --> 01:26:39,073 Get them out of here, Daddy. 1653 01:26:40,520 --> 01:26:41,430 All right. 1654 01:26:43,240 --> 01:26:44,435 Julia, baby. 1655 01:26:46,840 --> 01:26:48,035 [Julia cries] 1656 01:26:48,440 --> 01:26:50,158 Let's, let's have it now. 1657 01:26:51,040 --> 01:26:53,031 Get, get, get them out of here, Daddy. 1658 01:26:53,440 --> 01:26:55,272 [Julia whimpers] 1659 01:26:57,280 --> 01:26:58,429 Come on now. 1660 01:26:59,440 --> 01:27:01,431 Get them out of here, Daddy. 1661 01:27:01,440 --> 01:27:03,670 [Agnes] You ought to be horsewhipped, young lady. 1662 01:27:03,680 --> 01:27:06,149 - All right now. - Do it, Daddy. 1663 01:27:06,160 --> 01:27:07,195 Or give it back. 1664 01:27:07,200 --> 01:27:08,873 [Agnes] How dare you come into this room like that. 1665 01:27:08,880 --> 01:27:11,520 How dare you embarrass me and your father. How dare you frighten-- 1666 01:27:11,520 --> 01:27:13,397 - Are you going? -[Tobias] Julia, please. 1667 01:27:13,880 --> 01:27:14,836 [Julia] Are you? 1668 01:27:15,600 --> 01:27:16,431 Going? 1669 01:27:17,040 --> 01:27:18,713 No, we are not going. 1670 01:27:19,120 --> 01:27:20,190 [Harry] No. 1671 01:27:20,200 --> 01:27:22,840 -[Julia] You see-- - Coming down here with a gun like that. 1672 01:27:22,840 --> 01:27:25,798 You return to your nest from your latest disaster, 1673 01:27:25,800 --> 01:27:27,950 dispossessed, and suddenly dispossessing. 1674 01:27:27,960 --> 01:27:28,916 [crying] 1675 01:27:29,080 --> 01:27:31,640 You scream the house down, claw at all of us. 1676 01:27:31,640 --> 01:27:33,597 - Stop her! - Willful, wicked, wretched girl! 1677 01:27:33,600 --> 01:27:35,318 You are not-- You have no rights! 1678 01:27:35,320 --> 01:27:37,470 We have rights here. We belong. 1679 01:27:37,480 --> 01:27:40,074 - Mother. - We belong here, do we not? 1680 01:27:40,080 --> 01:27:43,118 Forever? Have you come to stay forever? 1681 01:27:45,000 --> 01:27:46,274 -[yelps] - If need be! 1682 01:27:47,440 --> 01:27:49,351 Sorry. A godmother's duty. 1683 01:27:52,600 --> 01:27:54,511 If we come to the point, 1684 01:27:54,920 --> 01:27:57,434 if we are at home one evening, and the... 1685 01:27:58,520 --> 01:28:00,113 terror comes, descends, 1686 01:28:00,560 --> 01:28:03,598 if all at once we... need... 1687 01:28:05,200 --> 01:28:08,158 we come where we are wanted, where we know we are expected, 1688 01:28:08,600 --> 01:28:09,874 not only where we want. 1689 01:28:10,360 --> 01:28:11,759 We come where 1690 01:28:11,760 --> 01:28:13,910 the table has been laid for us in such an event, 1691 01:28:13,920 --> 01:28:18,596 where the bed is turned down and warmed and has been ready should we need it. 1692 01:28:20,440 --> 01:28:21,316 We are not... 1693 01:28:23,160 --> 01:28:24,116 transients, 1694 01:28:25,000 --> 01:28:25,956 like some. 1695 01:28:26,440 --> 01:28:27,350 [Julia] No. 1696 01:28:35,240 --> 01:28:37,834 You have come to live with us, then? 1697 01:28:40,640 --> 01:28:41,471 Why, yes. 1698 01:28:43,760 --> 01:28:44,556 We have. 1699 01:28:47,960 --> 01:28:49,758 Well, then... 1700 01:28:51,400 --> 01:28:54,040 perhaps it is time for bed. 1701 01:28:54,040 --> 01:28:56,190 - Julia? - Mother? 1702 01:28:56,520 --> 01:28:57,954 Come upstairs with me. 1703 01:28:59,200 --> 01:29:01,999 Let me... comb your hair... 1704 01:29:03,200 --> 01:29:04,429 rub your back... 1705 01:29:05,800 --> 01:29:11,318 and we shall soothe and salve and fall to sleep. 1706 01:29:12,040 --> 01:29:12,996 Tobias? 1707 01:29:19,320 --> 01:29:21,630 Well, I think it's time for bed. 1708 01:29:22,640 --> 01:29:24,631 [Tobias] Well, yes, yes, of course. 1709 01:29:26,480 --> 01:29:27,675 We know the way. 1710 01:29:29,200 --> 01:29:32,716 Friendship is something like a marriage, is it not, Tobias? 1711 01:29:33,560 --> 01:29:35,119 For better and for worse? 1712 01:29:35,880 --> 01:29:36,711 Sure. 1713 01:29:37,360 --> 01:29:39,715 We haven't come to the wrong place, have we? 1714 01:29:40,280 --> 01:29:41,156 Have we, Toby? 1715 01:29:42,200 --> 01:29:45,591 No. No, of course you haven't. 1716 01:29:45,600 --> 01:29:46,920 Good night, dear Tobias. 1717 01:29:47,840 --> 01:29:49,797 - Good night, Claire. - Night, you two. 1718 01:29:50,840 --> 01:29:53,878 - Good night, old man. - Good-- Good night, you two. 1719 01:29:55,600 --> 01:29:57,955 [footsteps receding] 1720 01:30:01,440 --> 01:30:02,714 Full house, Tobias. 1721 01:30:03,840 --> 01:30:05,274 Every bed, every cupboard. 1722 01:30:07,120 --> 01:30:08,235 Good night, Claire. 1723 01:30:08,960 --> 01:30:12,510 You gonna stay up, Tobias? A sort of night watch, guarding? 1724 01:30:12,520 --> 01:30:13,316 I've done it. 1725 01:30:14,560 --> 01:30:17,518 The breathing as you stand in the quiet hall, slow and heavy. 1726 01:30:18,880 --> 01:30:21,633 The special warmth and permeation of a house asleep. 1727 01:30:22,800 --> 01:30:23,949 When the house is sleeping. 1728 01:30:24,760 --> 01:30:25,875 When the people are asleep. 1729 01:30:26,960 --> 01:30:27,870 Good night, Claire. 1730 01:30:29,240 --> 01:30:30,389 And the difference... 1731 01:30:32,120 --> 01:30:34,270 the different breathing in the cold 1732 01:30:35,080 --> 01:30:36,957 when every bed is awake all night. 1733 01:30:37,760 --> 01:30:40,957 Very still, eyes open, staring into the dark. 1734 01:30:41,920 --> 01:30:42,876 You know that one? 1735 01:30:45,280 --> 01:30:46,315 Good night, Claire. 1736 01:30:48,360 --> 01:30:49,873 Good night, Tobias. 1737 01:31:51,320 --> 01:31:52,435 [door opens] 1738 01:31:54,000 --> 01:31:54,831 [door closes] 1739 01:32:01,680 --> 01:32:04,718 Ah, there you are. 1740 01:32:07,680 --> 01:32:10,672 7:30 am. All is well. 1741 01:32:10,680 --> 01:32:11,715 I guess. 1742 01:32:16,600 --> 01:32:17,749 [Agnes] So odd. 1743 01:32:18,840 --> 01:32:19,591 Hmm? 1744 01:32:20,760 --> 01:32:23,798 There was a stranger in my room last night. 1745 01:32:24,680 --> 01:32:25,636 - Who? - You. 1746 01:32:26,320 --> 01:32:27,310 Ah. 1747 01:32:28,680 --> 01:32:30,353 It was nice to have you there. 1748 01:32:31,080 --> 01:32:31,911 Hmm? 1749 01:32:32,960 --> 01:32:34,075 [chuckles] 1750 01:32:34,080 --> 01:32:35,991 Les temps perdu. 1751 01:32:37,040 --> 01:32:38,553 I've never understood that. 1752 01:32:38,560 --> 01:32:42,394 Perdu means lost, not merely passed. 1753 01:32:44,720 --> 01:32:46,552 But it was nice to have you there. 1754 01:32:49,200 --> 01:32:51,953 Though I remember when it was a constancy. 1755 01:32:51,960 --> 01:32:56,909 How easily I would fall asleep, pace my breathing to your breathing. 1756 01:32:57,480 --> 01:32:59,118 [sighs] And... 1757 01:33:00,560 --> 01:33:05,873 if we were touching, oh, what a splendid cocoon that was. 1758 01:33:08,120 --> 01:33:09,190 But last night... 1759 01:33:10,520 --> 01:33:12,511 what a shame, what sadness. 1760 01:33:13,280 --> 01:33:14,600 You were a stranger. 1761 01:33:15,400 --> 01:33:16,549 And I stayed awake. 1762 01:33:17,480 --> 01:33:19,756 - I'm sorry. - Were you asleep at all? 1763 01:33:21,080 --> 01:33:21,876 No. 1764 01:33:22,440 --> 01:33:24,909 I would go half, then wake. 1765 01:33:25,560 --> 01:33:26,436 Your... 1766 01:33:27,320 --> 01:33:29,834 Your unfamiliar presence, sir. 1767 01:33:30,600 --> 01:33:32,193 I could get used to it again. 1768 01:33:33,800 --> 01:33:35,120 - Yes? - I think. 1769 01:33:37,280 --> 01:33:39,078 Didn't have your talk with Julia. 1770 01:33:39,520 --> 01:33:41,158 - No. - Your all-night lulling. 1771 01:33:41,160 --> 01:33:42,719 No, no, she wouldn't let me stay. 1772 01:33:42,720 --> 01:33:44,870 "Look to your own house,” is what she said. 1773 01:33:47,920 --> 01:33:49,240 You stayed down long? 1774 01:33:51,200 --> 01:33:53,919 - When? - After. Before you came to bed. 1775 01:33:55,480 --> 01:33:56,231 Some. 1776 01:33:57,920 --> 01:34:01,311 Almost went to my room by habit. By mistake, rather. 1777 01:34:02,320 --> 01:34:04,357 And then I realized that your room Was my room, 1778 01:34:04,360 --> 01:34:07,239 because my room is Julia's, because Julia's room is-- 1779 01:34:07,240 --> 01:34:08,275 Yes. 1780 01:34:08,280 --> 01:34:12,672 And, uh, I was awake when you left my room again. 1781 01:34:13,360 --> 01:34:14,589 You could have said. 1782 01:34:15,800 --> 01:34:17,154 I felt shy. 1783 01:34:17,720 --> 01:34:20,439 - Hmm? - Did you go to Claire? 1784 01:34:22,400 --> 01:34:23,799 I never go to Claire. 1785 01:34:23,800 --> 01:34:26,235 Did you go to Claire to talk? 1786 01:34:27,760 --> 01:34:28,875 I never go to Claire. 1787 01:34:29,360 --> 01:34:32,079 We must always envy someone we should not. 1788 01:34:32,080 --> 01:34:34,720 Be jealous of those who have so much less. 1789 01:34:34,720 --> 01:34:37,838 You and Claire make so much sense together, 1790 01:34:37,840 --> 01:34:39,069 talk so well. 1791 01:34:40,520 --> 01:34:44,878 I never go to Claire at night or talk with her alone save publicly. 1792 01:34:45,280 --> 01:34:48,989 [laughs] In public rooms, like this. 1793 01:34:49,320 --> 01:34:50,276 [Tobias] Yes. 1794 01:34:51,160 --> 01:34:52,594 Have never? 1795 01:34:53,560 --> 01:34:54,470 Please? 1796 01:35:00,360 --> 01:35:02,829 I shall start missing you 1797 01:35:03,440 --> 01:35:05,716 when you move from my room again. 1798 01:35:07,520 --> 01:35:08,430 If you do. 1799 01:35:10,920 --> 01:35:12,354 Thad stopped, I believe. 1800 01:35:12,920 --> 01:35:15,799 [scoffs] Oh, you're an honest woman. 1801 01:35:15,800 --> 01:35:19,111 Oh, well. We need one in every house. 1802 01:35:22,120 --> 01:35:25,397 It's very strange to be downstairs in a room 1803 01:35:25,400 --> 01:35:29,871 where everyone has been and is gone, very late, after the heat is gone. 1804 01:35:31,040 --> 01:35:32,474 The furnace and the bodies. 1805 01:35:32,840 --> 01:35:37,118 The hour or so before the sun comes up, the furnace starts again. 1806 01:35:38,520 --> 01:35:41,638 It's rather godlike, if I may presume, 1807 01:35:41,640 --> 01:35:46,271 to look at it all reconstruct with such detachment. 1808 01:35:46,280 --> 01:35:51,195 See yourself, you, Julia, look at it all, play it out again. 1809 01:35:52,120 --> 01:35:52,871 Watch. 1810 01:35:54,440 --> 01:35:55,316 Judge. 1811 01:35:56,400 --> 01:35:58,391 No, that's being in it. Watch. 1812 01:36:00,760 --> 01:36:02,478 And if you have a drink or two... 1813 01:36:03,520 --> 01:36:04,635 [Agnes] Did you? 1814 01:36:04,640 --> 01:36:07,109 Mm-hmm. And if you have a drink or two, 1815 01:36:07,120 --> 01:36:09,634 very late, in the quiet, tired, 1816 01:36:09,640 --> 01:36:12,280 the... mind 1817 01:36:13,040 --> 01:36:14,599 lets loose. 1818 01:36:14,600 --> 01:36:15,396 [Agnes] Mm? 1819 01:36:16,520 --> 01:36:18,830 And you watch it as it reasons. 1820 01:36:19,760 --> 01:36:23,640 And all with a kind of grateful delight, and at the same time sadly, 1821 01:36:23,640 --> 01:36:25,711 "cause you know that when the daylight comes, 1822 01:36:25,720 --> 01:36:27,518 the pressures will be on. 1823 01:36:28,880 --> 01:36:31,156 And all the insights won't be worth a damn. 1824 01:36:31,160 --> 01:36:33,629 [Agnes laughs] And what did you decide? 1825 01:36:33,640 --> 01:36:36,792 You can sit and watch, you can have so clear a picture, 1826 01:36:36,800 --> 01:36:40,077 see everyone moving through his own jungle, 1827 01:36:40,520 --> 01:36:45,117 and insight into all the reasons, all the needs. 1828 01:36:46,720 --> 01:36:50,236 Good. And what did you decide? 1829 01:36:51,440 --> 01:36:53,192 Why is the room so dirty? 1830 01:36:54,000 --> 01:36:55,798 Can't we have better servants? 1831 01:36:56,120 --> 01:36:57,554 Some help who help? 1832 01:36:58,040 --> 01:37:00,714 They keep far better hours than we, that's all. 1833 01:37:00,720 --> 01:37:02,552 They're a comment on our habits. 1834 01:37:02,960 --> 01:37:05,190 A reminder that we are out of step. 1835 01:37:05,200 --> 01:37:07,874 That is why we pay them So very, very much. 1836 01:37:07,880 --> 01:37:11,236 Neither a servant nor a master be, remember? 1837 01:37:11,600 --> 01:37:12,715 I remember when-- 1838 01:37:12,720 --> 01:37:14,916 When you were very young and lived at home, 1839 01:37:14,920 --> 01:37:17,275 and the servants were awake whenever you were. 1840 01:37:17,560 --> 01:37:19,710 Six a.m. for your breakfast when you wanted it, 1841 01:37:19,720 --> 01:37:23,953 five in the morning when you came home drunk and 17. 1842 01:37:23,960 --> 01:37:28,716 [chuckles] Washing the vomit from the car, and you telling no one. 1843 01:37:28,720 --> 01:37:32,634 Stealing just enough each month by arrangement with the stores 1844 01:37:32,640 --> 01:37:34,711 to keep them in a decent wage. 1845 01:37:35,320 --> 01:37:40,076 Generations of them, all just blind and always dying. 1846 01:37:40,080 --> 01:37:43,391 The cook, who did a better dinner drunk than sober. 1847 01:37:43,920 --> 01:37:45,399 Those servants. 1848 01:37:45,400 --> 01:37:49,633 Those days when you were young and lived at home. 1849 01:37:49,640 --> 01:37:51,790 Mm. [chuckles] 1850 01:37:51,800 --> 01:37:55,191 Well, my darling, you are not young now, 1851 01:37:55,200 --> 01:37:57,396 and you do not live at home. 1852 01:37:59,360 --> 01:38:00,634 Where do I live? 1853 01:38:02,520 --> 01:38:05,239 In the dark sadness. Yes? 1854 01:38:07,480 --> 01:38:08,709 What are we gonna do? 1855 01:38:09,120 --> 01:38:10,599 What did you decide? 1856 01:38:13,520 --> 01:38:15,079 - Nothing. - Well, you must. 1857 01:38:15,360 --> 01:38:17,556 Your house is not in order, sir. 1858 01:38:17,560 --> 01:38:19,278 It's full to bursting. 1859 01:38:19,280 --> 01:38:21,317 Yes. You've gotta help me here. 1860 01:38:21,320 --> 01:38:22,754 No, I don't think so. 1861 01:38:22,760 --> 01:38:24,034 - No? 1862 01:38:24,040 --> 01:38:26,156 I thought a little last night, too, 1863 01:38:26,520 --> 01:38:29,911 while you were seeing everything so clearly here. 1864 01:38:30,600 --> 01:38:33,069 I lay in the dark 1865 01:38:33,880 --> 01:38:36,440 and I revisited our life. 1866 01:38:37,520 --> 01:38:39,158 The years and years. 1867 01:38:41,000 --> 01:38:43,037 There are many things a woman does. 1868 01:38:45,000 --> 01:38:48,834 She bears the children, if there is that blessing. 1869 01:38:50,080 --> 01:38:52,196 Blessing? Yes, I suppose. 1870 01:38:53,120 --> 01:38:54,997 Even with the sadness. 1871 01:38:55,000 --> 01:38:57,674 She runs the house, for what that's worth. 1872 01:38:57,960 --> 01:39:00,554 Makes sure there's food, and not just anything, 1873 01:39:00,560 --> 01:39:01,914 and decent linen. 1874 01:39:02,480 --> 01:39:03,550 Looks well. 1875 01:39:04,280 --> 01:39:09,912 Assumes whatever duties are demanded if she's in love or loves. 1876 01:39:09,920 --> 01:39:11,240 And plans. 1877 01:39:13,040 --> 01:39:14,917 I know, I know. 1878 01:39:15,360 --> 01:39:17,590 But there are things we do not do. 1879 01:39:18,440 --> 01:39:19,794 - Yes? - Yes. 1880 01:39:19,800 --> 01:39:21,757 We don't decide the route. 1881 01:39:22,480 --> 01:39:24,710 - You are copping out, as they say. - No, indeed. 1882 01:39:25,360 --> 01:39:28,239 - Yes, you are! -[Agnes] Don't you yell at me. 1883 01:39:28,240 --> 01:39:30,709 - You're copping out. - We follow. 1884 01:39:31,840 --> 01:39:34,719 We let our men decide the moral issues. 1885 01:39:34,720 --> 01:39:37,234 Never! You've never done that in your life. 1886 01:39:37,240 --> 01:39:38,514 Always, my darling. 1887 01:39:38,520 --> 01:39:41,433 Whatever you decide, I'll make it work. 1888 01:39:41,920 --> 01:39:43,513 I'll run it for you. 1889 01:39:43,760 --> 01:39:46,593 So you'll never know there's been a change in anything. 1890 01:39:46,600 --> 01:39:47,670 [Tobias] No, no. 1891 01:39:48,160 --> 01:39:50,037 So, let me know. 1892 01:39:58,320 --> 01:39:59,719 I know I'm tired. 1893 01:40:00,640 --> 01:40:02,313 I know I've hardly slept at all. 1894 01:40:03,640 --> 01:40:06,598 I know I've sat down here and thought. 1895 01:40:07,480 --> 01:40:09,437 And made your decisions? 1896 01:40:10,720 --> 01:40:12,836 But I have not judged. I told you that. 1897 01:40:12,840 --> 01:40:14,990 Well, when you have, you let me know. 1898 01:40:15,000 --> 01:40:16,115 No! 1899 01:40:16,120 --> 01:40:18,236 - You'll wake the house. - I'll wake the house! 1900 01:40:18,240 --> 01:40:20,834 This is not the time for you to lose control. 1901 01:40:20,840 --> 01:40:22,239 I'll lose control! 1902 01:40:23,480 --> 01:40:26,632 I've sat down here in the cold, in the empty cold, 1903 01:40:27,200 --> 01:40:28,713 I've sat here alone. 1904 01:40:30,360 --> 01:40:32,351 I've looked at everything, all of it. 1905 01:40:32,360 --> 01:40:34,920 I thought of you, Julia, and Claire. 1906 01:40:34,920 --> 01:40:37,753 - And Edna and Harry? - Well, of course. What do you think? 1907 01:40:37,760 --> 01:40:39,433 I don't know, I'm listening. 1908 01:40:39,440 --> 01:40:40,396 Morning. 1909 01:40:40,880 --> 01:40:43,394 I don't suppose, uh... Shall [ make some coffee? 1910 01:40:43,400 --> 01:40:45,073 Why don't you do that, darling. 1911 01:40:46,080 --> 01:40:46,990 Morning, Julie. 1912 01:40:48,920 --> 01:40:50,831 Sorry about last night, Daddy. 1913 01:40:50,840 --> 01:40:51,796 Oh, well, now. 1914 01:40:52,520 --> 01:40:54,750 I mean, I'm sorry for having embarrassed you. 1915 01:40:55,120 --> 01:40:55,996 [Agnes] Coffee. 1916 01:40:57,360 --> 01:40:59,670 Aren't you sorry for embarrassing me, too? 1917 01:41:09,080 --> 01:41:13,039 Well, isn't it nice that Julia's making coffee? 1918 01:41:14,120 --> 01:41:16,396 No? If they help her out? 1919 01:41:17,120 --> 01:41:19,839 Isn't it nice to have a daughter who can put a pot to boil? 1920 01:41:19,840 --> 01:41:22,753 "Aren't you sorry for embarrassing me, too?" 1921 01:41:24,040 --> 01:41:25,838 You have a problem there with Julia. 1922 01:41:25,840 --> 01:41:27,274 I? I have a problem? 1923 01:41:27,280 --> 01:41:29,396 But at least you have your women round you, 1924 01:41:29,400 --> 01:41:31,357 crowded round full of warm support. 1925 01:41:31,360 --> 01:41:33,033 That must be a comfort to you. 1926 01:41:33,040 --> 01:41:36,476 Most explorers go alone, don't have their families with them. 1927 01:41:36,880 --> 01:41:38,837 Pitching tents, tending the fire, 1928 01:41:38,840 --> 01:41:42,037 shooing off the antelopes or the bears or whatever. 1929 01:41:42,040 --> 01:41:44,839 "Aren't you sorry for embarrassing me, too?" 1930 01:41:44,840 --> 01:41:46,513 - Are you quoting? - Yes. 1931 01:41:46,520 --> 01:41:48,670 Next, we'll have my younger sister with us. 1932 01:41:49,320 --> 01:41:52,073 Another porter for the dreadful trip. 1933 01:41:52,840 --> 01:41:56,117 Claire's never missed a chance to participate in watching. 1934 01:41:56,120 --> 01:41:57,872 She'll be here, we'll have us all. 1935 01:41:58,160 --> 01:42:00,515 You'll all sit down and watch me carefully, 1936 01:42:00,520 --> 01:42:02,830 smoke your pipes and stir the cauldron. 1937 01:42:02,840 --> 01:42:04,911 - Watch. -[laughs] Yes. 1938 01:42:04,920 --> 01:42:08,470 You who make all the decisions, who really rule the game. 1939 01:42:10,600 --> 01:42:12,318 That's an illusion you have. 1940 01:42:12,320 --> 01:42:14,914 You'll all sit here, too early for anything, 1941 01:42:14,920 --> 01:42:16,638 on this stupid Sunday, 1942 01:42:17,520 --> 01:42:21,718 all of you, and dare me when it's just as much your choice as mine. 1943 01:42:22,760 --> 01:42:25,673 Each time that Julia comes, 1944 01:42:26,520 --> 01:42:28,909 each clockwork time, 1945 01:42:29,800 --> 01:42:32,076 do you send her back, do you tell her, 1946 01:42:32,760 --> 01:42:34,831 "Julia, go home to your husband. Try it again.” 1947 01:42:35,040 --> 01:42:38,556 Do you? No. You'll let it slip. 1948 01:42:39,440 --> 01:42:41,795 - It's your decision, sir. -It is not. I-- 1949 01:42:41,800 --> 01:42:44,792 And I must live with it, resign myself. 1950 01:42:44,800 --> 01:42:46,154 One marriage more 1951 01:42:46,160 --> 01:42:50,677 and wait and hope that Julia's motherhood will come one day, one marriage. 1952 01:42:50,920 --> 01:42:54,311 I'm almost too old to be a grandmother. 1953 01:42:54,880 --> 01:42:58,157 As I'd hoped, too young to be one. Oh, I'd wanted that. 1954 01:42:58,840 --> 01:43:00,956 The youngest older woman on the block. 1955 01:43:02,600 --> 01:43:05,035 Julia's almost too old to have a child properly, 1956 01:43:05,040 --> 01:43:06,314 will be, if she ever does. 1957 01:43:07,480 --> 01:43:08,914 If she marries again. 1958 01:43:09,560 --> 01:43:12,518 You, you could have pushed her back if you'd wanted to. 1959 01:43:12,520 --> 01:43:15,080 It's very early yet. That must be it. 1960 01:43:15,080 --> 01:43:17,799 -I have never heard such-- - Or Teddy. 1961 01:43:18,560 --> 01:43:19,516 No? 1962 01:43:19,520 --> 01:43:20,874 No stammering here. 1963 01:43:21,240 --> 01:43:23,959 - You'll let this pass. - Please. 1964 01:43:23,960 --> 01:43:25,314 When Teddy died... 1965 01:43:27,360 --> 01:43:28,839 we could have had another son. 1966 01:43:29,920 --> 01:43:30,990 We could have tried. 1967 01:43:32,040 --> 01:43:32,996 But no. 1968 01:43:33,720 --> 01:43:35,279 Those months-- 1969 01:43:36,240 --> 01:43:38,197 - Or was it a year? - No more of this. 1970 01:43:38,200 --> 01:43:41,989 I think it was a year when you spilled yourself on my belly. 1971 01:43:42,000 --> 01:43:46,597 I said, "Please, please, Tobias." But no. You wouldn't even say it out. 1972 01:43:46,600 --> 01:43:49,877 "I don't wank another child, another loss." 1973 01:43:49,880 --> 01:43:52,030 "Please, please, Tobias." 1974 01:43:52,040 --> 01:43:54,509 And guiding you, trying to hold you in. 1975 01:43:54,520 --> 01:43:55,555 Agnes, please. 1976 01:43:55,560 --> 01:43:57,836 "Don't leave me then like that, not again. 1977 01:43:58,040 --> 01:44:00,554 Tobias, please. I can take care of it. 1978 01:44:00,560 --> 01:44:05,350 We won't have another child, but, please, don't leave me like that." 1979 01:44:07,320 --> 01:44:11,279 Such... silent, sad... 1980 01:44:12,320 --> 01:44:13,913 disgusted love. 1981 01:44:13,920 --> 01:44:16,355 I-I-I didn't wank you to have to... 1982 01:44:16,360 --> 01:44:17,270 Sir? 1983 01:44:17,280 --> 01:44:20,432 -I didn't want you to have to, you know. -Oh, that was thoughtful of you. 1984 01:44:21,120 --> 01:44:24,829 Like a pair of adolescents in a rented room, in the family car. 1985 01:44:25,720 --> 01:44:28,633 - Doubtless you hated it as much as L. - Yes. 1986 01:44:28,640 --> 01:44:30,870 - But wouldn't let me help you. - No. 1987 01:44:30,880 --> 01:44:33,713 Which is why you took to your own sweet room instead. 1988 01:44:33,920 --> 01:44:34,830 Yes. 1989 01:44:34,840 --> 01:44:38,231 The theory being pat that half a loaf is worse than none. 1990 01:44:38,880 --> 01:44:42,999 That you are racked with guilt, stupidly, 1991 01:44:43,680 --> 01:44:45,273 and I must suffer for it. 1992 01:44:45,640 --> 01:44:46,516 Yes. 1993 01:44:47,640 --> 01:44:51,270 Well, it was your decision, was it not? 1994 01:44:52,120 --> 01:44:52,996 Yes. 1995 01:44:53,320 --> 01:44:54,958 And I have made the best of it. 1996 01:44:56,080 --> 01:44:57,115 Have lived with It. 1997 01:44:58,600 --> 01:44:59,556 Have I not? 1998 01:45:01,480 --> 01:45:04,154 What are we going to do about everything? 1999 01:45:08,440 --> 01:45:10,954 Whatever you like. Naturally. 2000 01:45:10,960 --> 01:45:12,030 [Claire] Morning, kids. 2001 01:45:16,640 --> 01:45:19,598 All I can do is run it for you in full cast. 2002 01:45:19,600 --> 01:45:20,749 [Tobias] Morning, Claire. 2003 01:45:22,160 --> 01:45:23,514 [Agnes] Julia's in the kitchen. 2004 01:45:24,320 --> 01:45:26,231 Making coffee, Claire. 2005 01:45:27,360 --> 01:45:28,430 Which means, I guess, 2006 01:45:28,440 --> 01:45:30,909 I go watch Julia grind the beans and drip the water. 2007 01:45:32,920 --> 01:45:35,150 I tell you, she's a real pioneer, that girl. 2008 01:45:35,160 --> 01:45:37,436 Coffee pot in one hand and pistol in t'other. 2009 01:45:38,160 --> 01:45:41,039 Claire's a comfort in the early morn, I've been told. 2010 01:45:41,880 --> 01:45:43,791 -[Tobias] Yes. - That is what I've been told. 2011 01:45:47,520 --> 01:45:49,352 Shall I ask them to leave? 2012 01:45:49,920 --> 01:45:51,558 - Who? - Harry and Edna. 2013 01:45:51,560 --> 01:45:53,358 [laughs] 2014 01:45:53,360 --> 01:45:56,398 For a moment, I- thought you meant Julia and Claire. 2015 01:45:56,400 --> 01:45:58,710 No, Harry and Edna. Shall I throw them out? 2016 01:46:00,280 --> 01:46:03,238 Harry is your very best friend and an old-- 2017 01:46:03,240 --> 01:46:05,277 Yes, and Edna is yours. Well? 2018 01:46:06,080 --> 01:46:08,993 You'll have to live with it either way. Do or don't. 2019 01:46:11,120 --> 01:46:14,715 Well, then, why don't I throw Julia and Claire out? 2020 01:46:14,720 --> 01:46:17,189 Why don't I throw the whole bunch out? 2021 01:46:17,560 --> 01:46:20,029 [laughs] Or get rid of me. 2022 01:46:21,240 --> 01:46:24,358 That would be easier. Rid yourself of the harridan. 2023 01:46:24,880 --> 01:46:28,714 Then you can run your mission, take out sainthood papers. 2024 01:46:28,720 --> 01:46:32,190 I think you're stating an opinion, a preference. 2025 01:46:32,680 --> 01:46:34,478 But if you do get rid of me... 2026 01:46:35,880 --> 01:46:39,635 you'll no longer have your life the way you want it. 2027 01:46:40,280 --> 01:46:43,989 But that's not my-- that's not all the choice I've got, is it? 2028 01:46:45,120 --> 01:46:49,512 Well, I don't, I don't care very much what choice you've got, my darling. 2029 01:46:52,880 --> 01:46:53,676 But... 2030 01:46:55,080 --> 01:46:57,754 Tam concerned with what choice you make. 2031 01:46:57,760 --> 01:46:58,716 [Julia] Ready! 2032 01:46:59,160 --> 01:47:00,150 Ah. 2033 01:47:02,000 --> 01:47:06,233 [Agnes] Ah, here are the helpmates. What would we do without them? 2034 01:47:08,200 --> 01:47:10,032 The coffee's instant, I'm afraid. 2035 01:47:10,040 --> 01:47:11,075 Couldn't find a bean. 2036 01:47:11,080 --> 01:47:13,196 Help must lock them up before they go to bed. 2037 01:47:13,800 --> 01:47:14,631 Pop? 2038 01:47:14,920 --> 01:47:16,752 Let's clear away some of the debris, huh? 2039 01:47:16,760 --> 01:47:17,830 Pop? 2040 01:47:19,040 --> 01:47:19,996 [Agnes] It's true! 2041 01:47:20,000 --> 01:47:23,436 We cannot drink our coffee amidst the sea of last night's glasses. 2042 01:47:23,440 --> 01:47:24,839 Tobias, do be a help. 2043 01:47:24,840 --> 01:47:28,310 I didn't have to do a thing. Thank God for pre-squeezed orange juice. 2044 01:47:28,960 --> 01:47:30,473 There, that's much better, isn't it? 2045 01:47:30,480 --> 01:47:32,073 [Tobias] Whatever you say, Julie. 2046 01:47:32,680 --> 01:47:34,193 Now, I'll play waiter. Sis? 2047 01:47:35,240 --> 01:47:36,833 Uh, thank you, Claire. 2048 01:47:37,640 --> 01:47:38,755 Little Julie? 2049 01:47:39,160 --> 01:47:42,073 Just put it down beside me, Claire. I'm pouring, you can see. 2050 01:47:43,040 --> 01:47:44,872 - Pop? - Thank you, Claire. 2051 01:47:46,800 --> 01:47:48,996 Well, yours is here, daughter, 2052 01:47:49,000 --> 01:47:51,355 when you've done with playing early-morning hostess. 2053 01:47:51,880 --> 01:47:53,359 Thank you, Claire. 2054 01:47:53,360 --> 01:47:54,839 Now, one for little Claire. 2055 01:47:55,920 --> 01:47:58,912 Why don't you have some vodka in it, Claire, to start the Sunday off? 2056 01:47:58,920 --> 01:48:01,275 Now, all of you! Sit down. Shut up! 2057 01:48:02,120 --> 01:48:03,235 I want to talk to you. 2058 01:48:03,240 --> 01:48:05,356 - Did I give you sugar, Mama? -[Tobias] Be quiet, Julia! 2059 01:48:05,760 --> 01:48:07,592 - My darling, yes-- -[Tobias] I want to talk to you. 2060 01:48:10,320 --> 01:48:11,640 Well, go on, Tobias. 2061 01:48:12,720 --> 01:48:14,518 You too, Claire, please. 2062 01:48:14,720 --> 01:48:15,630 Now. 2063 01:48:16,960 --> 01:48:18,951 Now, something happened here last night. 2064 01:48:18,960 --> 01:48:20,792 And I don't mean Julia's hysterics with the gun-- 2065 01:48:20,800 --> 01:48:22,438 -[Julia] If you were-- - Be quiet, Julia. 2066 01:48:22,440 --> 01:48:27,116 [Tobias] Although [ do mean that in part. I mean, Harry and Edna coming here. 2067 01:48:27,520 --> 01:48:29,352 - Hmm. - Yes, do you want to say something, Julia? 2068 01:48:29,360 --> 01:48:30,316 No? 2069 01:48:31,520 --> 01:48:32,635 I came down here... 2070 01:48:34,520 --> 01:48:36,318 and I sat all night, hours. 2071 01:48:36,680 --> 01:48:38,717 And I did something rather rare for this family. 2072 01:48:38,720 --> 01:48:40,870 I thought about something. 2073 01:48:41,600 --> 01:48:43,796 I'm sorry, Tobias, but that's not fair. 2074 01:48:43,800 --> 01:48:44,835 I thought. 2075 01:48:46,160 --> 01:48:49,152 I sat down here and thought about all of us and everything. 2076 01:48:50,480 --> 01:48:55,554 Now, Harry and Edna have come to us and asked for help. 2077 01:48:55,960 --> 01:48:58,520 - That is not true. - Be quiet, Julia. 2078 01:48:59,080 --> 01:49:01,913 That is not true! They have not asked for anything. 2079 01:49:02,480 --> 01:49:03,879 Please, Julia. 2080 01:49:04,040 --> 01:49:06,634 They have told. They've come in here and ordered. 2081 01:49:06,640 --> 01:49:07,710 Just like the family. 2082 01:49:08,200 --> 01:49:09,190 Asked. 2083 01:49:09,680 --> 01:49:11,591 If you're begging and you've got your pride. 2084 01:49:12,040 --> 01:49:14,634 If you're begging, then you may not have your pride. 2085 01:49:14,640 --> 01:49:16,074 I don't think that's true, Julia. 2086 01:49:16,080 --> 01:49:17,878 Oh, Julia wouldn't know. Ask me. 2087 01:49:17,880 --> 01:49:19,632 Those people have no right! 2088 01:49:19,640 --> 01:49:21,870 [Tobias] No right? All these years? 2089 01:49:22,360 --> 01:49:23,714 We've known them ever since-- 2090 01:49:23,720 --> 01:49:26,189 For God's sake, Julia, these people are our friends! 2091 01:49:27,160 --> 01:49:29,151 Then take them in. 2092 01:49:29,720 --> 01:49:32,109 Take these intruders in. 2093 01:49:32,640 --> 01:49:35,314 Look, baby, didn't you get the message on rights last night? 2094 01:49:36,040 --> 01:49:39,510 Didn't you learn about intrusion, what the score is, who belongs? 2095 01:49:40,560 --> 01:49:43,951 You bring those people in here, Father, and I'm leaving. 2096 01:49:43,960 --> 01:49:44,870 [Tobias] Yes? 2097 01:49:44,880 --> 01:49:47,190 I don't mean coming and going, Father. I mean as family. 2098 01:49:47,200 --> 01:49:49,760 Harry and Edna are our friends. 2099 01:49:50,040 --> 01:49:52,077 They are intruders! 2100 01:49:53,120 --> 01:49:56,272 Crisis. Sure brings out the best in us, eh, Tobe? 2101 01:49:57,240 --> 01:49:58,389 Family circle. 2102 01:49:59,080 --> 01:50:02,596 Julia standing there, asserting, perpetual brat! 2103 01:50:02,960 --> 01:50:04,439 Maybe ready to pull a Claire. 2104 01:50:05,440 --> 01:50:07,477 And poor Claire. Not much help there, either. 2105 01:50:08,480 --> 01:50:10,357 And look at Agnes, talky Agnes, 2106 01:50:10,360 --> 01:50:13,716 ruler of the roost, maitre d', and licensed wife. 2107 01:50:14,360 --> 01:50:15,316 Silent. 2108 01:50:15,800 --> 01:50:17,279 All cozy, coffee. 2109 01:50:17,680 --> 01:50:19,990 Thinking of the menu for the week. Planning. 2110 01:50:20,360 --> 01:50:21,395 Poor Tobe. 2111 01:50:21,800 --> 01:50:25,919 I was merely waiting until I'd heard and thought a little, 2112 01:50:25,920 --> 01:50:27,433 listened to the rest of you. 2113 01:50:27,440 --> 01:50:30,273 I thought someone should sit back, especially me. 2114 01:50:30,720 --> 01:50:34,395 Ruler of the roost, licensed wife, midnight nurse. 2115 01:50:36,080 --> 01:50:38,151 And I've been thinking about Harry and Edna. 2116 01:50:38,680 --> 01:50:40,318 About disease. 2117 01:50:41,720 --> 01:50:42,516 About what? 2118 01:50:43,440 --> 01:50:45,556 - About disease. - Oh, for God's sake. 2119 01:50:45,560 --> 01:50:47,995 About disease, or, if you like, the terror. 2120 01:50:48,000 --> 01:50:48,876 Terror? 2121 01:50:49,240 --> 01:50:51,754 Yes. The terror or the plague. 2122 01:50:51,760 --> 01:50:53,080 They're both the same. 2123 01:50:53,600 --> 01:50:57,195 Let me tell you something about disease. Mortal illness. 2124 01:50:57,960 --> 01:51:00,554 You either are immune to it or you fight it. 2125 01:51:02,400 --> 01:51:06,075 Ten centuries ago, and even less, the treatment was quite simple. 2126 01:51:06,720 --> 01:51:07,676 Burn them. 2127 01:51:08,560 --> 01:51:13,077 Burn their bodies, burn their houses, burn their clothes, 2128 01:51:13,400 --> 01:51:15,277 and move to another town... 2129 01:51:16,440 --> 01:51:17,760 if you were enlightened. 2130 01:51:17,760 --> 01:51:20,274 But now, with modern medicine, we, 2131 01:51:20,840 --> 01:51:23,514 we merely isolate, we quarantine, 2132 01:51:23,520 --> 01:51:25,989 we ostracize if we are not immune ourselves, 2133 01:51:26,000 --> 01:51:27,035 unless we are saints. 2134 01:51:27,720 --> 01:51:30,439 So your midnight vigil, darling, 2135 01:51:30,440 --> 01:51:37,153 your reasoning in the cold, pure hours have been over the patient 2136 01:51:37,640 --> 01:51:39,119 and not the disease. 2137 01:51:39,120 --> 01:51:39,996 It is not-- 2138 01:51:40,640 --> 01:51:45,191 Edna and Harry, who have come to us, dear friends, it is a disease. 2139 01:51:45,440 --> 01:51:48,751 Oh, for God's sake, Agnes, it is our friends. 2140 01:51:50,040 --> 01:51:51,235 What am [ supposed to do? 2141 01:51:51,240 --> 01:51:54,676 Say, "Look, you can't stay here, you two. You've got trouble. 2142 01:51:55,200 --> 01:51:57,874 You're friends and all, but you come in here clean.” 2143 01:52:00,520 --> 01:52:02,113 Well, I can't do that, no. 2144 01:52:03,800 --> 01:52:04,790 Agnes, for God's sake, 2145 01:52:04,800 --> 01:52:07,952 if that is all Harry and Edna have meant to us, then what about us? 2146 01:52:09,880 --> 01:52:12,520 When we talk to each other, what have we meant? Anything? 2147 01:52:14,680 --> 01:52:17,593 When we touch, when we promise, or say yes, 2148 01:52:18,480 --> 01:52:19,515 or please... 2149 01:52:21,480 --> 01:52:22,754 with ourselves... 2150 01:52:23,960 --> 01:52:26,474 have we meant, "Yes, but only if"? 2151 01:52:29,480 --> 01:52:31,994 If there's any condition, Agnes, then... 2152 01:52:33,280 --> 01:52:34,475 it's all been empty. 2153 01:52:35,480 --> 01:52:36,311 Perhaps. 2154 01:52:37,360 --> 01:52:40,318 But blood binds us. 2155 01:52:40,680 --> 01:52:44,753 Blood holds us together when we've no more deep affection 2156 01:52:44,760 --> 01:52:46,398 for ourselves than others. 2157 01:52:46,400 --> 01:52:51,395 I'm not asking you to choose between your family and our friends. 2158 01:52:51,400 --> 01:52:52,595 [Tobias] Yes, you are. 2159 01:52:52,920 --> 01:52:56,754 Tam merely saying that there is disease here. 2160 01:52:57,440 --> 01:53:00,512 And Task you, who in this family is immune? 2161 01:53:00,520 --> 01:53:02,989 I am, I've had it, and I'm still alive, I think. 2162 01:53:03,600 --> 01:53:05,398 Claire is the strongest of us all. 2163 01:53:05,400 --> 01:53:09,394 The walking wounded, off and on, the least susceptible. 2164 01:53:09,400 --> 01:53:12,040 But think about the rest of us. 2165 01:53:13,040 --> 01:53:14,269 Are we immune to it? 2166 01:53:15,160 --> 01:53:19,631 The plague, my darling, the terror sitting in the room upstairs. 2167 01:53:19,640 --> 01:53:21,677 Well, if we are, then on with it. 2168 01:53:21,680 --> 01:53:23,557 And if we are not, well, 2169 01:53:24,480 --> 01:53:25,550 why not be infected? 2170 01:53:25,560 --> 01:53:26,630 Why not die of it? 2171 01:53:26,640 --> 01:53:29,154 We're bound to die of something soon, or in a while, 2172 01:53:29,880 --> 01:53:30,711 or... 2173 01:53:32,040 --> 01:53:34,156 shall we burn them out? 2174 01:53:34,760 --> 01:53:39,914 Rid ourselves of it all and wait for the next invasion. 2175 01:53:42,880 --> 01:53:44,473 You decide, my darling. 2176 01:53:46,920 --> 01:53:49,070 - Good morning. -[Agnes] Ah! 2177 01:53:49,880 --> 01:53:52,315 - You're up. -[Claire] Good morning, Edna. Harry. 2178 01:53:52,320 --> 01:53:56,439 Harry would like to talk to Tobias. I think they should be alone, perhaps. 2179 01:53:56,440 --> 01:53:59,193 Of course. Uh, um... 2180 01:53:59,200 --> 01:54:01,510 Why don't we go in the kitchen, make a proper breakfast. 2181 01:54:01,520 --> 01:54:02,669 No, you don't need to. 2182 01:54:02,680 --> 01:54:04,830 Yes, yes, we want you to have your talk. 2183 01:54:05,160 --> 01:54:07,151 - Tobias? -[Tobias] Uh, yes. 2184 01:54:07,160 --> 01:54:08,230 We'll be nearby. 2185 01:54:09,240 --> 01:54:11,151 Uh, did you sleep well, Edna? 2186 01:54:11,160 --> 01:54:13,197 Did you sleep at all? [snorts] 2187 01:54:13,200 --> 01:54:15,589 I've never had that bed, but I know that when-- 2188 01:54:15,600 --> 01:54:17,591 -[door slams] - Well, look at them go. 2189 01:54:17,600 --> 01:54:19,238 They got out of here quick enough. 2190 01:54:19,800 --> 01:54:21,074 You'd think there was a... 2191 01:54:23,640 --> 01:54:24,596 Morning, Tobias. 2192 01:54:25,400 --> 01:54:27,550 -[Tobias] Morning, Harry. - Know what I'd like to do? 2193 01:54:28,560 --> 01:54:31,029 Something I've never done before in my life, 2194 01:54:31,040 --> 01:54:33,270 except once when I was about 24. 2195 01:54:33,840 --> 01:54:34,830 [Tobias] No, what? 2196 01:54:36,280 --> 01:54:37,554 Have a drink before breakfast. 2197 01:54:38,640 --> 01:54:40,358 - Is it all right? -[Tobias] Sure. 2198 01:54:50,760 --> 01:54:52,353 -[door closes] - Will you join me? 2199 01:54:53,040 --> 01:54:54,474 Tobias) I guess so, yes. 2200 01:54:55,480 --> 01:54:57,039 There isn't any ice. 2201 01:54:57,560 --> 01:55:01,633 Well, uh, then just whiskey, neat. 2202 01:55:01,640 --> 01:55:04,598 - Uh, brandy. - Oh, God, no. [laughs] 2203 01:55:04,760 --> 01:55:06,910 - Whiskey, then. - Yes, thank you. 2204 01:55:10,080 --> 01:55:14,358 - Well, here's to youth again. - Yep. 2205 01:55:19,920 --> 01:55:21,752 Doesn't taste too bad in the morning, does it? 2206 01:55:21,760 --> 01:55:25,230 No, but I've, I've had some before. 2207 01:55:25,240 --> 01:55:26,150 When? 2208 01:55:26,400 --> 01:55:30,030 Earlier. Oh, 3:00 or 4:00, while you all were asleep, 2209 01:55:30,040 --> 01:55:31,633 or whatever you were doing. 2210 01:55:31,640 --> 01:55:32,869 Hmm, you were awake, huh? 2211 01:55:32,880 --> 01:55:34,473 - Yes. -I slept a little. 2212 01:55:37,000 --> 01:55:39,355 - God. - What? 2213 01:55:39,360 --> 01:55:40,953 You know what I did last night? 2214 01:55:41,880 --> 01:55:42,676 No. 2215 01:55:43,680 --> 01:55:46,149 I got out of bed, and I crawled in with Edna. 2216 01:55:47,160 --> 01:55:48,116 Yes. 2217 01:55:48,440 --> 01:55:50,397 She held me, let me stay a while. 2218 01:55:52,120 --> 01:55:57,115 Then I could see she wanted to, and I didn't, so... [ went back. 2219 01:55:57,640 --> 01:56:01,474 [laughs] It was funny. 2220 01:56:02,680 --> 01:56:03,476 Yeah. 2221 01:56:05,200 --> 01:56:06,156 Do, uh... 2222 01:56:07,200 --> 01:56:08,156 you, uh... 2223 01:56:11,080 --> 01:56:12,559 like Edna, Tobias? 2224 01:56:12,560 --> 01:56:14,631 Why, sure, I like her, Harry. 2225 01:56:16,080 --> 01:56:17,115 Now, Tobias. 2226 01:56:18,480 --> 01:56:19,550 About last night... 2227 01:56:20,600 --> 01:56:22,716 and yesterday and our coming here. 2228 01:56:23,120 --> 01:56:25,839 - I was talking to Edna about it, -I sat down here and thought about that. 2229 01:56:25,840 --> 01:56:28,434 I said-- Sorry. 2230 01:56:28,440 --> 01:56:30,795 I said I sat down here and thought about it, 2231 01:56:30,800 --> 01:56:33,679 and I talked to Agnes, too, before you all came down, and... 2232 01:56:34,880 --> 01:56:36,917 God, [ don't know, Harry. 2233 01:56:37,400 --> 01:56:40,313 We can make it if you want us to. I can. I mean, I think I can. 2234 01:56:41,480 --> 01:56:42,515 No, we're... 2235 01:56:44,680 --> 01:56:45,715 We're going, Tobias. 2236 01:56:45,720 --> 01:56:47,518 I don't know what help. I don't know how-- 2237 01:56:47,520 --> 01:56:49,238 -I said we're going. - Yes, but... 2238 01:56:52,160 --> 01:56:54,276 - You-You're going? - Sure, 2239 01:56:55,360 --> 01:56:56,156 But, but... 2240 01:56:57,560 --> 01:56:59,915 You can try it here. Or we can. 2241 01:57:00,280 --> 01:57:03,432 No, Harry, you can't go back there. You've got to-- 2242 01:57:03,440 --> 01:57:06,478 Got to what? Sell the house? Buy another? Move to the club? 2243 01:57:09,840 --> 01:57:10,875 You came here. 2244 01:57:13,680 --> 01:57:15,000 Do you want us here, Tobias? 2245 01:57:17,200 --> 01:57:18,110 You came here. 2246 01:57:18,920 --> 01:57:19,910 Do you want us here? 2247 01:57:21,600 --> 01:57:23,432 You came here. 2248 01:57:23,440 --> 01:57:25,636 Do you want us here? 2249 01:57:27,760 --> 01:57:28,750 Edna and I... 2250 01:57:31,120 --> 01:57:32,952 Oh, there's so much over the dam. 2251 01:57:34,640 --> 01:57:39,271 So many disappointments, evasions. [ guess lies, maybe. 2252 01:57:40,880 --> 01:57:44,350 So much we remember we wanted once. 2253 01:57:47,240 --> 01:57:49,800 So little that we've settled for. 2254 01:57:51,600 --> 01:57:55,036 We talk. Sometimes, mostly no. 2255 01:57:55,040 --> 01:57:58,078 We don't like. Sure, we like, but... 2256 01:58:00,600 --> 01:58:04,798 I've always been a little... shy, gruff. 2257 01:58:05,760 --> 01:58:08,274 You know, shy. 2258 01:58:10,680 --> 01:58:11,590 Um... 2259 01:58:13,480 --> 01:58:16,916 Edna isn't happy. I suppose that's it. 2260 01:58:20,040 --> 01:58:23,078 We like you... a-and Agnes. 2261 01:58:23,440 --> 01:58:26,159 Well, and Claire and Julia, too, but... 2262 01:58:28,480 --> 01:58:29,436 Oh. 2263 01:58:31,680 --> 01:58:33,273 I guess I mean... 2264 01:58:36,440 --> 01:58:39,478 I like you, and you like me, I think. 2265 01:58:41,880 --> 01:58:43,757 And you're our best friends. 2266 01:58:47,680 --> 01:58:50,957 But I told Edna upstairs, I said... 2267 01:58:53,520 --> 01:58:54,351 "Edna... 2268 01:58:55,600 --> 01:58:57,637 what if they had come to us?" 2269 01:59:00,040 --> 01:59:01,235 And she didn't say anything. 2270 01:59:03,520 --> 01:59:04,749 And I said, "Edna... 2271 01:59:06,520 --> 01:59:09,114 if they had come to us like this... 2272 01:59:10,640 --> 01:59:14,349 and even though we don't have Julia and all that... 2273 01:59:17,360 --> 01:59:18,236 Edna... 2274 01:59:21,200 --> 01:59:22,349 I wouldn't take them in. 2275 01:59:24,560 --> 01:59:28,394 I wouldn't take them in, Edna. They don't have any right." 2276 01:59:32,240 --> 01:59:33,230 She said... 2277 01:59:34,920 --> 01:59:36,194 "Yes, I know, they... 2278 01:59:37,840 --> 01:59:39,194 wouldn't have the right." 2279 01:59:43,080 --> 01:59:43,911 Toby? 2280 01:59:46,280 --> 01:59:47,509 I wouldn't let you stay. 2281 01:59:50,600 --> 01:59:51,396 You... 2282 01:59:54,280 --> 01:59:56,317 You don't want us, do you, Toby? 2283 01:59:58,440 --> 01:59:59,635 You don't want us here. 2284 02:00:01,160 --> 02:00:02,070 What? 2285 02:00:03,520 --> 02:00:04,919 What do I want? 2286 02:00:05,400 --> 02:00:07,710 [laughs] 2287 02:00:09,760 --> 02:00:11,114 Do I wan? 2288 02:00:12,520 --> 02:00:16,115 Oh. [laughs] 2289 02:00:16,920 --> 02:00:18,672 Do I want you here? 2290 02:00:20,080 --> 02:00:21,070 [laughs] 2291 02:00:22,680 --> 02:00:23,715 You come in here, 2292 02:00:23,720 --> 02:00:25,791 you come in here with your wife and with your terror. 2293 02:00:27,640 --> 02:00:30,473 And you ask me, "Do I want you here?" 2294 02:00:32,920 --> 02:00:37,676 Yes. Of course I want you here. I built this house. 2295 02:00:38,240 --> 02:00:39,992 I want you in it. 2296 02:00:41,360 --> 02:00:43,237 I want your plague. 2297 02:00:46,360 --> 02:00:49,239 You have some terror with you? Bring it in. 2298 02:00:50,400 --> 02:00:51,310 Bring it in! 2299 02:00:54,680 --> 02:00:57,240 You got the entrée, buddy. You don't need a key. 2300 02:00:58,040 --> 02:01:00,554 You got the entrée, buddy. Forty years. 2301 02:01:04,920 --> 02:01:06,718 And you don't need to ask me, Harry. 2302 02:01:08,480 --> 02:01:11,359 [chuckles] Want, ask. 2303 02:01:14,320 --> 02:01:16,709 You come for dinner, don't you? Come for cocktails. 2304 02:01:16,720 --> 02:01:21,954 See you at the club on Saturdays, and you talk and lie and laugh with us 2305 02:01:21,960 --> 02:01:23,917 and pat old Agnes on the hand 2306 02:01:23,920 --> 02:01:26,275 and you say, "Don't know what old Tobe would do without her.” 2307 02:01:26,280 --> 02:01:29,238 And we've known each other all these years, 2308 02:01:29,240 --> 02:01:30,913 and we love each other, don't we? 2309 02:01:32,440 --> 02:01:34,556 [laughs] Don't we? 2310 02:01:36,800 --> 02:01:38,279 Don't we love each other? 2311 02:01:43,280 --> 02:01:46,079 Doesn't friendship grow to that? To love? 2312 02:01:49,640 --> 02:01:51,597 Doesn't 40 years amount to anything? 2313 02:01:53,520 --> 02:01:55,830 We've cast our lot together, boy. We're friends. 2314 02:01:56,920 --> 02:02:00,709 We've been through lots of thick or thin together. 2315 02:02:02,800 --> 02:02:04,120 Which is it, boy? 2316 02:02:04,960 --> 02:02:06,871 Which is it, boy? Thick? Thin? 2317 02:02:07,480 --> 02:02:10,199 Well, whatever it is, we've been through it, boy. 2318 02:02:13,960 --> 02:02:17,396 [laughs] You don't have to ask. 2319 02:02:30,800 --> 02:02:32,677 I like you, Harry. [ like... 2320 02:02:34,840 --> 02:02:35,910 I really do. 2321 02:02:36,280 --> 02:02:41,195 I don't... like Edna, but that's not half the point. I like you fine. 2322 02:02:44,600 --> 02:02:49,356 I find my liking you has limits, but those are my... 2323 02:02:51,040 --> 02:02:52,792 limits, not yours. 2324 02:02:56,680 --> 02:02:57,670 [scoffs] 2325 02:02:59,840 --> 02:03:02,229 The fact I like you well enough, but not enough, 2326 02:03:02,240 --> 02:03:05,312 that best friend in the world should be something else, 2327 02:03:05,320 --> 02:03:09,234 more, well, that's my poverty. 2328 02:03:09,240 --> 02:03:10,196 So... 2329 02:03:11,560 --> 02:03:13,676 bring your wife, bring your terror, 2330 02:03:15,480 --> 02:03:16,834 Bring your plague. 2331 02:03:20,760 --> 02:03:24,310 - Bring your plague! -[door opens] 2332 02:03:27,600 --> 02:03:29,716 I don't want you here. 2333 02:03:30,960 --> 02:03:32,155 You asked. 2334 02:03:32,960 --> 02:03:34,189 No, I don't! 2335 02:03:36,200 --> 02:03:38,555 But, by Christ, you're gonna stay here. 2336 02:03:38,560 --> 02:03:41,359 You've got the right. The right. You know the word? 2337 02:03:41,360 --> 02:03:42,316 The right. 2338 02:03:44,120 --> 02:03:46,509 You've put nearly 40 years in it, baby. So have I. 2339 02:03:49,000 --> 02:03:50,593 And if it's nothing, I don't give a damn. 2340 02:03:50,600 --> 02:03:52,955 You've got the right to be here. You've earned it. 2341 02:03:54,680 --> 02:03:58,913 And, by God, you're gonna take it! Do you hear me? 2342 02:04:02,720 --> 02:04:05,519 You bring your terror and you come in here... 2343 02:04:06,560 --> 02:04:07,880 and you live with us. 2344 02:04:11,560 --> 02:04:15,633 You bring your plague and stay with us. 2345 02:04:17,560 --> 02:04:20,678 I don't want you here. 2346 02:04:21,640 --> 02:04:23,517 I don't love you. 2347 02:04:24,600 --> 02:04:27,399 But, by God, you stay! 2348 02:04:30,800 --> 02:04:31,995 Stay. 2349 02:04:36,960 --> 02:04:37,995 Stay. 2350 02:04:41,760 --> 02:04:42,670 Stay. 2351 02:04:46,760 --> 02:04:49,434 Please stay? 2352 02:04:53,400 --> 02:04:55,152 Stay. [cries] 2353 02:04:58,160 --> 02:04:59,639 Please? 2354 02:05:01,480 --> 02:05:02,515 Stay? 2355 02:05:04,600 --> 02:05:07,433 [sobs] 2356 02:05:16,440 --> 02:05:19,637 Harry, will you bring our bags down? 2357 02:05:19,640 --> 02:05:22,280 Maybe Tobias will help you. Will you ask him? 2358 02:05:22,280 --> 02:05:23,190 [Harry] Sure. 2359 02:05:23,720 --> 02:05:25,552 Would you help us with the bags, old man? 2360 02:05:26,200 --> 02:05:27,270 Upstairs. 2361 02:05:44,640 --> 02:05:48,076 Poor Harry, he's not a callous man, for all his bluff. 2362 02:05:49,920 --> 02:05:52,833 He came to my bed last night, got in with me. L... 2363 02:05:53,880 --> 02:05:58,670 I let him stay and talk. I... I let him think I wanted to make love. 2364 02:05:59,560 --> 02:06:04,191 It pleases him, I think, to know he would be wanted if he... 2365 02:06:05,240 --> 02:06:07,550 He said to me... 2366 02:06:07,560 --> 02:06:11,793 He lay there in the dark with me, this man, and he said to me, 2367 02:06:12,280 --> 02:06:14,556 very softly, like a little boy, rather... 2368 02:06:16,080 --> 02:06:17,070 "Do they love us? 2369 02:06:17,960 --> 02:06:19,314 Do they love us, Edna?" 2370 02:06:20,920 --> 02:06:22,399 I let a silence go by. 2371 02:06:23,560 --> 02:06:24,311 "Well... 2372 02:06:25,640 --> 02:06:28,200 as much as we love them, I should think." 2373 02:06:30,160 --> 02:06:32,993 The hair on his chest is very gray and soft. 2374 02:06:34,360 --> 02:06:35,191 Would... 2375 02:06:36,480 --> 02:06:39,154 "Would we let them stay, Edna?" 2376 02:06:39,680 --> 02:06:41,751 Almost a whisper, then still again. 2377 02:06:44,480 --> 02:06:48,030 Well, I hope he told Tobias something simple. 2378 02:06:48,040 --> 02:06:52,352 Something to help. We mustn't press our luck, must we? 2379 02:06:52,640 --> 02:06:53,550 Test. 2380 02:06:54,640 --> 02:06:57,314 It's sad to come to the end of it, isn't it? 2381 02:06:57,960 --> 02:06:58,916 Nearly the end. 2382 02:06:59,480 --> 02:07:03,474 So much more of it gone by than left, and still not know, 2383 02:07:03,880 --> 02:07:08,431 still not have learned the boundaries, what we may not do, 2384 02:07:08,440 --> 02:07:10,238 not ask for fear of... 2385 02:07:11,400 --> 02:07:12,515 looking in a mirror. 2386 02:07:13,240 --> 02:07:15,390 - We shouldn't have come. - Ah, Edna. 2387 02:07:15,760 --> 02:07:18,593 No, for our own sake, our own lack. 2388 02:07:20,160 --> 02:07:22,470 It's sad to know you've gone through it all, 2389 02:07:22,480 --> 02:07:24,790 or most of it, without... 2390 02:07:26,880 --> 02:07:29,998 That the one body you've wrapped your arms around, 2391 02:07:30,000 --> 02:07:33,595 the only skin you've ever known is your own. 2392 02:07:34,640 --> 02:07:38,793 And that it's dry... and not warm. 2393 02:07:42,400 --> 02:07:43,913 What will you do, Julia? 2394 02:07:44,560 --> 02:07:45,834 Will you be seeing Douglas? 2395 02:07:46,560 --> 02:07:49,871 I haven't thought about it. I don't know. I doubt it. 2396 02:07:52,640 --> 02:07:53,596 Time. 2397 02:07:55,200 --> 02:07:58,830 Time happens, [ suppose, to people. 2398 02:07:59,520 --> 02:08:02,672 Everything becomes too late, finally. 2399 02:08:03,000 --> 02:08:06,231 You know it's going on up on the hill. 2400 02:08:07,120 --> 02:08:09,680 You can see the dust and hear the cries. 2401 02:08:10,840 --> 02:08:11,955 But you wait. 2402 02:08:14,440 --> 02:08:16,158 And time happens. 2403 02:08:16,800 --> 02:08:21,033 When you do go, sword, shield, finally... 2404 02:08:23,040 --> 02:08:24,997 there's nothing there... 2405 02:08:26,360 --> 02:08:27,316 but rust... 2406 02:08:28,600 --> 02:08:29,954 bones. 2407 02:08:31,720 --> 02:08:32,869 And the wind. 2408 02:08:34,640 --> 02:08:39,555 [chuckles] I'm sorry about the coffee, Edna. 2409 02:08:41,160 --> 02:08:44,835 The help must steal the beans. 2410 02:08:44,840 --> 02:08:48,470 The maids-- Or take them with them when they-- when they go to bed. 2411 02:08:48,480 --> 02:08:50,994 [Edna] Oh, coffee and wine, they're much the same with me. 2412 02:08:51,000 --> 02:08:52,638 I can't tell good from bad. 2413 02:08:52,640 --> 02:08:53,710 [Agnes laughs] 2414 02:08:53,720 --> 02:08:56,917 Would anybody, besides Claire, care for a drink? 2415 02:08:56,920 --> 02:08:59,230 Oh, oh, really, Claire. 2416 02:08:59,240 --> 02:09:01,470 - Edna? - Oh, good heavens, Claire, thank you, no. 2417 02:09:01,480 --> 02:09:02,595 Julia? 2418 02:09:02,600 --> 02:09:04,716 All right, Twill. Thank you. 2419 02:09:04,720 --> 02:09:06,677 [Edna] I think I hear the men. 2420 02:09:07,400 --> 02:09:09,710 [Tobias] We'll just take these down to the car now. 2421 02:09:11,880 --> 02:09:15,839 [Edna] Thank you, Agnes. You've been, well... Just thank you. 2422 02:09:16,560 --> 02:09:17,391 We'll be seeing you. 2423 02:09:17,840 --> 02:09:20,719 Oh, yes, well, don't be strangers. 2424 02:09:20,720 --> 02:09:23,234 [Edna] How could I be? Our lives are the same. 2425 02:09:24,280 --> 02:09:26,237 Julia, think a little. 2426 02:09:26,240 --> 02:09:29,312 Hmm. I will, Edna. I'm fond of marriage. 2427 02:09:29,320 --> 02:09:30,390 Darling Claire. 2428 02:09:30,920 --> 02:09:33,150 - Do be good. -[Claire] I'll try to be quiet. 2429 02:09:33,160 --> 02:09:34,434 [Edna chuckles] 2430 02:09:39,040 --> 02:09:41,873 I'm going into town on Thursday, Agnes. Would you like to come? 2431 02:09:42,720 --> 02:09:47,191 Well, I-I-I don't think so, Edna. I've so much to do. 2432 02:09:47,880 --> 02:09:50,520 Well, perhaps another week. 2433 02:09:50,520 --> 02:09:52,557 Oh, yes, we'll do it. 2434 02:09:53,280 --> 02:09:55,112 -[Tobias] All done? -[Harry] All set. 2435 02:09:55,120 --> 02:09:56,679 [Agnes] Harry, my darling. 2436 02:09:57,160 --> 02:09:59,390 - Take good care. - Thank you, Agnes, and-- 2437 02:10:00,200 --> 02:10:01,474 You too, Julia. 2438 02:10:02,000 --> 02:10:04,310 You... be good. 2439 02:10:04,320 --> 02:10:05,276 Good-bye, Harry. 2440 02:10:05,840 --> 02:10:07,751 Bye, Harry. See you around. 2441 02:10:07,760 --> 02:10:08,716 Sure thing, Claire. 2442 02:10:09,040 --> 02:10:10,110 [Edna] Bye, Tobias. 2443 02:10:10,120 --> 02:10:11,030 [Edna, Tobias laugh] 2444 02:10:11,040 --> 02:10:12,553 - Thank you. - Bye, Edna. 2445 02:10:12,840 --> 02:10:13,875 Thank you, old man. 2446 02:10:16,200 --> 02:10:17,235 Please stay. 2447 02:10:17,840 --> 02:10:18,716 See you at the club. 2448 02:10:19,840 --> 02:10:20,716 Well, Edna? 2449 02:10:26,960 --> 02:10:28,234 Drive carefully. 2450 02:10:28,560 --> 02:10:30,551 - It's Sunday. -[Edna] Bye! 2451 02:10:30,560 --> 02:10:32,915 -[Harry] Thank you! -[car engine starts] 2452 02:10:34,000 --> 02:10:35,673 [car engine rumbles] 2453 02:10:42,040 --> 02:10:44,270 [Agnes] Well, here we all are. 2454 02:10:45,240 --> 02:10:46,753 You all right, my darling? 2455 02:10:47,200 --> 02:10:47,996 Sure. 2456 02:10:48,440 --> 02:10:51,831 Your daughter has taken to drinking in the early morning, 2457 02:10:51,840 --> 02:10:53,956 - I hope you'll notice. - Oh. [laughs] 2458 02:10:54,640 --> 02:10:56,995 Thad one here somewhere, one with Harry. 2459 02:10:57,480 --> 02:10:58,390 Oh, here it is. 2460 02:10:58,400 --> 02:11:00,835 I would seem to have three early-morning drinkers. 2461 02:11:01,200 --> 02:11:02,554 I hope it won't become a club. 2462 02:11:02,720 --> 02:11:05,109 We'd have to get a license, would we not? 2463 02:11:05,120 --> 02:11:07,396 Just think of it as very late at night. [chuckles] 2464 02:11:07,400 --> 02:11:08,470 All right, Twill. 2465 02:11:10,360 --> 02:11:11,191 I tried. 2466 02:11:13,400 --> 02:11:14,720 Twas honest. 2467 02:11:17,000 --> 02:11:17,956 Didn't I? 2468 02:11:19,320 --> 02:11:20,276 Wasn't I? 2469 02:11:21,680 --> 02:11:24,957 You were very honest, Father, and you tried. 2470 02:11:26,960 --> 02:11:28,792 Didn't I try, Claire? Wasn't I honest? 2471 02:11:29,800 --> 02:11:31,757 Sure you were. You tried. 2472 02:11:34,800 --> 02:11:36,313 I'm sorry. I... 2473 02:11:37,360 --> 02:11:38,680 Apologize. 2474 02:11:41,680 --> 02:11:44,320 What I find most astonishing, 2475 02:11:44,880 --> 02:11:49,351 aside from my belief that I will one day lose my mind, but when? 2476 02:11:49,360 --> 02:11:52,352 Never, I begin to think, as the years go by. 2477 02:11:52,360 --> 02:11:56,149 Or that I'll not know if it happens or maybe even has. 2478 02:11:56,920 --> 02:12:03,269 What I find most astonishing, I think, is the wonder of daylight, 2479 02:12:03,640 --> 02:12:04,755 of the sun. 2480 02:12:05,240 --> 02:12:08,995 All the centuries, millenniums, all the history. 2481 02:12:09,000 --> 02:12:11,276 I wonder if that's why we sleep at night. 2482 02:12:11,720 --> 02:12:14,030 Because the darkness still frightens us. 2483 02:12:14,920 --> 02:12:17,275 They say we sleep to let the demons out, 2484 02:12:18,040 --> 02:12:20,395 to let the mind go raving mad, 2485 02:12:20,720 --> 02:12:22,836 our dreams and nightmares, 2486 02:12:23,360 --> 02:12:27,479 all our logic gone awry, the dark side of our reason. 2487 02:12:27,840 --> 02:12:29,831 And when the daylight comes again, 2488 02:12:30,720 --> 02:12:33,234 comes order within. 2489 02:12:36,040 --> 02:12:36,916 Poor... 2490 02:12:38,480 --> 02:12:40,278 Edna and Harry. 2491 02:12:41,000 --> 02:12:41,796 Well... 2492 02:12:42,840 --> 02:12:44,433 they're safely gone. 2493 02:12:46,880 --> 02:12:49,838 And we'll all forget quite soon. 2494 02:12:52,680 --> 02:12:53,715 Come now. 2495 02:12:55,680 --> 02:12:57,751 We can begin the day.185009

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