All language subtitles for The.Little.Foxes.1941

- Good morning.
- Morning, mose.

Never feel too weary to pray

Get. Get out from under there.

I done told you once.
How many times I got to tell you?

You come back here again.

Morning, ma'am.

Get! Get!

- Morning, Harold.
- Morning, miss zan.

What does your papa write you
from Baltimore?

- He writes that he feels better.
- That's good.

Write him my greetings, and tell him
don't worry about the brass.

I'm keeping his name fine and clean.

- Thanks, I will.
- Mm-mm.

Those crabs will make
fine eatings, Addie.

They better. We got high-tone
company for dinner tonight.

- Bye, miss zan.
- Bye, Harold.

Hello, Addie. Hello, zan.
You're out early.

- We've been to buy crabs.
- We're having gumbo tonight.

Oh, gonna give Mr. Marshall of Chicago
a real Southern dinner.

How's your mama, Mr. David?

She's fine, thank you, Addie.

Zan, she says your petticoats
are ready to be fitted.

She said I shouldn't say "petticoats."
I should say "underskirts" or keep still.

You shouldn't be saying "petticoats"
to me.

But you know all about them. Leo says
you know almost as much as he does.

I wouldn't take your cousin Leo's word
for anything, zan. Nobody else does.

You don't like Leo, do you?
You don't like anybody in my family.

Yes, yes I do.

There's one person I'm mighty fond of.

- Yes?
- Mr. David.

It's your papa.

Don't you laugh at him, Addie.
He's beneath notice.

I'll take you on a picnic Sunday,
if you bring your own lunch.

Whoa!

- Good morning, darling.
- Good morning, aunt birdie.

- Is your headache all better?
- Yes, it's all gone.

- Good morning, miss birdie.
- Good morning, Addie.

I'm gonna stop a minute.
You drive the horse in.

Your mama's waiting to have breakfast.
She ain't nobody to keep waiting.

All right, Addie.

Aunt birdie, guess where we drove
this morning?

To lionnet. Uh-huh.

Was it beautiful? Of course it was.
It's always beautiful this time of year.

Aunt birdie, I've learned the schubert
for tonight.

I can play the whole thing
except the middle.

Can't we skip the middle?
Maybe Mr. Marshall won't notice.

No, we couldn't. I'll come down and
play it through for you. You wait now.

Your mama says that Mr. Marshall's
a very educated, cultured gentleman.

I'm sure he'd notice. Now, watch.

Two and one and two and one and...

Hey there!

Ow!

Good morning, uncle Ben. Well...

I've been awakened by many things
but never by a concert.

Is this musical hour?

Good morning, Ben.
I didn't realise. I'm so sorry.

Aunt birdie is showing me how to play
a piece for tonight.

I guess I can't complain then.

- Alexandra, breakfast is ready.
- Yes, mama.

Stop the vulgar shouting
out of windows.

Morning, Regina.

Really, Ben.

You look very silly in your nightgown.
You shouldn't show yourself.

That's why I never got married.

I'll come for breakfast
with you and Alexandra.

No, don't. I hate conversation
before I've had something hot.

What does your papa say?

"I still miss you, zannie, more than
I can say. But you're not to worry.

I'm not lonesome, and everybody here
at the hospital has been very kind."

Of course he addresses the letters
to me to make me think I'm grown up...

- The way he used to when I was little.
- You don't have to explain to me.

- Cal.
- Yessum.

Can I have that bottle of port
this evening?

- Yessum.
- The one I've been saving.

That Mr. Marshall, he must be
a mighty honoured guest.

- Cal, the grits is cold. Take it back.
- Yessum.

The grits didn't hold their heat!
The grits didn't hold their heat!

The Danvers girl is getting married
in Memphis.

Is that so? I knew her mother.
She stayed with me once at lionnet.

She was a Calhoun, you know,
and the calhouns were kin of ours.

Mama said she was too thin
for the styles, but I didn't think so.

I thought she was very pretty.

Birdie, be very pleasant
to Mr. Marshall at dinner.

Oh, of course, Oscar.

- No need to say too much.
- No.

If he should happen to ask
about your family...

The way people are interested in
where other people come from...

You might tell him
who they were.

He'll probably recognise the names.

Good name is always useful.

Remember that, Leo.

Yes, sir?

Oh, I mean, I heard you, sir.
Good name's always useful.

Some more coffee, David?

If it's ready, mama. I've got to get back
to the paper in a few minutes.

Well, the medium-size bear
and the little bear.

You don't like the hubbards much,
do you?

- Mama, you're a high-tone guesser.
- Heh-heh.

- Where you going?
- I'm walking you to the store.

I've been walking there many years
without your help.

Get back to the bank.

- Leo.
- Yes, sir?

- Mind you do a good day's work.
- Yes, sir, I always do.

- Hello, Harold. Howdy, Joe.
- Morning, Mr. Leo.

Morning, Mr. manders.
Well, what can I do for you today?

- You can do one thing, Leo.
- Yes, sir, what's that?

Try keeping awake all day.

- Good morning, Mr. Ben.
- Good morning to you, miss Hannah.

And here comes the big bear.

Now the sun can really shine,
the day has begun.

Mr. Ben looks
mighty pleased this morning.

And no wonder. "Our leading citizen,
Mr. Benjamin Hubbard...

Wwill confer with Mr. Marshall
of Chicago...

About building a cotton mill here.

Mr. Ben will advance admirable reasons
for bringing the mill to our town.

But the real one is our justly
renowned average wage...

Which ranks as the lowest
in the country."

- Are they gonna print that in the paper?
- No.

Mr. William Marshall, Chicago
industrialist and opera patron...

Is in our midst to supper
with the hubbards and giddens...

Who will show him what our famous
Southern hospitality is like.

- That's pretty.
- And that's the way they'll print it.

Ow!

Hold still, zan.

You had pretty hair when you was little.

You was a mighty pretty little girl.

Addie, will anybody think
I'm pretty now?

Someday some fool of a man will,
I reckon.

Seems there's always somebody
for somebody.

But you'll do, baby.

You're too young
to worry about such things, Alexandra.

You're going to have all the things
I used to want when I was your age.

Addie, make the biscuits for dinner
yourself tonight.

Be sure the coffee is strong
and the wine is cold.

Don't you worry, miss Regina.
The dinner will go fine tonight.

They used to go to Europe every year,
Mr. Marshall.

Imagine going all the way to Europe
just to listen to music.

And once mama met Mr. Wagner,
the composer, you know.

And Mrs. Wagner gave mama and papa
a signed programme.

- And another time they...
- Ahem. Birdie.

Oh, no, thank you, Cal.

It's remarkable to me how you Southern
aristocrats have kept together...

Kept what belonged to you.
We're not aristocrats.

Our brother's wife
is the only one who is.

- You make great distinctions.
- They've been made for us.

- Now you take birdie's family.
- They owned the plantation lionnet.

- You've probably heard of it.
- Beautiful. Best cotton land I ever saw.

My mother's grandfather
was governor before the war.

They had their day, those folks,
and a great day too.

Cloth from Paris,
horses you can't raise anymore...

- Darkies to lift their fingers for them.
- We were good to our people.

Everybody knew that.
We were better to them...

When the war comes these gentlemen
leave the cotton and the women to rot.

My father was killed in the war.

He was a fine soldier, Mr. Marshall,
and a fine man.

- Yes, yes.
- Yes, birdie, certainly, a famous soldier.

That's not the tale I'm telling
Mr. Marshall, birdie.

Well, sir, the war ends.

Lionnet is almost ruined,
and the sons finish ruining it.

Why? Because the Southern aristocrat
could adapt himself to nothing.

Too high-toned to try.

- It's difficult to learn new ways.
- You're right, sir, it is difficult.

But maybe that's why it's profitable.

Our grandfather and our father
learned the new ways...

Learned to make them pay.

They were in trade.

Others, like birdie's family,
looked down on them.

Well, to make a long story short,
lionnet now belongs to us.

Twenty years ago, we took over their
land, their cotton and their daughter.

Ben, you are boring Mr. Marshall
with these ancient family tales.

I hope not. I'm just making an important
point for our future business partner.

You see, Mr. Marshall...

Mr. Marshall,
will you try a very old port?

I've been saving it for a special
occasion. Come, Alexandra.

We feel a man ain't only
in business for what he can get out it...

- May 1?
- Thank you. You're most polite.

The point is it's got to give him some
satisfaction, something here.

Money ain't all, not by three shots.

Really? I always thought it meant
a great deal.

So did I, Mr. Marshall.
Ha, ha, ha.

You see, Mr. Marshall,
I've always contended...

What's the matter with you?

First you chatter like a magpie,
now you sulk like a schoolgirl.

What am I doing?
I'm not doing anything.

You've had too much wine. Get yourself
in hand, and stop acting like a fool.

You look pretty tonight, miss birdie,
and young.

Me, young?

Birdie, Mr. Marshall wants
you and Alexandra to play for him.

Yes, Regina. I'm coming.

You don't have to convince me.
I'm sure you're right for the deal.

You want the mill here, I want it here.

- It's not my business why you want it.
- To bring the machine to the cotton,

and not the cotton to the machine.

- Henry, serve the port.
- My reason's more simple.

I wanna make money.
And I believe I can make it on you.

However, I have no objection
to more high-minded reasons.

- Mr. Marshall, I feel that...
- Birdie.

- We're ready.
- Yes, Regina.

You know, Mr. Marshall...

Thank you.
You both played charmingly.

My wife had the very best teacher.

- Those folks had the best of everything.
- I must be leaving for my train.

Thank you so very much.

- I'm sorry you can't stay. Come again.
- Thank you.

- The children will drive you.
- Leo.

Yes sir. I'll drive you down, sir.

- Come on, zan.
- Careful how you drive.

- Goodbye, Mrs. Hubbard.
- Goodbye, sir.

Fill them up, Oscar.

You promised to let me
show you Chicago.

Do I have to make you promise again?

I promise again.

- Well...
- Wait, before you leave, sir.

Down here, we have a strange custom.

We drink the last drink for a toast.

That's to prove the southerner's
on his feet for the last drink.

I give you the firm of Hubbard sons
and Marshall cotton mills...

And to it, a long and prosperous life.

Hubbard sons and Marshall.

- What y'all kids want?
- A little biscuit with a little gravy on it?

Somebody write you a golden
letter and tell you we got gravy?

- We got told.
- Mr. David Hewitt tell us. Say you got...

- High-tone company.
- Lots of meat and gravy.

Go on, get. Ain't my food to give away.

"Feed the hungry," the lord said.
"Feed the hungry."

Give them some supper, belle.

Miss Regina, she says supplies
going mighty fast around here...

And she ain't the stingy kind.

A little bit here and there,
she don't mind.

- But feeding the whole town.
- Stop fretting, belle. Tell her I did it.

Here. You children keep quiet.

Where did the lord say that
about feeding the hungry? What book?

I don't know, but if he didn't,
he should've.

Go ahead.

Don't the children
make a handsome pair?

Leo, you ride here.
Let John do the driving.

Goodbye to you, sir,
and a pleasant journey to you.

Giddap.

Well, Ben, you did it.

Looks like it might be, we did.

Looks like it? Ho, ho! Don't pretend.

You look like a cat
that's been licking the cream.

- Let's all have a drink to celebrate.
- The children made a handsome couple.

Yes, Oscar, you said that before.

Yes, sir, it's beginning to look
as if the deal's all set.

Remember, I told him that here
we drink the last drink for a toast.

- Yes, I never heard that before.
- Nobody ever heard it before.

The lord forgives those
who invent what they need.

I already had his signature.
But there are men...

Whose word over a glass
is better than a bond.

Anyway, it didn't hurt to have both.

- You understand what Ben means.
- Yes, Oscar, I understand.

- I understood when it was happening.
- Did you, Regina?

When he lifted his glass...

- I saw the bricks going into place.
- Did you?

Well, I saw a lot more than that.

I'm gonna leave you and Oscar
to count the bricks.

- I'm going to Chicago.
- Really, Regina?

Yes, I'm going to live there.
I'm going to take Alexandra with me.

I'll give parties for her...

And see she meets the best people
and the right men too.

Later on, I'll take trips
to New York and Paris...

And have what I want,
everything I want.

You should come to Chicago
to visit us.

Not too often, of course.

And, Ben, you won't have to learn
to be subtle.

You'll be very rich, and the rich
can be as eccentric as they like.

- So you want to live in Chicago?
- Yes.

Let's all say what we'll want
when we're very rich.

What do you want, Oscar?

Might take a few trips, eh, birdie?
Do you good.

Oscar, do you know what I'd like?
I'd like... I'd like to have lionnet back.

Maybe we could even live there.
I do think we could all be happier...

- What are you chattering about?
- About lionnet. Well, [...

Well, everybody was saying what
they'd like now we'd all be so rich.

I was just saying what I'd...
We heard.

I'm waiting for you and birdie to finish.

Four conversations are three too many.

I said I didn't know where you'd get the
money to go to Chicago and live in style.

Then I was about to say
I thought you heard me say that...

- And were just pretending you didn't.
- And what does that mean?

Regina, it's like this.

For 49 percent,
Marshall will put up $400,000.

Yes, Oscar, I know all the terms.

Then you know contracts will be signed
this week...

And Marshall will want
our money soon.

Oscar and I are ready
with our two-thirds of the money.

But your third, Horace's I mean,
doesn't seem to be here.

You've written him, we've all written.
He answers, but...

He answers, but never a word about
whether he's going into this or not.

Naturally, you are our sister. We want
you to benefit from anything we do.

And in addition
to your concern for me...

You do not want control to go out
of the family.

- That right, Ben?
- That's cynical.

But cynicism is an unpleasant way
of telling the truth.

Why doesn't Horace come home
and talk business?

Beginning to look like
he doesn't want to.

Well, of course
he wants to come home.

You just can't move around with heart
trouble at any moment you choose.

You know doctors in a case like this.

Why doesn't he,
doctors or no doctors?

Has it ever occurred to you that Horace
is also a good businessman?

- Certainly, the bank's proof of that.
- Then perhaps he's remaining silent...

Because he doesn't think
he's getting enough.

Seventy-five thousand he has to put up.

That's a lot of money. Nonsense.

- That 75,000 will make him a million.
- That ain't what Regina means.

May I interpret you?

Regina's saying Horace wants more
than a third of our share.

He's putting up a third.
Put up a third, get a third.

What else could he expect, Regina?

Well, I don't know.
I don't know about those things.

It would seem if you put up a third,
you get a third.

And yet again there's no law about it,
is there? Heh, heh.

I should think if you knew
your money was badly needed...

You might just say, "I want more.
I want a larger share."

You boys have done that.
I've heard you say so.

So you believe Horace is deliberately
holding out?

Well, I don't.

But, uh, I do believe that's
what you want. Am I right, Regina?

I wouldn't like to persuade Horace
unless he gets a larger share.

He's my husband.
I must look after his interests.

Where would this larger share
come from?

I don't know. I don't know
about things like this.

Maybe it could come off
your share, Oscar.

What kind of talk is this?

- I haven't said a thing.
- Ha, ha, ha!

You are talking big tonight.

Ha, ha. Am I?

Oscar, you should know me
well enough by now...

To know I don't ask for things
I don't think I can get.

I don't believe you can get the money.

Oh, I can get him home.

How can you get him home?

I will send Alexandra to Baltimore.

She will tell her father
that she wants him to come home.

That I miss him very much
and that I want him to come home.

You know Horace. He'll come home.

I admire you, Regina.

But before he comes,
what's he going to get?

How much do you want?

Twice what you offered.

- Ho-ho. You won't get it.
- I think you've gone crazy.

- Now I don't want to fight, Ben.
- I don't either, Regina.

You're holding us out.
Now, that's not pretty.

But we need you,
and I'm a peaceful man.

Now, here's what I'll do.

I'll give Horace 40 percent instead of
the 33 and a third he really should get...

Provided he's home and his money
is up within two weeks. How's that?

All right. I've asked before.

Where's this extra share coming from?

- From you. From your share.
- So that's my reward, is it?

For 30 years I worked for you.

Did what you didn't want to
and this is what I get...

My, my, I'm being attacked
on all sides tonight.

I can't believe the lord means
for the strong to parade their strength.

But I don't mind doing it
if it's got to be done.

Oscar, you'll be a very rich man.

What does it matter if a little more
goes here, less goes there?

It's all in the family.
That's right.

I'll never marry, so my money
will go to Alexandra and Leo.

They might even marry someday.

That would make a great difference
in my feelings if they married.

That's what I mean.

- Is that what you mean, Regina?
- Oh, it's too far away. Addie, clean up.

- We'll talk in a few years.
- I want to talk about it now.

But zan is so young.

There are a lot of things to consider.
They are first cousins.

That isn't unusual.
Our grandparents were first cousins.

- Yes, and look at us. Ha, ha, ha!
- Ha, ha, ha!

You're both being very gay
with my money.

Now, Regina.
Oscar's given up something for you.

You ought to manage
something for him.

- But Leo is a very wild boy.
- Yes, yes, yes, but...

Please assure Oscar
that you will think about it seriously.

Very well. I assure you, Oscar,
I will think about it seriously.

- What kind of an answer is that?
- My, Oscar, you're in a bad humour.

Now leave me alone.

Say, weren't those fine clothes
Mr. Marshall had?

Looks like maybe they were done
in england.

Should have come us, aunt birdie.
It's a lovely night.

Alexandra, were you gracious
to Mr. Marshall?

- Why, I think so, mama.
- Good.

I have news.

You're going to Baltimore in
the morning to bring your father home.

Oh, mama.

Oh, Addie, papa's coming back.
We're gonna bring him home.

You're going alone, Alexandra.

Going alone? A child that age?

Mr. Horace ain't gonna like
miss zan traipsing...

Addie, go upstairs and lay out
miss Alexandra's things.

I'll attend to your railroad ticket.

He'd expect me to be along.

I'll be up in a minute to tell you
what to pack!

Night, zan. Have a nice trip.

- Regina, I could go with her.
- No, birdie.

She's old enough to assume
some responsibility.

Better learn now.
Almost old enough to get married.

Eh, son? Huh?

Old enough to get married,
you're thinking?

Well, yes sir, lots of girls
get married at zan's age.

Look at Mary prester and Johanna.

Alexandra is not
getting married tomorrow...

But she is going to Baltimore
tomorrow, so let's talk about that.

I should think you'd like to go.
At your age, I would've been delighted.

Addie has babied you too much.

I wanted to go before, mama, but...

You said you couldn't go
and I couldn't go alone.

I've changed my mind. I must
help Addie get your things together.

Why don't you all go home?

- Good night.
- Good night, Regina.

- Don't be long, zan.
- Come along.

Imagine not wanting to go.
Wish it was me.

What I could do in a place
like Baltimore.

I can guess the kind of things
you could do.

Oh, no, you couldn't.

Oscar, don't be so glum.

You're getting to look as if your shoes
were always pinching.

- Zan, I must...
- Don't worry, aunt birdie.

- I can take care of myself.
- That's not what I'm worried about.

It's about Leo.
He's my son, my own son...

But you're more to me
than my own child.

- What's the matter?
- You're not marrying Leo.

- Marry Leo?
- I couldn't stand to think of such a thing.

Don't you understand?
They'll make you.

- Ha, ha, ha!
- They'll make you.

That's foolish, aunt birdie.

I'm grown up.
Nobody can make me do anything.

Birdie, I'm waiting for you.

Oh, good night, aunt birdie.

Good night, uncle Oscar.

What happened, aunt birdie?
What happened?

Nothing, darling.

Nothing happened.

Now, you go to bed.

Nothing happened.

I only twisted my ankle.

Alexandra.

I'm coming, mama.

And don't forget about
brushing your hair.

Fifty strokes in the morning,
a hundred at night.

And don't use no store soap.
Just use the soap I made you.

Uh-huh.

- Don't "uh-huh" me. Are you listening?
- Yes, Addie.

- Good morning, Addie.
- Morning.

My, that Hannah Francis is sure
an ugly little girl, just like her ma.

And there's smelling salts and
perfumed water in the little satchel.

And keep your gloves on
so your hands don't get dirty.

And don't talk to nobody
on the train...

And don't get off the train
more than you have to.

Just sit still, like a lady.

Oh, Cal, stop at Mrs. Hewitt's a minute.
I want to ask about my new dress.

We ain't got no time
to be stopping nowhere.

Got plenty of time.

- David!
- Ho!

Good morning, zan.
Where you going?

To Baltimore all by myself
to bring papa home.

- I'll be gone a whole week maybe.
- Well, good for you.

Is that all you can say?

What do you want me to say?

Well, you might at least say you're sorry
you can't go to the depot with me.

Oh. Just getting up
at 11:00 in the morning.

Morning, zan.

He's not getting up. He's going to bed.
He's been writing all night.

- Writing things to put in the newspaper?
- No.

He says he's writing things
they won't put in the newspaper.

Mr. David! David!

- I'm coming to the depot with you.
- No, you ain't dressed.

- That's right.
- Cal, get this carriage going.

Get out of here! Get going!
Hurry up. Get going!

Oh, David. David!

- Shoo! Shoo!
- Ah, now, Addie, Addie.

Now, don't you just keep sitting there.

Get off at stations.
Walk around. Talk to people.

I just been telling her not to talk
to nobody.

You'll talk to people. Go to the coaches.
Talk to everybody. It'll do you good.

Board!

- Bye, Addie.
- Bye, zan. Take care of yourself.

You, sir.

Yes, you.
Would you mind sitting in this seat?

Sit here, please. Right here.

Thank you.

Now, talk to him. He looks nice.

Find out what he thinks,
where he comes from.

Find out everything you can.

- I just found out one thing.
- Bye.

I'm going to miss you, David.
What?

I said I'm going to miss you.

- What?
- I said I... oh, nothing.

Hello.

In there, in the room
next to miss Regina's.

- All right, Addie.
- And hurry up.

Walk it slow, Ezra. Walk it slow.

Where do I put these books, Addie?

- Oh, put them on that table over there.
- Yessum.

- Put that by the fireplace.
- Yessum.

Mr. Horace sure gonna like
being moved back in his old room.

That's all. Get back to work.

Addie, bring Mr. Horace's green lamp
from the other room.

Yes, miss Regina.

There's the carriage. They're here,
miss Regina! They're here!

Don't get so excited, Addie.
Go and help with the bags.

- They ain't on the train.
- What? My goodness.

- They ain't on the train!
- What do you mean?

- Cal, what happened?
- They ain't on the train.

- They must've been on the train.
- No, they wasn't. I looked.

I even asked Mr. Johnson. He said
they didn't get on at mobile at all.

What you think happened,
miss Regina?

How should I know? Probably nothing.
Don't ask questions the rest of the night.

Go get that green lamp, Addie. Go on.

- Oh, evening, Regina.
- Good evening, Ben.

- You dropping in for supper?
- They didn't come on the 6:00, Regina.

- There's no other train tonight.
- What happened?

They probably stopped off somewhere.
They'll be along.

Addie, put that on Mr. Horace's desk.

Oh, so, you're moving Horace
back to his old room.

- You're a smart woman, Regina.
- Where would they stop off?

Horace has got that cousin
in Savannah he's so fond of.

Maybe they stopped to see him.
I don't know where they stopped off.

Do you know they started
from Baltimore?

Well, of course they started.
Didn't I have a letter from Alexandra?

What is so strange about people
arriving late?

Don't worry so much.

Heh, heh, I'm a natural worrier...

Especially when I'm ready
to close a business deal...

And one of my partners
remains silent and invisible.

They'll be along tomorrow. You boys
might just as well go home now.

- Good night, Ben. Good night, Oscar.
- Eh, Regina.

That cousin of Horace's
has been dead for years.

And anyway,
the train doesn't go through Savannah.

Did he die?

My, Ben, you're always remembering
about people dying.

It's so bad for your health.

Heh, heh. Good night, Regina.

My father's tired.
We must stay overnight so he can rest.

- He'll have to have a room on this floor.
- I'm sorry...

- All rooms on this floor are taken.
- You have to move somebody.

Somebody it won't hurt to climb stairs.

You'll have to do it right away.
My father must have rest and quiet.

Come help my father
out of the carriage.

My, she's turning out to be
her mother's daughter.

Well, better move that
Mr. Clark from 105.

Put him on the third floor.

Mr. Dawson, where's the Tom Bixby
commission meeting tonight?

- Room a, 9:00. Think they'll let you in?
- I think so.

Oh, how are you, Mr. giddens?
It's nice to see you back here.

The boy will show you to your room.
It will be made up in a few minutes.

- And be sure that his soup is very hot.
- Yes, ma'am.

I'll want a lot. I'm very hungry.

- I think I'll have the whole dinner.
- Yes, ma'am.

- Oh, and...
- And mocha cake.

David!

Excuse me.

Zannie. Well, hello, how are you?
How's your father?

Come here a minute.

This is miss Julia Jordan, zan.
Miss Alexandra giddens.

Well, I'm mighty glad to meet you,
miss giddens.

Forgive miss giddens, Julia.

It's not entirely her fault.
She comes from a bad-mannered family.

Did you order dinner, zannie?

Yes, papa.

It'll be right along.

How do you feel?

Much better, dear.

What's the matter, zan?

Nothing, papa.

What's the matter, zan?

Well, it's...

You remember David Hewitt?

Of course I remember him. How is he?

Well, he's changed.

After all his working up north
and wandering around the country...

Coming back and talking
about people's rights...

And how everyone
ought to be decent.

Now for all his fine talk,
he's out there in the dining room with...

With one of those girls.

One of what girls?

Well...

She's got powder on her nose...

And he's with her.

And, uh, does it concern you, zan?

Of course it doesn't.

You can just bet it doesn't.

Then why not forget about it?

Well, I... I did go
for some walks with him...

And three picnics.
Well, really, three and a half.

Half time it rained...

And I tried to understand
the fine things he was talking about.

Then he dared to introduce her to me.

Did he?

I didn't say a word to her. I just looked.

And then I walked away.

Did you, zan?
That was very virtuous of you.

Wasn't that right, papa?

Zannie...

Who's been teaching you
to hurt the feelings of other people?

I didn't think about it that way.

What should I do, papa?

You'll have to decide for yourself, zan.

So I wanna ask your pardon,
miss Jordan.

I don't wanna hurt anybody's feelings...

And if you'll be gracious
and forgive my rudeness...

And shake my hand, miss Jordan...

Then you'll show me your manners
are far better than mine could ever be.

Thank you, miss giddens.
That's real friendly of you.

And I thank you too, zannie. Come on.
I'll take you back to your father.

Excuse me, Julia.

You look tired, zannie.
Was it a hard trip?

You going back
on the early-morning train?

- I'll be on it. Maybe I can help.
- Thank you very much.

- May I come in, pay my respects?
- No, papa must rest tonight.

Zan, that was a mighty sweet thing
you did just now.

- I still don't approve of your conduct.
- Very well. I'll make a note of it.

Go back and tell your friend
to wash her face.

- Morning, papa.
- You just getting up?

What working hours are you keeping?

My, papa, you're nervous this morning.

Nervous about uncle Horace
not coming home, I guess.

I told you before, you gotta start
working harder at the bank.

Got to convince your uncle Horace
you'll make a fit husband for Alexandra.

Yes, sir. You think uncle...

- Horace don't wanna go in on this?
- That's my hunch.

He ain't showed
any signs of loving it yet.

Ha, ha, ha!

But he hasn't listened
to aunt Regina yet, either.

Oh, he'll go along. It's too good a thing.

He's got plenty
and plenty to invest with.

He don't even have to sell anything.

Ninety thousand worth of union pacific
bonds sitting in his safe-deposit box.

- All he's got to do is open the box.
- Yeah.

He's had those bonds for 15 years.

Bought them low,
and just locked them up.

Yeah. Just has to open the box
and take them out. That's all.

Easy as easy can be.

Huh.

The things in that box.

There's all those bonds,
looking mighty fine.

And then right next to them
is a baby shoe of zan's...

And a cheap old cameo on a string...

And nobody'd believe this...

A piece of an old violin.
Not even a whole violin.

Just a piece of an old thing.

A piece of a violin.

A piece of a violin.

- What do you think of that?
- Yes, siree.

And a lot of other crazy things too.

A poem, I guess it is.

Signed with his mother's... name.

How do you know what's in the box,
son?

Hm?

Oh.

Well, uh...

Well...

Well, one of the boys, sir,
one of the boys at the bank.

He took old manders' keys.

It was Joe horn. He just up and took
old manders' keys and took the box out.

Then they all asked me
if I wanted to see t00...

50 I looked a little but I made
them close the box quick...

- And I told them...
- Joe horn, you say?

- He opened it?
- Yes, sir, he did, my word of honour.

I suppose that don't excuse me
for looking, but...

I did make him close it and put
the keys back in manders' drawer.

Tell me the truth, Leo.

I'm not gonna be angry with you.

- Did you open the box yourself?
- No, I didn't.

- I told them...
- I'm not going to be angry with you.

Sometimes, a fellow deserves credit for
looking around, see what's going on.

Many great men have made
their fortune with their eyes.

Did you open the box?

- No.
- It may have been, uh...

Well, it...

May have heen a good thing
if you had.

Did you?

- I opened it.
- Does anybody else know you opened it?

Don't be afraid
to speak the truth to me.

- No, nobody knew.
- Will Horace ever know you opened it?

He looks in it every six months
to cut a coupon.

Sometimes,
manders does that for him.

Uncle Horace
don't even have the keys.

Manders keeps them for him.

Imagine not looking at all that.

- If I had those bonds, I'd watch them...
- If you had them.

If you had them, you could have
a share in the mill. You and me.

A fine big share too.

Oh, well. A man can't be shot...

For wanting to see
his son get on in the world.

- Can he, boy?
- No, he can't.

Ha, ha, ha. But I haven't got the bonds,
and uncle Horace has.

Do you think uncle Horace
likes you well enough...

To lend you the bonds if he decides
not to use them himself?

Papa, must be you gone crazy.

- Lend me the bonds? My...
- No, I suppose not.

Just a fancy of mine.

Alone for three months.

Maybe four.

Easy enough for us to pay it back then.

Anyway, this is only April.

He doesn't look at the bonds till fall,
he wouldn't even miss them out the box.

That's it.

He wouldn't even miss them.

No, sir, wouldn't even miss them,

well, how could he miss them
if he never even looks at them?

You laugh when I say he could lend you
the bonds if he's not gonna use them.

But would it hurt him?

Mm, no.

No, it wouldn't hurt him.

Well, people ought to help
other people.

Well, so she got him home at last.

Careful, Addie.

They're here, miss Regina.

- Yes, belle. Tidy up the room.
- Yessum.

And me sitting up all night,
worrying about you.

Addie, we don't wanna hear
how worried you've been.

We had to say in mobile overnight
for papa to rest.

- Upstairs?
- No, I'll wait, David.

I think I'll rest here for a minute.

Thank you.
And thank you for coming with us.

I liked talking to you.

- In fact I like you, I always have.
- Thank you, sir.

- Do you like me?
- Not today.

Well, I'll come back tomorrow.

- Goodbye, sir.
- Goodbye, David.

Remember me to you mother.
I will.

Goodbye, funny.

Oh, I bet mama's been worried.

- I'd better tell her we're back.
- No, zan, not for a minute.

Oh, papa, you feel bad again,
I knew you did.

Do you want your medicine?

No, I don't feel that way, zannie.
I just wanted to rest a little.

Them fancy doctors.
They do you any good, Mr. Horace?

They did their best.

Addie, this is father's medicine.
Very special medicine.

We'll keep one bottle down here
and one in his room.

The pills he must have
every four hours.

And the special medicine...

Only if he feels very bad.
Careful, Addie.

Since when I ain't old enough to hold
a bottle of medicine?

You feel all right, Mr. Horace?

He says he feels all right
but he doesn't. The trip was very hard.

He's got to go right to bed.
Help me, Addie.

No. I don't need that much help.

Addie, is your coffee as good
as it used to be?

Now, Dr. boden said not much coffee.
Just now and then.

Do you hear, Addie?
Do you hear me? I'm the nurse now.

You'd be better
if you didn't look so dirty.

Take a bath. Change your linens,
get a fresh dress.

- And give your hair a brushing.
- Will you be all right, papa?

I'll look after Mr. Horace.
Ring for belle and have her help you.

- Belle, hurry.
- Yessum.

Well...

My old room.

I haven't slept here since...

Well, since a mighty long time.

Before I see anybody else...

Thank you, Addie.

I want to know why zan
came to fetch me?

I don't know. Mr. Horace.

All I know is big things is going on.

Everybody gonna be high-tone rich.

You too.

All because smoke gonna start
from a building that ain't even up yet.

Yes, I've heard about that.

And... and well... and miss zannie...

She's gonna marry Mr. Leo
in a little while.

What are you talking about?

That's right, that's the talk.

What's the talk?

I'm telling you,
there's gonna be a wedding.

Over my dead body there is.

Horace, you finally arrived.
All right, Addie.

Horace, I'm very happy to see you.

How are you, Regina?

What did happen
to you and Alexandra?

We stopped overnight in mobile.
I didn't feel good.

Just a little weak, I suppose.

Well, here we are.
It's been a long time, Horace.

You know how much I wanted to come
to the hospital and be with you.

But I didn't know where my duty lay,
here or with you.

But you know, of course,
how much I wanted to come.

That's kind of you.
There was no need to come.

I didn't have a bad time.

Maybe at first, when the doctors told
me but after I got used to the idea...

I sort of liked it there.

You're looking very well, Regina.
Very handsome.

You liked it there?

Isn't it strange? You liked it so well,
you didn't want to come home?

That's not the way to put it.

But I did sort of like
lying there and thinking.

I never had much time to think.

And time's become valuable to me.

It sounds almost like a holiday.

It was sort of, I guess.

And here I was thinking
you were in pain.

- I was in pain.
- Instead, you were having a holiday.

A holiday of thinking.

I was thinking about us.
About us?

About you and me?
After all these years?

Well, you shall tell me
everything you thought. Someday.

Regina, what's this crazy talk
about zan and Leo marrying?

- Who gossips so much around here?
- Regina!

Oh, it's some foolishness that
Oscar thought up.

I'll explain later. It was simply
a way of keeping him quiet...

In this business
I've been writing you about.

I've no intention of allowing
any such arrangement.

Neither have I,
so put it out of Oscar's head now.

- You know what I think of Leo.
- No need to talk about it now.

There's no need
to talk about it ever.

Not as long as I live.

I suppose they've written you.

I can't live very long.

I've never understood why people
have to talk about this kind of thing.

Understand, I don't intend
to gossip about my sickness.

I thought it was only fair to tell you.

I was not asking for your sympathy.

- Horace, I...
- Regina, let's...

Try to get along
a little better than usual.

Yes, it's foolish for us
to fight this way.

I didn't mean to be unpleasant.

It was very stupid of me.
I didn't either.

I came home wanting so much not...
Not to fight.

Yes, let's try to get along better.
I want to. I want to very much.

Can we come up
and pay our respects?

Yes, you can come up
and pay your respects...

Ds you say. Well, well.

So the fugitives have arrived at last.

Welcome home, Horace.
You had us all mighty worried.

- Hello, Ben. Oscar.
- It sure is good to see you, Horace.

You're looking tip-top.
Yes, sir, tip-top.

Am I?

Everybody in town's
been asking for you.

You only know how folks really feel
through an absence.

- Ain't that true, Horace?
- I hope so.

- Horace!
- Birdie.

I just found out you were back.

Oh, Horace, you don't look well.
No, you don't.

Birdie, what a thing to say.

- Oscar thinks I look tip-top.
- What's that costume you have on?

Now you're home, you'll feel better.
We'll take fine care of you...

I asked what is that strange costume
you're parading in?

Me?

Oh, it's my wrapper.

Oh, I was so excited about Horace, I...

Did you come across the street
dressed that way? My dear birdie.

Just like old times, isn't it?

- Now, now, no fights. It's a holiday.
- I'll go right home.

- You'll be running back in that...
- Oh, no, no.

Well...

I'm sorry, Oscar.

We've been having mighty fine
weather, Horace.

Yes, sir, you'll enjoy the good sunshine
and fresh air...

I don't like to worry you
when you're tired...

But Ben has some very important
business to talk over with you.

- Tomorrow, Regina.
- I'd like to now, it's important to me.

Very important to all of us.
Important to your beloved daughter.

She'll be a very great heiress.

Will she? That's nice.

Please, Horace. You said
we'll try to get along better.

I'll try, I really will.

Only please do this for me now.

You'll see what I've done for you
while you've been away.

Ben, tell Horace all about it.

Only be quick, because he's very tired
and he must go to bed.

Wait till you see
how I've watched your interests.

And I think your news will be
better for him than all the doctors...

- And medicine in the world, right?
- I hope so...

But my news can wait,
Horace may not feel like talking.

What an old faker you are.
You know it can't wait.

The deal has got
to be closed this week.

Sure has, this week.

And you've been just as anxious
for him to come home as I've been.

I suppose I have been. Why not?

Horace has done
Hubbard sons many a good turn.

Why shouldn't I be anxious
to help him now?

Help him.
Help him when you need him.

- That's what you mean.
- What a woman you married, Horace.

Well, then I'll make it quick.

Horace, for 30 years, I've cried:

"Bring the cotton mills to the cotton."

Well, sir, I'm here to tell you,
they're on their way.

Get, um...

Can I get you something? Water.

Water? - Oh, I'm sorry, I...

You must excuse me now.

I'm feeling the trip.

Regina, would you ask Cal
to come help me?

Yes, yes, but you see, Horace...

The deal is coming to a close
and Ben must move quickly now...

- I understand.
- If you could just listen...

For a few minutes,
I'll take care of everything for you.

Not today, Regina. Some other time...
Some other time!

- Regina.
- This is important to us all.

We've been waiting for months
for you to come home.

I Ean.

I can see that you did want me
to come home.

Well, we'll just run along
home now, Horace.

We can talk about this tomorrow.

Come along, Oscar.

I didn't mean that.
Didn't mean it was the reason why...

But I think you did mean it.

And that makes me very sad.

You think maybe
he don't want to go in with us?

He's a sick man,
but he ain't a crazy one.

Just suppose he is crazy.

We'll go outside for the money.
There's plenty who'd give it.

Plenty who want a lot
for what they give.

The ones who are rich enough to give
will be smart enough to want.

That means we'd
be working for them, don't it?

You don't have to tell me
the things I told you six months ago.

Regina, you're a fool.
How many times did mama tell you...

It's unwise
for a good-looking woman to frown?

How many times have I said?

Softness and a smile
do more to the hearts of men.

I'll do things in my own way, Ben.
I know what I'm doing.

I hope you do, Regina.

There is nothing to worry about.

Come along, Oscar.

Oh, lord - oh, lord

hallelu

Well, white people
may have the pianos...

But coloured folks
have got the voices.

Give me a push.

- Good night.
- Good night, we had a lovely evening.

- Thank you.
- Good night, we had such a good time.

- Good night, Sally.
- Good to see Horace.

Sorry he had to go up so early.

He has to be careful
until he gets his strength back.

- Yes, of course. Good night.
- Good night.

- Good night, Oscar.
- Mr. chambers.

Good night, Regina.
Tell Horace I'll see him tomorrow.

Yes, birdie, I will. Good night.

- Good night.
- I'll be along in a minute.

Leo, take your mama home.

- Well, can't I...
- Ooh!

- Can't I wait for you and uncle Ben?
- No, no. Run along.

- I'll be back.
- Never mind, go on.

Come along, mama.

Good night.

Didn't you two notice
that the party is over?

- We got a little talking to do, Regina.
- Not much.

Just a simple question.
Have you got any news for us?

No, but I've been talking to Horace.

I imagined you had, Regina.

I didn't want to hurry him too much.
You saw what happened that first day.

There's got to be
a little hurrying done.

I had a letter from Marshall today.
An urgent letter.

This thing's gotta be
closed end of week.

And that means Oscar's gotta
leave for Chicago tomorrow.

So it turns out we're in more
of a hurry than you thought.

We've got to know tonight whether
you and Horace are coming in with us.

That is the time I was working in the...

Alexandra,
it's time you were coming in.

Not yet, mama. I'm talking to David.

Well, when you've finished
your talking, come straight to bed.

Yes, mama.

- Good night, David.
- Good night, Mrs. giddens.

That's the first time I heard your
mother tell you do something...

And you didn't hop to do it.

That's a funny thing to say.

You know, you take one step...

And then you take another...

And after a while, you find out
you're walking all by yourself.

You don't understand
what I'm talking about, do you?

An awful lot of things
I don't understand lately.

Things that are happening here.

I could explain them to you, zan...

But you wouldn't like me if I did.

No, you've got to find them out
for yourself.

You'll know tonight.

Let's walk around the square.

Come on.

This cannot wait any longer.
You've got to talk to us about it now.

I've been patient for days.

And persistent.

All right.

I understand we're getting
a larger share.

- Why?
- I did a little bargaining for you.

Convinced my brothers they weren't the
only hubbards with a business sense.

Did you have to convince them of that?
How little people know about each other.

You'll know better about Regina
next time, Ben.

Heh, heh, yes.

Who's taking less?

Oscar.

Oscar's getting unselfish.
What's happened?

I'll get mine in the end all right.

Oh, he's got his son's future
to think about.

Leo? Oh, everybody will get theirs,
I'm beginning to understand.

I knew you would, just as soon
as you had time to think it over.

Yes sir, Horace, this 75 thousand
will get you a million.

Yes, Horace, it will. It will.

What did you have to promise
Marshall, besides your money?

Water power. Free and plenty of it.

You do that there?

Oh, easy. You'd think the governor
of a great state...

Would make his price a little higher,
just out of pride, you know.

And cheap labour.

"The wages has got to be cheaper
than Massachusetts," he says...

And that averages eight a week.

So you bought the water
from the governor. It was his to sell?

Huh?

Go on, Ben. Go on.

"Eight a week," I say to Marshall.

"Why I'd work for eight a week myself."

There ain't a man in this section,
black or white...

Who wouldn't give his right arm
for just 3 silver dollars every week.

Huh, Horace?

Oh, they'll take less than that
when you get around...

To playing them off
against each other.

Well...

Your father said
he made the thousands...

And you boys
would make the millions.

Millions for us too.

Us? You and me? I don't think so.

You've got enough money, Regina.

We'll just sit by
and watch the boys grow rich.

Then this means
you're finally turning us down?

Is it possible that's what you mean?

I don't want any part of it,
I've been trying to tell you.

I want to know your reasons.
I don't know. Leave it at that.

We shall not!

I want to know now.
We've been waiting like children.

To nag and hammer at me
to invest my money.

If you're disappointed, I'm sorry...

But I must do what I think best.
Now good night.

Please wait downstairs.

- I think Oscar and I will go home now.
- Please wait downstairs.

There will be no more
talking about this.

I'm sick of hearing about it.

I have given my answer, and that is all.

I think we'll have to talk about it,
Horace.

Just you and me.

I never did believe
he was going in with us.

Well, I thought he'd go in.

What do you expect me to do?

Nothing.

You done your almighty best.

There's nothing you can do.

Maybe there's something
I could do for us.

Or I might better say, Leo could for us.

- Ain't that true, son?
- What do you mean, Oscar?

If I'd let you alone, you'd still
be working for somebody else.

That's why you wanted me home?

That's the reason.

It's bad because it won't work.

You think I wanted you home
for yourself. Is that what you thought?

Leo's got a friend.

Leo's friend owns $90,000 worth
of union pacific bonds.

Leo's friend don't look
at the bonds much.

Not for five or six months at a time.

Union pacific.

Uh-huh...

Let me understand this.

Leo's friend would
lend him the bonds...

- And he would...
- Would be kind enough...

To lend them to us.

And, Leo.

Yes, sir.

When would your friend
be wanting the bonds back?

- Why, I don't know.
- You told me he won't look until fall.

Oh, that's right. But I...

- Not till fall. Uncle Horace...
- Be still.

Your uncle doesn't wish to know
your friend's name.

Ah! That's a good one.
Not know his name.

Shut up, Leo.

He won't look at them until September.
That gives us five months.

Leo will return the bonds
in three months.

We'll have no trouble raising the money
once the mills start going up.

Will Marshall accept bonds?

Why not?

We're lucky, Oscar.

We'll take the loan from Leo's friend.

I think he'll make a safer partner
than our sister.

How soon do you think
you can, uh, borrow them?

Right away. Tonight.

- They're in the safe-deposit box...
- I don't want to know where they are.

We'll keep it secret from you, Ben.

Good night, Oscar.

Good luck to us.

And Leo will be taken care of?
«I'm entitled to uncle Horace's share.

Gee, that would make me a partner.

Partner, why you little...

Now, now. He didn't mean that.

I want to be sure
he'll get something.

We'll take care of him,
we'll arrange that later.

Then that's settled. Come on, son.

I didn't mean just that.
I was only going to say...

Go on. You've got work to do.

"Good night, David."

- Good night, zannie.
- Good night, David.

Hello, zannie.

Oh, uncle Ben, make mama stop.
She can't do that to papa. It isn't right.

Alexandra, you have a tender heart.

If you won't do anything about it, I will.

Now, you see? It's all over.

Married folks frequently
raise their voices, unfortunately.

How can you treat papa like this?
He's sick. Very sick.

- Don't you know?
- Mind your business.

This is my business.
It's my business to stop what's wrong.

Don't you dare speak to me like this.

Go to bed.

Go to bed.

Yes, mama.

You'll have to put Marshall off
for a few days.

Well, I'm afraid
I can't do that for you, Regina.

- I told you, his letter was urgent.
- How much more time can you give me?

- Horace has refused?
- He'll change his mind.

I'll find a way to make him.
How much longer can you wait?

Well, I could wait a few days,
but I can't wait a few days.

I could but I can't.

Could and can't. Ha, ha, ha, ha!

I got to go now, I'm very late.

You're not going. I want to talk to you.

I forgot to tell you Oscar's going
to Chicago tomorrow just as planned.

So we can't be here
for our usual Friday night supper.

Oscar is...

What do you mean?

Just that.

He's going on
to deliver the money to Marshall.

- You're lying. You're trying to scare me.
- Ha, ha, ha.

You haven't got the money.
How can you have it?

How can he go to Chicago?
Did a ghost arrive with the money?

I don't believe you.

Ben, come back. I want to talk to you.

You're out of hand, Regina.

Since when do I take orders from you?

Come back.

Come back, you.

Good night, Regina.

It's a great day when you and Ben
cross swords.

I've been waiting for it for years.

They've found out they don't need you.
You'll not have your millions after all.

You hate to see anybody live now,
don't you?

You hate to think I'm going to be alive
and have what I want.

You'd think that was my reason.

Yes.

Because you're going to die
and you know you're going to die.

And maybe it's easy for the dying
to be honest.

I'm sick of you, sick of this house,
sick of my unhappy life with you.

Sick of your brothers
and their dirty tricks to make a dime.

There's better ways of getting
rich than building sweatshops...

And pounding the bones of the town
to make dividends for you to spend.

You and your brothers
will wreck the town.

You'll wreck the country, you and
your kind, if they let you. But not me.

I'll die my own way.

And do it without making
the world worse. I leave that to you.

I hope you die.

I hope you die soon.

- Mama, don't.
- I'll be waiting for you to die.

Don't! Oh, papa, don't listen.

Please. Just don't listen.

Go away.

Thank you, birdie. That was nice.

I hope it didn't disturb Regina.

I should've thought to ask.

Miss Regina ain't home, miss birdie.

She's at miss Hewitt's,
getting a dress fitted.

Oh, thank you, Addie.

Horace, look.

Simon brought me
these from lionnet.

Oscar was out there shooting
this morning.

Simon says they're just
growing wild there now.

- Zannie!
- Coming, Addie.

- Why don't you pick some?
- I don't like crab apples.

You're getting too old
to be climbing trees.

- Why?
- Because your petticoats are showing.

- David Hewitt!
- Or should I say "underskirts"?

You certainly should.

Well, under any name,
they're still showing.

If you'd lift me down, instead of
sitting there, you wouldn't see them.

Hello.

Hello.

You might at least
help me pick some up.

Somebody must be gonna make
some mighty fine jelly.

That's right, Simon.

I'll bet Simon was sorry to see your
uncle Oscar come back from Chicago.

Uncle Oscar hasn't been
to our house since he got back.

He or uncle Ben.

Not since that night.

I don't like to think about it.

I try not to all the time.

You never like to think about things,
do you, zan?

There you go again.

Always wanting somebody else
to do your thinking for you.

I'm tired of having you say that.
It just isn't true.

What do you want me to do?

I think I want you to go away from here.

Go away?

Are you crazy?

What would I do? Where would I go?

I think you're just trying not
to see me anymore.

- You do?
- Yes, I do.

But you don't have to try, David Hewitt,
not at all, whether I'm here or not.

I'll tell you what you can do
if you went away, zan.

If you can find someplace
where they pay for talking silly...

You could make a fortune.

Oh, Addie. A party. What for?

Nothing for. I had the sweet butter,
so I made the cakes.

Isn't this nice? A party just for us.

- Is mama...?
- No. She ain't got back yet.

Sit down, David.

- Thank you, sir.
- Not by me.

I'm not speaking to him.
He's too dull. He's always preaching.

It doesn't seem to affect your appetite.

He doesn't affect me in any way.
I just ignore him.

Don't let's anybody be bad friends.

It's so nice here with just us.

There, David.

- That's for you.
- Thank you.

- Elderberry's good for the stomach.
- That's what mama used to say.

Mama used to give it to me
when I was a little girl.

For hiccups. Ha, ha.

You know, I don't think people
get hiccups anymore.

Isn't that funny?

No, and nobody gets
growing pains no more.

Just like there was some
style in what you got.

One year, an ailment's stylish,
and the next year, it ain't.

Miss birdie, that elderberry wine is
gonna give you a headache spell.

I don't think so.
I remember now about the hiccups.

It was my first big party.

At lionnet, I mean, and there I was
with the hiccups, and mama laughing.

Mama always laughed.

A big party, a lovely dress
from Mr. worth in Paris, France...

And hiccups.

You know, that was the first day
I ever saw Oscar Hubbard.

We saw him from the window.
He passed and lifted his hat...

And my brother, to tease mama,
said mama didn't like the hubbards...

And wouldn't invite them to the party
because they kept a store.

And then, I saw mama angry
for the first time in my life.

She said that wasn't the reason.

She said she just didn't like people who
made money charging awful interest...

To poor, ignorant coloured folks,
and cheating them on what they bought.

Oh, she was very angry, mama was.

And then, suddenly, she laughed...

And said, "look, I've frightened
birdie out of her hiccups.”

And so she had.

They were all gone.

Yes, they got mighty
well-off cheating the poor.

Well, there's people that eats up the
whole earth and all the people on it.

Like in the Bible with the locusts.

Then there's people that stand around
and watch them do it.

Sometimes, I think it ain't right
to stand and watch them do it.

There's something else
in the Bible, Addie.

Take us the foxes...

The little foxes that spoil the vines...

For our vines have tender grapes.

Oh, if we could only
go back to lionnet.

Everybody'd be better there.
They'd be good and kind.

I like people to be kind.
Don't you, Horace?

- Don't you like people to be kind?
- Yes, birdie, I do.

Yes, that was the first day
I ever saw Oscar.

- Who would have thought...?
- Birdie.

Do you all want to know something?

I don't like Leo.

My very own son...

And I don't like him.

Isn't that funny, David?

Ha-ha. I guess I even like Oscar
more than I like Leo.

That's no question
for you to be asking.

Why not? It's time
she was asking questions.

She's heard enough around
here to ask anything.

Why did you, aunt birdie?

Oh, I don't know.
I thought I liked him.

And he was so kind to me then, and I
thought it was because he liked me too.

But that wasn't the reason.

Ask why he married me.
I can tell you that.

- He's told me often enough.
- Miss birdie, don't.

My family was good,
that was part of it...

But the cotton
on lionnet's fields was better.

Ben Hubbard wanted that cotton,
and Oscar Hubbard married it for him.

He was kind to me then.
He used to smile at me.

He hasn't smiled at me since.

Well, everybody knew that's
what he married me for.

Everybody but me.

Stupid, stupid me.

You get talking like this, miss birdie...

- And you'll get a headache sure...
- I've never had a headache in my life!

And you know it as well as I do.

I've never had a headache, zan.
That's a lie they tell for me.

I drink.

All by myself,
in my own room by myself.

I drink.

And when they want to hide it,
they say:

"Birdie's got a headache again."

Oh, aunt birdie, don't.

You won't like me now.
You won't like me anymore.

- I love you. I'll always love you.
- Oh, don't! Don't love me!

Because in 20 years,
you'll be just like me.

They'll do all the same things to you.

And you'll trail after them,
just like me...

Hoping they won't be
so mean to you that day...

Or say something
to make you feel so bad.

Only you'll be worse off,
because you won't have my mama...

To remember.

Oh, aunt birdie. Don't. Don't.

Come on. We'll go home.
Just you and me.

Come on.

Come on.

Poor miss birdie.

- There you are, sir.
- Thank you.

Mr. Horace! Mr. Horace!

- I sure is glad to see you back, sir.
- Thank you, Harold.

Horace, glad to see you
back with us again.

- Thank you. How's the family?
- Hello, Mr. Horace.

- Hi, Mr. Horace. How are you?
- Fine.

Hello, Mr. Horace.

How are you, Mr. giddens?

- Sam!
- Good to see you, sir.

Thank you.

Hello there, Leo.

Hello, uncle Horace.

- Glad to see you back again, sir.
- Thank you.

- Mr. Horace, good to see you.
- Thank you.

- Mr. Horace, it's good to see you!
- Thank you.

Ah. "Good to see you.
Good to see you."

Don't nobody never think up
no new words?

- All right. Come along. Come along.
- Oh, yes, sir.

First time I've ever seen anybody...

Wasn't anxious
to grab my silver dollars.

Sam, I want to take a look at my will.

All right, sir.

Come on, son, count my money.

Huh? "Huh"?

You mighty careless
with other people's money.

Come on, count it. I'm in a hurry.

Check the...

Check this for me, will you, Joe?
I got to see my uncle.

All right.

Say, what's the matter with him?

Leo.

Yes, Leo, what is it?

I want to...

I want to see you a minute.

Yes. What about?

It's about, uh... about Bert pembrook.

Yes?

He's, uh...

- He's one of the renters over at...
- I know who Bert pembrook is.

What about him?

It's... it's his note, sir.

I'm worried about it, uncle Horace.

What's wrong with the note?

- Hm?
- Oh.

I mean, do you think the crop lien
is sufficient collateral?

All right, Sam.

You can put it back.

I haven't been in
the bank for months, Leo.

I don't know anything
about Bert pembrook's note.

What's wrong with it?

Leo seems to be disturbed about it.

- Oh.
- Oh, it's nothing. I just thought...

He doesn't think the crop lien
is sufficient collateral.

What are you talking about?

We haven't got a crop lien,
we got a chattel mortgage.

Bert's made all the payments so far.
The note will be amortized in 60 days.

Yes, I...

Why, that's right.

So it will.

So it will.

Leo's facts seem to be a trifle hazy.

It ain't the facts that are hazy.
It's Leo.

Oh, Sam, I forgot
my insurance policies.

I want to take them with me.

When was the last time
you opened this box, Sam?

About three weeks ago.
To clip the coupons.

- Why? Anything wrong?
- No, I...

No, I thought there was
a policy missing, but I found it.

I think I'll go home now, Sam.

And I'll take the box with me.

All right, sir.

- Goodbye, Sam.
- Goodbye, sir.

Goodbye, Mr. Horace. We hope
to see you back again real soon.

It sure is good to see you.

I forgot to ask you how you're feeling.

Much better, Leo.

- Thank you for being so solicitous.
- Don't worry yourself about the bank.

We'll keep everything
in apple-pie order.

That's nice, Leo.

That Mr. Leo, acting mighty sweet.

Like his mouth's filled
with melting butter.

Yes.

- Cal?
- Yes, sir?

- I want you to do something for me.
- Yes, sir.

After you've taken me home...

I want you to walk yourself
back to the bank...

And I want you to give
Mr. manders a message from me.

Yes, sir. Only I ain't much good
at toting messages, Mr. Horace.

My memory kind of gets confused.

This is an easy one, Cal.

Only you've got to be sure to
get it straight. Now, listen carefully.

I want you to go to Mr. manders,
and I want you to say...

Mr. Horace, he say for you to be taking
the evening train for mobile...

And be toting back with you judge
sol Fowler, his attorney-at-law and...

- What for? What's he want him for?
- Is this message for you?

- Go on, Cal.
- Now I got to be starting all over again.

Um...

Mr. Horace, he say for you to be taking
the evening train for mobile...

And be toting back with you judge
sol Fowler, his attorney-at-law and...

And then you got to fetch him
to our house tomorrow.

- Did he say why? Did he...?
- Shh!

- Is that all, Cal?
- Yes, sir. Yes, sir. That's all.

Kind of short message, ain't it?

It appears like to me, if you got a
message, it ought to have more words.

Mr. manders, sir. There's something
I got to do. Something I forgot.

Sit down, Leo, and finish your work.

- But you don't understand.
- Sit down!

- You can tell him I got his message.
- Yes, sir.

Perhaps you're tired.

No, no, no.

Zan left me instructions not
to get tired while she was out.

- She's mighty firm with me.
- Zan, firm!

David.

What do you feel about zan, anyway?
What...?

Oh...

I'm in love with her, I guess.

I mean, I'm not guessing.

I mean, I know I am, Mr. Horace.

I've never said those words before.
I didn't realise they'd be so hard to say.

Here's your old green lamp.

Just because you moved back in this
room don't say you gotta sit in the dark.

Do hurry, Mrs. Hewitt.
It's very tiresome standing so long.

Yes, I know it is. I'm just finishing.

- David is a constant visitor at our house.
- Yes.

Yes, he plays cribbage
with Mr. Horace.

He likes Mr. Horace.

I hope you don't mind
his running in and out like.

No, I don't mind. I've always tried not
to interfere with Alexandra too much.

I didn't like people to interfere
with me when I was young.

I still don't like them interfering.

I do think Alexandra is a little young
to be courted by David.

Oh, I'm sure it's nothing like that.
Is that you, David?

- Yes, mama.
- Oh, come in, David.

- Good evening, Mrs. giddens.
- We were just talking about you.

Yes, I heard you.

I rather like you, David, you've
got spirit. That's good in anyone.

I was just telling your mother...

I wouldn't like to think that
you were courting Alexandra.

I haven't been doing that,
Mrs. giddens.

I'm glad to hear that, David.

But if and when I do, I shall not
care whether you like it or not.

That's nothing to worry about.

Horace might want to see
his lawyer about a lot of things.

Fowler's come a hundred times before.

But it's funny he comes in today
and right after he sends for Fowler.

Nonsense. Don't worry so much.

Sure, it's fine for you
to tell me not to worry.

I always say to myself I don't like
nervous people, I can't trust them.

Leo, you're one of
the people who bore me.

I'm getting too old to want to be bored.

I'm just getting so I hate it.

Now you take your nerves out of here...

And go upstairs and take a bath.
That'll be good for you.

A nice, warm bath.

We agreed you were to stay in
your part of this house, and I in mine.

This room is my part of the house.
Please don't come down again.

I won't. I only came down
this time to tell you that...

We've invested our money in Hubbard
sons and Marshall cotton manufacturer.

What are you talking about?

I haven't seen Ben.

When did you change your mind?

I didn't change my mind.

I didn't invest the money.

It was invested for me.

What are you talking about?

I had $90,000 worth of union pacific
bonds in this box in the bank.

They're not there now.

Come and look.

Come and look, Regina.

Those bonds are negotiable
as money, and they're gone.

There are only $15,000 left.

Seventy-five thousand dollars
are gone.

What kind of a joke are you playing
now? Is this for my benefit?

I don't look in that box very often.
Today, because...

I want to know
what you're talking about!

Don't interrupt me again, Regina.

Today, because I decided
to do something...

I opened the box and...

Do you think I'm crazy enough
to believe what you're saying?

You don't believe me. That's good.

For a minute, I thought
you had taken them.

Taken them?

Where are they?

Where did they go?

To Chicago.

I should guess that at this minute,
they are with Mr. Marshall.

I think Leo took the bonds.

I don't believe it.

This fine gentleman, to whom you
were willing to marry your daughter...

T0ok the keys and opened the box.

I'm only guessing, of course.

But you will remember that Oscar
made a sudden departure for Chicago...

After you and Ben
had your great fight.

Well...

He took with him the bonds
that his son, Leo, had stolen for him.

- And for Ben too, of course.
- Ha, ha, ha, ha!

Well, this will make a fine
little scandal. Couldn't it?

A fine little scandal
to hold over their heads.

Oh, ho, ho!
How could they be such fools?

But I'm not going to
hold it over their heads.

What?

I'm gonna let them keep the bonds...

As a loan from you.

A loan, Regina, not an investment.

An investment would mean
a share of the profits.

A loan is simply returned.

Oh, I see.

You are punishing me.

But I won't let you punish me.

If you won't do anything about it, I will.

You won't do anything
because you can't.

You can't make trouble
because I'll go on saying...

That I lent them the bonds.

You would do that?

Yes. For once in your life,
I am tying your hands.

There's nothing for you to do.

Why did you say
I was making this loan?

I'm making a new will, Regina...

Leaving you exactly $75,000 dollars
in union pacific bonds.

The rest, and my insurance,
will go to zan.

In the meantime, Ben and Oscar
will return the bonds, I'm sure.

And they're very grateful to you.

And that will be the end of that.

There is nothing you can do to them,
and nothing you can do to me.

You must hate me very much.

No, I don't hate you.

Perhaps because I remember
how much I was in love with you.

No, I don't hate you, either.
I have only contempt for you.

I've always had.

Why did you marry me?

Because I was lonely
when I was young.

Yes, lonely.

Not in the way people usually mean.

I was lonely for all the things
I wasn't gonna get.

Everybody was so busy at home
and so little place for what I wanted.

Then papa died and left Ben
and Oscar all the money.

- So, you married me.
- Yes.

I thought you'd get the world for me.

You were a small-town clerk then.

You haven't changed.

And that wasn't what you wanted.

No, it wasn't.

It wasn't what I wanted.

But it didn't take me long
to find out my mistake...

And then it was just as if
I couldn't stand the sight of you.

I couldn't bear to have you touch me.

I thought you were such a soft,
weak fool.

You were so kind and understanding
when I didn't want you near me.

The lies and excuses I used to make
to you, and you believed them.

That was when I began to despise you.

Why didn't you leave me?

Where was I to go?

What money did I have?

I didn't think about it much...

But if I had, I'd have known
you'd die before I did.

But I couldn't have guessed
you'd get heart trouble so early...

And so bad.

I'm lucky, Horace.

I've always been lucky.

I'll be lucky again.

The other bottle.

Please, upstairs in my room.
In the drawer.

Addie.

Addie.

Upstairs, quick.

Addie.

Addie, quick.

Addie!

Addie, Cal, come here.

My goodness, what's the matter?

Get his legs, belle.

His medicine. His special medicine.

I'll get it.

Cal, bring him in this room here.

Lay him down flat, Cal.

I'll take off his shoes.

Cal, go get Dr. Sloan, hurry.
Yes.

Here.

- I'll get some ice.
- Belle.

Hold his mouth.

Oh, Addie, what's wrong?

Now, don't you fret, honey.
Don't you fret.

Oh, papa.

Aunt Regina. Aunt Regina?

Shh, shh!

I just heard about uncle Horace.
How is he?

- Dr. Sloan's in there now.
- Anything I can do?

You can keep quiet.
That's what you can do.

Dr. Sloan...

Zan, I'm gonna tell you the truth.

Just a matter of a little while.

Yes, doctor.

We just heard down at the store.
How is he?

I don't know.
They don't want you to do anything.

- Is it a bad attack?
- Addie didn't say.

I wonder if we should go up?

No, I think we'd better wait down here.

- Did you talk to Sloan?
- No.

Leo.

Is that Horace's deposit box?

Why...

How can it be?

If it is, what's it doing here?

- You said you saw manders put it away.
- I did.

I did see him put it away.
I was there. I know he...

Stop jabbering.
Tell me, is that the same box?

Yes, of course it is.
But how did it get here?

- What?
- He knows.

- Put that down.
- What, are you going to eat it?

- I'm going to take it back to the bank.
- Put it down and don't touch it, you fool.

I'm a fool?

Didn't I tell you he'd sent
for judge Fowler?

And didn't you...?

Didn't you have me
take a warm bath?

Yes, I am a fool.

- I do all the dirty work.
- I'm remembering that, Leo.

- What do you mean?
- If you don't shut him up, I'll show you.

- But, papa...
- Shut up, Leo.

Now listen to me.

- Maybe he's told Regina.
- Maybe?

Yes, maybe, and maybe he hasn't.

They weren't on such pretty terms.

If she don't know about it,
it might work out all right.

If she does know,
you are to say he lent you the bonds.

Lent me the bonds?
Who's gonna believe that?

- Nobody.
- Why should I say he lent them to me?

Why not to you?

Why not to uncle Ben?

Just because he didn't lend them to me.
Remember that.

But...

How is he, Regina?

He's unconscious.

Is there anything we can do?

He's come through these attacks before.
He'll come through this one.

Well, we haven't seen each other
since the day of our fight.

Ha, ha. Remember how
we used to fight when we were kids?

Trouble brings us together.

Does Sloan want another doctor?

We could drive over for Dr. Morris.

Thank you, but...

You don't feel well.

No, I don't.

Horace told me about
the bonds this afternoon.

The bonds?

What do you mean? What bonds?

The union pacific bonds?

- Horace's union pacific bonds?
- Yes.

Well, what about them?
What did he say?

He said Leo stole them
and gave them to you.

- That's ridiculous.
- I don't know what you're talking about.

Do I have to listen to this at the bar?

I don't know what you're...

Ben, will you please
ask them to stop this?

Aren't we, uh, starting
at the wrong end, Regina?

What did Horace tell you?

Told me that Leo
had stolen the bonds.

I didn't...

Then he said he was going
to pretend he had lent them to you...

As a present from me...

To my brothers.

Said there was nothing I could do...

Pecause as long as he lived,
he would insist he had lent them to you.

I told you that, though.
I could have told you.

Said he was leaving the rest
of the money to Alexandra...

50 I'm very badly off, you see.

Well, now, you mustn't feel that way.
It can all be explained.

It can all be adjusted.

Things aren't as bad as you...

So you, at least, are willing
to admit the bonds were stolen.

I admit no such thing.

It's possible Horace made up that part
about stealing to tease you...

Or perhaps to punish you.

Well, it's not a pleasant story.
I feel bad, Ben, naturally.

Now you shall have
the bonds safely back.

- That was the understanding, wasn't it?
- Yes.

And I'm glad to hear that.

I had greater hopes.

Remember the night
we made all the wishes?

Well, now, you mustn't talk that way.

That's foolish.

I think we ought
to drive over for Morris.

Two doctors are better than one.

And don't think I'm dismissing
this other business.

We'll have it all out
on a more appropriate day.

I don't think you'd better go yet.

Come back and sit down.

- We'll be right back with...
- Sit down.

I have something more to say.

I've told you before, Regina,
you'll get further with a smile.

I'm a soft man for a woman's smile.

I'm smiling, Ben.

I'm smiling because
you're perfectly safe...

While Horace lives
to say he lent you the bonds.

But Dr. Sloan doesn't think
Horace is gonna live...

And if he doesn't,
I want 75 percent of the business...

In exchange for the bonds.

Greedy.

What a greedy girl you are.
You want so much of everything.

Go and get those bays hitched up.
I'll drive over there myself.

I'll have that doctor here in no time.
And, Regina...

You tell Sloan that
we're bringing Dr. Morris.

Yes, Ben. I'll tell him.

Make some fresh coffee, belle.

And, Cal, you run over to Mrs. Sloan's
and get another hypodermic needle.

He's just the same.

Zan's all right, Mr. David.

She's being fine.

I told her you was here...

And she said for you to
go home and get your supper.

Go on, now.

You don't sit still good.
Lots of people don't.

All right, Addie, I'll be back later.

- Can I go with you, uncle Ben?
- No. You stay here.

You drive over to Dr. Morris'
in Centerville just as fast as you can.

Oh, Leo.

Did you speak to the doctor?
What did he say?

Well, what's everybody
so excited about?

Uncle Horace isn't all that sick.

He's had these attacks before.
He'll get over it.

I just asked you what he said.

Well, what do you care what he said?
What's it to you?

What are you doing around here
anyway, showing off your grief?

I happen to like Mr. Horace, Leo.

- Good night.
- Yes, you happen to like him.

He happens to have a rich daughter,
so you happen to be hanging around.

I'd like to stay here
for a little while alone, please.

Alexandra.

Please, mama.

How is he, Regina?

He's dead.

You look tired, Regina.

Why don't you go and rest now?

Yes, I am tired.

Would you pour me a Brandy,
please?

Get one for yourselves.
Perhaps we're all going to need it.

Are you getting a cold, Oscar?

No, no. No.

Well, Ben, shall we take up our
conversation where we left off?

What more is there to talk about,
Regina?

Really, Oscar,
you're not very bright, are you?

Ben, would you like to,
or shall I explain to Oscar...

That you were quite safe while Horace
lived to say he lent you the bonds...

But Horace is not alive now.

I have already said I want 75 percent
of the new firm...

In exchange for the bonds.

This I have not said:

If I don't get what I want,
I'll put all of you in jail.

What are you talking about?

And on what evidence
would you put Oscar and Leo in jail?

Listen to him, Oscar.

He's ready to swear
it was you and Leo.

Don't be angry, Oscar.
I'll see he goes in with you.

They were Horace's bonds, Regina.
There's nothing you can do.

- He let us have them as a loan.
- Oh, stop pretending.

- Tomorrow I'm going to judge Simms.
- And what proof of this?

The bonds are with Marshall.
That's proof enough.

If it isn't, I'll add what's necessary.
I'm sure.

- We'll deny...
- Deny your heads off.

What jury would believe you?

You couldn't find 12 men in this state
you haven't cheated...

And who hate you.
What is this? You couldn't do that.

We're your brothers.

How can you talk this way when,
upstairs, not five minutes ago...

Yes, mama...

Not five minutes ago.

We know how you feel, Alexandra.

The whole town loved
and respected your father.

Did you love him, uncle Oscar?

Did you love him, uncle Ben?

And you, mama, did you love him too?

Go and lie down, dear.

It takes time for all of us
to get over a shock like this.

Please go, Alexandra.

What was papa doing
oh the staircase?

Go and rest, Alexandra.

I want to talk to you, mama.

Not now.

I'll wait.

I've plenty of time now.

Well, as I was saying, tomorrow
morning, I'm going to judge Simms.

- I shall tell him about Leo.
- Not in front of the child.

I didn't ask her to stay.

Where was 1?
Oh, yes, they'll convict you.

But of course, you have your choice.

I don't want to hear any more from you.

There'll be no more bargaining
in this house.

I'll take my 75 percent
and forget the story forever.

That's one way of doing it,
and the way I prefer.

You should know me well enough to
know I don't mind taking the other way.

None of us have ever known you
well enough, Regina.

You're getting old.

Your tricks aren't as smart
as they used to be.

All right, I take it that's settled,
and I get what I asked for.

Are you gonna let her do this?

You have a suggestion?

No, he hasn't.

Come, Leo and Oscar.

You can go home now. Good night.

Good night. You too, Ben.

If you all behave yourselves, I'll forget
anybody ever saw the bonds.

You'll draw up
the necessary papers tomorrow.

Be quick about it because
I'm not very good at this legal business.

You know, you boys are sort
of working for me from now on.

You're a good loser, Ben, I like that.

Well, I say to myself, what's the good?

You and I aren't like Oscar.
We're not sour people.

I think that comes
from a good digestion.

Then too, one loses today,
and wins tomorrow.

I say to myself...

Years of planning,
and I get what I want.

And I don't get it,
but I'm not discouraged.

The world is open
for people like you and me.

There's thousands of us
all over the world.

We'll own this country someday.
They won't try to stop us.

- We'll get along.
- I think so.

Then too, I say to myself,
things may change.

I agree with Alexandra.

What was a man in a wheelchair
doing on a staircase?

I ask myself that.

And what do you answer?

I have no answer.

Maybe someday I will.

Maybe never, but maybe someday.
When I do, I'll let you know.

When you do, you'll write me.
I'll be at Chicago.

Heh-heh. I will. Good night, Alexandra.

You're turning out
to be a right interesting girl.

Good night, Regina.

What was it you wanted to talk
to me about, Alexandra?

I've changed my mind, mama.
There's nothing to talk about now.

Alexandra,
I know you've had a bad shock...

But you must have expected
this to come.

You knew how sick he was.

Yes, we all knew how sick he was.

Addie, I'm very tired,
and I'm going up to bed.

Put all the lights out,
or the whole town will be over.

Be sure the windows are all closed.

It's blowing hard,
and the rain may come in.

Don't sit there staring like that.

You've been with birdie so much,
you're getting just like her.

That's what aunt birdie said.

Yes, I might have been just like her.

Well, don't grieve too much.

You'll be better
when you get to Chicago.

I'm gonna get you the world
I always wanted.

I don't want the world, mama.

I'm not going to Chicago with you.

You're very upset, Alexandra.
Let's talk about it tomorrow.

There's nothing to talk about.

I'm going away from you
because I want to.

Because I know
papa would want me to.

You know your papa would want you
to go away from me?

Yes.

And if I say no?

Say it, mama.

Say it, and see what happens.

You're very serious about this,
aren't you?

Well, you'll change your mind
in a couple of days.

Alexandra,
I've come to the end of my rope.

Somewhere,
there's got to be what I want too.

Life goes too fast.

You can go where you want,
do what you want, think what you want.

I'd like to keep you with me,
but I won't make you stay.

No, I won't make you stay.

You couldn't, mama,
because I don't want to stay with you.

Because I'm beginning
to understand about things.

Addie said there were people
who ate the earth...

And people who stood around
and watched them do it...

And just now uncle Ben said the
same thing, really the same thing.

Well, tell him for me, mama,
I'm not gonna watch you do it.

Tell him I'll be fighting
as hard as he is...

Someplace where people
don't just stand around and watch.

Why, Alexandra,
you have spirit after all.

I used to think
you were all sugar water.

We don't have to be bad friends, zan.
I don't want us to be bad friends.

Would you like to talk with me,
Alexandra?

Would you like to sleep
in my room tonight?

Why, mama?

Are you afraid?