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00:02:59 #1 And it makes me proud.

00:03:04 #2 Come on, child.

00:03:05 #3 More flowers for Norma.

00:03:14 #4 Your sister's cultivated quite a taste for flowers lately.

00:03:18 #5 And her friends are certainly encouraging her.

00:03:22 #6 You know, Dad, I think we ought to talk to Norma.

00:03:28 #7 Why, James?

00:03:29 #8 Well, I was talking to some of the fellas on our baseball team.

00:03:32 #9 I'm just a treasury, you know?

00:03:34 #10 We've been noticing how she fits about

00:03:37 #11 from one fella to another like uh...

00:03:40 #12 uh...

00:03:41 #13 almost like a butterfly.

00:03:44 #14 Yes.

00:03:46 #15 Now personally I don't approve of you.

00:03:51 #16 Oh I don't mind him acting silly sometimes.

00:03:53 #17 And sort of raising the dickens and all that.

00:03:55 #18 Moonlight can disgust lives seriously.

00:04:03 #19 Well get that Stanley calling for Noah already.

00:04:07 #20 He's always ahead of time.

00:04:11 #21 Close, Sam.

00:04:12 #22 Hello, Tim.

00:04:13 #23 Guess I better be getting dressed myself.

00:04:15 #24 I'll tell Norma you're here.

00:04:17 #25 Evening, Dr. Bethart.

00:04:18 #26 Evening, Stanley.

00:04:19 #27 Thanks.

00:04:22 #28 You're taking Norma to the summer dance

00:04:24 #29 at the Country Club, aren't you?

00:04:26 #30 You bet I am.

00:04:27 #31 I put in my bid early in the spring.

00:04:29 #32 Last year, I didn't ask her till a week ahead of time,

00:04:32 #33 and they were 15 ahead of me.

00:04:34 #34 No, 14.

00:04:35 #35 I'm a bit worried about Norma.

00:04:38 #36 Oh, I reckon I'm old-fashioned, but...

00:04:41 #37 Sometimes I wish you weren't quite so popular.

00:04:44 #38 Yes, sometimes I wish the same thing myself.

00:04:47 #39 Well, anyway, I feel perfectly safe when she's with you.

00:04:51 #40 Thank you.

00:04:52 #41 Oh, Stan! Hey!

00:04:54 #42 Did you hear about our team beatin' water towns?

00:04:57 #43 I took in ten dollars and fifteen cents at the gate.

00:04:59 #44 We only had to pay ten dollars for the use of the...

00:05:04 #45 Yeah, I mean, normal.

00:05:05 #46 When you get away from that mirror,

00:05:07 #47 you've been posing in front of it half-last,

00:05:09 #48 and you're away from that old mirror.

00:05:18 #49 There's a...

00:05:38 #50 And then come, she's brisk like these flowers, Michael!

00:05:51 #51 Yeah, free!

00:05:52 #52 Blumeration of flowers.

00:06:08 #53 When you just put...

00:06:09 #54 But I never dreamt...

00:06:13 #55 the three of my honey you said that same thing to me a year ago.

00:06:22 #56 Go to bed you instant Michael Jeffery.

00:06:25 #57 Well isn't he that young fella from the hills that had been hanging around town

00:06:30 #58 again late I gathered that he was just an ordinary lawfully yes.

00:06:56 #59 Yes indeed very rough when he wanted the boys that was mixed up in that

00:07:03 #60 shooting down at the garage. No he wasn't no he told me all about that

00:07:08 #61 Why you all should be an army you suddenly realize the difference between the fair

00:07:23 #62 that I know when a relative of ours killed somebody he's a fine gentleman defending

00:07:27 #63 the honor woman well I don't like the way you talk with everybody hello mister

00:07:32 #64 when I know my little son my daughter no one would find you here I'll be right

00:07:38 #65 back family I won't talk to you about some of my little matter on my mind that

00:07:43 #66 isn't exactly a lawyer's business John could I have a private chat with you why

00:07:48 #67 I certainly was coming to my office about normal John doesn't really amount to

00:07:57 #68 anything but seems her name got mixed up in a secret

00:08:01 #69 I just pushed out this afternoon.

00:08:04 #70 Young Mike and Jim.

00:08:09 #71 So you just sit down roses.

00:08:11 #72 What did you want to talk to me about?

00:08:13 #73 Well I'll tell you what it is.

00:08:15 #74 I just want to find out how much you really and truly do love me.

00:08:19 #75 And then in the fact that I told you I love you four thousand five hundred

00:08:22 #76 seventy two times I'm afraid that remarked in Norman a bad news no Stanley do you

00:08:28 #77 love me enough to forgive me if I've gone and done a terribly foolish thing yes

00:08:41 #78 that's the trouble what do you want me to forgive no say you'll forgive first I'll

00:08:46 #79 forgive I don't reckon with so terrible much anyhow I've sort of got things

00:08:51 #80 twisted but I was wondering did we have a date to go to dance tonight

00:08:56 #81 That's just what I thought too, Stanley, but it was so long ago, I kind of forgot.

00:09:01 #82 Yeah, one does forget, I suppose.

00:09:03 #83 It was just the funniest thing, but you see, I kind of forgot.

00:09:07 #84 You remember I was over at Mary Ann's couple of weeks ago, and I met Michael.

00:09:13 #85 Oh, well, I see where I take another ride in the rumble seat.

00:09:17 #86 Oh, Stanley, it was just too stupid of me.

00:09:20 #87 So Michael's going to be the latest crush. Is that it?

00:09:23 #88 crush is that it don't be mad at me Stanley D. I'll get it out of the dance tonight

00:09:30 #89 and I'll break my date with Richard Wells for the party next week and then you take

00:09:35 #90 me instead although it's very much against my principles to break a date with anybody.

00:09:40 #91 Oh yeah good looking when you smile. All right save me the second day. Stanley I think you just miss

00:09:57 #92 No, I'm not.

00:09:59 #93 Mr. Shepherd is here.

00:10:01 #94 Oh, Michael.

00:10:09 #95 Well, you know Mr. Wendworth, don't you, Michael?

00:10:12 #96 Yes, I think I do.

00:10:13 #97 Glad to see her.

00:10:14 #98 Yes, it's glad to see her.

00:10:17 #99 Miss Norman tells me you're taking her to the dance tonight.

00:10:20 #100 Yeah, I sort of told him.

00:10:22 #101 Well, you aren't leaving, are you, Stanley?

00:10:24 #102 What?

00:10:25 #103 Yes, I seem to be.

00:10:27 #104 Good night.

00:10:56 #105 I just came to say that I can't go to the dance.

00:11:03 #106 I just found out it was formed.

00:11:05 #107 I don't own a dress suit and I can't afford to buy one. But Michael...

00:11:08 #108 I reckon you can't understand how a fella can keep alive without a dress suit.

00:11:11 #109 I thought I'd tell you in time so he'd get someone else to take it.

00:11:15 #110 I don't suppose you'll have much trouble in doing that.

00:11:18 #111 Michael, don't be silly.

00:11:20 #112 Well, you go just the way you are now.

00:11:23 #113 I'll tell you something.

00:11:25 #114 I never told any other man ever the way you are now.

00:11:32 #115 You'll be the best-looking man there.

00:11:34 #116 Now will you come?

00:11:36 #117 No.

00:11:38 #118 When you're the first man I ever told that to,

00:11:40 #119 he just didn't naturally meld away.

00:11:42 #120 I reckon I'm different from the other men.

00:11:45 #121 You've never told that to.

00:11:51 #122 But that's the only way I can.

00:11:56 #123 Well, you know that isn't so.

00:11:58 #124 Well, excuse me, but that's the only way I can.

00:12:12 #125 You know you don't mean a word of that.

00:12:22 #126 For longer that crowd at the country club,

00:12:24 #127 they look down on me, I know.

00:12:26 #128 But I don't mind that if I could go there

00:12:27 #129 and show them that I could behave

00:12:28 #130 as well as the rest of them.

00:12:32 #131 I'd feel out of place.

00:12:36 #132 You'd like to go some other place with me sometime.

00:12:43 #133 Well, I guess I'd better say good night.

00:12:45 #134 You don't have to rush away like that

00:12:52 #135 because you're turning me down.

00:12:56 #136 It's the first time that ever happened

00:12:57 #137 to me what it's sort of interesting.

00:13:03 #138 You're stubborn, aren't you?

00:13:06 #139 I'm sorry, I...

00:13:08 #140 Michael, I heard about your fight at the post office

00:13:13 #141 this afternoon. It was about me, wasn't it?

00:13:16 #142 Well, I know why.

00:13:17 #143 Oh, yes it was.

00:13:18 #144 May Brandon call me up and tell me all about it.

00:13:21 #145 You gassed and said I was nothing but a...

00:13:24 #146 a silly little copet, didn't he?

00:13:28 #147 and you well I.

00:13:32 #148 Oh my.

00:13:33 #149 What a wonder if it is.

00:13:58 #150 Don't go yet Michael is something else.

00:14:07 #151 Hello Stanley.

00:14:09 #152 I just wondered I know you all didn't have a car and I thought I might drive you over to dance.

00:14:18 #153 Sort of decided not to go to dance.

00:14:23 #154 No I sort of got a headache a little while back and.

00:14:29 #155 Good night.

00:14:35 #156 Why didn't you go.

00:14:37 #157 I just didn't want to.

00:14:40 #158 You.

00:14:42 #159 You don't have to rush away so all of a sudden unless you want to.

00:14:46 #160 I know, I'd like to stay.

00:14:50 #161 I forgot to thank you for the flowers.

00:14:54 #162 I just... loved them.

00:15:02 #163 Sit down and talk a while, Michael.

00:15:08 #164 We just naturally seem to have a lot to say to one another, don't we?

00:15:13 #165 I always did think you were interesting.

00:15:17 #166 Well, you haven't known me but about two weeks.

00:15:19 #167 Oh, maybe I knew you long before that.

00:15:23 #168 What do you mean?

00:15:24 #169 You know you used to be in town on and off when I was in high school.

00:15:28 #170 You can't remember me then.

00:15:30 #171 Yes, I do.

00:15:32 #172 One day in the post office you came rushing by me and almost knocked me down.

00:15:38 #173 Can you remember that?

00:15:39 #174 Uh-huh.

00:15:41 #175 I remember it too.

00:15:42 #176 I thought you were an awful pretty little thing.

00:15:44 #177 And I thought you were awfully rude.

00:15:47 #178 I reckon I was.

00:15:51 #179 I reckon I still am.

00:15:53 #180 I saw the naturalist say the wrong thing.

00:15:56 #181 I've passed in the street dozens of times after that.

00:16:00 #182 And every time I had the strangest feeling that you were turning around to look at me.

00:16:06 #183 Maybe I was.

00:16:07 #184 Of course other men have done that, but with you it was different.

00:16:12 #185 Why?

00:16:13 #186 Well I sort of felt that you weren't just trying to flirt,

00:16:17 #187 but that you really wanted to know me and be my friend.

00:16:21 #188 You're a dead rat.

00:16:23 #189 and I felt the same way about you.

00:16:27 #190 I always wanted to really know you,

00:16:30 #191 but I never dreamed I would.

00:16:33 #192 You always seem so. Far away.

00:16:37 #193 Oh, but I'm not far away. I'm right.

00:16:45 #194 Well, so long, John. I'll take the short cut out the back way.

00:16:49 #195 Good night, Bob.

00:16:53 #196 Daddy.

00:16:57 #197 But didn't you all go to the dance?

00:17:09 #198 Good evening, sir.

00:17:10 #199 I'd like to talk to Mr. Jeffrey alone for a few minutes.

00:17:16 #200 But, Daddy...

00:17:17 #201 If you please.

00:17:22 #202 I don't know that you and I have anything prior to talk about.

00:17:25 #203 I reckon you do.

00:17:28 #204 I shall have to ask you to discontinue seeing my daughter.

00:17:32 #205 Why?

00:17:33 #206 Because you're not the kind of a young man I was my daughter to associate with.

00:17:36 #207 You don't know so very much about me.

00:17:37 #208 I know enough.

00:17:39 #209 This afternoon you engaged in a street fight in which my daughter's name was mentioned.

00:17:43 #210 Did you find out why?

00:17:44 #211 Yes, I did.

00:17:45 #212 My friend Mr. Wentworth was an eyewitness.

00:17:48 #213 I appreciate your motive, sir.

00:17:50 #214 I understand that if my daughter's name needs defendant,

00:17:55 #215 there are men in her own family perfectly capable of doing it.

00:17:57 #216 I suppose you won't be too...

00:17:58 #217 I'm told that you made a public statement to the effect

00:18:02 #218 that you were going to marry my daughter.

00:18:05 #219 Did you?

00:18:06 #220 Well, did you or did you not, sir?

00:18:09 #221 I reckon I must have.

00:18:10 #222 Then all I can say, sir, is you are most presumptuous.

00:18:13 #223 I didn't have any intention to do it.

00:18:14 #224 I don't care what the devil you're attempting for.

00:18:16 #225 Let me explain, will you?

00:18:18 #226 You can't send me some dirty remarks about my being...

00:18:20 #227 about my paying attention to Norm.

00:18:22 #228 When I gave him what was coming to him,

00:18:23 #229 then I began to say the same things where I was thinking.

00:18:25 #230 I said I wasn't used to being played with by any girl.

00:18:27 #231 And it's the only step that my attention to.

00:18:29 #232 It was only because she cared for me.

00:18:30 #233 And if she cared for me, I'd marry her regardless of what a crowd might think of me.

00:18:33 #234 Did you actually post that you were going to marry her?

00:18:40 #235 Maybe I did. I said a lot without thinking.

00:18:43 #236 I'm waiting for your...

00:18:47 #237 I shouldn't have said it.

00:18:50 #238 If you'll accept that for an apology.

00:18:51 #239 I should ask you not to see Norm again. Why not?

00:18:54 #240 Because, Mr. Jeffrey, you're not the kind of a young man my daughter could ever think of, man.

00:18:59 #241 Why not?

00:18:59 #242 Why, you're too wild and unsteady and you're having...

00:19:01 #243 What do you know about man?

00:19:02 #244 You haven't held a steady job since you've been back here.

00:19:05 #245 And you haven't any prospects that would warrant...

00:19:07 #246 What are you looking for? For me, you'll take it.

00:19:10 #247 In the first...

00:19:14 #248 Yes, I know what that means. I'm young man... Daddy!

00:19:17 #249 But who are we young man?

00:19:31 #250 And before I go, I must ask you to give me your word.

00:19:34 #251 You'll make no attempt to see Norm again.

00:19:36 #252 I'll give you my word, Daddy.

00:19:38 #253 And I'll give you a break, or you can go right away, honey.

00:19:42 #254 It's not a lie to Mrs. Cary.

00:20:05 #255 But I don't care long as you two don't get to fight him.

00:20:09 #256 I don't suppose he'll ever really trust me again.

00:20:12 #257 And he's just the most adorable old daddy.

00:20:16 #258 I reckon you must think that was the right thing for me to say.

00:20:19 #259 What?

00:20:20 #260 About my going to marry you.

00:20:23 #261 I said that because I love you.

00:20:32 #262 You're giving your word to your father, not to see me again.

00:20:34 #263 So I guess I'd better move on.

00:20:36 #264 Don't go yet, Michael.

00:20:40 #265 What's that to keep me here?

00:20:52 #266 Do you care at all about me, Norma?

00:20:55 #267 Because if I thought you cared for me, I'd settle down

00:20:56 #268 and go to work and really make some for myself.

00:20:59 #269 And I'd show your father that I could qualify as your husband

00:21:01 #270 as well as any other man.

00:21:03 #271 Only I mean Norma, really care for me.

00:21:04 #272 Really love me.

00:21:05 #273 Not play around with me.

00:21:07 #274 That's what I mean.

00:21:08 #275 Why don't you say something, Norma?

00:21:09 #276 If you don't care for me, just say so.

00:21:11 #277 And I'll beat it and you won't see me around this town again.

00:21:13 #278 Oh, don't do that, Michael.

00:21:18 #279 It scares me so, Michael.

00:21:21 #280 What?

00:21:22 #281 The way I feel about you.

00:21:26 #282 I love you more than anybody in the world.

00:21:31 #283 I love you even more than my daddy.

00:21:34 #284 You do love me, Norma.

00:21:36 #285 Yes.

00:21:37 #286 That's all I want to know.

00:21:39 #287 I'll show your father.

00:21:41 #288 People think I'm too lazy to wait.

00:21:42 #289 But it's just that I can't breathe when I'm shut up. I know.

00:21:46 #290 But I can stand anything for you, Norma.

00:21:47 #291 I can get a job that's being up in the hills.

00:21:49 #292 And I'm going up there tomorrow.

00:21:51 #293 And normal, this is what I'll do.

00:21:52 #294 I'll still be there for six months.

00:21:54 #295 You tell him that, Norma, and tell him

00:21:56 #296 that I'm coming back at the end of six months to marry you.

00:21:59 #297 Six months.

00:22:01 #298 It'll seem 600 years.

00:22:04 #299 Goodbye, Norma.

00:22:06 #300 Michael.

00:22:11 #301 I'm not going to kiss you.

00:22:13 #302 I've seen all the others doing that.

00:22:16 #303 I won't kiss you until I come back to marry you.

00:22:18 #304 And that'll be worth waiting for.

00:22:24 #305 Well, this didn't get us into place.

00:22:26 #306 Good night.

00:22:36 #307 Goodbye, Michael. I'll be waiting.

00:28:34 #308 And I can't go in there, but I would like to see you for a little while.

00:28:36 #309 I've got to be back on the job tomorrow.

00:28:43 #310 I'll send her out if you like. Thanks.

00:28:45 #311 Are you cutting it again?

00:29:03 #312 You bet I am. I won't be getting ahead of me with no more.

00:29:06 #313 I'll go again.

00:29:09 #314 Bye. I just want to run for that.

00:29:15 #315 I'm running from the wind.

00:30:40 #316 Yes, I should just go back.

00:30:41 #317 Oh, but I'm glad you came.

00:30:44 #318 I said I wouldn't be back for six months. And here I am.

00:30:47 #319 I'll fail again. I always fail.

00:30:50 #320 Oh, let not talk of failure, Michael.

00:30:52 #321 Let's just be happy.

00:30:55 #322 I couldn't stand it, though.

00:30:58 #323 I've been feeling myself for all these months I've been failing.

00:31:01 #324 I won't fail. I work hard and I won't fail.

00:31:04 #325 But he has to drop me heels. I got so desperate alone.

00:31:07 #326 I thought I'd come back and help.

00:31:08 #327 This one, look at you, darling.

00:31:10 #328 And then go back.

00:31:11 #329 And I will go back. Right away, I shouldn't have come.

00:31:14 #330 Oh, Michael, if you only knew how sad I am to you.

00:31:19 #331 Oh, please, say, trust me, just a little while.

00:31:23 #332 I've been doing crazy, Dr. It seems that I can't breathe unless you...

00:31:31 #333 But that's what I've got to go back, and luckily it's supposed to be to be married.

00:31:45 #334 Oh, but just a little while in your arms, to the mothering.

00:31:59 #335 But this is so, so real.

00:32:03 #336 Don't ever let me go, please.

00:32:10 #337 Oh, Norma!

00:32:16 #338 You better go.

00:32:17 #339 No.

00:32:18 #340 You're bad, darling.

00:32:19 #341 No, no, no, I won't let you go.

00:32:20 #342 See, you think I can go back there and dance and laugh?

00:32:22 #343 Oh, please stay with me just a little while longer.

00:32:25 #344 Oh, Norma!

00:32:27 #345 Well, I can't, huh?

00:32:28 #346 There's a fire down here.

00:32:29 #347 And then let's go wait in here anywhere so we can be together.

00:32:33 #348 Oh, let's stay out in the moonlight and...

00:32:36 #349 and be so terribly happy.

00:32:39 #350 Oh, Norma!

00:32:40 #351 Norma!

00:32:41 #352 Say she sure can't disappear, can she?

00:32:43 #353 Hey, Norma!

00:32:45 #354 Oh, Norma!

00:32:46 #355 Can you please that girl?

00:32:48 #356 Say, Dan, next time you take her to a dance,

00:32:50 #357 she's better handcuff her.

00:32:52 #358 Oh, she's all right.

00:32:53 #359 Why don't you all go inside and get some ice cream?

00:32:56 #360 That sounds good to me. No, sir.

00:32:58 #361 She's too young to be out on the moon like that

00:33:00 #362 without one of her family within snooping distance.

00:33:03 #363 I'm going to find her.

00:33:04 #364 Come on, Bloodhound. Let's help her.

00:33:05 #365 Oh, God!

00:33:06 #366 Orlitz, she's all right.

00:33:08 #367 I've slipped in the side door and eaten up all the ice cream while we're out here starving.

00:33:25 #368 Good morning, Dad.

00:34:28 #369 Morning, son.

00:34:29 #370 Judy says you want to see me?

00:34:30 #371 Yes, I do.

00:34:32 #372 Jim and Am I in for a lecture?

00:34:34 #373 I'm afraid so.

00:34:35 #374 I'm a dad. I don't remember.

00:34:37 #375 You remember coming home from the dance at four o'clock this morning, don't you?

00:34:40 #376 Four o'clock this morning.

00:34:41 #377 I wasn't sleeping very well.

00:34:43 #378 I heard the town clock strike the R, and then I heard you come in.

00:34:47 #379 You heard me come in.

00:34:48 #380 What were you doing up until that hour?

00:34:51 #381 Oh, I don't know just fooling around I guess.

00:34:56 #382 What do you mean by fooling around?

00:34:59 #383 Oh, just fooling around.

00:35:02 #384 James, you're acting very strangely about this.

00:35:07 #385 Now you want this.

00:35:08 #386 Very well, son.

00:35:13 #387 You're getting to be a man and I reckon it's about time I respected your process.

00:35:19 #388 Thank you, sir.

00:35:20 #389 James, I'm very proud of my children.

00:35:24 #390 Don't do anything that'll make me ashamed of you or don't do anything that'll make you ashamed of yourself

00:35:30 #391 Will you know sir honest that I have all right all right?

00:35:56 #392 Daddy I'm four o'clock back to old to make me get the blame for it

00:36:05 #393 Never you must have been neck and over time

00:36:07 #394 Leave me I'd never marry a girl like that

00:36:12 #395 Silly now in the end of the round of it like a girl

00:36:18 #396 All right, he's not him.

00:36:32 #397 Jim and his dad ever found that out.

00:36:35 #398 Howdy, Mr. Jeffrey.

00:36:37 #399 Do you mind if I speak to Norma alone?

00:36:42 #400 Why?

00:36:43 #401 Sure.

00:36:44 #402 Come out any minute.

00:36:53 #403 That's fine. I want to see him.

00:36:55 #404 Michael, I thought you'd gone back to Hill.

00:36:59 #405 You really shouldn't have come here.

00:37:01 #406 Daddy saw you.

00:37:02 #407 I came to see him, Norma. I came to see you.

00:37:04 #408 I've been thinking over last night.

00:37:06 #409 I know what to kill myself over there.

00:37:08 #410 Oh, no, Michael.

00:37:09 #411 Norma, we've got to get married right away.

00:37:12 #412 Right away?

00:37:13 #413 Yes.

00:37:15 #414 I was just making for the heels this morning when I heard some gossip in town.

00:37:19 #415 You guests in Jack Gray were coming home from a hunting trip at four o'clock this morning,

00:37:22 #416 and they saw us come out of my mother's cabin.

00:37:24 #417 They knew that my mother was over in Watertown at her cousin,

00:37:27 #418 and that we were in the cabin alone.

00:37:30 #419 They couldn't get back to town fast enough to spread the news.

00:37:36 #420 You know what they're saying.

00:37:38 #421 I don't care what they're saying.

00:37:40 #422 As long as you love me, Michael, I'm glad. I'm glad.

00:37:44 #423 No, my Lord.

00:37:45 #424 It was my fault as much as yours.

00:37:47 #425 You told me your mother was out of town, and I'm glad we were there. Alone.

00:37:52 #426 It's going to be all right, honey.

00:37:54 #427 I'll tell your father we'll get married right away.

00:37:56 #428 Oh, no, no. You mustn't do that.

00:37:58 #429 Oh, you don't know my daddy.

00:38:00 #430 He's so terrible stubborn if you go against him.

00:38:02 #431 He'd do most anything.

00:38:04 #432 No. Let me ask him.

00:38:06 #433 It's my job to ask him, honey.

00:38:08 #434 I won't lose my temper.

00:38:10 #435 He'll be furious. He'll never let it.

00:38:11 #436 Then we'll go to Watertown and get married anyhow.

00:38:13 #437 Well, you can live with my cousins until I make enough money

00:38:16 #438 to buy that little place I told you about.

00:38:18 #439 I'm gonna make good, honey. I just, I will.

00:38:21 #440 I know you will, Michael.

00:38:23 #441 And I'm gonna be so good to you.

00:38:26 #442 I'll keep house, and I'll cook, and I'll scrub,

00:38:28 #443 and I'll take care of you.

00:38:30 #444 And if things don't go right, I won't mind,

00:38:32 #445 because I'll have you.

00:38:33 #446 Do be so careful when you speak to Daddy.

00:38:38 #447 I'm so afraid.

00:38:40 #448 Tell them that you worship a good woman, Michael.

00:38:43 #449 You might as well say the things he likes.

00:38:46 #450 Tell them that the path of the old south distresses you.

00:38:50 #451 Oh, it won't do any harm to say that, Willard.

00:38:53 #452 Don't worry, honey. I'll eat mud if I have to.

00:38:56 #453 Do you think it would help if I prayed for you, Michael?

00:39:00 #454 Oh, I love you so much, dearest.

00:39:02 #455 Hold me tight for just a moment.

00:39:04 #456 I love you more than all the men and women and houses and everything.

00:39:09 #457 Can't you feel how much I love you?

00:39:12 #458 Daddy always pretends to be so busy in that old office of his.

00:39:41 #459 Sometimes I think he's just flirting with his lady patients.

00:39:45 #460 I'd like to work with you, Dr. Besar.

00:40:01 #461 Daddy, Daddy just pretends to be strict when we have company.

00:40:09 #462 But he's really the most adorable old daddy.

00:40:12 #463 Norma, you both gave me your word not to see each other again.

00:40:17 #464 I wouldn't expect him to keep his word, but you...

00:40:19 #465 But you know it was my fault.

00:40:21 #466 I beg your pardon, sir, for I'm addressing my daughter.

00:40:24 #467 But, Daddy, he's just never...

00:40:25 #468 Norman, do you want this lover blagging your name in the gutter game?

00:40:28 #469 I beg your pardon, sir.

00:40:29 #470 Very quiet.

00:40:32 #471 It's about time I open my daughter's eyes to the character of a black-eyed like you.

00:40:36 #472 Now, don't think that...

00:40:37 #473 I'm her father, sir, and it's my intention to safeguard my daughter's innocence.

00:40:41 #474 If you will allow me.

00:40:42 #475 I'll allow you to leave my house, Mr. Jeffrey.

00:40:44 #476 Yes, sir, but if you just...

00:40:45 #477 I don't want you nor the likes of you hanging around here.

00:40:48 #478 I hope I make myself so you won't come sneaking around when the moment you pick my back turns.

00:40:55 #479 In the first place I didn't come sneaking.

00:40:57 #480 That's the word I applied to your conduct, sir.

00:41:00 #481 And unless you wish me to apply a stronger one, you'd better take your hat and leave.

00:41:04 #482 Sure, I'll leave.

00:41:05 #483 Ah, thank you, sir.

00:41:06 #484 But it seems to me with all this sugar that's being grated around here,

00:41:09 #485 you might at least let me explain my side of the story.

00:41:12 #486 I've never stifled so much abuse from anybody.

00:41:14 #487 If I didn't consider it unbecoming my ears, you'd stand up built of a different kind.

00:41:18 #488 No, sir, I wouldn't.

00:41:19 #489 If it weren't for you, you'd never get away with what you've already did.

00:41:22 #490 Michael, you go now and let me talk to you.

00:41:24 #491 If he doesn't go, I'll put him out.

00:41:26 #492 Good, Daddy.

00:41:27 #493 Anoma? I'm not holding you blameless.

00:41:29 #494 But you have the slightest idea what's in this poor's mind.

00:41:32 #495 And you can thank God you're my father to protect you.

00:41:34 #496 You won't need to protect her when we're married.

00:41:36 #497 Michael.

00:41:37 #498 My daughter will never marry you nor any...

00:41:40 #499 There's gonna be for everyone concerned.

00:41:47 #500 I was going to ask you to let us marry.

00:41:54 #501 But I see there's no use of that.

00:41:55 #502 So I'm telling you understand.

00:41:56 #503 You understand all your time my way.

00:42:00 #504 Are you, impure, done scum group?

00:42:07 #505 Well, I'll get out of this town when I please,

00:42:09 #506 and I'll take her with me.

00:42:11 #507 I'll get my things, Norman.

00:42:12 #508 Come back to you and go to my cousin.

00:42:14 #509 If there was any kind of a gentleman about to shut up,

00:42:16 #510 you'd be a real drunk.

00:42:17 #511 You shut your mouth for a while and try

00:42:28 #512 to find out what happened last night.

00:42:29 #513 You wouldn't be so down to breathe, I'd marry her. Michael, stop.

00:42:32 #514 Why do you suppose she wasn't till four o'clock this morning?

00:42:35 #515 Why do you suppose she spent the night in my cabin,

00:42:37 #516 alone with me, the whole town knows about it?

00:42:40 #517 Why you old fool, you ought to be begging me to marry her.

00:42:43 #518 I've been trying to do the right thing,

00:42:45 #519 trying to protect your daughter's name,

00:42:47 #520 but you won't let me.

00:42:48 #521 So I'll marry her and protect her in spite of you.

00:42:52 #522 I'll come back this afternoon for you, Norma.

00:42:59 #523 No, you'll always just be.

00:43:10 #524 You have to be told what he said about last night in truth.

00:43:22 #525 I want you to take Miss Norma to her room and keep her there.

00:43:35 #526 I heard Norma call me. I was coming up.

00:43:36 #527 Is there anything wrong? Yes, Stanley.

00:43:38 #528 Something definitely wrong.

00:43:39 #529 But I'm going to rectify.

00:43:41 #530 Dr. Bassant, you're on the other side. This is my time.

00:43:43 #531 Come this side, sir.

00:43:44 #532 Listen, honey, it's...

00:43:51 #533 What's he going to do?

00:43:52 #534 It's all right, dear.

00:43:53 #535 Just wait here a minute.

00:43:54 #536 Here it is, there it was.

00:43:56 #537 You're like the devil.

00:43:56 #538 The short cuts of Ike's caravan, tell him to keep outside.

00:43:59 #539 Michael, your father will kill him if you don't hurt.

00:44:01 #540 Listen, honey, it's a little upset about something, and...

00:44:07 #541 Well, he went over to our house, and Ike said,

00:44:10 #542 Ike said, Ike...

00:44:11 #543 Yes, he's loyal, you know.

00:44:13 #544 I'm going to find out what it's all about.

00:44:15 #545 Now, now, don't you worry, honey.

00:44:24 #546 Child, your dad is just upset a little.

00:44:26 #547 Oh, Julia, he was so mad.

00:44:29 #548 You don't suppose he hurt Michael?

00:44:31 #549 No, no, honey.

00:44:33 #550 Chana, calm your sad girl.

00:44:36 #551 Now you just come and tell your mammy all about it.

00:44:43 #552 Julia, I love you so much they don't understand.

00:44:48 #553 Don't mammy understand just like I always did,

00:44:51 #554 because you're still my baby.

00:44:59 #555 Julia, I'm different.

00:45:02 #556 I'm not going to be a pro cat anymore.

00:45:05 #557 I'm going to be married.

00:45:10 #558 Came back last night.

00:45:12 #559 I was just starving to see him.

00:45:15 #560 We couldn't stay there with all that crowd.

00:45:18 #561 So we went to his mother's cabin where we could be alone.

00:45:22 #562 Talk over those long months of separation.

00:45:26 #563 It was just like heaven, that little cabin of his.

00:45:31 #564 So snug and cozy and warm.

00:45:34 #565 Michael built a fire while I made some coffee.

00:45:38 #566 It was a good coffee, too, Junior.

00:45:41 #567 Michael said he never tasted better.

00:45:45 #568 He sort of told us to land a little home of our own.

00:45:51 #569 Michael knows a place we can buy a cheap thing

00:45:53 #570 and make some money.

00:45:56 #571 A little house in the valley.

00:45:58 #572 Very tiny, you know, but plenty big enough for us.

00:46:03 #573 The flowers all around him big trees.

00:46:07 #574 Michael told me old bounders.

00:46:10 #575 Oh, he was so sweet, Julia.

00:46:13 #576 I was cuddled up on his lap, just like I'm sitting here now.

00:46:18 #577 And we saw the whispering.

00:46:20 #578 And we watched him the future together.

00:46:25 #579 I was so happy I just wanted to hug him to death.

00:46:29 #580 But Michael was funny.

00:46:31 #581 He said he couldn't trust himself.

00:46:35 #582 Said he was afraid.

00:46:37 #583 He reckoned I'd better go home and not see him again

00:46:41 #584 until he came back to marry me.

00:46:44 #585 And when he said goodnight, he wouldn't even kiss me,

00:46:48 #586 kept saying he was afraid.

00:46:52 #587 Then he brought me home.

00:46:55 #588 He then out began to wonder if it all really happened.

00:46:59 #589 If Marker had really come back, or if it was just a dream...

00:47:05 #590 Maybe it was a dream, Zinnia.

00:47:08 #591 I don't believe it could be so much happiness in real life.

00:47:14 #592 No matter, honey. I don't know.

00:47:18 #593 I'll feel terrible.

00:47:21 #594 I'll reckon I must be all excited.

00:47:25 #595 So exactly as if...

00:47:28 #596 I don't know...

00:47:30 #597 as if I've been shot.

00:47:32 #598 Nana, honey, you're just upset. Come sit down.

00:47:35 #599 Shot.

00:47:35 #600 He has!

00:47:57 #601 The storm on the state road, he seemed to be going someplace.

00:48:04 #602 Did you see Michael?

00:48:05 #603 Didn't know he was back in town.

00:48:06 #604 Look, Norma, we came to show you our cup.

00:48:08 #605 Yeah, we won the dancing contest, that's the last last year.

00:48:10 #606 He has his pretty, but are you sure you didn't see it?

00:48:12 #607 We were doing the new steps, the rabbit ramble.

00:48:14 #608 You teach her, Norma, you really should know it.

00:48:19 #609 This is the case!

00:48:20 #610 You see, it's not a report.

00:48:21 #611 New and bestie step outside a moment.

00:48:46 #612 We were teaching Norma how to do them.

00:48:48 #613 Please.

00:48:49 #614 See you all later, Norma.

00:48:53 #615 Goodbye, Norma.

00:48:54 #616 Norma

00:49:00 #617 You get it

00:49:13 #618 It's not a normal honey family there is something out here. Let's get down

00:49:20 #619 Family went with what is it? What happened?

00:49:24 #620 Not here come sit down. Let me talk to you more. Oh, why the act this way?

00:49:29 #621 I might as well be frank here and tell you that there's been a little something going wrong

00:49:34 #622 Did take that all it is dear all there is to it now you got to be very brave and not lose control

00:49:40 #623 it tell me what happened father and Michael had a quarrel he did you he did

00:49:49 #624 you know my no one I'm honey you drive me crazy you've got to tell me everything

00:49:56 #625 Michael yes well is it bad I reckon it is here well you promised me that you

00:50:12 #626 it. Please tell me everything your father followed Michael to his cabin and Michael

00:50:20 #627 was shot. Oh my God. No dear. But I'm afraid the wound is.

00:50:36 #628 You can't live here.

00:50:56 #629 Michael, honey.

00:50:59 #630 Michael can't live.

00:51:01 #631 Can't live?

00:51:07 #632 We'll live, I can't.

00:51:10 #633 A little house in the valley.

00:53:12 #634 I know, darling.

00:53:14 #635 We're going to be so happy.

00:53:22 #636 Norma. Norma.

00:53:29 #637 I love you, Norville.

00:53:36 #638 And I love you more than my life.

00:53:42 #639 I won't do kiss you.

00:53:48 #640 Say you're just a Michael.

00:54:04 #641 Oh, Michael.

00:54:07 #642 And above all, don't talk.

00:57:05 #643 Speak to you, woman heartless, but I've got to talk to you

00:57:39 #644 before anybody comes.

00:57:41 #645 I want you to save your father's life.

00:57:43 #646 Michael's gone.

00:57:49 #647 You need to control your fight.

00:58:03 #648 You can't fight to save him.

00:58:04 #649 Written law, let your father was mistaken.

00:58:45 #650 But don't you see if he was mistaken,

00:58:47 #651 he has killed an innocent man?

00:58:50 #652 And to save his life, you're proud of him.

00:58:56 #653 I've never seen him. No.

00:59:06 #654 Me and I don't care what happens.

00:59:25 #655 I'm warning you.

00:59:26 #656 Do you realize he may hang?

00:59:33 #657 All of you listen!

00:59:48 #658 Thank you!

01:00:37 #659 Breaking they don't let Dad have his assed dinner coffee to jail, eh Norma?

01:00:41 #660 I reckon not, Billy.

01:00:44 #661 Funny these past three months the house seems kind of empty without him.

01:00:48 #662 You remember how he used to sit here with his evening paper every night?

01:00:52 #663 Puff it that old cigar.

01:00:55 #664 Sort of looks so contented like.

01:00:58 #665 I remember.

01:00:59 #666 Jiminy, I like Dad. He used to say it made him feel so proud to enjoy his after dinner smoke with me.

01:01:09 #667 Say, are you crying again?

01:01:12 #668 No, Jimmy. I thought crying long ago.

01:01:17 #669 Norma, why do you and Dad stay so mad at each other?

01:01:21 #670 I'm not mad at him, Jimmy.

01:01:23 #671 Who will you don't hardly speak to each other?

01:01:26 #672 I tried to, but he just doesn't want to speak to me.

01:01:31 #673 He sits there and I call him without looking at me.

01:01:34 #674 I think you ought to tell him well, you know as Mr. Wentworth says, he did what he thought was right.

01:01:40 #675 I've forgiven him. I've forgiven him a long time ago, but he just won't forgive me.

01:01:46 #676 Why not? It wasn't your fault.

01:01:49 #677 Yes it was, Jimmy. I broke my promise to them.

01:01:54 #678 If I let Michael go away that night, I would dance like he wanted to.

01:02:01 #679 Oh, but why talk about that now?

01:02:03 #680 You've got to do some work on your elbow, you know.

01:02:06 #681 I'll help you if you like.

01:02:08 #682 The trial's been going pretty much against Dad, hasn't it?

01:02:11 #683 I reckon it has.

01:02:13 #684 They've certainly made it look like he had no reason to kill Michael.

01:02:17 #685 I guess Michael must have been a mighty decent fellow

01:02:20 #686 from what the prosecution witnesses have testified.

01:02:23 #687 That pal of his, Ben Wilson, said he'd been working hard as the dickens up in the hills

01:02:29 #688 to make enough money to marry you.

01:02:31 #689 And he used to show him your picture, and once he saw him kissing.

01:02:36 #690 And how that old doctor described the way he died in your arms.

01:02:41 #691 Jim and he had almost made people cry.

01:02:44 #692 Oh gee, I'm sorry, Norma.

01:02:50 #693 I was just thinking of poor old Dad.

01:02:53 #694 that he has much chance I reckon if they prove there was really nothing wrong well

01:03:03 #695 then says he doesn't mind anymore if I smoke more than one of these a day he says

01:03:10 #696 I can use my own judgment because I'm a man now he said I'd soon be the man of

01:03:18 #697 the family no Jimmy that's what we need to stand tomorrow and well don't worry

01:03:28 #698 You may pose yourself and answer my questions as briefly and clearly as possible.

01:03:40 #699 Yes, sir.

01:03:41 #700 What's your name?

01:03:42 #701 Norma Bassant.

01:03:43 #702 You are related to Dr. Bassant, the defendant in this case?

01:03:47 #703 Yes, sir. He's my father.

01:03:49 #704 Your mother is dead, is she not?

01:03:52 #705 Yes, sir. She's been dead over 12 years.

01:03:55 #706 You have lived then for the past 12 years with your father?

01:03:59 #707 Yes, sir. And with my brother.

01:04:01 #708 Miss Passant, do you remember the events of the evening of September 18?

01:04:10 #709 I said, do you remember the events of the evening of September 18?

01:04:30 #710 Yes, sir.

01:04:31 #711 Where were you that evening?

01:04:33 #712 At the Dance of the Sunnydale Country Club.

01:04:36 #713 Did Markle Jeff reappear at that dance?

01:04:39 #714 Yes.

01:04:41 #715 Had you been expecting him?

01:04:43 #716 No.

01:04:44 #717 Did he stay at the dance?

01:04:46 #718 No.

01:04:47 #719 What did he do?

01:04:48 #720 do. You have to leave the dance and go to his mother's cabin did you go.

01:04:58 #721 Did you know you would be alone with him in the cabin. No he said his mother

01:05:03 #722 was there when you found his mother was not there did you attempt to leave.

01:05:11 #723 Why didn't. He made.

01:05:14 #724 me. Did Michael Jeffery make love to you there. Yes did you resist him. Yes but he

01:05:22 #725 forced his attention. Yes and you could not resist his love making no and he made

01:05:28 #726 you hear you. He made you hear you to an extreme. Then he did what would just

01:05:36 #727 apply in his father killing him. I object and move on I could be sticking out.

01:05:42 #728 The girl is not the judge of whether her father was justified.

01:05:46 #729 Objection sustained.

01:05:48 #730 Very well.

01:05:50 #731 I think that's all that Jolene needs to know.

01:05:54 #732 Just a minute.

01:05:55 #733 I wanted new questions to ask this witness.

01:06:06 #734 You'll be good enough to take your place on the stand.

01:06:11 #735 Miss Bazant.

01:06:26 #736 I believe you were in love with Michael Jeffery, were you not?

01:06:30 #737 No.

01:06:33 #738 You were?

01:06:34 #739 No.

01:06:35 #740 Then why didn't you tell him after he was shot that you loved him more than life itself?

01:06:39 #741 He was dying out. Pityed him.

01:06:43 #742 You... you were very tender to him.

01:06:47 #743 He was dying.

01:06:48 #744 You kissed him.

01:06:50 #745 He was dying out tender.

01:06:52 #746 You cried as though your heart were broken.

01:06:57 #747 I... I cried once when my doll was broken.

01:07:02 #748 He spoke of a little house in the valley.

01:07:06 #749 He... he was delirious.

01:07:09 #750 Hadn't he gone up into the hills to work diligently in order that he might buy that little house for you?

01:07:14 #751 No.

01:07:15 #752 Then why did he go up into the hills?

01:07:17 #753 Because... because he was... he was angry, I reckon.

01:07:21 #754 Angry? Why?

01:07:24 #755 Because he... he couldn't have me then.

01:07:28 #756 Why? He carried your picture. He cherished it.

01:07:32 #757 He probably had pictures of lots of girls.

01:07:36 #758 And you really think that Michael Jepprey had a affair with other women?

01:07:42 #759 That is not much.

01:07:51 #760 Isn't... Who married you?

01:07:54 #761 Yes. If he had to, I reckon.

01:07:57 #762 Didn't you discuss your marriage that night in the cabin?

01:08:00 #763 No.

01:08:02 #764 Then what did you discuss?

01:08:03 #765 You can't remember anything he said no

01:08:11 #766 Did he tell you that he loved you no?

01:08:14 #767 I want you to tell me exactly what happened. Well, I told you I told you he may love

01:08:23 #768 Yes, and he was gentle and tender. Oh, no, no. Are you sure?

01:08:28 #769 No, it wasn't that kind of love. How do you know?

01:08:33 #770 How can you say it wasn't a beast?

01:08:39 #771 The man you held close in your arms while his eyes were closed forever by death?

01:08:44 #772 Yes, yes.

01:08:45 #773 The man you said you loved more than life itself?

01:08:47 #774 Yes, and not generally, yes, not yet.

01:08:49 #775 The man who's last words were, I love you.

01:08:52 #776 No, no, no, don't be.

01:08:59 #777 I try and compose yourself, Mr. There's no occasion for all this excitement.

01:09:03 #778 I can't talk to you.

01:09:04 #779 I just get a little nervous. That's all I...

01:09:13 #780 Oh, Ma. You haven't been telling the truth.

01:09:48 #781 Don't you understand?

01:10:01 #782 I understand.

01:10:06 #783 In the eyes.

01:10:13 #784 Have you been telling the truth about that night?

01:10:17 #785 Oh.

01:10:18 #786 My norm of a child, that's all that matters.

01:10:34 #787 Don't you realize that to know that you're still my baby means more to me than my life?

01:10:42 #788 I tried.

01:10:43 #789 I tried so hard, Dad.

01:10:45 #790 Why, your daddy's life won't work that sacrifice.

01:10:49 #791 I was just a blind headstrong fool and I ruined the happiness of one I love most in all the world.

01:10:58 #792 I've taken an instant life and I'm ready to pay the pay.

01:11:03 #793 Will you do one thing more for your daddy?

01:11:23 #794 Just for a moment, let's be such good friends like we always were.

01:11:30 #795 Say you forgive me, Norman. Put your arms around and kiss me like you used to.

01:11:38 #796 Dear Daddy, and I'll love you more than anything in the whole wide world.

01:11:54 #797 Everything's all right now. My baby, my, and your, you made me here.

01:12:08 #798 They still retract all of her testimony.

01:12:25 #799 What she told you about herself and Michael Jeffrey

01:12:28 #800 was a sacrifice on her part to save my life,

01:12:31 #801 and I cannot accept doctors and innocent girls.

01:12:38 #802 Remember who is guilty of no wrong.

01:12:41 #803 I'm aware that I owe my life to the state.

01:12:45 #804 As a Southern general, sir,

01:12:47 #805 I have never failed to pay my debts.

01:12:50 #806 And I stand ready now to offer my life for one hour, Kate.

01:12:54 #807 off. All right really and thank you so much hello Stanley only I reckon I know how

01:13:54 #808 to feel that's all right. I'm right proud of my daddy. Now take your phone now. No

01:14:08 #809 thank you you don't mind I'd rather be alone normal one thing I want to tell you.

01:14:15 #810 I reckon it's going to take a long, long time to forget.

01:14:18 #811 But no matter how long it takes, honey, I'll be waiting.

01:14:24 #812 Damley, you always were.

01:14:29 #813 Don't look. I must hurry along home now.

01:14:39 #814 I've got to help Jimmy with his algebra.