Daisy Kenyon Page #4

I can't wander all my life.

I've got to be going somewhere.

Can't you understand that?

Even if it's to the movies.

Angelus, I'll see you in 15 minutes.

You cook like you paint, honey-

Fast, colorful and glib.

I'll call the theater

and see what time the picture goes on.

You'd make some selfish goon a much better

wife than he deserves, is all I can say.

That's all I can say too.

Greenwich. Greenwich.

Hello?

- Miss Kenyon?

- Yes.

Hello. How are you?

This is Pete Lapham.

- Hello?

- I'm very well, thank you.

That's good. I just happened to be in your

part of town. I don't suppose I could come by?

I'm sorry, but you caught me

as I was on my way out.

I have a cab waiting downstairs

and a whole gang of people.

- You have?

- Yes, I have.

We're on our way to a ball game,

and we're very, very, very late.

- Please, can't I come up?

- I'm afraid you can't.

Tomorrow or any other day?

No, not tomorrow or any other day.

Well, what time does

the picture go on?

Oh, how stupid of me. I'm sorry. Somebody

called, and I forgot all about it.

Thank you.

- Yes, sir?

- Uh, scotch and soda, please.

This isn't a bar. It's a restaurant,

or haven't you noticed?

Well, in that case, bring me

a steak sandwich and a glass of milk.

Who's in there, buddy?

Your wife?

I can give you the name of a guy who works

very cheap and save you all this trouble.

If I had a wife, it's when she wasn't

at the movies I'd worry, not when she was.

Steak sandwich and a glass of milk.

Door downstairs was open.

Yes?

I did something bad.

Yes, I guess you did.

You'd better tell me. It had something

to do with the ball game, didn't it?

Well, you were supposed to call me this morning

and take me out this afternoon. That's all.

- Except that I didn't.

- Except that you didn't.

I've been shot twice

for a good deal less than that.

I forgot.

Look, it's late. I'm afraid

you'd better run along.

Can I come back again sometime?

I- I don't know.

You-You mix up everything.

You don't sound mixed up.

You sound composed, certain.

- No, don't, Pete.

- I'm going.

I just want to hold you

for a minute.

The world's dead,

and everybody in it's dead but you.

How did they come to die?

Daisy, have you-

Did you ever let yourself get into a mood

you couldn't find a way out of?

What's the matter?

My wife was killed in an accident.

Driving a car down from Truro

on the cape five years ago.

That started it-

a kind of slow dying.

I fought against it,

but it happened anyway.

The war did the rest.

That's foolish,

and I think you know it.

Yes. Two times I was wounded,

I wanted like anything to live.

But when I got well,

it started again.

That's why I didn't get out

of the army after Europe.

With Susy gone

I didn't want to see any of my friends...

or go back to anything

I'd ever done before.

That was bad, wasn't it?

But I don't believe a word of it.

Oh, I believe the facts, all right...

but not the melodrama.

If everything had gone dead for you,

you wouldn't know it.

You wouldn't be sitting here

trying to sound like a case history.

And you know all about

case histories, don't you?

All right, have your tragedy,

have your melodrama. Go on.

You're using me, sort of.

Yes. Aren't you using me?

We can talk about me

but not about you?

I'm not interesting.

There's no melodrama in my life.

You're in love with a ruthless tycoon.

Isn't that melodrama?

It isn't like that at all.

You don't know.

Do you love him?

Yes, I do love him.

But it isn't enough,

or I wouldn't be here, would I?

Would you like some milk?

Gosh, no. I drank two gallons

waiting for you to come out of that movie.

In all the case histories I've read,

it seems a good idea to get a job...

find other things to think about.

The whole thing'll go

a month after we're married.

Married?

You're a south-by-north character

if there ever was one.

Y- You're exactly what I don't need.

You know you're very tender

about being proposed to?

Will you marry me?

I love you, and I want to marry you.

Please say yes.

Please? Come and meet my sister

and brother-in-law in Scarsdale...

and receive a letter

from my aunt in Cambridge.

Please?

Come live with me and be my love.

Or better still, let me come here

and live with you.

Please marry me.

Darling Daisy.

Lovely Daisy.

You have such nice ears, Daisy.

Let's- Let's start all over again.

There's a-There's a baseball game

Wednesday night.

If I'm not here Wednesday at 7:00,

I won't bother to call again.

- Good night, Miss Kenyon.

- Good night.

- Hello, Mr. O'Mara. How's California?

- Hello, honeybunch.

- Mr. O'Mara. Good to have you back.

- Hello, Frances. How are you?

- Hiya, Jack.

- Hello, Mr. O'Mara.

- Hello, darlings!

- Hi. We'd given you up for lost.

Fancy meeting you here, Dan O'Mara.

Marsha, first things first.

Get me Chelsea 2-0459.

- Nine.

- Where's Coverly and Coverly?

One foot in the grave,

the other on my neck.

Can't I go away for 18 days

without him bothering us?

Oh, hello, sugarplum.

Have you any idea

what's been going on here, Dan?

Amalgamated Gas is retaining Stevenson

because we don't give them enough time.

- The S.E.C. - - Can't I go away without

you working yourself into a state?

- Doesn't that number answer?

- It's busy.

- Keep trying, Marsha.

- The S.E.C. accuses us ofholding up the Butcher case.

How are Lucille and the kids? Check

that number and see if it's out of order.

They're fine. We're all

having dinner together.

And if you want to have it a pleasant dinner,

let's get our harsh words over with now.

Do we have to have

harsh words, Papa?

Look, Dan, it was tough enough

before you took on that ridiculous case.

When you shut yourself up

for 18 days in California-

Papa, did you or I ever object when Coverly

Sr. spent four months a year on his boat?

- Well, what's that got to do with it?

- We didn't object, did we?

A man needs his relaxation.

And I never objected when you

stood up in a trout stream...

looking like Calvin Coolidge

two months a year either, did I?

What's all this got to do with a

grandstand play defending a Japanese?

If it gives me pleasure to fight

some lucrative race prejudices...

including your own, that's my sport.

- You understand?

- All right, Dan. Only, uh-

Who brought the S.E.C. case

in here anyway?

Amalgamated Gas and National Motors.

And why do we still have to have

your papa's name on that door...

10 years after he drowned himself

in the Fastnet race?

I said all right, Dan.

Okay, dewdrop.

And now that the harsh words are over, we

can have a very pleasant dinner together.

But a little later.

I got a million things to do.

Would you be sweet enough

to call Lucille and ask her...

- if she'll meet us at the Colony at 9:00?

- All right, Dan.

Just tell her I'm back, and I'm happy,

and I'm well and that I love her.

And that you're happy and well

and that you love me.

- What about that number?

- It's busy. I had the operator listen in.

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