Here Comes the Groom Page #4

If you're not married by then,

the children have to go back to France.

- You understand that?

- Oh, sure.

We'll be married in the morning, pal.

Well, good luck, Mr. Garvey.

Report your address immediately.

The Department's fussy about that.

We sure will.

We're not fussy at all.

Come on, kids.

Here we go. Come on, Suzi.

- Is this home, Pete?

- This is Emmadel's home.

Come on, kids.

Please let Emmadel like us. Please.

- Who are you talking to?

- God.

Put in a word for me, will you, pal?

Bye, Em, see you later!

Thank you for coming.

Goodbye, now. Goodbye, girls.

Hi, Em. Let the merry bells ring out.

- The bridegroom finally cameth.

- Pete!

This one's in the fifth grade

and this one is et cetera.

Used to be orphans, you know.

- Oh, Pete.

- Bobby, Suzi, meet Emmadel.

Hello, Bobby. Hello, Suzi.

- We're so glad you're here.

- Thank you, Emmadel.

She's sleepy

and doesn't speak English.

I bet they're hungry too.

- This guy's too excited to eat.

- Suzi ate, but in the plane...

Oh, the poor darling!

Are you gonna stand out here all day?

Come on in the house. Come on, Suzi.

Oh, wait a minute, the baggage.

The baggage. Wait a minute.

Here, catch.

How's Pa and Ma?

- Mother and Father are fine.

- Mother and Father?

- It was Pa and Ma around Gloucester.

- Were they?

Are they all choked up

over the wedding?

Well, Pa's choked up

but Ma's very happy.

That's surprising.

I didn't think Ma approved of me

as a son-in-law permanently.

What's this, a birthday party?

Have I forgotten it again, honey?

No, the girls at the office

gave me a shower.

That was that covey of quail

I flushed at the door.

Look at this beautiful bunch of loot!

Potholders. Now, there's something

a fellow shouldn't go without.

- Pete.

- Come here and don't "Pete" me.

- Have you seen the papers?

- I wanna see you. You look beautiful.

- I wanna catch up on you.

- Catch up on current events.

I've been away for three years.

Here's the paper.

I'll go get the kids ready for dinner.

I'll tell Ma you're here.

Pa's out trying to get drunk.

If he's half trying, he'll make it too.

Hey, Bobby, trsjolie, huh?

Please, may I call you "Mother"?

I practiced all the way over

on the plane. Suzi too.

Mother.

- If you don't want us to...

- Oh, it's fine, Bobby. It's wonderful.

It's just, nobody's ever called me

Mother before.

We never called anybody

that before either.

Orphans very seldom have mothers.

Jonesy's in the money

Here, here, shove off!

- You'll wake the neighbors!

- ...with a drunken sailor

What shall we do

With a drunken sailor?

What shall we do

With a drunken sailor?

Jonesy's in the money

Jonesy's in the money

Captain Jones calling.

The father of Cinderella.

- Hey, Pa.

- Begone me man, begone.

Me, the best mackerel man

in the Atlantic trying to be a gentleman.

- Hey, Pa!

- Begone, me man.

- Pa!

- Be...

- Pete, boy!

- Jonesy's in the money, huh?

- Good to see you!

- Nice to...

- Look out, there. You all right?

- Petey, Petey! You're back, son.

You'll have to work fast, boy.

They're hauling her in this Saturday.

Yeah, with a $40-million net?

You've got something more

than money, you mackerel-head.

You've got a lifetime of her being in

love with you. Don't you remember?

You're the one that taught my Em

how to wrestle and to box, didn't you?

And to bait a hook! I can see the two

of you when you were hardly this high,

scampering over

the Gloucester rocks.

How did she happen to meet

this guy, Stanley?

He's her boss for the past two years.

Nice fellow?

He's not even a man!

He's a tradition!

Out of Lexington by the Minutemen.

He's a mummy, that's what he is.

The Stanleys are one

of the finest families in Boston, Pa.

Yeah, fine family of fossils.

I don't know whatever

got into my Em.

See, Pete, that's why I went out

and I took a couple.

Took several.

It's easy to explain. Every girl wants to

be Cinderella. There's her chance.

- That's what I was trying to...

- You all right?

Oh, yes, yes.

That's what I wanted to say.

- Come over here.

- That's what I wanted to tell you.

The newspaper photographers,

the reporters,

it's the biggest hullabaloo

you ever seen!

- That's why we're gonna move.

- Move? Where are you moving?

The Stanleys are kind enough

to take us in.

They're giving Ma and me a wing

in that Grant's Tomb

they call a home.

They have a little gatehouse there,

but can we live in it?

Oh, no, no. What would the

newspapers say if they ever found out

the bride's parents were bunking

in the servants' quarters?

You've got to save me, Pete.

Look, son...

...they're going to make me live there.

And I'll die there, Pete!

They're going to bury me!

Can you picture me, can you see me,

molding in the ground

with a bunch of landlubbers,

the likes of them?

Yeah, well, you'll mold and like it.

Pa, come out of there. Look at him.

The best mackerel man!

He ain't seen a mackerel

in ten years.

The drunken old faker.

Look at the cut of you.

And us all ready

to go to the Stanley home!

Hello, Pete.

We don't want any trouble from you.

No, I know Pa and I know you.

I know he's been blowing off

like a spume whale.

Go in there and drink some coffee.

The whole pot of it!

Take a bath and put that suit on

Emmy bought you.

And if you're not sober

in a half an hour,

I'll leave you here to rot

in your own bilge water!

Ma, don't roust Jonesy.

He's entitled to celebrate. He's rich.

Like I told you,

I don't want any trouble with you.

Emmy's tired of supporting him.

Her mind's made up.

You both know what that means.

And I'm very happy about it, see?

Thank you, Ma Kettle.

I'm gonna fix the children

something to eat.

- Children?

- Yeah.

Pete came home with two orphans.

He adopted them. Poor little things.

- You adopted some orphans?

- I sure did, Pa.

- Poor little things!

- There you are, Pete!

There's your bait! Hook her with

the kids. Em's a pushover for kids.

You just drink your coffee!

I wouldn't do anything like that, Pa.

I'm not that big a heel.

This is no time for ethics.

You have less than a week.

Less than a week for what?

Why, to get ready for your wedding,

of course.

- Say, Em, I was just...

- Ix-nay in front of the ids-Kay.

I just wanted to tell you

how happy I am.

- You are?

- Yes.

- So am I.

- You like her?

- I love her.

- Pa, this is Bobby. This is Suzi.

Kids, this is Emmadel's father here.

Congratulations, Grandpa.

You have a very beautiful daughter.

Well, blow me down!

Emmy, he called me "Grandpa".

You know, I think I'm gonna

like him, Pete. And you too.

Don't breathe in their faces!

Poor little things.

The movers! We're not even ready!

No. llbur-way sent the car for me.

I have to take care of the move

from the other end.

Well, Emmy,

thanks a lot for everything.

Don't let her go, Pete.

- I'll see you around sometime.

- Sure, I'll be around somewhere.

- Pete!

- See you later, Bobby.

Say, you don't suppose you could

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