Party Husband Page #6

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Laura, get back into bed.

Very well.

We just haven't made a go of things.

I wonder why we weren't up to it.

We wanted it so.

Oh, it's a pity.

I tried hard enough.

You don't believe me?

How can I?

Not even if I give you my word

I've done nothing wrong?

Is it that you just don't care?

Laura.

I don't want you to think

this doesn't hurt me.

I still love you in spite of everything

and I want to believe you.

But do you want to go

on knowing how I feel?

Jay, you make it so impossible.

With your suspicions, you just

don't want to believe the truth.

And it's no use trying to make you.

The evil interpretation you

placed in what you saw ..

Would stick in your mind forever.

I've humbled myself enough.

When you and you alone are to blame.

That Canfield woman, that Kate!

And I don't know how many others.

That's not fair.

I explained about Kate.

We agreed to forget it. You knew I was

drunk didn't know what I was doing.

That's a fine excuse.

Well, it's a better excuse than you got.

I got a bad cold and I took

a couple of drinks to cure it.

And I got drunk.

But you weren't drunk when

you worked nights with Purcell.

You weren't drunk on the boat with him.

You knew what you were doing.

Then, it would have been perfectly

alright it I'd been drinking?

[ Door knocks ]

Alright to come in?

Yeah.

Well children, you haven't fooled me.

What's the trouble?

Who's fault?

Well, we're both to blame, I guess.

Mostly mine.

Well, if things are that even,

you can forgive and forget.

We can't.

Oh, nonsense.

Laugh at it.

I don't feel in the mood.

Oh, don't you?

Now you just sit down here.

And let me tell you a few things.

Do you know what ails you two?

And your whole generation,

for that matter?

You are too confoundedly self-important.

Oh mother, talk can't help.

Why you're just a pair of

weak, silly little fools.

You think you're going somewhere

because you're going so fast.

You think your passions must be epic.

Because we you yield to them.

The lives you lead must be terrific.

Because they exhaust you so.

But let me tell you something.

It's just the other way around.

Why, you're not strong enough to be bad.

You children seem to

think that getting drunk ..

And raising Cane were invented by you.

But let me tell you we had

better devils twenty years ago.

You swallow a little watery gin.

You can't carry it as well as your

father carried a quart of strong rye.

He was a man.

I've seen him drink.

Yes. And your father too, Laura.

Those men could afford to drink.

Because they ate five

pounds of meat in a day.

I've seen your breakfasts.

Toast .. coffee .. orange juice.

And bacon.

How dare you try to be wicked ..

On a diet like that.

Do you know what you two need?

No. What?

A trip to Atlantic City.

There must be some reason

why men take their wives ..

And their stenographers there.

Well, what do you say?

Oh .. alright.

In the morning, go your

own separate ways.

I am turning out this light.

At least you two young idiots won't be

able to make ugly faces at each other.

Jay.

What?

You'll get chills sitting there.

No, I won't.

You certainly will.

And then you'll catch aother cold.

Don't worry about me. I'll be alright.

You know how susceptible you are.

Already this winter,

you've had four or five ..

Colds.

What makes you so stubborn?

Why don't you climb in here

where it's nice and wrm?

Achoo!

See? What did I tell you?

I'm not catching cold. I ..

Achoo!

Laura.

What?

You stubborn thing.

Achoo!

I think I am catching a cold.

I hope I don't catch your cold.

T-G

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