Shadow Of A Doubt Page #7

If you read as much

as you should, you'd know

it closes at 9:
00.

Oh, well.

If I think about it,

maybe I'll go tomorrow.

You really ought

to go to sleep, Ann.

[Tires Screeching]

Get back there!

Get back! Get back!

[Blows Whistle]

Just a moment, Charlie.

What do you think

I am out here for?

Oh, I'm sorry,

Mr. Norton.

All right. Go ahead.

[Clock Bell Tolling]

[Whispers]

Oh! Miss Corcoran,

please let me in!

Oh, please!

Oh, thank you.

Really, Charlie.

You know as well as I do

the library closes at 9:00.

If I make one exception,

I'll have to make

a thousand.

I'm sorry, Mrs. Corcoran,

but there is something

in the paper I've got to see.

I'm surprised

at you, Charlie.

No consideration.

Oh, I'll only be a minute.

You've got all day,

Charlie, to come here.

I don't know why you want

to rush in here tonight

like a madwoman.

I'll give you

just three minutes.

[Whispering]

Can't be anything really awful.

I'll prove to him it isn't.

Page three...

## [Waltz]

Hello.

Where's Charlie?

She's still asleep.

I don't want to wake her.

[Clock Bell Tolling]

Charlie still asleep?

No, she just woke up.

I shouldn't have let her sleep

so long, but she needed it.

She doesn't look quite herself.

She'll be down for dinner.

[Door Creaking]

Mother, let me finish

mashing those.

I'll fix the rest of dinner

and get it on the table.

You go talk to

Uncle Charlie.

How do you feel?

Fine.

I must have been tired.

I slept like a log.

Uncle Charlie was

asking for you again.

He's fond of you.

And that nice young man

came twice to ask after you.

I told him you were asleep.

## [Humming]

I'm rested now and ready for

anything. Is the gravy made?

Now you're humming that waltz.

Please don't hum

that tune anymore.

## [Stops]

I've just got it out of my head

and don't want it started again.

And don't keep getting up

every few minutes.

You just sit there

and be a real lady.

All right, if you say so,

but at least I can

carry in the soup.

Roger, wash your hands!

Joe. Charles. Dinner.

Mama.

Ann, I told you

not to put things

behind your ears.

And don't whisper. Anyone

could hear you a block away.

May I sit by you at the table?

By me?

I should think you'd want

to sit by Uncle Charlie.

[Ann]

No, I want to sit by you.

Why do you want to change?

Mother, let her change

if she wants to.

Roger doesn't mind.

No, certainly not.

Uncle Charlie might think...

No, certainly not.

Mother, let her change.

All right, but Ann has

too many foolish ideas.

Go in the dining room,

both of you.

What's going on here?

Have I lost my little girl?

Roger wanted

to sit next to you,

and I thought it would be nice

if the children took turns.

I never...

Never what, Roger?

Nothing.

Come, Ann.

Come and help me.

Joe!

I brought it in by mistake.

Nothing special in it.

Want to look at

the headlines, Charles?

Thank you, Joe.

[Emmy]

Roger, don't make

so much noise with your soup.

[Ann] If he holds his lips

close together, he could draw it

carefully, same as a horse.

[Emmy] Don't be disgusting.

[Roger]

May I dip my bread in it?

[Joe] Where's Charlie?

[Emmy]

She wanted to serve the dinner.

She'll be in in a minute.

[Uncle Charlie]

You're right, Joe.

Nothing special tonight.

Oh, here she is!

Here's my girl.

I wonder how many

hours you slept.

If you could tell me

the exact minute

you went to sleep,

the exact minute you woke up,

if you woke up in between...

and how long

you stayed awake

each time you woke up,

then I could

tell you exactly...

You won't sleep tonight.

Nobody who sleeps all day

can sleep all night.

I slept all right,

and I kept dreaming...

perfect nightmares

about you, Uncle Charlie.

Nightmares about me?

You were on a train,

running away from something...

and when I saw you on the train,

I felt terribly happy.

How could you feel happy

seeing Uncle Charlie

on a train?

I don't want to see him

on a train. I hope

he stays here forever.

Well, he has to leave sometime.

We have to face the facts.

I like people

who face facts.

Well, we're not going

to face any such

facts as those.

Oh, Ann, would you like

to see the funnies?

I'm too old for funnies.

I read two books a week.

I took a sacred oath I would.

Besides, no one's allowed

to read at the table.

It isn't polite.

Don't correct

your elders!

She's right, Emmy. I'm

forgetting my manners.

Joe, I'm going to blame

this paper on you.

Roger, go to the icebox

and bring me a big red bottle

you'll find there.

You can throw the paper away.

Dad's read it, you've read it.

We don't need to play any

games with it tonight.

[Emmy]

Ann, you can help Charlie

carry in the vegetables.

[Emmy]

I saw that bottle

when I was getting dinner.

You know what St. Paul said:

"Take a little wine

for thy stomach's sake."

Wine for dinner...

Sounds so gay!

Remember the time they

had the champagne when the

oldest Jones girl got married?

This is sparkling burgundy.

One sip and I'll be calling it

"sparkling burgledy."

[Emmy]

Maybe I'd better

not take any.

Oh... imported.

Imported Frankie

and his tweeds?

And his loaded cane.

His loaded everything!

[Emmy, Uncle Charlie

Laughing]

[Emmy]

Roger, go get four of

the small glasses with stems.

Charles, I promised Mrs. Greene,

the president of our club,

that you'd talk to the ladies.

What am I going to talk about?

Lecturers usually give travel

or current events.

Oh, not current events.

We get current events.

[Uncle Charlie]

What sort of an

audience will it be?

[Cork Popping]

Oh, women like myself.

Busy with our homes, most of us.

Women keep busy

in towns like this.

In the cities it's different:

middle-aged widows,

husbands dead;

husbands who've spent

their lives making fortunes,

working and working,

and then they die and leave

their money to their wives...

their silly wives.

And what do the wives do,

these useless women?

You see them in the best hotels

every day by the thousands;

drinking the money,

eating the money,

losing the money at bridge,

playing all day and all night,

smelling of money.

Proud of their jewelry,

but of nothing else.

Horrible, faded, fat,

greedy women.

[Charlie]

But they're alive!

They're human beings!

Are they?

Are they, Charlie?

Are they human or are they fat,

wheezing animals? Hmm?

And what happens to animals when

they get too fat and too old?

Well, I seem to be making

my speech right here.

Don't talk about women

like that in front of my club!

You'll be tarred and feathered.

And that nice Mrs. Potter's

going to be there too.

She was asking me about you.

The Greenes are bringing her

here to the party I'm having

for you after the lecture.

Joe, it's Herbert.

[Quietly]

He always comes

when we're eating.

[Place Setting Clanging]

Good evening,

Mrs. Newton.

Good evening,

Mr. Oakley.

Good evening.

[Emmy]

Well, Herb,

how's your mother?

Oh, she's just middling.

Had your dinner?

Oh, I had mine

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