Some Came Running Page #11

I said good night.

Gwen.

Why don't we cut this

out? This is a very...

If you put your hands on me again, I swear

I'll call the police and have you thrown out.

I don't like your life. I

don't like your thinking.

I don't like the people you like.

Now, leave me alone. Stay away from me.

- What are you doing here?

- Waiting for you.

Why?

Well, you know that magazine

with your story in it?

It's on sale down at the drugstore.

- I'll run down and buy one. - You

can't. I bought them all up. Ha-ha.

I got one more left.

You know, everybody's been

congratulating me today.

Really, what for?

Because I'm a certain friend of yours.

Oh, golly, all the girls at the

factory have been shaking hands with me.

Been signing autographs all day.

- You've been what?

- Signing autographs, yeah.

I write, uh...

I write, "I hope you like

it. " And I sign my name.

- Pretty good publicity, don't you think?

- Get it through your head...

...that nobody signs their name to

a story that somebody else wrote.

But, Dave, you sign your name to a

book you send somebody for Christmas.

Look, stupid, you had nothing to

do with the writing of this story.

I'm your girlfriend.

That's something else I wanna discuss

with you. You're not my girlfriend.

I bought you drinks, we had

laughs, I showed you around...

...but you're not my girlfriend.

- Everybody thinks I am.

- I don't care what they think.

You haven't got the brains or the

willpower to sit down and read this story.

You can't talk to me like this.

I can't, huh? You haven't got enough

sense to come in out of the rain...

...unless somebody

leads you by the hand.

That's only because you'd

go anywhere with anybody.

Dave.

Oh, Dave, you really should

not have talked to me like that.

Aw, forget it.

- Hey, this is sure one hell of a story, Dave.

- Thanks.

Something bugging you?

Yeah, it's this place, it

looks like a rat's nest.

Why don't we get somebody to clean it?

You suppose we could get that Ginnie

Moorehead to keep the place clean?

You kidding? She can't

keep herself clean.

Oh, by the way, when's the wedding?

- What wedding?

- What wedding?

Dave, just between you and me, that

little old schoolteacher of yours...

...you know, she ain't

too good an influence.

You know ever since you give up

drinking, you've been impossible, boy?

Dames.

What do you think

you're doing out there?

Sitting.

That's ridiculous. Come on in.

Come on inside.

All right.

But you got no right to talk

to me the way you did, Dave.

I'm a human being and I got as many

rights and feelings as anybody else.

Okay, so you're a human being.

Just because that

teacher don't want you...

...don't give you no

right to take it out on me.

Will you please forget it, Ginnie?

You're still in love

with her, ain't you?

No, I'm not.

Yes, you are. I can tell.

Look, I'm not in love with anybody.

Dave.

Dave, be in love with me.

Oh, I love you so much.

I never met anybody like

you before in my whole life.

Oh, I love you so awful, awful much.

Don't cry, Ginnie, don't cry.

I'm sorry if I hurt you. Forgive me,

I didn't meant it. I'm terribly sorry.

You know I'd do

anything for you, Dave.

I'd do anything, ask me.

Would you, uh...?

Would you clean up the place for me?

- Oh, could I?

- Sure.

Oh, sure. Oh, I'd love to.

Oh, why, sure. Oh, I'd love to.

I'll tell you what I'll do.

I'll come every day before work.

You just call me.

But you gotta remember, I'm human.

I'll bear that in mind.

"And before he was aware of it...

...he was lost.

There wasn't much time left...

...and he realized that he would

have to return over familiar ground...

...running to reach the point at

which he could start all over again. "

Is that the end?

- Did you like it?

- Oh, golly. I liked it fine, Dave.

I really liked it a lot.

- That means not very much.

- No, honest, I really liked it a lot.

Golly, just think you can put those

words down on paper like that...

...and all I can do is hem brassieres.

You know, it really makes me

feel like a terrible failure.

- What did you like about it, Ginnie?

- Everything.

Like what?

Well, I... The people.

- What people?

- All of them.

Okay, so you like all of the people,

but what did the story mean to you?

Well, it means a lot.

- Well, then tell me what it's all about.

- Well, Dave, don't get mad.

Every time I open my

mouth, you get mad at me.

You don't understand a word of what I

said. You don't understand the story.

No, I don't, but that

don't mean I don't like it.

I don't understand you neither, but

that don't mean I don't like you.

I love you.

But I don't understand you.

So, what's the matter with that?

Ginnie.

- What?

- Will you marry me?

What?

Marry me, now, tonight.

Oh, Dave.

You really shouldn't kid

around about a thing like that.

Oh, please, Dave, not with me.

You don't know how it hurts me.

I'm not kidding, Ginnie.

Oh, Dave.

Oh, I hope you're not.

Oh.

I think I'll want that more than I

want anything in the whole wide world.

- I don't know what to say.

- Just say you will.

Oh, Dave.

Yes.

Bama.

- Well, who loused up my house?

Bama, guess what. You'll never

guess it in a hundred million years.

What, what?

- Dave and me, we're gonna get married.

Oh, that's nice. No,

we really are, Bama.

You off your rocker?

Bama, you got no right to say that.

Look, all due respect to Ginnie, but

you ain't really gonna marry this broad?

I am. Tonight.

- I don't know if you're crazy or...

- Bama, please, he wants to marry me.

- You got no right...

- I'm trying to talk to Dave.

- We don't need your advice.

- Be a good girl and shut up.

You might as well get used

to it, she's gonna be my wife.

Man, this just don't make sense.

I got nothing against

Ginnie. Nothing at all.

- But even she knows she's a pig.

- All right, that's enough of that.

Come on, go home and

put something nice on...

...and I'll call the judge and

then come by and pick you up.

Bama. Bama, please

don't spoil it for me.

- Please, Bama, it'd just kill me.

- He won't spoil it, honey.

I never been so happy

in my whole life.

Oh, boy.

I could use a best man.

Well, it sure ain't gonna be me.

I don't know what went on between

you and that schoolteacher...

...but you just went

and blew your top.

You ain't really gonna get

hitched up with that dumb pushover?

Now, nobody would do that.

Don't you like the way

she cleaned up your place?

You ain't gonna marry her for that.

No, I'm not.

I'm just tired of being

lonely, that's all.

And the way she feels

about me, well...

...nobody ever felt

that way about me before.

And besides, maybe I can help her.

I sure can't help myself.

But the fact remains,

she's still a pig.

I told you I'm gonna marry

her, so knock off the language.

Really made up your mind, didn't you?

Yeah, I'm gonna phone the judge

and have him set it up tonight.

All right. In that case, I

just lost myself a friend.

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