Splendor in the Grass Page #2

in the dining room.

Damn right I would, if I thought

there was any oil in there.

I'll see you later.

How do you want your eggs, Bud darling?

Come back here

and eat a decent breakfast!

I'm late.

Come back! You can't play a football game

on a breakfast like that!

Neither of my children gets

any real nourishment.

Hey, you want a peach?

What?

Don't! Bud, don't!

Pardonnez-moi.

Wilma Dean, hereafter,

I shall count you tardy...

...if you are not in your seat

when the bell rings.

I'm sorry, Miss Metcalf.

Alan, please.

All right.

For the first few weeks,

we've been reading...

...the stories of King Arthur

and the Knights of the Round Table.

The literature of the age

was characterized by...

All right, Alan?

"By high ideals. "

True. And by what else?

You going with us to the football game?

All right, Carolyn?

They were very religious.

Religion was an important part of the lives

of the Knights and their fair ladies.

What else?

I'm going with you, but I'm waiting

for Bud after the game.

We knew that, crazy.

The Knights of the Round Table...

- Just because his father's got money-

- That's not true.

Well, they were very brave

and things like that.

Bud Stamper isn't stuck on himself at all.

What in the world do you mean

by "things like that" exactly?

Well, I don't know exactly.

Let us learn to express ourselves

with as much precision as possible.

Juanita, you had your hand up?

The Knights of the Round Table

had a very high regard for women.

In what way, Juanita?

They looked on women as very pure.

They wouldn't look on her as very pure.

All right now, I want it quiet

in this classroom!

The next time there is talking

while this class is in session...

...I am going to send the culprit

to the principal's office.

Yes, Juanita, you're quite right.

The Knights did have a very high regard

for womanhood.

In fact, they put women on a pedestal.

Some people say that chivalry is not dead.

Well, how about it, girls?

Do any of you feel

that you're on a pedestal?

That's unnecessary roughness.

Fifteen yards.

Come on, you've been on me all day!

You're out!. You're out of the game!

Who you taking out, Toots?

Never mind who.

Okay, okay, what's so funny about that?

She's the only girl who knows

what it's all about.

You can say that again.

I'll never look twice at those other girls.

They expect you to be satisfied

if they even kiss you good night.

Hi, Bud.

Hi, Juanita.

Did you see Toots in there?

Yeah, yeah. He should be right out.

You played a wonderful game.

Thank you.

He should be right out.

Hi, sweetheart.

I suppose you wish I were more

like Juanita Howard, don't you?

What?

I saw the way you were looking at her.

I think she's disgraceful.

The way she stands

waiting for one of the players-

Wait a minute.

There isn't any reason in the world

why I shouldn't speak to her.

You were more than speaking to her.

I'm supposed to not notice her?

Is that what you expect out of me?

I'm not even supposed to know

girls like that exist, huh?

Bud, I'm sorry.

- I'm sorry, Bud, honest.

- All right, you're sorry.

Mr. Loomis, a customer for meat.

Bud, please don't be mad.

I'm not mad, Deanie.

Hi, Bud. Deanie.

- Hi, Mr. Loomis.

- Hi, Dad.

I just can't stand it

when you're mad at me.

I don't know what's the matter

with me lately.

I'm always losing my temper.

You're the only girl in the world for me,

you know that?

I want to be.

If it weren't for you...

If it weren't for you, Deanie, I'd...

I don't know!.

Bud, it's broad daylight.

- Who cares?

- Stop it. Stop it.

Come on now. Bud! People can see us.

I don't care.

Bud, stop it. Come on now.

Mom?

Mom?

She's not here.

- Mom?

- "Mom? "

Nobody's here.

Stop that.

Yes, Mrs. Harper, here's your change.

Stop it. I have to pull down

the shade to the store.

Bud, stop it.

You're nuts about me, aren't you?

You're nuts about me.

I've got your ten-pound sack

in the back of the store, Mrs. Thatcher.

At my feet, slave!

- Bud, don't.

- Tell me you love me.

- You're hurting me.

- Say you can't live without me.

- Say it!

- I do.

- Do what?

- I do love you.

And you can't live without me.

You'd be everything I ever ask you to be.

I'd do anything for you.

Deanie, I didn't mean to hurt you.

Deanie, I was just kidding.

I'm the one; I should go down

on my knees to you.

I was just kidding.

I thought you knew that.

I can't kid about these things...

...because I am nuts about you.

And I would go down on my knees

to worship you if you really wanted me to.

Bud, I can't get along without you.

And I would do anything you'd ask me to.

I would.

I would.

Anything.

- Let's speak of it at the next meeting.

- I certainly will, if you will.

I'm going in to fix supper now.

- Bye-bye, Nell.

- 'Bye, Frieda.

Hi, Mom.

The coast is clear.

Are we going to the victory dance?

I can think of things I'd rather do.

I'll be ready.

I'll pick you up right after dinner then.

Did he tell you about his sister Ginny?

No.

Ginny Stamper is too low

for the dogs to bite.

Come here.

She met some man in Chicago,

put her in the family way.

Mrs. Stamper had to go out there

and get her, take her to a doctor.

Store's all locked up.

Good.

To have one of those

awful operations performed.

Mom, that's gossip.

Every word is true.

I was at the DAR and heard all about it.

Mrs. Whitcomb lives across the street

from the Stampers...

...and she knows everything

that goes on in their house.

That's what happens to girls

who go wild and boy-crazy.

Well, congratulations, Son!

The game, boy, the game.

Thank you.

I'll run along upstairs and...

Dad, I have to talk to you.

I've just about had all the nonsense

I intend to take out of you.

Get out of here, young lady.

I'm gonna have a talk with my boy.

All right, Son.

All right, go ahead.

Dad, I'm gonna marry Deanie.

Whoa now, Son.

You see, I don't really wanna go to Yale.

I'm not a very good student.

What do you mean

you're not a good student?

Boy, you can do anything

you set your mind to do.

I'd like to go to a good agricultural college

for a couple of years.

I'd really like to do that.

I could come right back here...

...and take over your ranch

just south of town.

Ranching's no life.

I could marry Deanie,

take her to college with me.

That's what I really want.

She'd be a big help to me, Dad.

I spent my life trying to create a place

of importance for you in this world...

...then you come home telling me

you want to marry some little girl!.

It's what I want that counts.

Son, a boy your age doesn't even know

what he wants.

After you've had a college education,

you might change your mind.

A college education

will take me four years.

- Trust me.

- I do trust you, but-

- Trust me this time, Son.

- I trust you, Dad.

I do trust you, but four years-

Listen to me now.

But, Dad...

Son, all I'm asking you to do is

to finish Yale.

Then if you still want to marry her,

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