Splendor in the Grass Page #4

You behave yourself.

You behave yourself, you hear me?

Mr. Stamper, the perfume is coming in.

Yeah, perfume for all the ladies.

Line up, ladies.

Line up to get your perfume.

Come on, get your perfume,

all you ladies.

Happy New Year, Son.

Go on, get in line. There's some for you.

It will be a great year for both of us.

- Dance with me, Dick?

- No thanks, Ginny.

Boy, oh boy, she's really plastered.

Hello, Bill.

She's disgraceful.

It's all she can do to walk.

Why don't her folks

do something about her?

What did she do to her hair?

Charley, will you dance with me?

Not right now, Ginny.

I didn't know you were married.

Hey, look out!

What do you think you're doing?

Happy New Year, Joe!.

Go get your sister, Son,

and take her on home.

- Hey, Sis.

- Happy New Year.

Happy New Year.

- Happy New Year.

- What's happy about it?

You want to dance?

Where are you taking me?

- Where are you taking me?

- Sis, let me take you home.

No!.

No, I'm not going home.

- Can I do your dress up?

- No.

You're all unsnapped here.

Get away. I'm not going home.

And you don't have to dance with me.

Ginny, I like to dance

with a good-looking girl once in a while.

If you weren't my brother

you wouldn't even come near me.

You're a nice boy! You're nice!

I know what you nice boys are like.

I know, you only talk to me in the dark!.

In the dark!

You talk to me then, don't you?

You talk to me in the dark, in automobiles!

You talk to me!

You're very familiar then, aren't you?

Get away from me!

Joe, where have you been?

- Where's Joe?

- Here I am.

Come on, Joe. Let's go.

Where?

Anywhere!

Let's go, honey.

Happy New Year!.

Hey, come on.

Leave me alone. Leave me alone.

I'm dizzy.

No!.

Did you see where Arnold went?

- You get stood up, Kay?

- It looks like it.

Bud, would you be an angel, huh?

- I'll love you for the rest of my life.

- I'll go look for him.

Cut it out, it's his sister!

Now lay off, Bill!

Cut it out, I tell you, she's his sister.

He's gone mad.

Stop this fight! Stop this fight!.

It wasn't his fault. No one's to blame.

Let's go.

Come on inside a minute. Okay?

- Do you wanna come inside?

- No.

We gotta stop all this kissing

and fooling around, Deanie.

Tell me what's happened.

I just don't think we'd better

see each other for a while.

I have to go. Goodbye.

We planned the whole play around you.

You're supposed to be there.

What's the matter?

- I'm sorry.

- Sorry, my foot!

- You keep training?

- Yes, sir.

- Hours? Diet?

- Yes, sir.

All right, let's try it again.

I said, let's try it again.

I want very much to say this:

I want to give most of you

a high compliment on your term paper.

They're the best set of papers

I've ever received.

Bud?

Just a minute.

There's something I've got to tell you.

Your term paper was not very good.

Well, I guess so.

Remember, you've got to do much better...

...if you're going to get into Yale in the fall.

Hi.

I miss you, Bud.

I just wanted to wish you good luck

on the game.

Thanks.

Dr. Smiley.

- Doc?

- Yes, Bud.

- What happened?

- You tell me.

What do you want? What is it?

What's wrong with him?

He just had a fall.

There's nothing to worry about at all.

104. I recommend the hospital.

There's a lot of pneumonia around.

- Pneumonia?

- My God!

Yes, I know.

I've signed my name to this check.

Pull my boy through

and I'm willing to give you a bonus.

You just fill out the amount,

$5,000, $10,000-

I'm doing everything that can be done.

You just fill out the amount.

I think the boy's going to be all right,

but if he isn't...

What do you mean, "if he isn't"?

Ace, I'm not a very religious man,

but I know what every doctor knows.

You can't reckon with the will of God.

Just say whatever is in your heart,

Wilma Dean.

All I can think of is, "Dear God,

make him well, make him well. "

Then that's your prayer.

But aren't there some words I should say

out of the Bible?

I can't think of any that would be better

than your own.

Oh, please, God, make him well.

Make him well.

Well, Bud, in another week or so

you'll be feeling yourself again.

Then spring will be here.

You know what happens

to a young man's fancy in the springtime.

- You go with Del Loomis' girl, don't you?

- Yeah.

Mighty attractive girl.

She sure is.

- I'm pretty nuts about Deanie Loomis.

- I don't blame you.

I mean, I love her.

And she loves me.

But it's no fun to be in love. It hurts.

Every time that we're together...

...I have to...

...remember things.

You know what I mean?

Oh, yes.

I just can't go back to seeing her again.

Not like the way we were doing.

We'd go out every night and...

...I'd hold her and I'd kiss her and...

...I'd just go home.

I mean, a guy can go nuts that way.

I don't know how to advise you, Bud.

My dad said...

...that I should get another kind of a girl.

No.

But when you don't really want

another girl...

No.

I don't know.

Come in again Friday, Bud.

I'll give you another shot of iron...

...and another sun-lamp treatment.

Okay, Doc.

So long.

Hi, Deanie.

And that was the surest way to lose him.

What did you say?

- He's an animal.

- He is not.

- Yes, he is. I met him.

- You don't know him.

Who's an animal?

- You're out.

- I am not.

Yes, you are.

- I hurt my finger.

- I'll kiss it and make it better.

"What though the radiance

which was once so bright

"Is now for ever taken from my sight...

"Though nothing can bring back the hour

Of splendor in the grass...

"... of glory in the flower;

"We will grieve not, rather find

"Strength in what remains behind... "

What do you suppose the poet means

by these lines?

Deanie Loomis?

I'm sorry, Miss Metcalf.

I didn't hear the question.

I know it's spring but I must ask you

to pay more attention.

I'm sorry.

I quoted some lines from Wordsworth's

Ode on Intimations of Immortality.

Did you hear them?

I'm afraid not, Miss Metcalf.

Then I must ask you to turn your text

to Page 380.

Yes, I...

You read the lines to me.

Yes.

Stand please.

"Though nothing can bring back the hour

"Of splendor in the grass...

"... of glory in the flower;

"We will grieve not, rather find

"Strength in what remains behind... "

Perhaps you can tell me

exactly what the poet means...

...by such expressions as

"splendor in the grass"...

...and "glory in the flower. "

I think it has some...

Yes?

Well, when we're young...

...we look at things very idealistically,

I guess.

And I think Wordsworth means...

...that when we grow up...

...that we have to forget

the ideals of youth...

...and find strength...

Miss Metcalf...

...may I please be...

Children!

I'll go see what's the matter.

- Hi, June.

- Hi.

I just gave her a sedative.

- I'm not sick.

- She'll be all right in a little while.

Now lie down.

I'm all right. I'm perfectly all right.

Stop that.

I'm all right.

I don't care if his father is making

my folks rich. I hate Bud Stamper.

- You'd take a date if he asked you.

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