Sugarfoot Page #7

of him than what you can endure.

Come on.

I've got something to show you.

There's the start of our house.

I'll be a good wife.

I'm going to deserve it.

I'll ride into town with you.

I won't be but a minute.

My, how that there gal's changed.

How changed, Mary?

- Kind of blossomed out

She'd got to be kind

of ingrown and offish.

But now she's just like a little

gal again, smilin' and natural.

Most gals'd be tickled if

their man gave them a fine present.

But to go singing and trilling around

because a man was sweet and kind

and big-hearted enough

to let a gal loan him money

is past my understanding.

Goodness. How I run on.

Seems like my tongue just gallops

away with my brain sometimes.

Lookee here, Sugarfoot,

what are you aiming to do?

This is going to be one

of the proudest days of my life.

And the sweetest.

What's happened?

Why do you look at me like that?

Reva, before I left for Tucson,

Mr Crane offered to loan me $5,000.

Yes?

- It wasn't his money he loaned to me.

No.

- It was yours.

Yes.

- Perhaps you have some explanation?

Only that I loved you

and wanted to help you.

I wouldn't have taken it

had I known it came from you.

You're offended. You're angry

because I've just done something

that injures your vanity as a man.

As a Redan of Alabama.

Deceit is not a good foundation

for marriage.

Oh, you are stubborn, Sugarfoot.

You're relentless.

When I'm your wife, I will

have to face that and deal with it.

When I cannot reason with you,

nor persuade you, nor cajole you,

Sugarfoot, I shall trick you!

There you have it! It's the only

way I can hold my own against you.

Did you think I was going to cry

or beg for forgiveness?

Please go away now. Come back

tomorrow maybe or the next day.

But I don't want to see you

any more just now.

Come in.

Where's Reva?

- In her room.

Will you ask her

if she wishes to see me?

Listen, you, Sugarfoot.

If you've got the sense

God gave geese, use it this night.

Use sense, you big lummox.

And understandin', and gentleness.

You... You once said that we'd have

to prove ourselves to each other.

I know that I've failed you.

I've failed you, not only

with myself but with Jacob Stint.

Reva, what I came to tell you

is that you must cut loose from me.

Must I? Is that the way of it?

For YOUR sake,

for your peace of mind.

Would parting from you

bring me peace of mind?

Doesn't matter now.

Nothing matters.

Come humiliation,

come resentment, come anything.

There's nothing left of me but...

love for you.

There's nothing else to say.

Yet you would give me up.

- Because I love you.

Sugarfoot!

You're always in the way, Sugarfoot.

You meddle. Not that I bear ill.

I deplore violence.

I am a simple man of business, Mr Redan.

A simple, peaceable man of business.

- Shut up!

Let Miss Cairn go away.

- She'll watch.

That is all so unnecessary.

If you had but minded your own

business, Mr Redan.

You have brought it upon yourself.

You are not a good businessman,

Mr Goodhue.

You have had luck.

Now, take that first encounter at La Paz...

- Shut upl

It had to be this way.

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