Ten North Frederick Page #7

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What do you call it?

I'll get you some right away.

It's not for me. It's for you.

Yes, General.

Wait for me.

You want me to tell Ann you're in town?

No, no. I'll call her tomorrow.

Well.

Goodnight.

Goodnight.

You want to kiss me, don't you Mr. Chapin?

At my age, a kiss has other implications.

At least the way I want to kiss you.

Yes.

I can't imply any promises.

Or promise any implications.

Or whatever I'm trying to say.

After all.

I'm Ann's father and we met tonight

for the first time.

Why yes.

They'll be another time, Kate.

I'll be back.

I know you will.

Oh, I know that.

I'm way past where I ever thought

I'd be with anyone again.

Goodnight dear Kate.

Goodnight.

The Yale club.

Fifty Vanderville! Fifty Vanderville avenue.

Hello night-owl.

Night-owl yourself.

Oh. I didn't know you had company.

My brother Joby, Kate Drummond.

Hi.

Well, hello.

Joby just woke me up, demanding bed and board.

So I'll move in with you and

he can have my room.

Having seen Kate, I could suggest

a more original arrangement.

Sophomore?

Freshman, Yale.

As of today, that is. I seem to be

flunking out.

That'l be a nice Christmas

present for father.

Yale was his idea, not mine.

I know, Joby.

Well, I'm going to turn in.

Where's your bag?

No bag. All I need in the morning

is a razor and a toothbrush.

You must have an old razor

you shave your legs with.

He's so sophisticated and so vulgar.

And so wrong.

And Kate, if you weren't such an ugly

old hag I could go for you.

Then swear off razors.

All my men grow beards.

Goodnight, sweet prince.

Something tells me I'm not getting across.

You are.

Well, who's first in the bathroom?

You. Extra toothbrush in the cabinet.

Well, goodnight.

Goodnight.

I hope you don't mind Joby. That's just

the way he talks.

Why should I mind?

I like him.

Who's your new fellow.

What new fellow?

The one you were out with.

Why should it be anyone new?

Oh, come on Kate, you stay out until

nearly two o'clock and then..

...breeze in with that look about you.

Do I indeed?

Well, when you've been out with Howard

you always come home..

...dragging your tail behind you.

You're an observant wench, aren't you?

No.

I merely can't mind my own business.

He's just a friend of a friend,

from out of town.

And you're not talking?

Good evening, Joe.

Good evening, Edith.

There's a postcard from Joby.

From Bermuda.

What's he doing in Bermuda?

He's staying with the Harrisons. So is Ann.

Oh. How long do they expect to be there?

Over Christmas.

I've got to get these cards out...

Over Christmas?

Is dinner ready yet?

You have time for another drink.

Oh, Edith, I have to run up to New York

tomorrow for the firm.

I'll be gone two or three days.

Whatever you say Joe.

Hello.

Oh hello.

Well, may I come in?

Of course.

I have theater tickets and a table at

the Margaritte.

I took a chance that you'd

be free this evening.

I've been free every evening since I left.

And... the fellow with the whistle?

I stopped seeing him

Well, when you whistled..

Kate!

I wanted to stay away.

That's not quite true.

I didn't want to, but I tried.

I tried too. I tried to wish you

would come back.

Like it?

Wonderful.

Let's not stay for the rest of it.

Do you mind?

Not in the least.

Where would you like to go?

Just walk.

Somehow, I don't want all those

friends of yours staring at us.

Not tonight.

Cold?

Just enough.

I never knew what it was like before.

All these years I've heard about people

being in love. Read about it.

But never felt it.

But when it happens, you know. You're sure.

That's for sure.

All the millions of men it's never happened to.

And the millions of women.

But it happened to me.

It happened to us.

About twenty more miles.

So quiet.

Like the end of the world.

Arthur McHenry and I used to bring the

fellows up here for the hunting and fishing.

But nobody comes here any more.

What was that?

What is it?

It's a man in a fur coat.

A man?

Why, it's a bear.

You don't sound near-sighted. For

a moment I thought it was a man.

He's near-sighted too. Watch.

Hey bear!

You promised to call me.

I must have slept for an hour.

Nearer two. I couldn't bring myself

to wake you.

Here.

What is it?

A present.

A present for me?

I don't see anyone else around here.

Open it.

Right now?

Of course.

I've always been like this: Christmas

and my birthdays.

A present is so wonderful.

Lovely, mysterious.

Before it's unwrapped.

And what's inside is always

a disappointment?

No.

But after all, it's something that

came from a store.

What's in this one came

from the heart, Kate.

Mr. Chapin!

When a fellow gives a girl a ruby, the least

he can expect is to be called by his name.

Joe.

Thank you Joe.

This was presented to my grandfather

in India.

I had it made up as a pendant for you.

I never dreamed of anything so beautiful.

You've christened it tonight.

I thought we'd run down to the

lodge for dinner.

There's usually a crowd there for skiing.

Do you think we ought to?

Why not?

Go out together? Where there's a crowd?

Oh.

I've been doing a lot of thinking.

We have to be very clear in our minds

just how things will be.

For us, and for the people we care about.

I can't go on living with Ann for instance.

I'll have to get an apartment of my

own somewhere.

That's where we'll always have to

see each other.

We can't go out together anymore.

Let me finish!

Now you listen to me.

I love you as I've never loved anyone else.

Surely, deeply, completely.

You really think I'd stand for that?

You, my mistress?

Dodging your friends? In an

apartment on the wrong side of town?

It's my decison Joe. It's what I

want to do.

Thank you.

And it's the one thing I'll

never let you do.

Kate. Will you marry me?

How could we?

I'll ask my wife for a divorce.

Would she give you one?

She might.

There's a reason why she might.

I can force the issue.

I never even thought about marriage.

I can't give you up.

Not now. I can't go back to Gibbsville,

to Frederick Street.

Not to that house.

I...

I'm sorry.

That was inexcusable.

Whining about my own troubles.

Joe.

When a man asks a woman to marry him.

Doesn't he usually wait for an answer.

It's more Swiss than anything

in Switzerland.

I've never been there.

You'd like it.

Are we going to Switzerland?

It'll be fun to show you all the places

you've never been.

Some of the places, I've never been.

Will there be anything else, sir?

Anything else, maam?

Thank you sir.

I'm sorry sir. Are you alright?

I'm fine thank you.

Let me help you up sir.

I can still get up by myself. Thank you.

I'm terribly sorry sir.

Kate! Kate Drummond. I didn't know

you were in these parts.

Hello Bill.

Well, where you staying?

With friends.

You're not leaving now? We were

all going to have a dance later.

I'm afraid we have to go.

Oh come on! You can stay for

just a little while anyway.

Mr. Drummond, you make her stay.

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