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The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond Page #6
You're poor.
And that's hard,
especially for a beautiful girl.
But you got a moral decision
to make.
- Don't talk to me
like a preacher.
Why, just a minute ago,
you were having me,
and we were gasping
for breath.
- That's not the point.
That's-
- Common.
In your opinion.
All right.
I'm common as dirt.
But I'm gonna
wash myself clean.
- By giving that diamond back.
- Oh, no.
This teardrop diamond
will wash me clean
as the sharecroppers
her father drowned last spring
when he blasted
the south end of his levee.
- Vinnie.
Vinnie, is that you
and Jimmy out there?
- Yes.
- My heavens.
You two have been gone
half an hour at least.
- Julie, will you call Fisher
out here?
- For what?
- Vinnie has something
she wants to give her,
something she just now
accidentally found.
- Uh, what are you
talking about?
- Fisher!
Fisher!
- Jimmy,
call her.
- Fisher!
Fisher Willow!
Hey.
Why didn't you answer me?
Didn't you hear me shouting?
- Call that shouting?
It sounded to me like a scared
little boy in the dark.
Well, what shall we do?
Go now?
I'm ready to go if you are.
It's an awfully dull party.
- I'd like to stay
- Why?
- I like the people at it.
- Especially one of the people?
Julia's little cousin
who works in a drugstore?
- Now, what's that
against her?
- Nothing.
Not a thing in the world.
You want me
to leave you with her.
- Now, you know that if you go,
I got to go with you, don't you?
Don't be so conventional.
It doesn't suit you
or me.
I swallowed my pride.
- Fisher, I don't think you have
ever had to swallow your pride.
- Oh, no?
poor people have to swallow.
- How naive you are.
I don't think anyone's ever
or choke on it
as often as I have.
For instance...
it wasn't easy for me
to come back downstairs
to that party
after you insisted
on being searched
in the kitchen.
- That wasn't easy for me.
- Well, that's over.
That's over.
Get in the car.
- Let's go back to the party.
- I'm not going back
to the party.
Get in the car.
- I'm going back to the party.
- Are you?
- Yes. I have to.
- You mean you'd go back
to the party
when I asked you not to?
- You're coming too.
- Are you telling me
what I'm gonna do,
Jimmy Dobyne?
- Yep.
Get out of your car.
- I believe you're serious.
- Come on.
Get out of your car.
- Make me.
- Come on.
Get out of your car.
- Let go of my arm,
or you'll get kicked.
- Get out of your car.
- Fisher.
Fisher.
I, uh-I found
your diamond earring.
- What did you say?
- I said I found
the teardrop diamond
that you lost.
- Oh?
Where'd you find it?
- On the veranda.
- How could you find it
on the veranda
when I discovered I'd lost it
before I got to the veranda?
- Well, maybe it fell out
of your dress or something.
Will you please take it back?
It's burning my hand
like a hot coal.
- You won't take a reward?
- I just want to forget it.
- That's very...
magnanimous of you
or something.
I'm not sure what.
- Now, will you shut up
about it?
You got it back!
Get in the car.
- Without my coat?
I- I left it upstairs.
- I'll get it for you.
- Never mind.
Tell Miss McCorkle
good night.
Vinnie.
- Did I have any choice?
Since I'm gonna marry
that officer in the bank,
I don't suppose we'll ever
see each other again.
Will we?
Good-bye, Jimmy.
- Good-bye, Vinnie.
- Miss Addie?
- I knew you'd come back.
- I promised I would.
- Lock the door,
until you've fulfilled
the promise completely.
You know what I mean?
- All?
- All.
You are honest and brave.
Put the bottle back
where it was.
Collect your things.
Now, go quick,
with God.
- With Jimmy Dobyne.
- Well, isn't he?
- Yes.
The same to me.
- Turn up the road
to the levee.
- Again?
- It's so lovely up there,
with the moon
on the river.
- Fisher, the moon
is not on the river.
The moon is in the sky.
- Which is reflected
on the river.
Turn out the lights
so we can see the moon better.
Jimmy?
Did you know
that I'm the postman
and have a letter
for someone?
The letter is for you.
- Fisher, I think
you can do better than me.
- I don't agree,
since it's only you
that I want.
- But you don't belong here.
- I can't keep running away.
I've got to stay here...
and somehow make amends
for what my...
father has done
and let this river flow
where it wants to.
Jimmy, your mother...
could be removed
from that dreadful place.
And your father...
he could remain
in charge of the commissary
as long as he lives,
no matter how drunk.
And as for me, well...
no one will ever love me.
But you could
get used to me, Jimmy.
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