The Member of the Wedding Page #7

But what has accumulated

around my old name?

Nothing, see?

My name just didn't mean anything.

Until yesterday,

nothing ever happened to me.

But it will. Things will happen.

What?

Halt.

Take off my shoes,

my hat, my pocketbook,

and I thank you very much.

Listen, Bernice.

Doesn't it strike you as strange

that I am I, and you are you?

Like when you walk down the street

and you meet somebody,

and you are you, and he is him.

Yet, when you look at each other,

the eyes make a connection.

Then you go off one way

and he goes off another way.

And maybe you never see each other again,

not in your whole life.

Do you see what I mean?

Not exactly.

That's not what I meant to say anyway.

I'm talking about this town.

There are all those people here in town

that I don't even know by sight or name.

And now I'm leaving town and there are

all those people I will never know.

- Well, who is it you want to know?

- Everybody.

- Everybody in the world.

- Well, just listen to that.

It would take you over 200,000 years

to know everybody.

That's not what I mean.

That's not what I'm talking about!

Then what do you mean,

and what are you talking about?

- Let's play out, Frankie.

- No, you go!

- This is what I mean.

- What on earth is wrong with you?

Man, oh, boy! Boy, oh, man!

When we leave Winter Hill,

we're going to more places than you ever

thought about or even knew existed.

Just where we'll go first,

I don't know, and it don't matter,

because after we go to that place,

we're going on to another.

Alaska, China, Iceland, South America.

Traveling on trains,

riding a rip on motorcycles,

flying all over the world in airplanes!

Here today and gone tomorrow,

all over the world!

- It's the whole truth. Boy, oh, man!

- Now, Frank...

And talking of things happening,

things will happen so fast,

we won't hardly have time to realize them.

Captain Jarvis Addams wins highest medals

and is decorated by the President.

Miss F. Jasmine Addams breaks all records.

Mrs. Janice Addams elected

Miss United Nations in beauty contest.

One thing after another,

happening so fast, we'd hardly realize it.

- Hold still...

- And we'll meet them. Everybody.

We'll just walk up to people

and know them right away.

We'll be walking down a dark road

and see a lighted house

and knock on the door,

and strangers will rush to meet us

and say, "Come in! Come in!"

We will know decorated aviators,

and New York people, and movie stars.

And we'll have thousands

and thousands of friends.

We'll belong to so many clubs

that we can't even keep track of them all.

We will be members

of the whole world. Boy, oh, man!

- Man, oh, boy!

- Hush, child, child.

Come, child. Come to Bernice.

Bernice knows. Bernice understands.

And now, Bernice wants you to sit

on her lap so she can quiet you down.

You know you're trying

to grow up too fast, Frankie.

Leave Frankie alone.

She ain't bothering you.

- I'm sick.

- Oh, no, you're not.

And don't you grudge your cousin

a little bit of love.

- Old mean bossy Frankie.

- What is she doing so mean right now?

Just laying here, all wore out,

trying to get some rest.

If I have to be me for the rest of my life,

I think I'll go crazy.

Sometimes I feel like

I just can't breathe anymore.

I feel like I just wish

I could tear down the whole town.

So, I've heard you mention,

but that don't help none.

We go around trying first one thing

and then another.

Yet, we're still caught, just the same.

That's the way I see it in my mind's eye.

Bernice, which eye is your mind's eye?

Don't yank my head back like that, candy.

Me and Frankie ain't going to float

through the ceiling and leave you.

I wonder if you've ever thought about this?

Here we are, right now,

this very minute, now.

While we're talking right now,

this minute is passing,

and it will never come again,

never in the whole world.

When it's gone, it is gone,

no power on earth could bring it back again.

I sing because I'm happy

I sing because I'm free

For His eye is on the sparrow

I know He watches me

Why should I feel discouraged

Why should the shadows come

Why should my heart be lonely

Away from heaven and home

For Jesus is my portion

My constant friend is He

For His eye is on the sparrow

And I know He watches me

His eye is on the sparrow

And I know

that He watches me

So I sing

because I'm happy

- Oh, I sing

- Oh, I sing

- because I'm free

- because I'm free

- For His eye

- For His eye

- is on the sparrow

- is on the sparrow

- And I know

- And I know

- He watches me

- He watches me

Frankie, you got

the sharpest set of human bones I ever felt.

Dearly beloved,

we are gathered together here,

in the sight of God,

and in the presence of these witnesses,

to join together this man and this woman

in holy matrimony.

Do you, Jarvis,

take Janice to be your wedded wife,

to have and to hold from this day forward,

for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer,

in sickness and in health, to love

and to cherish till death do you part?

I do.

And do you, Janice,

take Jarvis to be your wedded husband,

to have and to hold from this day forward,

for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer,

in sickness and in health,

to love and to cherish

till death do you part?

I do.

The ring.

Repeat after me, Jarvis.

With this ring, I thee wed.

With this ring, I thee wed.

- Give me that.

- Let go! Let go!

Frankie! Frankie!

A toast! A toast to the bride and groom!

Congratulations!

- Frankie?

- Frankie?

- I'm going with you.

- With us?

- But, Frankie, you can't.

- I love you.

We have to be together.

Wherever you go, I'm going, too.

- Frankie, this is our honeymoon.

- What is it?

- Frankie, get out of there.

- No, no, no!

- Janice and Jarvis are taking me with them.

- This is the absolute limit.

- Frankie, get out of there or I'll pull you out.

- No, don't touch me!

Dad, let me talk to her, please.

Frankie, your brother and I are married now,

and we only have three days together

before he has to go back to camp.

You don't want to spoil it for us, do you?

I know you love us and we love you, but...

We. We. When you say "we,"

you only mean you and Jarvis,

and I'm not included.

Frankie, you're spoiling our wedding.

No, I'm not! I'm not! Take me! Take me!

All right, you'll have to be shown then!

Will you get out of here!

I've had enough of this nonsense.

Take me! Take me!

Come on, baby.

Come on, baby, in the house.

They put old Frankie out of the wedding.

They hauled her out of the wedding car.

That's sufficient, John Henry.

You leave Frankie alone.

My heart feels so cheap.

Now, what makes

you want to leave your old papa like this?

I love them so.

Frankie, don't cry.

Now, please be reasonable, Frankie.

I just wish the whole world would die.

Listen.

Tell me what you'd like,

and I'll try to do it if it's in my power.

All I wish in the world

is for no human being to speak to me again

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