Theodora Goes Wild Page #6

and settle down gently on the water.

If you make a splash, you scare them away.

Well, here goes.

Now then, you watch closely.

You didn't catch anything.

Well, you don't catch a trout

every time you cast, little girl.

Have a try.

You mean like that?

That makes five for me.

You haven't caught any yet,

have you, Michael?

You know darn well I haven't.

Why didn't you tell me

you were a crack fisherman?

Well, you didn't give me a chance.

You were so busy telling me

how good you were.

I don't think we ought to catch

any more than we can eat, do you?

-Want to have breakfast now?

-lf you'll invite me. They're your fish.

Come on. You're invited.

Come on, Jake.

-Come on, boy, get your breakfast.

-Hello, Jake. Hello, boy.

Do you like fish, Jake? Come on, boy.

When are you leaving town, Michael?

You know, I can really relax on fish.

It sits just right.

Not too heavy and not too light.

That rhymes. Not too heavy, not too light.

Eat more fish. Sits just right.

When are you leaving town?

-You said that.

-But you didn't answer me.

Well, to be serious about it, I don't know.

Well, when do you think?

Can't think on fish.

I inherit that from my grandpa.

Michael, stop poking at that fire.

Hey, what do you think you're doing?

I'm the Boy Scout here.

My eyes.

-Here, you goop.

-I'm blind.

Well, it serves you right.

Don't you know any better

-than to go playing with fire?

-Keep still, it hurts.

So would your finger

if you stuck it in a buzz saw.

It hurts something awful.

All right, all right. Don't cry now. Don't cry.

Papa will make it all better for you.

Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute.

See? All better?

Michael, I forgot it was Sunday.

Miss Wilson,

you look after the sale of tickets.

Mrs. Moffat will have charge

of the refreshments.

And Mrs. Cobb will take charge

of the clothing booth.

I'll manage the raffle.

-Rebecca, you will...

-I know.

Well, I guess there is only

one more thing to discuss.

That's what day we'll have our bazaar.

But before we go into that,

I think we'll have our tea and cake.

-Theodora.

-Yes, Aunt Mary.

Well, if you ask me, Mary,

there's just one thing to discuss

at this meeting.

That is the conduct of Theodora.

Rebecca, and all of you,

Theodora might make a few little mistakes

out of a generous impulse,

but she couldn't do anything sinful.

You know that, because you've known her

since she was a child.

So I won't have any aspersions cast.

Is that plain?

That isn't a true hexagon.

By the way, our gardener is leaving

in the morning.

-Michael.

-Well, come in.

I'm washing out my only shirt. Come in.

No, I can't. I've got to get back.

I just came over to say that...

What's he doing?

Who, Jake?

He's after the cheese in the mousetrap.

You came over to say what?

That you've got to leave, Michael.

I promised you'd go in the morning.

There was a quarrel about it yesterday.

It's really serious.

We can't joke about it anymore.

You've simply got to go.

-Hey, Jake. Jake. Come here, you fool.

-Jake.

Come here.

Come here, and let me take your foot out.

Come here, Jake. Come here. Oh, Jake.

Come here and let me take your foot out.

Haven't you got any more sense

than to go stick your foot in a mousetrap?

I don't think it's broken any. There.

Shall we go on with the meeting?

We're waiting for the tea, Theodora.

Theodora.

Well, why don't you ask me

what you want to know and get it over with?

Did I go out there

because I heard the dog yipping?

Or did I go out in the first place

to see the gardener?

The tea, Theodora.

You've all made up your minds

about it anyhow,

so I may as well tell you the truth.

I went out there to see him.

To tell him that I don't want him to go.

But he's got to go because you want him to.

-Theodora.

-lt doesn't matter what I want.

You're telling me what's good for me,

what's proper, what isn't proper.

You have been telling me that

since I was three years old and I'm sick of it.

You've glared and scolded

and frightened me all I'll stand for.

And now I'll tell you something.

I'll tell you something you'll never forget.

There's no law that can put that gardener

off these premises.

And he's going to stay right here.

This is a free country, I said.

I'm over 21, and what I choose to do

is none of Lynnfield's business.

I invite the whole town

to take a jump in the lake.

Swell.

That gardener's going to stay here

as long as I want him to, I said.

And that's forever, because I love him.

What's Lynnfield going to do about that?

I love him. I always will.

And there's nobody in this town

who's going to stop me.

Swell.

That's what I said, Michael.

It was the truth.

Swell.

I was thrilled to hear myself say it.

Right then I knew

I never could have sent you away.

Well, when you finally did let go,

you certainly rocked the world, didn't you?

I guess you and I have

a lot of things to talk about.

Yes, I guess we have.

We'd better not start tonight, though.

Are you proud of me, Michael?

I'll tell the world, baby.

Baby?

And Uncle John said nobody in Lynnfield

would ever call me baby.

Good night, darling.

Michael. Michael.

What? What?

-10:
00, Mr. Grant.

-10:
00? Well, what of it?

You know I didn't get to bed until 4:00.

Get out of here.

Your father telephone.

Say he be here at 10:00.

My father? Well, why didn't you wake me up?

I wake you, but you don't wake.

-Did you straighten up the living room?

-All fixed.

There he is now. Always on the dot.

Let him in, Toki.

Hello.

-Theodora.

-Hello, Michael.

Hello, Jake.

Well, here, let's do something about this.

Toki. Toki, take him out in the kitchen

and give him a bone. Have you got a bone?

No bone, but got nice lemon pie.

You forgot Jake. I thought you'd want him.

Why, yes, of course I want him.

Thanks very much.

And you want to know why I left that note

and ran away.

Theodora, writing that note

was the most difficult thing I ever did.

Oh, yes, the note.

I know you've got an explanation coming.

I ran away, because...

Because I threw myself at your head

and you were frightened.

No. Because I felt the same way about you.

You didn't know that, did you?

I didn't know it, either, until that night.

Until you stood there in my arms.

Then I knew I loved you.

If I'd had any idea that it was ever going

to be as serious as this,

I never would have gone to Lynnfield.

In view of my circumstances,

I had no right to go playing at hearts

with a swell person like you.

What circumstances, Michael?

Mr. Grant? Yes, you can come right up.

There he is now.

Please, I'd rather you didn't stay.

He can be a little difficult about some things.

Be a good girl now, run along to the Ritz

and I'll meet you there at 1:00 for lunch.

The Ritz? Where's the Ritz?

You mean to say

you don't know where the Ritz is?

Well, now, if you came to Lynnfield

and I said

to meet me in Willoughby's Meadow

for berry-picking,

you'd be a little confused, wouldn't you?

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