This Time for Keeps Page #7

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Well, nothing, only, you know you

promised you`d ask Gordon some questions.

I did, did l?.

DlCK:
Are you sure they`re home?.

DEBORAH:
They were when I left.

Now, Mr. Coome, you won`t mind

if my questions are little personal?.

Not at all.

GRANDMA:

You understand, it`s because...

...my granddaughter`s happiness

is so dear to me.

I think I understand.

Now, l`d like to know about

any women in your life.

Don`t answer that.

You have no right to ask him questions.

You asked me questions and I passed.

Hello, Nora.

Hello, Dick.

Unless my memory fails me,

Mr. Johnson...

...your answer to that question was a lie.

Only a temporary one.

Nora, you`ve got to let me explain.

I realize I should have been honest

with you...

...and I made a mistake.

A mistake?.

Aren`t you being a trifle severe

with yourself?.

I`ve done everything I could

to make it up.

There`s no way to make it up.

Don`t say that, Nora.

You can`t mean that.

Why weren`t you honest with me?.

I wanted to get everything

straightened out first.

All my life, l`d be wondering

whether you`re telling me the truth...

...or getting something

straightened out first.

You aren`t being fair.

This whole thing has been so involved.

My father wanted me

to go through with it.

I`ve even quarreled with him about it.

It wasn`t easy walking out on a girl

who had always been honest with me.

Listen to me, Nora.

I`ve upset three lives already just--

I don`t wanna hear about it.

I don`t care what you`ve done

or what you haven`t done...

...what you intend doing.

Will you please understand?.

I`m just not interested.

All right, Nora.

If you`re not interested...

...then neither am l.

-Goodbye, Deborah.

-Goodbye.

[CRYlNG]

Deborah, stop sniffling.

Mr. Coome,

I apologize for my granddaughter.

And for my great-granddaughter.

And for my part in this scene.

I`ve never had an apology

from three generations before.

Well, there are times

when life gets too ridiculous.

Shall we go on with our game?.

Thank you. I`d like to.

[CRYlNG]

DEBORAH:

Come in.

Why all the weeping?. What`s the matter?.

I brought Dick to see Nora

and she was mean to him.

And now he`s awfully mad at her.

Deborah, you`ve got it all wrong.

Dick was mean to me

and l`m mad at him.

They`re mad at each other.

[WHlSPERS] You`re a friend of the family.

Can`t you do something?.

[WHlSPERS]

Hello?. Hello.

Long distance, please.

I apologize. You are not a rookie.

I wonder. I`ve had one

or two dubious doubts about that.

Take these up to Grandma`s.

This was all that was left at the house.

Unless you wanna ride in that.

In Denmark,

I used to ride the handlebars.

Recently?.

Wait--

You better get back here.

Get on. Don`t make a problem out of it.

Oh, you`re in here.

Did you think l`d receive your guest

in the kitchen?.

It wouldn`t have surprised me.

Anyway, this is Mr. Richard Herald.

Mrs. Cambaretti, Mr. Herald.

How do you do?.

I am delighted to be here,

Mrs. Cambaretti.

Well, I guess l`ll run along.

Won`t you sit down, Mr. Herald?.

You are kind to listen to me,

Mrs. Cambaretti.

I can explain the mix-up with clarity.

Your son did that without much success.

Oh, Dick told you.

I overreached myself,

putting that announcement in the paper.

But Dick didn`t tell us that.

Oh, he wouldn`t.

When one comes of good stock,

it shows up in the behavior.

May I tell you, Mr. Herald, what I thought

when I learned that Dick is your son?.

Please do, Mrs. Cambaretti.

I thought, "" Like father, like son.""

As a young man, Mr. Herald,

you were much in the headlines.

Now I recognize you.

You are the famous Cambaretti.

Such joy to watch.

Pure poetry of motion.

But this is a perfect marriage.

We will arrange it. All the details.

And then we will tell those silly children.

That old-country method

didn`t work so well, did it?.

The other time you tried it.

I don`t know about Dick,

but Nora can`t be shoved around.

Maybe we could give her a little push.

-Hello, Gordon.

-Hello, Ferdi.

Why aren`t you swimming?.

I thought l`d just watch today.

Come on, Deborah.

It`s time you did a little work.

Make it good, now, Deborah.

That`s fine, Deborah.

You weren`t watching me.

I knew it wasn`t any good.

Oh, that`s all right. We`ll try it again.

Come on, let`s swim now, huh?.

All right.

One, two...

...three, four, five, turn.

One, two, three, four, five...

...six, seven, under.

MERLE [SlNGlNG]:
She`s Chiquita Banana

And she come to say

I got a little island down equator way

I sail on big banana boat from Caribbee

To see if I can keep good-neighbor policy

I bring a song about bananas

I sing it low, I sing it high

I make big hit with `Mericanos

Singing song about bananas

I can sing about the moonlight

On the very, very tropical equator

But, no, I sing about bananas

And the refrigerator

[SlNGlNG] She`s Chiquita Banana

And she come to say

Banana have to ripen in a certain way

When they are flecked with brown

-And have a golden hue

-[SlNGlNG] You`d be

-Bananas taste the best and are--

-So easy to love

So easy to idolize

All others above

So worth the yearning for

So swell

-To keep every home fire burning for

-He`s supposed to sing, he doesn`t.

He isn ` t supposed to, he does.

We`d be so grand at the game

So carefree together

That it does seem a shame

That you can `t see

Your future with me

Because you`d be, oh, so easy

To love

Dick sang with that pretty girl.

Deborah, if you start to cry,

l`m gonna take you right home.

-Now, come on. We`re gonna swim again.

-I don`t want to swim.

I wanna be a bareback rider

like Grandma.

Well, today, you`re gonna swim.

And you`re gonna act as if you--

Well, as if you didn`t even hear him.

Come on, let`s go.

Gordon, I hate to say this.

Well, then don`t.

Okay.

Why is it people who are slow

are always considered stupid?.

-Why, Gordon, no one ever said--

-Never mind.

I don`t need a blueprint.

Believe me,

l`m really sorry about everything.

But not surprised, huh?.

Gordon, if that pool started running

1 0-foot waves, l`d be interested...

...but not surprised.

Come in, Mr. Herald.

Good evening. Good evening.

My premonitions are slipping.

Are they showing?.

I thought you`d bring your offspring along,

by the ear.

No, I haven`t seen my son.

I proceed cautiously.

I am waiting for reinforcements.

Good evening, Mr. Herald.

Good evening, Mrs. Cambaretti.

We should have met many years ago.

More headlines.

My cane, please, Ferdi.

Leonora?.

She is going with us to see Dick?.

My granddaughter has a sick headache.

A very stubborn sick headache.

But that is not going according

to our schedule.

Nora often has her own schedule.

And her own timetable.

I will advise her.

I will tell her how silly she is

to have a stubborn headache tonight.

I wouldn`t dish out that kind of advice

in any openhanded manner.

We might send Dick back

with a headache remedy.

-Coming, Ferdi?.

FERDl:
Later.

I wanna go up and check

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