Three Days in August Page #5

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"At present, I have 12

men under my command

"and we're guarding 80 enemy

prisoners.

"This'll all be over soon,

"and I'll be on my way

home to your loving arms.

"I love you more than the words

of this letter can express.

"Your loving husband, Francis."

I brought this for you, sweetie.

- I love you.

- Would you mind

if I said a blessing?

- Please.

- Bless, o lord, this

food we are about to eat

and we pray you, god, that it

will be good

for our body and soul.

And if there be any poor

creatures hungry or thirsty

walking along the road,

send them in to us that we

could share this food with them,

just as you share your

gifts with all of us.

Amen.

- Amen.

- - Amen.

- All right!

Where are you going?

Ah.

- Dun-dun-dah!

All right, all right, everybody

smile.

- Okay.

- Smile, c'mon!

- All right!

Now who would like some

Shepherd's pie?

All right, you're gonna

have to pass your plates.

It's too hot.

- This looks fantastic.

- Want some butter?

Thank you.

- You want some bread?

- I think I'm gonna...

- This is so good.

- Could someone pass

me some bread, please?

- Oh, sure.

- Would you like some butter?

- There we go.

- There we go.

- And me too.

Pass it down.

- I'd like some more whiskey.

Is that okay?

- Sure.

- Me too.

- Trade ya.

Get this stuff off of...

- Oh, that smells so good,

darling.

- There ya go.

- Liam, did you know that

Maggie was quite a dancer

in her day?

- Maggie?

A dancer?

I didn't know that.

I wouldn't have known

that in a million years.

- So you danced?

- Oh yeah, as a girl I did,

a little.

We went on a tour a little bit

one summer.

- Liam darling, would you

pass the salt and pepper?

- There you go.

- Thank you for all of it.

- Shannon,

I bought something dear to my

heart too...

For you.

Yeah.

There's these newlyweds

and they're in a hotel room

in the honeymoon suite,

and the groom decides that he's

gonna

let the wife know

exactly where she stands

before the marriage,

so he takes off his trousers

and he throws them at her,

and he says, "put those

on!"

And she says, "I can't

wear your trousers!"

And he says, "and don't

you forget it!

'Cause I'm the one that's always

gonna

wear the pants in this family."

And the bride,

she takes off her knickers.

Throws 'em at him and says,

"well try these on."

And the groom says, "I

can't wear your g..."

oh! No, no!

"I can't get into your

knickers!"

And the bride says, "and don't-"

oh, "and you never bloody will

if you don't change your

attitude."

- See what I live with?

- Well, better you than us.

Ohh.

What is wrong with you?

- Me?

- Yeah, you.

I'm just trying to lighten

things up a little bit,

but oh, no.

- You're doing a hell of a job,

yeah.

- Woman, you're a nasty piece of

work.

- Now, wait a minute,

wait a minute, wait a minute.

- You are nasty.

- No no, wait one second.

Anybody else, you want a drink,

do you want another

drink here at the table?

- Well, I think she's had

enough.

- Oh, yeah I've had enough.

I've had enough of you for this

lifetime!

- Look, nobody is holding

you hostage, dear.

You can leave any time you want.

- Well, I didn't even want to

come here in the first place,

did I, huh?

And I certainly never,

never would have come

if I'd known you were gonna be

here.

- Well, then why did you come?

You can go, you are free to go.

Don't you understand?

You have given me everything

I have ever wanted

with this woman at the end of

the table.

So go on, go ahead, run, run.

Run away.

We don't need you here.

- You're a rude f***ing cow.

- And you're a disgusting pig.

- Yeah, well go eat sh*t, b*tch.

You go home!

- All right, that's enough!

That's enough!

- You b*tch.

- Goddamn it, that's enough!!

- Maggie?

- Oof!

- Y'all are gonna wanna go see

this.

No, seriously, you gotta

see what I have planned.

- Oh, Shannon, I'm hunting.

Come on now.

- Wait!

- Ladies?

Ladies!

I'll take it from here.

- Why did I think this would be

any different than it is?

- Sweetheart, don't

kick yourself too hard.

The weekend isn't over yet.

How the hell did you arrange all

this

without anyone gettin' wind of

it?

- It was Liam.

He put the whole thing

together with his friends.

- C'mon.

I still got some kick left in

me.

- Well?

- We shall see.

Drink?

- Oh yeah.

- Whoo-hoo!

- Knock, knock.

Hey.

- Hey.

- Been in here all night long?

- Most of it.

- Everything okay?

- Eh, couldn't sleep.

- I brought you some tea.

- No.

- Okay.

That was some surprise party

last night.

I had no idea you planned it.

How did you pull that off

without me findin' out?

- The dancing?

That was all Liam.

Pretty sneaky, huh?

- Yeah, real sneaky.

Impressive.

Was it what you expected?

- I was hoping we'd all have a

good time.

Maggie would relax a

bit and enjoy the music,

we'd all get to know each other.

Guess I was asking for too much.

- "Hey, you wanna try my pants

on?"

C'mon, it was funny.

- My mother didn't think so.

- Yeah.

I just don't think those two

are ever gonna get along.

I mean, the only thing

they have in common is you.

- Shouldn't that be enough?

- It should be.

- I wasn't expecting this

to be some big love fest.

I wanted this to pull

us all closer together,

not tear us further apart.

- Cut yourself a break.

Heck, those two...

It's just not gonna happen.

- You really think smoking

is a good idea right now?

- Not like it's gonna kill me.

- I wish you wouldn't talk like

that.

- Well, why quit now?

- Because I'm asking you to.

Maggie, I love you.

- I know you do.

- Listen, I know you

didn't want to come here,

but you're doing this for me,

so this morning, please talk to

Shannon.

We need her, you need her.

Please go and find her

and tell her you're sorry

about last night.

Can you do that for me?

- Just for you.

- Thank you.

- What the hell?

Would you please close the door?

What are you lookin' at?

Oh, Christ.

- Mornin'.

How's everythin' goin' in here?

- Just finishing what I came

here to do.

- Can I come in?

- Sure.

- Sable brushes.

- I like the way they

glide across the canvas.

- May I take a peek?

Mmm, yeah.

Oh, it's comin' along real good.

- Slowly.

It's still missin' some pieces.

- Yeah.

I guess we have some things we

don't know

about each other.

- That's why I invited

you here this weekend.

So we could learn those things.

Some of 'em.

- Shannon, as much as you want

it,

you can't fit a lifetime into

three days.

Will you look at me for a

moment, please?

I'm sorry about last night.

I had a few too many and

I really shouldn't have

acted that way.

I'm very sorry.

- It's not an easy

situation for any of us.

Especially you.

I appreciate you being here.

- I appreciate you inviting me.

Maureen and I just...

- I love my mother.

- Oh, I know you do.

- She's good to me.

- You know, in the world that I

come from,

you didn't get pregnant

unless you were married.

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