1.1 ::- :=Addie: Save a few little cakes, too, she like -- 1.1 ::- :=Birdie: tell him to bring the blue book and -- 1.1 ::- :=Birdie: Really I promised Mr. Marshall. I -- 1.1 ::- :=Birdie: very much. We had such a nice talk and -- 1.1 ::- :=Leo: Of course, Uncle Ben. I didn't mean -- 1.1 ::- :=Marshall: the summer, Europe with their mother -- 1.1 ::- :=Leo: Oh, I didn't mean, sir -- 1.1 ::- :=Marshall: see? My train will be leaving soon and -- 1.1 ::- :=Birdie: -- I -- I had a little headache and -- 1.1 ::- :=Birdie: dear. But I have my headache now. I -- 1.1 ::- :=Marshall: Indeed I do. If your headache isn't -- 1.1 ::- :=Ben: more, niggers to lift their fingers -- 1.1 ::- :=Birdie: knew that. We were better to them than -- 1.1 ::- :=Alexandra: Uncle Ben, please? I'd like to and -- 1.1 ::- :=Alexandra: But Leo always -- 1.2 ::- :=Birdie: I'd like -- 1.2 ::- :=Birdie: the killing. You only throw them away -- 1.2 ::- :=Ben: I have -- 1.2 ::- :=Birdie: to shoot, when poor people need it so -- 1.2 ::- :=Birdie: Lionnet and -- and about your shooting -- 1.2 ::- :=Ben: I said -- 1.3 ::- :=Regina: get their hands on a case like this -- 1.3 ::- :=Oscar: for the money if he wanted to -- 1.3 ::- :=Regina: his interests. It seems only natural -- 1.3 ::- :=Regina: she says that I miss him and want him -- 1.3 ::- :=Ben: And I agree. That's settled now and -- 1.3 ::- :=Regina: I don't want to fight, Ben -- 1.3 ::- :=Oscar: didn't want to do. And this is what I -- 1.3 ::- :=Ben: Leo. They may even marry some day and -- 1.3 ::- :=Birdie: Marry -- Zan and Leo -- 1.3 ::- :=Regina: consider. They are first cousins, and -- 1.3 ::- :=Regina: took a little money from the bank and -- 1.3 ::- :=Oscar: That's all past history -- 1.3 ::- :=Regina: show you that there are considerations -- 1.3 ::- :=Oscar: I have your word that you will try to -- 1.3 ::- :=Birdie: I -- Alexandra is only seventeen. She -- 1.4 ::- :=Addie: He'd expect me to be along -- 1.4 ::- :=Leo: Look at Mary Prester and Johanna and -- 1.4 ::- :=Birdie: may be too sick. She couldn't do that -- 1.4 ::- :=Alexandra: come home for me, if he is too sick to -- 1.4 ::- :=Birdie: That's not what I'm worried about. Zan -- 1.4 ::- :=Birdie: It's about Leo -- 1.4 ::- :=Alexandra: off. He always beats the horses as if -- 1.4 ::- :=Birdie: I love you more than anybody else -- 1.4 ::- :=Birdie: not going to let them do that to you -- 1.4 ::- :=Alexandra: I've never even thought about it -- 1.4 ::- :=Birdie: to think about such a thing. You and -- 1.4 ::- :=Birdie: They'll make you. They'll make you -- 1.4 ::- :=Birdie: I just couldn't stand -- 1.4 ::- :=Alexandra: What happened? What happened? I -- 2.1 ::- :=Addie: alone to bring home a sick man without -- 2.1 ::- :=Cal: for a little piece of that meat -- 2.1 ::- :=Leo: any message from Uncle Horace or Zan -- 2.1 ::- :=Oscar: the letters, then he don't come home -- 2.1 ::- :=Leo: Uncle Horace don't come home or don't -- 2.1 ::- :=Leo: I wasn't thinking of myself, Papa -- 2.1 ::- :=Leo: and two old schoolbooks with notes and -- 2.1 ::- :=Leo: up the box quick and I told them never -- 2.1 ::- :=Leo: put the keys back in Manders' drawer -- 2.1 ::- :=Leo: I didn't. I told you I didn't. No, I -- 2.1 ::- :=Leo: No. I -- 2.1 ::- :=Leo: was in the bank when I did it. But -- 2.1 ::- :=Leo: if I had the bonds, I'd watch 'em like -- 2.1 ::- :=Leo: breakfast! Lend me the bonds! My God -- 2.1 ::- :=Leo: He wouldn't even miss them. Ah, well -- 2.1 ::- :=Leo: were in Europe. I was just a kid then -- 2.2 ::- :=Alexandra: chair. I'll get that and the valises -- 2.2 ::- :=Addie: your hair a good brushing -- go on -- 2.2 ::- :=Alexandra: and remember about his medicine, Addie -- 2.2 ::- :=Addie: You're going to be in your bed -- 2.2 ::- :=Addie: Regina. They're home. They got here -- 2.2 ::- :=Regina: was hard on you. I didn't think that -- 2.2 ::- :=Horace: I had never been away. All of you here -- 2.2 ::- :=Regina: Birdie, what a thing to say -- 2.2 ::- :=Leo: give you all the news about the bank -- 2.2 ::- :=Birdie: Horace I just rushed out of the house -- 2.2 ::- :=Oscar: dressed that way? My dear Birdie, I -- 2.2 ::- :=Oscar: around the streets like a woman -- 2.2 ::- :=Regina: I was thinking you were in pain and -- 2.2 ::- :=Regina: business I've been writing you about -- 2.2 ::- :=Regina: they, that your fancy women may have -- 2.2 ::- :=Horace: a sudden there we were. I got hurt and -- 2.2 ::- :=Regina: She'll be a very great heiress -- 2.3 ::- :=Regina: you could guess how much he needed you -- 2.3 ::- :=Horace: made you think I'd let Zan marry -- 2.3 ::- :=Ben: He's rather talk about it tomorrow -- 2.3 ::- :=Ben: explained. Tomorrow will do. I can -- 2.3 ::- :=Ben: a smile do more to the heart of men -- 2.3 ::- :=Leo: Papa, I -- 2.3 ::- :=Ben: -- would lend him these bonds and he -- 2.3 ::- :=Leo: I don't know. I -- well, I -- 2.3 ::- :=Oscar: me he won't look at them until Fall -- 2.3 ::- :=Leo: I -- not till Fall. Uncle Horace never -- 2.3 ::- :=Leo: That's a good one. Not know his name -- 2.3 ::- :=Leo: They're in the safe-deposit box and -- 2.3 ::- :=Leo: share. I'd enjoy being a partner -- 2.3 ::- :=Ben: would? You can go to hell, you little -- 2.3 ::- :=Leo: what a great day this was for me and -- 2.3 ::- :=Alexandra: talk to him like that -- please, make her stop. She'll -- 2.3 ::- :=Alexandra: Go on up, Uncle Ben, please -- 2.3 ::- :=Ben: Well, I must go now. I'm very late -- 2.3 ::- :=Ben: He's going on to deliver to Marshall -- 2.3 ::- :=Regina: can't have -- You will wait until I -- 2.3 ::- :=Regina: Come back here. Come back here, you -- 2.3 ::- :=Alexandra: Papa, Papa, please go back! You will -- 2.3 ::- :=Alexandra: Papa. Just don't listen. Go away -- 2.3 ::- :=Alexandra: Papa! Don't -- Don't listen -- Don't -- 3.1 ::- :=Alexandra: I never knew -- 3.1 ::- :=Birdie: bad. Oscar never tells me anything -- 3.1 ::- :=Birdie: good humor when he got home, I didn't -- 3.1 ::- :=Cal: Manders, Mr. Joe Horns, and Mr. Leo -- 3.1 ::- :=Addie: Miss Birdie, don't -- 3.1 ::- :=Alexandra: Couldn't we find a way to go -- 3.1 ::- :=Addie: like this you'll get a headache and -- 3.1 ::- :=Birdie: say, "Birdie's got a headache again" -- 3.1 ::- :=Birdie: you haven't got my Mama to remember -- 3.1 ::- :=Addie: Mr. Horace -- 3.1 ::- :=Addie: I don't know what to say for thanks -- 3.1 ::- :=Addie: feel well and it won't do no good -- 3.2 ::- :=Horace: it was, because I had made a decision -- 3.2 ::- :=Regina: night, praying you wouldn't come near -- 3.2 ::- :=Horace: bottle is upstairs. Addie! Addie! Come -- 3.2 ::- :=Cal: My God. Mr. Horace -- 3.3 ::- :=Leo: all over town for you and Uncle Ben -- 3.3 ::- :=Oscar: told us it was a sudden attack, and -- 3.3 ::- :=Leo: me, please? I been looking for you for -- 3.3 ::- :=Oscar: But he was all right -- 3.3 ::- :=Leo: I been trying to find you for an hour -- 3.3 ::- :=Leo: them. He's had the box since Wednesday -- 3.3 ::- :=Leo: the bonds. Ain't that clear enough -- 3.3 ::- :=Leo: Manders and says the box came O.K. and -- 3.3 ::- :=Oscar: That might not mean a thing -- 3.3 ::- :=Oscar: -- What -- Do you think he's seen the -- 3.3 ::- :=Leo: I'm going to -- 3.3 ::- :=Oscar: he say something -- I don't understand -- 3.3 ::- :=Leo: was going to say it to Fowler tonight -- 3.3 ::- :=Leo: believe? I do the dirty work and then -- 3.3 ::- :=Leo: You -- 3.3 ::- :=Oscar: Maybe he didn't know that we -- 3.3 ::- :=Leo: Manders seemed kind of puzzled and -- 3.3 ::- :=Oscar: But we got to find out -- 3.3 ::- :=Cal: landing, fallen over, his eyes tight -- 3.3 ::- :=Leo: He would have told his own wife -- 3.3 ::- :=Oscar: It can't do no harm to say it -- 3.3 ::- :=Leo: to do is say he didn't lend them to me -- 3.3 ::- :=Oscar: Is there anything we can do for Horace -- 3.3 ::- :=Ben: You don't feel well. Ah -- 3.3 ::- :=Leo: What do you mean? What bonds? What -- 3.3 ::- :=Oscar: That's ridiculous, Regina, absolutely -- 3.3 ::- :=Leo: talking about. What would I -- Why -- 3.3 ::- :=Oscar: You are talking -- 3.3 ::- :=Leo: steal anything. I don't know why -- 3.3 ::- :=Leo: I didn't steal -- 3.3 ::- :=Leo: had lent them -- I could have told you -- 3.3 ::- :=Ben: all be adjusted. It isn't as bad -- 3.3 ::- :=Regina: bad, Ben, naturally. I hadn't thought -- 3.3 ::- :=Regina: to know that. Ah, I had greater hopes -- 3.3 ::- :=Ben: Now don't worry and -- 3.3 ::- :=Oscar: My dear Regina -- 3.3 ::- :=Oscar: mighty crazy. Having just admitted -- 3.3 ::- :=Ben: the hell is Sloan? Take the buggy and -- 3.4 ::- :=Oscar: What? Alexandra -- 3.4 ::- :=Oscar: know he was that sick. Well, well -- I -- 3.4 ::- :=Oscar: I -- What a strange thing to ask! I -- 3.4 ::- :=Ben: He had -- 3.4 ::- :=Ben: Not in front of the child, Regina. I -- 3.4 ::- :=Regina: Tomorrow morning I go to Judge Simmes -- 3.4 ::- :=Oscar: And what proof? What proof of all this -- 3.4 ::- :=Oscar: We'll deny -- 3.4 ::- :=Oscar: way when upstairs not five minutes ago -- 3.4 ::- :=Oscar: Are you going to let her do this -- 3.1 ::'BOUT :=Cal: 'Bout ten minutes before it's five. 2.1 ::'EM :=Cal: nigger in town a Jesus-party. Most of 'em ain't had no meat since the cotton picking 2.1 ::'EM :=Leo: can bet if I had the bonds, I'd watch 'em like -- 3.3 ::'EM :=Cal: No, I ain't seen 'em. I ain't got time to answer you. I got 1.1 ::A :=Addie: Did she? Well, see that Belle saves a little for her. She like it right before 1.1 ::A :=Addie: it right before she go to bed. Save a few little cakes, too, she like -- 1.1 ::A :=Birdie: my desk drawer and -- My, Addie. What a good supper! Just as good as good can 1.1 ::A :=Birdie: opera in Chicago. Mr. Marshall is such a polite man with his manners and very educated 1.1 ::A :=Oscar: dinner table and go running about like a child? 1.1 ::A :=Birdie: see that. Very, very much. We had such a nice talk and -- 1.1 ::A :=Oscar: You have been chattering to him like a magpie. You haven't let him be for a second. 1.1 ::A :=Oscar: a magpie. You haven't let him be for a second. I can't think he came South to 1.1 ::A :=Birdie: I don't believe he was bored. He's a very educated, cultured gentleman. I just 1.1 ::A :=Birdie: always talk like that when I'm having a nice time. 1.1 ::A :=Oscar: get yourself in hand. Stop acting like a fool. 1.1 ::A :=Oscar: Ben means that worldliness is not a mark of beauty in any woman. 1.1 ::A :=Marshall: No one ever had their first taste of a better port. Well, I suppose it is all 1.1 ::A :=Marshall: That you Southerners occupy a unique position in America. You live better 1.1 ::A :=Ben: A great many Southerners don't. 1.1 ::A :=Ben: But we are a very close family. We've always wanted 1.1 ::A :=Marshall: I dare say. She moves about a great deal. And all of you are part of 1.1 ::A :=Ben: and me. My sister's good husband is a banker. 1.1 ::A :=Oscar: Your uncle means that a young man should speak more modestly. 1.1 ::A :=Birdie: well, because I had -- I -- I had a little headache and -- 1.1 ::A :=Oscar: My wife is a miserable victim of headaches. 1.1 ::A :=Alexandra: She's my teacher. May we play a duet? May we, Mama? 1.1 ::A :=Marshall: have been here, and solidly here, for a long time. 1.1 ::A :=Marshall: heard of anything but brick houses on a lake, and cotton mills. 1.1 ::A :=Ben: in the South. It still brings us in a fair crop. Ah, they were great days for 1.1 ::A :=Birdie: My father was killed in the war. He was a fine soldier, Mr. Marshall. A fine man 1.1 ::A :=Birdie: He was a fine soldier, Mr. Marshall. A fine man. 1.1 ::A :=Regina: Oh, certainly, Birdie. A famous soldier. 1.1 ::A :=Ben: example, looked down on them. To make a long story short, Lionnet now belongs to 1.1 ::A :=Marshall: May I bring you a glass of port, Mrs. Hubbard? 1.1 ::A :=Marshall: everything this afternoon. I have only a few minutes before I must leave for the 1.1 ::A :=Ben: My sister is right. I am a plain man and I am trying to say a plain 1.1 ::A :=Ben: am a plain man and I am trying to say a plain thing. A man ain't only in business 1.1 ::A :=Ben: and I am trying to say a plain thing. A man ain't only in business for what he 1.1 ::A :=Ben: true for the nigger picking cotton for a silver quarter, as it is for you and me. 1.1 ::A :=Marshall: Really? Well, I always thought it was a great deal. 1.1 ::A :=Marshall: You have a turn for neat phrases, Hubbard. Well, however 1.1 ::A :=Ben: fill them up. Down here, sir, we have a strange custom. We drink the last drink 1.1 ::A :=Ben: custom. We drink the last drink for a toast. That's to prove that the Southerner 1.1 ::A :=Ben: and Marshall, Cotton Mills, and to it a long and prosperous life. 1.1 ::A :=Leo: Ben lets me drive the horses. And a beautiful pair they are. Come on, Zan. 1.2 ::A :=Regina: Did he? He seems a lonely man. Imagine being lonely with all 1.2 ::A :=Birdie: Not like his wife? What a thing to say. 1.2 ::A :=Regina: She's away a great deal. He said that several times. 1.2 ::A :=Regina: I said I think you should either be a nigger or a millionaire. In between, like 1.2 ::A :=Regina: think you should either be a nigger or a millionaire. In between, like us, what 1.2 ::A :=Regina: Well, we must remember tonight. It's a very important night and we mustn't forget 1.2 ::A :=Regina: and then we'll really have them. Make a wish, Birdie, any wish. It's bound to come 1.2 ::A :=Regina: like it! Don't pretend. You're like a cat who's been licking the cream. Now we 1.2 ::A :=Regina: the cream. Now we must all have a drink to celebrate. 1.2 ::A :=Oscar: The children, Alexandra and Leo, make a very handsome couple, Regina. Marshall 1.2 ::A :=Ben: as if the deal's all set. I may not be a subtle man -- but -- Now somebody ask me 1.2 ::A :=Ben: down here we drink the last drink for a toast? 1.2 ::A :=Ben: done business with men whose word over a glass is better than a bond. Anyway it 1.2 ::A :=Ben: whose word over a glass is better than a bond. Anyway it don't hurt to have bot 1.2 ::A :=Regina: And I saw a lot more than that. 1.2 ::A :=Ben: the chickens. Well, God would allow us a little daydreaming. Good for the soul when 1.2 ::A :=Ben: to deserve it. I think I'll have a stable. For a long time I've had my good 1.2 ::A :=Ben: it. I think I'll have a stable. For a long time I've had my good eyes on Carter's 1.2 ::A :=Ben: my good eyes on Carter's in Savannah. A rich man's pleasure, the sport of kings, 1.2 ::A :=Ben: grow. But we are all entitled to a little side indulgence. 1.2 ::A :=Oscar: so. Well, then, I think we might take a few trips here and there, eh, Birdie? 1.2 ::A :=Oscar: We might even make a regular trip to Jekyll Island. I've heard 1.2 ::A :=Oscar: We might think about buying it. Make a nice change. Do you good, Birdie, a change 1.2 ::A :=Oscar: a nice change. Do you good, Birdie, a change of climate. Fine shooting on Jekyll, 1.2 ::A :=Regina: Two! I should like a thousand. You are modest, Birdie. 1.2 ::A :=Birdie: Papa had it. Every year it used to get a nice coat of paint -- Papa was very particular 1.2 ::A :=Ben: That's a pretty picture, Birdie. Might be a most 1.2 ::A :=Ben: a pretty picture, Birdie. Might be a most pleasant way to live. What do you 1.2 ::A :=Birdie: I could have a cutting garden. Just where Mama's used 1.2 ::A :=Ben: It'll take a great deal of money to live as you're planning, 1.3 ::A :=Oscar: dollars. For fifty-one per cent -- a controlling interest, mind you, we will 1.3 ::A :=Oscar: and twenty- five thousand dollars is a lot of money. 1.3 ::A :=Regina: I know the terms and I know it's a lot of money. 1.3 ::A :=Regina: saving for me. But that would give you a strange partner. And strange partners sometimes 1.3 ::A :=Regina: And strange partners sometimes want a great deal. But perhaps it would be wise 1.3 ::A :=Regina: are like once they get their hands on a case like this -- 1.3 ::A :=Regina: it occurred to you that Horace is also a good businessman? 1.3 ::A :=Ben: Certainly. He is a shrewd trader. Always has been. The bank 1.3 ::A :=Regina: thousand he has to put up. That's a lot of money, too. 1.3 ::A :=Oscar: Nonsense. He knows a good thing when he hears it. He knows that 1.3 ::A :=Ben: is saying that Horace wants more than a third of our share. 1.3 ::A :=Oscar: But he's only putting up a third of the money. You put up a third 1.3 ::A :=Oscar: up a third of the money. You put up a third and you get a third. What else could 1.3 ::A :=Oscar: money. You put up a third and you get a third. What else could he expect? 1.3 ::A :=Regina: It would seem that if you put up a third you should only get a third. But 1.3 ::A :=Regina: you put up a third you should only get a third. But then again, there's no law about 1.3 ::A :=Regina: just might say, I want more, I want a bigger share. You boys have done that. 1.3 ::A :=Ben: he has deliberately held out? For a larger share? Well, I don't believe it. 1.3 ::A :=Regina: to persuade Horace unless he did get a larger share. I must look after his interests. 1.3 ::A :=Ben: I haven't said a thing. 1.3 ::A :=Regina: him, before he came home. Horace is a very sick man. And even if you don't care 1.3 ::A :=Ben: cent, instead of the thirty-three and a third he really should get. I'll do that, 1.3 ::A :=Ben: then by my brother. And I ain't a man who likes being attacked. I can't believe 1.3 ::A :=Ben: to make you more money now. You'll be a very rich man. What's the difference to 1.3 ::A :=Ben: What's the difference to any of us if a little more goes here, a little less goes 1.3 ::A :=Ben: any of us if a little more goes here, a little less goes there -- it's all in the 1.3 ::A :=Oscar: That would make a great difference in my feelings. If they 1.3 ::A :=Ben: what I mean. Of course it would make a difference. 1.3 ::A :=Regina: too far away. We'll talk about it in a few years. 1.3 ::A :=Regina: There's a lot of things to consider. They are first 1.3 ::A :=Ben: These quarrels. I dislike them so. A marriage might be a very wise arrangement, 1.3 ::A :=Ben: I dislike them so. A marriage might be a very wise arrangement, for several reasons. 1.3 ::A :=Regina: said I was opposed to it. But Leo is a wild boy. There were those times when he 1.3 ::A :=Regina: There were those times when he took a little money from the bank and -- 1.3 ::A :=Regina: My, you're in a bad humor and you shall put me in one. 1.4 ::A :=Leo: You can always spot clothes made in a good place. Looks like maybe they were 1.4 ::A :=Alexandra: It's a lovely night. You should have come, Aunt 1.4 ::A :=Addie: Going alone? Going by herself? A child that age! Mr. Horace ain't going 1.4 ::A :=Regina: I'll be up in a few minutes to tell you what to pack. I 1.4 ::A :=Regina: would have delighted me. You're a strange girl, Alexandra. Addie has babied 1.4 ::A :=Ben: it over. Good night, everybody. Have a nice trip, Alexandra. The food on the train 1.4 ::A :=Ben: good. The celery is so crisp. Have a good time and act like a little lady. 1.4 ::A :=Ben: crisp. Have a good time and act like a little lady. 1.4 ::A :=Leo: Imagine your not wanting to go! What a little fool you are. Wish it were me. What 1.4 ::A :=Leo: Wish it were me. What I could do in a place like Baltimore! 1.4 ::A :=Birdie: I couldn't stand to think about such a thing. You and -- 2.1 ::A :=Oscar: Wouldn't you think a girl that age could get on a train at one 2.1 ::A :=Oscar: you think a girl that age could get on a train at one place and have sense enough 2.1 ::A :=Addie: happened. Sure fire disgrace to let a baby like that go all the way alone to 2.1 ::A :=Addie: go all the way alone to bring home a sick man without -- 2.1 ::A :=Oscar: You do a lot of judging around here, Addie, eh? 2.1 ::A :=Regina: just hasn't got sense enough to send a message. 2.1 ::A :=Regina: the train may have been delayed -- oh, a hundred things could have kept them. 2.1 ::A :=Cal: sir. I bet you. Simon he say you had a mighty good day yesterday morning. That's 2.1 ::A :=Cal: squirrel to give every nigger in town a Jesus-party. Most of 'em ain't had no meat 2.1 ::A :=Cal: was over. Bet they'd give anything for a little piece of that meat -- 2.1 ::A :=Oscar: Cal, if I catch a nigger in this town going shooting, you 2.1 ::A :=Leo: The boys in the bank don't know a thing. They haven't had any message. 2.1 ::A :=Oscar: I told you if they had a message to bring it here. I told you that 2.1 ::A :=Oscar: I told you that if they didn't have a message to stay at the bank and do your 2.1 ::A :=Oscar: start settling down. You going to be a married man one of these days. 2.1 ::A :=Oscar: your Uncle Horace you going to make a fit husband for Alexandra. 2.1 ::A :=Leo: Oh, he'll go along. It's too good a thing. Why wouldn't he want to? He's got 2.1 ::A :=Leo: fine. Then right next to them is a baby shoe of Zan's and a cheap old cameo 2.1 ::A :=Leo: to them is a baby shoe of Zan's and a cheap old cameo on a string, and, and -- 2.1 ::A :=Leo: shoe of Zan's and a cheap old cameo on a string, and, and -- nobody'd believe this 2.1 ::A :=Leo: and, and -- nobody'd believe this -- a piece of an old violin. Not even a whole 2.1 ::A :=Leo: -- a piece of an old violin. Not even a whole violin. Just a piece of an old thing, 2.1 ::A :=Leo: violin. Not even a whole violin. Just a piece of an old thing, a piece of a vi 2.1 ::A :=Leo: violin. Just a piece of an old thing, a piece of a violin. 2.1 ::A :=Leo: a piece of an old thing, a piece of a violin. 2.1 ::A :=Oscar: A piece of a violin! What do you think of 2.1 ::A :=Oscar: A piece of a violin! What do you think of that! 2.1 ::A :=Leo: Yes, sirree. A lot of other crazy things, too. A poem, 2.1 ::A :=Leo: A lot of other crazy things, too. A poem, I guess it is, signed with his mother's 2.1 ::A :=Leo: if I wanted to see, too. So I looked a little, I guess, but then I made them close 2.1 ::A :=Oscar: going to be angry with you. Sometimes a young fellow deserves credit for looking 2.1 ::A :=Oscar: see what's going on. Sometimes that's a good sign in a fellow your age. Many great 2.1 ::A :=Oscar: on. Sometimes that's a good sign in a fellow your age. Many great men have made 2.1 ::A :=Oscar: have been -- well, it may have been a good thing if you had. 2.1 ::A :=Oscar: If you had them. Then you could have a share in the mill, you and me. A fine, 2.1 ::A :=Oscar: have a share in the mill, you and me. A fine, big share, too. Well, a man can't 2.1 ::A :=Oscar: and me. A fine, big share, too. Well, a man can't be shot for wanting to see his 2.1 ::A :=Leo: he can just sit back and wait to be a millionaire. 2.1 ::A :=Oscar: No, I suppose not. Just a fancy of mine. A loan for three months, 2.1 ::A :=Oscar: I suppose not. Just a fancy of mine. A loan for three months, maybe four, easy 2.1 ::A :=Regina: news or you would have heard it. Quite a convention so early in the morning, aren't 2.1 ::A :=Ben: died up in Senateville. Eighty-one is a good time for us all, eh? What do you think 2.1 ::A :=Regina: course they've started. Didn't I have a letter from Alexandra? What is so strange 2.1 ::A :=Ben: I'm a natural worrier. Especially when I am getting 2.1 ::A :=Ben: when I am getting ready to close a business deal and one of my partners remains 2.1 ::A :=Leo: tales to tell, I bet. Baltimore is a lively town. 2.1 ::A :=Leo: three of the boys and myself took a train once and went over to Baltimore. 2.1 ::A :=Leo: thought we were in Europe. I was just a kid then -- 2.2 ::A :=Alexandra: help it and there was no way to send a message. 2.2 ::A :=Addie: Since when I ain't old enough to hold a bottle of medicine? You feel all right, 2.2 ::A :=Horace: Zan. Not for a minute, dear. 2.2 ::A :=Horace: I'm just tired, darling. Let me rest a little. 2.2 ::A :=Addie: Then let your papa rest for a minute. 2.2 ::A :=Addie: You'd be a better one if you didn't look so dirty. 2.2 ::A :=Addie: didn't look so dirty. Now go and take a bath. Change your linens, get out a fresh 2.2 ::A :=Addie: a bath. Change your linens, get out a fresh dress and give your hair a good brushing 2.2 ::A :=Addie: out a fresh dress and give your hair a good brushing -- go on -- 2.2 ::A :=Addie: her help you and then I'll make you a fresh breakfast. 2.2 ::A :=Horace: can make much difference now. Get me a cup, Addie. Funny. They can't make coffee 2.2 ::A :=Horace: I used to drink it? Ten, twelve cups a day. So strong it had to stain the cup. 2.2 ::A :=Addie: because smoke's going to start out of a building that ain't even up yet. 2.2 ::A :=Addie: Zan, she going to marry Mr. Leo in a little while. 2.2 ::A :=Addie: I'm telling you. There's going to be a wedding -- Over my dead body there is. 2.2 ::A :=Oscar: You're a sight for sore eyes. 2.2 ::A :=Leo: I'm fine, sir. But a lot better now that you're back. 2.2 ::A :=Horace: I didn't feel good, a little weak, I guess, and we stopped over 2.2 ::A :=Regina: Birdie, what a thing to say -- 2.2 ::A :=Regina: Now, no fights. This is a holiday. 2.2 ::A :=Birdie: Oh. Tell Zan I'll be back in a little while. Sorry, Oscar. 2.2 ::A :=Regina: your breakfast and let Horace rest for a minute? 2.2 ::A :=Ben: Never leave a meal unfinished. There are too many poor 2.2 ::A :=Oscar: crazy. Running around the streets like a woman -- 2.2 ::A :=Regina: Well. Here we are. It's been a long time. Five months. You know, Horace, 2.2 ::A :=Regina: Don't try to tell me you didn't have a bad time of it. 2.2 ::A :=Horace: I didn't have a bad time. No, I didn't, Regina. Oh, at 2.2 ::A :=Regina: It sounds almost like a holiday. 2.2 ::A :=Horace: The first holiday I've had since I was a little kid. 2.2 ::A :=Regina: And instead you were having a holiday! A holiday of thinking. Couldn't 2.2 ::A :=Regina: And instead you were having a holiday! A holiday of thinking. Couldn't you have 2.2 ::A :=Regina: any such arrangement. It was simply a way of keeping Oscar quiet in all this 2.2 ::A :=Horace: live. As long as I live. I've been in a hospital for five months. Yet since I've 2.2 ::A :=Regina: did. I only thought you might catch a bad conscience -- in bed, as you say. 2.2 ::A :=Horace: any more. My "thinking" has made a difference. 2.2 ::A :=Horace: so much not to fight, and then all of a sudden there we were. I got hurt and - 2.2 ::A :=Regina: but -- couldn't you stay down here a few minutes longer? I want Ben to tell 2.2 ::A :=Regina: to your beloved daughter. She'll be a very great heiress -- 2.3 ::A :=Ben: not? Horace has done Hubbard Sons many a good turn. Why shouldn't I be anxious to 2.3 ::A :=Ben: What a woman you married, Horace. Well, then I'll 2.3 ::A :=Ben: to make those fingers grow longer: I'm a lucky man, Horace, a lucky man. To dream 2.3 ::A :=Ben: grow longer: I'm a lucky man, Horace, a lucky man. To dream and to live to get 2.3 ::A :=Ben: you've dreamed of. That's my idea of a lucky man. For thirty years I've cried 2.3 ::A :=Regina: agreed to give us -- you, I mean -- a much larger share. 2.3 ::A :=Regina: Exactly. So I did a little bargaining for you and convinced 2.3 ::A :=Regina: they weren't the only Hubbards who had a business sense. 2.3 ::A :=Horace: eh, Ben? Now let's see. We're getting a bigger share. Who's getting less? 2.3 ::A :=Ben: seventy-five thousand will make you a million. 2.3 ::A :=Ben: Cheap. You'd think the Governor of a great state would make his price a little 2.3 ::A :=Ben: of a great state would make his price a little higher. From pride, you know. Cheap 2.3 ::A :=Ben: says to me, "and that averages eight a week," "Eight a week! By God," I tell him, 2.3 ::A :=Ben: that averages eight a week," "Eight a week! By God," I tell him, "I'd work for 2.3 ::A :=Ben: God," I tell him, "I'd work for eight a week myself." Why, there ain't a mountain 2.3 ::A :=Ben: eight a week myself." Why, there ain't a mountain white or a town nigger but wouldn't 2.3 ::A :=Ben: Why, there ain't a mountain white or a town nigger but wouldn't give his right 2.3 ::A :=Horace: off against each other. You can save a little money that way, Ben. And make them 2.3 ::A :=Horace: And make them hate each other just a little more than they do now. 2.3 ::A :=Ben: three years." I say to him, "What's a strike? I never heard of one. Come South, 2.3 ::A :=Horace: right. Well, it looks like you made a good deal for yourselves, and for Marshall, 2.3 ::A :=Ben: that's not what he means. Turning down a fortune. Horace is tired. He's rather talk 2.3 ::A :=Horace: Please, Regina, it's been a hard trip. I don't feel well. Please leave 2.3 ::A :=Ben: used to tell you, it's unwise for a good-looking woman to frown. Softness and 2.3 ::A :=Ben: woman to frown. Softness and a smile do more to the heart of men -- 2.3 ::A :=Leo: enough. Like the niggers always say: a man born of a woman can't build nothing 2.3 ::A :=Leo: the niggers always say: a man born of a woman can't build nothing high enough for 2.3 ::A :=Ben: He's tired. It was a mistake to talk to him today. He's a sick 2.3 ::A :=Ben: a mistake to talk to him today. He's a sick man, but he isn't a crazy one. 2.3 ::A :=Ben: today. He's a sick man, but he isn't a crazy one. 2.3 ::A :=Oscar: And plenty who will want a lot for what they give. The ones who are 2.3 ::A :=Oscar: through our fingers. You can't do a thing. But there may be something I could 2.3 ::A :=Oscar: Leo's got a friend. Leo's friend owns eighty-eight 2.3 ::A :=Oscar: much -- not for five or six months at a time. 2.3 ::A :=Leo: That's a good one. Not know his name -- 2.3 ::A :=Ben: Leo's friend -- I think he will make a safer partner than our sister. How soon 2.3 ::A :=Ben: Good. Draw a check for our part. You can take the night 2.3 ::A :=Leo: Uncle Horace's share. I'd enjoy being a partner -- 2.3 ::A :=Leo: I was only going to say what a great day this was for me and -- 2.3 ::A :=Ben: Alexandra, you have a tender heart. 2.3 ::A :=Regina: He will change his mind. I'll find a way to make him. What's the longest you 2.3 ::A :=Ben: I was about to give Alexandra a message for you. I wanted to tell you that 2.3 ::A :=Regina: -- How can he to go to Chicago? Did a ghost arrive with the money? I don't believe 2.3 ::A :=Horace: It's a great day when you and Ben cross swords. 2.3 ::A :=Horace: and their dirty tricks to make a dime. There must be better ways of getting 2.3 ::A :=Horace: getting rich than cheating niggers on a pound of bacon. Why should I give you the 3.1 ::A :=Birdie: together before, and you know what a ninny I am and how shy. You said you could 3.1 ::A :=Birdie: all right. Horace, you haven't heard a word I've said. 3.1 ::A :=Birdie: But Oscar was in such a good humor when he got home, I didn't 3.1 ::A :=Alexandra: Addie! A party! What for? 3.1 ::A :=Addie: fresh butter, so I made the cakes, and a little elderberry does the stomach good 3.1 ::A :=Birdie: Isn't this nice! A party just for us. Let's play party music, 3.1 ::A :=Addie: Horace, and don't be thinking so much. A glass of elderberry will do more good. 3.1 ::A :=Addie: ain't born in the South unless you're a fool. 3.1 ::A :=Alexandra: Have a cake, Cal. 3.1 ::A :=Cal: I understand. I'm going down to tell a man he give you something he already know 3.1 ::A :=Addie: that elderberry going to give you a headache spell. 3.1 ::A :=Birdie: to give me elderberry wine when I was a little girl. For hiccoughs. You know, I 3.1 ::A :=Birdie: Mama laughing. Mama always laughed. A big party, a lovely dress from Mr. Worth 3.1 ::A :=Birdie: Mama always laughed. A big party, a lovely dress from Mr. Worth in Paris, France, 3.1 ::A :=Birdie: on their way to come, and I was such a ninny, hiccoughing away. You know, that 3.1 ::A :=Birdie: didn't like them because they kept a store, and he said that was old-fashioned 3.1 ::A :=Alexandra: I mean, by ourselves. Couldn't we find a way to go -- 3.1 ::A :=Horace: know what you mean. We'll try to find a way. I promise you, darling. 3.1 ::A :=Addie: Rest a bit, Miss Birdie. You get talking like 3.1 ::A :=Addie: You get talking like this you'll get a headache and -- 3.1 ::A :=Birdie: I've never had a headache in my life. You know as well as 3.1 ::A :=Birdie: You know as well as I do. I never had a headache, Zan. That's a lie they tell for 3.1 ::A :=Birdie: I never had a headache, Zan. That's a lie they tell for me. I drink. All by myself, 3.1 ::A :=Birdie: to hide it, they say, "Birdie's got a headache again" -- 3.1 ::A :=Birdie: In twenty-two years I haven't had a whole day of happiness. Oh, a little, like 3.1 ::A :=Birdie: had a whole day of happiness. Oh, a little, like today with you all. But never 3.1 ::A :=Birdie: like today with you all. But never a single, whole day. I say to myself, if 3.1 ::A :=Alexandra: I guess we were all trying to make a happy day. You know, we sit around and 3.1 ::A :=Addie: time I ever heard Miss Birdie say a word. Maybe it's good for her. I'm just 3.1 ::A :=Horace: that. I'm trying, but I've only got a little time left. She can even hate me 3.1 ::A :=Horace: I'm going to have Sol Fowler make me a nice will. They'll make trouble, but you 3.1 ::A :=Addie: Don't you do that, Mr. Horace. A nigger woman in a white man's will! I'd 3.1 ::A :=Addie: do that, Mr. Horace. A nigger woman in a white man's will! I'd never get it noh 3.1 ::A :=Cal: on my coat. Every time I ever told a lie in my whole life, I wipe my hands right 3.1 ::A :=Cal: And Mr. Leo say he got to leave a little early cause he got something to 3.2 ::A :=Horace: Wednesday it was, because I had made a decision -- 3.2 ::A :=Horace: interrupt me again. Because I had made a decision, I sent for the box. The bonds 3.2 ::A :=Regina: days to do anything? This will make a fine story. 3.2 ::A :=Regina: A fine story to hold over their heads. How 3.2 ::A :=Horace: going to let them keep the bonds -- as a loan from you. An eighty-eight-thousand-dollar 3.2 ::A :=Horace: was coming to that. I am going to make a new will, Regina, leaving you eighty-eight 3.2 ::A :=Horace: brothers have borrowed your share for a little while. After my death I advise you 3.2 ::A :=Horace: do nothing and Ben will think it all a capital joke on you. And that will be the 3.2 ::A :=Regina: I thought -- But I was wrong. You were a small-town clerk then. You haven't cha 3.2 ::A :=Regina: it wasn't what I wanted. It took me a little while to find out I had made a mistake. 3.2 ::A :=Regina: a little while to find out I had made a mistake. As for you -- I don't know. It 3.2 ::A :=Regina: understand that anybody could be such a soft fool. That was when I began to despise 3.3 ::A :=Leo: Hello. Never saw any use ringing a bell when a door was open. If you are going 3.3 ::A :=Leo: Never saw any use ringing a bell when a door was open. If you are going to ring 3.3 ::A :=Leo: was open. If you are going to ring a bell, then somebody should answer it. Aunt 3.3 ::A :=Oscar: Addie just told us it was a sudden attack, and -- 3.3 ::A :=Oscar: That might not mean a thing -- 3.3 ::A :=Leo: with him. I guess that don't mean a thing either. 3.3 ::A :=Ben: it again. Now sit down and shut up for a minute. 3.3 ::A :=Ben: it since Wednesday. Yet he hasn't said a word to us. 3.3 ::A :=Ben: some reason he knows, but he don't say a word. 3.3 ::A :=Regina: He's had a bad attack. 3.3 ::A :=Regina: that he had lent them to you as a present from me -- to my brothers. He said 3.3 ::A :=Regina: It's not a pleasant story. I feel bad, Ben, naturally. 3.3 ::A :=Ben: I'm not. We'll have it all out on a more appropriate day. 3.3 ::A :=Ben: clip them, too? You'd get farther with a smile, Regina. I'm a soft man for a woman's 3.3 ::A :=Ben: get farther with a smile, Regina. I'm a soft man for a woman's smile. 3.3 ::A :=Ben: a smile, Regina. I'm a soft man for a woman's smile. 3.3 ::A :=Ben: Greedy! What a greedy girl you are! You want so much of 3.3 ::A :=Ben: For how many years have I told you a good-looking woman gets more by being soft 3.4 ::A :=Oscar: Certainly, I -- What a strange thing to ask! I -- 3.4 ::A :=Regina: Deny you heads off. You couldn't find a jury that wouldn't weep for a woman whose 3.4 ::A :=Regina: find a jury that wouldn't weep for a woman whose brothers steal from her. And 3.4 ::A :=Regina: want to be involved in your scandal. A respectable firm like Marshall and Company. 3.4 ::A :=Ben: You have a suggestion? 3.4 ::A :=Regina: You're a good loser, Ben. I like that. 3.4 ::A :=Ben: sour people. I think that comes from a good digestion. Then, too, one loses today 3.4 ::A :=Ben: I agree with Alexandra. What is a man in a wheel chair doing on a staircase? 3.4 ::A :=Ben: agree with Alexandra. What is a man in a wheel chair doing on a staircase? I ask 3.4 ::A :=Ben: is a man in a wheel chair doing on a staircase? I ask myself that. 3.4 ::A :=Ben: Alexandra, you're turning out to be a right interesting girl. Well, good night 3.4 ::A :=Regina: strange. Not like yourself. You've had a bad shock today. I know that. And you loved 3.4 ::A :=Addie: He says Dr. Sloan will be coming in a few minutes. 3.4 ::A :=Regina: We'll go in a few weeks. A few weeks! That means two 3.4 ::A :=Regina: We'll go in a few weeks. A few weeks! That means two or three Saturdays, 3.4 ::A :=Regina: it tomorrow. The morning will make a difference. 3.4 ::A :=Regina: you? Well, you'll change your mind in a few days. 1.2 ::ABLE :=Birdie: But Horace won't be able to move around. You know what the doctor 2.3 ::ABLE :=Oscar: true, son? Ain't it true you might be able to help your own kinfolks? 1.1 ::ABOUT :=Birdie: and cultured and I've told him all about how my mama and papa used to go to 1.1 ::ABOUT :=Oscar: Never mind about the album. Miss Birdie has changed 1.1 ::ABOUT :=Oscar: leave the dinner table and go running about like a child? 1.1 ::ABOUT :=Birdie: he wanted to see my album. I told him about the time Mama met Wagner, and Mrs. 1.1 ::ABOUT :=Birdie: people like music and like to talk about it. That's all I was doing. 1.1 ::ABOUT :=Regina: Oh, yes. Even down here we read about Mrs. Marshall in the society pages 1.1 ::ABOUT :=Marshall: I dare say. She moves about a great deal. And all of you are part 1.1 ::ABOUT :=Birdie: Marshall, I didn't mean to chatter so about it. Really I -- You must excuse me. 1.2 ::ABOUT :=Birdie: Oh, Regina, you can't leave here. What about Horace? 1.2 ::ABOUT :=Regina: Don't look so scared about everything, Birdie I'm going to live 1.2 ::ABOUT :=Regina: There's plenty of time to worry about Horace when he comes home. If he ever 1.2 ::ABOUT :=Oscar: place is for sale. We might think about buying it. Make a nice change. Do you 1.2 ::ABOUT :=Birdie: of paint -- Papa was very particular about the paint -- and the lawn was so smooth 1.2 ::ABOUT :=Oscar: You are serious about moving to Chicago? 1.2 ::ABOUT :=Oscar: But what about Alexandra? She's seventeen. Old enough 1.2 ::ABOUT :=Oscar: seventeen. Old enough to be thinking about marrying. 1.2 ::ABOUT :=Birdie: I've always wanted to speak about it, Oscar. 1.2 ::ABOUT :=Oscar: What are you chattering about? 1.2 ::ABOUT :=Birdie: I was talking about Lionnet and -- and about your shooting 1.2 ::ABOUT :=Birdie: I was talking about Lionnet and -- and about your shooting -- 1.3 ::ABOUT :=Regina: Well, I don't know. I don't know about these things. It would seem that if 1.3 ::ABOUT :=Regina: third. But then again, there's no law about it, is there? I should think that if 1.3 ::ABOUT :=Oscar: money from him or talk quite so big about what you want. 1.3 ::ABOUT :=Regina: Oh, it's too far away. We'll talk about it in a few years. 1.3 ::ABOUT :=Oscar: I want to talk about it now. 1.3 ::ABOUT :=Ben: assure Oscar that you will think about it very seriously. 1.3 ::ABOUT :=Regina: well. I assure Oscar that I will think about it seriously. 1.3 ::ABOUT :=Regina: You have my word that I will think about it. Now do leave me alone. 1.4 ::ABOUT :=Regina: to Baltimore tomorrow, so let's talk about that. You'll be glad to have Papa home 1.4 ::ABOUT :=Alexandra: I don't understand about my going, Aunt Birdie. But anyway, 1.4 ::ABOUT :=Alexandra: Papa will be home again. Don't worry about me. I can take care of myself. Really 1.4 ::ABOUT :=Birdie: That's not what I'm worried about. Zan -- 1.4 ::ABOUT :=Birdie: It's about Leo -- 1.4 ::ABOUT :=Alexandra: Don't worry about the horses. I'm sorry I told you. 1.4 ::ABOUT :=Birdie: I am not worrying about the horses. I am worrying about you. 1.4 ::ABOUT :=Birdie: about the horses. I am worrying about you. You are not going to marry Leo. 1.4 ::ABOUT :=Alexandra: Aunt Birdie. I've never even thought about it -- 1.4 ::ABOUT :=Birdie: But they have thought about it. Zan, I couldn't stand to think 1.4 ::ABOUT :=Birdie: it. Zan, I couldn't stand to think about such a thing. You and -- 2.1 ::ABOUT :=Cal: sir, Mr. Oscar. I didn't say nothing about nothing. It was Simon who told me and 2.1 ::ABOUT :=Leo: I'll tell her. She'll act all right about it. 2.1 ::ABOUT :=Regina: from Alexandra? What is so strange about people arriving late? He has that cousin 2.1 ::ABOUT :=Regina: that you and Oscar are so worried about them. 2.1 ::ABOUT :=Regina: is that it? I thought you were worried about Horace's health. 2.1 ::ABOUT :=Regina: Did he die? You're always remembering about people dying. Now I intend to eat my 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Addie: Mr. Horace. I've just been worried about you. 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Alexandra: I'll hold it. It mustn't break. Now, about the stuff outside. Papa must have his 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Alexandra: back and don't talk much and remember about his medicine, Addie -- 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Horace: I've heard about it. 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Horace: What are you talking about? 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Regina: and where's Alexandra? I am so excited about seeing you that I almost forgot about 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Regina: about seeing you that I almost forgot about her. 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Leo: and then I'll give you all the news about the bank -- 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Birdie: Oh! It's my wrapper. I was so excited about Horace I just rushed out of the house 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Horace: first when I -- when I heard the news about myself -- but after I got used to that, 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Horace: it before I came here. I was thinking about us. 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Regina: About us? About you and me? Thinking about 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Regina: About us? About you and me? Thinking about you and 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Regina: About us? About you and me? Thinking about you and me after all these years. You 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Horace: meant to make anything suspicious about it. Zan said you wanted me to come 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Horace: all this crazy talk I've been hearing about Zan and Leo? Zan and Leo marrying? 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Regina: this business I've been writing you about -- 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Regina: But there's no need to talk about it now. 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Horace: There is no need to talk about it ever. Not as long as I live. As 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Horace: been here you have not once asked me about -- about my health. Well, I suppose 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Horace: you have not once asked me about -- about my health. Well, I suppose they've 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Regina: understood why people have to talk about this kind of thing. 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Horace: I don't intend to gossip about my sickness. I thought it was only 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Horace: I didn't tell them about my bad conscience. Or about my fancy 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Horace: tell them about my bad conscience. Or about my fancy women. Nor did I tell them 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Regina: It's all my fault. I didn't ask about -- about your illness because I didn't 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Regina: all my fault. I didn't ask about -- about your illness because I didn't want 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Regina: I never believe doctors when they talk about -- when they talk like that. 2.3 ::ABOUT :=Horace: mill business I've had so many letters about? 2.3 ::ABOUT :=Regina: -- Now you must tell me Horace all about it. Only be quick because he is very 2.3 ::ABOUT :=Horace: them of that? How little people know about each other! But you'll know better 2.3 ::ABOUT :=Horace: each other! But you'll know better about Regina next time, eh, Ben? Now let's 2.3 ::ABOUT :=Ben: Oscar doesn't mind. Not worth fighting about now, eh, Oscar? 2.3 ::ABOUT :=Oscar: I've got my son's future to think about. 2.3 ::ABOUT :=Regina: What's this all about? 2.3 ::ABOUT :=Ben: or black. Marshall said to me. "What about strikes? That's all we've had in Massachusetts 2.3 ::ABOUT :=Ben: Horace is tired. He's rather talk about it tomorrow -- 2.3 ::ABOUT :=Horace: must do what I think best. We'll talk about it another day. 2.3 ::ABOUT :=Regina: We'll talk about it now. Just you and me. 2.3 ::ABOUT :=Ben: care of him. We won't have any trouble about that. I'll see you at the store. 2.3 ::ABOUT :=Ben: I was about to give Alexandra a message for you. 3.1 ::ABOUT :=Birdie: here I am so happy and yet I think about bad things. That's not right, now, 3.1 ::ABOUT :=Cal: say to me, "What box? What you talking about?" 3.2 ::ABOUT :=Regina: What are you talking about? You haven't seen Ben -- When did you 3.2 ::ABOUT :=Regina: I want to know what you are talking about. 3.2 ::ABOUT :=Regina: on them, and there is nothing I can do about it. Is that right? 3.2 ::ABOUT :=Horace: to see that he's safe. Because I knew about the theft and said nothing. Nor will 3.2 ::ABOUT :=Regina: but it was something. I never thought about it much but if I had I'd have known 3.3 ::ABOUT :=Leo: Uncle Horace knows about the bonds. He knows about them. He's 3.3 ::ABOUT :=Leo: Horace knows about the bonds. He knows about them. He's had the box since Wednesday 3.3 ::ABOUT :=Ben: What the hell are you talking about? 3.3 ::ABOUT :=Leo: I'm telling you he knows about the bonds. Ain't that clear enough 3.3 ::ABOUT :=Leo: You heard me. Uncle Horace knows about the bonds. He's known since Wednes 3.3 ::ABOUT :=Leo: He would have told her about it. Aunt Regina. He would have told 3.3 ::ABOUT :=Regina: No, I don't. Horace told me about the bonds this afternoon. 3.3 ::ABOUT :=Oscar: Well. Well what -- what about them? What -- what could he say? 3.3 ::ABOUT :=Leo: I don't know what you're talking about. What would I -- Why -- 3.3 ::ABOUT :=Regina: He said there was nothing I could do about it. He said the rest of his money would 3.3 ::ABOUT :=Regina: said there was nothing I could do about it as long as he was alive to say he 3.4 ::ABOUT :=Regina: up to Judge Simmes. I shall tell him about Leo. 3.4 ::ABOUT :=Regina: I've forgotten that we ever talked about them. You can draw up the necessary 3.4 ::ABOUT :=Regina: What do you want to talk to me about, Alexandra? 3.4 ::ABOUT :=Alexandra: want to talk. There's nothing to talk about now. 3.4 ::ABOUT :=Regina: We'll talk about it tomorrow. The morning will make 3.4 ::ABOUT :=Alexandra: And there isn't anything to talk about. I am going away from you. Because 3.4 ::ABOUT :=Regina: You're very serious about it, aren't you? Well, you'll change 3.3 ::ABSOLUTELY :=Oscar: That's ridiculous, Regina, absolutely -- 2.3 ::ACCEPT :=Oscar: the mills are going up. Will Marshall accept the bonds? 2.2 ::ACROSS :=Oscar: Did you come across the square dressed that way? My dear 1.4 ::ACT :=Ben: is so crisp. Have a good time and act like a little lady. 2.1 ::ACT :=Leo: Yes, sir. I'll tell her. She'll act all right about it. 1.1 ::ACTING :=Oscar: I said get yourself in hand. Stop acting like a fool. 1.2 ::ACTING :=Oscar: You have been acting very childish, very excited, all 2.1 ::ACTING :=Oscar: to get. But I can't help thinking he's acting strange. You laugh when I say he could 3.1 ::ACTING :=Cal: down and finish up his work and stop acting like somebody made him Mr. President. 3.4 ::ACTING :=Regina: You're acting very strange. Not like yourself. You've 1.1 ::ADAPT :=Ben: Because the Southern aristocrat can adapt himself to nothing. Too high-tone to 3.4 ::ADD :=Regina: That will be enough. If it isn't, I'll add what's necessary. 1.1 ::ADDIE :=Birdie: to look in my desk drawer and -- My, Addie. What a good supper! Just as good as 1.1 ::ADDIE :=Birdie: to music. Wouldn't that be nice, Addie? Just to sit there and listen and -- 1.1 ::ADDIE :=Alexandra: Oh. May I really, Addie? 1.4 ::ADDIE :=Alexandra: said I should come? That must mean -- Addie, he must be well. Think of it, he'll 1.4 ::ADDIE :=Regina: me. You're a strange girl, Alexandra. Addie has babied you so much. 1.4 ::ADDIE :=Alexandra: I only thought it would be more fun if Addie and I went together. 2.1 ::ADDIE :=Oscar: You do a lot of judging around here, Addie, eh? Judging of your white folks, I 2.1 ::ADDIE :=Regina: Who's downstairs, Addie? Oh, it's you, Oscar. What are you 2.2 ::ADDIE :=Horace: How are you, Addie? How have you been? 2.2 ::ADDIE :=Horace: Addie, I bet your coffee's as good as ever. 2.2 ::ADDIE :=Horace: good coffee up north. Is it as good, Addie? 2.2 ::ADDIE :=Alexandra: Just now and then. I'm the nurse now, Addie. 2.2 ::ADDIE :=Alexandra: much and remember about his medicine, Addie -- 2.2 ::ADDIE :=Horace: much difference now. Get me a cup, Addie. Funny. They can't make coffee up north. 2.2 ::ADDIE :=Horace: So strong it had to stain the cup. Addie, before I see anybody else, I want 2.2 ::ADDIE :=Horace: Go on, Addie. Go and say I'm back. 3.1 ::ADDIE :=Horace: Addie. 3.1 ::ADDIE :=Alexandra: Addie! A party! What for? 3.1 ::ADDIE :=Alexandra: Good cakes, Addie. It's nice here. Just us. Be nice if 3.1 ::ADDIE :=Horace: when you're ready to go. You'll go, Addie? 3.1 ::ADDIE :=Horace: stand firm and Fowler'll do the rest. Addie, I'd like to leave you something for 3.1 ::ADDIE :=Horace: Go away, Addie. 3.2 ::ADDIE :=Horace: Please. Tell Addie -- The other bottle is upstairs. Addie! 3.2 ::ADDIE :=Horace: Addie -- The other bottle is upstairs. Addie! Addie! Come -- 3.2 ::ADDIE :=Horace: The other bottle is upstairs. Addie! Addie! Come -- 3.2 ::ADDIE :=Regina: Horace. Horace. Addie! Cal! Come in here. He's had an attack. 3.2 ::ADDIE :=Alexandra: Addie! What? 3.3 ::ADDIE :=Leo: should answer it. Aunt Regina. Addie. Where the hell -- Cal! Cal! 3.3 ::ADDIE :=Oscar: Addie just told us it was a sudden attack, 3.4 ::ADDIE :=Regina: up. You go to your room, Alexandra. Addie will bring you something hot. You look 3.4 ::ADDIE :=Alexandra: was trying to tell me. All in one day: Addie said there were people who ate the 1.3 ::ADDITION :=Regina: And in addition to your concerns for me, you do 3.3 ::ADJUSTED :=Ben: way. It can all be explained, all be adjusted. It isn't as bad -- 1.3 ::ADMIRE :=Ben: I admire you, Regina. And I agree. That's settled 1.2 ::ADMIRED :=Regina: Can't you tell when you're being admired? 1.2 ::ADMIRED :=Birdie: Oscar said I bored Mr. Marshall. But he admired you. He told me so. 3.1 ::ADMIT :=Birdie: Ah, well -- your papa don't like to admit it, but he's been mighty kind to me 3.2 ::ADMIT :=Horace: to talk to Ben and Oscar. They won't admit anything and Ben, I think, will be 3.3 ::ADMIT :=Regina: So you, at least, are willing to admit that the bonds were stolen? 3.3 ::ADMIT :=Ben: I admit no such thing. It's possible that Horace 3.3 ::ADMITTED :=Oscar: You're mighty crazy. Having just admitted -- 3.2 ::ADVISE :=Horace: for a little while. After my death I advise you to talk to Ben and Oscar. They 1.1 ::AFRAID :=Regina: too obvious, Mr. Marshall. I'm afraid they mean that this is the time for 2.1 ::AFRAID :=Oscar: you opened it? Come, Leo, don't be afraid of speaking the truth to me. 3.4 ::AFRAID :=Alexandra: Are you afraid, Mama? 1.3 ::AFTER :=Ben: will want to see our money soon after. Regina, Horace has been in Baltimore 1.3 ::AFTER :=Regina: he did get a larger share. I must look after his interests. It seems only natural 1.3 ::AFTER :=Regina: said all that I am willing to say now. After all, Horace has to give his consent, 2.2 ::AFTER :=Horace: I heard the news about myself -- but after I got used to that, I liked it the 2.2 ::AFTER :=Regina: you and me? Thinking about you and me after all these years. You shall tell me 2.3 ::AFTER :=Horace: so you will not have your millions, after all. 3.1 ::AFTER :=Birdie: But we didn't play together after that night. Oscar said he didn't like 3.1 ::AFTER :=Horace: tell him I want him to come over here after supper, and to bring Mr. Sol Fowler 3.1 ::AFTER :=Cal: He's to come after supper and bring Mr. Sol Fowler, your 3.1 ::AFTER :=Birdie: the way you'll be. And you'll trail after them, just like me, hoping they won't 3.1 ::AFTER :=Cal: good shape and he say you come right after supper to his house and bring Mr. Attorney-at-law 3.1 ::AFTER :=Cal: my whole life, I wipe my hands right after. Can't help doing it. Well, while I'm 3.2 ::AFTER :=Horace: Before you do I want to tell you that after all, we have invested our money in 3.2 ::AFTER :=Horace: your share for a little while. After my death I advise you to talk to Ben 3.4 ::AFTER :=Ben: and me. Ready for us, waiting for us. After all this is just the beginning. There 3.4 ::AFTER :=Regina: Well, you have spirit, after all. I used to think you were all sugar 1.1 ::AFTERNOON :=Marshall: Not at all. We settled everything this afternoon. I have only a few minutes before 3.3 ::AFTERNOON :=Leo: could find him. I been chasing him all afternoon. 3.3 ::AFTERNOON :=Regina: Horace told me about the bonds this afternoon. 1.1 ::AGAIN :=Regina: with us, Mr. Marshall, but you'll come again. Any time you like. 1.1 ::AGAIN :=Marshall: Chicago. Do I have to make you promise again? 1.1 ::AGAIN :=Regina: I promise again. 1.2 ::AGAIN :=Birdie: now, but I'd like to see it fixed up again, the way Mama and Papa had it. Every 1.3 ::AGAIN :=Regina: you should only get a third. But then again, there's no law about it, is there? 1.4 ::AGAIN :=Alexandra: well. Think of it, he'll be back home again. We'll bring him home. 1.4 ::AGAIN :=Regina: that. You'll be glad to have Papa home again. 1.4 ::AGAIN :=Alexandra: Birdie. But anyway, Papa will be home again. Don't worry about me. I can take care 2.2 ::AGAIN :=Alexandra: Oh, Papa, you feel bad again. I knew you did. Do you want your 2.2 ::AGAIN :=Horace: home for this, to make me feel guilty again? That means you want something. But 2.3 ::AGAIN :=Ben: is better to wait for the sun to rise again. And sometimes, as our mother used 2.3 ::AGAIN :=Oscar: Shut up, Leo! He won't look at them again until September. That gives us five 3.1 ::AGAIN :=Birdie: it, they say, "Birdie's got a headache again" -- 3.2 ::AGAIN :=Regina: the house. Please don't come down here again. 3.2 ::AGAIN :=Horace: Don't interrupt me again. Because I had made a decision, I sent 3.2 ::AGAIN :=Regina: I've always been lucky. I'll be lucky again. 3.3 ::AGAIN :=Ben: Put it down. Don't touch it again. Now sit down and shut up for a mi 2.3 ::AGAINST :=Horace: you get around to playing them off against each other. You can save a little 1.4 ::AGE :=Addie: alone? Going by herself? A child that age! Mr. Horace ain't going to like Zan traipsing 1.4 ::AGE :=Regina: think you'd like going alone. At your age it certainly would have delighted me. 1.4 ::AGE :=Leo: Lots of girls get married at Zan's age. Look at Mary Prester and Johanna and 2.1 ::AGE :=Oscar: Wouldn't you think a girl that age could get on a train at one place and 2.1 ::AGE :=Oscar: that's a good sign in a fellow your age. Many great men have made their fortune 3.1 ::AGE :=Horace: her stay innocent, like Birdie at her age. Let her listen now. Let her see everything. 1.1 ::AGO :=Ben: now belongs to us. Twenty years ago we took over their land, their cotton, 1.1 ::AGO :=Marshall: if you hadn't convinced me six months ago. You want the mill here, and I want it 2.3 ::AGO :=Ben: me the things I told you six months ago. 3.2 ::AGO :=Horace: in that box very often, but three days ago, on Wednesday it was, because I had made 3.4 ::AGO :=Oscar: way when upstairs not five minutes ago -- 1.3 ::AGREE :=Regina: You agree that he will come home if she asks 1.3 ::AGREE :=Ben: I admire you, Regina. And I agree. That's settled now and -- 3.4 ::AGREE :=Ben: I say to myself, things may change. I agree with Alexandra. What is a man in a 2.3 ::AGREED :=Regina: know that in the last few days Ben has agreed to give us -- you, I mean -- a much 3.2 ::AGREED :=Regina: We had agreed that you were to stay in your part 1.1 ::AH :=Ben: It still brings us in a fair crop. Ah, they were great days for those people 2.1 ::AH :=Leo: That's it. He wouldn't even miss them. Ah, well -- 3.1 ::AH :=Birdie: He wasn't poking fun. He meant it. Ah, well -- your papa don't like to admit 3.3 ::AH :=Ben: You don't feel well. Ah -- 3.3 ::AH :=Regina: I'm glad to know that. Ah, I had greater hopes -- 3.4 ::AH :=Regina: do, write me. I will be in Chicago. Ah, Ben, if Papa had only left me his mo 3.1 ::AILMENT'S :=Addie: style in what you get. One year an ailment's stylish and the next year it a 1.1 ::AIN'T :=Cal: No, smart lady, I ain't. Miss Regina told me to get out that 1.1 ::AIN'T :=Ben: am trying to say a plain thing. A man ain't only in business for what he can get 1.3 ::AIN'T :=Ben: my sister, then by my brother. And I ain't a man who likes being attacked. I can't 1.4 ::AIN'T :=Addie: herself? A child that age! Mr. Horace ain't going to like Zan traipsing up there 1.4 ::AIN'T :=Addie: Your mama's waiting for you, and she ain't nobody to keep waiting. 2.1 ::AIN'T :=Addie: Miss Regina ain't down yet. 2.1 ::AIN'T :=Cal: You ain't out shooting this morning, Mr. Osc 2.1 ::AIN'T :=Cal: in town a Jesus-party. Most of 'em ain't had no meat since the cotton picking 2.1 ::AIN'T :=Ben: for me. My first was bad. Celia ain't the cook she used to be. Too old to 2.2 ::AIN'T :=Addie: carry your own valises? Since when I ain't old enough to hold a bottle of medicine? 2.2 ::AIN'T :=Addie: It ain't right for you to have coffee? It will 2.2 ::AIN'T :=Addie: going to start out of a building that ain't even up yet. 2.2 ::AIN'T :=Addie: Now you ain't to get excited. You're going to be 2.3 ::AIN'T :=Ben: for eight a week myself." Why, there ain't a mountain white or a town nigger but 2.3 ::AIN'T :=Oscar: might better say, Leo could do for us. Ain't that true, son? Ain't it true you might 2.3 ::AIN'T :=Oscar: could do for us. Ain't that true, son? Ain't it true you might be able to help your 3.1 ::AIN'T :=Addie: believing what Mr. Ben orders. There ain't been so much talk around here since 3.1 ::AIN'T :=Addie: You ain't born in the South unless you're a 3.1 ::AIN'T :=Cal: No, sir. I ain't going to say I understand. I'm going 3.1 ::AIN'T :=Cal: for the box coming all right. I ain't going to understand it, but I'm going 3.1 ::AIN'T :=Addie: ailment's stylish and the next year it ain't. 3.1 ::AIN'T :=Addie: them eat it. Sometimes I think it ain't right to stand and watch them do i 3.3 ::AIN'T :=Cal: No, I ain't seen 'em. I ain't got time to answer 3.3 ::AIN'T :=Cal: No, I ain't seen 'em. I ain't got time to answer you. I got to get 3.3 ::AIN'T :=Leo: telling you he knows about the bonds. Ain't that clear enough -- 1.4 ::ALARMIST :=Regina: there any longer and listen to those alarmist doctors. You are doing this entirely 1.1 ::ALBUM :=Birdie: the left drawer, and bring my music album right away. Mr. Marshall is very anxious 1.1 ::ALBUM :=Birdie: let any of the things drop out of the album and to bring it right in here when 1.1 ::ALBUM :=Birdie: I was just sending Simon for my music album. 1.1 ::ALBUM :=Oscar: Never mind about the album. Miss Birdie has changed her mind. 1.1 ::ALBUM :=Birdie: most specially he wanted to see my album. I told him about the time Mama met 1.1 ::ALEXANDRA :=Regina: he would like you to play for him, Alexandra. 1.1 ::ALEXANDRA :=Oscar: will drive you to the depot. Leo! Alexandra! You will drive Mr. Marshall d 1.2 ::ALEXANDRA :=Oscar: The children, Alexandra and Leo, make a very handsome couple, 1.2 ::ALEXANDRA :=Oscar: But what about Alexandra? She's seventeen. Old enough to 1.3 ::ALEXANDRA :=Regina: I will send Alexandra to Baltimore. She will ask him 1.3 ::ALEXANDRA :=Ben: never marry. So my money will go to Alexandra and Leo. They may even marry some 1.3 ::ALEXANDRA :=Birdie: I -- Alexandra is only seventeen. She -- 1.4 ::ALEXANDRA :=Regina: Alexandra? Are you back? 1.4 ::ALEXANDRA :=Regina: You are going alone, Alexandra. 1.4 ::ALEXANDRA :=Regina: delighted me. You're a strange girl, Alexandra. Addie has babied you so much. 1.4 ::ALEXANDRA :=Regina: You couldn't do what I tell you to do, Alexandra? 1.4 ::ALEXANDRA :=Regina: I must go and start getting Alexandra ready now. Why don't you all go 1.4 ::ALEXANDRA :=Ben: night, everybody. Have a nice trip, Alexandra. The food on the train is very 1.4 ::ALEXANDRA :=Regina: Come on, Alexandra. 2.1 ::ALEXANDRA :=Regina: Oh, nothing has happened. Alexandra just hasn't got sense enough to 2.1 ::ALEXANDRA :=Oscar: you going to make a fit husband for Alexandra. 2.1 ::ALEXANDRA :=Regina: started. Didn't I have a letter from Alexandra? What is so strange about people 2.2 ::ALEXANDRA :=Regina: What did happen to you and where's Alexandra? I am so excited about seeing you 2.3 ::ALEXANDRA :=Ben: Alexandra, you have a tender heart. 2.3 ::ALEXANDRA :=Ben: see. Everything is over. Don't worry. Alexandra, I want you to tell your mother 2.3 ::ALEXANDRA :=Regina: Mind your business, Alexandra. How much longer can you wait for 2.3 ::ALEXANDRA :=Ben: I was about to give Alexandra a message for you. I wanted to 3.3 ::ALEXANDRA :=Regina: said the rest of his money would go to Alexandra. That is all. 3.4 ::ALEXANDRA :=Oscar: What? Alexandra -- 3.4 ::ALEXANDRA :=Regina: I know what you feel, Alexandra, but please try to control you 3.4 ::ALEXANDRA :=Ben: some people cry. It's better to cry, Alexandra. 3.4 ::ALEXANDRA :=Regina: get over shocks like this. Please go, Alexandra. 3.4 ::ALEXANDRA :=Ben: things may change. I agree with Alexandra. What is a man in a wheel chair 3.4 ::ALEXANDRA :=Ben: Alexandra, you're turning out to be a right 3.4 ::ALEXANDRA :=Regina: What do you want to talk to me about, Alexandra? 3.4 ::ALEXANDRA :=Regina: for me, too. Time heals most wounds, Alexandra. You're young, you shall have all 3.4 ::ALEXANDRA :=Regina: out and lock up. You go to your room, Alexandra. Addie will bring you something 3.4 ::ALEXANDRA :=Regina: You're very upset, Alexandra. 3.4 ::ALEXANDRA :=Regina: Alexandra, I've come to the end of my rope. 3.4 ::ALEXANDRA :=Regina: I don't want us to be bad friends, Alexandra. Would you like to come and talk 3.4 ::ALEXANDRA :=Regina: Would you like to come and talk to me, Alexandra? Would you -- would you like to 1.4 ::ALEXANDRA'S :=Regina: Go upstairs and lay out Alexandra's things. 2.1 ::ALEXANDRA'S :=Oscar: as the rest. You might have yours and Alexandra's. I'm not so easily licked. 2.3 ::ALIVE :=Regina: You hate to think that I'm going to be alive and have what I want. 3.3 ::ALIVE :=Regina: I could do about it as long as he was alive to say he had lent you the bonds. 1.1 ::ALL :=Cal: make the best frozen fruit cream in all the South. 1.1 ::ALL :=Birdie: and cultured and I've told him all about how my mama and papa used to go 1.1 ::ALL :=Birdie: Europe for the music -- Imagine going all the way to Europe just to listen to music. 1.1 ::ALL :=Birdie: and like to talk about it. That's all I was doing. 1.1 ::ALL :=Marshall: a better port. Well, I suppose it is all true, Mrs. Giddens. 1.1 ::ALL :=Marshall: Do all of you live here together? 1.1 ::ALL :=Marshall: say. She moves about a great deal. And all of you are part of the same business? 1.1 ::ALL :=Marshall: Not at all. We settled everything this afternoon. 1.1 ::ALL :=Ben: pick the cotton right. Money isn't all. Not by three shots. 1.2 ::ALL :=Regina: lonely man. Imagine being lonely with all that money. I don't think he likes his 1.2 ::ALL :=Regina: and high- tone. But that fits in all right. Her being social, I mean. She 1.2 ::ALL :=Regina: we mustn't forget it. We shall plan all the things we'd like to have and then 1.2 ::ALL :=Regina: been licking the cream. Now we must all have a drink to celebrate. 1.2 ::ALL :=Ben: beginning to look as if the deal's all set. I may not be a subtle man -- but 1.2 ::ALL :=Ben: I already had his signature. But we've all done business with men whose word over 1.2 ::ALL :=Ben: be to see the bricks grow. But we are all entitled to a little side indulgence 1.2 ::ALL :=Birdie: paint -- and the lawn was so smooth all the way down to the river, with the trims 1.2 ::ALL :=Ben: we'll come and visit you and meet all the great and be proud you are our s 1.2 ::ALL :=Oscar: acting very childish, very excited, all evening. 1.2 ::ALL :=Oscar: Very well. We've all heard you. That's enough now. 1.3 ::ALL :=Regina: All right. 1.3 ::ALL :=Oscar: you. For thirty-five years I've done all the things you didn't want to do. And 1.3 ::ALL :=Ben: My, my. I am being attacked tonight on all sides. First by my sister, then by my 1.3 ::ALL :=Ben: here, a little less goes there -- it's all in the family. And it will stay in the 1.3 ::ALL :=Oscar: That's all past history -- 1.3 ::ALL :=Regina: Oh, I know. And I know all young men are wild. I'm only mentioning 1.3 ::ALL :=Ben: All right, so there are. But please assure 1.3 ::ALL :=Regina: you shall put me in one. I have said all that I am willing to say now. After all, 1.3 ::ALL :=Regina: that I am willing to say now. After all, Horace has to give his consent, too 1.4 ::ALL :=Leo: England. Lots of men in the North send all the way to England for their stuff. 1.4 ::ALL :=Regina: Alexandra ready now. Why don't you all go home? 1.4 ::ALL :=Alexandra: All right. Good night, Aunt Birdie. Good 2.1 ::ALL :=Oscar: at this time of the morning. Blinds all closed. Where's Miss Regina? It's cold 2.1 ::ALL :=Addie: disgrace to let a baby like that go all the way alone to bring home a sick man 2.1 ::ALL :=Addie: I'm tired. I been up all night watching for them. 2.1 ::ALL :=Oscar: with serious things. Outside women are all right in their place, but now isn't their 2.1 ::ALL :=Leo: Yes, sir. I'll tell her. She'll act all right about it. 2.1 ::ALL :=Leo: sitting right in his safe deposit box. All he's got to do is open the box. 2.1 ::ALL :=Leo: open the box and take them out. That's all. Easy as easy can be. The things in that 2.1 ::ALL :=Leo: be. The things in that box! There's all those bonds, looking mighty fine. Then 2.1 ::ALL :=Leo: -- well, took the box out. Then they all asked me if I wanted to see, too. So 2.1 ::ALL :=Leo: them for him. Imagine not looking at all that. You can bet if I had the bonds, 2.1 ::ALL :=Regina: so early in the morning, aren't you all? 2.1 ::ALL :=Ben: Eighty-one is a good time for us all, eh? What do you think has really happened 2.2 ::ALL :=Addie: I'm all right, Mr. Horace. I've just been worried 2.2 ::ALL :=Addie: to hold a bottle of medicine? You feel all right, Mr. Horace? 2.2 ::ALL :=Alexandra: He doesn't feel all right. He just says that. The trip was 2.2 ::ALL :=Addie: They're all in there eating breakfast. 2.2 ::ALL :=Alexandra: Oh, are they all here? Why do they always have to be here? 2.2 ::ALL :=Alexandra: Will you be all right, Papa? 2.2 ::ALL :=Addie: I don't know. All I know is big things are going on. Everybody 2.2 ::ALL :=Addie: be high-tone rich. Big rich. You too. All because smoke's going to start out of 2.2 ::ALL :=Ben: Well, sir, you had us all mighty worried. 2.2 ::ALL :=Horace: it's just as if I had never been away. All of you here -- 2.2 ::ALL :=Leo: Uncle Horace, and then I'll give you all the news about the bank -- 2.2 ::ALL :=Regina: but there was. Five months lying there all by yourself, no kinfolks, no friends. 2.2 ::ALL :=Regina: me? Thinking about you and me after all these years. You shall tell me everything 2.2 ::ALL :=Horace: I'm saying all the wrong things as usual. Let's try 2.2 ::ALL :=Horace: so much more time. Regina, what's all this crazy talk I've been hearing about 2.2 ::ALL :=Regina: simply a way of keeping Oscar quiet in all this business I've been writing you about 2.2 ::ALL :=Horace: wanting so much not to fight, and then all of a sudden there we were. I got hurt 2.2 ::ALL :=Regina: It's all my fault. I didn't ask about -- about 2.2 ::ALL :=Regina: to me. It's very important to all of us. Important to your beloved daughter. 2.3 ::ALL :=Regina: week -- Now you must tell me Horace all about it. Only be quick because he is 2.3 ::ALL :=Regina: your news will be better for him than all the medicine in the world. 2.3 ::ALL :=Horace: I know all this. 2.3 ::ALL :=Regina: Oh, I'm sorry. Let me. You feel all right now? 2.3 ::ALL :=Horace: Yes. You wrote me. I know all that. 2.3 ::ALL :=Regina: What's this all about? 2.3 ::ALL :=Ben: to me. "What about strikes? That's all we've had in Massachusetts for the last 2.3 ::ALL :=Horace: How are all the ladies in Mobile? Whatever made you 2.3 ::ALL :=Horace: I don't know them all myself. Let's leave it at that. 2.3 ::ALL :=Oscar: to be sure he'll get something out of all this. 2.3 ::ALL :=Horace: you will not have your millions, after all. 3.1 ::ALL :=Alexandra: It's too bad it's been raining all day, Papa. But you can to out in the 3.1 ::ALL :=Birdie: me here to supper. I had never seen all the Hubbards together before, and you 3.1 ::ALL :=Birdie: play with you. I was obliged to you, all right, all right. Horace, you haven't 3.1 ::ALL :=Birdie: you. I was obliged to you, all right, all right. Horace, you haven't heard a word 3.1 ::ALL :=Alexandra: It came. It certainly came all right. 3.1 ::ALL :=Birdie: it, but he's been mighty kind to me all these years. Often he'd step in when 3.1 ::ALL :=Horace: All right. Now you walk yourself down to 3.1 ::ALL :=Horace: him for bringing the box, it arrived all right. 3.1 ::ALL :=Cal: to say you obliged for the box coming all right. I ain't going to understand it, 3.1 ::ALL :=Horace: No, no. I'm all right, darling. 3.1 ::ALL :=Birdie: hiccoughs." And so she had. They were all gone. 3.1 ::ALL :=Addie: are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with 3.1 ::ALL :=Birdie: Oscar. Who would have thought -- You all want to know something? Well, I don't 3.1 ::ALL :=Birdie: a lie they tell for me. I drink. All by myself, in my own room, by myself, 3.1 ::ALL :=Birdie: you'll just be like me. They'll do all the same things to you. You know what? 3.1 ::ALL :=Birdie: Oh, a little, like today with you all. But never a single, whole day. I say 3.1 ::ALL :=Alexandra: I guess we were all trying to make a happy day. You know, 3.1 ::ALL :=Cal: he brought the box -- But he took it all right. Some men take everything easy 3.2 ::ALL :=Horace: you do I want to tell you that after all, we have invested our money in Hubbard 3.2 ::ALL :=Regina: lend them the bonds and let them keep all the profit they make on them, and there 3.2 ::ALL :=Horace: to do nothing and Ben will think it all a capital joke on you. And that will 3.2 ::ALL :=Regina: way people usually mean. Lonely for all the things I wasn't going to get. Everybody 3.3 ::ALL :=Leo: you could find him. I been chasing him all afternoon. 3.3 ::ALL :=Leo: Papa, I've been looking all over town for you and Uncle Ben -- 3.3 ::ALL :=Oscar: But he was all right -- 3.3 ::ALL :=Ben: If she doesn't know, it may work out all right. If she does know, you're to say 3.3 ::ALL :=Leo: But all he has to do is say he didn't lend them 3.3 ::ALL :=Regina: money would go to Alexandra. That is all. 3.3 ::ALL :=Ben: You shouldn't feel that way. It can all be explained, all be adjusted. It isn't 3.3 ::ALL :=Ben: that way. It can all be explained, all be adjusted. It isn't as bad -- 3.3 ::ALL :=Ben: other business. I'm not. We'll have it all out on a more appropriate day. 3.3 ::ALL :=Regina: get what I want I am going to put all three of you in jail. 3.3 ::ALL :=Ben: you like, Regina. And now we can stop all this and say good-bye to you. It's his 3.4 ::ALL :=Regina: Please go and lie down, my dear. We all need time to get over shocks like this. 3.4 ::ALL :=Oscar: And what proof? What proof of all this -- 3.4 ::ALL :=Regina: aren't as smart as they used to be. All right. I take it that's settled and I 3.4 ::ALL :=Regina: No, he hasn't. All right. Now, Leo, I have forgotten that 3.4 ::ALL :=Ben: Ready for us, waiting for us. After all this is just the beginning. There are 3.4 ::ALL :=Ben: like this throughout the country. All their names aren't Hubbard, but they 3.4 ::ALL :=Ben: names aren't Hubbard, but they are all Hubbards and they will own this country 3.4 ::ALL :=Ben: interesting girl. Well, good night all. 3.4 ::ALL :=Alexandra: I knew. We all knew. 3.4 ::ALL :=Regina: You're young, you shall have all the things I wanted. I'll make the world 3.4 ::ALL :=Regina: Be good for you to get away from all this. 3.4 ::ALL :=Alexandra: I mean what I say. With all my heart. 3.4 ::ALL :=Alexandra: what Papa was trying to tell me. All in one day: Addie said there were people 3.4 ::ALL :=Regina: Well, you have spirit, after all. I used to think you were all sugar water. 3.4 ::ALL :=Regina: after all. I used to think you were all sugar water. We don't have to be bad 1.2 ::ALLOW :=Ben: count the chickens. Well, God would allow us a little daydreaming. Good for the 2.2 ::ALLOWING :=Regina: explain later. I have no intention of allowing any such arrangement. It was simply 1.3 ::ALLOWS :=Oscar: benefits that our local position allows us to manage. Ben means that two hundred 2.3 ::ALMIGHTY :=Oscar: Nothing. You done your almighty best. Nobody could blame you if 1.1 ::ALMOST :=Ben: Well, sir, the war ends. Lionnet is almost ruined, and the sons finish ruining 1.4 ::ALMOST :=Oscar: She'd better learn now. She's almost old enough to get married. Eh, so 2.2 ::ALMOST :=Regina: am so excited about seeing you that I almost forgot about her. 2.2 ::ALMOST :=Regina: It sounds almost like a holiday. 3.2 ::ALMOST :=Regina: As for you -- I don't know. It was almost as if I couldn't stand the kind of 1.3 ::ALONE :=Regina: I will think about it. Now do leave me alone. 1.4 ::ALONE :=Regina: You are going alone, Alexandra. 1.4 ::ALONE :=Addie: Going alone? Going by herself? A child that age! 1.4 ::ALONE :=Regina: pack. I should think you'd like going alone. At your age it certainly would have 1.4 ::ALONE :=Regina: She is going alone. She is getting old enough to take 1.4 ::ALONE :=Alexandra: couldn't go, and that I couldn't go alone. 2.1 ::ALONE :=Addie: to let a baby like that go all the way alone to bring home a sick man without - 2.1 ::ALONE :=Regina: it very pleasant to have breakfast alone. I hate chattering before I've had 2.3 ::ALONE :=Horace: I don't feel well. Please leave me alone now. 1.4 ::ALONG :=Addie: He'd expect me to be along -- 1.4 ::ALONG :=Oscar: Come along. 2.1 ::ALONG :=Leo: Aunt Regina yet, either. Oh, he'll go along. It's too good a thing. Why wouldn't 2.1 ::ALONG :=Regina: have stopped to see him. They'll be along today some time, very flattered that 2.1 ::ALONG :=Regina: you haven't had your breakfast. Come along. 2.2 ::ALONG :=Horace: things as usual. Let's try to get along better. There isn't so much more time. 3.4 ::ALONG :=Ben: own this country some day. We'll get along. 1.2 ::ALREADY :=Ben: those who invent what they need. I already had his signature. But we've all 2.1 ::ALREADY :=Oscar: care who gets my share? I been shaved already. Serve Ben right if he had to give 3.1 ::ALREADY :=Cal: to tell a man he give you something he already know he give you, and you say "u 3.3 ::ALREADY :=Ben: Horace has already clipped your wings and very wittily. 1.3 ::ALSO :=Regina: Has it occurred to you that Horace is also a good businessman? 2.1 ::ALSO :=Oscar: You also got to stop with that woman in Mobile. 2.1 ::ALSO :=Oscar: Also, you got to start working harder at 3.4 ::ALSO :=Regina: by that time you'll be ruined. I shall also tell my story to Mr. Marshall, who likes 1.1 ::ALWAYS :=Birdie: I just don't believe it. You always talk like that when I'm having a nice 1.1 ::ALWAYS :=Ben: But we are a very close family. We've always wanted it that way. 1.1 ::ALWAYS :=Oscar: My brother always says that it's folks like us who have 1.1 ::ALWAYS :=Marshall: Really? Well, I always thought it was a great deal. 1.1 ::ALWAYS :=Ben: That's to prove that the Southerner is always still on his feet for the last drink. 1.1 ::ALWAYS :=Alexandra: But Leo always -- 1.2 ::ALWAYS :=Regina: I'm going to live in Chicago. I've always wanted to. And now there'll be plenty 1.2 ::ALWAYS :=Regina: Birdie, millions. You know what I've always said when people told me we were rich? 1.2 ::ALWAYS :=Birdie: I've always wanted to speak about it, Oscar. 1.3 ::ALWAYS :=Ben: Certainly. He is a shrewd trader. Always has been. The bank is proof of th 1.4 ::ALWAYS :=Leo: those fine clothes he had? You can always spot clothes made in a good place. 1.4 ::ALWAYS :=Alexandra: had to wait until they cooled off. He always beats the horses as if -- 2.1 ::ALWAYS :=Oscar: are. Is everything in this fancy house always late? 2.1 ::ALWAYS :=Oscar: to help other people. But that's not always the way of happens. And so sometimes 2.1 ::ALWAYS :=Regina: Did he die? You're always remembering about people dying. Now 2.2 ::ALWAYS :=Alexandra: Oh, are they all here? Why do they always have to be here? I was hoping Papa 2.3 ::ALWAYS :=Ben: been telling you for years. How I've always said that every one of us little Southern 2.3 ::ALWAYS :=Leo: levees high enough. Like the niggers always say: a man born of a woman can't build 2.3 ::ALWAYS :=Oscar: to worry. She'll change his mind. She always has. Maybe. But I don't believe it. 3.1 ::ALWAYS :=Alexandra: here. Just us. Be nice if it could always be this way. 3.1 ::ALWAYS :=Birdie: with hiccoughs and Mama laughing. Mama always laughed. A big party, a lovely dress 3.1 ::ALWAYS :=Alexandra: I love you. I'll always love you. 3.1 ::ALWAYS :=Horace: to leave you something for yourself. I always wanted to. 3.2 ::ALWAYS :=Regina: I have only contempt for you. I've always had. 3.2 ::ALWAYS :=Regina: and so bad. I'm lucky, Horace. I've always been lucky. I'll be lucky again. 1.1 ::AM :=Birdie: What am I doing? I am not doing anything. What 1.1 ::AM :=Birdie: What am I doing? I am not doing anything. What am I doing? 1.1 ::AM :=Birdie: I doing? I am not doing anything. What am I doing? 1.1 ::AM :=Regina: I am so sorry that my husband isn't here to 1.1 ::AM :=Ben: But that isn't the tale I am telling Mr. Marshall. Well, sir, the war 1.1 ::AM :=Ben: I hope not. I hope not. I am trying to make an important point -- for 1.1 ::AM :=Ben: My sister is right. I am a plain man and I am trying to say a plain 1.1 ::AM :=Ben: is right. I am a plain man and I am trying to say a plain thing. A man ain't 1.3 ::AM :=Ben: I am waiting. I am waiting for you to finish. 1.3 ::AM :=Ben: I am waiting. I am waiting for you to finish. You and Birdie. 1.3 ::AM :=Regina: I am sure you could get the third share, the 1.3 ::AM :=Ben: But I do believe that's what you want. Am I right, Regina? 1.3 ::AM :=Regina: Am I? Well, you should know me well enough 1.3 ::AM :=Ben: My, my. I am being attacked tonight on all sides. First 1.3 ::AM :=Regina: put me in one. I have said all that I am willing to say now. After all, Horace 1.4 ::AM :=Birdie: I am not worrying about the horses. I am worrying 1.4 ::AM :=Birdie: I am not worrying about the horses. I am worrying about you. You are not going 1.4 ::AM :=Birdie: you. You are not going to marry Leo. I am not going to let them do that to you 2.1 ::AM :=Oscar: Tell me the truth, Leo. I am not going to be angry with you. Did you 2.1 ::AM :=Oscar: I am not going to be angry with you. Sometimes 2.1 ::AM :=Ben: a natural worrier. Especially when I am getting ready to close a business deal 2.2 ::AM :=Regina: happen to you and where's Alexandra? I am so excited about seeing you that I almost 2.2 ::AM :=Regina: Oh, I am so sorry the trip was hard on you. I didn't 2.3 ::AM :=Horace: would not like to talk to you now. I am very tired, Regina. 2.3 ::AM :=Horace: Leo? Oh, I see. I am beginning to see. Everybody will get 2.3 ::AM :=Ben: you to tell your mother how sorry I am that I had to leave. And don't worry so, 3.1 ::AM :=Birdie: before, and you know what a ninny I am and how shy. You said you could play the 3.1 ::AM :=Birdie: -- I'm sorry I said that. Why, here I am so happy and yet I think about bad things. 3.1 ::AM :=Horace: him too long. No. Leave me where I am. 3.2 ::AM :=Horace: Yes. For once in your life I am tying your hands. There is nothing for 3.2 ::AM :=Horace: I was coming to that. I am going to make a new will, Regina, leaving 3.2 ::AM :=Horace: be around any minute to see what I am going to do. I took good care to see that 3.3 ::AM :=Regina: Yes. And if I don't get what I want I am going to put all three of you in jail 3.4 ::AM :=Regina: As I was saying. Tomorrow morning I am going up to Judge Simmes. I shall tell 3.4 ::AM :=Regina: who must finish what they start. I am one of those people, Oscar. Where was 3.4 ::AM :=Alexandra: there isn't anything to talk about. I am going away from you. Because I want to. 1.1 ::AMERICA :=Marshall: occupy a unique position in America. You live better than the rest of 1.1 ::AN :=Leo: for Uncle Horace at his bank. I keep an eye on things while he's away. 1.1 ::AN :=Ben: Who was not an aristocrat, like Birdie's. 1.1 ::AN :=Ben: not. I hope not. I am trying to make an important point -- for our future business 1.2 ::AN :=Regina: introduce me. It won't take long with an introduction from her. 1.3 ::AN :=Ben: That's cynical. Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. 1.3 ::AN :=Oscar: That is not an answer. 2.1 ::AN :=Oscar: were looking for any excuse to take an hour off. You got to stop that kind of 2.1 ::AN :=Leo: -- nobody'd believe this -- a piece of an old violin. Not even a whole violin. Just 2.1 ::AN :=Leo: even a whole violin. Just a piece of an old thing, a piece of a violin. 2.3 ::AN :=Regina: What an old faker you are! You know it can't wait. 3.1 ::AN :=Horace: get on his things. I want him to go on an errand. 3.1 ::AN :=Addie: some style in what you get. One year an ailment's stylish and the next year it 3.1 ::AN :=Horace: It's money left from my trip. It's an envelope with your name. It's for you 3.2 ::AN :=Horace: keep the bonds -- as a loan from you. An eighty-eight-thousand-dollar loan; they 3.2 ::AN :=Regina: Addie! Cal! Come in here. He's had an attack. Come up here. 3.3 ::AN :=Cal: Mr. Horace he got an attack. He's bad. Miss Regina says you 3.3 ::AN :=Leo: you. I been trying to find you for an hour -- 3.4 ::AN :=Regina: and Company. The deal would be off in an hour. And you know it. Now I don't want 1.1 ::ANCIENT :=Regina: You are boring Mr. Marshall with these ancient family tales. 1.1 ::AND :=Cal: had two helpings frozen fruit cream and she tell that honored guest, she tell 1.1 ::AND :=Birdie: for me. He's to look in my desk drawer and -- My, Addie. What a good supper! Just 1.1 ::AND :=Addie: look pretty this evening, Miss Birdie, and young. 1.1 ::AND :=Birdie: Me, young? Maybe you better find Simon and tell him to do it himself. He's to look 1.1 ::AND :=Birdie: to look in my desk, the left drawer, and bring my music album right away. Mr. 1.1 ::AND :=Birdie: to see it because of his father and the opera in Chicago. Mr. Marshall is 1.1 ::AND :=Birdie: is such a polite man with his manners and very educated and cultured and I've told 1.1 ::AND :=Birdie: man with his manners and very educated and cultured and I've told him all about 1.1 ::AND :=Birdie: manners and very educated and cultured and I've told him all about how my mama and 1.1 ::AND :=Birdie: I've told him all about how my mama and papa used to go to Europe for the music 1.1 ::AND :=Birdie: that be nice, Addie? Just to sit there and listen and -- Left drawer, Cal. Tell 1.1 ::AND :=Birdie: Addie? Just to sit there and listen and -- Left drawer, Cal. Tell him that twice 1.1 ::AND :=Birdie: him that twice because he forgets. And tell him not to let any of the things 1.1 ::AND :=Birdie: of the things drop out of the album and to bring it right in here when he comes 1.1 ::AND :=Birdie: Left drawer, Cal, and tell him to bring the blue book and 1.1 ::AND :=Birdie: and tell him to bring the blue book and -- 1.1 ::AND :=Oscar: Why do you leave the dinner table and go running about like a child? 1.1 ::AND :=Birdie: him about the time Mama met Wagner, and Mrs. Wagner gave her the signed program 1.1 ::AND :=Birdie: Wagner gave her the signed program and the big picture. Mr. Marshall wants to 1.1 ::AND :=Birdie: very much. We had such a nice talk and -- 1.1 ::AND :=Birdie: believe it. Some people like music and like to talk about it. That's all I was 1.1 ::AND :=Regina: prefer it to the sound of our horses and the smell of our azaleas. I should like 1.1 ::AND :=Regina: I should like crowds of people, and theaters, and lovely women -- Very lovely 1.1 ::AND :=Regina: like crowds of people, and theaters, and lovely women -- Very lovely women, Mr. 1.1 ::AND :=Regina: Ben lives next door. My brother Oscar and his family live in the next square. 1.1 ::AND :=Marshall: say. She moves about a great deal. And all of you are part of the same business? 1.1 ::AND :=Ben: Oscar and me. My sister's good husband is a ba 1.1 ::AND :=Marshall: me see? My train will be leaving soon and -- 1.1 ::AND :=Birdie: I had -- I -- I had a little headache and -- 1.1 ::AND :=Marshall: have kept together. Kept together and kept what belonged to you. 1.1 ::AND :=Ben: aristocrats have not kept together and have not kept what belonged to them. 1.1 ::AND :=Marshall: is that you people have been here, and solidly here, for a long time. 1.1 ::AND :=Oscar: And so we have. Since our great-grandfat 1.1 ::AND :=Ben: Oh, they have been made for us. And maybe they are important distinctions. 1.1 ::AND :=Marshall: anything but brick houses on a lake, and cotton mills. 1.1 ::AND :=Ben: comes these fine gentlemen ride off and leave the cotton, and the women, to 1.1 ::AND :=Ben: ride off and leave the cotton, and the women, to rot. 1.1 ::AND :=Ben: war ends. Lionnet is almost ruined, and the sons finish ruining it. And there 1.1 ::AND :=Ben: and the sons finish ruining it. And there were thousands like them. Why? 1.1 ::AND :=Ben: why it's profitable. Our grandfather and our father learned the new ways and learned 1.1 ::AND :=Ben: and our father learned the new ways and learned how to make them pay. They were 1.1 ::AND :=Ben: we took over their land, their cotton, and their daughter. 1.1 ::AND :=Oscar: it's folks like us who have struggled and fought to bring to our land some of the 1.1 ::AND :=Marshall: before I must leave for the train. And I insist they be spent with you. 1.1 ::AND :=Regina: And with another glass of port. 1.1 ::AND :=Ben: My sister is right. I am a plain man and I am trying to say a plain thing. A man 1.1 ::AND :=Ben: for a silver quarter, as it is for you and me. If it don't give him something here, 1.1 ::AND :=Regina: And so did I, Mr. Marshall. 1.1 ::AND :=Marshall: months ago. You want the mill here, and I want it here. It isn't my business 1.1 ::AND :=Ben: To bring the machine to the cotton, and not the cotton to the machine. 1.1 ::AND :=Marshall: mine are simple: I want to make money and I believe I'll make it on you. Mind you, 1.1 ::AND :=Marshall: follow the teachings of Christ. And now I must leave for my train. 1.1 ::AND :=Ben: So I give you the firm of Hubbard Sons and Marshall, Cotton Mills, and to it a long 1.1 ::AND :=Ben: Sons and Marshall, Cotton Mills, and to it a long and prosperous life. 1.1 ::AND :=Ben: Cotton Mills, and to it a long and prosperous life. 1.1 ::AND :=Leo: Uncle Ben lets me drive the horses. And a beautiful pair they are. Come on, 1.1 ::AND :=Alexandra: Uncle Ben, please? I'd like to and -- 1.1 ::AND :=Marshall: You have promised that you would come and let me show you Chicago. Do I have to 1.2 ::AND :=Regina: And there, Birdie, goes the man who has opened 1.2 ::AND :=Regina: Our future. Yours and mine, Ben's and Oscar's, the children 1.2 ::AND :=Regina: Our future. Yours and mine, Ben's and Oscar's, the children -- Our future! 1.2 ::AND :=Birdie: the ladies would bow to your manners and the gentlemen to your looks. 1.2 ::AND :=Regina: deal. He said that several times. And once he made fun of her being so social 1.2 ::AND :=Regina: he made fun of her being so social and high- tone. But that fits in all right. 1.2 ::AND :=Regina: in Chicago. I've always wanted to. And now there'll be plenty of money to go 1.2 ::AND :=Birdie: we be going to Chicago? I mean, Oscar and Leo and me? 1.2 ::AND :=Birdie: to Chicago? I mean, Oscar an