1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,840 Now, Roma wines, R-O-M-A. 2 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:07,700 Made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,500 Roma wines present, Suspense. 4 00:00:11,500 --> 00:00:32,000 Music 5 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:34,000 Ever hear of a man named Eberman? 6 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:36,000 Matthew Eberman, his name was. 7 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:39,000 He had his name in the papers quite a lot, Matthew did. 8 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:43,000 It's kind of a funny story concerning Matthew too. 9 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:45,000 Had to do with murder. 10 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:49,000 Matthew was an ugly guy. 11 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,000 Ugly is a mud fence and he hated that. 12 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:54,000 He hated everyone telling him how ugly he was. 13 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:56,000 Why, ever since he was a kid. 14 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,000 I won't play if I have to be Matthew's partner. 15 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:04,000 He's so awful looking it makes me sick to have to look at him with those terrible big hands. 16 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:05,000 Well, I won't play. 17 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:07,000 And I'll tell him so to his face. 18 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:08,500 Matthew Eberman? 19 00:01:08,500 --> 00:01:12,000 You're the ugliest, most horrible looking boy I've ever seen. 20 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:13,000 You're double ugly. 21 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:15,000 That's what you are. 22 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:16,000 Look at you. 23 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:17,000 Look at you. 24 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:21,000 Double ugly, double ugly, double ugly. 25 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:26,000 Music 26 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:28,000 Sometimes Matthew would cry. 27 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:34,000 He'd go home and beat his big fists into his pillow and nearly choke getting the sobs out of him. 28 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:35,000 Don't cry, Matthew. 29 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:37,000 What do you care what they say? 30 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:40,000 Friends don't matter unless they love you for yourself. 31 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:43,000 Don't cry, dear mother loves you. 32 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,000 Mother thinks you're a wonderful boy. 33 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:49,000 There, there, now don't you cry. 34 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:52,000 And then Matthew wouldn't cry. 35 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:53,000 It was a funny thing too. 36 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:57,000 He came from a good family, enough money, education. 37 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:04,000 And if he hadn't been so ugly, if he hadn't been, his voice would have been kind of pleasant to listen to. 38 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:08,000 One time I remember he got alone okay with just his voice. 39 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,000 It was at a masquerade. 40 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:14,000 After he got the costume and the mask all on, his mother said, 41 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:17,000 Why, I hardly know my old boy. 42 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,000 All dressed up like that. 43 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:21,000 Why he ever went, I don't know. 44 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:22,000 He wanted to be with people, I guess. 45 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:28,000 Anyway, he did go to the party and he danced with all the girls in the place. 46 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,000 And one girl was so beautiful. 47 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:36,000 Some lovely Duchess, maybe from a hundred or two hundred years ago. 48 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:41,000 Like a soft cloud of ruffles and lace and the scent of magic clung all about her. 49 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:44,000 Who are you? 50 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:46,000 Someone who's in love with you. 51 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,000 A masqueraded, sorrowmatic. 52 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,000 It's perfectly all right to fall in love with a stranger. 53 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:53,000 Someone you haven't the slightest idea who it is. 54 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,000 What do you mind if I fall in love with you? 55 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,000 It's a masquerade. 56 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:01,000 I've never said it before. 57 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,000 I love you. 58 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:05,000 Who are you? 59 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:06,000 I love you. 60 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:07,000 Who are you? 61 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,000 I'll tell you who I am if you'll tell me who you are. 62 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:15,000 Ladies and gentlemen, unmasked. 63 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,000 Come on, take off your mask. 64 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,000 Well, it doesn't matter now. 65 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,000 Here, I'll take mine off first. 66 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:22,000 No. 67 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:23,000 Well, remove yours. 68 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:24,000 No. 69 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:25,000 Oh, you silly, you must. 70 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:26,000 Take it off. 71 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:27,000 I'll take it off of you myself. 72 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:28,000 No, no, don't, please don't. 73 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:29,000 I will, I will. 74 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,000 I love you. 75 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,000 Matthew Everman. 76 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:37,000 Lovely dama, lovely dama. 77 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,000 Some lovely duchess. 78 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:48,000 The soft cloud of lace and the scent of magic all about her. 79 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,000 Matthew's mother died. 80 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:57,000 Matthew went away from town. 81 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,000 It was after that that he had to do with murder. 82 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:07,000 More suspense? 83 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:12,000 Just told you about him as a boy, so maybe you could understand him later on. 84 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:19,000 You see, he never knew a soul to talk to, except some of the men who worked in the same plant where he did. 85 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:23,000 He got a job there in this plant throwing sacks into a truck. 86 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:31,000 At lunchtime, Matthew would listen to the other men talking, his big hands opening and closing regularly. 87 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:33,000 You know what I think? 88 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:36,000 I think it's better to be married no matter what. 89 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:37,000 That's right, handsome. 90 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,000 Still, lots of men don't get married. 91 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:41,000 That's right. 92 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:43,000 Hey, you ain't married, are you, Everman? 93 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:44,000 No. 94 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:46,000 Oh? How come, Everman? 95 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:47,000 I don't know. 96 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:49,000 I thought I'd never get married. 97 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:51,000 I thought women married only good-looking men. 98 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:54,000 Shucks, ever mind if a woman had married me, one ought to marry you. 99 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,000 I never know anyone to marry. 100 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,000 Well, my ball and chain will fix that. 101 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,000 I tell you what, come up to the house sadly night. 102 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:12,000 Yeah, Everman's the one I was telling you about that don't know no one to marry, Hazel. 103 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,000 Why, Mr. Everman, ain't you ashamed? 104 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,000 There's lots of girls around that should die and then get married. 105 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,000 Ain't you never wanted a home? 106 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,000 Now, look at our little place. Ain't it cute? 107 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,000 A man needs a woman's touch and vice versa. 108 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:27,000 Yeah, that's the truth, Everman. 109 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,000 Sure. Now, look at handsome here, Mr. Everman. 110 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:34,000 He wasn't no use to himself at all all alone. 111 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:37,000 And now we got a really good life worked out. 112 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:40,000 Oh, now, Hazel, honey, don't force. 113 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:42,000 Oh, that's all right. Let her talk. 114 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,000 I would have anyway, Mr. Everman. 115 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:47,000 Handsome don't haul no water with me. 116 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:51,000 The fat wife talked and Matthew listened. 117 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:55,000 And he began to wonder if maybe there wasn't something in what she said. 118 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:57,000 It was lonesome. 119 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:00,000 He could quit the plant if he wanted. He had all that money. 120 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,000 His mother left him when he died. 121 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:05,000 He only worked because it was so lonesome. 122 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,000 And then Hazel said... 123 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:10,000 Now, well, let's see. Who'd be a good girl for you? 124 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,000 What high do you go for? 125 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:14,000 Um, Sally Smart. 126 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:17,000 No, I'm no Sally Mason. 127 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,000 Sally Mason. 128 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:31,000 A big, easy-going blonde. 129 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:35,000 Like a soft cloud of ruffles and lace in the scent of my... 130 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,000 No, no. 131 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,000 It's getting a little mixed up. 132 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:45,000 Anyway, Hazel arranged for them to meet at a party at her house. 133 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,000 She had all the men and their wives from the plant, 134 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:50,000 and a guy named Letty played the piano. 135 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:53,000 Played piano like old-time movies. 136 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:56,000 Everybody had a swell time except Matthew. 137 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:00,000 He sat alone over in one corner of the porch. 138 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,000 He heard the screen door open and close 139 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:05,000 and a big bunch of white that was Sally moved over to him. 140 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:07,000 Well, there you are, Mr. Everman. 141 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:09,000 What do you mean by running away from the party? 142 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:11,000 I'm your date tonight, aren't I? 143 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:15,000 Sure, but I thought maybe you'd want to be with some of those fellas 144 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,000 and talk more, you know. I'm pretty quiet. 145 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:20,000 Oh, I don't mind. 146 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:23,000 I think that's the mark of a gentleman. 147 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,000 Gorgeous night, huh? 148 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:27,000 Isn't it? 149 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:30,000 You know, I think nature's just about the grandest thing in the world, 150 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:33,000 don't you? Huh? 151 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:35,000 Oh, trees and flowers and all. 152 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,000 Ain't so many flowers around here, though. 153 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:42,000 I like sunshine and clean scenery all around, don't you? Huh? 154 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:47,000 I get so lonesome here. Lonesome for a girl. 155 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,000 That is, of course, if you aren't married. 156 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,000 I get lonesome, too. 157 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,000 You do? I never thought men got lonesome. 158 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:55,000 I thought it was only girls. Men can get out. 159 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:57,000 I get lonesome. 160 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:00,000 Oh, sure. Sure, I remember now. Hazel told me. 161 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:04,000 You're afraid you're too ugly-looking. 162 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:05,000 What are you laughing at? 163 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,000 I do get lonesome, and that's the reason. 164 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:08,000 Only you're not to laugh. 165 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:11,000 Oh, my goodness, I wasn't laughing. 166 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,000 Except it's funny to think of a man being so... 167 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,000 Say, I didn't mean to hurt your feelings. 168 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:19,000 I'm lonesome, too, ain't I? 169 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:24,000 You've got the biggest hands I ever seen. 170 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:28,000 You think I'm pretty, do you? 171 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:32,000 Oh, I get so lonesome. 172 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:36,000 Matthew couldn't get it out of his head about this funny girl. 173 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:37,000 You think I'm pretty? 174 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,000 He didn't even know. 175 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:43,000 He couldn't even remember what she looked like when he went to work the next day. 176 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:50,000 And when he started to get his lunch, there was something over by the gate that he'd never noticed before. 177 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,000 Something pink and fresh. 178 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,000 His big hands opened and closed. 179 00:08:55,000 --> 00:09:01,000 It was Sally, all in pink organ, like a pink balloon at a children's party. 180 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:04,000 Oh, I guess you're surprised to see me, aren't you, Mr. Everman? 181 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:05,000 I guess I am. 182 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:08,000 I thought maybe you might like a little home-fixed lunch. 183 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:10,000 Does it look good, huh? 184 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:14,000 We can eat over here in the shade, if you don't mind having a lady as company. 185 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:18,000 I was all alone today, and that's why I come. 186 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:19,000 Look at here. 187 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:23,000 I even got some chocolate cream for after. 188 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:24,000 You like them? 189 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:25,000 Uh-huh. 190 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:26,000 I do. 191 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:28,000 I do myself. 192 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,000 Hey, ain't this a cute bracelet? 193 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:32,000 Huh? 194 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:34,000 Little tiny bells. 195 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:38,000 Must be hard work to make a thing like that now, don't you think? 196 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:41,000 Oh, say, have one of those sandwiches, Mr. Everman. 197 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:42,000 They're gorgeous. 198 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:49,000 Sally chatted away, all in pink, and self-consciously turned her wrist to make the little bells tinkle. 199 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:55,000 Matthew ate steadily, silently, big, thick sandwiches. 200 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:58,000 Just like a party, ain't it? 201 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,000 After a while, it was time to go back to work. 202 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:04,000 Matthew stood up and didn't know what to say. 203 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:06,000 Just looked. 204 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:11,000 Sally's face was kind of shiny from the heat, and the pink had gone limp and bunched. 205 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:17,000 But a breeze picked up the loose strands of her hair, her foot twisted like a little girl. 206 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:20,000 You know, you never once called me by name. 207 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:21,000 It's Sally. 208 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:22,000 I know. 209 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:24,000 Oh, call me by name. 210 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:26,000 I like being called by name. 211 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:28,000 I will. 212 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:29,000 Can't you do it now? 213 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:31,000 Oh, it won't hurt now. 214 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:33,000 I gotta go back to work. 215 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:34,000 Okay. 216 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:35,000 So long. 217 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:37,000 So long. 218 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:39,000 You look pretty in pink. 219 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:41,000 Why, say I'm awful glad you like it. 220 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:43,000 It's one of my favorite colors. 221 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:52,000 I'm in their wives as a client watch the romance develop. 222 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,000 Gonna get hitched, Mr. Abberman? 223 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:57,000 It's better to get married no matter what. 224 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:59,000 No matter what. 225 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:04,000 Matthew never asked Sally to marry him until the day he saw her out by the fence where she lived 226 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:09,000 talking to Lefty, the man who'd played the piano at Handsome's party the first night they met. 227 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:13,000 He saw Lefty pinch her cheek and he heard Sally laugh. 228 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:17,000 Oh, Lefty, you say the silliest things. 229 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:20,000 No, you can't expect a girl to take me into the area. 230 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:22,000 Oh, no, don't! Stop that! 231 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,000 Oh, come on. 232 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:25,000 You're terrible! 233 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:27,000 You take your hands off me. 234 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:28,000 What's the matter? You don't know. 235 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:30,000 You take your hands off me! 236 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:34,000 Oh, Matthew, look what you've done to Lefty. 237 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,000 Why, you knocked him out cold. 238 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,000 You're not to fool around with guys like that. 239 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:41,000 I don't like the woman I'm gonna marry fooling around with guys like that. 240 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:44,000 Marry? Oh, Matthew. 241 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:50,000 Why, that's the one thing in the whole wide world I always wanted to be. 242 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:00,000 Matthew took his bride to Niagara Falls. 243 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:05,000 There was only one thing, the bracelet. 244 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:14,000 Matthew wondered what he could do about that. 245 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:19,000 The little house was a white cottage, 246 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:23,000 located pretty much by itself quite a distance from the plant. 247 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:26,000 Sally had to walk a good way to see any of the people she used to know. 248 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,000 How's married life, Sally? 249 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:31,000 Oh, say, it's the grandest thing. 250 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:35,000 You should come by and see it, pay us a social call. 251 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:37,000 Yeah, I hear you got a nice place to live. 252 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:39,000 Yeah, flowers and a tree. 253 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,000 You simply got to come and see it. 254 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:44,000 And the men and their wives at the plant did come and see it. 255 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:47,000 They sat around the house and put their feet on things 256 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:51,000 and spilled cigar ashes on the floor and talked loud and common. 257 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:54,000 Matthew didn't say a word. He just sat and listened, 258 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:56,000 looked at the mess they'd made. 259 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:01,000 It stayed a long time. Matthew thought they never would go. 260 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:04,000 Now that you know the way, don't be strangers. 261 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:05,000 Oh, don't worry. 262 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:08,000 Yeah, we'll be back, Will. Also, now that we know the way. 263 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:09,000 Good night. 264 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:10,000 Good night. 265 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:11,000 See you soon. 266 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:13,000 Good night. 267 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:19,000 Matthew looked at the rugs and the foot marks on the chairs. 268 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:21,000 The place looked ugly. 269 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:26,000 Imagine, entertaining folks in your very own home. 270 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:28,000 They won't come again. 271 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:29,000 Why not? 272 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:30,000 Look at the rug. 273 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:33,000 Oh, that ain't nothing. I'll just run the sweeper over it and you'll... 274 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,000 They're not coming again. 275 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:39,000 But a house ain't nothing without folks coming in. 276 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:41,000 We got each other. 277 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:43,000 Oh, yes, but... 278 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:47,000 They never had another party. 279 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:52,000 Maybe Matthew saw his own face in the ashes on the floor. 280 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:57,000 The house grew quiet, and Sally got nervous. 281 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:03,000 Oh, it's just that we sit here and sit here and don't say a word, Matthew. 282 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:08,000 I get lonesome. Can't we have a party? Huh? 283 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:17,000 Can't we go to other people's parties, then? Can't we do that? 284 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:31,000 The yard grew up in weeds, and the flowers didn't do so well, and the tree didn't grow. 285 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:35,000 Even the smoke from the plant seemed to find its way over to the house. 286 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:41,000 The white got gray, and it got black in splotches, and the paint peeled. 287 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:46,000 Matthew lived. Sally put on weight. 288 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:58,000 See the pretty pink ribbon? I got to match my hair. 289 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:02,000 The lady at the dime store said blonde hair got awful dingy looking, so I got this bottle of stuff. 290 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:07,000 Only a dime. Look how brightens up the color of my hair. Huh? 291 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:10,000 Oh, have a chocolate cream, Matthew. These creams come from the dime store, too. 292 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:13,000 I can't even notice the difference from the ones you used to buy me. 293 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:17,000 He walked away. He always walked away. 294 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:22,000 He wanted to tell Sally how much he wanted to be close to her, but he couldn't. 295 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:26,000 She filled the house with frilly things, and all the fussy doodads would go with it. 296 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:29,000 You just won't believe what I got to show you, Matthew. 297 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:34,000 It's just like Joanne Crawford had in the magazine. Look, it's a genuine toy poodle. 298 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:37,000 Just like a little ball of fur, ain't he? 299 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:39,000 Hello, beautiful. 300 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:43,000 Mmm, such a wondrous little lollipop. My baby. 301 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:45,000 Would you like a little chocolate cream like the one we used? 302 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:49,000 Oh, Matthew, eat your scream. Look at him eat them creams. 303 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:52,000 Would you like them? Don't you hear? Oh, another one. 304 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:54,000 And you tasty geese. Huh? 305 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:59,000 Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, Mommy's eating marshmallow in my son's park. What is it, baby? 306 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:01,000 What's the matter, Mommy, you little bitch? 307 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,000 Matthew walked away. 308 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:06,000 Watch the canaries jump on their perch, Matthew. 309 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:11,000 Hey, hey, hey. I just don't understand those birds, Matthew. 310 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:14,000 They don't sing a song like canaries are supposed to. 311 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:16,000 No, no, no, no, no, no. 312 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:20,000 Now you knocky bad boy, scaring your yutzy sisters like that. 313 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,000 I just won't talk to you again. 314 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:24,000 You almost had that funny face in the muddies. 315 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:26,500 Your mommy didn't mean to hurt the feeling. 316 00:16:26,500 --> 00:16:28,500 Oh, Matthew, isn't it a scream? 317 00:16:28,500 --> 00:16:29,500 Ha ha! 318 00:16:29,500 --> 00:16:31,500 Here, little angel, here, little furry angel. 319 00:16:31,500 --> 00:16:33,500 Let's divide it. A chocolate cream, huh? 320 00:16:33,500 --> 00:16:34,500 Yeah, it's free, though. 321 00:16:34,500 --> 00:16:36,000 Oh, no, no, no! 322 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:37,500 Don't mess me all up! 323 00:16:37,500 --> 00:16:38,500 Oh, for goodness... 324 00:16:38,500 --> 00:16:39,500 Oh, look at that, Matthew! 325 00:16:39,500 --> 00:16:41,500 All down my negative cheeks! 326 00:16:41,500 --> 00:16:42,500 Here, now. 327 00:16:42,500 --> 00:16:44,500 There, you just go and sit in your puppy's lap. 328 00:16:44,500 --> 00:16:47,500 I guess it's in the daddy's lap, ain't it, baby doll? 329 00:16:47,500 --> 00:16:49,500 There, there, there, there, there, there! 330 00:16:49,500 --> 00:16:50,500 Oh! 331 00:16:50,500 --> 00:16:52,500 Oh, Matthew, you hit him! 332 00:16:52,500 --> 00:16:55,500 Oh, Matthew, don't do that way! 333 00:16:55,500 --> 00:16:58,000 What are you crying for, Sally? 334 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:00,000 You shouldn't have hit him! 335 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:01,500 Oh, look at him! 336 00:17:01,500 --> 00:17:03,000 Don't you cry, little angel. 337 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:04,500 Say your mommy won't eat her. 338 00:17:04,500 --> 00:17:06,000 No. 339 00:17:07,500 --> 00:17:09,000 Look at Matthew. 340 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,500 He's just like a kid, ain't he? 341 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:14,500 I think maybe... 342 00:17:14,500 --> 00:17:17,500 Maybe kids wouldn't make it so lonesome. 343 00:17:17,500 --> 00:17:19,000 No! 344 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:25,000 Matthew got up, went and stood by the window and looked out. 345 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:29,000 I like the house, but I get lonesome. 346 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:30,000 Lonesome? 347 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:32,000 In your own home? 348 00:17:32,500 --> 00:17:36,000 Why go to those awful parties with ashes and foot marks on the chairs 349 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:38,000 and the men with their arms around Sally? 350 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:39,500 She shouldn't have allowed that. 351 00:17:39,500 --> 00:17:41,000 She belonged to him. 352 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:43,000 She was the only person who ever did belong to him. 353 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:45,000 Hadn't she come to him in the plant yard that day? 354 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:47,500 Hi there, Mr. Everman! 355 00:17:47,500 --> 00:17:49,500 Sure she had. She liked him. 356 00:17:49,500 --> 00:17:52,500 You're the only one that's afraid you're too ugly! 357 00:17:55,500 --> 00:17:58,500 She shouldn't be singing that song that Lefty plays. 358 00:17:58,500 --> 00:18:01,500 That Lefty pinching her cheek and laughing at him. 359 00:18:01,500 --> 00:18:03,000 She shouldn't have allowed that. 360 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:05,000 Oh, mom, just get the angel head. 361 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:06,500 Oh, little baby, why don't you... 362 00:18:06,500 --> 00:18:08,500 You wanted her to leave that dog alone. 363 00:18:08,500 --> 00:18:10,000 Oh, mommy, okay. 364 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:11,500 Why couldn't she treat him like that? 365 00:18:11,500 --> 00:18:13,000 Oh, little baby. 366 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:15,500 Matthew looked out the window. 367 00:18:15,500 --> 00:18:17,500 It's too bad about the paint and the smoke 368 00:18:17,500 --> 00:18:20,500 that came over from so far from the plant, 369 00:18:20,500 --> 00:18:22,500 the weeds all around. 370 00:18:22,500 --> 00:18:24,500 He was surprised to see the tree look bigger. 371 00:18:24,500 --> 00:18:26,500 Maybe he hadn't noticed the tree for a long time. 372 00:18:27,500 --> 00:18:29,000 Matthew! 373 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:30,000 Yeah? 374 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:31,500 What are you doing, Matthew? 375 00:18:31,500 --> 00:18:33,000 Thinking. 376 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:34,500 Oh. 377 00:18:34,500 --> 00:18:36,500 He looked at her. 378 00:18:36,500 --> 00:18:40,500 Where was that pink and fresh thing he'd seen before at the plant? 379 00:18:40,500 --> 00:18:44,000 The face shining from the heat and the loose strands of hair caught in the breeze. 380 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:45,500 Someone's called me by name. 381 00:18:45,500 --> 00:18:47,500 I like being called by name. 382 00:18:47,500 --> 00:18:50,500 A big, fat, blonde lump. 383 00:18:50,500 --> 00:18:52,500 Oh, these creams come from the dining store 384 00:18:52,500 --> 00:18:54,500 and you can't even tell the difference. 385 00:18:54,500 --> 00:18:57,500 Where was that pink and fresh thing by the gate? 386 00:18:58,500 --> 00:19:01,500 Sally was standing by the canary cage and wiggling her wrist again. 387 00:19:01,500 --> 00:19:04,500 She hadn't done that for a long time since Niagara Falls. 388 00:19:04,500 --> 00:19:07,000 Look, Matthew, I found that bracelet with the bells on it. 389 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:08,500 I thought it might make the canaries sing. 390 00:19:08,500 --> 00:19:10,500 Come on, birdie do. 391 00:19:11,500 --> 00:19:13,500 Do you think they're sick, Fafio? 392 00:19:13,500 --> 00:19:16,500 I've never seen them so quiet before. 393 00:19:16,500 --> 00:19:18,500 Listen to the bells, birdie baby. 394 00:19:18,500 --> 00:19:20,500 Tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, tinkle. 395 00:19:20,500 --> 00:19:23,500 Matthew's hands were opening and closing at his sides. 396 00:19:23,500 --> 00:19:26,500 Like they were grasping for something to hold and never finding it. 397 00:19:26,500 --> 00:19:29,500 I just don't understand those birds at all. 398 00:19:29,500 --> 00:19:31,500 You've gotten fat, Sally. 399 00:19:31,500 --> 00:19:33,500 Oh, it don't matter. I don't care. 400 00:19:33,500 --> 00:19:35,500 Nobody cares if a married woman gets fat. 401 00:19:35,500 --> 00:19:37,500 That's what Hazel says. I like Hazel. She's good company. 402 00:19:37,500 --> 00:19:39,500 I don't get down her way much now, though. 403 00:19:39,500 --> 00:19:42,500 Her ankles swell up from these French heels. 404 00:19:42,500 --> 00:19:44,500 Cute shoes, though, ain't they, Matthew? 405 00:19:44,500 --> 00:19:46,500 Makes the foot look small. 406 00:19:46,500 --> 00:19:49,500 Her ankles swell up, but it does make the foot look small. 407 00:19:49,500 --> 00:19:51,500 Her wrists swell up, too. 408 00:19:51,500 --> 00:19:53,500 I don't know what's wrong with them either. 409 00:19:53,500 --> 00:19:58,500 Oh, I wish I could get these birds to sing. 410 00:20:01,500 --> 00:20:05,500 Oh, I'm bored. 411 00:20:05,500 --> 00:20:07,500 Aren't you happy with me, Sally? 412 00:20:07,500 --> 00:20:10,500 Yeah, but we never do anything. 413 00:20:10,500 --> 00:20:13,500 Oh, I get crazy here all the time. 414 00:20:13,500 --> 00:20:17,500 I just get so I can't stay still another minute or I'll scream. 415 00:20:17,500 --> 00:20:22,500 If we had some kids, then maybe we'd mean more to each other. 416 00:20:22,500 --> 00:20:24,500 Have something to talk to each other about. 417 00:20:24,500 --> 00:20:26,500 Kids is awful good company. 418 00:20:26,500 --> 00:20:29,500 And then conversation about kids is good company. 419 00:20:29,500 --> 00:20:31,500 And good talk between a man and his wife. 420 00:20:31,500 --> 00:20:34,500 Matthew wanted to run. He wanted to kick the wool's tail out of his pants. 421 00:20:34,500 --> 00:20:36,500 Kick the wool's tail out of the house down anything. 422 00:20:36,500 --> 00:20:40,500 La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la. 423 00:20:40,500 --> 00:20:42,500 Mommy's little baby normal so far. 424 00:20:42,500 --> 00:20:44,500 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 425 00:20:44,500 --> 00:20:48,500 Where was that terrace that it's seen once upon a time? 426 00:20:48,500 --> 00:20:51,500 Some lovely duchess maybe from 100 or 200 years ago. 427 00:20:51,500 --> 00:20:52,500 I can't even know my own name. 428 00:20:52,500 --> 00:20:55,500 Now, there's no reason you can't tell me who you are. 429 00:20:55,500 --> 00:20:57,500 Your mask, I'll do it for you. 430 00:20:57,500 --> 00:20:59,500 Look at you. 431 00:20:59,500 --> 00:21:03,500 Maybe if he grabbed Sally, held her so close, 432 00:21:03,500 --> 00:21:04,500 that would make a difference. 433 00:21:04,500 --> 00:21:06,500 The ugliest, funniest boy I've ever seen. 434 00:21:06,500 --> 00:21:08,500 If you ever met. 435 00:21:08,500 --> 00:21:11,500 Why did it have to turn out this way? 436 00:21:11,500 --> 00:21:14,500 They said that a man ought to be married no matter what. 437 00:21:14,500 --> 00:21:18,500 I think nature's the grandest thing in the world, isn't it? 438 00:21:18,500 --> 00:21:20,500 To get so lonesome. 439 00:21:20,500 --> 00:21:23,500 We can't, we mean more to each other. 440 00:21:23,500 --> 00:21:26,500 Can't we go out? Can't we go out? 441 00:21:26,500 --> 00:21:28,500 Can't we go out? 442 00:21:28,500 --> 00:21:30,500 We can only stop all that noise. 443 00:21:30,500 --> 00:21:32,500 If we only just get a minute to think without all that noise. 444 00:21:32,500 --> 00:21:34,500 Then we could get out. 445 00:21:34,500 --> 00:21:37,500 That's right. 446 00:21:37,500 --> 00:21:41,500 Sally was so fat, Matthew stuffed his mouth full of dime store chocolates, 447 00:21:41,500 --> 00:21:44,500 one after the other, one after the other, one after the other. 448 00:21:44,500 --> 00:21:46,500 The whole room began to turn. 449 00:21:46,500 --> 00:21:49,500 Matthew! Matthew! 450 00:21:51,500 --> 00:21:56,500 Big fat blouse, all covered in pink. 451 00:21:56,500 --> 00:22:01,500 Matthew! 452 00:22:08,500 --> 00:22:11,500 Look what you've done! 453 00:22:11,500 --> 00:22:13,500 Just look what you've done! 454 00:22:13,500 --> 00:22:16,500 Matthew looked around the room, no trees, no flowers. 455 00:22:16,500 --> 00:22:18,500 The canaries and the dog were quiet. 456 00:22:18,500 --> 00:22:21,500 Matthew, they were like kids to me. 457 00:22:21,500 --> 00:22:23,500 Little helpless babies. 458 00:22:23,500 --> 00:22:26,500 You, just look at your hands. 459 00:22:26,500 --> 00:22:28,500 They're red, all red and wet. 460 00:22:28,500 --> 00:22:32,500 You! You're so ugly! 461 00:22:33,500 --> 00:22:36,500 The big blind was still as could be. 462 00:22:36,500 --> 00:22:38,500 Except their wrists. 463 00:22:38,500 --> 00:22:40,500 Her face hated him. 464 00:22:40,500 --> 00:22:42,500 She said he was ugly. 465 00:22:42,500 --> 00:22:44,500 Ugly! 466 00:22:44,500 --> 00:22:46,500 Can't you even say that you're sorry, Matthew? 467 00:22:46,500 --> 00:22:49,500 Matthew! Don't do like that with your hands! 468 00:22:49,500 --> 00:22:51,500 No! I don't want you near me, hear me? 469 00:22:51,500 --> 00:22:55,500 You get those awful pans of yours all over my negligee. 470 00:22:55,500 --> 00:22:58,500 Matthew! Matthew! Put your hands down! 471 00:22:58,500 --> 00:23:00,500 No! No! 472 00:23:12,500 --> 00:23:15,500 Those carpenter boys sure know what to do with their hammers, don't they? 473 00:23:15,500 --> 00:23:17,500 Listen. 474 00:23:17,500 --> 00:23:19,500 I guess they're getting ready for in the morning. 475 00:23:19,500 --> 00:23:22,500 Cutting down a tree to build a thing like that. 476 00:23:22,500 --> 00:23:27,500 Well, that's the story of Matthew Everman, I guess. 477 00:23:27,500 --> 00:23:30,500 There's just one thing that I'd like to ask you, please. 478 00:23:30,500 --> 00:23:33,500 Sure, sure. Anything you want. 479 00:23:33,500 --> 00:23:35,500 What can we do for you? 480 00:23:35,500 --> 00:23:38,500 Well, my name, it's all right to print that, but... 481 00:23:38,500 --> 00:23:39,500 Sure, sure. 482 00:23:39,500 --> 00:23:42,500 I guess maybe you wonder how I could tell you all this. 483 00:23:42,500 --> 00:23:45,500 Like I was talking about somebody else. 484 00:23:45,500 --> 00:23:51,500 Well, it's because Matthew Everman wasn't ever a person I really wanted to be. 485 00:23:51,500 --> 00:23:54,500 He was somebody I knew and I didn't like. 486 00:23:54,500 --> 00:23:58,500 I hated him, just like everybody else did. 487 00:23:58,500 --> 00:24:00,500 Because he was ugly. 488 00:24:00,500 --> 00:24:04,500 There's no excuse for what he did for old Matthew. 489 00:24:04,500 --> 00:24:09,500 And he makes so many lonely people. 490 00:24:09,500 --> 00:24:11,500 And he makes ugly people too. 491 00:24:11,500 --> 00:24:14,500 Ugly and mean on the inside. 492 00:24:14,500 --> 00:24:18,500 I guess the best thing would be if everybody would... 493 00:24:18,500 --> 00:24:22,500 Wouldn't it be a nice world? 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