"Think you know it?" "Yes, sir." "Name the five Great Lakes." "Name one." "Lake..." "Lake Huron?" "That's the boy, Joe." "If you run, you'll catch up with the others." "Happy Easter." " Happy Easter, sir." "Ed, are you leaving now?" "I have to stop at Laporte's offices." "Why?" "Will you give me a push?" "My car is stalled." "I can't." "My wife has our car today." "Why don't you get a new car, Pat?" " Well, I wish I could." "Maybe Wally can give you a push." "Wally!" "Are you going downtown?" "I wasn't planning to." "I'll be lucky to get home." "Wally, can you give my car a push?" "Sure, if you can wait a few minutes." "It's parked right next to yours." " Well." "Have a nice vacation." "Try to get some rest." " Thanks, Pat." "I'd push her but Lou has our car today and I must go downtown." "Are you coming tonight?" "Sure." " Who are you bringing?" "Just myself." "Why don't you bring Pat?" "She's nice." "Yeah." "I just might." "How long'll you be stuck here?" "May I?" " Of course." "A couple of hours at least unless you see parents for me." " I can't." "If you bring me those reports tonight I'll write'em tomorrow." "Hello, darling." "I'm stuck here at school again." "We've a board meeting." "I'm sorry that I didn't tell you sooner." "No, I won't forget." "So long." "Why don't you tell your wife your job with the cab company?" "She'd think it unsuitable for me." " It isn't." "It pays the pills." "As good a teacher as you are has to be working on the side." "Lend me the bus fare." "I'll repay you tonight." "What time are we expected?" "Lou said about seven thirty." "Seven thirty." "Thank you, Bob." "Would you like to come in?" " Yes." "Voice!" "Keep me in the Ridgemont district today." "Number 12." "Okay, 12." "I'll remember." " Good, thanks." "Voice!" "Keep me Central, will you?" "Remember I'm 36." "Central." "How are you doing on the horses?" " Don't send me to the race track." "If I go there, I bet." "If I bet I lose, so it's your fault." "Okay, 36." "Central." " Thanks, Voice." "I got a budget, you know." "Are you okay?" "Yeah, I'm all right." "Hi." " Hi, Ed." "Want some coffee?" "No, thanks." "Busy?" "So, so." "Yellow Cab." "14-18, King Street." "Yellow Cab." "216 West Avenue, North." "Race track." "Hi, Dad." "Hi, son." "Bring me anything?" "Trout season opens tomorrow." " What did I forget?" "I know, Mr. Daniels, it just makes it difficult for tonight." "Yes, all right." "Did you bring the olives?" "I'll go right out." " No, never mind." "The water heater's off again." "You were talking to Daniels?" "Yes, he'd be over to fix it in the morning." "What kept you so long?" "We're having company tonight." "I called you." "A couple of members of the board." "Can I help?" " No." "The board seems to be unusually active this year." "Are we going fishing?" "Doesn't this stuff bore you?" "No." "It's always the same story." "I know." "Everybody's goin' fishin'." "Paul and his dad are." "Everybody." " I can't help that." "I must work." "But vacation started today." "Have you practiced your music?" "Not yet." "Then do that while I help your mother." "Wally and the Laportes are coming." "Can I stay up late?" "We'll see." "Collect all this junk." "How many are coming, Lou?" "The Laportes, the Joneses and Wally, so far." "We need one more if we're going to play two tables." "Is Wally bringing anyone?" "I asked him to bring Pat Wade." "I thought she only played hearts?" "I think she plays bridge." "Two tables?" "One can't choose between having a baby or buying a vacuum cleaner, at least..." "Your child doesn't have asthma." "The doctor says its psychosomatic but I know it's the dust and we need a new vacuum cleaner." "Four Heaven's sake!" "Doubled and redoubled." "Are you in pain, Ed?" "Nothing's wrong." "The game's over." "That's good." "I only had them because of you and you spent the evening here." "Why don't you help them find their coats." "I'll be in." "Ed..." "Tell me Bob, why you and Ed have board meetings every other afternoon?" "It was just a few members today." "I think they should leave you alone." "You do enough." "Is it a new poster?" " Yes." "We have to run." "Good night." " Good night, Lou." "Remember when we resented vacations because they interrupted our work?" " Not me, Ed." "Good night, Lou." " You look beautiful, Vi." "Thank Lou." "Beacuse I'm having a baby." "Good night." " Good night." "See you tomorrow." " Good night." " Thanks again." " Good by, Pat." "Good night." " Good by." "Trout season opens tomorrow." "Why don't you, Lou, Richie and I go fishing for a few days?" "Maybe next weekend." "Good night, Ed." "Good nigh, Wally." " Good night." " Leave them, honey." " All right." "Wouldn't it be great if we could get away one of these days?" "You like the Joneses?" "They're all right." " I think she's very nice." "Who?" " Mrs. Jones." "She gripes too much." "I think they're dull." "They're what?" " Dull." "So are we." "What did you say?" "So are we." "You're and I'm." "Let's face it, we're dull." "Did you find somebody who isn't?" "What do you mean by that?" "There was no board meeting." "Where were you?" "I told you." "What did you think I was doing?" "I can't figure that out." "I'm supposed to be dull, remember?" "I said we all are." "Tell me one thing that was said tonight that was funny, startling, imaginative..." "Ed?" "Ed?" "Ed!" "Richie, get Dr. Norton on the phone." "What his phone number?" "It's in the book." "Right next to the phone." "Hurry, darling!" "Uncle Wally, too." " Ed!" " Ed!" "You should have told me this before." "I thought I was just overly tired." "It doesn't always hurt in the same place." "It's the first time I've blacked out." "And it's been going on for six months?" "More or less." "You want to go with me?" "No, I'll take him in our car." " All right." "I'll go ahead." "I'll see you there later." "Did he tell you anything I should know?" "He doesn't know anything yet." " It can't be very serious then." " No." "Excuse me." "Good night." " Good night, doctor." "Good night." "Good night, Richie." "Let's see if I forgot anything, your toothbrush, your pyjamas..." "Your sleepers!" "I'll get those." "He should be sick on school days and not on vacations." "Thanks for coming over." " I'll take that." "Since your promoting yourself breakfast in bed, you might as well going in style." "Come in here for a minute." "You're going to be head man around here while I'm gone." "I want you to take good care of your mother." "I'll look out for her." "Don't you worry." "That's the boy." "Look, it's a stewed prune!" "Get the bike pump." "Coming up!" "I 'brung' the needle-valve." "Hold the ball, and I'll 'brung' some air into it." "Okay, 'brought'." "Boy." "I wish I would have been there when you won that game." "Third string sub to hero in 20 seconds." "Real last minute stuff." "You shouldn't kid about it." "You won the game for them." " I sure was the High School hero." "Here." "It's yours." "To keep in my room?" "Kick it around with the kids." "Maybe they'll make you captain." "Mom!" "Dad just gave me his foot-ball." "I'll tell Uncle Wally." "Don't look so grim." "I'm sorry." "I think I'm just very tired." "A few days rest won't hurt." "Wally." "Come on." "Ed." "I'm all right now." "I'd better get going." "I'll get my coat." "Let Wally take me." " No!" "I don't want Richie seeing me in one of these spells." "Do this my way, please." "All right." "His slippers!" "Ed!" "All right, nurse." "Ready, doctor?" " Lights, please." "When I turn the lights out, drink this, one swallow at a time." "What is it?" " It's barium." "Don't 't swallow until I tell you to." "Ready, doctor?" "Swallow, please." "Swallow, please." "How is the view down there?" "Hello." " Have you two been introduced?" "I took all specimens, blood counts and tests except the Brom sulphalien." "I'd say that constitutes an introduction." "How'd you sleep?" "Once in awhile." " Hello, Dr. Ruric." "I can't afford this private room." "I'm a schoolteacher not a plumber." "I know, if this takes longer..." " Longer?" "Your symptoms could mean arthritis or trichinosis." "That's why I called in a specialist for a consultation." "This is Doctor Ruric." "He's interested in your symptoms." "Mr. Avery." " Glad to know you." "Prepared for examination?" " Yes." "Another?" "Relax, you'll have more test tomorrow." "Leucocytosis and indication of vascular spasm." " Biopsy?" " Yeah." "Put your finger on one of the spots where the pain occurs." "We don't want to open you up." "How about an arm or a leg?" "This one here is a beaut." "Branch of the popliteal artery." "Take a section of the gastroonemius." "Yeah." "Easy, we just want a sample of your calf muscle." "We'll wash up." "Turn over, please." "One more piece of surgery, it's called 'sternal puncture'." "Here we go again." "No, no." "Sternum means breastbone." "Sorry, I did four years in the Navy." "Can I see Mr. Avery now?" " Yes, room 61." "Tell Ed I'll be right in." "Yes, Doctor." " Thank you." "Excuse me." "Hello, Voice." " Hy." "I had a fare right to the desk." "How are you?" "I'm fine." "Sam, I'd like you to meet my wife." "How do you do?" " How do you do?" "They all miss you down at the garage." "Tell them Hello." "You're looking pretty good." "Who was that?" " He's a man I know." "He's a cab driver." "I'd never known." "What do you have to do with a garage?" "What do I've to do?" "Just a bunch of fellows I know." "He said they missed you." "I guess they do." "What's all this about?" "Have you been working at a garage?" "Yes." "Two or three afternoons a week." "After school?" "Yes." "Why didn't you let me know?" "Well..." "I had to make some extra money somehow." "Are you laughing at me?" "Yes, Ed..." "I'm so small-minded." "I thought you were having a big romance." "You did?" " Yes, I did." "It isn't funny!" "Ed." "You're wonderful handsome man!" "I like the idea of you being jealous." "Good morning, Ed." "Good morning." " Good morning." "What's the verdict?" "We don't have any secrets not now." "So, whatever you've to say." "The laboratory findings confirm original Dr. Norton's diagnosis." "There's a definite increase in the eosinophiles." "Periarteritis nodosa." "A rare inflammation of the arteries." "You're the first case I've had." "Dr. Ruric has treated 10 or 12." "Well..." "The prognosis is poor." "How poor?" "The great majority of cases are fatal within a year after the first attack." "However, we've had some success with a new drug." "We're still experimenting with it." "A miracle drug?" "Some people think it is." "Why don't we find out for sure." "Is that what you want me to say?" "It's called cortisone." "It's a hormone." "I'm sorry to have been so out spoken, Lou, but if you think of the advances in recent years such as in the treatment of mastoiditis, typhoid and pneumonia you've a reason to feel hopeful." "Just the lady I was looking for." "A couple of forms here they'd like you to sign, Lou." "Do you mind doing it now?" "May I come back?" " Of course, in a little while." "I'll be right here, darling." "Right here." "You think they're home already?" "No, the car'd be out in front." "Is this door locked?" "No, you just gotta know how." "Don't let me forget these steaks, Richie." "Hand me de yogurt, the Black Strap molasses and the yeast." "Miracle drugs or no miracle drugs." "We must build your father up." "Learn how to fix this and make him drink it every morning." "Atta boy." "Now." "You take half a jar of yogurt." "Got it?" "Now you get a tablespoon full of molasses, Black Strap molasses." "Mom!" "Dad!" "Where's Dad?" " He must stay here one more night." "Hi." "Did the pain start again?" " No, he feels wonderful." "How much longer he'll be there?" " We'll bring him home tomorrow." "What's going on in the kitchen?" " Did they say if he can work?" "Ed says he wants to go tomorrow." "He ought to wait a couple of days." " I think so too." "Who are all these steaks for?" "They're mine." "Steaks every night?" "A gym teacher has to keep in shape." "Here, try this." "What is it?" " That's a tiger's milk." "Try it, It'll really put hair on your chest." "What a day!" "I think we've worked out your proper cortisone dosage." "You'll take it in tablet form, one every six hours." "That's right, doctor?" "That's right." "This is the greatest thing since penicillin." "I want you back in the office within a week for a checkup." "In the meantime, if you notice any adverse symptoms..." "A man as broke as I am can't afford any more symptoms." "Once in a while cortisone gets a little tricky." "It certainly does." "Even a slightest period of depression is important for us." "Depressed?" "A week ago I thought I'd maybe 4 or 5 months to live." "This morning I can go back to work." "Your family is waiting for you." " Fine, fine." "How long will I've to take these?" "I'm afraid indefinitely." "I see." " Anything else?" " No." "You're all packed?" "For hours." " Do you want the crossword puzzles?" "I've finished them all." "They make them too easy these days." "I'd better be going." "Thanks very much." " No at all, Ed." "More than I can really say." "Goodbye, nurse." "Ed, you forgot your pills." "Remember, one every six hours, no more, no less." "I'll see you a week from today." " Right." "Here we are again, male school madam." "I'm proud that I'm a schoolteacher's wife." "I tell you." "When I came down into the hospital, and saw you and Richie again, I felt ten feet tall." "You're always been ten feet tall to me." "In your own words, why did Cassius refer to Julius Caesar as a Colossus?" "Will you take over Miss Wade's class?" "She hasn't come in yet." "Certainly." "Joe, will you conduct the class while I'm gone, please?" "Yes, sir." "Squirrel, in your own words, why did Cassius refer to Julius Caesar..." "You holding up all right?" " Fine." "It's time to take one." "They seem to be doing the trick." "I can replace you if necessary." " I wouldn't think of it." "Okay, tool down, all of you." "Into your seats." "Is it running on schedule?" "Nope, ten minutes late." "It's time to wash up." " Yes, sir." "You like dogs?" " It's a cow." "It's a cow, with five legs?" " It can stand better." "Time to wash up." "That's fine." "Thunder storm?" "This is a man." "He's just mad at his mother." "Thanks, Ed, for taking over for me." "My car broke down just ten minutes outside of town." "I should never have taken it." "Did you get some rest?" "Sure." "Children, get ready for reading." " Where did you get that dress?" "I had to buy something for the ladie's forum." "Where did you buy?" "At Martin's." "Once every year I get carried away." "How do you feel?" " I feel fine." "Fine." "Laporte wants to see you after school." "Naturally." "Thanks again for taken over for me." " You're welcome." "No, I took one." "Hi, Mom." "Dad's at home!" "How do you feel?" "How did it go?" " I feel great." "What's been going on there?" " I've be baking a cake." "Come on, both of you, we're going out." "Now?" "Where?" "Places." "Not yet, I haven't even finished." " No arguments." "Wait!" " Get your coats and hats." "Come on, Dad." "Where we going?" "Never mind." "What's come over you?" "Is it a surprise?" "You'll find out when we get there." "Ed, you won't even help me pick out a pair of stockings." "Don't quibble." "Big occasion." "This is so expensive." "I buy my things at Madame Mae." "Madame Mae's shop doesn't cater to woman with terrific curves." "Just this morning..." " Now let me handle this." "As long you're being so nice about twisting my arm." "How do we get a salesgirl here?" "'Salesgirl'?" "I think we wait until one of the passing 'Cleopatras'..." "Miss, if you don't mind..." " Miss." "I know you feel exuberant but 'sugar daddy' never shouts." "This one does." "Miss!" "I beg your pardon?" " We want to buy clothes if it isn't a trouble." "Someone'll be with you directly." " One moment, please." "You see, dear." "We don't usually use places like this and if we don't get a lot of high-class services and in a hurry, there'll be a terrible embarrassing scene in this sanctum." "You know, dear, vulgar shouting?" "That'll fetch them." " I should think so." "Do you think it's becoming?" " Honey, it's you." "I'm sorry, it just doesn't look good on her." "Thank you, darling, it's just absolutely the one." "Hold everything." "Now I'd like to see her in that." "What're you thinking off." "All these expenses we're having..." "Relax, everything's gonna be all right." "Dear, its heavenly." "But Ed I've no use for two like this." "Of course you do." "From now on we'll be going out a lot." "Ed, be sensible." " Sensible?" "But I like it on you." "Anyway, who's paying for it?" "Not another." "One's." " What's the matter with you?" "I bring you to a place like this, try to do something nice..." "Mrs. Avery, you can come again." "Your wife's tired." "Okay." "Wrap it up." "Jacques Fath, Christian Dior." "Any intelligent man with reasonably good taste could do as well." "I feel exactly as if I was walking on cream puffs." "It's your turn, young fellow, the best bike shop in town." "I can get it myself, Dad." "What's the matter with this family?" "Come on, Richie." "Three gears." "Hand brakes." "Gee!" "Mom, isn't Dad acting a little foolish?" "Your Dad's just excited." "It's his first day out of the hospital." "Signals: 9, 7, 4, 3..." "Atta boy." "Got you." "Let's take to the air." "Get down there." "Ready?" "Great!" "Perfect spiral!" "Good boy." "Straight at me." "That's it." "Once more." "Okay, I'll be right back." "Hello." "Yes, Bob." "The book on educational measurements?" "I haven't red it." "When did you give it to me?" "Okay, I'll bring it in tomorrow." "Who was that?" " Bob Laporte." "All right." "Right at me." "Come on." "Good boy." "You kids are going to wreck something." "Don't be silly." "Where's that ball?" "Now throw me a pass." "That's the boy." "How about sandwiches?" "You ate half the roast at dinner." "I'm the healthy type now." "I'll get it." "I'll get it." "Yep?" "Mr. Avery?" "How're you feeling?" "Who is it?" "This is Frank at the Cab Company." "Your doctor said me that you'd be unable to work for awhile." "Wondered when you were planning on coming back?" "As a matter of fact, I'm not." "I'm planning something more in line with my profession." "I wish you'd given us a warning." "You can do me a favour, though." "Have one of your drivers bring the things in my locker to my home." "Okay, thanks." "Turn that thing off!" "I hate to be a Killjoy, but it's past Richie's bedtime." "Not, yet." " Get going." "Yes, sir." "Good night, sir." "Good night, Mom." " Good night, darling." "Ed, what's this new thing you've got lined up?" "Now don't you start picking on me!" "Go upstairs." "I'll get you a glass of warm milk." "I think I've been sort of keyed up." "I guess we've all been." "Maybe I'll go up and have a hot tub soak for awhile." " That's good idea." "I've used up all the hot water." "That half-pint heater really has to be babied." "I'll order a big one tomorrow." "Ed, we can't afford another thing this year." "Well, just fill the kettle." "All right." "One more kettle will do." "You're not in the hospital now!" "I'm sorry, Ed, but I just must have been crazy." "Will you forgive me?" "There's only one thing wrong with both of us." "We've been away from each other too long." "Mom." "What's the matter Richie." " It's Daddy." "He's down in the den." "And he's crying." "Go back to bed, darling." "Your Dad's been through a lot." "Ed." "Darling, what is it?" "It's nothing." "I don't know." "Please go away." "You should have called me." "Is the pain back?" "No, of course not." "It isn't anything physical." "I only wish to God it were." "I'll call Dr. Norton." "He'd send me back to the hospital." " But shouldn't you go?" "I can't get sick again." "What'll happen to you and Richie if I fold up on the job?" "I'm not going to argue about this." "Well." "Let's go upstairs and get some sleep." "Then, we'll see how you feel in the morning." "Some kind of a let-down." "I'm sorry if I worried you." " You'll be all right." "You go ahead, I'll be right in." "Don't be long now." "No." "Hello, Dr. Norton speaking." "Hello, who's calling?" "What is it?" "128 over 80." "Fine." "Still no periods of depression?" "Just a little one first night home." "Nothing else?" " No, nothing at all." "We might as well continue the present dosage." "I'll need a new prescription." "You should have enough to carry you another five days." "Did you take more?" "I dropped the bottle." "A lot of them ran down the drain." "You've taken penicillin?" "Yeah." "Any bad reactions?" " No." "Some people do." "Same with aspirin even." "Now cortisone." "Sometimes we see it produces some pretty queer mental effects." "Was there something else?" "Nothing else." " I'll see you in ten days." "Goodbye." " Goodbye." "Goodbye, nurse." " Goodbye." "I'm not kidding, every PTA night I wish I worked in a filling station." "Parents are no worse that the kids." "That's easy for you to say." "Examples of their little hobbies butterflies, home weaving and so on." "We call it 'sharing'." "Ladies and gentlemen, there're 100,000 schools like this from coast to coast." "Every year whole forests are cut down for paper for these grotesque daubs." "And we coo over them as though they were Van Goghs and Rembrandts." "I'm afraid Mr. Avery hasn't faith in the unspoiled instincts of childhood." "Faith?" "Dear Lady." "Childhood is a congenital disease to be cured by education." "I see my point-of-view is now to may of you." "But ask yourselves." "How do we describe the unfortunate individual who carries his 'unspoiled, childhood instincts' into adult life?" "We say he's arrested." "We call him a moron." "Well!" "I'm not sure that I like my daughter Louise thought of that way." "And by her teacher!" "Your Louise is a charming little creature." "But we must try to examine the problem without prejudice." "Your daughter, at her present stage of development is roughly on an intellectual par with the African gorilla." "Isn't it getting hot here?" "Excuse me, sir." "She's the President of the PTA." "Really?" "What, after all, from the Stone Age to the present day has been the greatest invention of mankind?" "Has anyone a match?" "Thank you." "Fire?" "The wheel?" "The Safety Pin?" "The hydrogen Bomb?" "No, Ladies and gentlemen,..." "the alphabet." "And persons like myself are required to teach these bewildered kids to read by a system of 'word recognition' as though our language were a collection of ideograms." "And it amazes us that our kids can't even read comics." "Some of us have been waiting to hear this kind of talk." "He's telling us we ought to get back to the old three R's." "The three R's?" "That's just a catch-phrase." "Before it's too late we ought to get back to the real fundamentals." "And I'm not talking of primary education now." "We're breeding a race of moral midgets." "All this hogwash about 'self-expression', 'permissiveness', 'development patterns', 'emotional security'." "Security!" "With the world ready to blow up." "If the republic is to survive we must again teach the old virtues of hard work, and self-discipline and a sense of duty." "I tell you we're committing hara-kiri every day, right here in this class-room." "Mister." "That young man ought to be the Principal of this school." "I just can't figure it out." "Laporte and I sat up half the night talking about it." "What did Bob think?" "He asked me if I didn't think Ed was acting a little arrogant." "I said 'sure, but you've to make allowances." "He's been sick'." "You're a fine friend." "Talking to his boss behind his back." "But Lou, haven't you noticed anything lately like the way he talks?" "He just isn't the same guy." "You know, big shot." "He even looks bigger." "Wally, Wally, mind your own business." "No matter how well we know the Laportes, Bob is Ed's boss and he mustn't think that Ed's too sick." "He may force Ed to take a vacation." "Do you've any idea what would mean?" "Just the cortisone costs $2 a day." "That's 360 a month." "Lou, you wouldn't think a foot that big could fit in a guy's mouth." "I'm sorry." "Lou!" "Yes, darling." "Surprised?" "I had the substitute take over." "Just a little lie." "I said I'd a headache." "Lou, have I got an idea." "The most revolutionary idea ever encountered in modern education." "A whole series of magazine articles." "You'll be typing every night." "Hi, Ed." "Wally just dropped by." " So I see." "Why don't you get him a bear?" " You know I don't drink." "Yes, Mr. Muscle Beach." "Isn't this nice." "My old pal entertaining my wife while I'm at work." "I suppose this start while I was in the hospital." "I didn't notice your car outside as I drove in." "I walked, Ed." "Of course, exercise." "That magnificent physique." "What were you talking about?" "We were just chatting." " What about, exactly." "One thing and another." "What short memories." "Ed!" " Yes, Ed!" "I started to tell you a whole new vista suddenly opened up." "It's going to take everything I've got." "But what a mission." "I could lead to a new type of television program for adults." "It sounds fascinating." "Did you say that to the Parent's group?" "So you do remember what were talking about." "Did you make a full report, Wally?" "I'm sure you did." "Well." "This will be a wrench for both of us." "But I couldn't possibly continue to live here." "This new project I couldn't do it justice in an atmosphere of petty domesticity." "A man's wife the woman he expected to love for the rest of his life." "Then suddenly one morning you're free, released." "You'd simply had grown of her." " What?" "Quiet!" "The way things turn out." "The way destiny imposes its intentions at crucial moments." "What perfect timing." "Take it easy." "Would you get on the phone and call Dr. Norton." "He'll put you in touch with a well, a psychiatrist." " No!" "No, don't you dare say that!" "You going to keep kidding yourself, Lou?" "Kidding myself?" "." "If it becomes known that Ed has a metal trouble what do you think it would do to his career?" "I see." "Yeah." "I certainly had you figured wrong, Lou smart girl like you." "Why don't you carry the ball for awhile?" "Get your old job back again, or something." "Ed, would never let me work while he's in the hospital." "What're you gonna do then?" "Whatever he thinks he wants, anything at all." "You go back, back to the school." "You only disturb him." " He said he was leaving you." "That means nothing." "He's not himself, from pain and worry." "Go on." " Okay." "But if you need any help,..." "Right?" "Can I help?" "If you like." "Thanks." "You look tired." "Why don't you take a nap before you leave?" "We waste a third of our lives sleeping." "Not content with that, we run to the doctors for sleeping pills." "They're lavish with life, because they don't know its value." "They've reduced the mortality rate." "They can keep us alive but they don't know why." "Shouldn't you wait until morning?" "The words 'teacher' and 'doctor' mean the same thing." "Unfortunately there're too many doctors, not enough teachers." "How long do you think this new job will take?" "It's a life work." "Can't you get that through your head?" "What a shame that I didn't marry my intellectual equal." "I suppose you'll send your manuscript here so I can type it." "I'll hire a professional." "But that's so expensive." " You go again." "Just the thing I was talking about, the trivial." "You can't distinguish between the trivial and the important." "Where'll you stay?" " Some hotel." "Ed, I'll drive you around so you can find a really nice place." "You can keep the car, if that's what's worrying you." "I'll call a cab." "Want to come over and play baseball?" "Okay, then, hurry up." "Hi Mom!" "Anything to eat?" "I want you to go over to you Daddy's school." "Find your Uncle Wally." "Tell him I must see him." "Okay, Mom." "Hi, Dad!" "What're you doing home?" "You better wash that face." "I can't leave after all." "A man's first obligation is to bring up his own son." "Some times we say more than we mean." "I know." "I think I'll go for a little ride." "Shall I come?" "No thanks." "I've to think, want to clear my mind." "Want me to unpack your bags?" "Yeah." "Might as well." "Shall I take my bike?" "No, darling, you need not go now." "Come on." "Shall we raid the icebox?" "Listen, you, stupid!" "I left my prescription blanks in the car." "May I've one of yours?" "Thanks." "Are you a physician?" "If I weren't, I couldn't write this." "If it would make you feel better, I can go get my bag." "I guess this'll be all right, Doctor." "I'm in a hurry." "My patient is in the car periarteritis nodosa." "Yes, sir." "I'm new here." "I like the way you do business." "Thank you." "This virus epidemic keeping you busy, Doctor?" "Night and day." "The birth rate's getting our of hand, too." "The birth rate, is it?" "This'll be fifty dollars, doctor's cost." "Gosh, Dad." "I'm winded." " That's football." "Let's go." "You're center, I'll yell hike." "You run, count six, and it'll be there." "Ready?" "Hike!" "Why close your eyes?" "You can catch that way." "I didn't." "You flinched." "I saw you." "I didn't win this ball for flinching." "Every college in the East had a scout there that day." "Dad, football season's over." "All the other kids are playing baseball." "Richie." " Yes?" "Are you satisfied with the way you play football?" "I'm as good as most kids." "Yes, it's a game." "But if you back off now, if you let it go at good-enough, that's the kind you'll be later on." "You want to be a man, don't you?" "All right, let's see you really get in there." "Ready?" "Hike!" "You didn't even try that time." "You quit." "I'm no quitter." "I can't allow such behaviour." "For your own sake." "I'll have to penalize you." "If you miss this next pass it will cost your lunch." "This may seem hard to you, but later you'll thank me." "All right?" "Ready?" "Hike!" "I'm sure if you send the check back, it'll be all right, Mr. Byron." "And, if it's something I don't know about then I'll take the dress back myself on Monday." "And the bank'll tell you nothing like this has ever happened." "I'm sure it'll be all right, Mrs. Avery." "It's just that we've never done business with you before." "I appreciate your attitude very much, and it'll all be straightened out on Monday." "Ed's out in back." "He's home now on Saturdays." " But I just found out something." "This is important." "You've got to listen to me." "Did you talk about Ed with anybody?" "I know what's the matter with him." " Any cream today?" "Just the usual, thanks, Andy." "Here, read this." "Go on, read it." "It's about cortisone." "A lot of doctors had troubles with it." "'The most serious complication is psychosis." "In some cases, major mental disturbances have occurred." "They were common in case of high dosage and prolonged treatment." "The benefits of the drug must be weighed against its dangers'." "See?" "That's what it is." "I see." "What're you going to do?" "Call Dr. Norton." "I'll go with you." "No, I'll call you later." "And you're an angel." "Furthermore this isn't the first time you've annoyed me jingle-jangle in." "Jingle-jangle out." "Why do you do it?" "I can't help it if the bottle make noise..." "Don't lie to me." "It's deliberate." "You're filled with envy me because I work with my mind." "So you make impossible my concentration." "I wouldn't do that." "Why, you folks and me, we been real friendly." "I've even taken your boy with me on my rounds." "Ask him." "I said wait outside." "Go and do as you're told." "Now I give you warning." "If this happens once more I'll call the president of your company." "Mr. Avery, I been working for this company for 11 years." "You can call the President of the United States, if you want to." "Well,..." "Goodbye." "I'm sorry." "I'll try not to disturb you." "That's what I mean." "Listen to him." "Ed, I want to talk to you." "All right." "You've been so erratic, so unreasonable." "As if you'd been drinking." "But Wally found out why." "It's the cortisone." "You must believe me." "You've got to stop taking it." "My God!" "Yes?" "Did you forget what you were going to say?" "I forgot." "But Wally knows, doesn't he?" "He knows that without cortisone I'd be dead within the year." "What sort of a fool do you both take me for?" "One, four, seventeen." "Hike!" "Jimmy, wants play football with me?" "Dr. Norton office." "Hello." "Is Dr. Norton there?" "This is Mrs. Avery." "I'm sorry, Dr. Norton is out of town for week end." "Dr. McLennan is taking his calls." "Mrs. Avery." "May I connect you with him?" "I'll wait until Monday." "I'd rather talk to Dr. Norton personally." "Richie." "What is the common denominator of six and five?" "Thirty!" "No, twenty!" "No, thirty!" "Why did you write eleven?" "I don't know." "I guess..." " You guessed?" "Take a fresh sheet." "Ready?" "'A' and 'B' are hired to cut wood at fifty cents a cord." "Write it down." "'A' can cut a cord in six hours, 'B' in five hours." "Now think: how long will it take them both to cut a cord?" "They could do it faster with a power-saw." "A power-saw isn't the point." "This is a problem." "A simple problem designed to develop you mind." "Understand?" "Very well then." "Fifty cents a cord..." " Don't you see?" "The 50 cents doesn't make any difference." "Leave the 50 cents cut, and go on from there." "Don't get flustered." "Just use your reason calmly." "We'll have dinner after you've mastered this problem." "Dinner's been waiting two hours." " I'm sorry." "Richie ought to eat." "I'm hungry too." "Richie didn't even have lunch." "Look at him, he's falling asleep." "He's just a child." " My profession is teaching." "I happen to know something about children, they're born bone-lazy just as they're born greedy and untruthful." "Aren't you expecting too much?" "The human brain is capable of ten times the work required of it." "Lou, my concern is solely for Richard's future." "I'm prepared to sacrifice everything to that." "Any objection?" "No, Ed, I'm sorry I interfered." "Never a moment of peace." "Keep at it." "I'll be right back." "Richie." "Richie, drink this." "I can't do it." "I hate him, Mom." "I hate him." "Richie, now come and listen to me." "You've got to understand this, just as if you were a grown person." "Dad doesn't mean to act this way." "It's those pills." "And if he stop taking'em, he'II his awful pain will return." "We wouldn't want to that to happen, would we?" "Gosh, no." "Then you and I must be very careful not to upset him." "Just keep on loving him with all our hearts, no matter what he does." "We'll see Dr. Norton on monday." "And you'll do everything you can help him till then, won't you?" "Sure, Mon." "I just didn't get it." "Now finish your milk." "Wipe your mouth." "Finished?" "Not yet." "Done?" "I think so." " You 'think so'?" "'Two hours, forty three minutes, thirty-eight and two-elevenths seconds'." "Good work, boy!" "It wasn't so hard after all, was it?" "I was just dumb I guess." "Come, time for dinner." " Mom, dinner!" "Lord, we thank Thee for the blessing we're about to receive." "Amen." "Give me that pitcher." "Give me that glass." "How stupid to suppose you could hide anything from me." "Quite obviously one glassful has already been poured out of this." "What became of it?" "I drank it, Daddy." "It's my fault, Ed, I brought it to him while you were upstairs." "It'll be better for all of us if you clearly understand one thing." "I'll not tolerate your attempts to undermine my program for Richard." "Yes, darling." "Don't speak to me in that hypocritical tone of voice." "I see through you as clearly as I see through this pitcher." "If you think all this meekness fools me 'yes darling', 'no darling' you're a complete idiot." "Understand this:" "I'm staying in this house solely for the boy's sake." "As for you personally, I'm completely finished with you." "Our marriage is over." "In my mind I've divorced you." "You're not my wife any longer!" "I'm not your husband!" "The Father said to his servants: 'bring forth the best robe and put it on him." "And put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet and bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it and let us eat, and be merry." "For this my son was dead and is alive again." "He was lost, and is found." "And they began to be merry'." "First that I may preach the word of God truly and you hear it let us bow our heads to Him who said: 'Whatsoever you ask the Father in my name He will give it you'." "Of all the feeble-witted sermons, I have had to sit through..." "Richie, why don't you take the funnies upstairs?" "I'll look at them later." "A man who couldn't sell neckties has the audacity to stand up and talk ethics to 500 people." "You'd better go change your clothes." "Come down as soon as you've changed." "Where're you going?" "To change my dress." "First you didn't want to wear it to church." "I like to see you in bright colours." "You can keep it on." "All right." "If it weren't downright criminal, it would really be funny." "What would, Ed?" " Trusting the moral guidance of our children to sanctimonious bores." "Now I'll have to take that on." "Dinner's in the oven." "I'd better go look." "Lou..." "Take no thought, saying what shall we eat?" "or what shall we drink?" "... ...or wherewithal shall we be clothed?" "The duty of children to parents, and parents to children." "What fuzzy-minded sentiment." "Love?" "Of course." "It's built in, nature takes care of that." "But the first duty is to principle." "Where's that boy?" "So much has to be re-evaluated, explored." "Lou!" "Lou!" "You'll be happy to know you've won." "My efforts have been too late." "Our son has become a thief." "To devote my entire efforts to you..." "I've tried to do my..." "Hello." "May I speak to Mr. Wally Gibb, please?" "But if you..." "No, thanks, I'll call him over at the Laportes." "You can steal and lie..." " I'm not a liar!" "You are." "All that about being such a big football player." "You were just a substitute." "And I'm going to call Dr. Norton to make you stop taking those pills." "I don't care if your pains does come back." "I'd rather you were dead that the way you are now." "Come out of there." "Get into your room." "You'd done a bad thing." "I've got to think about it." "Vi, listen to me." "I'll be over as soon as I can." "Tell Wally I must see him." "It's terrible important." "'And as the Lord visited Sarah and God did tempt Abraham and said unto him 'Abraham': And He said, 'Behold, here I am'." "He said, 'Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah'." "Where're you going?" "Just over to the Laportes." "I won't be long." "There's something we've to talk about." "Vi isn't feeling well and she's all alone." "This is enormously more important." "I'm sorry, it must wait." "Vi needs me." "Please, darling." "All right." "We must try to forgive each other." "Forgive?" " Wait." "Richie." "This terrible thing that's happening to him." "You and I are still his parents, perhaps we're both to blame." "We must face this together, try to think out what must be done." "Ed..." " No, let me finish." "Ask yourself: what's to become of him?" "He's ignored all my teaching." "What future can we reasonably see for him now?" "Growing to be a man who feels above the law, above ethics." "When we're no longer here to restrain him who knows what crimes even murder." "Lou, our boy..." "For his sake." "No matter how hard it must be for us, we've got to save him from all that." "Before it's too late." "What you're talking about?" " Look here." "It says: 'Take thy son Isaac whom thou lovest into the land of Moriah and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains." "And Abraham rose up early in the morning and clave the wood for the burnt offering and they came to the place where God had told him." "On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place and they came to the place where God had told him." "And Abraham built an altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood." "And Abraham stretched forth his hand and took the knife to slay his son'." "Ed, you didn't read it all." "God stopped Abraham." "God was wrong." "Where's Richie now?" "In his room." "I told him to wait there." "Ed, you've had time to thing this think out I haven't." "This seems very terrible to you, doesn't it?" "Yes, it does." "For you too." "Ed, look at you." "I know what you're thinking." "The Bible says, 'Thou shalt not kill'." "So, Richie remains innocent we take the guilt, we incur the damnation in mercy to the boy." "Ed." "Your son!" "Your little boy!" "You love him!" "Look at this, his first photographs." "Look at this one." "You're hold him in your arms, so proud." "And this one." "You're re pushing him in the baby carriage." "Look at his hair." " We can't allow ourselves..." "Let it ring!" "How will we make it seem like an accident?" "Perhaps if we take him out in the car..." "Accident?" "But I hadn't planned to go on living." "Do you?" "There's nothing left for us to live for now." "But, Ed Ed, our our own home." "Tomorrow when they find us..." "None of us will know." "Ed!" "Ed!" "Ed!" "Ed!" "Not yet, not yet." "Now!" "Ed, just one more thing." "Do you mind?" "I know it's foolish." "Well?" "Could we go out together one last time?" "You know, the way we do?" "Go around the block?" "All right." "How far shall we walk?" "Just to the corner." "The police station corner's?" " Ed!" "No!" "Ed!" "No!" "Richie!" "Get out the window!" "Richie!" "Richie!" "Richie, run!" "Richie!" "Run!" "Run!" "Run!" "Richie!" "Richie!" "Everything's going to be okay." "I'm sorry." "Some people work awful late, don't they?" "Richie, you ought to be in bed now." "What time is it?" "Nurse..." "Nurses are always in such a hurry!" "Doctor!" "What is going on?" "How is my husband?" "I came from his room." "He's still under sedation." "Why isn't Dr. Norton back?" "He said he would." "He's in your husband room right now." "Maybe he didn't want to wake you." "Didn't want to wake me!" "If there's any new development, he'll tell you." "But the thing I want to know..." "Doctor, how is Ed?" "He's under sedation." " I know that." "You've kept him like a dead man for over 30 hours." "How is he?" " You've been brave." "Don't go to pieces now." " I'm not going to pieces, sir." "I'm Ed's wife and I want to know what's happening." "Yes?" "Why all these sedatives?" "I'm not idiot, what're you hiding?" " Ed's in good physical shape." "What's happening, is he in pain?" " No." "But?" "He's under sedation to give him a chance to recover." "From what?" "From the psychosis induced by the cortisone." "He's had a deep sleep and he may awaken bright and alert." "However..." "Yes?" "I can't promise that he's going to be the Ed that you've known." "By that, I mean that he may be psychotic." "You mean out of his mind?" "I've always been frank with you." "I'm not going to change now." "When Ed opens his eyes he may not recognize any of us." "I want you to be prepared for that." "But if he can remember everything and face it, then he'll be all right." "Doctor." "I want to look on the brighter side." " By all means, Lou." "If he comes out of this I mean the way we all want him to what'll you give him instead cortisone?" "There's no instead, Lou." "Cortisone again." "It was Ed's misuse of the drugs that brought about this condition." "This time it'll be in carefully prescribed dosage which you'll have to supervise." "But if this drug is so dangerous..." "All drugs are potentially dangerous." "Cortisone is the only thing that could have save his life and do so again." "That needs faith." "Do you've faith?" "The patient is coming out of it." " Thank you." "Yes, I have faith, Doctor." "Faith in my husband." "In my son." "In the family we can be together." "And that's why I want to stay close to him, in his room, at his bed, by his side." "So that when he opens his eyes and sees us he'll know that we have faith in him." "Sure." "That seems like a reasonable request." "Turn out the sun." "What?" "The sun, turn it out, it's blending me." "What sun?" "The overhead light, you fool, it's blinding me." "Where am I?" "What's happening?" "You're in the hospital." "I'm disappointed." "What about?" "You're a poor substitute for Abraham Lincoln." "How do you mean that?" "Mean what?" "Are you Abraham Lincoln?" "No, I'm not." "Lou!" "What's happened to me?" "Was there an auto accident?" "You sort of fell down the stairs." "Richie?" "I was dreaming." "I walked with Lincoln." "He was as big and ugly and beautiful as he was in life." "Abraham..." "Abraham!" "Did I hurt you?" "I tried to!" "Are you all right?" "I'm all right, Dad." "I remember now." "I remember everything that happened." "That's the way it should be, Ed." "It's important to remember." "Dr. Norton, will you live me alone with my wife and son?" "Of course, Ed." "I've been so far away from you." "Come closer." "Closer." "You'll have us both closer in bed." "That's what I want." "Closer!" "Closer!"