"Want a ride?" "Is this the place?" "Yeah." "Yes?" "I'd like to see Mr. Charles Eastman." "So would I." "I expect to, if I work here another five years." "How do I get to his office?" "Better go to the administration building." "Uh, just a moment." "I'll be along as soon as I get more." "We'll get going." "Uh, Mr. Eastman?" "Yes." "I'm awfully sorry." "Our Mr. Eastman is at home today." "He won't be coming in." "Oh." "Uh, tell me, are you a relative?" "He's my uncle." "I'm sure he'll want to see you." "Let me give him a ring." "Oh, yes." "One moment, please." "Paris can dictate all they want to women what to wear to cocktail parties or to bed or the bridge game, but Paris won't tell American women what bathing suits to wear." "Miss Ottinger." "Hello." "Who?" "Oh, yes." "Of course." "All right, Margaret, let me have a word with the young man." "Thank you." "It's on number two." "Hello?" "Hello, my boy." "I hope you remember, sir." "Of course." "How are you?" "You certainly got here fast." "Well, I wanted to." "But I certainly didn't want to bother you at home, sir." "Tell you what you do." "Drop out to the house about 7:00." "Yes, sir." "See you then." "Thank you very much, sir." "What's the matter, Dad?" "My tie on crooked?" "No, it's just that I was thinking..." "George Eastman's dropping in tonight." "George Eastman?" "You mean Asa's son?" "That's right." "I ran into him in Chicago." "Will he lead us in prayer?" "He's not at all like Asa or his wife." "He's very quiet and pleasant." "Not much education, but ambitious, and he looks amazingly like Earl." "What's he do?" "He was a bellhop in my hotel." "Fine." "I always wanted to look like a bellhop." "Why are you bringing him here?" "There's always a place at the plant." "What will we do about him socially?" "We can all leave town." "You don't have to take him up socially." "He just wants to work and get ahead." "Ayoung man by the name of Eastman." "Show him in, William." "Charles, sometimes I think you're in your second childhood." "Good evening, sir." "Oh, hi, George." "This is my wife." "How do you do?" "My daughter Marcia." "My son Earl." "George Eastman." "Sit down, George." "Thank you." "Like a cocktail, a drink?" "Uh, no, thank you." "My husband says he met you in Chicago." "You were working at a hotel there." "Yes." "That's right." "You must have left there suddenly." "Well, uh... see, I quit my job." "Mr. Eastman was good enough to say that if I came through here, perhaps he'd be able to find some place for me at the mills." "I think we can work something out." "What do you think, Earl?" "Have you ever done any bookkeeping, typewriting, stenography?" "No, I..." "You see Earl at the plant in the morning." "Thank you, sir." "That's very kind of you." "And your mother, I trust she's well." "We've never met, but I've heard her mentioned occasionally." "She wrote Charles such a moving letter when your father died." "Is she still active in her religious work?" "Yes, ma'am, she is." "Church work?" "Not exactly." "It's more like, uh... like social work." "It's a mission." "Oh." "Like the Salvation Army?" "No." "It's not like the Salvation Army." "It's..." "Well, it's more..." "More intimate, maybe." "Did you say you were getting intimate, Earl?" "You're late, Vickers." "I'm always late." "It's part of my charm." "Good evening, Mr. Eastman, Mrs. Eastman, you know Tom Tipton, don't you?" "Don't let him have a drink." "We haven't got time." "Thanks." "Well, I'm ready." "I'm ready, too." "Men are so disgustingly prompt." "They do it to put women in a bad light." "I hear your lake place is coming along fine." "Did Marcia tell you?" "It's a dream palace." "I'm ending my days there." "Will it be ready for summer?" "Even if I have to use a whip." "Simone Legree, let's go." "Uh, good night, Eastman." "Oh, good night." "Bye-bye." "Bye." "Have you made any arrangements to stay in town?" "I can recommend a quiet rooming house." "My former secretary stayed there." "I found a place this afternoon." "Well, that was fortunate, wasn't it?" "Thank you." "I'm sorry we won't be home for dinner, but some other time, perhaps." "Yes, my boy." "See Earl in the morning." "Good night." "Good night, sir." " Good night." " Good night." "Charles Eastman." "You've got to be aware every minute... whatever your job is... that you're an Eastman, and you're expected to act accordingly." "I understand that." "I hope so." "We'll go through here." "Oh, another thing." "As you probably noticed, 9 out of 10 Eastman employees are women." "There's a company rule against any of us mixing socially with the girls who work here." "My father asked me to particularly call this to your attention." "That is a must." "Mrs. Harper, this is George Eastman." "Take George to Mr. Whiting." "Yes, sir." "Mrs. Kovak." "Yes?" "This is George Eastman." "He's going to work here for a while." "O.K. This is it." "Now you're in business." "Hello, Angela." " Hello." " Hi, Angela." "...And look, this room could be your study." "There's even a cupboard for your books." "Ha!" "Whatever else is in it, it isn't..." "I wonder who could have lived here." "A pirate in search of his soul." "Do you think he found it?" "Do you think we could find ours?" "Vickey..." "What?" "Do you think we could be happy here?" "Small world." "That's what you think." "Imagine the sea at night." "Who's your friend?" "Our faces close together." "Hold me, Ray." "When I feel you close to me like this, it seems all our dreams come true, that nothing can ever spoil them again..." "Know what the girls would say if they saw me walking with you?" "They'd say I was making up to the boss' nephew." "I'm in the same boat as the rest of you." "If you're an Eastman, you're not in the same boat with anyone." "I work with you, don't I?" "Sure, but pretty soon they'll move you up to a better job." "You'll find yourself in the front office." "That's the last we'll see of George Eastman." "Who says that?" "Everybody knows they put you in with us to learn the business." "I wouldn't be too sure of that." "'Tis the Lord's divine command" "When you find a brother struggling" "Lend a willing, helping hand" "Bear ye one another's burdens..." "Are you lonely all of the time?" "Not on weekdays." "How come?" "Well, remember I put swim suits in boxes six days a week?" "Yeah." "What about Sundays?" "Maybe then you put yourself in a swim suit?" "Not me." "Why?" "You don't look good in a swim suit?" "Sure, I do." "I can't swim." "You're kidding." "I never learned." "L..." "I was even scared of the duck pond when I was a kid." "We live on a farm." "A small one." "How come you came here?" "Oh... we were poor." "We needed the money." "I came down here and got a job." "I'm glad." "Me, too." "This is it." "Where I live." "It's 44331/2 Elm Avenue." "I'll walk you to the door." "Oh, I can manage from here." "I have my own private entrance." "Good night." "Oh, my landlady is fierce." "I've been wanting to do that for so long." "I did, too." "Will we see each other again like this?" "If you want." "When?" "It's up to you." "You got to be careful." "We can meet like tonight." "Oh!" "Tonight has been wonderful." "I better go in now." "Don't go." "Please don't go." "Good night." "I was looking over at you today." "I was looking at you." "Not as much as you usually do." "I was thinking about my speed-up plan." "Don't we work fast enough as it is?" "Hello, Angela." "Hello." "George, I'm glad you're still in the packaging room." "And not just for my sake... honest." "It's better for you than running around with those Eastmans and their bunch and all those rich girls with nothing to do." "I've only been to their house once since I got here." "It's funny." "I used to think you went there every night." "Don't be silly, honey." "George, remember when I said, if you're an Eastman, you're not in the same boat with anybody?" "Yeah?" "I take it back." "Come on." "Let's find a party." "You don't know any other place we can go, do you?" "There's this soda fountain on the edge of town where all the high school kids go." "They're noisy." "I don't care, as long as I'm with you." "What are you doing here?" "Talking." "Look, boy, they've invented the house." "It's a good place to talk in." "You'd better get back to yours." "Go on." "Come on." "Good night." "Come on." "Ohh..." "Gee, I wish I could ask you in, but Mrs. Roberts is so strict." "I don't want to make things difficult." "Ooh!" "I wish I could ask you in, but we'd have to keep the music awful low." "This is nice." "Mrs. Roberts is right next door." "This is the way it should have been." "This is the way..." "Oh, George." "George..." "Good morning." "Good morning." "Who is that?" "Is that George?" "That's George." "What have you got him doing?" "This was the only position open." "You said no favoritism." "This is no place for him." "How's he doing, Whiting?" "Fine." "It wouldn't hurt to give him a position." "Hello, George." "I suppose you thought" "I'd forgotten all about you." "No, sir." "I've been keeping an eye on you." "That's very good of you, sir." "Getting along all right?" "I know the work pretty well now, sir." "Yes, I suppose you do." "Do you know it well enough to take on some responsibility?" "Yes, sir." "Good." "I'm going to move you up." "Thank you very much, sir." "You've earned it." "Oh, uh, sir..." "I was wondering if... have you by any chance seen the production report I submitted?" "Tell you what, George." "Mrs. Eastman is having a party at the house on the 15th of next month." "We'd like you to drop in." "Thank you, sir." "I'd love to come." "Then you and I can have a nice little talk." "Next month, on the 15th, that's your birthday." "I was planning on our little party." "Sure, honey." "I'll be over at the old man's a little while, to pay my respects." "Then I'll be over." "You'd better be." "Hello, darling." "It's nice to see you again." "Hello there." "Later." "Wow." "Hello." "I see you had a misspent youth." "I guess it was." "Why all alone?" "Being exclusive?" "Being dramatic?" "Being blue?" "I'm just fooling around." "Maybe you'd like to play." "Oh, no, I'll just watch you." "Go ahead." "Do I make you nervous?" "Yes." "You look like an Eastman." "Are you one of them?" "Mm-hmm." "I'm a nephew." "My name's George." "I'm Angela." "Vickers." "I saw you here last spring." "I don't remember seeing you before." "No." "You've been away, haven't you?" "You took a trip with your parents." "How did you know?" "I read about you in the papers." "And what else do you do?" "The usual things." "You look unusual." "That's the first time anybody ever said that." "You keep pretty much to yourself, don't you?" "Yes, sometimes." "Blue... or exclusive?" "Well, neither right now." "Oh, here you are, George." "Well..." "Angela." "Look, George, I was thinking about your mother." "How is she?" "Fine, last time I heard." "Have you written to her about your promotion?" "I kicked him up a notch the other day." "Smart boy." "Not yet." "I was going to write her soon." "Never neglect your mother." "You're going to telephone to her right away, tell her the good news." "You can use this phone on the bar." "Long distance?" "What's the number, George?" "Just a minute." "I don't know." "Hello?" "I want to place a call to the Bethel Independent Mission in Kansas City." "Kansas City, Missouri." "The Bethel Mission." "Hello, Mama?" "George." "God bless you, my son." "Are you sick?" "No, Mama, I'm not sick." "Have you called to tell me you're coming home?" "Listen, Mama, I got a promotion." "Yeah." "I can send you money every month now." "Happy birthday, George." "Today's your birthday, and I've prayed for you." "I've been praying that you'll come home soon and that you'll carry on your father's work where he left off." "I'm keeping your room for you, George, just as you left it... like I always do." "Uh..." "I'm getting on..." "I'm getting on pretty well here, Mama." "I'm happy here, too." "Who's there with you, George?" "It's me, Mama." "Who was that?" "Just..." "Just a girl, Mama." "No, Mama." "I don't..." "Mama, I just met her." "Yes, Mama." "I will, Mama." "You'll be a good son." "I promise." "Goodbye, my son." "Goodbye, Mama." "Did you promise to be a good boy?" "And not to waste your time on girls?" "I don't waste my time." "Will she let you go out tonight?" "Will she let you go dancing?" "Come on." "I'll take you dancing... on your birthday..." "blue boy." "Good night." "Gee, Al... isn't it the limit?" "The party just broke up a few minutes ago." "I'm sorry, honey." "I couldn't get away for three hours." "Four hours." "You must have paid him an awful lot of respects." "I think he's really going to do things for me, honey." "He said, "I got my eye on you. "" "I think he really means it, too." "That's fine... but you could have phoned me." "Yeah, I know, I know." "I could have phoned." "Never mind." "Your... present's waiting for you on your plate." "Oh." "Happy birthday." "Thanks." "Hey, that's wonderful." "Boy, I can sure use that on my new job, huh?" "Were there many young people there tonight?" "A few." "Why?" "Oh, it's melted." "Was your cousin Marcia there?" "All those other pretty girls you read about in the papers?" "Some of them were, yes." "They're not all pretty." "Was..." "Angela Vickers?" "What?" "Pretty." "Did you like her very much?" "I liked her some." "Sure, she's a pretty girl." "She wears nice clothes." "Well, why shouldn't she with all that money?" "Honey, why do you have to keep needling me all the time?" "I can't help it." "I still don't see why you couldn't tell them you had another appointment." "You know I can't tell them about you." "You understand the fix we're in." "Yeah..." "I know." "If my family ever found out about us, we'd both be out of a job." "George... maybe you don't want to see me so much anymore." "Is that it?" "Or maybe you don't want to see me at all, now that you're head of the department." "You know I didn't say that." "Oh, honey, don't cry." "Look, you dance as..." "pretty as anybody." "You look just as pretty." "So... stop crying, will you?" "Oh, George... it's awful." "L..." "I can't tell you." "What is it?" "Well, I'm so afraid." "Honey, what's the matter?" "George... we're in trouble... real trouble..." "I think." "How do you mean?" "Oh... remember the first night... you came here?" "Oh, I'm so worried." "Hello, Al?" "It's me." "How do you feel?" "Oh." "Just the same, huh?" "No." "I haven't found the name of any doctor yet." "Hmm?" "Yes, I will." "Don't you worry." "Everything's going to turn out all right." "Yeah?" "Yeah, first thing." "Good night." "Hello?" "Speaking." "Who?" "Oh, hello." "Yes." "Of course I remember you." "I just didn't recognize your voice at first." "Oh..." "Friday night?" "Yeah?" "I think I can." "No, I'd like to." "Yes." "Where?" "All right." "I'll meet you there." "Yeah." "Goodbye, Miss Vickers." "Huh?" "Ha ha ha." "Goodbye, Angela." "Goodbye." "Penny." "For what?" "For your thoughts." "Highest prices paid." "I was just wondering why you invited me tonight." "Oh... 'cause of my reasons." "Good evening, Miss Vickers." "Good evening, William." "Good evening, Mr. Eastman." "Good evening." "Angela, darling, hello." "Hello, Marcia." "Hello, George." "Having fun?" "I just got here." "Come in and join the party." "Oh, it's going to be such a wonderful summer." "Do you ride?" "I'm just taking it up." "Hello, Mother..." "Dad." "We keep several horses on the place." "There will be lots of parties and dances." "Who, may I ask, is he?" "If she weren't my daughter," "I should feel inclined to ask her the same question." "Aren't you happy with me?" "Happy?" "The trouble is I'm too happy tonight." "You seem so strange... so deep and far away, as though you were holding something back." "I am." "Don't." "I'd better." "This is nice." "I don't want to spoil it." "You'd better tell me." "I love you." "I've loved you since the first moment I saw you." "I guess maybe I even loved you before I saw you." "And you're the fellow that wondered why I invited you here tonight." "I'll tell you why." "I love..." "Are they watching us?" "I love you, too." "It scares me." "But it is a wonderful feeling." "It's wonderful when you're here, and I can hold you, I can see you." "But what's it going to be like next week?" "All summer long." "I'll be just as much in love with you, and you'll be gone." "I'll be at the lake." "You'll come up and see me." "Oh, it's so beautiful there." "You must come." "I know my parents will be a problem, but you can come on the weekends when the kids from school are up there." "You don't have to work weekends." "If you don't come," "I'll drive here to see you." "I'll pick you up outside the factory." "You'll be my pickup." "Oh, we'll arrange it somehow... whatever way we can, and we'll have such wonderful times together... just the two of us." "I'd be the happiest person in the world." "The second happiest." "Oh, Angela, if I could only tell you how much I love you." "If I could only tell you all." "Tell Mama." "Tell Mama all." "Your age, Mrs. Hamilton?" "22." "How long married?" "Three months." "Well, now..." "Oh, sit down." "What seems to be the trouble, Mrs. Hamilton?" "You needn't be afraid to tell me." "That's my business... listening to other people's troubles." "Well... it's like this." "My husband h- hasn't much money." "And..." "I have to work to help pay the expenses." "Yes." "When I found out I was going to have a baby... we didn't see, uh... we didn't know any doctors who..." "What business is your husband in, Mrs. Hamilton?" "Electrician." "Well, now, that's not such a bad business..." "At least they charge enough." "We can't afford to..." "Of course, there are free hospitals, you know." "I know." "Free hospitals don't solve everything." "Tell me... how did you happen to come to me, anyhow?" "I heard people say you were a good doctor." "I see." "Mrs. Hamilton, when you went to the altar three months ago, you must have realized you might have to face a situation like this." "Well now, once you make up your mind to face this bravely, you'll find all these problems have a way of sorting themselves out." "Medical bills... clothes..." "I know." "I know my wife and I worried at first." "But now we can look back and realize..." "It's not like that." "I'm not married." "I haven't got a husband." "All right." "That won't do any good." "Where's the young man?" "He deserted me." "Oh, what will I do?" "Somebody's got to help me." "Miss Hamilton... my advice is go home and see your parents and tell them." "It will be much better that way," "I assure you." "If you've come to place yourself under my professional care during your pregnancy," "I'll do everything to ensure your health and your child's." "On the other hand, if you've come for... free advice on material and financial problems... which I can't help..." "No, I cannot help you." "What did he say?" "He said he thought I ought to make a very healthy mother." "Gee, Al..." "George, that's all you've been saying to me for weeks." "I'm trying to think." "You just got to marry me." "Family or no family." "This future of yours or no future." "Just looking at it that way settles everything, but we haven't got any money." "This comes out, I'm through." "I won't even have the little job I got now." "You're stalling." "I'm not!" "I'm trying to think of..." "I want to figure out some way, maybe." "I was thinking maybe... when I get my vacation, first week in September..." "All right, that's when we'll do it." "When you get your vacation, we'll go someplace way out of town and get married." "You understand?" "Yeah, I understand." "Now back again to the news." "The fine weather we've been having has been a little too fine in other parts of the country." "In New York City, seven persons succumbed over the weekend from the high temperatures still prevailing." "Meanwhile, near home, fine weather had its darker aspects." "The highway patrol reports that fatalities from traffic and other weekend accidents exceeded by four the high figure for the corresponding weekend last summer." "Some 14 persons lost their lives." "Among these, at least five were drowned, and several others received emergency first aid treatment at crowded lake resorts." "So be careful." "Remember, it may be your turn next or the turn of those nearest and dearest to you." "Drive carefully." "If you aren't a good swimmer, don't swim from unpatrolled beaches." "Make your holiday death's holiday, too." "George!" "Hello, you!" "I've missed you so." "Me, too." "Oh, I'm..." "I can't tell you how much." "I have wonderful news, so wonderful I had to drive down to tell you." "Mother and Dad want you to spend your vacation with us up at the lake." "Well, you'll come, won't you?" "I don't think I can." "Oh, George, no." "Look, this is my one chance to show you off to Mother and Dad." "Take my word for it, I've got to if..." "I promised my uncle some time with him during my vacation." "That's perfect." "Your aunt and uncle are coming up on September 3rd." "That's when you're coming." "Oh, darling, I love you so much." "So very much." "Just think of it." "We'll go swimming together, lie in the sun together, go horseback riding through the pine woods." "And I'll make your breakfast for you every morning." "You can sleep late." "I'll bring it in to you in your room." "And you love me." "Yes." "Hello?" "Listen, Al... uh..." "I..." "I've got to ask you a favor." "Don't get angry at me." "I've got to ask for an extra week." "I don't have to give you anything." "Y" " You just got to." "Uh, the thing is..." "I just talked to my uncle." "He wants me to come up to Bride's Lake and spend the first week of my vacation with them." "It's important to us." "Why is it important?" "I figure, from the way he's been talking, if I go up there, uh... he's going to give me a bonus." "It might be a lot of money." "I don't know, $200, $300." "We could sure use that." "All right, you go up there for a week." "I'll wait here." "I've been meaning to talk to you about that." "I'm not sure I approve of young Mr. Eastman." "I certainly don't know what he's doing here." "Oh, I do, Tony." "He's here because I invited him." "Would you mind telling me why you encourage this?" "You can be very unperceptive at times." "Opposition only makes a boy of that type appear more attractive." "I wanted to see him set down 24 hours a day among people Angela really knows." "She'll see whether he belongs or not." "Aah!" "Oh, come on!" "Oh, I'm freezing to death!" "It's like ice!" "Hurry up!" "I've never been so cold in all my life." "Oh!" "Aren't you going in?" "Sure!" "Oh, no!" "George, put me down!" "No!" "Oh!" "Oh, it happens every time." "Every single time." "What does?" "I freeze to death." "It's the coldest lake I've ever known." "What do you go in for then?" "'Cause it's my lake." "Yours?" "Uh-huh." "I found this trail when I was 14." "Nobody lives here, you know." "At least not on this part." "It's in two parts, with a little channel in between." "There's a crumbly old lodge at the end of the other part." "And some crumbly old boats." "Ahh!" "Come closer." "What do they call this lake?" "Loon Lake." "It's nice now." "Sometimes it's weird." "Especially at sundown." "I've never felt the same about it since the drowning." "What drowning?" "A man and a girl, last summer." "Nobody knows exactly what happened." "I guess their boat capsized." "It was five days before they found the girl's body." "And the man?" "They never found him." "What was that?" "A loon." "George, what are you thinking about?" "Nothing." "Nothing at all." "Hi." "And I used to think I was complicated." "Are you worried about my family?" "Yes." "I suppose I am." "Don't." "I've known them intimately for several years, and they're quite nice." "Perhaps they are a little unused to you, but... but that will come in time." "Suppose it doesn't?" "I'd go anywhere with you." "You really mean that?" "You'd marry me?" "Haven't I told you?" "I intend to." "Every time, I've had a millstone named Eastman around my neck." "I know how you feel, Tony." "What's golf got that a 20-mile hike hasn't?" "Dad says it's the spirit of competition." "I've hardly spoken with your elusive nephew." "Pity." "I'm told he's charming." "I've put him on my right tonight to make sure he won't run away." "My boy, I'm proud of the way you've been getting on." "I've wanted to justify the confidence you've shown in me." "Ayoung man who can meet people..." "That's an asset we can use up front." "I've been thinking about a place for you with us, in administration perhaps, where I can keep an eye on you myself." "Tony." "Yes?" "Let's take George with us tomorrow." "People at the club..." "Oh, no, you don't." "There's the Labor Day ski race tomorrow." "George is my pilot." "Which Mr. Eastman?" "Mr. George Eastman." "Call for you, George." "For me?" "You better bend an ear, Angela." "It's a woman." "Hello?" "Yes?" "I'm here at the bus station." "Well, uh..." "You lied to me, George, for the last time." "Now I want you to come and get me." "That's not going to be easy right now." "Now." "I'll do it tomorrow morning." "I said now!" "If you're not here in half an hour," "I'll come where you are." "I'll tell them everything, George." "I mean it." "Yes." "Yes, I will." "I'll leave right away." "Let's not go to Florida this winter." "Let's stay right here." "Fine." "That was, uh, that was a friend of my mother's." "She's not well." "Oh, I hope it's not serious." "I don't know." "I, uh, I ought to get home." "I ought to try and get a plane tonight." "If it's not serious, do come back." "We'll be expecting you." "I will." "Thank you." "If you'll excuse me, I'll go pack." "Certainly." "Goodbye, George." "Bye, George." "Male mako aloha." "George, how long will you be gone?" "I don't know, darling." "I just don't know." "You will come back to me, won't you?" "As soon as you can." "As soon as I can." "You promise?" "I promise." "Are you crazy, coming up here?" "Phoning me like that with my whole family listening in." "You weren't even staying with your family." "You were staying with Angela Vickers." "George, I'm through waiting for you." "Now, you're going to marry me tomorrow, or I-I-I'll telephone the newspapers and tell them everything, and then I'll kill myself." "Don't talk like that." "You make me talk like that." "Now, we'll go to Warsaw in the morning and get married." "Let's get out of here." "I won't get out of here until you say you will, that you're going to do it!" "All right." "Come on." "Labor Day." "It's a holiday." "Al, look." "Al." "Look, Al, it's not my fault." "Besides, one day more is not going to make any difference." "Say, there's a wonderful lake near here." "Loon Lake." "Just the kind of place you've always wanted to go for a honeymoon." "We could go up there." "Hey, there's a lodge on it, too." "If you like, we could, uh, spend a day there, and then tomorrow we can come back here." "Al, are you listening?" "Yeah." "I'm listening." "Tell you what." "Why don't we..." "Let's make a holiday out of it." "Everybody else is." "Why don't we go get sandwiches?" "Then let's have a picnic on the lake." "How's that?" "That sounds pretty good." "Look, Al, let's..." "Let's not quarrel anymore." "Let's... try and make the best of it, huh?" "All right." "Let's make the best of it." "I should have stopped at that last station." "Yeah." "Bone-dry." "Stupid." "Is the lodge very far from here?" "No, it's, uh, it's only just around the bend." "I tell you what." "Why don't we, uh..." "Let's take our lunch and go down to the landing." "We can rent a boat and have our picnic now." "Now?" "Yeah." "I can pick up a can of gas later and come back and get the car." "How does it sound?" "It sounds wonderful." "Oh, it is beautiful." "Yeah." "How much to rent a boat?" "25 cents an hour." "$2.00 all day." "Uh, are there many people out on the lake today?" "Got it all to yourself." "All right?" "Are you people at the lodge?" "Yeah." "That is, we will be tonight." "Probably spend a couple of days there." "You'll have to sign for it." "Sure." "Thanks a lot." "That's funny." "What?" "I know another guy named Gilbert Edwards." "Lives over at, uh, Westbrook." "It's a pretty common name." "Only two times I ever heard." "Aah!" "Aah!" "This boat doesn't leak, does it?" "I don't rent leaky boats." "Don't worry." "My husband's a very good swimmer." "It's so lonely here." "It's like we were the only two people left in the whole world." "Maybe we are." "Maybe when we get back to shore, everybody else will have disappeared." "I'd like that, wouldn't you?" "Then we could go anywhere we wanted." "We could live in the biggest house in the world if we wanted, only I'd like to live in a little house." "Just big enough for the two of us." "Only there's going to be more than two of us, isn't there?" "What's the matter, George?" "You look sick." "Nothing." "All out of breath." "I'm not used to rowing." "W" " W-Well, rest for a while, dear." "We can just drift." "After all, we're not going anywhere." "Oh, look behind you." "Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight, wish me luck, wish me light." "Make my wish come true tonight." "Did you make a wish?" "What did you wish?" "Nothing." "You're afraid it won't come true if you tell." "Al, I'm sorry that I've been so... so nasty to you." "I didn't mean it." "Just things happen, and you just don't stay the same." "I will make it up to you." "I'll stick by you." "I do love you, George." "We ought to get back." "It's getting dark." "That old man will think we drowned." "But let's drift like this for a while." "I'm not afraid of the dark." "It's so nice." "I'll tell you what I wished." "I wished that you loved me again." "Oh, you'll see." "We'll..." "we'll make a go of it if we give ourselves a chance." "We'll go to another town where nobody knows us, and we'll get jobs, may... maybe together." "W" " We'll do things together and go out together, just like any other old married couple." "George, you'll see." "After a while, you'll settle down, and you'll be happy with what you got instead of working yourself up over things you can't have." "After all, it's the little things in life that count." "Maybe we'll have to scrimp and save, but we'll have each other." "L" " I-I'm not afraid of being poor." "Stop it, Al!" "Why?" "What's the matter?" "Just... stop it!" "George." "What did you think of when you saw the star?" "You wished that you weren't here with me, didn't you?" "You wished that I was someplace else where you'd never have to see me again." "Or maybe you wished that I was dead." "Is that it?" "Did you wish that I was dead?" "No, I didn't!" "Now just leave me alone." "Oh." "George." "I know it isn't easy for you." "I shouldn't have said that." "Stay where you are." "Aah!" "Who's there?" "I'm trying to find..." "find the road." "I was hiking and got lost." "Do you know where the road is?" "It's down the trail about a quarter of a mile." "Quiet, boy." "Quiet." "Now stay there." "Good morning, Mr. Marlowe." "Morning, Mack." "For you." "Coroner." "Yes, Doctor." "Oh?" "Just wait a minute, will you?" "Bob, get these facts." "All right now." "Uh, yes." "Young couple drowned." "Now give me all the facts." "Oh!" "Miss Vickers around?" "No, she isn't." "I think she's out playing tennis." "In fact, everybody's gone somewhere." "Thank you." "Mr. Eastman." "Do you feel well?" "Yeah, fine." "Hello, George." "Oh, it's been centuries." "The maid said you were out playing tennis." "No." "I was just watching them." "I haven't even eaten anything since you've been away." "Well, hardly anything." "Don't go away again, George." "Here." "Come sit with me." "How is your mother?" "She's much better." "She's much better." "It wasn't as serious as they thought." "Oh, I'm glad of that." "You look very tired." "I didn't get much sleep." "I was even a little airsick on the plane." "Oh, poor George." "Anyway, I've got good news." "Mother and Daddy are beginning to melt." "You're winning them over with your boyish charm." "Maybe they'll let us make our announcement when I come home from school at Christmas." "At Christmas?" "Let's run away." "Run away?" "Let's run away now." "Right now." "Oh, but darling, we don't have to." "Not the way things are going now." "Mother will want a big wedding." "I've always dreamed of having one, too, for as long as I can remember." "All girls do." "Here now, don't start getting moody again." "Come on." "You change, and I'll meet you on the terrace." "Find any identification on the girl?" "Yeah, this employment card from the Eastman Industries." ""Alice Tripp" or something, huh?" "You say the man gave his name as Gilbert Edwards?" "Yep." "You can drag that lake until you're blue." "You won't find him." "How do you figure that, bear-bait?" "Well, I figure he left here in an auto, 'cause when I went up to my cabin last night around suppertime, there was a coupe parked off in the woods a piece." "Then about 9:00, somebody started up that auto and drove it off awfully fast." "Hello, George." "Well, hello." "Hey, George." "Hi." "Hello." "Hey, George, where you been?" "Got another woman stashed around someplace?" "Oh, you've been gone so long." "Hey, can't we be alone somewhere?" "We can take the speedboat." "Yeah." "Come on." "So, they want to be alone." "Well, we can't have that." "Come on, Joe, you lazy-bones." "Go!" "Hey, Angela, how about some company?" "Come on, everybody, get in!" "There's no room for you." "Well, we'll fix that." "Oh, no, you don't!" "Aah!" "...District Attorney Frank Marlowe's officers to investigate further." "Less than an hour ago, the coroner informed the press that although the girl... marks and bruises on her face and head would indicate a struggle took place." "The district attorney is believed to have evidence that the girl's male companion may still be alive." "Three boys scouts have reported that a young man, visibly upset..." "This is the main clue so far in the deepening mystery..." "You look tired, George." "That's what I told him." "Why don't you go inside and take a rest?" "I think maybe that's a good idea." "Excuse me, would you?" "Earl, any news on the drowning at Loon?" "The newspapers are trying to build it up into a murder case." "Odds are the fellow's still alive, and he's drowned her." "Frances, you read too many mysteries." "She was probably a chatterbox like Frances, and he picked her up and threw her overboard!" "Aah!" "Put me down!" "I've been looking for you, sir." "What is it?" "Mr. Vickers would like to see you alone." "He's in the living room, sir." "Sit down, will you?" "I thought that you and I might have a little chat before dinner." "Care for a drink?" "Please." "I'm making it a double." "I'm going to be a little bit personal, George." "It's about you and Angela and this talk going around about your getting married." "Right now, I don't know whether I'm for you or against you." "I don't know you well enough." "I know how you feel, Mr. Vickers." "Who am I to think of marrying Angela?" "Angela has everything." "Talk of marriage aside, the fact is that we know almost nothing about your background." "There's not much to know, but what there is, I wanted to tell you myself." "We..." "My family was..." "We were very poor people." "My family devoted their lives to... to a kind of religious work, conducting sidewalk services and... street singing." "I was part of..." "part of all that, until the law came along and said I ought to go to school." "But I only went to school till I was 13 years old." "See, we didn't ever have any money for anything, and so I left home." "I was going to do something about it." "Took any kind of job I could get." "I was bus boy, elevator operator, caddie." "I had no training, no... no education." "Then I..." "I came here, went to work for my uncle." "That's... my background, Mr. Vickers." "There's not very much there to recommend any approval." "But I love Angela more than anything in the world." "I'd do anything to make her happy." "Even if it's right that I shouldn't see her anymore." "Easy, boy." "Forthrightness is a prime virtue." "Let me tell you, I admire your frankness." "I should apologize for eavesdropping... but I'm glad I listened." "Well, Dad, does that answer all your questions?" "All I ask is that you two don't do anything... hasty." "Let's get out somewhere." "We'll go for a drive." "I just want to be alone with you." "Let's go." "I just can't believe it, that this horrible thing could happen to Alice." "She was such a sweet, quiet girl." "Ever meet any of her boyfriends?" "There was a young man who took her out once in a while, but he hasn't been around in weeks." "And who was he?" "It's a small town, Mr. Kelly, and any scandal would hurt my business something awful." "Lady, there will be a scandal if you don't cooperate." "Well... now, I never met him, mind you, but the girl said he was an Eastman." "Oh, but it couldn't be." "Not one of the Eastmans." "Hello." "Get me the district attorney's office in Warsaw." "Here we go." "Oh, he's gaining." "Oh!" "Safe!" "Safe and sound." "Calling Car 41." "Man believed in your vicinity." "This is the third time this summer, Miss Vickers." "I can't understand it." "Height 5'10", hair dark, complexion fair." "What's your name?" "George Eastman." "Now look, Miss Vickers," "I'd hate to someday be finding myself picking up the pieces of a pretty girl like you." "Let's take it easy, will you?" "Anything you say." "Oh, I just love that officer." "He's so bloodcurdling, and he writes such a nice hand." "Darling, what is it?" "I'm tired." "Yes, you... you must be." "Darling, let's never leave this place." "Let's just stay here alone." "Don't let Father upset you." "I'm the one who counts." "You're the only one." "The only one." "People are going..." "They're going to say things, I know." "Things about me..." "about me." "I know." "It's going to make you stop loving me." "Hush!" "Don't talk like that." "Hmm?" "I was asleep." "You were dreaming." "You were talking." "You said, "not my fault,"" "and then you said something I couldn't make out, and then you said," ""Angela, don't hate me. "" "That was a bad dream, George, a false dream, because I'll always love you." "We better go now." "Mother's liable to send out a posse for us." "You go in." "I'll be along in a minute." "Every time you leave me for a minute, it's like goodbye." "I like to believe it... means you can't live without me." "Is your name George Eastman?" "Yes." "You're under arrest." "Why?" "What for?" "Start walking back down the road there, bub, and you'll find out." "Go on, get going." "And no monkey business, either." "That's him, all right." "Mr. Marlowe, here's your baby." "So you're George Eastman." "I suppose you know what you're charged with." "No." "I suppose you don't know anything about the murder of Alice Tripp." "Well, I'm not guilty." "Oh, come on, son, we have the evidence." "You're not going to deny it, are you?" "Yes, I deny it." "Well, in that case, there's nothing to do but take you over to the Vickers' house and see what your friends have to say." "Please, don't take me back there." "I'll tell you all I can, but don't take me back there." "I didn't intend to, son." "I just wanted to see what you'd have to say." "Take him to Warsaw, boys, and lock him up." "Now we'll go over to the Vickers' place and see what they have to say about him." "No, simply say he's a relative." "Came to the house once." "You got that?" "Once." "Have Hollister take his name off the roster." "Miss Vickers, you had no inkling of his relations with that girl?" "No." "And none of you knew this boy was leading a double life?" "No." "Mr. Marlowe... if you've no further questions for my daughter and me, will you excuse us?" "Of course." "Mr. Vickers, I have no desire to harass an innocent person, and I'd like to keep your daughter's name free of scandal, but if the newspapers get hold of her involvement..." "I'll keep her name out of the newspapers." "You keep her name out of the trial." "That may not be possible." "The defense would have to agree to it." "The defense will agree to it." "I'll see to that." "I'll engage the boy's lawyers, and if it appears he's innocent," "I'll spend $ 100,000 to defend him." "And if he's guilty?" "If he is guilty, I won't spend a single cent to save him from the electric chair." "Thank you, Mother." "Thank you, Lulu." "I want you to tell me..." "I think that's enough for today." "I guess you're right." "Mr. Bellows... has there been any word from..." "From Miss Vickers?" "No, George." "You see, when Mr. Eastman engaged us to defend you, we made an agreement with the district attorney not to drag Miss Vickers into the case unnecessarily." "Oh... of course." "This was in your interest, too." "Her appearance on the stand would be irrelevant, and I feel it might be damaging for you, too." "We'll be back." ""After I got her out on the lake," ""I couldn't go through with it." "Then the boat turned over. "" "You know, Art, he sold me." "I believe his story." "No more newspapers, Lulu." "Remember, I told you." "The people of this state charge that the crime of murder in the first degree has been committed by the prisoner at the bar..." "George Eastman." "They charge that this same George Eastman willfully, and with malice and cruelty and deception, murdered, then sought to conceal from the knowledge and justice of the world, the body of Alice Tripp." "It will be for you, ladies and gentlemen, to decide what should be done with this man who has flouted every moral law, broken every commandment, who has crowned his infamy... with murder." "Ahem." "What were Alice's feelings for this defendant?" "She was in love with him." "Everybody knew that." "What was this rule, exactly, Mr. Whiting?" "It was to keep the staff members from fooling around with the girls working there." "One night last August," "I called Alice to the telephone." "It was him calling." "Doctor... you never saw this young man?" "No, but after she left my office, she talked for a long time in some man's coupe." "Objection!" "Sustained." "Along about 9:00, he stumbled into my camp." "His clothes were wet, and he looked scared." "Well, this man was at the bus station with this girl." "They were quarreling, and she said she wouldn't leave the depot unless he promised." "Coroner, did you conclude that violence had been done to Miss Tripp prior to her death by drowning?" "Well, apparently the young woman had been struck by a dull instrument with sufficient force to stun her." "I told him there wasn't nobody else on the lake." "Then he signed the name Gilbert Edwards." "Having signed a false name, isn't it a fact he then proceeded to ensure that whatever occurred on the lake would be observed by no one?" "I object, Your Honor." "No one, that is, except the unfortunate girl expecting him to take her to the altar, the girl he drowned?" "The prosecution must not make these inferences." "I withdraw the question." "The people rest." "This boy is on trial for the act of murder, not for the thought of murder." "Between the idea and the deed, there's a world of difference, and if you find this boy guilty in desire, but not guilty in deed... then he must walk out of this courtroom as free as you or I." "However, since the prosecutor lacked evidence... he's given you prejudice." "Lacking facts, he's given you fantasy." "Of all the witnesses he's paraded before you, not one actually saw what happened." "I will now call to the stand an eyewitness, the only eyewitness, the only one who knows the truth, the whole truth." "George Eastman, will you please take the stand?" "And when we got to the lake," "I suggested we go rowing before it got dark." "Now, tell me, George, why did you give a false name to the boat keeper?" "We were going to spend the night at the lodge, and we weren't married, so I thought it would be better if we didn't give our right names." "Well, why, at this time, did you engage the boat to row the girl out onto the lake?" "In the back of my mind was the thought of drowning her..." "But I didn't want to think such things." "I couldn't help myself!" "I couldn't." "So what happened after you rowed out onto the lake?" "I knew then that I couldn't do it." "I couldn't go through with it." "And then you had a change of heart." "I object." "He's leading the witness." "Objection sustained." "Counsel will refrain from leading the witness." "Yes, Your Honor." "What happened then, George?" "Well, uh... that was when we decided we ought to get back to the lodge." "She started talking about..." "about our getting married and what our life together would be like." "What was your reaction to that, to her talking that way?" "She just looked at me." "She knew it was hopeless." "She accused me of wishing she was dead." "Did you, George?" "Did you wish she were dead?" "No, I didn't." "I wasn't thinking of that anymore." "What were you thinking of at that moment?" "I was thinking of somebody else." "Another girl." "You were thinking that this other girl and her world were lost to you forever." "What did you say to Alice's accusation?" "I told her it wasn't true." "I didn't want her to die." "Wasn't she alarmed or frightened?" "She even said, "poor George. "" "Go on." "And then she started toward me from the back of the boat." "I told her to stay where she was, but she didn't." "She..." "She kept coming toward me, and then she stumbled and started to fall." "I started to get up, and then everything turned over." "In a second, we were in the water." "I was stunned." "Something must have hit me as I fell in." "It all happened so fast" "I didn't know what I was doing." "George... was Alice conscious when she fell into the water?" "Yes." "I could hear her scream, but I couldn't see her 'cause she was on the other side of the boat." "So I swam around to the other side, and she was..." "When I got there... she'd gone down." "I never saw her again." "Do you solemnly swear before God that you didn't strike Alice Tripp?" "I do." "I swear." "And that you didn't throw her into that lake?" "I did not." "And that it was an accident undesired by you." "I do!" "I do." "I do." "That's all, Your Honor." "Eastman, that night when you left that dinner party at the house at Bride's Lake to meet Alice Tripp in the bus station, do you remember leaving anything behind you?" "No, I don't." "I don't remember leaving anything." "I'm referring to your heart, Eastman." "Did you leave that behind you?" "Did you, Eastman?" "Out there in that terrace in the moonlight?" "You left behind, didn't you, the girl you loved, and with her, your hopes, your ambitions, your dreams?" "Didn't you, Eastman?" "You left behind everything you ever wanted, including the girl you loved?" "But you planned to return to it, didn't you, Eastman?" "Answer me." "Yes." "Eastman, when you told them all that night that you were going to visit your mother, you were lying, weren't you?" "Yes." "When you gave the boat keeper a false name, you were lying again, weren't you?" "Yes." "When you drove up to Loon Lake, what reason did you give Alice Tripp for parking so far away from the lodge?" "Because we were out of gas." "Weren't you lying again?" "Yes." "Lies." "Isn't it a fact that every move you made was built on lies?" "Yet now when you're facing the electric chair, suddenly you can't tell anything but the truth." "All the same, it's true." "I didn't kill her." "So you persist in lying about that, too." "Well, we'll see." "Eastman, I want you to step into the boat and show the jury exactly what happened when the boat overturned." "Take the same position you had at the time of the drowning." "Now, Eastman, when the girl rose to come toward you, did she stumble about there?" "Speak up." "Yes." "And then?" "And then she fell sideways into the water." "So did I." "And then what happened?" "The boat turned over on top of us." "What happened then?" "I couldn't see very clearly." "There was a thud, as if the edge of the boat hit her on the head." "Very likely." "After this accidental blow and you're both in the water, how far apart were you when you came up?" "I don't know exactly." "If you were trying to grab her, you couldn't have been more than a yard apart." "It was farther than that." "As far from there to the jury box or halfway or what?" "About as far as from here to the jury box." "Not really." "You fell in together, and came up nearly 20 feet apart." "That's how I remember it." "Why couldn't you swim toward her instead of away?" "I don't know." "Step over here." "Now, was the boat as far as from here to the bailiff?" "I guess so." "I don't know." "You couldn't swim this little distance to this poor weak girl and buoy her up to the boat just 15 feet away?" "You know you're lying!" "She was drowning, and you let her!" "She was sitting there defenseless, you picked up this oar, and you crashed it down on that poor girl's head!" "You pushed that poor girl into the lake." "You watched her drown." "Isn't that the truth?" "No." "That's all, Your Honor." "...by the premature adoption of an extreme belief and creed." "It is well to understand this in looking toward the responsibilities of adult life, in particular, the married state, when the student will emerge from the sheltered life into a world of grownup problems for the first time." "It is only then that he or she will view the enthusiasms of youth in the perspective of genuine problems, as opposed to the imagined problems, which are the frequent products of a sheltered immaturity." "It is at this time that the sometimes hastily adopted beliefs of youth are bound to be insufficient..." "Has the jury reached a verdict?" "We..." "Ahem." "We have, Your Honor." "The defendant will rise." "The clerk will read the verdict." "We, the jury, find the defendant, George Eastman, guilty of murder in the first degree." "Order in the court!" "Hello, Mrs. Eastman." "Mama." "My boy." "Did you see the governor?" "It's no use." "The governor couldn't be moved." "Your mother's done everything a mother could do, George." "That I know." "Death is a little thing, George." "You mustn't be afraid of it." "You must fear now only for your immortal soul." "If that sin is on your soul, my son, you must make your peace with God." "I don't believe I'm guilty of all this." "I don't know." "I wish I knew." "If you are guilty, then I, too, am guilty." "I must share your guilt." "Oh, Mama, don't blame yourself." "You know, they say only God and ourselves know what our sins and sorrows are." "Perhaps in this case, only God knows." "George... perhaps you've hidden the full truth of this even from yourself." "I don't want to hide anything." "I want to know." "George, there's one thing you've never told anyone." "Even yourself." "There's one point in your story that holds the answer you're looking for." "Yes." "When you were on the lake with that poor girl, and the boat capsized, and there was a moment when you might have saved her..." "I wanted to save her." "But I just couldn't." "But whom were you thinking of?" "Who were you thinking of just at that moment?" "Were you thinking of Alice?" "Or were you thinking of the other girl?" "Then... in your heart, it was murder, George." "God bless you, my boy." "God forgive me if I've failed you." "I came to see you." "I thought lots about you, George." "All the time." "I went away to school to learn." "I don't think I learned very much." "I love you, George." "I wanted you to know that." "Well, I..." "I..." "I guess there's nothing more to say." "I know something now that I didn't know before." "I am guilty of a lot of things... most of what they say of me." "All the same..." "I'll go on loving you... for as long as I live." "Love me for the time I have left, then forget me." "Goodbye, George." "It seems like we always spend the best part of our time... just saying goodbye." "In my Father's house are many mansions." "I go to prepare a place for you." "And I will receive you unto Myself." "Where I am, ye may be also." "You'll have to go now, son." "I am the resurrection and the life." "He who believeth in Me..." "Come on, son." "Though he were dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die." "So long, kid." "God bless you, son." "Hope you find a better world than this." "Goodbye, George." "I'll be seeing you."