1 00:01:14,645 --> 00:01:16,617 Tell Mr MacDonald to put that in the safe for me. 2 00:01:16,933 --> 00:01:18,494 Yes, sir. I sure will, sir. 3 00:01:19,004 --> 00:01:21,765 The gentlemen are starting a new game in the back, Mr Peake. 4 00:01:22,005 --> 00:01:24,814 They told me to ask you. How about a little revenge? 5 00:01:25,351 --> 00:01:27,339 That there's a lucky chance still waiting for you. 6 00:01:27,755 --> 00:01:29,748 Tell them there's a beautiful lady also waiting. 7 00:01:29,954 --> 00:01:31,696 Their cash will be just as good tomorrow. 8 00:01:32,037 --> 00:01:35,001 Perhaps the cards won't be, Mr Peake? - That will be my hard luck, Jeff. 9 00:01:35,437 --> 00:01:37,219 You ain't had none lately, sir. 10 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:39,663 I sure wish I had your rabbit's foot. 11 00:01:39,916 --> 00:01:40,810 Well, Jeff. 12 00:01:42,187 --> 00:01:43,631 How will this do as a substitute? 13 00:01:45,249 --> 00:01:46,496 Thank you, Mr Peake. 14 00:01:46,718 --> 00:01:49,439 A ten-dollar bill ain't ever brought me no bad luck yet. 15 00:02:19,224 --> 00:02:20,758 Where is your mama, little girl? 16 00:02:21,139 --> 00:02:22,405 I haven't any mama. 17 00:02:23,610 --> 00:02:25,601 You poor lonely little dear. 18 00:02:26,354 --> 00:02:27,569 Do you live in the hotel? 19 00:02:27,798 --> 00:02:29,802 We do when father's business is good. 20 00:02:30,180 --> 00:02:31,579 And I am not lonely. 21 00:02:32,035 --> 00:02:34,051 Don't you want to come and play with my little girl? 22 00:02:34,363 --> 00:02:36,358 She would like that. Wouldn't you, Agnes dear? 23 00:02:41,349 --> 00:02:44,091 No thank you very much. I'm waiting for my father. 24 00:02:44,750 --> 00:02:46,861 He would be disappointed not to find me here. 25 00:02:47,243 --> 00:02:48,809 You precious pet. 26 00:02:50,924 --> 00:02:51,923 Come along, dear. 27 00:03:20,462 --> 00:03:21,185 Daddy. 28 00:03:30,350 --> 00:03:32,941 Why do strange ladies always want to kiss me, father? 29 00:03:33,549 --> 00:03:35,422 How could anyone help wanting to kiss my Celia? 30 00:03:35,693 --> 00:03:38,258 That's how people catch mumps and measles, isn't it? 31 00:03:39,625 --> 00:03:40,568 Sometimes. 32 00:03:41,054 --> 00:03:42,556 But not generally from kind ladies. 33 00:03:42,817 --> 00:03:45,770 Kind ladies always make me feel like an orphan in a play. 34 00:03:48,039 --> 00:03:50,442 How would you like to see one .. tonight? 35 00:03:51,367 --> 00:03:53,483 Fanny Davenport in Sappho. 36 00:03:54,891 --> 00:03:56,821 Remember her in Camille? - I cried. 37 00:03:57,341 --> 00:03:58,677 Afraid I did too, Selina. 38 00:03:59,027 --> 00:04:01,100 I'd love to act like Fanny Davenport. 39 00:04:01,306 --> 00:04:02,035 You can. 40 00:04:03,218 --> 00:04:05,516 Play-acting through life is just living Selina. 41 00:04:06,827 --> 00:04:09,583 I want you to realize this whole thing called 'life' .. 42 00:04:10,401 --> 00:04:11,645 Is just a grand adventure. 43 00:04:12,577 --> 00:04:15,008 The trick is to act in it and look down at the same time. 44 00:04:15,907 --> 00:04:16,779 And remember. 45 00:04:17,736 --> 00:04:19,008 No matter what happens. 46 00:04:19,879 --> 00:04:20,810 Good or bad. 47 00:04:21,757 --> 00:04:23,397 Is just so much velvet. 48 00:04:42,656 --> 00:04:44,554 What is the new vegetable, father? 49 00:04:45,747 --> 00:04:46,419 Shush. 50 00:04:47,143 --> 00:04:49,273 It's called asparagus. 51 00:04:49,673 --> 00:04:50,769 Aspa grass? 52 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:52,064 No, no. 53 00:04:52,841 --> 00:04:54,243 Asparagus. 54 00:04:58,140 --> 00:04:59,187 Asparagus. 55 00:04:59,741 --> 00:05:01,189 Is it good? - Uhuh. 56 00:05:01,609 --> 00:05:02,655 And good for you. 57 00:05:12,572 --> 00:05:13,215 Look. 58 00:05:15,759 --> 00:05:16,642 Yes. Look. 59 00:05:19,466 --> 00:05:21,024 Selina, aren't we funny-looking? 60 00:05:21,323 --> 00:05:22,426 I know I am. 61 00:05:22,769 --> 00:05:25,503 And Julie Hempel, the size of your bustle. 62 00:05:26,335 --> 00:05:28,758 It doesn't seem possible the styles have changed so. 63 00:05:30,583 --> 00:05:31,343 Well. 64 00:05:31,585 --> 00:05:33,912 I won't have to worry about the new styles for next season .. 65 00:05:34,118 --> 00:05:36,037 With father's business as bad as it is. 66 00:05:36,385 --> 00:05:37,817 I'm sorry to hear that, Selina. 67 00:05:38,116 --> 00:05:41,702 I don't think you've ever told me just what your father's business is. 68 00:05:43,149 --> 00:05:43,761 Oh. 69 00:05:44,939 --> 00:05:47,427 Just business, Mrs Hempel. In the market. 70 00:05:49,085 --> 00:05:51,947 My husband complains about the market too sometimes. 71 00:05:52,292 --> 00:05:55,269 Why mother, Selina doesn't mean a meat market like father's. 72 00:05:55,572 --> 00:05:57,399 It's stocks and that kind of thing. 73 00:05:57,700 --> 00:05:59,062 Isn't it, Selina? - Uhuh. 74 00:05:59,644 --> 00:06:02,856 I must hurry before father gets home. - Won't you stay for supper? 75 00:06:03,394 --> 00:06:04,872 No thanks. I can't this evening. 76 00:06:05,201 --> 00:06:08,533 We are having prairie chickens that a farmer west of town brought father. 77 00:06:11,029 --> 00:06:12,081 Don't tempt me. 78 00:06:12,306 --> 00:06:13,405 This is Monday. 79 00:06:13,611 --> 00:06:17,358 And on Mondays we have cold mutton and cabbage at Mrs Tebbit's boarding house. 80 00:06:17,877 --> 00:06:19,535 Well, silly. Why not stay? 81 00:06:19,887 --> 00:06:23,946 If I'm not home, father is disappointed and Mrs Tebbit makes eyes at him. 82 00:06:24,331 --> 00:06:28,857 I know just how it must be after that wonderful Palmer House Hotel. 83 00:06:29,146 --> 00:06:32,126 We don't mind it for a change. You meet such interesting people. 84 00:06:32,397 --> 00:06:33,733 Just like in a play. 85 00:06:34,632 --> 00:06:36,613 Goodbye, Mrs Hempel. - Goodbye, Selina. 86 00:06:38,721 --> 00:06:40,968 You know, the bustle did hide a multitude of sins. 87 00:06:57,651 --> 00:07:00,641 What is it, Mary? What's the matter? - It is Mr Peake, ma'am. 88 00:07:01,169 --> 00:07:02,156 He has been shot. 89 00:07:03,662 --> 00:07:04,346 Shot? 90 00:07:04,726 --> 00:07:07,278 Yes, ma'am. Shot dead in Mike MacDonald's gambling room. 91 00:07:08,051 --> 00:07:09,173 It was an accident. 92 00:07:10,074 --> 00:07:11,360 Easy there on the corner. 93 00:07:47,348 --> 00:07:48,736 Mrs Tebbit, what's the matter? 94 00:07:50,820 --> 00:07:51,898 What's the matter? 95 00:07:52,661 --> 00:07:53,304 It .. 96 00:07:54,201 --> 00:07:55,325 It's your father. 97 00:09:34,097 --> 00:09:34,857 Father. 98 00:10:22,101 --> 00:10:23,549 [ Door knocks ] 99 00:10:24,394 --> 00:10:25,043 Yes? 100 00:10:27,981 --> 00:10:29,540 Here is a letter for you, Miss Peake. 101 00:10:31,469 --> 00:10:32,598 Thank you, Mrs Tebbit. 102 00:10:33,425 --> 00:10:35,583 Mr Hempel brought it in his carriage. 103 00:10:36,054 --> 00:10:36,840 Mr Hempel? 104 00:10:37,194 --> 00:10:38,767 He is my butcher, you know. 105 00:10:39,828 --> 00:10:44,551 I asked him point blank why his daughter hadn't called since your bereavement. 106 00:10:45,016 --> 00:10:46,286 She used to come so often. 107 00:10:48,119 --> 00:10:49,300 He said she had .. 108 00:10:49,769 --> 00:10:51,109 Gone away for the winter. 109 00:10:51,750 --> 00:10:53,023 To her aunt in Kansas City. 110 00:10:54,367 --> 00:10:55,755 Without even seeing you. 111 00:10:57,390 --> 00:10:58,926 I can't get over it. 112 00:11:03,937 --> 00:11:04,586 But. 113 00:11:05,918 --> 00:11:08,669 Some people are like that when you are in trouble. 114 00:12:08,047 --> 00:12:10,845 Mr Pool, how beautiful everything is here. 115 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:13,005 Beautiful? 116 00:12:13,549 --> 00:12:14,564 What is beautiful? 117 00:12:15,109 --> 00:12:16,798 This. The cabbages. 118 00:12:18,488 --> 00:12:19,797 Cabbages is beautiful? 119 00:12:20,953 --> 00:12:22,447 Cabbages is beautiful. 120 00:12:23,371 --> 00:12:25,210 Well, they are. They're beautiful. 121 00:12:25,559 --> 00:12:27,067 They are like jade and burgundy. 122 00:12:30,704 --> 00:12:32,751 Is .. is Mrs Pool expecting? 123 00:12:33,634 --> 00:12:35,137 There is a Mrs Pool, isn't there? 124 00:12:35,466 --> 00:12:36,109 Sure. 125 00:12:36,593 --> 00:12:38,194 But my Maartje is through expecting. 126 00:12:38,407 --> 00:12:40,819 Three children is enough for a farmer these hard times. 127 00:12:41,474 --> 00:12:42,817 Oh yes. Of course. 128 00:12:44,596 --> 00:12:46,673 It will be nice to have them for pupils. 129 00:12:48,354 --> 00:12:51,308 You mean it won't be nice to have them for pupils, or they won't be, or .. 130 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:52,618 Well, all won't be. 131 00:12:52,906 --> 00:12:54,948 Dear me, why not? Which ones won't? 132 00:12:55,529 --> 00:12:58,384 Katya goes to school. Jozina goes to school. 133 00:12:58,625 --> 00:13:01,036 And Roelf, he helps by the farm. - How old is Roelf? 134 00:13:01,481 --> 00:13:03,304 Twelve. - And not at school? 135 00:13:03,796 --> 00:13:05,079 He helps by the farm. 136 00:13:05,368 --> 00:13:07,440 Doesn't he like school? - But sure. 137 00:13:07,700 --> 00:13:09,817 Then for pity's sake why doesn't he go? 138 00:13:10,594 --> 00:13:12,328 Roelf helps by the farm. 139 00:13:49,845 --> 00:13:51,761 Cabbages is beautiful. 140 00:14:08,126 --> 00:14:08,917 Maartje. 141 00:14:09,853 --> 00:14:11,168 Here is the schoolteacher. 142 00:14:19,204 --> 00:14:20,837 How do you do, Mrs Pool. 143 00:14:23,823 --> 00:14:24,895 Pleased to meet you. 144 00:14:32,935 --> 00:14:34,462 Come and lay off your things. 145 00:14:37,470 --> 00:14:39,145 This is Jacob Pogadunk. 146 00:14:40,615 --> 00:14:42,376 He helps by the farm. 147 00:14:42,772 --> 00:14:44,347 How do you do, mister .. 148 00:14:44,739 --> 00:14:45,920 Mr Pogadunk. 149 00:14:46,811 --> 00:14:48,109 Hello teacher. 150 00:14:49,419 --> 00:14:51,088 Beautiful cabbages. 151 00:15:02,262 --> 00:15:03,030 Oh. 152 00:15:03,888 --> 00:15:06,285 Which is Jozina and which is Katya? 153 00:15:21,252 --> 00:15:22,553 Now you two stay downstairs. 154 00:15:29,358 --> 00:15:31,040 How neat and clean everything is. 155 00:15:32,534 --> 00:15:35,130 Nobody has ever used it since my old Ma's funeral. 156 00:15:40,633 --> 00:15:42,425 What a lovely old chest. 157 00:15:44,209 --> 00:15:46,961 I had that when I was married fourteen years ago. 158 00:15:54,814 --> 00:15:56,364 My wedding chest. 159 00:15:57,546 --> 00:15:58,999 I was seventeen then. 160 00:15:59,841 --> 00:16:01,174 You are only thirty-one? 161 00:16:01,505 --> 00:16:02,473 Almost. 162 00:16:04,312 --> 00:16:06,084 I'm not so young as you. 163 00:16:10,877 --> 00:16:12,239 What on earth is this? 164 00:16:12,771 --> 00:16:14,081 A drum. - A drum? 165 00:16:15,118 --> 00:16:16,959 For heat your room. - Maartje. 166 00:16:19,232 --> 00:16:20,565 Something is burning already. 167 00:17:12,953 --> 00:17:15,668 You ain't ate nothing. Like you wasn't hungry. 168 00:17:15,983 --> 00:17:18,185 I'm not very. Can I help you with anything? 169 00:17:18,579 --> 00:17:20,847 No. You sit down and make yourself at home. 170 00:17:29,126 --> 00:17:31,145 Katya, Jozina, you go to bed at once. 171 00:17:33,085 --> 00:17:34,220 Goodnight. 172 00:18:10,502 --> 00:18:12,292 You got to have rich bottom lands. 173 00:18:12,682 --> 00:18:14,484 Even with regular fertilizer. 174 00:18:15,481 --> 00:18:18,448 Else you get little, tough, stringy vegetables. 175 00:18:21,564 --> 00:18:24,277 Regular fertilizer costs too much to put on our farm. 176 00:18:24,655 --> 00:18:27,074 What's regular fertilizer, Mr Pool? 177 00:18:31,061 --> 00:18:32,762 Regular fertilizer is .. 178 00:18:33,566 --> 00:18:34,796 It's regular fertilizer. 179 00:18:35,193 --> 00:18:36,094 What is in it? 180 00:18:47,769 --> 00:18:48,754 What's in it? 181 00:19:19,023 --> 00:19:20,273 Dried blood. 182 00:19:21,900 --> 00:19:23,455 What does it mean, 'dried blood'? 183 00:19:29,282 --> 00:19:30,370 Dried blood. 184 00:19:31,462 --> 00:19:32,725 It is dried blood. 185 00:19:33,388 --> 00:19:37,886 They put it on the fields to make the cabbages and onions and radishes grow. 186 00:19:39,477 --> 00:19:40,237 Anyway. 187 00:19:41,148 --> 00:19:42,408 Cabbages is beautiful. 188 00:19:56,791 --> 00:19:59,132 I think I'll go up to my room. I am very tired. 189 00:19:59,338 --> 00:20:01,638 It was the ride I suppose. - Sure. Go up. 190 00:20:02,362 --> 00:20:04,722 I got my bread to set yet and whatnot. 191 00:20:06,064 --> 00:20:06,910 Roelf. 192 00:20:07,434 --> 00:20:09,576 Go and fetch the teacher's trunk. 193 00:20:09,836 --> 00:20:11,223 Stop that reading all the time. 194 00:20:19,814 --> 00:20:21,472 Why, he's been reading the dictionary. 195 00:20:21,796 --> 00:20:22,445 Sure. 196 00:20:22,824 --> 00:20:24,544 The last teacher gave it to him. 197 00:20:25,075 --> 00:20:27,321 It has got more in it than a hundred thousand words. 198 00:20:27,911 --> 00:20:29,137 And all different. 199 00:21:35,610 --> 00:21:38,382 I want you to realize this whole thing called 'life'. 200 00:21:39,322 --> 00:21:40,641 Is just a grand adventure. 201 00:21:41,478 --> 00:21:43,703 The trick is to act in it and look down at the same time. 202 00:21:44,821 --> 00:21:45,693 And remember. 203 00:21:46,495 --> 00:21:47,775 No matter what happens. 204 00:21:48,705 --> 00:21:49,856 Good or bad. 205 00:21:50,635 --> 00:21:52,296 It is just so much velvet. 206 00:22:01,075 --> 00:22:02,040 [ Door knocks ] 207 00:22:03,749 --> 00:22:04,775 Come in. 208 00:22:07,889 --> 00:22:09,393 Isn't that too heavy for you? 209 00:22:11,246 --> 00:22:13,063 This is a good place for it, don't you think? 210 00:22:13,269 --> 00:22:14,427 At the foot of the bed. 211 00:22:20,998 --> 00:22:21,984 Thank you, Roelf. 212 00:22:26,588 --> 00:22:27,483 Cabbages. 213 00:22:27,850 --> 00:22:29,767 Fields of cabbages like you said. 214 00:22:30,547 --> 00:22:31,591 They are beautiful. 215 00:23:13,244 --> 00:23:14,767 Is it this cold every morning? 216 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:19,631 The stove heats good after you get it started. 217 00:23:19,909 --> 00:23:22,022 Let's see. First you put in the kindling. 218 00:23:22,307 --> 00:23:24,002 Then some kerosene and then corncob. 219 00:23:24,345 --> 00:23:25,565 And then you light it. 220 00:23:26,117 --> 00:23:27,837 Only sometimes it don't catch so easy. 221 00:23:29,050 --> 00:23:30,523 I'd better come and do it for you. 222 00:23:30,784 --> 00:23:32,585 I'm afraid I'm not a very good fireman. 223 00:23:33,108 --> 00:23:33,751 I am. 224 00:23:34,028 --> 00:23:36,440 I can see you are. It's getting warmer already. 225 00:23:39,566 --> 00:23:40,781 Here's your schoolbooks. 226 00:23:41,407 --> 00:23:43,334 Thank you, Roelf. And for the fire too. 227 00:23:55,326 --> 00:23:56,169 What's this? 228 00:23:57,048 --> 00:23:57,978 Just a picture. 229 00:23:58,184 --> 00:23:58,953 For me? 230 00:24:00,245 --> 00:24:01,100 How nice. 231 00:24:05,096 --> 00:24:06,174 Did you make it? 232 00:24:06,397 --> 00:24:07,732 I like to draw pictures. 233 00:24:09,857 --> 00:24:12,071 Now I see why you said cabbages were beautiful. 234 00:24:12,664 --> 00:24:14,346 In your picture they really are. 235 00:24:14,558 --> 00:24:15,538 I must go now. 236 00:24:16,586 --> 00:24:19,592 I'm sorry you can't stay to school, Roelf. Wouldn't you like to? 237 00:24:20,071 --> 00:24:21,725 Pa needs me by the fields. 238 00:24:22,072 --> 00:24:23,728 This time of year is the hardest. 239 00:24:24,289 --> 00:24:24,961 Roelf. 240 00:24:25,859 --> 00:24:27,416 I have a book called Ivanhoe. 241 00:24:27,675 --> 00:24:28,919 Would you like to read it? 242 00:24:29,524 --> 00:24:31,574 Well, I don't get much time. 243 00:24:32,093 --> 00:24:35,377 You wouldn't have to hurry. Read it in the evenings in your house. 244 00:24:35,832 --> 00:24:37,105 Instead of your dictionary. 245 00:24:37,658 --> 00:24:39,995 Perhaps I can get all the chores done before supper. 246 00:24:40,310 --> 00:24:42,320 Some night. - You will try, won't you? 247 00:24:43,753 --> 00:24:44,624 And Roelf. 248 00:24:45,672 --> 00:24:47,924 I have another book called the Three Musketeers. 249 00:24:50,528 --> 00:24:52,878 Goodbye. I got a lot of work to do today. 250 00:25:43,327 --> 00:25:44,177 Who is that? 251 00:25:46,008 --> 00:25:47,137 The widow Paarlenberg. 252 00:25:48,236 --> 00:25:49,828 She is rich like anything. 253 00:25:53,232 --> 00:25:53,875 Look. 254 00:25:54,593 --> 00:25:56,166 Look when she makes eyes at him. 255 00:25:56,941 --> 00:25:57,934 At him? Who? 256 00:25:59,091 --> 00:26:00,034 Pervus De Jong. 257 00:26:06,745 --> 00:26:08,218 He is very good looking, isn't he. 258 00:26:08,579 --> 00:26:09,265 Sure. 259 00:26:10,523 --> 00:26:12,270 Widow Paarlenberg, she is stuck on him. 260 00:26:14,564 --> 00:26:15,418 Shush. 261 00:26:20,073 --> 00:26:21,662 The collection this Sabbath morning. 262 00:26:22,124 --> 00:26:25,615 Is for our foreign missions among the ignorant heathen in China. 263 00:26:27,876 --> 00:26:29,055 On Wednesday evening. 264 00:26:29,655 --> 00:26:31,626 The regular weekly prayer meeting. 265 00:26:32,015 --> 00:26:34,305 Will give place to the annual church social. 266 00:26:34,854 --> 00:26:37,391 To be held in the Sunday school of this edifice. 267 00:26:37,991 --> 00:26:39,233 In the basement. 268 00:26:40,249 --> 00:26:41,449 The supper baskets. 269 00:26:41,822 --> 00:26:44,911 To by contributed by the ladies of the congregation. 270 00:26:45,277 --> 00:26:46,752 Will be raffled off as usual. 271 00:26:47,618 --> 00:26:48,884 Proceeds this year. 272 00:26:49,346 --> 00:26:53,009 Going towards the purchase of a new church organ. 273 00:26:56,791 --> 00:27:00,209 The organist will now play hymn number 43. 274 00:27:04,264 --> 00:27:05,858 Number 43. 275 00:27:48,950 --> 00:27:49,888 What am I bid? 276 00:27:50,094 --> 00:27:51,618 What am I bid? What am I bid? 277 00:27:52,043 --> 00:27:53,933 Thirty cents? Thirty cents? - Thirty-five. 278 00:27:54,139 --> 00:27:57,157 Thirty-five cents? Shame on you gentlemen. 279 00:27:57,516 --> 00:27:59,660 Who will make it forty? Who will make it forty? 280 00:28:00,239 --> 00:28:01,985 Forty cents. - Forty cents. 281 00:28:02,348 --> 00:28:03,106 Remember. 282 00:28:03,352 --> 00:28:07,700 The lucky gent gets the fair owner of this large basket as his supper partner. 283 00:28:08,179 --> 00:28:10,674 Who will make it forty-five? Who will make it forty-five? 284 00:28:11,293 --> 00:28:11,936 Sold. 285 00:28:12,633 --> 00:28:13,773 To Gerrit Ponds. 286 00:28:14,083 --> 00:28:17,844 Katrina Hinkledorf's basket for forty cents. 287 00:28:18,526 --> 00:28:20,874 And there's mince pie in it, gentlemen. 288 00:28:30,339 --> 00:28:31,125 Hey, what? 289 00:28:31,446 --> 00:28:33,062 I am so sorry but there's such a crowd. 290 00:28:33,268 --> 00:28:34,811 I can't get my lunchbox through. 291 00:28:35,678 --> 00:28:36,607 That lunchbox? 292 00:28:36,913 --> 00:28:39,836 Yes, for the raffle. I am the schoolteacher, Selina Peake. 293 00:28:40,584 --> 00:28:43,200 Yes. I saw you on Sunday in church. 294 00:28:43,478 --> 00:28:45,820 You did? I didn't think you .. 295 00:28:47,106 --> 00:28:47,839 Did you? 296 00:28:48,145 --> 00:28:49,516 Here, wait. I will be back. 297 00:28:52,446 --> 00:28:53,860 Look what we have here. 298 00:28:54,132 --> 00:28:56,095 The widow Paarlenberg's basket. 299 00:28:58,555 --> 00:29:01,218 The widow Paarlenberg's basket, ladies and gentlemen. 300 00:29:01,781 --> 00:29:03,166 I don't know what's in it. 301 00:29:03,488 --> 00:29:06,788 Who has eaten the widow's chicken and cake don't have to know. 302 00:29:07,218 --> 00:29:08,156 What am I bid? 303 00:29:08,362 --> 00:29:09,816 What am I bid? What am I bid? 304 00:29:10,146 --> 00:29:12,844 Come. Speak up young men of High Prairie. 305 00:29:13,511 --> 00:29:15,436 Hey you. Pervus De Jong. 306 00:29:16,621 --> 00:29:17,622 Pervus De Jong. 307 00:29:21,172 --> 00:29:22,073 What am I bid? 308 00:29:22,279 --> 00:29:23,687 What am I bid? What am I bid? 309 00:29:23,913 --> 00:29:25,616 Thirty cents. - Fifty cents. 310 00:29:25,866 --> 00:29:28,948 Johannes Ambulle bids fifty cents. 311 00:29:29,210 --> 00:29:31,766 Did I hear you bid yet, Pervus De Jong? 312 00:29:33,018 --> 00:29:34,812 Did I hear you bid yet? 313 00:29:35,657 --> 00:29:38,100 Gents. I am going to whisper a secret. 314 00:29:41,716 --> 00:29:43,691 It isn't chicken in this basket. 315 00:29:44,545 --> 00:29:45,948 It is roast duck. 316 00:29:46,764 --> 00:29:47,636 Eighty cents. 317 00:29:47,937 --> 00:29:50,073 Eighty cents for a roast duck. 318 00:29:51,914 --> 00:29:53,073 Pervus De Jong. 319 00:29:53,597 --> 00:29:55,473 Did I hear you say a dollar? 320 00:29:56,110 --> 00:29:57,727 And how goes it the school teaching? 321 00:29:58,028 --> 00:29:59,183 It goes pretty well. 322 00:29:59,483 --> 00:30:01,558 Did I hear you say a dollar, Pervus De Jong? 323 00:30:01,849 --> 00:30:03,923 You are awful little to be a schoolteacher, ain't you? 324 00:30:04,638 --> 00:30:05,398 Little? 325 00:30:06,456 --> 00:30:07,690 I'm bigger than you are. 326 00:30:08,104 --> 00:30:08,890 I did not. 327 00:30:10,189 --> 00:30:10,841 So. 328 00:30:11,968 --> 00:30:13,743 To Gores Von Buren. 329 00:30:14,066 --> 00:30:15,409 For eighty cents. 330 00:30:47,513 --> 00:30:49,435 Here's a dainty little titbit. 331 00:30:49,739 --> 00:30:51,910 If you ain't feeling especially hungry. 332 00:30:53,561 --> 00:30:56,193 But the lady herself goes with it, gents. 333 00:30:56,709 --> 00:30:58,842 Miss Selina Peake. That's who. 334 00:30:59,322 --> 00:31:01,087 Miss Selina Peake. 335 00:31:01,534 --> 00:31:02,680 What am I bid? 336 00:31:03,009 --> 00:31:05,822 What am I bid for this lovely little tooth bowl? 337 00:31:06,090 --> 00:31:06,905 Five cents. 338 00:31:19,772 --> 00:31:20,844 I am bid five cents. 339 00:31:21,207 --> 00:31:22,792 Who will make it five and a half? 340 00:31:23,993 --> 00:31:24,902 One dollar. 341 00:31:25,203 --> 00:31:26,071 One dollar. 342 00:31:26,504 --> 00:31:28,691 Pervus De Jong bids one dollar. 343 00:31:30,180 --> 00:31:30,852 Gents. 344 00:31:32,062 --> 00:31:35,887 You get the ribbon, the lunch and the girl to eat it with. 345 00:31:36,131 --> 00:31:37,203 A dollar and a half. 346 00:31:37,540 --> 00:31:39,210 One-sixty. - Three dollars. 347 00:31:39,594 --> 00:31:42,933 No. He shouldn't do that. He's saving that money for a set of paints. 348 00:31:44,007 --> 00:31:44,895 Five dollars. 349 00:31:45,174 --> 00:31:45,860 Five. 350 00:31:49,738 --> 00:31:50,553 Five. Five. 351 00:31:50,766 --> 00:31:51,783 And ten cents. 352 00:31:52,137 --> 00:31:52,853 Six. 353 00:31:53,303 --> 00:31:54,119 Six-fifty. 354 00:31:54,367 --> 00:31:56,359 Let him have it. It's only jelly sandwiches. 355 00:31:56,616 --> 00:31:58,306 Ten dollars. - Ten dollars. 356 00:31:58,991 --> 00:32:00,845 Gents, I am bid ten dollars. 357 00:32:01,446 --> 00:32:02,211 Ten once. 358 00:32:02,751 --> 00:32:03,715 Ten twice. 359 00:32:04,155 --> 00:32:04,798 Gone. 360 00:32:05,021 --> 00:32:06,495 To Pervus De Jong. 361 00:32:43,393 --> 00:32:44,802 Whatever made you do that? 362 00:32:45,008 --> 00:32:47,722 All that money when you might have been eating breast of duck. 363 00:32:47,976 --> 00:32:49,030 Why did you? 364 00:32:49,781 --> 00:32:50,687 I don't know. 365 00:32:51,168 --> 00:32:53,814 But you looked so little and they were making fun of you. Laughing. 366 00:32:54,264 --> 00:32:57,145 I think that's a very foolish reason for throwing away ten dollars. 367 00:32:57,616 --> 00:33:01,151 I can make it easy on my next trip to Haymarket. If I can figure some. 368 00:33:01,545 --> 00:33:03,766 But them fellows who buy vegetables are too smart for me. 369 00:33:04,019 --> 00:33:05,631 They can do figures in their heads. 370 00:33:06,006 --> 00:33:07,229 Just like that. So quick. 371 00:33:07,812 --> 00:33:09,722 I'll teach you how. I'll teach you. 372 00:33:10,839 --> 00:33:12,885 What do you mean, you will teach me? - Why, evenings. 373 00:33:15,639 --> 00:33:17,118 What will you take for pay? 374 00:33:17,402 --> 00:33:18,040 Pay? 375 00:33:18,555 --> 00:33:19,987 I don't want any pay. 376 00:33:22,519 --> 00:33:23,612 I tell you what. 377 00:33:23,994 --> 00:33:25,825 My farm is just this side of the school. 378 00:33:26,157 --> 00:33:28,438 I can start for you on the fire mornings and thaw the pump. 379 00:33:29,121 --> 00:33:31,633 But Roelf Pool does that for me every morning. 380 00:33:34,586 --> 00:33:35,235 But. 381 00:33:36,045 --> 00:33:38,306 Couldn't you come to Pool's place for lessons say .. 382 00:33:38,984 --> 00:33:40,290 Three evenings a week? 383 00:33:41,339 --> 00:33:43,099 There is nobody home to stay in for. 384 00:33:43,681 --> 00:33:45,440 And if you are sure .. - I'd love to do it. 385 00:33:45,660 --> 00:33:46,618 I would love to. 386 00:33:54,064 --> 00:33:55,583 Roelf, why don't you eat? 387 00:33:56,587 --> 00:33:57,624 Look. It is pork. 388 00:33:57,969 --> 00:33:58,998 Nice fat pork. 389 00:34:00,012 --> 00:34:01,418 I cooked it myself. 390 00:34:55,861 --> 00:34:56,884 [ Door knocks ] 391 00:35:02,909 --> 00:35:06,007 That will be Pervus De Jong for his lesson from teacher. 392 00:35:06,355 --> 00:35:07,846 Them lessons by schoolteacher. 393 00:35:08,255 --> 00:35:09,881 Must go good by him. 394 00:35:25,647 --> 00:35:27,308 Now then, we will parse this sentence. 395 00:35:30,024 --> 00:35:32,037 'Bl�cher arrived on the field of Waterloo ..' 396 00:35:32,243 --> 00:35:35,574 'Just as Wellington was receiving the last onslaught of Napoleon'. 397 00:35:36,348 --> 00:35:39,586 'Just' may be treated as a modifier of the dependent clause. 398 00:35:39,902 --> 00:35:40,688 That is .. 399 00:35:44,844 --> 00:35:45,773 That is just .. 400 00:35:59,227 --> 00:36:01,731 I have forgotten where we were. It was such a terrible clatter. 401 00:36:02,945 --> 00:36:03,731 Excuse me. 402 00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:24,801 Here. 403 00:36:25,007 --> 00:36:26,871 Why, it's arbutus. How lovely. 404 00:36:27,118 --> 00:36:28,594 I got them in Updike's woods. 405 00:36:29,367 --> 00:36:30,920 You went way up there after them? 406 00:36:31,225 --> 00:36:33,065 You said once you loved arbutus. 407 00:36:43,250 --> 00:36:44,294 What's the matter? 408 00:36:45,638 --> 00:36:46,398 Matter? 409 00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:47,809 Nothing. 410 00:36:48,622 --> 00:36:49,699 How do you mean? 411 00:36:49,905 --> 00:36:51,326 You looked at me so funny then. 412 00:36:52,702 --> 00:36:53,488 Your eyes. 413 00:36:54,962 --> 00:36:57,283 And your face is all red like tomatoes. 414 00:36:57,802 --> 00:36:58,524 Really? 415 00:37:00,146 --> 00:37:01,246 I'm a little tired. 416 00:37:01,904 --> 00:37:03,094 It must be spring fever. 417 00:37:03,372 --> 00:37:04,729 Already I saw a robin. 418 00:37:05,655 --> 00:37:07,302 Spring comes quick this year. 419 00:37:25,921 --> 00:37:28,850 Perhaps we had better let the rest of the lesson go until next time. 420 00:37:29,135 --> 00:37:30,738 Maybe I can't come next time. 421 00:37:31,418 --> 00:37:33,666 What with planting and plowing and such. 422 00:37:34,747 --> 00:37:36,283 You think I've done pretty good? 423 00:37:36,597 --> 00:37:37,335 So far? 424 00:37:37,739 --> 00:37:39,004 That is correct, isn't it? 425 00:37:40,544 --> 00:37:41,578 I keep forgetting. 426 00:37:41,983 --> 00:37:43,787 Do you think I have done pretty well? 427 00:37:44,327 --> 00:37:45,161 Very well. 428 00:37:46,533 --> 00:37:48,030 Especially with your arithmetic. 429 00:37:48,658 --> 00:37:52,312 I get through too late in the fields to come again until the crops are well up. 430 00:37:52,819 --> 00:37:53,686 I am sorry. 431 00:37:54,013 --> 00:37:54,742 So am I. 432 00:37:56,206 --> 00:37:58,090 It will seem kind of lonely at nights. 433 00:37:58,534 --> 00:37:59,940 Sometimes I keep wishing. 434 00:38:00,512 --> 00:38:02,706 I mean sometimes, I have .. - We had .. 435 00:38:03,022 --> 00:38:06,366 We'd better finish the rest of this lesson as you can't come for a while. 436 00:38:06,689 --> 00:38:09,027 But if you are tired .. - No. I'm not really. 437 00:38:10,372 --> 00:38:11,855 Let's see. Where were we? 438 00:38:12,299 --> 00:38:15,548 By them fellows you call Napoleon and Wellington. 439 00:38:15,995 --> 00:38:16,755 Oh yes. 440 00:38:17,407 --> 00:38:18,167 Oh yes. 441 00:38:18,514 --> 00:38:21,402 'Just as Wellington was receiving the last onslaught of Napoleon'. 442 00:38:21,608 --> 00:38:22,766 We'll go on from there. 443 00:38:23,267 --> 00:38:26,078 'Just' may be treated as a modifier of the dependent clause. 444 00:38:26,498 --> 00:38:27,661 That is .. - Selina. 445 00:39:41,645 --> 00:39:42,374 Wake up. 446 00:39:43,199 --> 00:39:44,254 Little sleepyhead. 447 00:39:46,130 --> 00:39:46,859 Wake up. 448 00:39:47,065 --> 00:39:48,410 You are a farmer's wife now. 449 00:39:52,989 --> 00:39:53,890 Is it morning? 450 00:39:56,218 --> 00:39:57,204 It is still dark. 451 00:39:57,431 --> 00:39:58,753 Already it's 4 o'clock. 452 00:39:59,279 --> 00:40:00,994 Breakfast, little Selina. Breakfast. 453 00:40:12,418 --> 00:40:13,320 Just think. 454 00:40:13,690 --> 00:40:15,077 We've been married eight hours. 455 00:40:15,378 --> 00:40:16,027 Yep. 456 00:40:16,276 --> 00:40:17,397 Time goes quick. 457 00:40:18,114 --> 00:40:20,244 All yesterday's work, I got to do. 458 00:40:20,564 --> 00:40:21,626 And all today's. 459 00:40:21,970 --> 00:40:22,707 I know. 460 00:40:23,409 --> 00:40:25,588 There is really such a lot of work to do, isn't there. 461 00:40:26,255 --> 00:40:29,956 Of course, you know your kitchen is a sight with those blotchy grey walls. 462 00:40:31,187 --> 00:40:34,350 That hanging lamp the Pools gave us can go over the kitchen table. 463 00:40:35,637 --> 00:40:39,277 We must fix up the porch. It'll be nice to sit out there when summer comes. 464 00:40:39,771 --> 00:40:41,264 And your wagon, Pervus. 465 00:40:41,727 --> 00:40:44,543 You must have your wagon painted. You will, won't you? 466 00:40:45,070 --> 00:40:46,701 Yep. Sometime. 467 00:40:47,706 --> 00:40:49,951 Now we have breakfast. - I'll hurry and dress. 468 00:40:52,104 --> 00:40:52,859 Pervus. 469 00:40:53,065 --> 00:40:53,708 Yeah? 470 00:40:53,967 --> 00:40:56,230 You haven't said good morning. - Good morning. 471 00:41:00,779 --> 00:41:01,539 Pervus. 472 00:41:02,615 --> 00:41:03,412 Kiss me. 473 00:41:14,378 --> 00:41:15,280 And Pervus. 474 00:41:15,808 --> 00:41:16,457 Huh? 475 00:41:16,865 --> 00:41:17,994 Keep your back turned. 476 00:41:19,570 --> 00:41:20,156 Oh. 477 00:41:49,786 --> 00:41:50,546 Selina. 478 00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:52,080 Selina. 479 00:41:52,739 --> 00:41:53,754 Come here at once. 480 00:43:02,362 --> 00:43:03,171 Pervus. 481 00:43:04,385 --> 00:43:05,145 Pervus. 482 00:43:06,609 --> 00:43:07,398 Pervus. 483 00:43:07,833 --> 00:43:08,737 Pervus! 484 00:43:18,715 --> 00:43:21,615 What can be the matter, doctor? Maartje ain't been sick before in her life. 485 00:43:21,937 --> 00:43:24,151 A farmer's wife don't have time maybe. 486 00:43:24,533 --> 00:43:27,355 Oh well. Maybe a good night's rest. - A year wouldn't be enough. 487 00:43:27,978 --> 00:43:30,031 Your wife is run down, Klass. That's all. 488 00:43:30,497 --> 00:43:32,730 Maybe she needs a tonic like I read in the almanac. 489 00:43:32,936 --> 00:43:34,508 I get some when I go to Haymarket. 490 00:43:34,831 --> 00:43:36,941 When the machine's run down it don't need tonic. 491 00:43:37,309 --> 00:43:38,501 It needs new parts. 492 00:43:39,128 --> 00:43:40,486 We can't give your wife those. 493 00:43:40,898 --> 00:43:42,050 But rest will help. 494 00:43:42,789 --> 00:43:44,102 Keep her off her feet. 495 00:43:44,494 --> 00:43:45,890 Keep my Maartje off her feet? 496 00:43:46,656 --> 00:43:48,994 And out of the fields if it isn't too late. 497 00:43:50,079 --> 00:43:50,808 Goodbye. 498 00:43:51,190 --> 00:43:52,269 I got to get along. 499 00:43:53,036 --> 00:43:55,778 They are expecting a baby up at Pervus's place. 500 00:43:56,063 --> 00:43:57,819 It might be here any time now. 501 00:43:58,694 --> 00:44:00,476 It's been a great year for the stork. 502 00:44:01,848 --> 00:44:03,494 Come on, Molly. Your oats are waiting. 503 00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:10,427 You should be ashamed to sit on the porch with your Ma on her back upstairs. 504 00:44:10,977 --> 00:44:13,242 Get inside. There is housework to be done yet. 505 00:44:22,881 --> 00:44:24,610 It's a ten-pound boy. 506 00:44:24,971 --> 00:44:26,281 My wife. Is she alright? 507 00:44:26,537 --> 00:44:28,114 Stood it like a soldier. 508 00:44:28,565 --> 00:44:30,974 Go in. She has been asking for you. 509 00:44:36,807 --> 00:44:38,586 He is awful red, ain't he? 510 00:45:00,410 --> 00:45:01,398 Your Ma is dead. 511 00:45:11,413 --> 00:45:12,708 It kills everybody. 512 00:45:13,258 --> 00:45:14,411 That's what it does. 513 00:45:15,226 --> 00:45:16,865 Everybody that touches it. 514 00:45:19,581 --> 00:45:21,519 I hate radishes, I hate onions. 515 00:45:21,753 --> 00:45:24,825 And I hate cabbages and I hate the ugly ground they grow in. 516 00:45:25,031 --> 00:45:25,811 Roelf. 517 00:45:26,174 --> 00:45:27,408 Go outside, once. 518 00:45:28,206 --> 00:45:30,633 You ought to be ashamed with your Ma upstairs dead. 519 00:45:31,087 --> 00:45:32,690 I do, I tell you. 520 00:45:33,942 --> 00:45:35,736 I hate farmers. All of them. 521 00:45:36,126 --> 00:45:37,458 And I hate you. 522 00:46:09,990 --> 00:46:11,229 How big is my baby? 523 00:46:11,540 --> 00:46:12,990 How big is my man? 524 00:46:13,891 --> 00:46:15,262 So .. big! 525 00:46:22,695 --> 00:46:24,205 Mother's little So-Big. 526 00:46:25,060 --> 00:46:26,819 Is getting to be a great big man. 527 00:46:28,428 --> 00:46:29,980 Hello, Roelf. How are you? 528 00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:31,501 Alright. 529 00:46:31,748 --> 00:46:33,078 You haven't been over lately. 530 00:46:33,730 --> 00:46:35,044 So-Big has missed you. 531 00:46:35,635 --> 00:46:37,394 Isn't he getting to be a great big boy? 532 00:46:38,482 --> 00:46:39,235 Uhuh. 533 00:46:39,848 --> 00:46:41,764 I suppose you'll be making a farmer out of him. 534 00:46:41,998 --> 00:46:43,533 A farmer of my baby? 535 00:46:44,304 --> 00:46:45,090 No, Roelf. 536 00:46:45,585 --> 00:46:47,873 Dirk is going out in the world and do things. 537 00:46:49,073 --> 00:46:49,887 So am I. 538 00:46:53,138 --> 00:46:54,517 I've come to tell you goodbye. 539 00:46:54,846 --> 00:46:55,919 Goodbye? 540 00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:00,332 I'm going away. 541 00:47:02,671 --> 00:47:03,655 I understand. 542 00:47:04,153 --> 00:47:06,719 I heard your father was marrying the widow Paarlenberg. 543 00:47:07,903 --> 00:47:09,719 It's not that so much. 544 00:47:10,405 --> 00:47:11,508 It's everything. 545 00:47:12,102 --> 00:47:14,562 I've been wanting to get away for a long time. 546 00:47:17,293 --> 00:47:18,365 Where are you going? 547 00:47:19,183 --> 00:47:20,103 Just away. 548 00:47:21,002 --> 00:47:21,775 Anywhere. 549 00:47:22,579 --> 00:47:23,939 Chicago maybe. 550 00:47:27,048 --> 00:47:28,600 Here's the books that belong to you. 551 00:47:28,806 --> 00:47:30,817 No. Keep them please. I want you to. 552 00:47:31,685 --> 00:47:33,998 And Roelf. You'll need money, won't you? 553 00:47:34,722 --> 00:47:35,864 Wait here a minute. 554 00:47:50,297 --> 00:47:51,044 So long. 555 00:48:06,503 --> 00:48:07,290 Roelf. 556 00:48:08,119 --> 00:48:08,929 Roelf. 557 00:49:07,833 --> 00:49:09,078 What, another? 558 00:49:17,827 --> 00:49:18,753 Now, Pervus. 559 00:49:19,131 --> 00:49:20,585 Oh no. - Come on. 560 00:49:28,747 --> 00:49:30,396 You remember. Once you say .. 561 00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:32,390 Farm work is grand. 562 00:49:32,658 --> 00:49:33,596 Oh, I did. 563 00:49:33,993 --> 00:49:35,075 It could be. 564 00:49:35,865 --> 00:49:37,175 You won't listen to me. 565 00:49:37,833 --> 00:49:39,436 Farm work is slave work. 566 00:49:40,621 --> 00:49:41,407 All night. 567 00:49:41,624 --> 00:49:43,271 We load wagons with carrots. 568 00:49:43,955 --> 00:49:45,275 At 4 o'clock I drive. 569 00:49:45,714 --> 00:49:48,249 To make enough that we buy tomato plants for summer. 570 00:49:48,717 --> 00:49:51,318 Why won't you put in asparagus? - Asparagus? 571 00:49:51,705 --> 00:49:53,311 And wait three years for a crop? 572 00:49:56,013 --> 00:49:58,935 But one planting lasts for ten years once it's started. 573 00:49:59,287 --> 00:50:01,547 You plant it in rows instead of beds. 574 00:50:02,305 --> 00:50:05,253 Over four of five acres. - Four or five acres? Where? 575 00:50:05,542 --> 00:50:07,657 In the clay lands maybe? In west 16? 576 00:50:07,893 --> 00:50:10,807 We can under-drain and use fertiliser. - Fertilizer costs money. 577 00:50:11,402 --> 00:50:13,914 You sold your father's ring for potash and drainage. 578 00:50:14,202 --> 00:50:15,045 Did it help? 579 00:50:15,301 --> 00:50:17,482 I think maybe we stick by cabbages and potatoes. 580 00:50:17,996 --> 00:50:21,553 Don't you see if you don't give the soil something it won't give you anything. 581 00:50:21,883 --> 00:50:24,351 It just takes from you the same as you take from it. 582 00:50:24,557 --> 00:50:26,870 Until it's drained every bit of strength from your body. 583 00:50:27,119 --> 00:50:30,197 If we talk all night my body will be no good for a big day's work tomorrow. 584 00:50:30,874 --> 00:50:33,929 But Pervus, I've tried so long to show you the new way. 585 00:50:34,285 --> 00:50:37,714 You are running this farm the same way your father ran it seventy years ago. 586 00:50:38,024 --> 00:50:40,485 If it's good enough for my father it's good enough for me. 587 00:51:15,085 --> 00:51:16,913 Good afternoon, Reverend Dekker. 588 00:51:17,305 --> 00:51:20,061 What's this I hear about you going to Haymarket with the garden stuff? 589 00:51:20,471 --> 00:51:21,448 A woman. Alone. 590 00:51:21,849 --> 00:51:24,044 No. Not alone. Dirk is going with me. 591 00:51:24,325 --> 00:51:25,217 Mrs De Jong. 592 00:51:25,740 --> 00:51:28,270 The Haymarket is no place for a decent woman. 593 00:51:28,916 --> 00:51:30,920 There is drinking. Card playing. 594 00:51:31,134 --> 00:51:32,407 All manner of wickedness. 595 00:51:32,650 --> 00:51:35,095 The daughters of Jezebel on the streets going among the wagons. 596 00:51:35,770 --> 00:51:36,530 Really? 597 00:51:38,937 --> 00:51:40,896 People all over High Prairie are talking about it. 598 00:51:42,430 --> 00:51:43,781 You must not go. 599 00:51:44,591 --> 00:51:45,778 I am sorry if they talk. 600 00:51:46,597 --> 00:51:47,987 But Dirk and I must live. 601 00:52:18,231 --> 00:52:20,002 What you doing, kid? Playing leapfrog? 602 00:52:20,281 --> 00:52:21,961 I had to pick this up. 603 00:52:22,285 --> 00:52:23,934 It's all dirty now. 604 00:52:24,282 --> 00:52:25,763 Does your mama know you are out? 605 00:52:26,176 --> 00:52:27,865 Sure. She brought me out here. 606 00:52:28,233 --> 00:52:30,375 She's just putting the horses in the stable. 607 00:52:30,698 --> 00:52:31,341 Yeah? 608 00:52:31,667 --> 00:52:33,530 What's your name, cute-trick? - Dirk. 609 00:52:33,962 --> 00:52:35,425 Huh? What's that again? 610 00:52:35,892 --> 00:52:36,608 Dirk. 611 00:52:37,430 --> 00:52:39,464 I can't make any sense of it. Can you, Mabel? 612 00:52:39,876 --> 00:52:41,419 It sounds like 'dirt' to me. 613 00:52:42,507 --> 00:52:44,501 Stands to reason nobody will name a kid that. 614 00:52:44,707 --> 00:52:45,392 No. 615 00:52:46,935 --> 00:52:48,474 We were just talking to the kid. 616 00:52:48,694 --> 00:52:50,655 Asking him his name and like that. You know. 617 00:52:50,900 --> 00:52:53,797 His name is Dirk. D-I-R-K. It's a Dutch name. 618 00:52:54,136 --> 00:52:55,793 We're from out High Prairie way. 619 00:52:56,326 --> 00:52:57,663 I am Mrs De Jong. 620 00:53:00,622 --> 00:53:02,595 I am Elsie. Elsie from Chelsea. 621 00:53:02,939 --> 00:53:04,863 She is Mabel. Mabel from the stable. 622 00:53:05,249 --> 00:53:06,764 Come on, kid. Let's quit gabbing. 623 00:53:06,976 --> 00:53:08,680 Wait a minute now, Elsie. - Alright. 624 00:53:08,937 --> 00:53:10,352 What you doing down here anyway? 625 00:53:10,869 --> 00:53:13,958 I'm here to sell my vegetables tomorrow morning from the farm. 626 00:53:14,930 --> 00:53:15,945 Where is your man? 627 00:53:17,226 --> 00:53:18,880 My husband died a week ago. 628 00:53:31,327 --> 00:53:33,603 Say. You and the kid ain't going to sleep out here, are you? 629 00:53:34,022 --> 00:53:34,880 Why not? 630 00:53:35,816 --> 00:53:37,386 For the love of Mike. 631 00:53:38,253 --> 00:53:40,175 Here. Take this and get the kid a decent roost. 632 00:53:41,029 --> 00:53:41,854 Oh. 633 00:53:42,656 --> 00:53:44,424 We don't mind sleeping here. 634 00:53:45,718 --> 00:53:46,985 But thanks just the same. 635 00:53:48,032 --> 00:53:48,704 Mabel. 636 00:53:49,097 --> 00:53:50,360 Go on. Take it. 637 00:53:51,548 --> 00:53:52,391 Really, I .. 638 00:53:53,319 --> 00:53:54,495 I couldn't. 639 00:53:55,803 --> 00:53:56,681 Say. 640 00:53:57,448 --> 00:53:59,471 I always thought I'd had a tough break. 641 00:54:00,462 --> 00:54:03,303 But gee, I ain't never had to sleep in no wagon yet. 642 00:54:04,257 --> 00:54:05,928 Goodnight to you. - Goodnight. 643 00:54:07,966 --> 00:54:09,195 Goodnight, Mabel. 644 00:54:13,291 --> 00:54:14,671 Gee, you are a darling. 645 00:54:25,407 --> 00:54:26,284 Goodbye. 646 00:54:29,014 --> 00:54:30,604 Come on, Dirk. Bedtime. 647 00:54:32,285 --> 00:54:33,314 Up he goes. 648 00:54:39,325 --> 00:54:41,141 Are we going to sleep here all night, Mumsie? 649 00:54:41,419 --> 00:54:44,149 Right here. Just as snug as a bug in a rug. 650 00:54:45,642 --> 00:54:46,557 Come on, Dirk. 651 00:54:47,015 --> 00:54:47,982 Right there. 652 00:54:48,274 --> 00:54:49,121 That's it. 653 00:54:55,901 --> 00:54:57,992 I liked Mabel the best. Didn't you? 654 00:54:58,360 --> 00:54:59,611 She was the nicest. 655 00:55:00,654 --> 00:55:01,518 Yes, dear. 656 00:55:03,796 --> 00:55:05,156 How big is my boy? 657 00:55:05,456 --> 00:55:06,763 How big is my son? 658 00:55:12,384 --> 00:55:13,246 So .. 659 00:55:14,917 --> 00:55:15,697 Big. 660 00:55:49,693 --> 00:55:51,148 Your first short dress. 661 00:55:52,088 --> 00:55:53,033 At it again. 662 00:55:53,766 --> 00:55:56,103 What a sentimental generation yours must have been, mother. 663 00:55:58,161 --> 00:55:59,075 Sure it was. 664 00:56:09,404 --> 00:56:10,697 Your father gave me these. 665 00:56:11,276 --> 00:56:12,338 Pressed flowers. 666 00:56:12,997 --> 00:56:15,021 They went out with the tandem bicycle, didn't they. 667 00:56:16,486 --> 00:56:17,595 I suppose they did. 668 00:56:22,423 --> 00:56:23,837 Your college diploma. 669 00:56:24,171 --> 00:56:26,054 I had to slave and sweat four years for that. 670 00:56:26,544 --> 00:56:28,775 And going to an architects office at $35 a week. 671 00:56:29,518 --> 00:56:32,332 Architecture is the most thrilling thing in the world, Dirk. 672 00:56:32,744 --> 00:56:34,710 Steel and stone and brick. 673 00:56:35,262 --> 00:56:37,699 With engines throbbing like a heart inside. 674 00:56:38,098 --> 00:56:39,482 People flowing in and out. 675 00:56:39,850 --> 00:56:42,498 Part of a city. A piece of actual beauty. 676 00:56:42,832 --> 00:56:43,475 Yeah. 677 00:56:43,746 --> 00:56:45,727 I've spent the past week drawing wash-rooms. 678 00:56:46,266 --> 00:56:48,416 For a glue factory. - But ten years from now .. 679 00:56:48,720 --> 00:56:50,638 If I'm a good boy and keep my nose clean. 680 00:56:51,208 --> 00:56:54,200 Maybe they'll let me design a building that looks like a big vanilla sundae. 681 00:56:55,515 --> 00:56:57,203 That's not my idea of success. 682 00:56:58,830 --> 00:57:01,014 What is, So-Big? - To be rich. 683 00:57:01,359 --> 00:57:04,536 To make a lot of money while I'm young. So I can enjoy it while I'm older. 684 00:57:04,742 --> 00:57:07,228 No. Believe me, Dirk. That isn't success. 685 00:57:12,365 --> 00:57:13,506 This is success. 686 00:57:13,948 --> 00:57:17,215 The thing Roelf Pool did. He drew this when he was just a little boy. 687 00:57:17,658 --> 00:57:18,601 Very promising. 688 00:57:18,807 --> 00:57:22,361 Roelf made good on the promise. He's now one of the greatest sculptors in Europe. 689 00:57:22,784 --> 00:57:26,595 Why, only yesterday I saw a photograph of his latest work in a German gallery. 690 00:57:26,889 --> 00:57:29,251 He won first prize. Same as last year. 691 00:57:29,708 --> 00:57:31,880 But if you are rich you can buy the things Roelf does. 692 00:57:32,254 --> 00:57:34,282 That's almost as good as creating them, isn't it? 693 00:57:34,788 --> 00:57:35,764 [ Telephone ] 694 00:57:36,053 --> 00:57:37,234 I'll get it, mother. 695 00:57:39,905 --> 00:57:40,577 Hello? 696 00:57:43,344 --> 00:57:44,016 Hello. 697 00:57:46,049 --> 00:57:47,608 Yes. I can be there in about an hour. 698 00:57:48,848 --> 00:57:49,749 Alright, dear. 699 00:57:51,903 --> 00:57:52,708 Goodbye. 700 00:57:57,117 --> 00:57:59,824 Mother, I am awfully sorry. I won't be able to have dinner with you tonight. 701 00:58:00,236 --> 00:58:02,860 They .. they want me at the office right away. 702 00:58:06,285 --> 00:58:07,422 I understand, dear. 703 00:58:08,569 --> 00:58:09,675 You run along. 704 00:58:14,127 --> 00:58:16,070 A farmer's hands are never very decorative. 705 00:58:18,905 --> 00:58:20,548 Honey. I'll be late if I don't hurry. 706 00:58:21,814 --> 00:58:22,715 Goodbye, dear. 707 00:58:25,455 --> 00:58:26,500 Goodbye, So-Big. 708 00:58:40,756 --> 00:58:41,514 The duck. 709 00:58:43,157 --> 00:58:44,311 Lyonnaise potatoes. 710 00:58:44,910 --> 00:58:45,725 Yes, madam. 711 00:58:47,015 --> 00:58:48,604 And the De Jong asparagus. 712 00:58:48,978 --> 00:58:49,880 Yes, madam. 713 00:58:51,632 --> 00:58:54,978 Don't tell me. You grow asparagus in window boxes outside your office? 714 00:58:55,547 --> 00:58:56,938 My desk isn't near a window. 715 00:58:57,144 --> 00:58:57,959 No, really. 716 00:58:58,293 --> 00:59:00,506 Are you any relation to these asparagus people? 717 00:59:00,780 --> 00:59:01,452 Why .. 718 00:59:02,442 --> 00:59:03,343 Of course not. 719 00:59:03,624 --> 00:59:06,771 The name De Jong is as common in Holland as Smith is in America. 720 00:59:08,155 --> 00:59:09,571 What show would you like to see? 721 00:59:09,954 --> 00:59:11,541 I would rather go somewhere and dance. 722 00:59:12,082 --> 00:59:12,914 The Casino? 723 00:59:13,120 --> 00:59:15,079 That's too expensive for a poor architect's clerk. 724 00:59:15,285 --> 00:59:17,393 I will treat you. - No you won't, Paula. 725 00:59:18,168 --> 00:59:20,856 You are a proud, stubborn Dutchman. But I like you, Dirk. 726 00:59:22,230 --> 00:59:23,545 That makes it mutual, Paula. 727 00:59:25,219 --> 00:59:27,159 How much do they pay you at Hollis and Sprague? 728 00:59:27,408 --> 00:59:28,902 If I'm not being impertinent. 729 00:59:29,370 --> 00:59:30,757 You are being very impertinent. 730 00:59:31,291 --> 00:59:32,145 $35 a week. 731 00:59:32,685 --> 00:59:33,614 You know, Dirk. 732 00:59:34,066 --> 00:59:36,326 You have all the earmarks of a successful man. 733 00:59:37,236 --> 00:59:38,626 The way you stand, talk. 734 00:59:40,079 --> 00:59:41,008 And don't talk. 735 00:59:42,040 --> 00:59:43,322 The way you look at people. 736 00:59:43,612 --> 00:59:44,742 All the earmarks. 737 00:59:45,196 --> 00:59:47,649 Except money. - You could have that too. 738 00:59:48,463 --> 00:59:51,026 If you would only stop dobbing around as an architect's office boy. 739 00:59:51,355 --> 00:59:52,896 And get into a real business. 740 00:59:53,493 --> 00:59:54,421 For instance? 741 00:59:55,843 --> 00:59:56,486 Well. 742 00:59:56,789 --> 00:59:59,108 My husband has made a fortune in the bond business. 743 00:59:59,635 --> 01:00:02,082 And no-one ever accused him of being a mental giant. 744 01:00:02,473 --> 01:00:03,184 Nor me. 745 01:00:03,933 --> 01:00:05,562 But you have youth, energy. 746 01:00:06,419 --> 01:00:07,854 And plenty of charm. 747 01:00:08,481 --> 01:00:09,379 Is that all? 748 01:00:09,988 --> 01:00:11,032 I am serious, dear. 749 01:00:11,607 --> 01:00:13,856 Five years in the bond business with the right connections. 750 01:00:14,408 --> 01:00:15,567 And you would clean up. 751 01:00:16,965 --> 01:00:17,734 I wonder. 752 01:00:18,471 --> 01:00:19,772 Why not try it and find out? 753 01:00:20,835 --> 01:00:23,679 You mean, go to your husband with my hat in my hand and ask him for a job? 754 01:00:24,518 --> 01:00:25,736 Oh no, darling. 755 01:00:26,839 --> 01:00:27,658 Come to me. 756 01:00:28,312 --> 01:00:29,406 With your hat off. 757 01:00:30,534 --> 01:00:33,553 My personal recommendation might carry a lot of weight with my husband. 758 01:00:34,692 --> 01:00:35,768 It always has. 759 01:00:40,030 --> 01:00:42,042 Lovely weather we are having, Mrs Storm. 760 01:00:42,525 --> 01:00:43,617 Yes, Mr De Jong. 761 01:00:44,925 --> 01:00:47,712 And I think it's going to be even lovelier. 762 01:01:01,002 --> 01:01:02,029 [ Buzzer ] 763 01:01:05,898 --> 01:01:06,536 Yes? 764 01:01:06,742 --> 01:01:08,321 Miss O'Mara is here. 765 01:01:08,639 --> 01:01:09,870 Alright, Send her in. 766 01:01:24,313 --> 01:01:26,696 Just sit down, Miss O'Mara. I'll be with you in a second. 767 01:01:35,073 --> 01:01:36,345 Please sit down. - Sure. 768 01:01:42,084 --> 01:01:43,476 Now, Miss O'Mara. 769 01:01:44,071 --> 01:01:46,998 This drawing we want is for a national advertising campaign. 770 01:01:47,259 --> 01:01:49,120 To get women interested in bonds. 771 01:01:49,737 --> 01:01:52,098 To make women bond-conscious. - I see. 772 01:01:52,467 --> 01:01:54,026 Now, my idea was something like this. 773 01:01:55,357 --> 01:01:58,068 A little old lady sitting in front of a fireplace and .. 774 01:01:58,336 --> 01:01:59,895 Aren't you trying to do my job? 775 01:02:00,333 --> 01:02:00,977 What? 776 01:02:01,282 --> 01:02:03,563 You hire me to get an idea for a drawing and to draw it. 777 01:02:04,418 --> 01:02:05,388 I was just .. 778 01:02:05,656 --> 01:02:06,795 Just giving you my .. 779 01:02:07,013 --> 01:02:08,486 I think you will like mine better. 780 01:02:08,732 --> 01:02:10,491 After I've had a day or two to work it out. 781 01:02:11,422 --> 01:02:12,519 How much do you .. 782 01:02:13,232 --> 01:02:14,991 What do you expect to get for this drawing? 783 01:02:15,384 --> 01:02:16,571 Fifteen hundred dollars. 784 01:02:16,989 --> 01:02:19,489 Nonsense. We're not prepared to pay anything like that. 785 01:02:19,944 --> 01:02:21,987 Sorry. That happens to be my price. 786 01:02:22,607 --> 01:02:24,196 Anyhow, it's been nice meeting you. 787 01:02:24,497 --> 01:02:26,419 Goodbye, Mr De Jong. - Wait a minute. 788 01:02:27,480 --> 01:02:29,493 I suppose if that's your regular charge .. 789 01:02:29,993 --> 01:02:31,237 We could afford to pay it. 790 01:02:31,735 --> 01:02:32,521 Could you? 791 01:02:32,750 --> 01:02:35,333 But I must say you top-notchers get crazy prices for your work. 792 01:02:35,886 --> 01:02:38,567 They aren't any crazier than the prizes you top-notchers get. 793 01:02:40,403 --> 01:02:42,620 But still, fifteen hundred dollars is quite a lot of money. 794 01:02:42,904 --> 01:02:43,842 I think so too. 795 01:02:44,154 --> 01:02:46,728 Anything over nine dollars seems quite a lot of money to me. 796 01:02:47,247 --> 01:02:49,715 I used to get 25 cents a piece for sketching hats. 797 01:02:50,037 --> 01:02:51,309 Epstein Brothers. 798 01:02:51,823 --> 01:02:53,639 But now you have arrived. You are successful. 799 01:02:53,933 --> 01:02:55,598 Arrived? Heavens, no. I haven't started. 800 01:02:56,448 --> 01:02:58,291 Who gets more money than you do for a drawing? 801 01:02:58,738 --> 01:03:00,244 Nobody, I suppose. - Well then. 802 01:03:00,569 --> 01:03:01,412 Well then .. 803 01:03:01,853 --> 01:03:03,955 In a minute I will be telling you the story of my life. 804 01:03:04,685 --> 01:03:05,996 Goodbye, Mr De Jong. 805 01:03:07,283 --> 01:03:09,099 When you get something definite worked out .. 806 01:03:09,308 --> 01:03:10,603 May I see it? - Sure. 807 01:03:10,871 --> 01:03:12,573 Drop around to my studio in a week or so. 808 01:03:26,821 --> 01:03:28,003 [ Door knocks ] 809 01:03:29,488 --> 01:03:30,503 Dirk, is that you? 810 01:03:31,743 --> 01:03:33,895 Come in. I'm not sleeping. I am just reading. 811 01:03:36,252 --> 01:03:37,951 I'm awfully glad you came. 812 01:03:38,303 --> 01:03:40,193 I haven't seen you in over a week. 813 01:03:40,448 --> 01:03:42,164 I'm a slave to big business, darling. 814 01:03:42,718 --> 01:03:43,705 Just a slave. 815 01:03:44,758 --> 01:03:46,541 Sit down here the way you used to. 816 01:03:47,953 --> 01:03:48,768 I'm all in. 817 01:03:48,974 --> 01:03:51,652 The fellows at the club are trying to make a polo player out of me. 818 01:03:51,858 --> 01:03:54,645 I know. You ache all over, but a nice kind of ache. 819 01:03:55,135 --> 01:03:57,812 I used to feel that way after I worked in the fields all day. 820 01:04:00,846 --> 01:04:03,202 You didn't like my mentioning that, did you. I am sorry. 821 01:04:03,582 --> 01:04:04,912 I didn't say it to annoy you. 822 01:04:05,441 --> 01:04:06,685 I know you didn't, mother. 823 01:04:08,616 --> 01:04:09,530 Dirk. 824 01:04:11,685 --> 01:04:14,572 Do you know what the society editor of The Tribune called you today? 825 01:04:15,129 --> 01:04:15,887 No. What? 826 01:04:17,350 --> 01:04:20,249 She said you were one of the jeunesse dor�e. 827 01:04:21,953 --> 01:04:22,596 Gosh. 828 01:04:23,379 --> 01:04:27,548 I remember enough of my French at school to know it means 'gilded youth'. 829 01:04:27,988 --> 01:04:28,842 Who me? 830 01:04:29,381 --> 01:04:30,910 Say, I'm not even spangled yet. 831 01:04:31,611 --> 01:04:32,336 Dirk. 832 01:04:33,196 --> 01:04:35,528 I don't want you to be one of those gilded youth. 833 01:04:36,075 --> 01:04:38,307 That isn't what I worked in the sun and cold for. 834 01:04:39,212 --> 01:04:40,751 I'm not reproaching you. 835 01:04:41,042 --> 01:04:43,740 I didn't mind the work. Forgive my even mentioning it. 836 01:04:44,826 --> 01:04:47,654 I don't want my son to be one of those jeunesse dor�es. 837 01:04:47,941 --> 01:04:49,109 Not my son. 838 01:04:49,481 --> 01:04:50,962 Listen dear. That's foolish. 839 01:04:51,388 --> 01:04:54,185 You talk like a mother in a melodrama whose son has gone wrong. 840 01:04:56,071 --> 01:04:57,097 Gilded youth. 841 01:04:57,600 --> 01:05:00,145 I work like a dog. Earn every cent I get. 842 01:05:00,776 --> 01:05:03,745 What is it you sell in that big mahogany office of yours, Dirk? 843 01:05:03,954 --> 01:05:05,445 I never did understand it. 844 01:05:05,818 --> 01:05:07,917 Bonds, mother. You know perfectly well. 845 01:05:08,352 --> 01:05:09,024 Bonds? 846 01:05:10,053 --> 01:05:11,858 Are they hard to sell? Who buys them? 847 01:05:12,391 --> 01:05:13,263 That depends. 848 01:05:14,026 --> 01:05:15,098 Everybody buys them. 849 01:05:15,595 --> 01:05:16,399 I don't. 850 01:05:17,460 --> 01:05:21,711 Mainly because when I had spare money it went back in the farm for improvements. 851 01:05:24,602 --> 01:05:25,629 Dirk De Jong. 852 01:05:26,466 --> 01:05:27,721 In the bond business. 853 01:05:28,383 --> 01:05:31,247 The way you say it, it sounds like some low criminal pursuit. 854 01:05:31,526 --> 01:05:32,633 Not at all, my dear. 855 01:05:33,602 --> 01:05:35,014 Only, I was just thinking. 856 01:05:37,419 --> 01:05:39,086 It doesn't sound very thrilling. 857 01:05:39,497 --> 01:05:41,858 I make more in a month than I made in a year as an architect. 858 01:05:42,370 --> 01:05:43,786 That's thrilling enough for me. 859 01:05:47,449 --> 01:05:49,562 What are you going to do with all this money, Dirk? 860 01:05:50,229 --> 01:05:51,422 Why don't you marry? 861 01:05:52,626 --> 01:05:53,372 Well. 862 01:05:54,435 --> 01:05:56,097 There is nobody I want to marry. 863 01:05:57,705 --> 01:05:59,954 No-one who's free to marry, you mean. 864 01:06:02,170 --> 01:06:03,170 I mean. 865 01:06:03,885 --> 01:06:04,645 No-one. 866 01:06:06,932 --> 01:06:11,369 Not even the woman who made you change jobs and go into her husband's firm? 867 01:06:14,295 --> 01:06:15,939 I don't know what you are talking about. 868 01:06:16,583 --> 01:06:18,554 I gave up architecture because I didn't like it. 869 01:06:19,428 --> 01:06:20,021 Oh. 870 01:06:20,734 --> 01:06:21,638 I see. 871 01:06:23,084 --> 01:06:25,230 And you are never going back to architecture? 872 01:06:26,314 --> 01:06:28,066 Your profession? - No, mother. 873 01:06:30,218 --> 01:06:31,208 Dirk. 874 01:06:32,785 --> 01:06:34,481 You can't desert her like that. 875 01:06:35,450 --> 01:06:36,611 Desert who? 876 01:06:36,977 --> 01:06:37,691 Beauty. 877 01:06:38,113 --> 01:06:40,449 Self-expression. Call it whatever you like. 878 01:06:41,484 --> 01:06:42,242 You wait. 879 01:06:43,404 --> 01:06:44,670 Someday you will want her. 880 01:06:46,341 --> 01:06:48,021 And she will turn her back on you. 881 01:06:49,433 --> 01:06:50,778 She won't be there. 882 01:06:53,125 --> 01:06:54,563 What a solemn face. 883 01:06:58,480 --> 01:06:59,591 Yes. It must be. 884 01:07:02,419 --> 01:07:03,555 Is that better? 885 01:07:04,830 --> 01:07:05,828 Sure. 886 01:07:09,250 --> 01:07:10,837 How big is my boy? 887 01:07:11,836 --> 01:07:13,196 How big is my son? 888 01:07:15,859 --> 01:07:17,354 So-Big. 889 01:07:21,787 --> 01:07:22,802 Goodnight, mother. 890 01:07:25,929 --> 01:07:26,936 Sleep tight. 891 01:07:30,711 --> 01:07:31,547 Goodnight. 892 01:07:52,603 --> 01:07:54,562 So that's what we get for fifteen hundred dollars. 893 01:07:54,832 --> 01:07:56,148 A picture of a pretty girl. 894 01:07:56,541 --> 01:07:59,552 I hope you didn't expect me to draw a picture of a woman buying bonds. 895 01:07:59,907 --> 01:08:03,155 No. Dumb as I am, I realized that the very first time I came to your studio. 896 01:08:03,791 --> 01:08:05,018 I'm getting punch drunk. 897 01:08:05,557 --> 01:08:07,819 I guess I'll knock off. - You're losing your light anyhow. 898 01:08:08,421 --> 01:08:09,575 School is over, Ruth. 899 01:08:09,924 --> 01:08:11,768 See you in the morning. - Yes, Miss O'Mara. 900 01:08:13,444 --> 01:08:16,054 Gee, I must look like the end of a hard winter. 901 01:08:16,834 --> 01:08:18,864 That's my cue to say something complimentary. 902 01:08:19,099 --> 01:08:19,847 Uhuh. 903 01:08:21,266 --> 01:08:22,196 I am waiting. 904 01:08:23,184 --> 01:08:24,132 How is this? 905 01:08:24,857 --> 01:08:27,385 You are just about the most attractive girl I have ever met. 906 01:08:27,722 --> 01:08:29,842 Very good. Kind-of a stereotype, but .. 907 01:08:30,247 --> 01:08:31,205 Still effective. 908 01:08:32,511 --> 01:08:34,241 Time out while I work up a maidenly blush. 909 01:08:34,548 --> 01:08:35,907 Now, this is your last chance. 910 01:08:36,113 --> 01:08:38,143 I'm not going to ask you this question anymore. 911 01:08:39,370 --> 01:08:41,929 How about having dinner with me some night? 912 01:08:42,811 --> 01:08:44,062 I'd love to. - When? 913 01:08:44,959 --> 01:08:46,582 Sometime in the distant future. 914 01:08:46,974 --> 01:08:48,284 Say tonight? 915 01:08:48,617 --> 01:08:49,346 Perfect. 916 01:08:50,022 --> 01:08:52,716 Where would you like to go, the casino? - Let's not go, but say we did. 917 01:08:53,219 --> 01:08:56,110 Those upper crust places make me jitter. 918 01:08:56,818 --> 01:08:58,157 How about Thompson's Lunch? 919 01:08:58,523 --> 01:09:01,616 I am still a hunchback from sitting in those one-armed chairs. 920 01:09:02,300 --> 01:09:03,420 Let's go to a hotel. 921 01:09:03,797 --> 01:09:05,187 Full of all sorts of people. 922 01:09:05,902 --> 01:09:08,574 Actors, gamblers, thieves. 923 01:09:08,912 --> 01:09:10,834 Bootleggers, ladies and .. 924 01:09:11,294 --> 01:09:12,913 Women. That's my dish. 925 01:09:13,893 --> 01:09:14,899 Name your hotel. 926 01:09:15,253 --> 01:09:16,882 It must be sufficiently from Texas. 927 01:09:17,088 --> 01:09:18,984 The Blackstone. The last word in elegance. 928 01:09:19,190 --> 01:09:20,977 We're practically there. - No we're not. 929 01:09:21,250 --> 01:09:24,183 You must excuse me for a minute. I have got some work to do on myself. 930 01:09:25,417 --> 01:09:27,681 I don't think that's necessary. - Matter of opinion. 931 01:09:38,882 --> 01:09:41,285 Dallas, how about some clams or a fruit supreme? 932 01:09:41,842 --> 01:09:43,876 Then the breast of a guinea hen under glass and .. 933 01:09:44,111 --> 01:09:45,253 Suppose you take that. 934 01:09:45,842 --> 01:09:46,546 Me. 935 01:09:47,340 --> 01:09:48,312 I'd like. 936 01:09:49,199 --> 01:09:50,059 Steak. 937 01:09:51,254 --> 01:09:52,627 A baked potato. 938 01:09:53,309 --> 01:09:55,213 And some of that special De Jong asparagus. 939 01:09:55,512 --> 01:09:56,613 I'll go for that too. 940 01:09:57,691 --> 01:10:00,058 Don't tell me you spend your idle moments growing asparagus? 941 01:10:01,873 --> 01:10:02,667 Not me. 942 01:10:03,348 --> 01:10:04,621 My mother grows that stuff. 943 01:10:04,995 --> 01:10:06,039 Well, good for her. 944 01:10:06,603 --> 01:10:08,076 There is a woman I'd like to meet. 945 01:10:08,697 --> 01:10:12,278 You know, you seem like much too nice a fellow to sit behind a desk. 946 01:10:12,569 --> 01:10:13,569 Punching buttons. 947 01:10:13,882 --> 01:10:15,971 I haven't been a high-powered executive for long. 948 01:10:16,407 --> 01:10:17,651 I used to be an architect. 949 01:10:18,992 --> 01:10:20,238 Why did you give it up? 950 01:10:20,833 --> 01:10:21,931 Nothing in it. 951 01:10:22,296 --> 01:10:23,282 What do you mean? 952 01:10:23,626 --> 01:10:25,152 Nothing in it? - No money. 953 01:10:26,088 --> 01:10:27,134 Who cares? 954 01:10:29,245 --> 01:10:30,111 Gee. 955 01:10:31,268 --> 01:10:34,158 I would rather plan the back door of a beautiful building than .. 956 01:10:34,726 --> 01:10:36,782 Than sell all the bonds ever engraved. 957 01:10:39,128 --> 01:10:40,529 Listen, Dallas. 958 01:10:41,569 --> 01:10:42,956 What do you think of me anyway? 959 01:10:44,168 --> 01:10:45,384 You are a nice young man. 960 01:10:45,590 --> 01:10:47,858 That's like telling a fellow he means well. 961 01:10:48,444 --> 01:10:50,186 Sorry. But you asked for it. 962 01:10:54,285 --> 01:10:56,457 What happens to men who fall in love with you? 963 01:10:57,212 --> 01:10:58,361 What do they do? 964 01:10:58,862 --> 01:11:00,220 They usually tell me about it. 965 01:11:00,728 --> 01:11:01,645 Then what? 966 01:11:02,303 --> 01:11:04,568 They seem to feel better and we become great friends. 967 01:11:05,550 --> 01:11:07,137 Don't you ever fall in love with them? 968 01:11:10,168 --> 01:11:11,327 I almost always do. 969 01:11:13,169 --> 01:11:14,351 But it never takes. 970 01:11:17,117 --> 01:11:19,048 I could give you a lot of things you haven't got. 971 01:11:19,880 --> 01:11:21,833 Even if I am just a nice young man. 972 01:11:22,396 --> 01:11:23,927 You'll have to send them by express. 973 01:11:24,133 --> 01:11:25,606 I'm going to Paris in a few weeks. 974 01:11:26,077 --> 01:11:27,652 To Paris? What for? 975 01:11:27,976 --> 01:11:28,734 To study. 976 01:11:29,381 --> 01:11:30,539 I want to do portraits. 977 01:11:31,140 --> 01:11:31,783 Oils. 978 01:11:32,022 --> 01:11:33,180 Can't you do them here? 979 01:11:33,654 --> 01:11:34,297 Nope. 980 01:11:58,908 --> 01:12:01,416 Is it because I'm a successful businessman that you don't like me? 981 01:12:01,783 --> 01:12:03,079 But I do like you. 982 01:12:03,803 --> 01:12:06,468 Though you don't find me attractive. - You're an awfully attractive man. 983 01:12:07,284 --> 01:12:09,827 Dangerous, that's what. - Don't be the wide-eyed ing�nue. 984 01:12:10,407 --> 01:12:13,539 You know very well what I mean. You've got me and you don't want me. 985 01:12:15,038 --> 01:12:18,699 If I were a successful architect instead of a successful businessman .. 986 01:12:19,038 --> 01:12:20,880 Would it make any difference? Is that it? 987 01:12:21,230 --> 01:12:23,186 Or must a man be an artist to interest you? 988 01:12:23,723 --> 01:12:24,684 Good Lord, no. 989 01:12:25,342 --> 01:12:27,980 I'll probably marry some horny-handed son of toil. 990 01:12:28,539 --> 01:12:29,382 And if I do. 991 01:12:29,806 --> 01:12:31,146 The horny hands will win me. 992 01:12:31,812 --> 01:12:33,371 I like them with their scars on them. 993 01:12:34,107 --> 01:12:36,152 There is something about a man who has fought for it. 994 01:12:36,774 --> 01:12:37,954 The look in his eye. 995 01:12:38,881 --> 01:12:40,038 The feel of his hands. 996 01:12:41,176 --> 01:12:42,608 You haven't a mark on you, Dirk. 997 01:12:42,941 --> 01:12:43,756 Not a mark. 998 01:12:44,506 --> 01:12:48,181 You gave up being an architect as it was an uphill disheartening job at the time. 999 01:12:48,783 --> 01:12:50,313 I don't say you should have kept on. 1000 01:12:50,598 --> 01:12:52,414 For all I know you were a terrible architect. 1001 01:12:53,196 --> 01:12:54,354 But if you had kept on. 1002 01:12:54,750 --> 01:12:57,381 If you'd loved it enough to keep on fighting and struggling. 1003 01:12:58,270 --> 01:13:00,164 Why, that fight would show in your face today. 1004 01:13:00,937 --> 01:13:02,556 In your eyes and your whole being. 1005 01:13:03,275 --> 01:13:05,606 In the name of heaven, Dallas. - Listen. I'm not criticising. 1006 01:13:06,582 --> 01:13:08,352 But you are all smooth and .. 1007 01:13:09,506 --> 01:13:10,635 And I like them bumpy. 1008 01:13:12,848 --> 01:13:13,949 That sounds terrible. 1009 01:13:15,039 --> 01:13:16,344 It isn't what I mean at all. 1010 01:13:16,550 --> 01:13:18,056 It isn't .. - Never mind. 1011 01:13:19,330 --> 01:13:20,660 I think I know what you mean. 1012 01:13:27,700 --> 01:13:29,093 Dallas, if I thought you .. 1013 01:13:29,371 --> 01:13:30,586 If I thought you would .. 1014 01:13:31,747 --> 01:13:35,065 I'd go back to Hollis and Sprague and begin all over again at $35 a week. 1015 01:13:38,331 --> 01:13:39,003 Don't. 1016 01:13:57,397 --> 01:14:00,073 You know, all Pool's work has such noble simplicity. 1017 01:14:00,355 --> 01:14:01,630 Such a feeling of power. 1018 01:14:01,984 --> 01:14:03,913 I can't understand why he hasn't turned up yet. 1019 01:14:04,119 --> 01:14:05,030 He'll be here. 1020 01:14:05,424 --> 01:14:07,230 No real artist ever knows what time it is. 1021 01:14:07,436 --> 01:14:08,618 So true. - Pardon me. 1022 01:14:08,824 --> 01:14:10,400 Smith. - Yes, madam? 1023 01:14:10,754 --> 01:14:12,456 Tell Mr De Jong I'd like to speak to him. 1024 01:14:12,662 --> 01:14:14,619 Mr De Jong left about ten minutes ago. 1025 01:14:14,976 --> 01:14:15,895 Thank you. 1026 01:14:19,323 --> 01:14:20,252 [ Door knocks ] 1027 01:14:22,420 --> 01:14:24,274 Could I interest you in Fuller brushes, lady? 1028 01:14:24,551 --> 01:14:25,963 Nope. I use a comb. 1029 01:14:26,538 --> 01:14:27,353 Come on in. 1030 01:14:28,047 --> 01:14:29,938 Shouldn't you be at Roelf Pool's reception? 1031 01:14:30,144 --> 01:14:32,132 Yes. But I started thinking of you and sneaked out. 1032 01:14:32,423 --> 01:14:34,191 Come and meet a chap who never got there. 1033 01:14:34,565 --> 01:14:36,353 I don't want to butt in if you have company. 1034 01:14:36,672 --> 01:14:37,831 I want you to meet him. 1035 01:14:43,205 --> 01:14:43,976 Mr Pool. 1036 01:14:45,947 --> 01:14:46,942 Mr Dirk De Jong. 1037 01:14:48,135 --> 01:14:49,179 How do you do, sir? 1038 01:14:49,810 --> 01:14:50,837 Dirk De Jong. 1039 01:14:51,237 --> 01:14:51,909 Not .. 1040 01:14:52,467 --> 01:14:53,669 Say, don't you know me? 1041 01:14:54,430 --> 01:14:55,534 I am Roelf Pool. 1042 01:14:56,475 --> 01:14:57,691 Gee, I ought to know you. 1043 01:14:57,897 --> 01:14:59,037 I don't mean that. 1044 01:14:59,742 --> 01:15:01,971 I say, I knew you when you were almost a baby. 1045 01:15:03,113 --> 01:15:04,641 You are Selina's Dirk, aren't you? 1046 01:15:04,953 --> 01:15:06,171 Yes. That's right. 1047 01:15:06,507 --> 01:15:07,156 See. 1048 01:15:07,399 --> 01:15:09,925 Just a little girl who fixes up surprises for her friends. 1049 01:15:11,011 --> 01:15:12,516 Where did you two meet each other? 1050 01:15:12,830 --> 01:15:13,588 In Paris. 1051 01:15:13,871 --> 01:15:16,276 Roelf and I took the town apart and put it together again. 1052 01:15:17,049 --> 01:15:18,392 Say, isn't this fine. 1053 01:15:18,810 --> 01:15:20,800 I was just taking Dallas out to meet your mother. 1054 01:15:21,006 --> 01:15:21,907 Come on along. 1055 01:15:22,477 --> 01:15:24,477 I would like to if you're sure I'm not intruding. 1056 01:15:24,777 --> 01:15:26,843 Don't be silly. We'd love to have you. - Sure. 1057 01:15:30,909 --> 01:15:33,950 You know, your mother is my chief reason for this first trip back to America. 1058 01:15:34,274 --> 01:15:36,197 I am as excited as a boy about seeing her. 1059 01:15:59,531 --> 01:16:01,319 This is the grandest place I have ever seen. 1060 01:16:02,404 --> 01:16:04,249 It's like a painting. - Yes. It's nice. 1061 01:16:05,163 --> 01:16:07,013 It smells clean and earthy. 1062 01:16:08,139 --> 01:16:08,982 Hello, Mina. 1063 01:16:09,742 --> 01:16:10,700 Where is mother? 1064 01:16:11,018 --> 01:16:11,919 By the fields. 1065 01:16:12,125 --> 01:16:13,891 You want I should fetch her? - Please. 1066 01:16:17,445 --> 01:16:18,426 This bring her. 1067 01:16:32,262 --> 01:16:33,232 That bring her. 1068 01:16:36,640 --> 01:16:38,321 Somehow this place makes me feel .. 1069 01:16:38,631 --> 01:16:39,841 As if I were in church. 1070 01:16:47,281 --> 01:16:47,932 Look. 1071 01:17:30,681 --> 01:17:31,639 Two lumps, Dirk? 1072 01:17:31,958 --> 01:17:32,630 Three. 1073 01:17:38,558 --> 01:17:41,688 And you have done all the famous men of Europe, haven't you Roelf. 1074 01:17:42,599 --> 01:17:43,442 Think of it. 1075 01:17:44,637 --> 01:17:46,990 You have seen the world and you have got it in your hands. 1076 01:17:48,206 --> 01:17:49,455 Little Roelf Pool. 1077 01:17:50,375 --> 01:17:53,261 And you did it all by yourself in spite of everything. 1078 01:17:56,984 --> 01:17:58,056 Why are you smiling? 1079 01:17:59,416 --> 01:18:00,549 I just remembered. 1080 01:18:01,187 --> 01:18:02,345 Cabbages are beautiful. 1081 01:18:04,955 --> 01:18:06,771 What a fine life you've had too, Selina. 1082 01:18:07,794 --> 01:18:08,746 A full life. 1083 01:18:09,367 --> 01:18:10,736 A rich one and successful. 1084 01:18:11,409 --> 01:18:12,042 I? 1085 01:18:13,005 --> 01:18:14,024 Why, Roelf. 1086 01:18:14,502 --> 01:18:16,105 I've been right here all these years. 1087 01:18:16,311 --> 01:18:18,270 Just where you left me when you were a little boy. 1088 01:18:20,388 --> 01:18:23,698 I think the very dress I have on might be the same I was wearing then. 1089 01:18:25,252 --> 01:18:26,393 I have been nowhere. 1090 01:18:27,396 --> 01:18:28,432 Done nothing. 1091 01:18:29,118 --> 01:18:30,066 Seen nothing. 1092 01:18:32,123 --> 01:18:34,796 And when I think of all the places I was going to see. 1093 01:18:36,130 --> 01:18:37,957 And all the things I was going to do. 1094 01:18:42,112 --> 01:18:44,422 You have been everywhere in the world, Selina. 1095 01:18:45,849 --> 01:18:48,095 Seen all the places of great beauty and light. 1096 01:18:50,161 --> 01:18:51,348 Remember, you told me .. 1097 01:18:52,067 --> 01:18:54,169 That your father once said when you were a little girl. 1098 01:18:55,635 --> 01:18:58,515 There are only two kinds of people in the world who really matter. 1099 01:19:00,177 --> 01:19:01,256 One kind is wheat. 1100 01:19:02,622 --> 01:19:04,015 And the other kind is emeralds. 1101 01:19:05,817 --> 01:19:06,946 You are wheat, Selina. 1102 01:19:08,136 --> 01:19:09,433 And you are emerald. 1103 01:19:10,385 --> 01:19:11,959 And you are the reason for it all. 1104 01:19:25,062 --> 01:19:25,734 There. 1105 01:19:27,101 --> 01:19:29,535 That's what I mean when I say I want to do portraits. 1106 01:19:30,421 --> 01:19:32,637 Not portraits of ladies with pearls. 1107 01:19:33,365 --> 01:19:36,276 And a lily hand half-hidden in the folds of a satin skirt. 1108 01:19:37,632 --> 01:19:40,634 But portraits of men and women who are really distinguished-looking. 1109 01:19:41,670 --> 01:19:43,170 Distinguishably American. 1110 01:19:44,527 --> 01:19:45,513 Like your mother. 1111 01:19:50,529 --> 01:19:52,373 A fine, splendid face. 1112 01:19:53,078 --> 01:19:55,425 All lit up with a light that comes from inside. 1113 01:19:56,762 --> 01:19:57,810 Her jawline. 1114 01:19:58,804 --> 01:20:01,167 Like that of the women who came over on the Mayflower, or .. 1115 01:20:02,051 --> 01:20:03,848 Crossed the continent in a covered wagon. 1116 01:20:05,652 --> 01:20:06,780 And her eyes. 1117 01:20:07,920 --> 01:20:09,930 And that gorgeous battered old hat of hers. 1118 01:20:12,672 --> 01:20:13,592 And her hands. 1119 01:20:15,887 --> 01:20:16,936 She is beautiful. 1120 01:20:47,819 --> 01:20:48,592 ..t-g..