A Summer Place Page #4

- We used to go up on the roof.

- On the roof?

It was one of those flat kinds

that had a stairway leading up to it.

Gee, it got hot up there.

- In the daytime you mean?

- During my lunch hours.

Lunch hours? Did you keep doing it?

Till I learned.

Just making the rounds.

Turn off that light, Todd.

Thought for a minute there

they'd added another statue to the garden.

I'd better get back.

My folks will be wondering.

This is where I live.

- Which is your room, Johnny?

- Right there.

- I think your father used to live there.

- Can I see it from my room up there?

Then I'll wave good night.

- Good night, Johnny.

- Good night.

Well, your daughter

didn't waste any time.

She's let their boy kiss and maul her,

her very first night here.

- Where were they?

- Down below me, in the garden.

If they had anything to hide, do you think

they'd do it right under your window?

- Are you defending her cheap behavior?

- Cheap?

A girl kissing a boy in the moonlight?

You know Molly's as decent

as this boy seems to be.

No decent girl lets a boy kiss and maul her

the very first night they meet.

I suppose it's your Swedish blood in her.

I've read about

how the Swedes bathe together...

...and have trial marriages and free love.

I've read all about that. Anything goes.

So now you hate the Swedes.

How many outlets for your hate

do you have, Helen?

We haven't been able to find a new house

because of your multiplicity of them.

We can't buy near a school

because you hate kids, they make noise.

And there can't be any Jews or Catholics

on the block either.

And, oh, yes, it can't be anywhere near

the Polish or Italian sections.

And, of course,

Negroes have to be avoided at all costs.

Now, let's see, no Jews, no Catholics...

...no Italians, no Poles, no children,

no Negroes.

Do I have the list right so far?

And now you've added Swedes.

And, oh, yes...

...you won't use a Chinese laundry

because you distrust Orientals.

You think the British are snobbish...

...the Russians fearful, the French immoral,

the Germans brutal...

...and all Latin Americans lazy.

What's your plan? To cut humanity out?

Are you anti-people and anti-life?

Must you suffocate every natural instinct

in our daughter too?

Must you label young lovemaking as cheap

and wanton and indecent?

Must you persist in making sex itself

a filthy word?

Fight with me if you have to, Mama,

but not Papa, please.

This is the first real vacation

he's ever had.

Let's not wreck it for him.

Look who's talking...

...after that disgusting public display

in the garden.

- It wasn't a public display.

- The night watchman caught you at it.

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