Adam's Rib Page #3

When did you begin to suspect that you

were losing your husband's affection?

When he stopped batting me around.

-When was that?

-Eleven months ago. March 14.

He struck you?

First time, he broke a tooth.

-My tooth.

-l see.

Upper left molar.

-And how often--

-lt's capped now. You can't notice it.

Good. Now, let's start

with the day of the accident--

No accident. l wanted to shoot him.

Suppose we decide later

just what you wanted to do.

Silly.

The difference between ten years

in prison and freedom...

is not silly, Mrs. Attinger.

Call me Doris.

Pay attention to what l'm saying.

l don't care what happens to me.

Do you care what happens

to Warren and Allan and Trudy?

Yes, l do. l want to go home.

Can't you fix it so l should go home?

Not right now, but we're working on it.

Here.

l promised my kids l'd take them

to Coney lsland tomorrow.

Yes, you drink that.

Now, you would help us very much

if you could reconstruct the day.

All of yesterday.

Well, first thing in the morning...

-Yes?

-...l woke up.

-Yes?

-And l see he didn't sleep home.

You were shocked and surprised.

Oh, no. Not shocked, not surprised.

He used to not do that a lot, come home.

Did you ever question him

about his behavior?

Certainly.

-Did he offer any explanation?

-Certainly.

He told me to shut up

and mind my own business.

l see.

But yesterday, l got worried.

Not worried, mad.

-l got mad. You know why?

-Why?

'Cause it was the fourth night in a row

he didn't.

-Come home?

-Yeah.

-And that made you angry?

-Sure. lt was getting a habit with him.

So l sent the kids to school,

and l went and bought a gun.

-Where?

-This hock shop l go to.

l bought a gun and they gave me

a book how to. Free.

Had you decided by this time

exactly what you planned to do?

l'll tell you the honest truth.

l didn't decide nothing.

l was doing everything like in a dream...

like l was watching myself,

but l couldn't help it.

-Like a dream?

-Yeah. Wait a second.

You got all that?

''Like l was watching myself,

but couldn't help it. Like a dream.''

Yeah, good. Now, go on, Doris.

So then l got very hungry.

-When?

-When l bought the gun.

-Yeah?

-So l went in this hamburger place...

and l ate two, rare,

and one lemon meringue pie.

And then?

Then l was still hungry.

Think of that.

So l walked all around...

and l kept talking to myself

not to be foolish.

-And then?

-And then l called up Warren.

He was just getting his lunch hour by now.

l said to him l want to see him important,

so if we could have lunch together?

So he said no, naturally.

So l asked him, ''You coming home after?''

So he says, ''What for?''

So l said to him,

''Don't you live there no more?''

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