East Of Eden Page #2

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I don't know.

I'm at my rope's end with that boy.

I don't understand him. I never have.

Aron I've understood since he was a child.

Help me up.

- He doesn't like anybody, does he?

- Who, Dad?

No, Cal.

It's dark in here and spooky.

Why is he so alone all the time?

- He wants to be.

- Nobody wants to be alone all the time.

Dad's made a wonderful buy, hasn't he?

We'll freeze vegetables.

It'll really give him something

to live for now.

What's the matter, Abra,

don't you like Cal?

- I guess I don't know him very well.

- I love him.

Well, naturally, he's your brother.

He's scary.

- Scary?

- When he looks at you.

Sort of like an animal.

I don't know, he scares me.

Aron, when are we gonna get married?

Just as soon as I get through

with that darned school.

I wish it was right now.

- So do I.

- Do you?

Abra.

- When we get...

- I love you, Aron.

When we get married,

it's going to be perfect.

Everything about it is going to be perfect.

You're gonna make

a wonderful mother, Abra.

- I hope so.

- You are.

A perfect one.

You don't remember your mother at all,

do you, Aron?

No, she died

right after Cal and I were born.

Must be hard never to have had a mother.

- What's that?

- Look, what's he doing up there?

- Crazy guy.

- He's watching us.

- No, he isn't.

- Yes, he is, too.

Let's move over here. Aron.

- He's not watching us.

- I feel as if he can still see us.

I love you, Aron.

Really, I do. Really.

Sure. I love you, too.

Cal, stop! Stop that, Cal!

What are you doing? Stop it!

"Blessed is he

whose transgression is forgiven...

"whose sin is covered.

"Blessed is the man unto whom

the Lord imputeth not iniquity...

"and in whose spirit there is no guile."

And you are forgiven, Cal.

I think there is no iniquity

in your actions...

only something I do not know.

Why did you push that ice down?

I don't know.

Was it...

Was it vengeance? Anger?

Fear that I would punish you

for not coming home last night?

What was it?

I wanted to see it slide down the chute.

- Perhaps you had better read from here on.

- I'll read it, Dad.

No, it's for Cal to read.

Start at the fifth verse.

Verse 5.

"I acknowledge my sin unto thee,

and mine iniquity have I not hid.

"I said, I will confess my transgressions

unto the Lord...

"and thou forgavest

the iniquity of my sin. Selah."

Go on.

Six.

And I suggest a little slower, Cal.

And you don't have to read

the verse numbers.

"For this shall every one that is godly

pray unto thee.

"And surely in the floods of great waters...

"they shall not come nigh unto him.

Selah."

Seven.

Not the numbers, Cal.

"Thou art my hiding place,

thou shalt preserve me from trouble...

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