Good Morning, Miss Dove Page #2

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Let's go. Dinner can be early.

May we give you a ride?

No, I have things to attend to

- it's the first of the month.

While you're about it,

send a draft for the book - $200.

If they'd only known -

I was ready to go to five!

$200!

From 13th C Venice to Old Cathay,

what a time to have lived!

Next year, I've decided, we'll make

the grandest of grand tours.

I'll show you

every corner of the world.

Last summer, Mr Pendleton

rode a bicycle through Greece.

Who's Mr Pendleton?

Papa, you never listen.

He's the young man from Princeton

I told you of.

Oh, yes, the archaeologist.

His name is

Welford Banning Pendleton III.

Lovely, my dear.

Mr Pendleton wrote me a letter.

He asked leave to visit me

this summer, here in Liberty Hill.

Papa!

Henry! Henry!

Call Dr Hurley!

Something's happened to my...

It's too late for Dr Hurley,

Miss Dove.

Miss Dove is here.

Have her come in, please.

Thank you for coming.

Won't you please sit down?

What I must tell you is as painful

to me as it will be for you.

I should like to have put it off...

I should like to have put it off...

Tell me, Mr Porter.

Your father availed himself of

the bank's assets without first

observing the conventional forms.

He stole? Are you saying

that my father stole?

Let us say he "borrowed".

How much, Mr Porter?

How much, Mr Porter?

$11,430 to be exact -

in dribbles, here and there.

No more than he could have

hoped to return one day.

$11,430!

This must be repaid, at once.

By whom?

By me, of course. There's the house,

the rare editions, the paintings.

Their disposal will more than cover

my father's... indebtedness.

It won't be as simple as that.

I've been going over his books.

The house, everything,

is mortgaged to the hilt.

Your father was one of my closest

friends. Were I able, I would

happily cover this "indebtedness"...

.. before there is any scandal.

Scandal? There must be no scandal!

I don't see how it can be avoided.

Can't the bank make over to me

this deficit as a personal loan?

But how could you repay it?

I shall secure employment.

A position. A teaching position.

A teaching position? My dear child,

what are you prepared to teach?

I know a great deal about the world.

I cannot imagine a young lady

who knows less.

I should have been more explicit.

Not the world, the Earth.

I have read my father's books.

I could find my way through Carthage.

I can point out on a map of Iowa

the best cornfields.

I know every turn of the Nile

and eddy of the Mississippi.

I'm not even certain that I couldn't

locate the Northwest Passage.

I am superbly qualified to teach

geography, and I will teach it.

There will be no scandal.

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