Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte Page #5

I was always the champion.

We just let you win

because you were the youngest.

An old house is difficult to keep clean.

If you can get anybody out from town

to work in this place,

you're doin' a lot better than I can.

Don't misunderstand me, Velma,

I know how exhausting it must be

having to do all the work out here alone.

There's a lot more bags out there.

Charlotte, it's Miriam.

How good it was getting your letter

asking me to come.

I knew you'd come, I just knew you would.

- And you're gonna help me.

- Of course I'll do whatever I can.

I've thought of you, and the house.

It's like coming home.

Oh, but everything is such a mess.

You see,

I wasn't expecting you until tomorrow.

We're together.

That's the important thing.

Yes, of course it is.

Miss Charlotte's room.

Remember the night you taught me

to smoke my first cigarette and you -

or was it I? - Set the drapes on fire?

I was the one they whopped, I know.

No! That's Velma's job.

Yes, but Velma's... well, Velma.

It's just that we haven't

seen each other in so long,

you'd think we'd have

other things to talk about.

I mean, arguing about

who's going to make up the bed.

If you all want me

to fix supper for you,

you better eat early,

cos I gotta get home.

Well, thank you, Velma.

Is that an invitation?

No.

I just reckoned you'd be sniffing

around here

more than usual now

that Miss Miriam's back.

There's nothing like a family reunion.

I think I'll just get the key

to the cellar.

Just thinks he's gonna get

the key to the cellar.

I didn't know I ever told you

where the keys to the cellar were.

Thank you, sir.

I can't remember

when I last dined in here.

Papa used to say

this was his favourite room.

I guess maybe that's cos

he loved to eat so much.

When this nonsense

about the house is straightened out,

we could give parties here again.

Why not?

What's so impossible about that?

It would be lovely.

Yes, it would be nice.

Aren't you forgetting about the limit

they put on vacating the house?

You got to be out of here a week Monday

and no two ways about it.

Drew, you carry on as

if you were a member

of the Department

of Roads and Bridges.

Miriam will tell them where to get off,

won't you, darling?

I wish I could.

Charlotte,

you have just got to understand

that there's nothing,

absolutely nothing,

that Miriam can do about it now.

They are going to tear down

this house and that is final.

Oh, you're so stuffy.

They took their smelly old equipment

out of here, didn't they?

Miriam isn't frightened

of a bunch of crooked politicians.

It wouldn't surprise me to find out

that Jewel Mayhew was behind all this.

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