Rachel, Rachel Page #3

Calla.

When's the next...?

- What do you call it? Service?

- Tomorrow. Why?

If you want me to, I'll come.

Don't do me any favors.

Do you want your tree back?

All right, I'm gonna plant it.

Right here in the asphalt.

Oh, Rachel.

Nighty-night.

Nighty-night.

CHILDREN:
Slaughter, slaughter

Undertaker's daughter

Slaughter, slaughter

Undertaker's daughter

Slaughter, slaughter

Undertaker's daughter

Slaughter, slaughter

Undertaker's daughter

Slaughter, slaughter

Undertaker's daughter

Slaughter, slaughter

Undertaker's daughter

Slaughter, slaughter

Undertaker's daughter

[WOMAN SOBBING]

Rachel, is that you out there?

You ought to be upstairs with your mom.

Are you Stevie?

No, I'm Nick.

You look just like Stevie.

Twins means you look like somebody.

- Did Dad put him in the basket?

- Yeah.

Did you...? Did you watch?

NICK:

They wouldn't let me.

NIALL:

Rachel.

Did I hear myself say to get upstairs

or was that my imagination?

Dad, what are you gonna do to him?

I'm gonna make him happy again

and put back his smile.

Now, you best do what I ask

before I count to three. One.

What made him die?

He had the infantile, like all the others.

I'm counting, miss. One's used up.

You know what happens

when I get to three.

Two.

Two and a half.

Two and three-quarters.

Two and seven-eighths.

NIALL:

Three.

MAY:

You're awfully late this evening, dear.

I almost gave up.

I'm sorry.

I don't enjoy sitting here

entertaining the pots and pans.

- Where are you?

- I'm right here, Mother.

Don't kiss me, dear.

I'm all full of egg white.

Oh, I'm exhausted.

When it got to be 6 :0 and you still hadn't come...

...I thought, "Oh, my goodness,

she's correcting papers.

Shabab's will be closed and I bet she forgot

all about my chocolate bar."

Oh. I did. I'm sorry.

I'm not criticizing, dear.

We all forget sometimes.

Anyhow, I got it myself.

I took a nice long walk in the heat.

Well, why don't you just lie down

and take a rest and I'll fix the sandwiches?

Oh, no, darling.

Really, I'm fine.

Truly, I am.

I just hope you're not coming down

with something.

Why? Should I be?

Well, dear, do that over here

where I can see you.

You have a fever?

- No.

- Here.

Give me your forehead.

Oh, just a little warm, that's all.

Mother, I'm always warm.

I heard the most awful thing

about the Stewart girl today.

Cassie Stewart has, shall we say...

[SINGSONG Y]

...been away.

Been away with quotation marks?

Double quotation marks. Twins.

And no prospect of a husband in sight.

Can you imagine her poor mother?

[TSKS]

[SIGHS]

She's a very nice woman. Really, she is.

Not too cultivated but very nice.

Oh, what a heartbreak for her.

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