Shadow of a Doubt Page #4

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It wasn't the biggest yacht in the world,

but it had a fireplace in the library

and the bar was panelled

in bleached mahogany.

You pushed a button and...

What am I talking about? That's all over.

Let's talk about you.

Charlie,

that's the prettiest dress I ever saw.

I think so, too.

Why, Charles, don't you remember?

Remember? Remember what?

- Why, Uncle Charlie, you sent it to me.

- I did?

Well, say, I've been sitting here

all this time forgetting something.

Ann. Roger.

- Look at that. Oh, dear now.

- Joe. Don't know whether you had one.

You didn't have to think of me, Charles.

Presents for the children are alright.

Say... I've never had a wristwatch.

Fellows at the bank'll think

I'm quite a sport.

I have two for you, Emmy.

One old and one new.

Oh, Charles. What is it?

- You shouldn't have. Really. No.

- Well, yeah.

Oh, Charles.

Oh, how... beautiful.

Oh, I've-I've always wanted one.

Oh, Mother, it's exactly right.

It's what you should have.

Look, Emmy.

Charles. You've had these all along.

Mm-hm. All along, Emmy.

All these years.

Safe in a deposit box,

no matter where I was.

Oh. Grandpa and Grandma?

53 years ago.

Aren't they sweet?

My, she was pretty.

Everybody was sweet and pretty then.

The whole world.

A wonderful world.

Not like the world today.

Not like the world now.

It was great to be young then.

We're all happy now, Uncle Charlie.

Look at us.

- And we're all happy at the same time.

- Now, for your present, Charlie.

Oh, I don't want anything.

Right now, I have enough.

Before you came,

I didn't think I had anything,

but now I don't want another thing.

- She's crazy.

- She doesn't mean it.

If you ask me, I think she's putting on,

like girls in books.

The ones that say they don't want

anything always get more in the end.

- That's what she's hoping.

- She's not crazy.

The smartest girl

in her class at school.

Won the debate against theEast

Richmond HighSchool. She ' s got brains.

I meant it.

Please don't give me anything.

- Nothing?

- Oh, I can't explain it.

But you came here

and Mother's so happy and...

Oh, I'm glad that she named me after you

and that she thinks we're both alike.

I think we are, too. I know it.

Oh, it would spoil things

if you should give me anything.

You're a strange girl, Charlie.

Why would it spoil things?

Because we're not just an uncle

and a niece. It's something else.

I know you. I know that you don't

tell people a lot of things.

I don't either. I have a feeling

that inside you somewhere,

there's something nobody knows about.

Something... nobody knows?

Something secret and wonderful and...

I'll find it out.

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