The Help Page #4

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MINNY:

Missus Walters?! You need help

coming down?

MISSUS WALTERS, 60, passes quietly behind Minny.

MISSUS WALTERS:

I'm down!

Minny jumps with a yelp, spins around.

MISSUS WALTERS (CONT'D)

Been down.

MINNY:

Gone give me a heart attack!

Missus Walters ambles toward the closet door. Minny quickly

tries to turn her toward the front door. Missus Walters

resists.

MISSUS WALTERS:

Minny, I'm getting my coat.

Missus Walters opens the closet.

MINNY:

It's ninety degrees out there,

Missus Walters.

Missus Walters pulls out a red, wool coat with cheetah print

collar.

The early stages of Alzheimer's have appeared, but Missus

Walters is still quite proud at eighty percent capacity.

AIBILEEN (V.O.)

Once Missus Walters' arteries went

hard, Miss Hilly moved her and

Minny in with her. Fired the maid

she had just to make room. See,

Minny about the best cook in

Mississippi, and Miss Hilly wanted

her.

Hilly's approach is marked by the whishing sound of her

plaid, fat thighs.

7.

She nonchalantly grabs the coat from her mother and carries

it out the door.

Minny and Missus Walters follow. Minny carries a chocolate

pie. Hilly barks over her shoulder.

HILLY:

Minny, William took Billy out for

ice cream. So, hurry back and get

Billy down for his nap. No dilly

dallying.

MINNY:

Yes, ma'am.

Minny raises the pie behind Hilly's beehive, dreaming of

smashing it into her head.

AIBILEEN (V.O.)

Minny my best friend. A old lady

like me lucky to have her.

INT. LEEFOLT HOME - BATHROOM- SAME DAY

Aibileen kneels next to Mae Mobley who sits on a small

children's training toilet.

MAE MOBLEY:

No!

AIBILEEN (V.O.)

It's a tricky thing...you try to

make a baby go in the toilet bowl

before it's time. If theys can't

get the hang of it, theys get to

thinking low a theyselves.

Mae Mobley sticks her lip out.

AIBILEEN (CONT'D)

You drunk up two glasses a grape

juice, I know you got to tee-tee.

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