The Nesting Page #2

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Anybody home?

Hello!

You know, Lauren,

we really are trespassing now.

Whoever you saw could come down here

with a shotgun and blast us away.

You think all country folks are gun crazy.

City folks too.

I smell perfume.

Yeah, well, I smell trouble.

Hello!

Anyone home?

Now I suppose you're gonna tell

me that this looks familiar too.

I don't know.

Vaguely.

I can't tell.

Mark.

Come here.

Someone must be here.

But they were right there-

a pack of cigarettes,

...and there was a lit one going.

Lauren, I think

we'd better be going.

I am not imagining things, you know.

But, Lauren, we're supposed to be

at the real estate office at 2:00...

Look, I'm going upstairs.

Are you coming with me?

For someone who has trouble

leaving her own house,

...you sure don't mind

barging into someone else's.

Look, is anyone here?

I'd really like

to talk to you.

Well, whoever it was, he

must have been trespassing too.

He probably thought

we were the owners and took off.

My considered opinion is

it was a bat in the belfry.

You know, this would be

a perfect place to write.

That's a novel idea.

Hey, maybe I could rent it.

Are you crazy? You wouldn't last

one clay alone in this house.

Why? I have always

been fascinated by these houses.

I've written so much about them,

it already feels like home.

Lauren, there's only so far

you can make life imitate art.

Never mind art. I love this house.

- And I love you.

- Love me, you love my house.

Oh, sh*t, I give up.

Come on. Let's go.

Well, if you're absolutely

sure, Miss Cochran,

...I doubt my grandfather

would object.

He probably doesn't

even remember owning the house.

Have you always lived with him?

No. I only came back last spring.

The project I was working on

ran out of funds...

...and I was forced to take

a leave of absence, so to speak.

- Oh? What's your field?

- Physics. Quantum physics.

Grandfather promised to make

a hefty contribution to the project...

...if I came home

and lived with him for a year.

Grandfather?

Daniel, come over here.

I have some guests with me.

- Miss Cochran is going to rent the house, so...

- Fine. Fine.

Go ahead and make

the arrangements.

I just bought it.

It's mighty

ingenious.

How do you do, sir?

You know anything

about pistols, Mr. Cochran?

Felton's the name.

And not much.

- Just what they do.

- Well, that's a start.

Why hasn't the girl married you?

You've got character.

- Grandfather...

- It's quite all right, Colonel.

He does have character, and so do you.

You're everything

your grandson said you were.

Is that so?

I suppose you're one

of those liberated,

...progressive...

- Grandfather!

- What is it? Is it his heart?

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