The Skeleton Key Page #3

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It won't be.

Good. Then for the most part

just realize that...

I'll live here as if you're not in residence.

After all, we're not kin.

Are your parents still alive?

My mom left when I was little. My

dad raised me and he died last year.

Oh, my. So you cared for him as well?

I would have.

I just thought I had more time.

Yeah.

You think too much about the time

you have left...

you don't spend it living.

be good to my husband.

be good to his house.

Remedies at 9:
00.

One, two, three.

You don't see gardens like this

back in New Jersey, I expect.

Actually, it's the Garden State.

[Laughing] I doubt that very much.

Nothing more glorious than a garden.

Gone every winter, back every spring.

You religious at all?

I try to keep an open mind.

That's good. That's very good.

Where are my trilliums?

Oh, fiddlesticks. do me a blessing, child.

Will you run up to the attic for me?

I have some seed packets in a box

right next to the stairs.

[Stairs creaking]

[Noisy clanking]

[door creaking]

What took you?

I'm sorry.

I thought the key opens everything.

The key? What key?

The key you gave me for the house.

There's a door in the attic

it doesn't work for.

Oh, no, the attic, it's never opened that.

- I got my dixie-Johns.

- Why not?

- What's in there?

- I have no idea.

It's been shut ever since we moved in.

I have to get these in the ground,

because there's rain coming.

Mrs. devereaux...

Ben was in the attic, wasn't he,

when he had his stroke?

What was he doing in there?

You'll have to ask him, child.

be a dear and go see to him, won't you?

I wonder if he wouldn't like some iced tea.

[Soulful instrumental jazz music]

[Water running]

[Thunder rumbling]

[Loud noise]

[Glass shattering]

[Tin roof rattling]

His door was locked.

Ben!

Ben!

Ben!

Stop right there, Ben! don't move!

Stop!

Ben!

Mrs. devereaux!

Ben!

Ben, what are you doing? It's me!

[Ben screaming]

Mother of mercy, what's he done?

He got out of the window. I thought

you said he was bedridden.

VlOLET:
He's having spasms.

- didn't you give him his remedies?

- Yes.

did you make sure he drank them down?

I thought so.

- Ben, what'd they make you do?

- His door was locked.

Just go get the wheelchair.

We've gotta get him out of this.

What about a doctor?

In the morning,

just get that wheelchair now.

VlOLET:
Caroline!

VlOLET:
Caroline!

What in damnation took you so long?

I came as fast as I could.

We're just gonna have to double his

remedies. That's all I can think of.

Caroline, help me here. Help me get him.

Come on. That's it.

Where did you think you were going?

You're here two days and

he already tried to kill himself.

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