:26:02
It's nice here, Walter.
Who takes care of it for you?
:26:05
A colored woman comes in twice a week.
:26:08
- Cook your own breakfast?
- I squeeze a grapefruit once in a while .
:26:11
The rest I get at the corner drugstore.
- It sounds wonderful.
:26:14
Just strangers beside you.
:26:16
You don't know them.
You don't hate them.
:26:19
You don't have to sit across the table...
:26:21
and smile at him and that daughter
of his every morning of your life.
:26:24
What daughter?
:26:25
- Oh, that little girl on the piano.
- Mmm. Lola. She lives with us.
:26:29
He thinks a lot more of her
than he does of me.
:26:32
- Ever think of a divorce?
- He wouldn't give me a divorce.
:26:34
I suppose
because it would cost him money.
:26:36
He hasn't got money.
Not since he went into oil business.
:26:39
But he had when you married him?
:26:41
Yes, he had. And I wanted a home.
Why not?
:26:46
But that wasn't the only reason.
:26:48
I was his wife's nurse.
She was sick for a long time.
:26:51
When she died,
he was all broken up.
:26:54
- I.... pitied him so.
- And now you hate him.
:26:57
Yes, Walter. He's so mean to me.
:27:00
Every-time I buy a dress
or a pair of shoes he yells his head off.
:27:03
He won't let me go anywhere.
:27:04
He keeps me shut up.
He's always been mean to me.
:27:07
Even his life insurance
all goes to that daughter of his.
:27:11
- That Lola.
- Nothing for you at all, huh?
:27:13
No. And nothing is just
what I'm worth to him.
:27:17
So you lie awake in the dark
and listen to him snore and get ideas.
:27:21
Walter, I don't want to kill him.
I never did.
:27:24
Not even when he gets drunk
and slaps my face.
:27:30
- Only sometimes you wish he was dead.
- Perhaps I do.
:27:33
And you wish it was an accident
and you had that policy. For $50,000.
:27:37
- Is that it?
- Perhaps that too.
:27:41
The other night we drove home
from a party. He was drunk again.
:27:45
When we got into the garage...
:27:46
he just sat there with his head
on the steering wheel...
:27:48
and the motor still running.
:27:51
And I thought what it would be like
if I didn't switch it off
:27:55
...just closed the garage door
and left him there.
:27:58
I'll tell you what it would be like...
:27:59
if you had that accident policy,
and tried to pull a monoxide job.