:19:18
_ Howdy, Miss Gordon.
_ Hello, Bud.
:19:22
Miss Mary runs the boarding house.
These are my brothers...
:19:26
Hello, Matt. Tom. Hello, John.
:19:29
It's been a long time.
:19:32
You're not that skinny little kid that used
to live next door to the Fergusons?
:19:38
No, I'm the skinny little kid
who lived next door to the Mastersons.
:19:43
I hate to break in on your grief,
but you'll need some food.
:19:47
Katie asked me to look in on you,
ifyou came to the funeral.
:19:52
That's mighty nice of you, ma'am.
:19:55
I wasn't doing it for you, or any of you.
I'm doing it because Katie asked me to.
:20:09
She liked that rocker.
:20:13
She seemed to have confided
a great deal in you, Miss Gordon.
:20:17
If she'd had her sons around her
:20:19
she wouldn't
have had to confide in strangers.
:20:22
She told me what fine men you were,
never forgetting her,
:20:25
sending her money, helping her
send Bud through school.
:20:29
She was so proud.
:20:31
Her tall sons for whom she kept making
up lies so she could hide her shame.
:20:37
Blamed Texas for taking her sons.
:20:41
Texas is a woman, she used to say,
:20:44
a big, wild, beautiful woman.
:20:47
You raise a kid
to where he's got some size,
:20:50
and there's Texas
whispering in his ear and smiling,
:20:54
saying, "Come and have some fun."
:20:56
"It's hard enough to raise children,"
she'd say.
:20:59
"But when you've got to fight Texas,
a mother hasn't a chance."