He looks around him, then quickly goes out the front door of the house. Mary goes to the phone, picks it up.
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The sight of Mary and the children suffering is too much for George.
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MARY (in an outburst) George, why must you torture the children? Why don't you . . .
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Mary and the children stare at him, stunned by his furious outburst. There is silence in the room.
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INTERIOR LIVING ROOM �� NIGHT CLOSE SHOT �� The room has suddenly become ominously quiet, the only SOUND being George's labored breathing. George goes over to a corner of the room where his workshop is set up �� a drawing table, several models of modern buildings, bridges, etc. Savagely he kicks over the models, picks up some books and hurls them into the corner. Mary and the children watch, horrified. George looks around and sees them staring at him as if he were some unknown wild animal. The three children are crying.
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Janie is still practicing at the piano, monotonously.
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He hangs up the receiver, and turns toward the living room. His face is flushed and wet.
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But before he can think of an insult to top Welch's, we hear a click on the phone.
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Mary once more tries to take the phone from him.
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George hears this and grabs the receiver from Mary.
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But the telephone is suddenly alive with a powerful male voice
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Mary speaks quickly in to the phone.
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Mary succeeds in wresting the phone from George's hand.
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You know, maybe my kids aren't the best-dressed kids; maybe they don't have any decent clothes . . .
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She puts a restraining hand on his arm. He shakes it off. She cannot know that George's tirade against Mrs. Welch is really a tirade against the world, against life itself, against God. Over the phone we hear Mrs.
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He snatches the phone from Mary.
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MARY (cont'd) Oh, thank you, Mrs. Welch. I'm sure she'll be all right. The doctor says that she ought to be out of bed in time to have her Christmas dinner.
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INTERIOR LIVING ROOM �� NIGHT CLOSE SHOT �� Mary comes in and picks up the phone.
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INTERIOR LIVING ROOM �� NIGHT CLOSE SHOT �� Janie is still pounding with grim determination at the piano. Pete is seated at the table writing. Tommy is playing with his toy vacuum cleaner. The telephone rings.
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She closes her eyes and relaxes on the bed. George pulls the covers over her. He bends down and his lips touch a tendril of the child's hair. Then he gets up and tiptoes out of the room.
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George puts the flower in a glass of water on the table beside her bed.
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She hands him the fallen petals and the flower. He turns his back to Zuzu, pretending to be tinkering with the flower. He sticks the fallen petals in his watch pocket, rearranges the flower, and then turns back to Zuzu.
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