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00:00🎵Jingle Bells🎵
00:30🎵Jingle Bells🎵
00:56🎵Music🎵
01:15Sometimes when we were children, all the love and attention we got at home just wasn't enough.
01:22For each of us, there came a time when something from the outside was needed to give us a sense of self-confidence.
01:29It was a need of this kind that got my sister Mary Ellen into a lot of trouble and gave me a whole new way of looking at women.
01:38🎵Music🎵
01:47Hello.
01:49I think they're ready to roll.
01:51Well, let's check it.
01:52Uh-huh.
01:54Now, look, there's two A's there.
01:56I see, I see.
01:59I got it.
02:01Well, you're still going, aren't you?
02:03Going where?
02:04To the hop.
02:05Oh, the hop, of course.
02:06Who are you taking?
02:08Uh, well, I'm taking Audrey Butler.
02:11Oh, you don't seem very excited. She's considered a catch, you know.
02:14She's even got to get into that fancy sorority.
02:17Yeah, you know, Phi Lambda.
02:20I just can't help feeling that she has me around to do errands for her, though. That's all.
02:25Can't you get out of it?
02:26No, I can't get out of it. I've already promised her.
02:28Besides, Mary Ellen's a little nervous about the whole thing.
02:32Because of me?
02:33No, you're just like a member of the family.
02:34You've probably had supper with us more times lately than you have at your own home.
02:38Oh, this is her first college hop.
02:40And it's her first date with a college man, of course.
02:43What's happening here?
02:44You've got to help me with this. I'm new at this job.
02:46Here.
02:50Is that the time?
02:51Uh...
02:54Yeah, it's 4.30.
02:55Oh, well.
02:57Mary Ellen's waiting out in front of Grogan's department store. I've got to go pick her up.
03:00Would you finish this?
03:01That's fine. I can finish it.
03:02Thank you very much.
03:09Hi, John. Mike.
03:10Audrey.
03:11John, could you run these off for me, please?
03:13They're schedules for the debating society, and I have to have them tonight.
03:16I really can't. I've got to go pick up my sister. She's waiting for me.
03:18Well, they shouldn't take long.
03:19I can do them.
03:20Oh, you're an angel.
03:21Listen, I'll be back in an hour to pick them up.
03:23They'll be ready.
03:24Thanks.
03:25Oh, John, I'll see you tomorrow night?
03:27Okay, I'll pick you up at 7.30.
03:28Good. I'm looking forward to it.
03:30Okay, bye.
03:33You see what I mean about her having people around to run errands for her?
03:37But she sure is pretty.
03:38Yeah, she is.
03:40Listen, you better get going or Mary Ellen's going to think you deserted her.
03:43Okay.
03:44Listen, thank you very much.
03:46See you tomorrow.
03:47Right.
04:09Thanks.
04:30What's the matter with you?
04:32You were ten minutes late.
04:33I'm sorry. I got held up. Did you get your stockings?
04:35Yeah, on sale, 37 cents, just like the newspaper said.
04:39Well, you don't sound too excited about it.
04:41Your first pair of silk stockings, I'd be excited, I guess.
04:44Well...
04:46Well, what?
04:47Well, there was this bag at Grogan's. It was an evening purse.
04:51Well, it's just what I need to go with my dress.
04:54How can I go to a college dance without an evening bag? It's so gouche.
04:58Gouche.
05:00Do you know who Brenda Frazier is?
05:02Well, cafe society lady.
05:05Yeah, well, there was a picture of her in the newspaper yesterday.
05:07She had a bag just like the one in Grogan's.
05:09Mary Ellen, we can't afford it.
05:11I know.
05:12So forget it.
05:13I can't.
05:14I know.
05:15John boy, stop.
05:16Why?
05:17It's Vernon.
05:18Well, we don't need any junk today, do we?
05:19Well, he might have an evening bag.
05:21Mary Ellen, you don't need an evening bag.
05:32How much?
05:33Well, now, isn't that a beautiful bag?
05:37You know, you don't see petty point like that nowadays.
05:40How much?
05:41I bought all that stuff from Mrs. Beckenridge,
05:43and she told me that that purse had hardly been used at all.
05:4735 cents.
05:48Too much.
05:50Well, now, Mary Ellen, how much do you want to spend?
05:53How much you got?
05:55About 20 cents.
05:5720 cents for a beautiful purse like that?
06:00I could part with that for 20 cents.
06:03Come on, Mary Ellen, we're going to be late.
06:04Let's go.
06:05I'm coming.
06:06Thanks, Vernon.
06:07All right.
06:09You can have it.
06:12I tell you, Mary Ellen,
06:13one of these days you're going to put me clean out of business.
06:16A change for a quarter?
06:18I thought that you...
06:19I said about 20 cents.
06:21About...
06:2620 cents.
06:28Thanks, Vernon.
06:29Thanks a lot.
06:31Move!
06:33Can't you see I'm reading?
06:35Now, see here, young lady,
06:36this is not a hotel lobby.
06:38You should be helping your sister.
06:39She's afraid she'll ruin her lovely white mitts.
06:42She's got her hands cleaner doing the dishes.
06:44They'd get whiter, too, wouldn't they?
06:46That's a fine theory, Elizabeth.
06:47I'm sorry I didn't think of it.
06:50Oh, good Lord.
06:51What's that creature wearing?
06:53She's not a creature.
06:54She's a debutante,
06:55Cobina Wright, Jr.
06:56Junior?
06:57Junior?
06:59She was named after her mother.
07:01Who lets her cavort around half-naked?
07:04It's only her back that's naked.
07:06Only?
07:08It's a nice dress, though.
07:09Look at that material.
07:10It's French slipper satin.
07:11I saw it dressed just like it at Brogan's.
07:13Well, it's a good thing you didn't buy it.
07:14It'd probably look like this old mop in it.
07:16Oh, you're mean, all of you.
07:18You just don't understand anything.
07:20Mary Ellen.
07:27Mary Ellen.
07:57Mary Ellen.
08:27Mary Ellen.
08:58I'd be delighted to save the next one.
09:00Mary Ellen.
09:01What's that?
09:02What?
09:03On your hand.
09:04Shh.
09:05Where'd you get that?
09:06I found it inside the bag.
09:07I'm going to wear it to the freshman hop.
09:09Mary Ellen, you can't.
09:10Why not?
09:11Because it's like stealing.
09:12That ring belongs to Mrs. Breckinridge.
09:14She probably didn't even know it was in the bag when she sold it.
09:17Well, I'm just going to borrow it for the evening,
09:19and after that, I'll give it right back to you.
09:21No.
09:22No.
09:23No.
09:24No.
09:25No.
09:26No.
09:27And after that, I'll give it right back.
09:28What if somebody at the dance knows you?
09:30They're going to ask you where you got it.
09:32How about John Boy and Mike?
09:33I've already thought about that.
09:40See?
09:41Can I try it on?
09:42Only if you promise not to tell.
09:44Not anyone.
09:45I promise.
09:46Cross your heart?
09:47Hope to die.
09:48Okay.
09:51It's a little too big for me.
09:52Well, you have to be careful, or it'll slip off.
09:54It's beautiful.
09:55I feel just like Ginger Rogers.
09:57Okay, you've had enough.
09:59We've got to find some place to hide it.
10:01Why don't you put it back in the bag?
10:03No, someone might find it there.
10:05I know.
10:07I haven't hidden anything in here since I was about eight.
10:11What's this?
10:15With an anti-secret society button.
10:17And a little tooth.
10:19Elizabeth.
10:21We've got to find some place else to hide it.
10:24Ellen! Quick!
10:26Where? I don't know.
10:30What are you two up to?
10:32Nothing.
10:34I'll just finish up the hem on this dress and then we'll see if the sleeves need shortening.
10:37Okay.
10:42You know, when I was your age and growing up,
10:46I used to get so worried about going to dances and things like that.
10:50I'd worry about my dress and my shoes.
10:53I was sure my hair wasn't going to turn out right.
10:57I guess what was really worrying me was going to new places and meeting new people.
11:02When you're not quite sure of yourself and you don't know where you fit in this world,
11:06things like that can be kind of scary.
11:08I'm not scared.
11:10It's all right to be, you know.
11:12But I'm not, Mom. I'm honest.
11:14I might have been scared once, but now I'm not scared at all.
11:17I know I'm going to have a wonderful time at the dance.
11:24How are we doing, Pa?
11:27I think we're going to have just about enough tar to finish up this year, Ruth.
11:31Good. I don't have to buy any more.
11:37Stupid.
11:38What did you do? Hit your thumb?
11:40No. I bent another tack.
11:42It's about the fourth time you did that today, son.
11:44Fifth.
11:46Something wrong?
11:47Yeah. Audrey Butler.
11:50What about her?
11:51I don't know. She...
11:53She seems like a nice girl. She's real pretty.
11:55She's involved in a lot of things at school.
11:58I enjoy being with her, I guess.
12:00That's good.
12:01Yeah.
12:03Daddy, you know, before I went off to school this year, I hardly knew any girls.
12:07And every one of them was special to me.
12:09And now, in my first year of college, already I've met more girls than I ever knew in my life.
12:14And here I am, going off to something as important as the first freshman dance
12:17with a girl I don't even know very well.
12:19I don't even know if I like her.
12:21And when there's a lot of girls around, it sure is hard to know which one is special.
12:25When I first met your ma, I thought she was real nice and pretty.
12:29I enjoyed being with her.
12:31I was working as a mechanic over in Charlottesville at the time.
12:35One day I went to the factory and found I'd been laid off.
12:40I just went on home and sort of sat around the house in kind of a daze.
12:44After a while, there was a knock at the door, and I opened, and there was your ma.
12:49I asked her what she was doing there, and she said,
12:51I heard you lost your job.
12:53Thought you might need to talk to someone.
12:55So we talked.
12:59After that, I knew I could trust your ma with my feelings.
13:02That's the important thing, you know.
13:04Finding someone you can trust.
13:07Through good times and bad.
13:10Meanwhile, why don't you two boys stop chattering and let's take a breather.
13:16I could use a piece of rhubarb pie myself.
13:19Sounds good to me.
13:20All right.
13:23Uh-uh.
13:24Looks like we got a lady caller.
13:36Mrs. Breckenridge, come on in.
13:41Would you like to sit down?
13:42Oh, thank you.
13:44I won't keep you.
13:45I just stopped by for a minute.
13:48There was something I wanted to ask Mary Ellen.
13:52Mary Ellen's gone to the store with the other children.
13:54Oh.
13:57Mrs. Breckenridge, hello.
13:58How do you do?
13:59Howdy, ma'am.
14:00John Gore.
14:01Mr. Wallach.
14:02What a surprise.
14:09Mrs. Breckenridge came to talk to Mary Ellen about something.
14:12Uh-huh.
14:13Is something wrong?
14:14No.
14:15No, no.
14:16It's just that I've lost something.
14:17Mislaid it.
14:19Well, I guess I better begin at the beginning.
14:22You see, I've been cleaning out my attic.
14:24And yesterday, I decided to sell some of the things that I no longer needed to Vernon Rutley.
14:30And one of the things was an evening bag.
14:33Petty point.
14:34Oh, very pretty.
14:36Oh, yeah.
14:37That's the one Mary Ellen bought from him.
14:38I was there when she got it.
14:39That's right.
14:41He told me this morning that he'd sold it to her.
14:44She, uh...
14:46She didn't happen to mention finding anything in it, did she?
14:50No.
14:53Well, just what has disappeared on you, Mrs. B?
14:56A ring.
14:57An amethyst ring.
14:58I thought maybe I might have left it inside the bag.
15:02There wasn't anything there at the time.
15:04Well, there's a little pocket in the lining.
15:08John boy, the bag is lined on Mary Ellen's bed upstairs.
15:11Oh, sure. I'll go check.
15:13If you didn't know the pocket was there, you might easily overlook it.
15:19It's not so much the value of the ring as the sentimental attachment.
15:25It's a...
15:27You know how those things are.
15:30I've just had it for years and years.
15:34Here it is, ma'am. I couldn't find anything.
15:38Oh, it isn't there.
15:40Oh, dear. I can't imagine what I could have done with it.
15:44I'm sure it'll turn up.
15:46I hope so.
15:47Anyway, I do thank you, and I'm sorry to have bothered you all.
15:50It's all right.
15:52It's just that my husband gave it to me, and I've had it for so many years.
15:58I...
16:01Well, you understand.
16:06I'll see you out.
16:10Get into the kitchen, all that tar all over you.
16:12Yes, ma'am.
16:14Why are you in such a hurry, Mary Ellen?
16:16I've already told you.
16:17But it's hours before the dance.
16:19I have to get ready, make myself beautiful.
16:23Lovely.
16:25Never, never change.
16:27Keep that breathless charm.
16:29My dear, your complexion is so creamy.
16:32May I have this dance?
16:34Sure.
16:37A one, two, three. A one, two, three.
16:40A one, two, three. A one, two, three.
16:43A one...
16:44Come on, Aaron.
16:45A one, two, three.
16:46Oh, my dear, you dance divinely.
16:48Oh, thank you.
16:49You shouldn't pay them any bother.
16:51Oh, they're so gauche. You'd think they'd never heard of a dance before.
16:54I know.
16:55What's my bag doing down here?
16:56I don't know.
16:59Come on.
17:06With his troops, Caesar from the boats disembarked.
17:09Doesn't make any sense at all.
17:10Don't move.
17:12Uh-huh.
17:14What was my bag doing downstairs?
17:16Oh, uh, Mrs. Breckenridge came by today and I forgot to bring it back up. I'm sorry.
17:21Mrs. Breckenridge?
17:22Well, she lost an amethyst ring. She thought maybe she'd left it in the purse.
17:26I told her I was with you when you bought it and there wasn't anything there.
17:29I really gotta get back to this, okay?
17:34Oh.
17:35Caesar disembarked from the boats with his troops.
17:47I just can't give it back.
17:49Mary Ellen.
17:50Well, not yet, anyway. Tomorrow I will.
17:52First thing in the morning, I'll go over to Mrs. Breckenridge's.
17:55What are you gonna say?
17:56I'll say, Mrs. Breckenridge, would you believe it, but just this minute I found your ring under my bed.
18:00But that's a lie.
18:01Not really.
18:03Erin, I'm only borrowing it. What difference is a few hours gonna make?
18:07Well...
18:08Come on, I've gotta get ready. You said you'd help me wash my hair.
18:10Okay.
18:16Thought you knew how to tie a bow tie.
18:18Of course I know how to tie a bow tie. I tie one every day. Don't be ridiculous.
18:23Why don't you open your eyes?
18:24And look in the mirror.
18:25Because it's a lot easier not to have to watch yourself doing it backwards, that's why.
18:29You know what it is? You're nervous about the hop.
18:31I am not. That has absolutely nothing to do with it.
18:33Your hand is shaking.
18:34My hand is not shaking. It has absolutely nothing to do...
18:36Oh, you're all crazy.
18:38Absolutely crazy.
18:40What do they think I am, some sort of 13-year-old girl? I've been to dances before.
18:45There you are, smarty pants, you see?
18:48Thought I couldn't do it, huh?
18:54Yeah, well...
18:56One of these days you're gonna be in my shoes, you're gonna see how it feels, huh?
19:00I can't tell nerves about dance. I've never heard anything so silly in my life.
19:08Okay, get the ring.
19:16Well, how do I look?
19:18Beautiful, just like Brenda Frazier at the El Morocco.
19:21Mary Ellen, Mike's here.
19:28Oh, you look just beautiful.
19:30Come on now, hurry, you'll be late.
19:32Don't forget this stuff.
19:34Okay, here you go.
19:36She's coming.
19:38Oh, no.
19:39Ah, here she comes.
19:40Oh, Mary Ellen, you look just fine.
19:44You're gonna be the prettiest thing there, honey. Have a good time.
19:47Thank you, Daddy.
19:49Hello, Mike.
19:50Mary Ellen, you ready to go?
19:51Yeah.
19:52Okay.
19:53Hey, young man, Mike, just a minute, if you please.
19:55You'll be in good joy in this lady's company all of the evening.
19:58With your permission, I'd like to have the place for the first dance of the evening.
20:01Sure.
20:03Elizabeth, some music, if you please.
20:36In all your life, this time may never come again.
20:39Enjoy it.
20:43Remember it.
20:44You know, it's Monday, 23.
20:46I'm gonna have a good time, honey.
20:47You take good care of that time.
20:49Have a terrific time.
20:50Have a good time.
20:51Bye.
20:54Okay, Wes, I'm gonna pick up Audrey. I'll see you later.
20:57Okay, old man. We'll see you there.
20:59Ride on.
21:01I like your car.
21:20That's nice, you dancing with Mary Ellen.
21:25It's been a long time since anyone asked me to dance.
21:35Esther, I have always been partial to beautiful women.
21:40But when you find one that's beautiful, as well as seasoned, she's hard to resist.
21:46What do you mean, seasoned?
21:48Well, like a fine tree, Esther, that's endured all kinds of wind and weather, and still stands in beauty.
21:55Thank you, Zebulon.
22:45¶¶
23:16You dance divinely, Michael.
23:18Michael? No one calls me Michael except for my mother.
23:21She only does that when she's mad at me.
23:23Well, I don't know. It just has more... It just sounds fancier.
23:26Well, if you like Michael, then you have my permission to use it.
23:29But if you call me that around anyone I know, I won't answer to it.
23:33Okay, Michael.
23:36Mary Ellen looks just radiant.
23:38She'd like to hear that. She's been a little nervous about tonight.
23:41Really? You'd never know if I looked that way.
23:45I think I could just go on dancing all night.
23:47Just right out the doors, across campus, through town, all the way to New York City.
23:51And maybe on to Paris, France.
23:53I'm having enough trouble staying off your feet in here. I don't think I could make it to Paris.
23:57You boys are all alike. No romance in your souls.
24:00Sure we do. You have to be practical.
24:03Just for once, just for tonight, I'd just like you to forget about all that.
24:06Okay. Here we go.
24:10Here we go.
24:28Would you like some punch? Thank you.
24:34Sure is nice out here with the lanterns and everything, isn't it?
24:36Yes, it is.
24:40Here we go.
24:43Thank you. Audrey, may I have this dance?
24:46Oh, I'd be delighted. If you don't mind, John.
24:49No, no.
25:04Here. Oh, thank you.
25:06Are you having a wonderful time, Mary Ellen?
25:08Yes.
25:10So, uh, how's it going?
25:12With Audrey? Yeah.
25:13Well, I reckon I'm about number five on our list of gentlemen admirers.
25:18Hi, Mary Ellen Walton. Fancy seeing you here.
25:22Hi, Martha Rose. Tedro. Mary Ellen.
25:24You here with your brother, too?
25:26No, I'm here with Mike.
25:28You mean, he's your date?
25:30Oh, well, of course, I had a real date, too, but, uh, he got sick.
25:35Influenza.
25:37Mary Ellen, would you like to dance?
25:39I'd love to. Here, Martha Rose. I'll see you later.
26:26Oh, I know they'll accept you, Audrey.
26:28Well, I hope so.
26:30Just as long as you don't get any demerits.
26:32Phi Lambda is considered the best sorority on campus.
26:34Oh, and what do you get demerits for?
26:36On ladylike behavior, mostly.
26:38Punch?
26:39You see, there's a point system for getting in.
26:41Would you like to...
26:42Phi Lambda is a very social sorority.
26:45Oh. Punch?
26:47Yes, thank you.
26:49And you?
26:50Yes, thank you.
26:51Excuse me.
26:52Well, I'll be careful and stay on my best behavior.
27:29Isn't that pretty?
27:31Where'd you get it, Mary Ellen?
27:33Martha Rose, give me back that ring.
27:35My, we sure are touchy about it, aren't we?
27:38Martha Rose, please give me back that ring.
27:42Oh, I'm just admiring it.
27:44Something as pretty as this must be a family heirloom.
27:47Martha Rose.
27:50Sure wish I had one like it.
27:52Well, I've got to be getting back.
27:55I promised the next two dances to this boy on the football team.
28:01Oh, Mary Ellen.
28:03I'd just love to know where you got that ring.
28:20Sorry.
28:34I've always wanted to travel.
28:36I remember when I went down to the beach one time.
28:39It was really beautiful.
28:40I just want to see all the world.
28:42Like, maybe take a trip to Europe.
28:44I don't know.
28:46Mary Ellen?
28:52It's just about 11 o'clock.
28:54It is?
28:55Yeah.
28:56Well, let's go.
28:59It's just about 11 o'clock.
29:01It is?
29:02Yeah.
29:03I guess we should be going.
29:05Yeah, me too.
29:06We'll see you at home.
29:07Okay, gotcha.
29:08Good night, Mary.
29:09Good night.
29:10Good night.
29:23Zeb.
29:24Yeah?
29:25Hmm?
29:27That was a pretty thing you said to me tonight.
29:30I meant every word of it, Esther.
29:34I was just thinking about the first time you took me to a dance.
29:38It was over at Dilwyn County.
29:41And I had on a pink dress with blue silk roses on it.
29:46And in it, a figure like an hourglass.
29:50I've still got that.
29:52Have you, Esther?
29:53You keep yourself so bundled up, at times it's hard to tell.
30:01I never did hold with ladies exposing their limbs, and you know that.
30:05Esther, there are times I could wish you could be considerable less of a lady.
30:09Old man, if you move from your side of the bed, I'm gonna sleep on the sofa.
30:12And what in the blue blazes did you wake me up for?
30:16Guess I just wanted to tell you that I love you, old man.
30:21Why, thank you, Esther.
30:24I feel the same way about you.
30:28You old fool.
30:45Good night.
31:08Well, thanks, Mary Ellen. I had such a nice time.
31:11So did I.
31:12Sleep well.
31:15Good night.
31:45Good night.
32:08Well, you, uh...
32:10You're absolutely wonderful.
32:13Just wonderful.
32:15Come on, let's go see who's still up. We'll tell them all about it.
32:24Aaron.
32:26Aaron. Aaron, wake up.
32:28What?
32:29Aaron, I've lost it.
32:30What?
32:31The ring. I've lost it.
32:33We better tell Mama.
32:34No.
32:35We'll find it.
32:37We've gotta find it.
32:46Shh.
32:50Where'd it go?
32:51I have no idea. It could be anywhere.
32:53Here, let's check the cracks.
32:55Okay, well, I'll check the bushes, because it might have rolled down.
32:57Okay.
33:00You check over there.
33:01Okay.
33:11Somebody lose something?
33:13Somebody lose something?
33:14Um, no, um...
33:15Oh, I lost a quarter, and I thought maybe it might have rolled in between the cracks.
33:20Well, it's a good time of day to go looking for it.
33:23Well, we couldn't sleep.
33:25Okay, well, listen, when I take the milk inside, I'll come out and help you.
33:28No!
33:29All right, all right. Don't get touchy. I'm just asking.
33:31Well, it's nothing. It's not important.
33:33Come on, Aaron, let's start breakfast as long as we're up.
33:39We'll look later.
33:40That was close.
33:43What's taking her so long?
33:45I don't know. She's making up some kind of a list or something.
33:49If she doesn't leave soon, I'm gonna scream.
33:52Did you say something, Mary Ellen?
33:53No. No, no, not a word.
34:14What are you two doing hanging around the house anyway?
34:16It's a beautiful day. You ought to be outside.
34:18Oh, Mama.
34:19Don't oh, Mama me.
34:21I'm going down to Ike's. Come on, both of you.
34:22I don't feel like going.
34:24You two have been acting mighty strange. Something wrong?
34:27Oh, no. Mary Ellen's just exhausted.
34:32Exhausted.
34:34Well, I suppose Brenda Fasher's all worn out after a night of dancing, too.
34:38Poor thing.
34:44Come on.
34:58She's gone. Come on.
35:05Mary Ellen, we've looked everywhere.
35:07Well, we'll have to look again.
35:09Come on.
35:13Come on.
35:30What are you two doing?
35:32I've been watching you from the window. You're acting like a couple of squirrels.
35:35I told you I lost something.
35:36Mary Ellen, tell him.
35:39Tell me what?
35:40Mary Ellen, please, tell him.
35:44Come on.
35:49Well, I'll tell you only if you promise not to tell anyone.
35:52I can't promise that.
35:54Well, it's got to be a word of honor. Nothing else.
35:56Of course, around here that doesn't mean very much.
35:58I'm sorry.
36:01Well, I'll give you my word of honor. I'll try not to tell anyone.
36:05Come on. Maybe I can help you.
36:07Well, the other day when I got home and I opened up that bag I got off of Vernon Rutley, well...
36:15Hi, Mrs. Walton.
36:16Hello, Martha Rose.
36:18How are you, Mrs. Walton?
36:19I'm just fine, thank you. And you?
36:21I'm just exhausted. I was up so late last night. The boat ride dance, you know.
36:26Yes, I know. John Boyd and Mary Ellen were there.
36:28I saw them both. Mary Ellen looks so pretty wearing that new dress and all.
36:32Oh, are you all right?
36:33Yes, fine.
36:35You know, as Mary Ellen was dancing around, it was hard taking your eyes off of her.
36:39With that ring sparkling and glittering on her finger.
36:42Ring?
36:43Mary Ellen let me try it on. It was just beautiful.
36:46Silver and studded all around with amethyst.
36:49Funny thing, though. Ring seemed to be in the news as it were.
36:52Why, just this morning, Eudora Jane Gillis told my mama that Mrs. Breckenridge told her
36:57Yes, I know. Mrs. Breckenridge told us about it the other afternoon.
37:00Well, I think I'll go over to her house later this afternoon and see if she's found it.
37:05I hope so. She's set so much store by it.
37:08Well, bye now, Mrs. Walton.
37:10Goodbye, Martha Rose.
37:12And give my regards to Mrs. Breckenridge when you see her.
37:28Do you think Mike will be at the school?
37:30Saturday morning. He's probably working out at the track.
37:58Hey, Mike!
37:59Hey, John Boy, that's Mike! Stop!
38:13I thought the G-men were after you.
38:15What's all the commotion about?
38:16Mary Ellen thought maybe she dropped something in your car last night. An amethyst ring?
38:20We want to know if we can look for it.
38:22Sure.
38:24Check under the pad there.
38:26Maybe it slipped down here.
38:28I don't see it. It's not up there.
38:30It's not up there?
38:31No.
38:32I don't think it's in here. I don't know where it is.
38:35Wait a minute. I think I found something.
38:38Is that it?
38:39Pull it out.
38:40Can you get it up?
38:41Yeah.
38:44It's a nut.
38:45It just isn't here.
38:47Mary Ellen, can you think of any place that you might have lost it?
38:50I know. Well, I had it when I went into the ladies' restroom.
38:53Well, did you leave it there?
38:54Well, I was putting it in the bag as I was coming out,
38:58and two girls came in, and they knocked the bag, and maybe it just fell out.
39:02Well, let's find out.
39:03Okay, listen, thank you, Mike. I didn't mean to raid your car.
39:06Sure, that's fine.
39:07Hey, good luck.
39:21Oh, no.
39:25Well, that's locked.
39:36John, what are you all doing here?
39:39Well, Mary Ellen lost something in the auditorium last night.
39:42What was it?
39:43Oh, it was nothing.
39:44Are you sure, Mary Ellen?
39:46Oh, I'm sure.
39:48Are you sure, Mary Ellen?
39:50Oh, it was an amethyst ring, and it wasn't mine. I borrowed it.
39:53Well, then we'd better try and find it, hadn't we?
39:56The trouble is, everything's locked up for the weekend.
39:59Well, isn't there any other way we could get in?
40:01No, no, I don't think so.
40:03Unless we could get one of the campus guards to open it up.
40:06Well, why don't we try?
40:07Okay.
40:17So how come you're here on a Saturday?
40:19Oh, well, I have that interview for Phi Lambda, and that's the sorority I'm up for.
40:23Aren't you going to be late?
40:24Well, no, I still have a few minutes.
40:26Excuse me, sir.
40:27Yes?
40:28Could we please get into the auditorium?
40:29This young lady's my sister, and she lost a ring in there last night, but the doors are locked.
40:33And they'll have to stay locked until 8 o'clock Monday morning.
40:35But she...
40:36Sorry, that's regulations.
40:38Students are not permitted in the auditorium building between the hours of 10 p.m. on Friday and 8 a.m. on Monday.
40:46I don't suppose you could make any exceptions this time.
40:48Look, there used to be a grand piano in that auditorium.
40:52One morning we found it out on the quadrangle.
40:55That's why the doors are locked.
40:57Well, I don't want to take your grand piano.
41:01Excuse me.
41:05Grand piano.
41:11Well, we tried.
41:13If only there was some other way we could get in there.
41:19Hey, isn't that the window to the ladies' restroom?
41:21Yeah, I think so.
41:37Audrey, Audrey, no, no, no, let me go up there.
41:39You can't go in there.
41:40Give me a leg up.
41:41Come on.
41:42Be careful.
41:43Okay.
41:47Are you all right?
41:48Yeah, yeah, I'll make it.
41:56Keep your fingers crossed.
41:57Sure.
41:58Be careful.
42:13John Boyd.
42:14Hmm?
42:15Look, you shouldn't still be hanging around here.
42:18Where's the other girl?
42:20Uh, well, uh, she's, uh...
42:22I found it!
42:31I found it!
42:32It was near the...
42:35Oh.
42:36Oh, my God.
42:37Oh, my God.
42:38Oh, my God.
42:39Oh, my God.
42:40Oh, my God.
42:41Oh.
42:44Oh.
42:50Excuse me.
42:51You really don't understand.
42:52You see, this is all my fault.
42:53I asked her.
42:54I asked her to do this for me.
42:55She was the one who was breaking and entering.
42:58Now, this report goes to the dean of women.
43:00You just make sure that you and her office first thing on Monday.
43:12Of course, this means Phi Lambda won't take you.
43:15I know.
43:17But I guess they'll get along without me.
43:19You know, my daddy was right.
43:21What do you mean?
43:22It's nice to find someone you can count on.
43:42Well, what are you gonna do now?
43:44Well, as soon as we get home, I'll go over to Mrs. Breckenridge's.
43:47What are you gonna say?
43:48I'll just tell her I just found the ring lying under my bed.
43:50Mary Ellen!
43:51For the last three days, you and Aaron have been absolutely miserable
43:54because you've been telling lies.
43:56Now you've got me covering up for you.
43:58You fixed it so Audrey can't get into that sorority.
44:01And Mrs. Breckenridge is worried sick about losing her ring.
44:03I think you've made a lot of trouble.
44:05I don't know what you're talking about.
44:08We aren't gonna tell, are you?
44:10No, but you are.
44:13We aren't gonna tell, are you?
44:15No, but you are.
44:43I guess you've been through enough already, Mary Ellen.
44:45I'm not gonna punish you.
44:46But I am.
44:48And I still don't understand what made you do it.
44:50Well, when you were younger, didn't you ever wear something like a dress or a necklace
44:54or maybe even just a flower that made you feel as pretty as everybody else?
44:57She's got a point there, Liv.
44:59That is not the point, John.
45:01She used something that did not belong to her.
45:03Well, I'm sorry, Mom, and I was gonna return it.
45:08How many Bible verses should I learn this time?
45:11Did you learn something from this, Mary Ellen?
45:13Yes.
45:17I'll settle for five.
45:21Right after I had to return the ring to Mrs. Breckenridge.
45:23She better hurry. She's really upset.
45:25Mama, could you come with me?
45:27No. I think this is something you have to face up to yourself.
45:32Mary Ellen, Martha Rose.
45:34Oh, I'll bet she told.
45:36She's on her way over to talk to Mrs. Breckenridge now.
45:40Come on. I'll drive you down there.
45:57What do I tell her?
45:59You know what to tell her.
46:02Come on.
46:09We'll wait here.
46:15Our lives are measured not by birthdays, but by the events that fall between them.
46:21Mary Ellen's first grown-up dance was a landmark in her passage from girlhood
46:26into the beautiful and engaging young woman she was to become.
46:30Yet, for a while in her dresser drawer, a reminder of the cocoon from which she had emerged,
46:36there remained a beat-up and much-treasured old baseball glove,
46:40which she eventually passed on to her brothers.
46:44Goodbye.
46:45Bye.
46:46Bye.
47:00Bye.
47:05Mama, you know what?
47:06No, Mary Ellen. What?
47:08My birthstone is a diamond.
47:10That's real interesting. Good night, Mary Ellen.
47:13Could I have a ring with a diamond in it sometime?
47:15Maybe you'll be given one when you get engaged.
47:18Oh, I don't want to wait that long.
47:20I'm afraid you'll have to. Good night.
47:22It's just not fair. Good night, Mama.
47:25Mary Ellen, you can have my Lone Ranger ring. It has a real fake diamond in it.
47:29Thanks, Elizabeth, but I think I'll just wait for the real thing. Good night.
47:32Good night, Mary Ellen. Good night, Mama. Good night, Daddy.
47:35Good night.
47:36Good night, honey.
47:59Good night.
48:00Good night.
48:29Good night.