:21:02
All right. All right.
:21:05
You're trying to buy love from them,
and it won't work.
:21:08
l make enough to get by,
but no, that isn't good enough.
:21:11
Veda needs a piano, lessons
and fancy dresses...
:21:13
...so she can smirk her way through
a piece a talented 5-year-old could play.
:21:17
Veda has talent.
Just ask any of the neighbors.
:21:21
She plays the piano like l shoot pool.
:21:23
And Kay, a nice, normal kid who wants
to skip rope and play baseball.
:21:27
But she has ballet lessons. She has to
be a ballerina so you can feel proud.
:21:31
All right. What of it?
:21:33
What if l do want them
to amount to something?
:21:35
l'd do anything for those kids,
understand? Anything.
:21:38
-You can't do their crying for them.
-l'll do that too.
:21:41
-They'll never cry if l can help it.
-There's something wrong.
:21:45
l don't know what. l'm not smart
that way. But l know it isn't right to--
:21:54
-Hello?
-I just wanted to know if--
:21:56
Yes? Yes, he is.
:21:59
-Who's calling?
-Mrs. Biederhof.
:22:02
Just a moment.
:22:04
lt's for you. Mrs. Biederhof.
:22:08
Maggie, l can't talk now.
l told you not to--
:22:11
-I tried to call you at the office.
-l can't talk to you now. Later.
:22:14
So the noble Mr. Pierce
can't talk right now.
:22:17
You're busy saying what's wrong with
our marriage is how l treat the kids.
:22:21
Maggie means nothing to me.
You know that.
:22:23
l wish l could believe it.
:22:25
You'd better apologize, or she won't
play gin rummy with you anymore.
:22:29
-lt is gin rummy, isn't it?
-Now, don't go too far.
:22:31
-One day, l'll call your bluff.
-You're not calling me. l'm calling you.
:22:35
You might as well get this straight.
:22:37
Those kids come first in this house.
Before either one of us.
:22:41
Maybe that's right and maybe
it's wrong. But that's the way it is.
:22:45
l'll do the best l can for them. lf l
can't do it with you, l'll do it alone.
:22:49
You're looking for an excuse
to heave me out on my ear.
:22:52
-l didn't say--
-l'm fed up.
:22:54
Get along without me. When you
want me, you know where to find me.
:22:57
Bert.