:43:01
I'm never going to marry.
I'm just going to have lovers.
:43:04
Oh, Allison.
:43:06
What's wrong with that?
:43:08
No children to grow up unhappy,
nobody gets hurt except maybe me.
:43:13
That's the worst kind
of emotional maladjustment.
:43:16
Who said so?
:43:18
- A book I read.
- What book?
:43:21
I sent for a book. It was $ 1.98,
in a plain wrapper.
:43:26
- A plain wrapper?
- Yeah, a plain wrap...
:43:29
And, well, it was
about marriage and sex.
:43:32
I had it sent to me at the post office.
:43:35
It took me two weeks to get up
the courage to go pick it up.
:43:42
Look... .
:43:44
I know it sounds funny, but it was
the only way I could find out anything.
:43:48
Norman, you know what?
:43:50
I sent for a book just like that
in the same plain wrapper...
:43:54
...general delivery.
- No, really? The same one?
:43:58
And I read every word of it, and I think
most of it's mid-Victorian nonsense.
:44:04
Maybe yours was better.
Hey, want to trade books?
:44:08
No. I'd be too embarrassed.
:44:14
That's your whole trouble, Norman.
:44:17
Everything embarrasses you.
Everything frightens you.
:44:20
I know.
:44:22
And I'm sorry we started talking
about all this.
:44:26
Hey, Norman, look... .
:44:31
It's about time you learned that girls
want to do the same things as boys.
:44:38
And they have the right to know how.
I mean, I think we should help each other.
:44:43
- Are you suggesting that...?
- Norman, don't get me wrong.
:44:48
All I want is some normal,
intelligent discussion...
:44:52
...and maybe some normal affection
between a boy and a girl, nothing more.
:44:57
Everybody in this town hides
behind plain wrappers.