:30:00
l'm sure you've heard them secondhand.
:30:02
But l'll tell you in person...
:30:04
...so we can avoid a teary scene later on.
:30:06
l like all the windows open every day
for at least two hours....
:30:10
She did have her ways, did she ever.
:30:13
I don't know where she got her ideas,
but I do know she was a prisoner of them.
:30:16
The silver has to be checked and...
:30:17
...cleaned every week. It may look clean
to you, but I like to see my face in it.
:30:22
The tubs had to be scrubbed out every day
with vinegar and baking soda.
:30:25
Tablecloths, napkins, handkerchiefs...
:30:27
...everything hand-washed,
ironed and starched.
:30:30
Mildew was grounds for firing.
:30:32
The sheets.
Now, that was one thing you didn't...
:30:34
...ever want to get wrong.
:30:36
You could've cut off
her high-flown snobbish nose...
:30:38
...and she'd still smell
a sheet that had hung outside...
:30:40
...from one baked in the dryer.
:30:43
Excuse me, Mr. Donovan.
:30:45
Do you have to do that now?
:30:47
Talk to the Missus.
:30:48
Her husband...
:30:49
...Jack.
:30:50
He only came up once all summer.
:30:52
Most of which he spent
ignoring her anyway.
:30:54
She could'vejust as easy
had the clothesline beside the house.
:30:57
But not Vera Donovan. No, ma'am.
:30:59
She had to have the south wind blowin'
through her linens.
:31:01
And that meant trampin' up and down
that hill twice a day when it was fair.
:31:06
lsn't this glorious, Jack?
:31:12
Six pins, Dolores!
:31:14
You know that's the way l like it.
:31:16
Six pins, not five!
:31:20
Jack?
:31:21
lt's 4:30.
:31:23
Don't you want a cocktail?
:31:29
Three square meals of bitchery
all summer long...
:31:32
...but I kept my head down
and my mouth shut.
:31:33
Every week that $40 went in the bank.
:31:35
There wasn't a damn thing
she could say about it.
:31:37
Thanks a lot.
:31:38
As much as she crabbed
that whole summer...
:31:40
...I must have done something right.
Come Labor Day....
:31:44
l'm sure your winter schedule
is rather hectic...
:31:47
...but l need someone to touch up
the house once a week.
:31:50
Dusting.
:31:51
Keeping the mice company.
:31:53
l could do that for you.
:31:55
$12 a week was...
:31:56
...what l had in mind.
:31:59
That'd be fine.