Hello, Marty.
When you come home?
We just got here
about 10 minutes ago.
Ma, I want you to meet
miss Clara Snyder.
She's a graduate
of New York University
she teaches chemistry at
benjamin Franklin high school.
Sit down, sit down.
You want some chicken?
We got some chicken
in the icebox.
No, thank you.
We were just going.
Well, sit down
just a minute.
I just come in.
How'd you come home?
Thomas give you a ride
sure.
Is a sad business.
My sister Catherina,
she no get along
with her daughter-in-law,
so she gonna come
live with us.
She's coming, ma?
Sure. Sit down.
Marty, tell her sit down.
Might as well
sit down a minute.
You offer young lady
some fruit?
Yes. She don't want nothing.
No, thank you.
Is a very sad business,
I tell you.
A woman, 56 years old,
all her life
she had her own house.
Now she's just
an old woman
sleeping on
her daughter-in-law couch.
It's a curse to be
a mother, I tell you.
Your children grow up,
and what is left
for you to do?
What's a mother's life
but her children?
Is a very sad thing
when your son
has no place for you
in his house.
Couldn't she
find a hobby
to fill out her time?
Hobby?
What can she do?
She cook and she clean.
But you gotta have
a house to clean.
You gotta have children
to cook for.
These are the terrible
years for a mother,
the terrible years.
You mustn't
feel too harshly
against
her daughter-in-law.
She probably also wants
a house to clean
and children to cook for.
You don't think
my sister, Catherina,
should live in
her daughter-in-law house?
I don't know them,
but as a rule,
I don't think
a mother-in-law
should live
with a young couple.
Where you think a
mother-in-law should go?
I don't think a mother should
depend upon her children
for her rewards in life.
Well, that's what
they teach you
in New York University.
In real life,
it no work out like this.
You wait till
you are a mother.
It's silly of me
to argue about it.
I don't know
the people involved.
It's getting late,
I better
take her home.
The buses only run
about one an hour.
Good night, mrs. Piletti.
I hope I see you again.
I'll be back in about
an hour, an hour and a half.
Good night, mrs. Piletti.
Good night.
Hey!
Hey, Marty! Hey!
Hey, Ange!
Where you been,
for pete's sake?
I been looking for you!
Well, I looked for you.
Well, I was looking for you.
We thought we were
going for a walk
and come right back,
but we got to talking.
Angie, meet Clara.
Clara, this is
my best friend, Angie.
Yes. How do you do?
Hello. What are we
gonna do now?
I'm taking Clara home.
It's close to 1:00.
You want me to
ride down with you?
What for?
It's early
it must be 1:00.
It's saturday night. There's
still plenty of action around.
By the time I get Clara
home, it'll be 1:30.
When I get home,
it'll be 2:00.
I gotta get up for
10:00 mass tomorrow.
Ok.
I'll see you.
Hey, well, where you goin'?
Hey, Ange!
Hey, I'll see you
tomorrow after mass, huh?
You got an elevator
in this house?
We only live
one flight up.
Ok, so, I'll see
ya tomorrow.
Ok.
I'll give you a call
about 11:00, 11:30-
as soon as
I get out of mass.
Well, you better make it
around 2:30 because, well,
I won't be home from
my aunt's till then.
Oh, ok.
Ok, so I'll see you
tomorrow night.
Ok.
Good night.
Good night
taxi!
Hey, taxi!
Taxi!
Hey, taxi!
Hey!
Hey, ma, you know
what I'm gonna do?
I think I'm gonna
buy Patsy's shop.
You hear
what I said, ma?
Because this is
how I figure-
we got $33-odd hundred
in the bank.
I'll have to take it
out to buy the shop.
I don't know.
I'm a good butcher.
I'll make out pretty good.
I want to ask Thomas,
but I got
my own ideas.
Hurry because
it's 9:00.
Ma, you mind coming home
alone from church?
I want to find Angie.
I think he's sore at me.
Ma, is Thomas bringing
aunt catherine over here?
I want to see him.
I think Thomas is bringing
aunt Catherina here,