All of it.
- Can't be allergic to all of it.
- Well, I am.
You didn't ask what happened with
his eye doctor. I was so worried about it.
Sometimes you'd think
Alexander wasn't your grandson.
Ma, I'm going now. Macon's here.
See?
I shut the valve off.
What did I do that for?
I'm not so sure about this.
He's not very strong.
Why did I shut off the valve, Alexander?
- Why?
- You tell me.
- You tell me.
- No, you.
- So the water won't whoosh all over?
- Right.
Now, first you
unscrew the top screw.
- Let's see you do it.
- Me?
- I don't want to.
- Just let him watch.
Then he won't know how
to fix the one in the bathtub...
...and I'm going to ask him
to manage that without me.
That's it. Hard!
Good.
Good. Good.
Look at that.
WonderfuI!
I think you may have naturaI talents.
Now, take off the faucet head...
...and there is the culprit.
That has to be re-taped.
Then we take this wrench
to tighten this up.
- Now what?
- Go ahead and turn that valve.
There we go.
- Now what?
- Now we turn the water back on...
...and see what
kind of job you've done.
Look at that!
You've solved the problem.
Now, when you're grown,
you can fix the faucets for your wife.
Step back, dearie, you can say.
Just let me see to this.
Let a reaI man take care of this.
Good. Really excellent materiaI.
I'd like to show you something, Macon.
Your sister's Christmas present.
- What is it?
- It's an engagement ring, Macon.
- Engagement?
- I wanna marry her.
- You want to marry Rose?
- I'm gonna ask her at Christmas...
...when I give her the ring.
I wanna do this properly.
Old-fashioned.
- You think she'll have me?
- Well, I really couldn't say.
Well, she's got to. I'm 36 years old,
Macon, but I tell you...
...I feeI like I'm a schoolboy
around that woman.
You may laugh at this,
but I love the surprise of her.
And I'm surprised by myself
when I'm with her.
I'm not exactly the person
that I thought I was.
I'm afraid I'm gushing.
Want to know something?
I've never even slept with her.
Well, I don't care to hear about that.
I want us to have a reaI wedding night.
I want to do everything right. God...
...Macon, isn't it amazing how two
separate lives can link up together?
I mean, two differentnesses.
- What I really like is T-shirts.
- T-shirts.
The kind with a sort of
stretched-out neck.
I don't want it new.
Tell you what.
Everything we buy...
...we'll wash about 20 times
before you wear it.
- But nothing prewashed.
- No, no.
Only nerds wear prewashed.
Right.
- Shall I come with you?
- I can do it myself.
All right.
- Macon!
- Yes.
Laura Canfield.
Scott's mother, remember?
Of course.
Why, Scott.
- Hi.
- It's nice to see you.
- Yeah, me too.
- It's nice to see you.
- Are you doing your spring shopping?
- Oh, I...
I'm helping the son of a friend.
We're buying the sock department. Every
other week Scott runs through his socks.
You know how they are at this age.
Or rather-
Yes, it's amazing, isn't it?
I look great!
I think it's time we had a talk.
About what?
I'd like to know what you think
you're up to with this MurieI person.
Is that what you call her,
this MurieI person?
You're not yourself these days, Macon...
...and this MurieI person
is just a symptom. Everybody says so.
Who is everybody, anyway?
We're just worried for you, Macon.
Could we switch to some other topic?
- I had to tell you what I thought.
- Fine. You've told me.
Can you tell me
one unique thing about her?
I mean, one really
speciaI quality, Macon...
...not something sloppy like
she appreciates me?
I'm not such a bargain myself,
if you haven't noticed.
Somebody ought to
warn her away from me.
That's not true. That's not true at all.
I imagine her people
are congratulating her on her catch.
- Her catch.
- Well, someone to support her. Anyone.
She'd be lucky to find anyone.
She lives in that slummy house,
her boy looks like he has hookworm-
Porter, just shut