well, i just think she's got a lot of nerve showing up here. draggin' that child and that poor animal all the way.
i guess they'll want feeding and all, out here all day long.
what, they ain't going forty miles into choteau everytime they want a hamburger.
what?
well, that's just what we need on a cattle ranch -- a vegetarian from new york.
we're not sure, sweetheart, but they eat like rabbits.
there's coffee inside.  i was just bringing this to tom.
sure. does your daughter want to come inside?
pasture? oh, that stretch of field near the hill? yeah.
mrs. maclean -- why don't you and daughter stay for dinner?
no imposition. plenty of food. gonna get pretty dark soon. hard to find a place.
joe, take off the hat -- i'm not going to say it again.
how's peterson's holding up for you?
they're already all settled in, frank. anyway, i'm sure annie wants her privacy.
i sure hope you're gonna eat more than that, young lady. you're a growing girl.
probably never worked so hard, neither. those arms of yours are gonna be pretty sore tomorrow. i'll give you a little bit of ointment i make. it's a magic recipe my mama gave me.
i never got that whole story, what happened?
old fool.  darling, pass down those peas for me, thank you.
oh, you can just set up on the dining table. i have to rearrange my shelves tomorrow.
mm-mm. i never knew him. he died before frank and i met. this here's.  frank and tom's mother and father.  there's little frank and tom.
always did. i think she favored him a little. you tend to when you have more than one, even though you love 'em all the same.
ha, she loves telling this story about how when he was two years old, he ran off. they found him in the barn, sleeping between two giant hooves of a percheron stallion. she said that horse was protecting him and nobody could convince her otherwise.
no. see, frank and tom were raised near the clark's fork river, right between the pryor and beartooth mountains. beautiful piece of land. but they had this uncle ned -- useless man, never interested in ranching. and when the grandparents died, he left for the city and sent word through lawyers he wanted his claim to the land so he could sell it. three years of legation broke their father. frank took it all in stride, but tom.  tom loved that land. i don't think he ever got over it -- his home being sold out from under him. seeing his father like that. once he and frank got their folks set up in a new place, tom left.  went off. we didn't see him for years.
oh, it's.  i wanted to tell you that, if you'd like, you being so busy, i could take grace to her therapy exercises for you. i have to go in once a week for shopping anyway.
ha.
ain't brain surgery.
hey. you stop that kind of talk at the table.
i uh.  i like the sauce very much. maybe i get the recipe.
well, i tried jar sauce once -- wasn't this good. ya gotta know which brand to buy. i'd like to get the name of this one.
what?
oh, i don't --
i'll help you with the coffee.
no reason you should, no reason you should.
i was looking in one of your magazines and saw that picture of the couple getting married at the pyramids. were you ever in egypt?
what was it like?
i'd love to go there one time.
soon. we're going to branson, missouri to see my cousin emma married. frank loves in there.
joe!
annie, i'm so sorry, but they're just tired. we'll have dessert another time. frank, get them out of here. come on. say good night and thank you.
you!
must be nice for you to take a few days off from your work, huh?
they fired you?
you don't seem to upset?
guess you don't have to figure it out until you go home.
i fell in love. after that, i never thought about being anything but a rancher's wife. i never saw it like i was losing some other life, just felt like i was gaining one. i know that's not a popular opinion nowadays and i ain't saying it's the right one. we all have to find the life meant for us.
they don't come better. but i don't deny there are times i wonder about things i won't have. maybe one day i'll get to see egypt. maybe not. but i know if you try too many different lives, you can wind up with no life at all.
yes, it does.
annie, i'm not good at this kind of talk -- goes round and round a thing but never comes to it -- so let's just say what it is. when you first came here, i didn't like you and i was worried. tom means a lot to me and this family. don't go looking here for whatever you looking for. don't make that man go through something it took him a long time to see his way clear out of the first time.
he's a good man, tom is. he's got a gift, come from heaven above, i swear. but he's still a man. and a woman can lead a man into the middle of a mountain lake -- and still make him think he's on dry land.
well, i am going to go after lunch.
she sure loves her daddy, huh?
i think i'm going to have my hands full with the son of mine when you leave. just might be his first broken heart.
i have some brownies left over. want one?
oh frank, don't forget the wedding present -- it's behind the door in the laundry room. i got her a pasta maker from the catalogue.  not that they'll know what to do with it in branton, missouri.  probably use it as a planter.
frank's touchy about his cousins. well, it was nice to meet you, mr. maclean.
ah.
now, are you sure you want to drive that horse back yourself? there are plenty of people 'round here who do that sort of thing.
and you'll be all right by yourself here, after they've gone?
promise?
good luck to you, annie.
all right, everybody in. frank, we all set.